The popularity of 3-D entertainment has been given a boost by a slew of recent films, including sci-fi blockbuster "Avatar" and Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland".
Several companies are also offering 3-D televisions and a 3-D video game console will launched soon.
At South Korea's Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, researchers used 3-D technology to animate two children's books of Korean folk tales, complete with writhing dragons and heroes bounding over mountains.
Pictures in the books have cues that trigger the 3-D animation for readers wearing computer-screen goggles. As the reader turns and tilts the book, the 3-D animation moves accordingly.
"It took us about three years to develop the software for this," said Kim Sang-cheol, the team leader of the project.
Kim said the technology could be used for any type of book and sees it eventually being used for images displayed over smart phones or at museums to enhance exhibits.
But those waiting for 3-D books may have to wait long.
"It will take a while to market this technology to the general public," Kim said. He was not sure of the eventual price but thinks it will be affordable enough to be mass marketed.
Source: Reuters
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
The follow to following ratio on twitter
There is no such strict rule that you must maintain this ratio but it is preferable that you do so. It's simple. Always make sure there are more people following you than the number of people you follow. When you see someone following a huge number of people but with only a few followers, the first thought that comes to mind is, the person is a spammer. If you see someone with the same number of followers as the number of followees then you get the feeling that this person follows almost everyone who follows him/her.It is a good idea to have maintain the balance.
So, what would be a good ratio. would be 1:2, i.e. following half the number of people of those who follow you. It doesn't have to be strictly that way. You can choose to have it 1:3 or anything else, but do remember that you do need to follow people to make them aware of your presence on Twitter, or else no one would follow you. Just don't follow too many. Also, you don't have to do this but it makes you more appealing, increasing your the chances of getting more followers.
So, what would be a good ratio. would be 1:2, i.e. following half the number of people of those who follow you. It doesn't have to be strictly that way. You can choose to have it 1:3 or anything else, but do remember that you do need to follow people to make them aware of your presence on Twitter, or else no one would follow you. Just don't follow too many. Also, you don't have to do this but it makes you more appealing, increasing your the chances of getting more followers.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Appls Magic Trackpad
The apple website store came up with refreshed mac systems and the all new Magic Trackpad for Apple iMacs and Mac Pros. Its in the series of Magic Mouse. One of the favorite device that every mac user wants to go for. And the new Magic trackpad ads mouse like device with your mac pros and imac computers.
This is the first multi touch trackpad for imac and mac pros comes at 69$ to buy in apple store.
This is the first multi touch trackpad for imac and mac pros comes at 69$ to buy in apple store.
10 best free online games
1. Spelunky
Spelunky is about anger, hate and, most of all, death. It looks like a simple enough platform game – an Indiana Jones pastiche set in a cavern full of tricks and traps – and it is. There's nothing complicated about it. Every enemy is avoidable. Every trap can be dealt with.
The catch is that every time you play, the entire game is randomised. In one game you'll stumble through screen after screen of spiked horrors and swarming monsters; in the next, the software will bend over backwards to give you gold and help you on your way.
http://www.spelunkyworld.com/
2. NetHack
Much like Spelunky, this open-source classic makes heavy use of randomisation to give you a new adventure every time you fire it up. However, instead of being a platform game, it's an epic RPG with the unofficial motto, 'The dev team thinks of everything'.
Do you want to blind a basilisk with a custard pie? Abuse shape-changing spells to lay deadly eggs that can be used as weapons? Get blasted by your patron deity if you try praying to them when they're in a bad mood? It's all in here, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
http://www.nethack.org/
3. Quake Live
This is how far the web has come: one of the best deathmatch games ever created is now available to play from within the confines of your browser.
Well, technically, no, it's not actually in it – Quake Live uses a plug-in and then goes full-screen when you play – but the spirit is still there.
Any modern computer is now able to handle Quake's modest demands, and the game's blisteringly fast action makes it quite unlike any modern shooter. Forget realism. Forget objectives. Sometimes, all you need is a rocket launcher, a perfectly timed shot and the lamentation of the noobs as time permits.
Beware, though: if you haven't played id Software's classic shooter for a while, the frenetic pace of the online action might be terrifying.
http://www.quakelive.com/#home
4. Beneath a Steel Sky
A classic adventure from British developer Revolution, and one that serves two purposes. First, it's fun – a comic-style sci-fi adventure with a wry sense of humour.
http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/
5. Desktop Tower Defence
It's not just a game, it's a whole genre. The idea is simple. In most RTS games, you build units such as soldiers or tanks and pit them against your enemy's army.
In Desktop Tower Defence games, you put down fixed turrets, each with different abilities, with the aim of stopping the enemy making it from one side of the screen to the other. It sounds easy and, like most casual games, for the first few levels it is.
http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Game.asp
6. Digital: A Love Story
Remember the excitement of logging into your first BBS? What if you'd found something more than just files and chatter and naked pictures of assorted Star Trek actresses?
To explain Digital: A Love Story would be giving away too much, so let's just say that it's a great nostalgia trip with a bit of future-gazing thrown in for free. Played out entirely on 1988-style bulletin boards, it starts when you respond to an email from a lonely-sounding girl called Emilia.
The relationship plays out as a hacker's romance as you jump between BBS systems to uncover a conspiracy, mostly interacting by firing off emails to the characters. You never get to see what you've said, only the responses, which adds an unusual but effective disconnect to the conversations.
It's not a long game – only an hour or so of action at most – but it's a testament to the writing that you quickly get sucked into what is basically just typing out a lot of phone numbers. The authentic-sounding music and sound effects help: the sweet siren song of a modem connecting still sends a chill down the spine.
http://www.scoutshonour.com/digital/
7. Neopets
Neopets doesn't feature just one game to complete; instead, it's stuffed with hundreds of minigames. Each of these is located in a different area of Neopia, a virtual world that you must explore with your trusty Neopet (which you design and name yourself) by your side.
http://www.neopets.com/
8. Neptune's Pride
Do you have good friends? Want to lose them all over the course of a month? Then this is the strategy game for you.
The idea is that you only need to log in every now and again to direct your intergalactic fleet around the universe. Your friends, hereafter referred to as 'former friends', do the same.
Read the diaries to see a typical game played out from start to finish.
np.ironhelmet.com
9. Online poker
Who said you needed a massive bankroll to play poker online? If you know where to go, it's possible to earn fairly large amounts of money without investing a penny through multi-table tournaments known as freerolls.
All of the major online cardrooms run tournaments like this to lure in new users in the hope that they'll become addicted and pump fistfuls of their hard-earned cash into the site for many years to come.
Sites to keep an eye on are Full Tilt, Pokerstars and PartyPoker – they're always running promotions. For a day-to-day breakdown of freerolls and their UK times, visit: http://www.freerolltimes.co.uk/poker_freerolls.php.
10. Dwarf Fortress
If you find games like SimCity or Civilisation a little too simple, Dwarf Fortress is the game for you. Technically, its full name is Slaves to Armok: God of Blood: Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress, but absolutely nobody calls it that.
Here for instance is one forum's game, served up in episodic Lets Play format: http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Boatmurdered/intro.html. Excellent, yet bewildering.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
Spelunky is about anger, hate and, most of all, death. It looks like a simple enough platform game – an Indiana Jones pastiche set in a cavern full of tricks and traps – and it is. There's nothing complicated about it. Every enemy is avoidable. Every trap can be dealt with.
The catch is that every time you play, the entire game is randomised. In one game you'll stumble through screen after screen of spiked horrors and swarming monsters; in the next, the software will bend over backwards to give you gold and help you on your way.
http://www.spelunkyworld.com/
2. NetHack
Much like Spelunky, this open-source classic makes heavy use of randomisation to give you a new adventure every time you fire it up. However, instead of being a platform game, it's an epic RPG with the unofficial motto, 'The dev team thinks of everything'.
Do you want to blind a basilisk with a custard pie? Abuse shape-changing spells to lay deadly eggs that can be used as weapons? Get blasted by your patron deity if you try praying to them when they're in a bad mood? It's all in here, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
http://www.nethack.org/
3. Quake Live
This is how far the web has come: one of the best deathmatch games ever created is now available to play from within the confines of your browser.
Well, technically, no, it's not actually in it – Quake Live uses a plug-in and then goes full-screen when you play – but the spirit is still there.
Any modern computer is now able to handle Quake's modest demands, and the game's blisteringly fast action makes it quite unlike any modern shooter. Forget realism. Forget objectives. Sometimes, all you need is a rocket launcher, a perfectly timed shot and the lamentation of the noobs as time permits.
Beware, though: if you haven't played id Software's classic shooter for a while, the frenetic pace of the online action might be terrifying.
http://www.quakelive.com/#home
4. Beneath a Steel Sky
A classic adventure from British developer Revolution, and one that serves two purposes. First, it's fun – a comic-style sci-fi adventure with a wry sense of humour.
http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/
5. Desktop Tower Defence
It's not just a game, it's a whole genre. The idea is simple. In most RTS games, you build units such as soldiers or tanks and pit them against your enemy's army.
In Desktop Tower Defence games, you put down fixed turrets, each with different abilities, with the aim of stopping the enemy making it from one side of the screen to the other. It sounds easy and, like most casual games, for the first few levels it is.
http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/Game.asp
6. Digital: A Love Story
Remember the excitement of logging into your first BBS? What if you'd found something more than just files and chatter and naked pictures of assorted Star Trek actresses?
To explain Digital: A Love Story would be giving away too much, so let's just say that it's a great nostalgia trip with a bit of future-gazing thrown in for free. Played out entirely on 1988-style bulletin boards, it starts when you respond to an email from a lonely-sounding girl called Emilia.
The relationship plays out as a hacker's romance as you jump between BBS systems to uncover a conspiracy, mostly interacting by firing off emails to the characters. You never get to see what you've said, only the responses, which adds an unusual but effective disconnect to the conversations.
