Microsoft has silently though officially launched their new social networking website called So.cl (Social) which has been devised by its FUSE Labs. This new social networking site (like others) will allow users to share images, links and posts. However it integrates all of these feeds onto one visually appealing profile page.
Microsoft says that it combines social networking and search, to help its users find and share interesting web pages. Additionally it also provides rich media sharing and real-time video sharing.
So.cl is something you might get by combining Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. It is a place where you can share videos, pictures, links and other updates together in one single post. It also allows users to view a video with their friends and followers by using a feature called Video Party.
So.cl also includes Facebook authentication, which means all Facebook users can easily access the new social network using their Facebook details and can choose to allows So.cl to post automatic updates on their Facebook stream.
Microsoft has also introduced a new button which goes along with So.cl and helps user to share all the interesting content from the web. This works similar to the Facebook Share or Google’s +1 button. So.cl will use search data from Bing’s public API.
The company has mentioned that their plan is to create and develop an experimental research project using minimal set of features for the purpose of learning.
Users can now request their invites simply from So.cl. It looks like a decent and appealing social network, but do we really need it?
Starting this fall, any new PC you buy is going to look radically different.
That's because Microsoft will release Windows 8, a drastic reimagining of its iconic operating system.
If you're not ready for the change, Windows 8 is going to seem pretty jarring. Everything from the way you access apps to the devices you'll be using the operating system on is going to change.
So to get you prepared, we put together all the most important stuff coming to Windows 8.
RSS is an abbreviation that has evolved into the following, depending on their versions:
• RDF Site Summary (also known as RSS 0.9; the first version of RSS)
• Rich Site Summary (also known as RSS 0.91; a prototype)
• Really Simple Syndication (also known as RSS 2.0)
Today, RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’, and it has the following 7 existing formats or versions: • 0.90 • 0.91 • 0.92 • 0.93 • 0.94 • 1.0 • 2.0 RSS tools refer to a group of file formats that are designed to share headlines and other web content (this may be a summary or simply 1 to 2 lines of the article), links to the full versions of the content (the full article or post), and even file attachments such as multimedia files. All of these data is delivered in the form of an XML file (XML stands for extensible Markup Language), which has the following common names:
• RSS feed
• Webfeed
• RSS stream
• RSS channel
They are typically shown on web pages as an orange rectangle that usually has the letters XML or RSS in it. RSS feeds can be used to deliver any kind of information. Some of these ‘feeds’ include:
• Blogs feed – each blog entry is summarized as a feed item. This makes blog posts easier to scan, enabling ‘visitors’ to zoom in on their items of interest.
• Article feed – this alerts readers whenever there are new articles and web contents available.
• Forum feed – this allows users to receive forum posts and latest discussion topics.
• Schedule feed – this allows users (such as schools, clubs, and other organizations) to broadcast events and announce schedule changes or meeting agendas.
• Discounts or Special feed – this is used to enable users (such as retail and online stores) to ‘deliver’ latest specials and discounted offers.
• Ego or News Monitoring – this enables users to receive ‘filtered’ headlines or news that are based on a specific phrase or keyword.
• Industry-specific feed – used by technical professionals in order to market, promote, or communicate with current (and prospective) customers and clients within their specific industries.
RSS feeds enable people to track numerous blogs and news sources at the same time. To produce an RSS feed, all you need is the content or the article that you want to publicize and a validated RSS text file. Once your text file is registered at various aggregators (or ‘news readers’), any external site can then capture and display your RSS feed, automatically updating them whenever you update your RSS file. RSS tools are useful for sites that add or modify their contents on a regular basis.
They are especially used for ‘web syndication’ or activities that involve regular updates and/or publications, such as the following:
• News websites – as used by major news organizations such as Reuters, CNN, and the BBC.
• Marketing
• Bug reports
• Personal weblogs
There are many benefits to using RSS feeds. Aside from being a great supplemental communication method that streamlines the communication needs of various sectors, RSS tools and feeds can also have tremendous benefits in your business, particularly in the field of internet marketing. RSS tools and feeds provide Internet users with a free (or cheap) and easy advertising or online marketing opportunity for their businesses. Below are some of the RSS features that can help make your internet marketing strategies more effective.
