Google blacks out it’s logo’s in support of campaign against SOPA, lending support to wikipedia, Reddit & others to stop SOPA & PIPA.
Most of the sites across the globe are blacking out on January 18th.
Before the “Barrel roll” trick from Google dies off, Google has launched an another trick to mesmerize the search users when they search for “let it snow” for the December month.
Read also “How to implement Barrel Roll“
When the user searches for “let it snow” you can see the snow flakes falling down your browser, you can clear the fog on the browser by clicking the mouse button & moving the cursor.
Nonetheless, Google provides you the “Defrost” as well to clear the screen.
Google has finally launched Google Plus pages for brands and publishers as promised. When Google+ first launched, it had asked brands and publishers not to create pages for their own sites, promising that there would be an official solution coming shortly.
It’s the google+ version of facebook fan page with more features.
Google+ pages are not available to everyone as of initial launch. If you’re profile is selected, you can create google+ pages here.
https://plus.google.com/pages/create
Checkout this link if you are lucky & fill in the details to get your page.
https://plus.google.com/pages/create.
I have added a google+ page for pepsi below:
Pepsi
Google+ page for iKreations
Firefox 8 comes in only one and half months after Firefox 7 being inline with Mozilla’s new rapid release strategy, under which we can expect a new roll out of Firefox every 6 weeks.
Firefox 8 is scheduled to be released on Tuesday, November 8th. If you upgrading sooner via FTP server, please be sure to read updates on Firefox 8 compatibility here.
The biggest new feature is that Firefox itself now handles third party add-on installations to avoid security problems. Load tabs on demand at start up. Also included in the support to search Twitter messages in the browser’s address bar.
Windows, Mac and Linux flavors are available.
Download here
ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/8.0/
Find the updates/changes in the firefox 8 here
Again, Google entertained it’s users with a “dο a barrel roll” gimmick which spins the entire search page for this search query. It was a trending topic in twitter.
It was done using the css3 transitions & transforms, while showcasing the power of CSS3, a presentation feature of modern browsers.
I tried to figure out the implementation part of it by googling out which didn’t return me the actual implementation(which works).So I did a small reverse engineering to figure that out.
This purely works on the CSS3 transitions property whose specifications are still in the draft form. So all properties associated with them should be prefixed with “-moz-” for use in Gecko (Mozilla Firefox browser). For compatibility with WebKit, you should also use the “-webkit-” prefix, and for Opera compatibility, use the “-o-” prefix.
You would specify the transition property as -moz-transition, -webkit-transition, and -o-transition.
Add this styles for body tag which performs the spin (alternately you can use the class as well) compatible with latest of the browsers.
body{
-moz-animation-name: roll;
-moz-animation-duration: 4s; //spin 360 deg in 4 sec
-moz-animation-iteration-count: 1; //spin only once
-o-animation-name: roll;
-o-animation-duration: 4s;
-o-animation-iteration-count: 1;
-webkit-animation-name: roll;
-webkit-animation-duration: 4s;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: 1;
}
The CSS function rule “roll” is defined to rotate 360 deg.
@-moz-keyframes roll { 100% { -moz-transform: rotate(360deg); } }
The basic version of code which can be used/tested.
<html>
<head>
<style>
@-moz-keyframes roll { 100% { -moz-transform: rotate(360deg); } }
@-o-keyframes roll { 100% { -o-transform: rotate(360deg); } }
@-webkit-keyframes roll { 100% { -webkit-transform: rotate(360deg); } }
body{
-moz-animation-name: roll;
-moz-animation-duration: 4s;
-moz-animation-iteration-count: 1;
-o-animation-name: roll;
-o-animation-duration: 4s;
-o-animation-iteration-count: 1;
-webkit-animation-name: roll;
-webkit-animation-duration: 4s;
-webkit-animation-iteration-count: 1;
}
</style>
</head>
<body >
<p>Go ahead & do a barrel roll on your site</p>
<p>Go ahead & do a barrel roll on your site</p>
<p>Share it, if you like it</p>
<p>Share it, if you like it</p>
<p>Thank you </p>
<p>Thank you </p>
</body>
</html>
Since this feature is still in development in some browsers, this may not work in older browsers.
The same effect can be achieved by entering “Z or R twice” into the search bar.
If you wanna know how i did to this site(If you have not seen it while page the loaded, just refresh the page):
Added a below javascript to add a css class “barrel-roll” to the body with the above properties after 3 secs to allow page load.
if(location.href.match(‘do-a-barrel-roll’)){ //check if URL has barrel roll text
setTimeout(“document.getElementsByTagName(‘body’)[0].className=’barrel-roll’;”,3000);
}
1. GMail
Gmail is the built-in email client that can be used to access your Google mail. It supports multiple accounts and can push new emails to your mobile.
This is a great option if your primarily email is gmail.
The dedicated Gmail application integrated with Contacts and Android applications.
2. K-9 Mail
K-9 is the best email client for Android(after gmail…). It’s incredibly powerful and 100% free.
K-9 Mail is an open-source e-mail client with search, IMAP push email, multi-folder sync, flagging, filing, signatures, bcc-self, PGP, mail on SD & more!
K-9 supports IMAP, POP3 and Exchange 2003/2007 (with WebDAV).
K-9 is a community developed project.