It's not a long game – only an hour or so of action at most – but it's a testament to the writing that you quickly get sucked into what is basically just typing out a lot of phone numbers. The authentic-sounding music and sound effects help: the sweet siren song of a modem connecting still sends a chill down the spine.
http://www.scoutshonour.com/digital/
7. Neopets
Neopets doesn't feature just one game to complete; instead, it's stuffed with hundreds of minigames. Each of these is located in a different area of Neopia, a virtual world that you must explore with your trusty Neopet (which you design and name yourself) by your side.
http://www.neopets.com/
8. Neptune's Pride
Do you have good friends? Want to lose them all over the course of a month? Then this is the strategy game for you.
The idea is that you only need to log in every now and again to direct your intergalactic fleet around the universe. Your friends, hereafter referred to as 'former friends', do the same.
Read the diaries to see a typical game played out from start to finish.
np.ironhelmet.com
9. Online poker
Who said you needed a massive bankroll to play poker online? If you know where to go, it's possible to earn fairly large amounts of money without investing a penny through multi-table tournaments known as freerolls.
All of the major online cardrooms run tournaments like this to lure in new users in the hope that they'll become addicted and pump fistfuls of their hard-earned cash into the site for many years to come.
Sites to keep an eye on are Full Tilt, Pokerstars and PartyPoker – they're always running promotions. For a day-to-day breakdown of freerolls and their UK times, visit: http://www.freerolltimes.co.uk/poker_freerolls.php.
10. Dwarf Fortress
If you find games like SimCity or Civilisation a little too simple, Dwarf Fortress is the game for you. Technically, its full name is Slaves to Armok: God of Blood: Chapter II: Dwarf Fortress, but absolutely nobody calls it that.
Here for instance is one forum's game, served up in episodic Lets Play format: http://lparchive.org/LetsPlay/Boatmurdered/intro.html. Excellent, yet bewildering.
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
Monday, July 26, 2010
Tool for organizing Your E-Books
If you are looking for a way to organise the collection of e-books you’ve downloaded from around the Web for your e-reader or smartphone? The open-source Calibre program can manage your library, sync files to a number of different devices and even convert between e-book formats. Calibre is free to download for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux systems.
Friday, July 23, 2010
CNN launches International News App for iPhone
CNN today announced the availability of the international version of the CNN App on the App Store. Earlier the App was only available in United States.
The CNN App features push notification; regionalisation and personalisation tools; and more. The CNN app showcases global news through text, video and photos, and also includes user-generated content capture and upload functionality through iReport, CNN’s user-generated news community.
CNN App Features include:
“My CNN” Personalisation
Ability to “follow” a story or topic: As CNN publishes new stories and developments related to topics designated by the user, the app will automatically alert the user by pushing a notification to the device.
“Saved” content functionality gives users access to text stories that interest them anytime, anywhere – even when they’re offline.
Regionally-targeted news based on the user’s selection of content from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America or the Middle East.
iReport:
Provides a direct gateway to CNN’s user-generated news community, iReport.
Lets users browse user-generated content; register, sign-in to their account or sign on as a guest to capture and instantly upload user-generated photos and videos (with the iPhone 3GS and above).
Users can also browse iReport’s latest “assignments,” asking the community to weigh in on various news stories.
Latest Headlines:
Users can flick through news stories across categories including Top Stories, U.S., Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Business, Sport, Entertainment, Tech and Travel.
Each story features bulleted highlights above the full article, designed to satisfy mobile “snackers,” allowing them to easily scan through the latest stories.
Users can share stories via email, Twitter and Facebook directly from the CNN App.
Video on-demand
The App provides access to an extensive selection of on-demand video clips across many categories, including World, Most Popular, Sport, Business, U.S., Entertainment, Tech and CNN en Español.
It is available for free download from App Store.
The CNN App features push notification; regionalisation and personalisation tools; and more. The CNN app showcases global news through text, video and photos, and also includes user-generated content capture and upload functionality through iReport, CNN’s user-generated news community.
CNN App Features include:
“My CNN” Personalisation
Ability to “follow” a story or topic: As CNN publishes new stories and developments related to topics designated by the user, the app will automatically alert the user by pushing a notification to the device.
“Saved” content functionality gives users access to text stories that interest them anytime, anywhere – even when they’re offline.
Regionally-targeted news based on the user’s selection of content from Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America or the Middle East.
iReport:
Provides a direct gateway to CNN’s user-generated news community, iReport.
Lets users browse user-generated content; register, sign-in to their account or sign on as a guest to capture and instantly upload user-generated photos and videos (with the iPhone 3GS and above).
Users can also browse iReport’s latest “assignments,” asking the community to weigh in on various news stories.
Latest Headlines:
Users can flick through news stories across categories including Top Stories, U.S., Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, Business, Sport, Entertainment, Tech and Travel.
Each story features bulleted highlights above the full article, designed to satisfy mobile “snackers,” allowing them to easily scan through the latest stories.
Users can share stories via email, Twitter and Facebook directly from the CNN App.
Video on-demand
The App provides access to an extensive selection of on-demand video clips across many categories, including World, Most Popular, Sport, Business, U.S., Entertainment, Tech and CNN en Español.
It is available for free download from App Store.
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
waterless washing machine
Consumers looking for ways on how to save water, energy, and money every time they wash their clothes will definitely love a waterless washing machine .
Fortunately, this idea is currently being perfected by Xeros Ltd. , a company that is developing a washing machine system, based on University of Leeds professor Stephen Burkinsaw's research. Burkinsaw was able to invent a coloring technology by using dye that is made of nylon polymer beads.
When Burkinsaw reversed this process, he discovered that these nylon polymer beads actually absorb stains and dirt from fabric when these beads are mixed with damp clothing items.
A closer look at the nylon polymer technology
Originally, Burkinsaw's focus of research was to improve the ability of coloring dyes to anchor its particles onto the fabric. He discovered that nylon polymer beads are the best medium to color fabric with dyes.
When this idea was reversed, Burkinsaw's research was used as the basis of the washing process behind Xeros' almost waterless washing machine. By recognizing that coloring dyes are just like stains, Burkinsaw and his research and development team formulated the concept of washing garments by simply using little water and by adding the nylon polymer beads into the detergent.
According to Stephen Burkinsaw and his group of researchers and scientists, nylon was the best type of polymer beads because of its property to become superabsorbent when mixed or tumbled with slightly damp clothing items or when used within humid conditions. Plus, nylon polymer beads were found out to be super resilient, making it possible to recycle these beads over and over again, without becoming less absorbent. This unique resiliency of nylon can be actually seen in nylon ropes used in ocean liners.
The virtually waterless cleaning process
The nylon polymer beads act like superabsorbent beads that absorb the stains from the fabric. With just a little bit of water to create humid conditions, the nylon polymer beads absorb stains right into its very core. Dirt and grime are not just attracted by the surface of the beads. They are absorbed into the core, resulting in cleaner and whiter fabric (for white garments). This is how Xeros plans to create an almost waterless washing machine.
The process, which is still under research and development, is similar to the cleaning process used by conventional washing machines. First, the garments to be washed are placed into the inner drum made of mesh. The wash cycle then begins as the nylon polymer beads and damp clothing items are tumbled inside the washing machine. Consumers won't have to worry about manually separating the nylon polymer beads from the fabric because the next step involves a drum in drum separation process. In this part, the beads are automatically separated from the garments as the outer drum stops rotating. It is projected that 99.95% of the beads are removed. The user can then just shake off any remaining beads or use a vacuum wand. The vacuum wand is included in the projected waterless washing machine design for complete convenience.
With the assistance of Cambridge consultants, this idea was adapted by Xeros Ltd. And after years of experimenting, Xeros was able to make a deal with GreenEarth Cleaning to manufacture waterless washing machines for consumer use. Unfortunately, the commercial production of this almost waterless washing machine is slated for 2010.
For consumers who want to take a sneak peek at what the virtually waterless washing machine of Xerox Ltd. can do for them, here are the possible benefits it can offer:
Sn0wBreeze v1.8 Beta available for Download
The iH8Sn0w has released a jailbreak tool for the handsets which have iOS 4.1 beta.
The Sn0wBreeze v1.8 beta jail break tool works with all the iOS 4.1 handsets like iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3G, and the iPod touch 2G. Sn0wBreeze v1.8 is the jail break tool which helps to work with Windows to jailbreak the iDevices whereas the Mac users go for Pwnage Tool.
The iPhone and the iPod users who are waiting to jailbreak their handsets can download the Sn0wBreeze v1.8 now.
The Sn0wBreeze v1.8 beta jail break tool works with all the iOS 4.1 handsets like iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3G, and the iPod touch 2G. Sn0wBreeze v1.8 is the jail break tool which helps to work with Windows to jailbreak the iDevices whereas the Mac users go for Pwnage Tool.
The iPhone and the iPod users who are waiting to jailbreak their handsets can download the Sn0wBreeze v1.8 now.
Download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?3l4oiji1954jle6
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Mirror in your Mobile phone
Rimmel London is a new mobile phone application which allows the mobile phone to be transformed into a handy mirror. You can download this free application from the Rimmel Mobile site
Compatible Devices
Nokia: 5230, 5320 XpressMusic, 5530 XpressMusic, 5630 Xpress Music, 5730 XpressMusic, 5800 XpressMusic, 6121 Classic, 6220 Classic, 6720 Classic, E55, E66, E71, N72, N77, N78, N79, N80, N81, N82, N95
Friday, July 9, 2010
5 Helpful iPhone Apps for the Office
ProOnGo Expense>: Free (optional ProOnGo Receipt Reader has subscription fees based on number of scanned receipts)
Even if your company already has an online expense program, this free application could make your employees' lives much easier, not to mention fewer errors for accountants to deal with. You and your employees can organize and track personal or business expenses, mileage, and time.
Users can manage their expenses on the iPhone using the app's options and features, or export the data to QuickBooks, an Excel spreadsheet, a CSV file, or in XML format. Since CSV data is also ASCII text data--with the fields separated by commas--you can export an expense report to any text-based application on any platform. You can use predefined expenses or add your own; choose from expense, mileage, or time; then just add the data requested by the other fields, such as vendor, category, date, description, and then watch the running total. Touchscreen buttons provide options to sort, export, save, and restore backups.
The Receipt Reader service, which takes a scanned or photographed receipt, deciphers the text on that document, and sends it back to your iPhone. This optional feature is provided for a subscription fee. Check out the ProOnGo website for more information.