1. Ease in content distribution services. With RSS, your business can be captured and displayed by virtually any external site, giving you an easy way to ‘spread out’ and advertise them.
2. Ease in regular content updates. With RSS, web contents concerning your business can now be automatically updated on a daily (and even hourly) basis. Internet users will be able to experience ‘real time’ updates as information in your own file (such as new products and other business-related releases) is changed and modified simultaneously with that of the RSS feeds that people are subscribed to.
3. Custom-made content services. With RSS, visitors can have personalized content services, allowing them total control of the flow and type of information that they receive. Depending on their interests and needs, visitors can subscribe to only those contents that they are looking for (such as real estate or job listings).
4. Increase in (and targeted) traffic. With RSS, traffic will be directed to your site as readers of your content summary (or 1 to 2 lines of your article) who find them interesting are ‘forced’ to click on a link back to your site. These are just several of the many things that you can do with RSS. The possibilities are endless, and they are all aimed at providing you with an effective internet marketing strategy for your business. In the mean time, Good Luck on your journey to success…
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Hi friends…
I found a new keyboard while browsing some techs..
with some bit of confusion gone into the details of it.They divided the key board and integrated the mouse with it.
but.
But i don’t know how practically good it is…
you can also check the details at
http://www.combimouse.com/
Source: http://www.combimouse.com/
Credit card,Debit card, ATM Card..etc., whatever the type of card all these cards became part of our body.All these cards are almost physically same.
All the content written on the credit card are visible except the data inside the magnetic strip placed at the top of the reverse side of the card.
Do you know whats inside this magnetic strip?
This magnetic strip containes three tracks for storing data.
1. first track contains information about primary account number, user name, country code, card expairy date and 79 characters of discretionary data,all mixed in with separators and other characters, all this data is magnetically encoded.
2. Second track also contains the same information of the first track with 40 characters of discretionary data and separators
3. Third track is of both read and write. No standard format is defined ,data on this track may vary with the bank,it may have the data like PIN,Currency type..etc,
What actually happens when you swip your card at ATM or Store?
When your card is swiped through an electronic card reader at ATM or the checkout counter in a store , the reader will usually use its built-in modem to dial the number of a company that handles credit authentication requests.This company checks the information from the electronic card reader for a valid card number and expiration date, the card’s spending and usage limits and the store identification. After all the data checks out, the purchase/transaction is approved.
If the magnetic strip on the back of your card becomes scratched, dirty or demagnetized, the card may not work properly and you will have to get a new one.
PAN (Permanent Account Number) is a 10 digit alphanumeric number , It is in the format of laminated card issued by Income Tax Department of India.
to know your PAN number online click the link below.
link: https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/portal/knowpan.do
just enter your surname and date of Birth in the fields provided then hit the button “submit query”, Your PAN Number,First name,Surname,JURISDICTION will be displayed.
Beautiful chart showing How Google Search Works is pasted below.This chart may help you at a glance idea of how Google search is works on your content published.
Do you ever tried to make a folder with out name,that means folder with no name.You cannot make this directly,such as create new folder press F2 to rename and leave blank as folder name.System won’t leave you allow blank folder name it returns to original(new folder).
Here is the tip to create a folder with out name or removing name to an existing folder.
first ensure your keypad ‘numlock’ key is on.then go to the folder and press F2 to rename the folder then type 0160 while pressing the alt key.
try yourself and post your comments if you have other methods or tips.
How to Download YOUTUBE Videos is the most common question for the YouTube lovers.Here is the Three Easiest ways of Downloading YouTube Videos.
1.Add “kiss” or “save” before YouTube url .
just add the word “save” or “kiss” before url of the the YouTube video you are watching.you will be navigated to the new page where download option with the required video format is available.
2.Replace “youtube” in the url with “voobys”
just replace the word “youtube” in the url with the word “voobys”. you will be navigated to the new page with download button. click on the download button to download the youtube video.
