Showing posts with label tips and tricks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tips and tricks. Show all posts

Friday, February 6, 2009

HOW TO CREATE WORD COLLAGES

Recently I found this wonderful website which allows text to be collaged.Picasa the software by google allows you to do collage of pictures but gives upto  a limited options.
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.
Take a look at the samples I have dont

Sunday, February 1, 2009

NEW ANSWERS SITE FROM WIKIPEDIA

Wikia answers the new answers portal from wikipedia was launched yesterday by the founder of wikipedia Jimmy Wales.So what's new and special here.The website is of opensource unlike other answer sites like yahoo answers,wikianswers,ibibo sawaal etc.which means that there will not be any ads or some promoting material on the site.This also means that the site is well utilised and protected from spamming.
The content is freely licensed under GFDL unlike other answers sites allowing it to be re-used and re-purposed by others for free
- Anyone can contribute (other answers sites require you to register)


"Wikianswers uses the unique characteristics of a wiki to form the very best answer to any question."
Jimmy Wales
founder of Wikipedia and Wikianswers 

Can it really gain some of the popularity of the already established websites? In December 2008 alone, Yahoo! Answers had 144.7 million visitors, and Wiki Answers had 26.7 million.

Thursday, January 22, 2009

GET CALL TO YOUR NUMBER FROM YOUR NUMBER

How about getting a call to your cellphone from your number.??.Here is a trick to get a call to your cell phone from your own number.
Just try the following steps and you’ll get a call to your cell phone from your own number.

1. Just give a missed call to this number.You’ll not be charged!

+41445804650

2. Wait for a few seconds and you’ll get a call to your cell phone from your own number
3. Receive the call.You’ll hear a lady voice asking for a PIN number.Just enter some rubbish number.
4. She say’s- Your PIN cannot be processed and the call disconnects..

ANOTHER TRICK

Instead of giving a missed call, just continue calling.The call will not be received and will get disconnected just after a while.But now do you know what happen’s?
You will get a call from the number

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ABOUT: WHAT YOU DONT KNOW ABOUT FIREFOX

about: A simple prompt without any parameter will display the Mozilla “about” information. Since it’s accessible from the top menus as well, it’s not quite a hidden feature.
about:buildconfig Obviously, it will show the build platform configuration and parameters
about:cache Will display info and statistics regarding your disk’s cache, including the name of your cache’s directory and a list of the entries you can find there. By default, Firefox doesn’t allow you to view the cached webpages, so this can be an useful option.
about:config Oh look, many many info. Indeed, it’s the most complex and meaningful of them all. Careful on what you plan to change here, your browser won’t run properly after if you play with the wrong things.
about:plugins Of course, what is Firefox without it’s powerful extensions? This option will display detailed information about all the plugins installed for Mozilla Firefox.
about:credits It’s time to give the credit to whoever deserves it. There’s an alphabetically sorted list of all the people that gave their contribution to the development of Firefox.
about:Mozilla This is a weird thing. It will display the so-called “Book of Mozilla”. Something similar was present in Netscape too. There’s actually no real book although the quotations might give you that impression.

Monday, January 12, 2009

WHATS NEW IN CHROME 2.0

Google has released the beta release of its Chrome browser.The new build is given the version number 2.0.156.You can download the latest build from here.Since it is the first beta release you would expect a lot of changes to its previous version. The team at Google has taken the feedback received from the first official release, and made changes accordingly.So lets take a look at what's new in new version.

  • Form Autocomplete. Google Chrome remembers what you've typed into fields on
    web pages. If you type in the same form again, it will show any
    previous values that match what you've typed so far. You can disable
    Form autocomplete on the Minor Tweaks tab of the Options dialog.This is like the basic form autocomplete available in Firefox
    or Internet Explorer.








  • Full-page zoom. Previously, page zoom (Ctrl++ or Ctrl+-) increased or decreased
    only the text on a page. Zoom now scales everything on the page
    together, so pages look correct at different zoom levels.










  • HTTPS-only browsing mode:This new feature lets users add “force-https to your Google Chrome
    shortcut” to only load Web sites with valid security certificates.
    “Sites with SSL certificate errors will not load".



  • Spell-checking improvements. You can now enable or disable spell checking in a text
    field by right-clicking in the field. You can also change the
    spell-checking language by right clicking. To enable spell-checking in
    a language, add it to the list of 'languages you use to read web sites'
    in the Fonts and Languages dialog ([Wrench] > Options > Minor
    Tweaks > Fonts and Languages).


  • Autoscroll. Many users have asked for this and (thanks to our WebKit update), we
    now offer autoscrolling. Middle-click (click the mousewheel on most
    mice) on a page to turn on autoscroll, then move the mouse to scroll
    the page in any direction.




  • Docking dragged tabs. When you drag a tab to certain positions on the monitor,
    a docking icon will appear.  Release the mouse over the docking icon to
    have the tab snap to the docking position instead of being dropped at
    the same size as the original window. Docking positions are:



    • Monitor top: make the dropped tab maximized.
    • Monitor left/right: make the dropped tab full-height and half-width, aligned with the monitor edge.
    • Monitor bottom: make the dropped tab full-width and half-height, aligned with the bottom of the monitor.
    • Browser-window left/right: fit the browser window and the dropped tab side-by-side across the screen.
    • Browser-window bottom: fit the browser window and the dropped tab top-to-bottom across the screen.

  • Import bookmarks from Google Bookmarks. The [Wrench menu] > Import
    bookmarks & settings... option now has a Google Toolbar option to
    import Google Bookmarks. The bookmarks get imported into your Other
    bookmarks folder. The bookmarks are not kept in sync; the import
    process simply reads in the current set of online bookmarks.


  • New SafeBrowsing implementation. SafeBrowsing is now faster, more reliable, and uses the disk less often.


  • Use different browser profiles. You can start a new browser window that
    uses a different profile (different bookmarks, history, cookies, etc.).
    Use [Wrench menu] > New window in profile. When you create a new
    profile, you can name it and add a shortcut to your Desktop. 








  • Update the V8 Javascript engine to version 0.4.6.0 (from 0.3.9.3).



  • New window frames on Windows XP and Vista, supporting windows cascading and tiling, and other window-management add-in programs.




  • download chrome 2.0 here
    check release notes here


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