2.Quickoffice Connect Mobile Suite: $9.99
The primary advantage of this app is the capability to view, create, open, and edit Microsoft Office files on your iPhone. Three weeks ago, my friends and I went camping in the mountains for a week. One friend who manages a small business received an e-mail from her boss about a project that she had completed before we left. He was in a panic over changes that had to be made. She opened the files on her iPhone, made the changes, and e-mailed the new documents back to him--all in less than 10 minutes. Need I say more? Check out their website for information about additional options, features, and updates such as remote access, compatible file formats, and available language versions.
3. Bump for iPhone: Free
This app is so unusual, it's almost funny; however, it is an excellent time saver for company execs and employees who deal with lots of people, in person, on a daily basis. All you have to do is ask potential clients if they have Bump on their iPhone. If yes, then simply "bump" hands, and the two phones exchange contact data. Ten years ago, that would have seemed like magic.
Setup is easy; just follow the application's prompts. When you meet another "Bumper," both users must open the app on both devices; bump hands while holding the phones, abd then confirm the exchange. The application checks for duplicates, and it compares contact lists for shared entries. So, next time you're at an office function and see everyone bumping hands, you'll know why. See the vendor's website for more information.
4. Workday: iTunes and subscription account with Workday required
With companies receiving 300 résumés for every job opening, this app could help streamline the hiring process--through the management tasks, at least. But, more importantly, it's loaded with features that generally address human resource tasks. All companies have some form of an HR department, but in smaller and mid-size organizations, such staff may be limited to one or two individuals.
Workday allows management to review, approve, and sign off on employees' expense reports, time sheets, and vacation requests. It also provides a quick method for HR and purchasing departments to secure approval for new hires, terminations, requisitions, purchase orders, and other such documents. Plus, it's a breeze for remote workers to secure approval on any document. Be aware, however, that although Workday for iPhone is free, the core application, Workday Solutions, is not. This program requires a subscription to Workday. Review the vendor's website for more information about this application and its benefits and limitations.
5. SurePayroll Mobile Payroll: Based on payroll frequency and number of employees
If your company has an in-house accountant, then payroll may not be an issue. But if you use a firm, or contract out your payroll to another payroll management service, this application may save money and provide the convenience of working through your iPhone.
SurePayroll provides a long list of features, including calculating wages and deductions, managing payroll taxes, issuing checks or direct deposit funds to your employees, providing 24/7 online access to files, sending alerts, and providing labor law information. The service also includes tight security protocols, employee self-service options, HR tools and support, time clock options, and accounting software integration with programs such as QuickBooks, Peachtree, and MYOB. Check out the SurePayroll website for more options and features.
For more iPhone apps, visit the Apple iPhone Store, or visit the PCWorld AppGuide.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Expected Features Of Windows 8
- Facial recognition – provides quick and easy login.
- Support for Bluetooth 3 and USB 3.
- Camera detects when you leave your seat, thus makes the system to shutdown automatically.
- Includes Kinect-like features.
- If someone else shows up in front of the camera, it switches between user accounts based on who it sees.
- May connect Windows accounts to the cloud.
- Faster boot sequences and ambient light sensing.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
How to Start-Enhance Your Facebook Marketing
Today, Facebook has beome the most selling social networking website on the internet. It is the most viewed site all over the world after Google.com. Thus it gives a very huge oppotunity for online marketers and even the one who still dont have a online marketing strategy to start their own online marketing on Facebook. Here, you are able to keep in touch with your friends as well as your relatives and even meet new friends and build new relationships. The best part of using facebook as a business social networking is we can have both personal and professional relations on the same site or profile very easily. With all the tools and applications that Facebook offers, you will see that it is a lot of fun and it will definitely provide a great way for you to interact with other people with accounts on Facebook. Thus creating a new area or sector for marketing your brand, services or products. You get to know about other marketing skills and other products and services all over the world.
Now everyone has come to know that Facebook is not only a website that you can use to connect with your friends. It is also a tool that you can use to market the products and services you offer. If you have an online business or you are an internet marketer or if you havent still started to promote online, Facebook is the perfect place to market in the internet or to start your Promotions. Facebook has offered a lot to the Internet Marketers. Now almost all the Companies or Individuals have sorted out their Facebook profiles and have started to actively take part in Facebook Promotions. The Statistics of Facebook Speaks for itself.
More than 400 million active users.
50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
Average user has 130 friends.
People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook.
There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
With over 400 million subscribers from all over the world, you will see that this website is truly the internet marketer’s dream. So, here are some tips that you can use in order to use Facebook at its full potential and let it help you make a lot of money and grow yourself or your Company to a Greater height.
The first thing that you need to remember is that once you have a Facebook account, you might want to fill out your profile. You need not just include your name, age and other basic things, but you need to really fill your profile page. You need to remember that the best profile is often a profile that is fully completed. Filling out the Profile page is very important, because it is your first impression and as all of you know that “First Impression is the last Impression.” So you must have a complete information on your profile. And one more thing try to be as real and truthful as you could be on filling the Profile.
Once you establish your network, just don’t stay in that circle. Try to interact with other people within your industry. Try to share links, notes, quotations, emotions, and anything that comes to your mind just write on your wall and let people interact with you. This is a great way to build new relationships and is also a great way to market your products or services as well as your business website. To do this, you might want to join groups and like fan pages related to your profession. This way, you will be able to meet people that are also interested in what you have to offer.
You have to remember that Facebook is all about connecting and interacting with other members. Allowing people to get more information and sharing that information to as much people as you can. Try to build a chain so that information that you share get maximum exposure. Try to share in a manner that is brings more and more responses. So, you shouldn’t be shy. Try interacting with other members. Once you establish a relationship, then you will be able to expand your network and improve your marketing strategy.
In internet marketing, getting targeted traffic is the key to success. If you have a Facebook profile page, you might want to make a unique profile page in order to catch other people’s attention. Try adding some applications, such as games and add some videos as well as syndicate your blog website using RSS. By doing these things, you will be able to provide people with lots of fun things to do in your profile page. Facebook a lot of applications that can be used to create a fan page with most relevant information and a different look. Always try to be different from deafult facebook looks fan pages. Use Static HTML application to create a good looking fan page and get it customized to suit your needs.
These are some of the things that you need to do in order to successfully market in Facebook. Always remember that getting people to view your profile page is the key to success in Facebook marketing. The second most important thing is that you want people who come to your page once always return back again and again. Through these tips, you can be sure that you will get a lot of viewers in your profile page and increase the chances of getting them in your business website or get them to buy your products or services.
Remember these tips, and you will see that you will be able to become successful in marketing in Facebook. Always remember that you need to work hard in order for you to become successful in Facebook. You need to be as real as possible. You need to be updated daily about the news on the Facebook and major development taking around it
Now everyone has come to know that Facebook is not only a website that you can use to connect with your friends. It is also a tool that you can use to market the products and services you offer. If you have an online business or you are an internet marketer or if you havent still started to promote online, Facebook is the perfect place to market in the internet or to start your Promotions. Facebook has offered a lot to the Internet Marketers. Now almost all the Companies or Individuals have sorted out their Facebook profiles and have started to actively take part in Facebook Promotions. The Statistics of Facebook Speaks for itself.
More than 400 million active users.
50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
Average user has 130 friends.
People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook.
There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
With over 400 million subscribers from all over the world, you will see that this website is truly the internet marketer’s dream. So, here are some tips that you can use in order to use Facebook at its full potential and let it help you make a lot of money and grow yourself or your Company to a Greater height.
The first thing that you need to remember is that once you have a Facebook account, you might want to fill out your profile. You need not just include your name, age and other basic things, but you need to really fill your profile page. You need to remember that the best profile is often a profile that is fully completed. Filling out the Profile page is very important, because it is your first impression and as all of you know that “First Impression is the last Impression.” So you must have a complete information on your profile. And one more thing try to be as real and truthful as you could be on filling the Profile.
Once you establish your network, just don’t stay in that circle. Try to interact with other people within your industry. Try to share links, notes, quotations, emotions, and anything that comes to your mind just write on your wall and let people interact with you. This is a great way to build new relationships and is also a great way to market your products or services as well as your business website. To do this, you might want to join groups and like fan pages related to your profession. This way, you will be able to meet people that are also interested in what you have to offer.
You have to remember that Facebook is all about connecting and interacting with other members. Allowing people to get more information and sharing that information to as much people as you can. Try to build a chain so that information that you share get maximum exposure. Try to share in a manner that is brings more and more responses. So, you shouldn’t be shy. Try interacting with other members. Once you establish a relationship, then you will be able to expand your network and improve your marketing strategy.
In internet marketing, getting targeted traffic is the key to success. If you have a Facebook profile page, you might want to make a unique profile page in order to catch other people’s attention. Try adding some applications, such as games and add some videos as well as syndicate your blog website using RSS. By doing these things, you will be able to provide people with lots of fun things to do in your profile page. Facebook a lot of applications that can be used to create a fan page with most relevant information and a different look. Always try to be different from deafult facebook looks fan pages. Use Static HTML application to create a good looking fan page and get it customized to suit your needs.
These are some of the things that you need to do in order to successfully market in Facebook. Always remember that getting people to view your profile page is the key to success in Facebook marketing. The second most important thing is that you want people who come to your page once always return back again and again. Through these tips, you can be sure that you will get a lot of viewers in your profile page and increase the chances of getting them in your business website or get them to buy your products or services.
Remember these tips, and you will see that you will be able to become successful in marketing in Facebook. Always remember that you need to work hard in order for you to become successful in Facebook. You need to be as real as possible. You need to be updated daily about the news on the Facebook and major development taking around it
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Essential social networking tools
If you’re like many people these days, you spend a growing amount of time on one or more of the Internet’s social media sites - YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, or blogs. While hanging out on these sites used to fall squarely into the realm of pastime, that’s no longer the case. Many of the best social networking sites fulfil serious business or personal development needs. That’s why finding ways to use them more efficiently can pay big dividends by allowing you to focus on the rest of your life while keeping up with your social networking tasks. Here are some tools that can help.