3.Copy YouTube link(url) and paste at keepvid.com.
another simple method to download YouTube video is just a copy and paste method.First copy the YouTube link/url and open the web page keepvid.com ,paste the youtube video link/url then click Download.
WordPress is the most widely used web blogging software and thousands of websites are powered by WordPress. WordPress extends its functionality by the use of plugins, which make the naked WordPress blog into an efficient web publishing platform.
The top 10 plugins I use in most of the WordPress installations are the following. It is highly recommended you to use these plugins when setting up your WordPress software.
Ten must have WordPress plugins for your site
1. All in One SEO Pack – It is one among the best plug-in to make the WordPress blog search engine friendly. The best option in this plug-in I like is the ability to write search engine friendly titles that are different from the page heading.
2. Google XML Sitemaps – As you are aware, sitemaps are a key page Google and other search engines look for to index all your pages. The WordPress plugin Google XML sitemaps generate dynamic sitemaps very easily.
3. WP Super Cache – Caching of the dynamic pages helps reducing the load on the server. Caching helps the webserver to deliver the pages as static pages and thus faster response. One among the best caching plugin for WordPress is WP Super Cache.
4. WP-DB-Backup – Many times, the database get corrupted for various reasons. WP-DB-Backup helps in backing up the database tables for later retrieval.
5. Redirection – Pages and URLs may turn non-existent and result in 404 pages. Redirection of the page to the right page is important for keeping your users engaged. Redirection plug-in help you do this.
6.Akismet – Akismet helps you fight spam comments on your blog
7.WordPress.com Stats – Along with Google Analytics, I use WordPress.com stats for traffic analysis. It is easy to track your visitors, just by using this plugin, without leaving your dashboard.
8. WP-Paginate – WP-Paginate helps you allow your visitors navigate through the archive pages easily.
9. YARRP – Keeping visitors engaged is the way to have more page views. This plugin provides an option to display the old related stories in your blog below the current story.
10. WPtouch – Finally, now most of the web browsing is happening thru, smart mobile phones. This plugin automatically changes your WordPress blog into mobile friendly web site, especially with iPhone it works as an iPhone application
1. Steve did LSD in college
2. The man who delivered (built) the Apple was the engineer, Steve Wozniak
3. Buzz and Woody signify Steve’s acquisition of Pixar
4. The lightsaber battle indicates that Windows and Apple started competing
5. The phones being money indicate the iPhone’s begginning
6. The man with the rainbow is Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO
7. The rainbow probably indicates his involvement with LGBT
HTML5 is the next Web programming standard.The key features of HTML5 are
Storage: Data can be stored on user’s computer or mobile device.so web apps work without an internet connection.
Type: Web pages can have flashier type with more fonts,shadows,colors and other effects.
Motion : Objects move on web pages and react to the movements of a cursor.
Games : Interactive games can run with just a web browser without installing other software or plug-ins.
Audio : Audio is played without a plug-in.
3D : A technology called WebGL can create interactive 3 – D effects using a computer’s graphics processor.
Video : Video can be embedded in a web page without a plug-in.
If you came from Windows background and you wanted to try creating applications that will be used for Android and iOS but you don't have Macintosh machine, then you can try to use Mono from Xamarin.
They have been working closely with Microsoft in the past to provide open source platform which is compatible with Microsoft's .NET specifications and now, they want to improve it much further by adding support to iOS and Android SDKs.
For iOS, you might want to try Mono Touch and Mono for Android is for Android. Both projects are updated frequently and they are keeping up with the latest version of SDK available by both vendors (iOS 5 and Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich).
Since it's .NET based, it's well integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and since it's also available for Mac, you can also use XCode as your IDE and use .NET classes in your
MonoTouch apps. You can also easily bind existing C and Objective-C libraries.
One thing that I've noticed that never changes all through our lives is - Change. There is always something or the other around us that just keeps on moving back and forth. Isn't it rightly said that we are vibrational beings? We keep on changing in form, shape, location and so happen with the things around us as well. The only change that we notice the most is - Time!
