If you are not happy with the changes Facebook  has done with regards to the News Feed there’s an easy way to revert back to the old Facebook user interface.

Simply go to your Account Settings and change your language to anything except “English (US)”.

As an alternate you can select the ‘English (UK)’ if you only speak English and it will change back to the previous layout/ user interface.

Once Facebook rolls out the new UI across all territories / languages , this fix may not work. So this is merely a temporary ‘fix’ if you are hating the new interface.

Apple will be announcing the new generation iPhone5 on the October fourth consistent with the wave of rumors. Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook  will hold a media event on Oct. 4 to announce the iPhone5.

If true, the next generation iPhone  will be released in early October which expects stronger demand then ever.

It is not known whether Steve Jobs  who resigned as Apple CEO in August, will be present at the event.

Intel Hybrid Cloud program offers your small business customers cloud-like flexibility, with the confidence of onsite hardware.

The Intel Hybrid Cloud program, featuring the Intel AppUp Small Business Service, enables you to provide customers with server software and services on a pay-as-you-go basis, along with the stability and confidence of on-premises hardware. You get a turnkey, remotely manageable cloud solution and your customers receive the benefits of cloud-based services combined with the responsiveness and security of local hardware.

The Intel AppUp Small Business Service, an innovative software delivery mechanism and catalog of small business applications, runs on the Intel Hybrid Cloud platform, which features a scalable, pre-configured server with robust remote management capabilities. The Intel Hybrid Cloud platform also includes the Intel Hybrid Cloud software, server, and management portal. The Intel AppUp Small Business Service enables you to deliver cloud-like benefits with flexibility, confidence and a better user experience for your small business customers. Read the rest of this entry »

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing platform that supports wide variety of Internet services and remote applications. It is similar to Amazon’s Web Services products to provide a virtual data center which includes everything from computational resources to database services to synchronization.
The back-end data centers are hosted by Microsoft and the platform offers both an API and a client-side managed class library for developers to utilize.

Microsoft is positioning its Windows Azure cloud service as a platform to provide back-end services for mobile devices, including Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. More towards WP7.
The goal of Azure is to provide developers who want to write applications that run in a remote data center with a platform and set of tools.

These efforts are happening concurrently with Google’s attempt to do the same for Android and the Google App Engine cloud.

I have come across a wonderful article on Gayadesign on how to create a moving backgrounds for text using jquery like flash.

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It’s that time of the year again when we kick off our shoes from work and enjoy the festive season. As we welcome the year ahead, I’m sure most of us have made some kind of resolutions for ourselves.
you will be looking at your new calendar for the new year for the next 365 days. Why not get a thought-provoking, creatively designed or aesthetic calendar that you can appreciate each and every day? Hongkiat have compiled some of the best designed calendars over the recent years to let each of you have an idea on the variety of calendars that designers have came up with.


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A wonderful clock design explained on tutorialzine site using css & jquery.

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A solution to highlight identified keywords (using named entity recognition) inside the chunk of user generated text had been posted on 5thirtyone .Look at the below pictures which demonstrates the actual working.

With format selected, highlights the particular meaningful text.

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The article on dotnetcurry demonstrates how to click and view a larger image when the thumbnail is clicked on.

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Some of us might want to disable the mouse right click .Below simple code snippet can be used to d the job easily using jQuery.

$(document).ready(function(){
$(document).bind("contextmenu",function(e){
return false;
});
});