Live Writer
If you’re a blogger, you need a tool that lets you blog offline and update your blog when you’re ready - regardless of whether you have direct access to the blog at the moment. Windows Live Writer (http://bit.ly/XIUQ) fits the bill. This tool, free to registered Windows users, ties in to most blogging sites and blogging software - including WordPress - and gives you a slick, word processor-like interface in which to compose blog entries. When you’re ready to publish an entry, either on the spot or at a later date when you’re connected to the internet, just click the Publish button, and you’re done. A nifty scheduling feature even lets you set up a post to be published at a specific day and time - so you might, for instance, compose a blog post to be published a week from now to coincide with some event.
If you happen to maintain and update several blogs, you’ll be happy to know that Live Writer lets you add multiple blog accounts and update one or more of them from the same writing session. Plus you can use the tool’s table editor and spell checker to format and proofread your work, just like in a word processor.
TwitterFeed
Many use Twitter to inform their followers of updates to other sites that they maintain. For instance, people who regularly blog often use Twitter to alert followers to new postings. TwitterFeed (http://twitterfeed.com) helps you automate that chore.
TwitterFeed takes advantage of the RSS (really simple syndication) feature of many web sites to make “tweets” on your behalf. To set up TwitterFeed, you simply provide the RSS feed URL to the site of your choice, allow TwitterFeed to access your Twitter account, set a few options, and you’re done. From that point on, TwitterFeed will keep your Twitter account active - with or without you.
YouTube downloaders
YouTube is brimming with useful videos on almost any topic. The only trouble is that you typically have to be on YouTube to watch them. With YouTube downloaders, you don’t have to. These tools allow you to download a YouTube video to watch later or even re-use in another format, assuming you have the rights.
There are many YouTube downloaders from which to choose. YouTube Downloader (http://bit.ly/HePLJ), for example, is a simple freeware application that downloads YouTube videos and converts them into a format of your choice. Included are formats for iPhone and iPod as well as standard desktop-compatible formats like AVI and WMV.
Literally dozens of other free apps on the market do essentially the same thing. For an conversion tool that you don’t have to install, try Kiss YouTube (http://www.kissyoutube.com), which lets you simply paste a YouTube URL into a box and then click a download link once the video has been converted. Firefox users should give the Video DownloadHelper plugin (http://bit.ly/9pLo0t) a try.
Messaging tools
There’s one thing that most social networking sites have in common: they let you keep in touch with others by posting messages.
Why not, then, have a tool that lets you update all of your social networking sites at once? That’s the idea behind Ping.fm (http://ping.fm), and the service works remarkably well.
Just create an account on Ping, allow the site to connect to your Twitter, Facebook, or other social networking site, and then type a message in the message box, including a URL if you wish. Click Ping It!, and Ping sends out your message to all of your social networking sites at once.
Ping also allows you to set up custom posting groups. So, for example, you can create a custom Ping that will send out a message only to your Facebook and Twitter account and not to your LinkedIn account. Ping supports Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, and dozens of other social networks, in addition blogging sites like Blogger.
Search engines
Traditional search engines - which rely on store and retrieve technology - aren’t good at indexing up-to-the-minute changes on social networking sites. Collecta http://collecta.com) is.
Collecta specialises in “real time search,” and it focuses on those sites where information is continually updated - specifically social networking sites, news sites, and blogs.
What’s more, Collecta continually updates its search results, and you can see those results being updated in real time. It’s a far cry from the constant refreshing you would need to do at most search engines.
Collecta isn’t the only search engine doing real-time search.
IceRocket (http://www.icerocket.com) and OneRiot (http://www.oneriot.com) have similar missions, scouring the “realtime Web” and presenting you the results.
Live Writer
If you’re a blogger, you need a tool that lets you blog offline and update your blog when you’re ready - regardless of whether you have direct access to the blog at the moment. Windows Live Writer (http://bit.ly/XIUQ) fits the bill. This tool, free to registered Windows users, ties in to most blogging sites and blogging software - including WordPress - and gives you a slick, word processor-like interface in which to compose blog entries. When you’re ready to publish an entry, either on the spot or at a later date when you’re connected to the internet, just click the Publish button, and you’re done. A nifty scheduling feature even lets you set up a post to be published at a specific day and time - so you might, for instance, compose a blog post to be published a week from now to coincide with some event.
If you happen to maintain and update several blogs, you’ll be happy to know that Live Writer lets you add multiple blog accounts and update one or more of them from the same writing session. Plus you can use the tool’s table editor and spell checker to format and proofread your work, just like in a word processor.
TwitterFeed
Many use Twitter to inform their followers of updates to other sites that they maintain. For instance, people who regularly blog often use Twitter to alert followers to new postings. TwitterFeed (http://twitterfeed.com) helps you automate that chore.
TwitterFeed takes advantage of the RSS (really simple syndication) feature of many web sites to make “tweets” on your behalf. To set up TwitterFeed, you simply provide the RSS feed URL to the site of your choice, allow TwitterFeed to access your Twitter account, set a few options, and you’re done. From that point on, TwitterFeed will keep your Twitter account active - with or without you.
YouTube downloaders
YouTube is brimming with useful videos on almost any topic. The only trouble is that you typically have to be on YouTube to watch them. With YouTube downloaders, you don’t have to. These tools allow you to download a YouTube video to watch later or even re-use in another format, assuming you have the rights.
There are many YouTube downloaders from which to choose. YouTube Downloader (http://bit.ly/HePLJ), for example, is a simple freeware application that downloads YouTube videos and converts them into a format of your choice. Included are formats for iPhone and iPod as well as standard desktop-compatible formats like AVI and WMV.
Literally dozens of other free apps on the market do essentially the same thing. For an conversion tool that you don’t have to install, try Kiss YouTube (http://www.kissyoutube.com), which lets you simply paste a YouTube URL into a box and then click a download link once the video has been converted. Firefox users should give the Video DownloadHelper plugin (http://bit.ly/9pLo0t) a try.
Messaging tools
There’s one thing that most social networking sites have in common: they let you keep in touch with others by posting messages.
Why not, then, have a tool that lets you update all of your social networking sites at once? That’s the idea behind Ping.fm (http://ping.fm), and the service works remarkably well.
Just create an account on Ping, allow the site to connect to your Twitter, Facebook, or other social networking site, and then type a message in the message box, including a URL if you wish. Click Ping It!, and Ping sends out your message to all of your social networking sites at once.
Ping also allows you to set up custom posting groups. So, for example, you can create a custom Ping that will send out a message only to your Facebook and Twitter account and not to your LinkedIn account. Ping supports Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google Buzz, and dozens of other social networks, in addition blogging sites like Blogger.
Search engines
Traditional search engines - which rely on store and retrieve technology - aren’t good at indexing up-to-the-minute changes on social networking sites. Collecta http://collecta.com) is.
Collecta specialises in “real time search,” and it focuses on those sites where information is continually updated - specifically social networking sites, news sites, and blogs.
What’s more, Collecta continually updates its search results, and you can see those results being updated in real time. It’s a far cry from the constant refreshing you would need to do at most search engines.
Collecta isn’t the only search engine doing real-time search.
IceRocket (http://www.icerocket.com) and OneRiot (http://www.oneriot.com) have similar missions, scouring the “realtime Web” and presenting you the results.
Monday, June 28, 2010
iPhone-OS4.0-The-Best-New-Features
• Multitasking:It's handled with a simple task switcher: double click your home button, and you get a list of running apps. Select, switch, done. Multitasking is limited to audio streaming, VoIP and GPS apps, as well as a few other allowances: they can finish specific, important tasks in the background, for example. As far as non-music/nav/VoIP apps, those can be suspended in the background, but not left running. (See below.)
• Fast app switching: With iPhone 4's multitasking, most apps aren't actually running in the background—just certain functions of the app, like an audio stream or a GPS lock. But! All apps can now be frozen, in full, so that when you reopen them, they're restored to exactly the state they were in when they were closed.
• Local notifications: Notifications can be sent between apps on the phone, not just from remote servers. In other words, if something important happens in an app you've opened and moved away from, a notification will pop up in whatever app you're using at the time, effectively saying "switch back to me!" It's a fairly clever way to keep track of multiple apps without the need for a start bar or dock-type interface. From Apple's dev guidelines:
• App folders: Now you can sort your apps into folders! That's homescreen clutter solved, just like that. Apple's description:
Folders help users better organize and quickly access their apps. Simply drag one app icon onto another, and a new folder is automatically created. The folder is automatically given a name based on the App Store category of that app, such as "Games," which the user can easily rename. Using folders, users can now organize and access over 2,000 apps on their iPhone.
• A new Mail app: Unified inboxes, multiple Exchange accounts, fast inbox switching, threaded messages: These new features are actually a huge deal, since the iPhone's mail client has barely changed since 2007, and Apple doesn't allow alternative mail apps. Apple's pitch:
iPhone OS 4 delivers the best mail experience on a mobile phone with its new Unified Inbox, allowing users to see messages from all their email accounts displayed together in a single inbox. With just a few taps, users can quickly switch between inboxes to see messages from any single account.
• Game Center: Apple's going to roll out a centralized gaming service—a multiplayer network like PSN or Xbox Live—to help connect games to one another, by the end on the year. There are 3rd-party services that already do this, like OpenFeint. They will probably die.
• iAd advertising: It looks like Apple's finally making use of Quattro, that mobile ad company it gobbled up a few months ago, by rolling out its own advertising platform, a turnkey ad plugin for app developers called iAd. The theory here is that instead of relying on links to external websites, which pull users out of apps whenever they tap on an ad, developers can use Apple's new tools to keep people in the app while still showing them advertising—sort of like popover browser windows. You can watch videos, play games, and even buy apps from within these ads. This is in the iPhone OS 4 developer tools, but it's not explicitly a part of OS 4, so you won't see apps with iAds until later this year.• 5x digital zoom: Could this hint at a higher quality camera in the next hardware? 3.2 megapixels seems a bit low for 5x digital zoom.
• Bluetooth keyboards: Another carryover from the iPad, Bluetooth keyboard support will finally come to iPhone 4.