My life is also no exception to this rule. It has been a roller-coaster ride already till now, with its own share of twists and turns, and ups and downs. However, these changes have only made me better as they came and transformed to another change. I somehow feel that "Change" is also a form of energy - it can neither be created, nor be destroyed, but only transformed from one form to another!"
Anyways, I am just thankful for whatever I am today and all that I've got so far. It has been one amazing adventurous ride and I look forward to a great time ahead as well. I remember reading a quote long time back, which goes like this -
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, champagne in one hand - strawberries in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOOHOO - What a Ride!"
- Attributed to an octogenarian named Mavis Leyrer, of Seattle
Life is too precious to be wasted in compromising on things we don't really want. I believe in going where your passion takes you. I've always lived that way and that is what I am going to do now too.
After a long and tiring journey of corporate life and its politics, I am saying it a quit and going forward to another phase of my life. I am going to take my passion as my profession now and test myself where my true abilities lie.
I can't promise anything to myself as of now, except for the fact that I'd try to give it my best shot; rest only time will tell. I remember someone asked me once - "What should I do? Should I do something I am good at or something I really love to do?" and my answer to her was -
"Do what you love to do, because your passion will drive you in that and you will eventually become good in doing that. Excellence comes from passion and a vision that makes you push your limits so that you can build your road to success. There is no freeway for it."
So, here I am leaving my freeway journey and going to explore a different way for myself. All I can say now is I hope I do well! :)
Even though Google recently introduced a malware-blocking system called Bouncer to keep the Android Market safe from malicious software, crafty spammers and fraudsters are still managing to find ways around the restrictions to get their software onto users’ phones. The latest example? A malware program disguised, innocuously, as an Android app called “any_name.apk.” And it appears the malware is using Facebook’s app on Android phones in order to spread.
The software was discovered by security firm Sophos, which came across the malware after receiving a Facebook friend request. When checking out the user’s profile, the researcher, Vanja Svajcer, found a link posted to the requester’s Facebook profile page that, when clicked, directed the browser to a webpage which started an automatic download of an unknown software application to the device.
The software installed and downloaded immediately, without any request for authorization or input from the end user. However, although Svajcer doesn’t mention this in his analysis, for software to automatically install from outside the Google Android Market, the phone’s default settings must have been changed. Typically, Android phones are shipped with a setting switched on that prevents mobile apps from installing from sources besides the official Android Market. Many savvy Android users switch this setting off, though, because they enjoy the freedom that Android provides in discovering apps from alternative app stores and download locations – like the treasure trove that is the XDA Developers forum, for example.
Unfortunately, malware like this is the nasty side effect. And there’s nothing Bouncer can do about it. The link the researcher clicked did not appear to be an APK file by nature of its URL, just a typical website. And it was placed into the user’s About Me section on Facebook, as if it was a link to that person’s homepage.
Of course, many folks would simply ignore a friend request from someone they didn’t know, but curiosity often gets the better of us. (Do I know them? Did we meet at some point, and I forgot?) One errant click, and oops, you’re infected.
In this particular case, the malware in question appears to be a program designed to earn money for fraudsters through premium rate phone services, a scam popular outside the U.S. for the most part, which involves having unsuspecting users send out text messages to premium rate numbers (those that charge). The scammers, who are operating the numbers, end up collecting the money from the victims’ accounts.
The app attempts to associate itself with the Opera browser, and an encrypted configuration file contains the dialing codes for all the supported countries where the premium rate numbers are hosted.
As a side note: a few days later, the researcher visited the same URL, but was directed to an all-new website where another APK file was automatically downloaded (hilariously called “allnew.apk”). This one was functionally similar, but different on the binary level, indicating it was a new variant of the same malware.
Maybe it’s time for Android’s Bouncer guy to get pre-installed on handsets, too?
UPDATE: We spoke to Google about this issue, and they’re telling us that the software installation process portrayed in the Sophos video could not have occurred as demonstrated. Even with an off-market malware-ridden APK file, the app would have downloaded to the device, but additional user-initiated steps would need to have taken place before the software installed and ran as shown. We’re still awaiting a response from Sophos on that front.