3. ProfiMail
ProfiMail is a powerful email client that supports POP, IMAP and SMTP. This was a success on the Symbian platform. The list of features is extensive and includes support for multiple accounts, push email (using IMAP IDLE), signatures, HTML email and excellent support for attachments.
The program was designed to be as simple as possible, while offering very easy control, and many useful functions, essential for comfortable work with your email.
Features:
4. TochDown
TochDown from Nitrodesk lets you access your corporate email, contacts, calendar and tasks right on your Android device. It supports Exchange, Zimbra, Kerio, Novell GroupWise and other servers used in corporate environments. Nitrodesk allows you to buy the licence directly from them in case your SIM card is from one of the many countries that are not allowed to buy apps on the Android Market.
Major Improvements in version 7
For more feature list of tochdown visit here
Google AdSense is the current leader in content based marketing ads.The below are the alternatives to the google adsense for making money online.
1. AdBrite
AdBrite, is currently one of the best alternatives there is to Google’s adsense.
adBrite is the largest independent ad exchange offering an entirely transparent marketplace, direct access to superior campaign data and analytics and ultimately, greater control over what matters most – results.
Revenue is typically split 75/25 in your favor.
2. Bidvertiser
“Make money from your Website or Blog – get paid for clicks and conversions!”
Simply display the BidVertiser ads on your website and let advertisers bid against each other.
Bidvertiser will always display the highest bidders to maximize your revenue so you will make more money!
3. Chitika
Chitika allows you to display ads on your website, blog, app or mobile site, with content from our high-quality network of advertisers. Chitika offers search-targeted, mobile, and local ads to best target your users. Become a publisher today and bring your revenue to whole new level with Chitika.
You can use Chitika Ads with AdSense because Chitika Ads are non-contextual and do not look like AdSense units.
4. Infolinks
A relative newcomer to the scene Infolinks specializes in In-Text Advertizing. That is it indexes your page looking for keywords and phrases that are not currently links and converts them into advertizing links. When a user places their mouse over the link a box opens up showing the ad. If they click on the link you get paid. It is very simple and works very effectively. The nice part is that you can use Infolinks to compliment an existing advertizing campaign on your website. For example you can show banner ads with AdBrite or Bidvertiser and show text links with Infolinks. Or you can even show text links with both AdBrite and Infolinks together on the same page to maximize your revenue.
5. Pocket Cents
A relative new comer to the field is Pocket Cents. Pocket Cents has been built from the ground up as a Click Banner provider. Specializing in automatic focus on local markets Pocket Cents offers an intriguing alternative to adsense/adwords. While unlikely to replace your entire creative portfolio, Pocket Cents does off an attractive alternative for banner ads. It could also act as a good alternative ad provider for backfill from one of the larger networks.
Developers, data architects, and others who regularly work with databases often need to locate changes, find differences, or synchronize the database tables. Keep your databases up-to-date with the below tools as it’s simple, easy to use and fast. Synchronizing your development databases to production is a snap; a few clicks and the differences are scripted and applied to your target.
Below is the list of tools which includes a powerful database compare and merge tool to satisfy all these requirements. List number doesn’t specify any ranking.Also few tools are free, few trial versions are free & few are paid.
1. DBcomparer
DBComparer is a professional database comparison tool for analyzing the differences in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (and 2005) database structures. It is an excellent tool for any project development team or DBA managing multiple copies of the same database on an SQL Server. This database comparison tool has a clean and straight-forward user interface. Results are clearly presented so that you can immediately see the differences in your databases. It will make locating and eliminating differences in your database fast and easy.
2. SQL Delta
Keep your databases up-to-date with SQL Delta. SQL Delta lets you manage one comparison or hundreds with its advanced project manager. Synchronizing your development databases to production is a snap; a few clicks and the differences are scripted and applied to your target.
3. Altova DatabaseSpy
DatabaseSpy® 2012 displays database comparisons in an intuitive graphical table representation with connecting lines to illustrate column mapping between tables. DatabaseSpy® 2012 automatically maps columns with the same names, or you can drag connecting lines to manually map columns for comparison.
4. Adept SQL
AdeptSQL Diff is a lightning fast and intuitive tool to visually compare and synchronize two MS SQL Server databases. The program scans both databases and displays the combined schema tree view, with all differences color-marked.
If you are a web developer you would have encountered this very often when you shift your machines or change you machines.
Users can copy the bookmarks, proxy settings, pages, history, add on’s, extension’s and many more features with the below steps.
1. Click on the windows button & enter %AppData% as below (In win xp click “Run”).
2.Copy the entire “mozilla” folder from old machine to any USB drive.
3.In the new machine again follow step 1 & paste the Copied “mozilla” folder.
4. Voila!!!! you get all your data back from old machine to the new one like bookmarks, proxy settings, pages, history, add-on’s, extension’s
Contributing to the ever growing pool of tributes for steve jobs death, there is now a whole series of iPhone 4/4s cases available with different artworks of Steve Jobs on the back. So if you want to let people know how much you appreciated this genius of a visionary, I think you should definitely have a look at these. They are made available by WOWcases.
Here are the below few links a source for this images & where you can buy this cases as well.
http://www.iwowcases.com/iphone-4iphone-4s-steve-jobs-hard-caseportrait-p-3845.html
http://www.ludanstore.com/steve-jobs-memorial-hard-case-skin-cover-iphone-4-4g.html