• A bevy of other new developer features, including 1500 new APIs to play with: See here for more details.
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Tips for Safer Online Passwords
Here are some of the key tips:
1) Passwords don’t have to be hard to remember, just hard to crack. Type a sentence with lots of words and include punctuation.
2) Change your passwords more often if the content in the account is very sensitivity and needs to be protected.
3) Avoid generic password phrases like “To be, or not to be.” Deliberately misspell words.
4) Stay away from easy-to-find words and numbers you like your pet’s, partner’s, your mother’s maiden name, birthdates, etc.
5) Do not write write a password or pin on a piece of paper. If you need to, scramble the letters.
6) Don’t keep the same password for different sites.
7) Use a password manager like Keepass on Windows or 1password on Macs to generate stronger passwords.
8) Consider adding a number to the end of sentence-based password phrases.
9) Avoid public wi-fi and typing passwords into other people’s machines in case a keylogger is installed.
10) Reuse passwords only at unimportant sites.
11) Log in on pages protected with SSL encryption. Look for the “s” in “https://
12) Cheap password management software can sometimes generate passwords that look strong but aren’t
13) Some people replace letters for numbers, and vice versa. This doesn’t always work because software can replace letters too. Use different numbers to replace a letter, i.e., r7plac8 not r3plac3.
14) Archive important passwords so that friends and family can have access to your accounts in case of emergency.
1) Passwords don’t have to be hard to remember, just hard to crack. Type a sentence with lots of words and include punctuation.
2) Change your passwords more often if the content in the account is very sensitivity and needs to be protected.
3) Avoid generic password phrases like “To be, or not to be.” Deliberately misspell words.
4) Stay away from easy-to-find words and numbers you like your pet’s, partner’s, your mother’s maiden name, birthdates, etc.
5) Do not write write a password or pin on a piece of paper. If you need to, scramble the letters.
6) Don’t keep the same password for different sites.
7) Use a password manager like Keepass on Windows or 1password on Macs to generate stronger passwords.
8) Consider adding a number to the end of sentence-based password phrases.
9) Avoid public wi-fi and typing passwords into other people’s machines in case a keylogger is installed.
10) Reuse passwords only at unimportant sites.
11) Log in on pages protected with SSL encryption. Look for the “s” in “https://
12) Cheap password management software can sometimes generate passwords that look strong but aren’t
13) Some people replace letters for numbers, and vice versa. This doesn’t always work because software can replace letters too. Use different numbers to replace a letter, i.e., r7plac8 not r3plac3.
14) Archive important passwords so that friends and family can have access to your accounts in case of emergency.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
How to Make Others Read Your Tweets
Keep it simple
Tweets have a very short attention span. If they are too complex or uninteresting, they are likely to be given a miss by most readers. Every day, I open my twitter account; my account shows nearly 50 odd tweets on the screen. Since I hardly have the time to read all of them, I pick the interesting ones and leave the others for another day (which in case of twitter comes rarely).
Make it search friendly
If you are tweeting about a certain topic, make sure to use #hashtags and annotations so that Twitter search facility can seek out your relevant stories. Make sure that the keywords which describe your business are incorporated in your tweets. If anyone searches for recent tweets about a business or a product, your post will appear in the displayed results.
Use Short URLs
Twitters users aren’t fond of reading long URLs so make it a point to use Bit.ly or a similar service to shorten your URLs. Further, characters are real estate in twitter and you just get 140 of them for each tweet so why waste precious real estate in URLs?
I personally recommend using Bit.ly as the URL shortener because it integrates seamlessly with twitter and provides great stats and reports which are handy from tracking perspective.
Don’t oversell
If you try too hard to sell, your tweets will probably end up being overlooked by most users and worse, you are likely to be labeled as a spammer. Try to get people engaged in what you are trying to tell them and highlight why they should go and visit your business website or read your blog. Stir their interest and the readers will oblige – that’s no rocket science, its just human nature!
Think like readers do
If a tweet makes sense to you as the author, it does not mean that readers will like it for sure. The philosophy of ‘I know what you mean’ does not work on twitter. Your tweets need to be accurate, preferably with a touch of humor and must appear ‘pleasing’ to ensure maximum impact and be read by the highest number of viewers.
Use questions as tweets
If you have just added new content to your business site, get the users engaged by popping a question on Twitter. Add the question as a tweet and encourage users to respond with their answers. People love to get into a dialog and twitter is no exception to that rule.
Keep an eye on the competition
Make sure to keep an eye on what your competitors are up to. Read their tweets and try to tap their follower base. It does not harm to see what they are tweeting about and how they interact with their readers.
Follow these simple effective ‘tweeting’ habits and reap the rewards that Twitter has to offer for you business.
Tweets have a very short attention span. If they are too complex or uninteresting, they are likely to be given a miss by most readers. Every day, I open my twitter account; my account shows nearly 50 odd tweets on the screen. Since I hardly have the time to read all of them, I pick the interesting ones and leave the others for another day (which in case of twitter comes rarely).
Make it search friendly
If you are tweeting about a certain topic, make sure to use #hashtags and annotations so that Twitter search facility can seek out your relevant stories. Make sure that the keywords which describe your business are incorporated in your tweets. If anyone searches for recent tweets about a business or a product, your post will appear in the displayed results.
Use Short URLs
Twitters users aren’t fond of reading long URLs so make it a point to use Bit.ly or a similar service to shorten your URLs. Further, characters are real estate in twitter and you just get 140 of them for each tweet so why waste precious real estate in URLs?
I personally recommend using Bit.ly as the URL shortener because it integrates seamlessly with twitter and provides great stats and reports which are handy from tracking perspective.
Don’t oversell
If you try too hard to sell, your tweets will probably end up being overlooked by most users and worse, you are likely to be labeled as a spammer. Try to get people engaged in what you are trying to tell them and highlight why they should go and visit your business website or read your blog. Stir their interest and the readers will oblige – that’s no rocket science, its just human nature!
Think like readers do
If a tweet makes sense to you as the author, it does not mean that readers will like it for sure. The philosophy of ‘I know what you mean’ does not work on twitter. Your tweets need to be accurate, preferably with a touch of humor and must appear ‘pleasing’ to ensure maximum impact and be read by the highest number of viewers.
Use questions as tweets
If you have just added new content to your business site, get the users engaged by popping a question on Twitter. Add the question as a tweet and encourage users to respond with their answers. People love to get into a dialog and twitter is no exception to that rule.
Keep an eye on the competition
Make sure to keep an eye on what your competitors are up to. Read their tweets and try to tap their follower base. It does not harm to see what they are tweeting about and how they interact with their readers.
Follow these simple effective ‘tweeting’ habits and reap the rewards that Twitter has to offer for you business.
Friday, June 25, 2010
HowTo Buy International Phone Number
There are multiple benefits to having an international number with a carrier like Callcentric. You will have the bonus of being able to make free calls to people who have this carrier as well, so you don't have to spend quite so much each month on your phone bill. There are many different rate plans that you can get to ensure that you don't pay too much each month. You get exactly what you choose, so there are no hidden fees or complicated steps to paying your bill or using the service you signed up for. It is all very simple and straight-forward, designed for both individuals and businesspeople who need these kind of services to keep in touch with whoever they need to. In fact, more and more businesses are starting to look into getting international numbers, simply because of the number of clients they have that are located all over the world.
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If you have family and friends that are abroad, then you will also want to think about the benefits of an international number, especially with a carrier like Callcentric that gives you the kind of every day service you need. It is important to take a look at what you will need to make these international phone calls for less than you have ever paid before. You will have to have a broadband internet connection, such as a cable line or DSL. This will ensure that all of the calls you make go as quickly and smoothly as possible. It will also ensure that your connection can handle the software installed on your computer that makes all of this possible for you.
Computer programs called "softphones" are required to run VoIP technology which enables you to make calls to people all over the world and receive phone calls from traditional numbers. They are sold many places, including on Callcentric's website, so if you are interested, it's highly recommended that you get started by choosing one. After you get your new international phone number and install the proper software, you will discover just how easy and cheap making these international calls can be.
Individuals aren't the only ones who can enjoy Callcentric's many features and plans. Call centers and calling card providers can also make use of these services for their customers. It is the perfect carrier for your needs, whether they are personal or professional in nature. The point is that with Callcentric, you get the quality of service you need when calling people around the world, along with the price that is reduced for your benefit. With more people than ever using this carrier, it means that your ability to make free calls to people increases, and nothing is better than cheap/free international calls and the best phone services available.
It important that you learn How to buy international phone number from Callcentric, so you can talk to people all over the world for a minimum monthly charge.
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
5Things-iPhone4-Lacks
Faster 3G
The iPhone 4 comes with quad-band GSM/EDGE and quad-band HSDPA/HSUPA 3G. It can download at a theoretical maximum of 7.2Mbps and upload at a theoretical max of 5.8Mbps. What about HSPA+? I realize AT&T is enriching its 3G network slowly, and these faster 3G speeds aren't necessarily available immediately, but Apple had a chance to take the 3G lead here and have one of the first HSPA/HSPA+ 14.4Mbps devices. It didn't. That strikes me as odd.
(That it has 5.8Mbps HSUPA is a really nice upgrade, though, as photos and videos will transfer from the iPhone to the network much faster.)
According to AT&T, its entire network has already been updated to 7.2Mbps, and the 14.4Mbps HSPA+ upgrade is on track for roll-out by December. AT&T said it will cover 250 million people with 14.4Mbps HSPA+ by the end of 2010. That's certainly early enough into the contracts for many iPhone 4 owners that it would have been a nice inclusion with the new device. Oh well.
Bluetooth 3.0+HS
The iPhone 4 comes with Bluetooth 2.1+EDR. That's the same Bluetooth it has had forever. Why not upgrade to Bluetooth 3.0+HS? The Bluetooth 3.0+HS spec has been approved since 2009, and chip makers have had silicon available since 2009.
The 3.0+HS spec's largest feature is vastly increased data speeds. In devices that have both Bluetooth 3.0+HS and Wi-Fi on board, the new spec will pair the devices via Bluetooth, and then transfer data wirelessly via Wi-Fi at a rate of up to 24Mbps. This will allow end users to transfer large amounts of data between devices quickly without the need for cables. The new specification also has enhanced power control features to reduce battery drain.