To be clear, Bouncer is a good first step towards protecting Android users, but regardless of what methods are used to lock down the Android Market, spammers and scammers can always find another way in.
The Indian Government approved the Indian Rupee currency symbol in July last year and within a span of less than three months, the symbol officially made it to the Unicode Standard.
The Indian IT department had initially proposed that the character code U+0971 be assigned to the Indian Rupee sign, as the code was within the range of Devnagri characters, but the Unicode Consortium approved the code U+20B9 which is the same range that is used for other currency symbols like Euro, Franc and Peso.
As the symbol is now a part of the official Unicode standard you need to update you existing fonts in order to type the new currency sign into a word processor or a spreadsheet using a regular keyboard.
There are a couple of fonts which support the Indian Rupee Symbol but they aren’t widely accepted fonts. So here is the good news, Microsoft recently updated all the common fonts that ship with Windows to include support for the new Indian Rupee symbol. You simply need to update your existing Windows fonts by installing the kb2496898 hotfix available for Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 as well as Windows 7.
Once the update has been installed, launch Microsoft Word, change the document font to an update font, for example Arial, and type 20B9 followed by Alt+x.
There is however a small catch to this font update. If you add the Rupee symbol to your document through a computer with the new updated fonts and share it with somebody who doesn’t have the updated fonts, the person would just see some random junk character in place of the Rupee symbol.
So if you want to share a document with the Rupee Symbol, convert the document to PDF file with font embedding enabled which would preserve the character even if the font is missing in the other person’s computer.
After Megaupload is taken down by the FBI, the rest of the file hosting services are just as anxious as the prior because they could be the next victim of this process.
Here's the status updates from the rest of the file hosting i got from Fiohnel Fiver on Google+:
MegaUpload - Closed.
FileServe - Closing does not sell premium.
FileJungle - Deleting files. Locked in the U.S.
UploadStation - Locked in the U.S.
FileSonic - The news is arbitrary (under FBI investigation).
VideoBB - Closed! would disappear soon.
Uploaded - Banned U.S. and the FBI went after the owners who are gone.
FilePost - Deleting all material (so will leave executables, pdfs, txts)
Videoz - closed and locked in the countries affiliated with the USA.
4shared - Deleting files with copyright and waits in line at the FBI.
MediaFire - Called to testify in the next 90 days and it will open doors pro FBI
Org torrent - could vanish with everything within 30 days "he is under criminal investigation"
Network Share mIRC - awaiting the decision of the case to continue or terminate Torrent everything.
Koshiki - operating 100% Japan will not join the SOPA / PIPA.
Shienko Box - 100% working china / korea will not join the SOPA / PIPA
ShareX BR - group UOL / BOL / iG say they will join the SOPA / PIPA
Japan, China and Korea have a say NO to the FBI and that even if laws are passed in the USA will not have any value within the sovereignty of their countries!
P/S: mediafire has start deleting copyright protected files. Only left is the personal files.
It's February 1 and a new major release of Firefox has just been released. Firefox has now reached version 10. It's now available from auto-update mechanism that was built in into the product itself. If you happened to use a package from your Linux distribution, an update will come out soon enough since many packager disabled the auto update feature.
What's new on this release? According to the release notes, this version brings several new features such as:
CSS 3D Transforms
Anti-Aliasing for WebGL
Invisible Forward button (will be visible when you press the Back button)
Full Screen API
IndexedDB API
Inspect tool with content highlighting
Go get the new features and enjoy the new CSS 3D transformations (see some examples here)
Microsoft has also introduced a new button which goes along with So.cl and helps user to share all the interesting content from the web. This works similar to the Facebook Share or Google’s +1 button. So.cl will use search data from Bing’s public API.
The company has mentioned that their plan is to create and develop an experimental research project using minimal set of features for the purpose of learning.
Users can now request their invites simply from So.cl. It looks like a decent and appealing social network, but do we really need it?