The high-speed data transfer and power savings could have been amazing stand-apart features. This could have been another real leap forward for Apple. Instead, it stuck with older technology. (It strikes me that developers, in particular, would have loved to have this feature available.)
HDMI Out
The iPhone 4 can record 720p HD video at 30 frames per second. It would appear to be the perfect vehicle for capturing and then sharing HD video on an HDTV. What an odd omission. This is another blown opportunity that Apple could have used to really impress with the iPhone 4. Instead, those wishing to share video will have to use Apple's proprietary connector with an expensive accessory cable to share video signals with HDTVs. That, or upload the content to another device/service, first. Bad form.
64GB of Storage
The iPhone 4 comes with either 16GB or 32GB of internal storage. Don't get me wrong, 32GB of storage is still very generous, and more than what most other phones come with. I still think it would have been great for the iPhone 4 to ramp up to 64GB of storage. Here's why.
The iPhone 4 records HD video. That stuff eats up storage like you wouldn't believe. And guess what? The 5-megapixel camera will also chew up storage with each image captured, too. Users who are more prone to take pix and shoot video will be forced to prune down the music and/or movies and/or TV shows they might otherwise store on the iPhone 4 in order to leave sufficient room for what they capture.
Also, since the display supports such a high resolution, that means high-def videos from the iTunes Store will also play back on the iPhone 4. High-def movies often creep over the 3GB mark.
(Slightly) Bigger Display
The original iPhone had a 3.5-inch display. So did the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and now the iPhone 4. Many of the higher-end Android devices are shipping with 3.7- to 4.3-inch displays. Granted, devices with 4.3-inch displays feel like a cookie sheet in your pocket, but it would have been nice if Apple had bumped up the size of the iPhone's display even a teensy amount. Still, the new display does look stunning with its 326 pixels per inch.
The iPhone 4 comes with quad-band GSM/EDGE and quad-band HSDPA/HSUPA 3G. It can download at a theoretical maximum of 7.2Mbps and upload at a theoretical max of 5.8Mbps. What about HSPA+? I realize AT&T is enriching its 3G network slowly, and these faster 3G speeds aren't necessarily available immediately, but Apple had a chance to take the 3G lead here and have one of the first HSPA/HSPA+ 14.4Mbps devices. It didn't. That strikes me as odd.
(That it has 5.8Mbps HSUPA is a really nice upgrade, though, as photos and videos will transfer from the iPhone to the network much faster.)
According to AT&T, its entire network has already been updated to 7.2Mbps, and the 14.4Mbps HSPA+ upgrade is on track for roll-out by December. AT&T said it will cover 250 million people with 14.4Mbps HSPA+ by the end of 2010. That's certainly early enough into the contracts for many iPhone 4 owners that it would have been a nice inclusion with the new device. Oh well.
Bluetooth 3.0+HS
The iPhone 4 comes with Bluetooth 2.1+EDR. That's the same Bluetooth it has had forever. Why not upgrade to Bluetooth 3.0+HS? The Bluetooth 3.0+HS spec has been approved since 2009, and chip makers have had silicon available since 2009.
The 3.0+HS spec's largest feature is vastly increased data speeds. In devices that have both Bluetooth 3.0+HS and Wi-Fi on board, the new spec will pair the devices via Bluetooth, and then transfer data wirelessly via Wi-Fi at a rate of up to 24Mbps. This will allow end users to transfer large amounts of data between devices quickly without the need for cables. The new specification also has enhanced power control features to reduce battery drain.
The high-speed data transfer and power savings could have been amazing stand-apart features. This could have been another real leap forward for Apple. Instead, it stuck with older technology. (It strikes me that developers, in particular, would have loved to have this feature available.)
HDMI Out
The iPhone 4 can record 720p HD video at 30 frames per second. It would appear to be the perfect vehicle for capturing and then sharing HD video on an HDTV. What an odd omission. This is another blown opportunity that Apple could have used to really impress with the iPhone 4. Instead, those wishing to share video will have to use Apple's proprietary connector with an expensive accessory cable to share video signals with HDTVs. That, or upload the content to another device/service, first. Bad form.
64GB of Storage
The iPhone 4 comes with either 16GB or 32GB of internal storage. Don't get me wrong, 32GB of storage is still very generous, and more than what most other phones come with. I still think it would have been great for the iPhone 4 to ramp up to 64GB of storage. Here's why.
The iPhone 4 records HD video. That stuff eats up storage like you wouldn't believe. And guess what? The 5-megapixel camera will also chew up storage with each image captured, too. Users who are more prone to take pix and shoot video will be forced to prune down the music and/or movies and/or TV shows they might otherwise store on the iPhone 4 in order to leave sufficient room for what they capture.
Also, since the display supports such a high resolution, that means high-def videos from the iTunes Store will also play back on the iPhone 4. High-def movies often creep over the 3GB mark.
(Slightly) Bigger Display
The original iPhone had a 3.5-inch display. So did the iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, and now the iPhone 4. Many of the higher-end Android devices are shipping with 3.7- to 4.3-inch displays. Granted, devices with 4.3-inch displays feel like a cookie sheet in your pocket, but it would have been nice if Apple had bumped up the size of the iPhone's display even a teensy amount. Still, the new display does look stunning with its 326 pixels per inch.
Tips-for-bloggers
Exist as a real person and not as a bot
Since a blog is a place where you need not be formal, you need to be very casual, as this will let you connect with the reader really fast. You need to put up your experiences as though you were telling your friends about it and not as you would report on a news website..
Be topical
Try not to go off topic on your blog if your blog is about certain specific topics. For example, you should not post a travel experience on a blog which is all about technology. Posting off topic tends to drive people away from the blog, as the reader may be put off if he/she visits your blog for certain topics and finds out that there is something else posted there. To ensure a loyal reader following, you therefore need to stick to the topic.
Stick to a schedule
If you are a regular blogger who is supposed to post blogs at certain regular time intervals, then you need to stick to that schedule. Not being able to stick to the schedule tends to drive readers away because of the disappointment they experience when they do not see an eagerly awaited new post at the planned time. In such cases readers usually try to find if there are other similar blogs and you are more likely to lose loyal readership.
Be the master of your blog topic
For those who want to post blogs about serious topics, being authoritative is a must. Always make sure to double check what you post, as your reputation depends on it. Checking all the facts before posting will make sure that you will not get caught with your pants down. Pay proper attention to the grammar, because if you don't, it creates an impression that you are not a responsible blogger.
Stay current
A blog is something that should never appear to be stale, it has to remain fresh. Frequently updating your blog will make sure that its popularity will soar, with more readers visiting your blog looking for something new.
Interact with your readers
A blog is a very personal piece of your opinion that you put online to share with others. Reader opinions can therefore vary, with some agreeing, while others disagreeing with you. Interaction with the readers is necessary in improving the popularity of your blog. Make it a point to regularly reply to comments wherever and whenever possible.
Interact with other blogs
It goes like this, if you want to be helped, you must help others too. In a similar way, make it a point to visit other blogs and comment. You will soon see that other bloggers will return the favor.
Advertise on social networking websites
If you are a blogger, it is almost certain that you already use social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, etc. Trust me, there is no better free way of advertising your blog and pulling in more readers than these social networking websites. Try it and you will soon see how much of a difference it makes.
Make adequate use of plug-ins
There are different plugins available for blogs and you must make proper use of these. There are plugins such as gravatar and Flashy titles which make your blog look more appealing to the reader. Plugins such as Akismet can filter spam. You must also use recent posts, popular posts and related posts, which increase the popularity of blogposts other than the one the reader is reading, even though that post may not be on the main page.
Make use of adequate keywords
To pull in more traffic to your blog, it needs to be more visible to search engines such as Google. Search engine optimization in itself is a huge topic, but you can simply include relevant keywords to make your blog appear near the top in the search engine. You can set the page title as a headline for example. Using proper page title is one of the keys to attract readers
Keep it simple and clear
AA blog is meant to be read and understood by anyone and everyone, so the language used has to be kept simple. Try to avoid complicated terms and idioms and go an extra mile to give explanations wherever possible.
Keep adding and refreshing content
Like any other website, a blog needs constant replenishment of new content to keep people interested in coming back. Old blogs can be archived and categorized into similar themed content, which will be easy to find. Refreshing the content regularly means that the web spiders will crawl pages at regular intervals to increase page ranking in the search.
Make use of RSS
Including your blogs contents in an RSS feed in your blog will maximize the reach of your blog and increase the chances of it being distributed over a larger readership.
Since a blog is a place where you need not be formal, you need to be very casual, as this will let you connect with the reader really fast. You need to put up your experiences as though you were telling your friends about it and not as you would report on a news website..
Be topical
Try not to go off topic on your blog if your blog is about certain specific topics. For example, you should not post a travel experience on a blog which is all about technology. Posting off topic tends to drive people away from the blog, as the reader may be put off if he/she visits your blog for certain topics and finds out that there is something else posted there. To ensure a loyal reader following, you therefore need to stick to the topic.
Stick to a schedule
If you are a regular blogger who is supposed to post blogs at certain regular time intervals, then you need to stick to that schedule. Not being able to stick to the schedule tends to drive readers away because of the disappointment they experience when they do not see an eagerly awaited new post at the planned time. In such cases readers usually try to find if there are other similar blogs and you are more likely to lose loyal readership.
Be the master of your blog topic
For those who want to post blogs about serious topics, being authoritative is a must. Always make sure to double check what you post, as your reputation depends on it. Checking all the facts before posting will make sure that you will not get caught with your pants down. Pay proper attention to the grammar, because if you don't, it creates an impression that you are not a responsible blogger.
Stay current
A blog is something that should never appear to be stale, it has to remain fresh. Frequently updating your blog will make sure that its popularity will soar, with more readers visiting your blog looking for something new.
Interact with your readers
A blog is a very personal piece of your opinion that you put online to share with others. Reader opinions can therefore vary, with some agreeing, while others disagreeing with you. Interaction with the readers is necessary in improving the popularity of your blog. Make it a point to regularly reply to comments wherever and whenever possible.
Interact with other blogs
It goes like this, if you want to be helped, you must help others too. In a similar way, make it a point to visit other blogs and comment. You will soon see that other bloggers will return the favor.
Advertise on social networking websites
If you are a blogger, it is almost certain that you already use social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, etc. Trust me, there is no better free way of advertising your blog and pulling in more readers than these social networking websites. Try it and you will soon see how much of a difference it makes.
Make adequate use of plug-ins
There are different plugins available for blogs and you must make proper use of these. There are plugins such as gravatar and Flashy titles which make your blog look more appealing to the reader. Plugins such as Akismet can filter spam. You must also use recent posts, popular posts and related posts, which increase the popularity of blogposts other than the one the reader is reading, even though that post may not be on the main page.
Make use of adequate keywords
To pull in more traffic to your blog, it needs to be more visible to search engines such as Google. Search engine optimization in itself is a huge topic, but you can simply include relevant keywords to make your blog appear near the top in the search engine. You can set the page title as a headline for example. Using proper page title is one of the keys to attract readers
Keep it simple and clear
AA blog is meant to be read and understood by anyone and everyone, so the language used has to be kept simple. Try to avoid complicated terms and idioms and go an extra mile to give explanations wherever possible.
Keep adding and refreshing content
Like any other website, a blog needs constant replenishment of new content to keep people interested in coming back. Old blogs can be archived and categorized into similar themed content, which will be easy to find. Refreshing the content regularly means that the web spiders will crawl pages at regular intervals to increase page ranking in the search.
Make use of RSS
Including your blogs contents in an RSS feed in your blog will maximize the reach of your blog and increase the chances of it being distributed over a larger readership.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Top 5 Most Dangerous Computer Viruses of the Decade
1. Sadmind worm (2001)
ALIAS: Sadmind/IIS, Unix/Sadmind, Solaris/Sadmind.worm
The Sadmind worm was a self-propagating piece of malware, It was first discovered on May 8, 2001 in china. Sadmind is designed to provide remote system administration operations and is installed by default with many versions of the Sun Microsystems operating system. It affected some big operating systems like Sun Microsystems Solaris(OS) and Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) which is the world's second most popular web server in terms of overall websites behind the industry leader Apache HTTP Server.
2. Beast Trojan (2002)
Beast is a Windows-based backdoor trojan horse more commonly known in the underground cracker community as a RAT (Remote Administration Tool). It was created in Delphi and released first by its author Tataye in 2002. Beast was one of the first trojans to feature a 'reverse connection' to its victims and once established, it gave the attacker complete control over the infected computer.
Once connected to the victim computer, via Beast hacker can access victim's all computer file and directories along with the power to upload, download, delete or execute any file or folder.
3. SQL Slammer (2003)
ALIAS: Sapphire, Worm.SQL.Helkern, SQLSlammer
Appeared first in 27th January 2003 and soon got a high rank in the list of most dangerous worms of the year because it is the first fileless worm. Slammer was able to spread by taking advantage of the vulnerability found in the SQL Server.
Slammer spread to over 90 percent of all vulnerable hosts in 10 minutes and infected around 359,000 computers total and according to London-based market intelligence the worm caused between $950 million and $1.2 billion in lost productivity in its first five days worldwide.
4. Sasser (2004)
Sasser is an Internet worm that probably caused around $18.1 billions of dollars of damage in 2004. It was created by a Computer science student, Sven Jaschan in Germany first seen on last day of april. While there was no intentionally destructive payload, Sasser did cause many computers to slow down or crash, causing some high profile damage.
And was destructive enough to shut down the satellite communications for some French news agencies. It also resulted in the cancellation of several Delta airline flights and the shutdown of numerous companies’ systems worldwide.
5. Bandook (2005)
ALIAS: Bandook Rat
Bandook Rat is a backdoor trojan horse that infects Windows NT family systems (Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista). It uses a server creator, a client and a server to take control over the remote computer. It uses process hijacking / Kernel Patching to bypass the firewall, and allow the server component to hijack processes and gain rights for accessing the internet. It is somehow very similar to Beast Trojan (2002)
ALIAS: Sadmind/IIS, Unix/Sadmind, Solaris/Sadmind.worm
The Sadmind worm was a self-propagating piece of malware, It was first discovered on May 8, 2001 in china. Sadmind is designed to provide remote system administration operations and is installed by default with many versions of the Sun Microsystems operating system. It affected some big operating systems like Sun Microsystems Solaris(OS) and Microsoft's Internet Information Services (IIS) which is the world's second most popular web server in terms of overall websites behind the industry leader Apache HTTP Server.
2. Beast Trojan (2002)
Beast is a Windows-based backdoor trojan horse more commonly known in the underground cracker community as a RAT (Remote Administration Tool). It was created in Delphi and released first by its author Tataye in 2002. Beast was one of the first trojans to feature a 'reverse connection' to its victims and once established, it gave the attacker complete control over the infected computer.
Once connected to the victim computer, via Beast hacker can access victim's all computer file and directories along with the power to upload, download, delete or execute any file or folder.
3. SQL Slammer (2003)
ALIAS: Sapphire, Worm.SQL.Helkern, SQLSlammer
Appeared first in 27th January 2003 and soon got a high rank in the list of most dangerous worms of the year because it is the first fileless worm. Slammer was able to spread by taking advantage of the vulnerability found in the SQL Server.
Slammer spread to over 90 percent of all vulnerable hosts in 10 minutes and infected around 359,000 computers total and according to London-based market intelligence the worm caused between $950 million and $1.2 billion in lost productivity in its first five days worldwide.
4. Sasser (2004)
Sasser is an Internet worm that probably caused around $18.1 billions of dollars of damage in 2004. It was created by a Computer science student, Sven Jaschan in Germany first seen on last day of april. While there was no intentionally destructive payload, Sasser did cause many computers to slow down or crash, causing some high profile damage.
And was destructive enough to shut down the satellite communications for some French news agencies. It also resulted in the cancellation of several Delta airline flights and the shutdown of numerous companies’ systems worldwide.
5. Bandook (2005)
ALIAS: Bandook Rat
Bandook Rat is a backdoor trojan horse that infects Windows NT family systems (Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista). It uses a server creator, a client and a server to take control over the remote computer. It uses process hijacking / Kernel Patching to bypass the firewall, and allow the server component to hijack processes and gain rights for accessing the internet. It is somehow very similar to Beast Trojan (2002)
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Top 10 Mobile Technologies
Gartner has identified 10 mobile technologies that it feels should be on every organization's radar. These technologies will evolve through 2011 and affect corporate strategies, are set to be adopted by a sizable number of customers and employees, and will tackle mobile challenges that organizations will face through 2011.
1. Bluetooth (3 and 4)
Two new Bluetooth versions will emerge by 2011: Bluetooth 3 will allow for data transmission, and Bluetooth 4 will introduce a new low-energy (LE) mode that will enable communication with external peripherals and sensors
2. The Mobile Web
The growth in smartphones with relatively large and high-resolution screens will encourage access to conventional websites, making it possible to deliver B2C applications using conventional Web tools without adaptation. In mature markets, the mobile Web, along with associated Web adaptation tools, will be a leading technology for B2C mobile applications through 2012, and should be part of every organization's B2C technology portfolio.
3. Mobile Widgets
Widgets exploit well-understood tools and technologies; have lower-entry barriers as compared to complex native applications. Thus, they can be a good first step to assess the demand for an application on a specific platform before undertaking expensive native development.
4.Platform-Independent Mobile AD Tools
Mobile platforms will become more diverse through 2012 five or more platforms may have a significant presence. Therefore, tools that can reduce the burden of delivering installable applications to several platforms will be very attractive.
5.App Stores
App stores will be the primary (and, in some cases, the only) way to distribute applications to smartphones and other mobile devices. Gartner believes that app stores will play many roles in an organization's B2C and B2E strategies.
7.Cellular Broadband
Continuous improvements in wireless broadband performance will increase the range of applications that no longer require fixed networking, and make cellular broadband a more effective fallback when fixed connections fail. Embedded cellular networking will become a standard feature of many corporate laptops, and will enable new types of network-connected devices and business models, such as e-books and media players
8.Touchscreens
Touchscreens are emerging as the dominant user interface for large-screen handsets, and will be included in over 60 percent of mobile devices shipped in Western Europe and North America in 2011. Organizations developing native handset applications may need to exploit single and multi-touch interfaces and haptics (tactile feedback technology that takes advantage of a user's sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, and/or motions to the user) to give their applications a compelling and competitive user experience
10.M2M
Many network service providers increased their commitment to machine to machine (M2M) in 2009, so a good range of both national and multi-national M2M service options will be available in mature markets during 2010 and 2011. Key applications include smart grid, meter reading, security/surveillance, automotive systems, vending and point of sale, remote monitoring, and track and trace
10.Device-Independent Security
This isn't a single technology, but rather a collection of security technologies, application technologies and sourcing options that enable the provisioning of applications that are secure, but less tightly tied to specific devices and platforms, and that, in many cases, do not require security tools to be installed on the client.
1. Bluetooth (3 and 4)
Two new Bluetooth versions will emerge by 2011: Bluetooth 3 will allow for data transmission, and Bluetooth 4 will introduce a new low-energy (LE) mode that will enable communication with external peripherals and sensors
2. The Mobile Web
The growth in smartphones with relatively large and high-resolution screens will encourage access to conventional websites, making it possible to deliver B2C applications using conventional Web tools without adaptation. In mature markets, the mobile Web, along with associated Web adaptation tools, will be a leading technology for B2C mobile applications through 2012, and should be part of every organization's B2C technology portfolio.
3. Mobile Widgets
Widgets exploit well-understood tools and technologies; have lower-entry barriers as compared to complex native applications. Thus, they can be a good first step to assess the demand for an application on a specific platform before undertaking expensive native development.
4.Platform-Independent Mobile AD Tools
Mobile platforms will become more diverse through 2012 five or more platforms may have a significant presence. Therefore, tools that can reduce the burden of delivering installable applications to several platforms will be very attractive.
5.App Stores
App stores will be the primary (and, in some cases, the only) way to distribute applications to smartphones and other mobile devices. Gartner believes that app stores will play many roles in an organization's B2C and B2E strategies.
7.Cellular Broadband
Continuous improvements in wireless broadband performance will increase the range of applications that no longer require fixed networking, and make cellular broadband a more effective fallback when fixed connections fail. Embedded cellular networking will become a standard feature of many corporate laptops, and will enable new types of network-connected devices and business models, such as e-books and media players
8.Touchscreens
Touchscreens are emerging as the dominant user interface for large-screen handsets, and will be included in over 60 percent of mobile devices shipped in Western Europe and North America in 2011. Organizations developing native handset applications may need to exploit single and multi-touch interfaces and haptics (tactile feedback technology that takes advantage of a user's sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations, and/or motions to the user) to give their applications a compelling and competitive user experience
10.M2M
Many network service providers increased their commitment to machine to machine (M2M) in 2009, so a good range of both national and multi-national M2M service options will be available in mature markets during 2010 and 2011. Key applications include smart grid, meter reading, security/surveillance, automotive systems, vending and point of sale, remote monitoring, and track and trace
10.Device-Independent Security
This isn't a single technology, but rather a collection of security technologies, application technologies and sourcing options that enable the provisioning of applications that are secure, but less tightly tied to specific devices and platforms, and that, in many cases, do not require security tools to be installed on the client.
For details, read the full article on Top 10 mobile technologies at the Gartner website.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Ten Tips For Staying Safe On Facebook
. Think about who you add It's not all about the numbers of friends. Remember when you accept a friend request you provide your new friend with access to lots of information about you. This includes, posts, photographs, messages and all the background information that you write about yourself. You can delete friends at any time, so perhaps it's time to refresh your list and think about who you really want accessing your information.
2. Check your settings Recently, Facebook changed the default privacy setting to share information publicly. It's worth spending some time to go through your settings and adjust where necessary; you may be sharing more than you intended. You even have the option to add 'limited profiles' for those people that you may not want accessing your personal information. It's up to you how you want to use these settings so it's definitely worth having a look to create a profile that's right for you!
3. Why are you on Facebook? Ask yourself what you want to achieve with your profile. Is it just to share photos, or keep in touch with people, or even to share links and updates of your activities? Sometimes it's better to cut down what you show on your profile; this includes signing up to applications which also take a lot of your data. You can always add or remove options as you go, so if your needs change, so should your profile.
4. Be smart about your password Try not to use the same passwords on all of your accounts. It's also important to be mindful of where you are sending your updates and the types of security questions you set.
5. Be aware of where you sign in from Check that the computer that you sign in from doesn't store your email address and password. It seems simple but often it's easy to accidentally choose it to 'remember you'. Make sure you have the appropriate privacy settings on your browser.
6. Be careful what you say Make sure that what you say in status updates and comments is something that you would be comfortable seeing on the front page of a newspaper. Once you post it, anyone that sees it can copy and post it elsewhere, or take action based on it. Do you really want everyone to know that you will be all alone at home tonight or away next week?
7. Watch out for Phishing Attacks Over the past year, there have been many attempts to get users to give up their login and passwords by tricking them with fake emails from Facebook. Never select any email links asking you to click to reset your password. Always go directly to Facebook - if there is a problem, Facebook will notify you on site. Installing and using an up-to-date complete protection solution on your PC, like AVG Internet Security, will also safeguard you against spam and phishing attacks.
8. Take immediate action If friends start receiving spam from you or status updates appear that you didn't make, your account may have been compromised. If you think this has happened, immediately change your password. If you can't log in to your account, go to the Help link at the bottom of any Facebook page and click on Security to notify Facebook about your account.
9. Protect your mobile device. Be mindful about who might have access to your mobile phone. Many phones today have apps that connect you into many social networking sites such as Facebook. Therefore, if you use these apps, make sure you log out of them when you are no longer using them.
10. Monitor suspicious activity Watch out for suspicious activity on your Wall, News Feed and Facebook Inbox. Never, ever click on suspicious links. They can often look enticing, e.g. "Hey come look at my charity cycling pictures on my site." Before you click, look closely! Does the site look authentic? If in doubt, don't click on it.
2. Check your settings Recently, Facebook changed the default privacy setting to share information publicly. It's worth spending some time to go through your settings and adjust where necessary; you may be sharing more than you intended. You even have the option to add 'limited profiles' for those people that you may not want accessing your personal information. It's up to you how you want to use these settings so it's definitely worth having a look to create a profile that's right for you!
3. Why are you on Facebook? Ask yourself what you want to achieve with your profile. Is it just to share photos, or keep in touch with people, or even to share links and updates of your activities? Sometimes it's better to cut down what you show on your profile; this includes signing up to applications which also take a lot of your data. You can always add or remove options as you go, so if your needs change, so should your profile.
4. Be smart about your password Try not to use the same passwords on all of your accounts. It's also important to be mindful of where you are sending your updates and the types of security questions you set.
5. Be aware of where you sign in from Check that the computer that you sign in from doesn't store your email address and password. It seems simple but often it's easy to accidentally choose it to 'remember you'. Make sure you have the appropriate privacy settings on your browser.
6. Be careful what you say Make sure that what you say in status updates and comments is something that you would be comfortable seeing on the front page of a newspaper. Once you post it, anyone that sees it can copy and post it elsewhere, or take action based on it. Do you really want everyone to know that you will be all alone at home tonight or away next week?
7. Watch out for Phishing Attacks Over the past year, there have been many attempts to get users to give up their login and passwords by tricking them with fake emails from Facebook. Never select any email links asking you to click to reset your password. Always go directly to Facebook - if there is a problem, Facebook will notify you on site. Installing and using an up-to-date complete protection solution on your PC, like AVG Internet Security, will also safeguard you against spam and phishing attacks.
8. Take immediate action If friends start receiving spam from you or status updates appear that you didn't make, your account may have been compromised. If you think this has happened, immediately change your password. If you can't log in to your account, go to the Help link at the bottom of any Facebook page and click on Security to notify Facebook about your account.
9. Protect your mobile device. Be mindful about who might have access to your mobile phone. Many phones today have apps that connect you into many social networking sites such as Facebook. Therefore, if you use these apps, make sure you log out of them when you are no longer using them.
10. Monitor suspicious activity Watch out for suspicious activity on your Wall, News Feed and Facebook Inbox. Never, ever click on suspicious links. They can often look enticing, e.g. "Hey come look at my charity cycling pictures on my site." Before you click, look closely! Does the site look authentic? If in doubt, don't click on it.
Friday, March 19, 2010
How To Add a YouTube Video to Your Web Site
First locate a video you'd like to add to your page on YouTube, look to the top right (usually in two small form fields) on the page. One form field is labled URL, which is the address of that page itself. The other is labled Embed, and by simply clicking your mouse within that field, all the text in that field is highlighted. You then right mouse click in that field, and select Copy from your browser's drop down that will appear when you right click in the field.
Here's what the embed code for the video above looks like:
Then, open the source code of your web page, and using a tool such as NotetabPro or Expression Web, paste it into your page (either right click again where you want it, and select Paste, or place the mouse cursor where you want it, and hit Control and V on your keyboard at the same time. The embed code will be thusly deposited into your web page. Save the page, upload it to your web server using an FTP client, and view it in your browser!
It works in Firefox, MSIE, Chrome, and just about any new browser out there. Most browsers come preinstalled with Flash, and if not, the visitor will usually be prompted by the browser to download the appropriate software. If you can see the video above, then you can see any video from YouTube. There are other video providers, and most use the same method of letting users embed video.
Here's what the embed code for the video above looks like:
Then, open the source code of your web page, and using a tool such as NotetabPro or Expression Web, paste it into your page (either right click again where you want it, and select Paste, or place the mouse cursor where you want it, and hit Control and V on your keyboard at the same time. The embed code will be thusly deposited into your web page. Save the page, upload it to your web server using an FTP client, and view it in your browser!
It works in Firefox, MSIE, Chrome, and just about any new browser out there. Most browsers come preinstalled with Flash, and if not, the visitor will usually be prompted by the browser to download the appropriate software. If you can see the video above, then you can see any video from YouTube. There are other video providers, and most use the same method of letting users embed video.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Facebook to Bring Location Based Services Starting April 2010
World's leading social network Facebook has done almost everything right to ensure that it stays number one for the years to come. It also had a variety of applications and services. However, one thing it lacked was a location based service.
This is exactly what Facebook is trying to sort. Apparently, the company has been working on a location-based service for close to a year now. However, it was kept under wraps fearing privacy issues. Besides this, Facebook also wanted this feature to be completely ready for adoption before they announce it.
As for the feature, it will allow users to share their location and whereabouts with their friends. Developers will also be able to create location specific applications for Facebook. One thing we are sure about that this would be warmly welcomed by those of you who are addicted to Facebook mobile. Twitter already has support for Geotagging and looks like Facebook too is headed in that direction. One thing we noticed was that as soon as the news of Facebook's support for location based services was announced, Twitter briefly turned on its Geotagging option for a few hours. This feature was strangely missing on the Twitter website - even as other clients supported it.
Facebook will be adding this location information at the F8 developer conference next month, according to a report by The New York Times.
This is exactly what Facebook is trying to sort. Apparently, the company has been working on a location-based service for close to a year now. However, it was kept under wraps fearing privacy issues. Besides this, Facebook also wanted this feature to be completely ready for adoption before they announce it.
As for the feature, it will allow users to share their location and whereabouts with their friends. Developers will also be able to create location specific applications for Facebook. One thing we are sure about that this would be warmly welcomed by those of you who are addicted to Facebook mobile. Twitter already has support for Geotagging and looks like Facebook too is headed in that direction. One thing we noticed was that as soon as the news of Facebook's support for location based services was announced, Twitter briefly turned on its Geotagging option for a few hours. This feature was strangely missing on the Twitter website - even as other clients supported it.
Facebook will be adding this location information at the F8 developer conference next month, according to a report by The New York Times.
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