Google Apps For Education:
Google Apps For Education is an google apps edition geared towards schools and universities. Google apps for education offers a set of customizable tools that helps faculty and students help together more effectively. Google apps for education is absolutely free. Following are the features included in google apps for education
1) Gmail
2) Google calendar
3) Gtalk/Google Talk
4) Google Documents
5) Google Sites
6) Google Video
7) Several API's
64bit itunes installer Windows 7 :
iTunes is needed to make use of podcasts these days. the default installer we find is the 32-bit installer. Some system architecture requrie 64-bit itune installer. I found this 64-bit installer from the following website.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1047
Is it Raining Now Website Interesting :
I wanted to blog details on some interesting websites. It is change of weather and it is raining here. In MSN we have a widget to dynamically update(weather) conditions and it is implemented based on AJAX technology. I did a simple research on interesting weather reporting websites
It it Raining Now?Enter the name of your place and get to know if it is raining there. This is very simple and cool
What is the weather now?
You can get to know what the weather condition is. Also, you can get a forecast one month well in advance and plan your trips
Compressing And Uncompressing A File Using bzip2 an bunzip2 utility:
bzip2 utility compresses a file by analyzing it and recording it more efficiently.It works well particularly on files that contain repeating information, such as text and image data, although most image data is already in compressed format.
Steps in using bzip2 utility :
1) Obtain information about the file
ls -l
2) The --verbose(-v) optionncauses bzip2 to report how much it will be able to reduce the size of the file
bzip2 -v file_name
3) obtain file information
ls -l
While executing the above command we find that .bz2 file will be created. The bzip2 utility does not change the modification data associated with the file, even though it completely changes the file contents.
Decompress / uncompressing a file using bunzip2 utility :
$bunzip2 filename.bz2
The bzcat utility displays a file that has been compressed with bzip2.
bzcat file_name.bz2 head -4
bzip2recover - supports limited data recovery from media errors.
RSS - Really simply syndication - Introduction And Uses:
RSS - Really simply syndication - A popular term among the blogger community.
What is RSS? What does it stand for?
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication".
Uses :
1) RSS is utilized by many blogs and websites
2) RSS is used to publish content using a document called as feed
What is a RSS feed? What does it contain?
A RSS feed is a summary of text from a participating website.. Information includes/ can be any of :
1) News
2) Podcasts
3) Information that is updated often
Google Search Story Video Creator, Create Own Free Search Story, Youtube Search Story Creator:
I found an interesting tool from Youtube (Google) a tool called as search story video creator (web application). Simply keyin search terms, this pulls results from google search, creates a video, uploads this to you tube upon confirmation. This is interesting and great tool. click on Create you own blue button. This takes us through the process. It is interesting to see that we can integrate music with our video. Variety of music scores have been recorded and can be added at the click of a mouse (shown in screen shot below)Create your Google/You Tube Search Story Today
Microsoft Hardware Blog:
Microsoft Hardware Blog is the official site from Microsoft corporation. This is the excerpt from Welcome Post in Microsoft Hardware Blog
"If you’re looking for a new product, or want to make the most out of the one you already have, then this is a great place for you. We’re going to use this space to tell you about new mice, keyboards, webcams, headsets and gaming devices, keep you up-to-date on new software or product features, and give you insight into how we design our products for you that maybe you weren’t aware of.But the most important thing is that you can use this blog to give us feedback and ask us questions. If you like something – tell us! If you don’t like something – tell us!
You’ll hear from a variety of people on this blog, and each of us look forward to telling you more about what we do, and hearing from you.
Again – welcome to the Microsoft Hardware Blog.
Brett Ostrum, General Manager"
Microsoft Hardware Blog http://microsofthardwareblog.com/
We can get latest hardware news and product updates from Microsoft Corporation. Webcams is the major product listed in Top Categories Section of Microsoft Hardware Blog
Rename Multiple Files In Windows 7, Renaming Multiple Files in Windows 7:
It is possible to rename multiple filenames at once in Windows 7
Click on one file and press arrows to select all the files to be renamed
Click on File Menu. Click Rename. One file (first selected file) gets highlighted. Change its name. This automatically changes all other filenames in sequence
Worth Of Websites, Flip your websites at its value, Website Valuation:
Website business has been growing at a great pace. Creating and flipping websites have become a good business. Most of us don't know how to calculate the worth of a website. We flip it based on the general concept that it is 2 times worth of average annual income. Say if we make $1000 on an average per year, then we can sell our website somewhere between $2000 to $3000.
I found an interesting tool which will tell us the worth of our website based on criteria such as alexa ranking, google rank etc. This interesting tool is names MyWebsiteWorth
Log onto mywebsiteworth tool which is a website.Type the URL and click on worth button to find the worth of your website
Enterprise Microblogging Microsoft Officetalk, Social Networking In enterprise Microsoft Officetalk, Microsoft Officetalk Twitter Enterprise Version:
Microsoft officetalk is the enterprise microblogging solution from Microsoft corporation. We all know that the most popular microblogging platform among world community is twitter which was launched on 2006. In the same way officetalk is aimed at microblogging among the business users within an organization.Social networking among the enterprise community is the core behind microsoft officetalk.More information on office talk can be seen at Microsoft officelabs
Google Operations Shutdown In China, Google Quits China,China Says Bye To Google, Google China Shutdownwww.google.cn screenshot, China Says Bid Adieu To Google:
Google had earlier announced that April 10,2010 will be their last working day in China. Its shutdown will affect the Google Engineers working in Beijing and Guangzhou. More than 300 google engineers will be affected due to this shutdown.
I've taken a screen shot of Google China Website www.google.cn as a remembrance. First is in chinese language. Next photo is an English Translation of www.google.cn website
SEO (Search Engine Optimization ) Starter Guide From Google:
Google the best and biggest search engine in the world has helped people grow their business online. The core ambition of any online enterpreuner would be to have a good pagerank in google. This helps them pull plenty of google traffic. This free traffic from google is called as Organic traffic. Studies on traffic trends, increasing traffic comes under SEO. SEO is crucial for any online business these days. Most of us wonder where do we start learning it. Google has published a starter guide on SEO that can be downloaded for free and utilized to improve our pagerank.
Internet Explorer 9 HTML5 Browser, IE9 HTML5 Browser, IE9 Download And Installation,Windows Internet Explorer Platform Preview does not support any operating system earlier than Windows Vista SP2:
An interesting information on IE9 is that it is a HTML5 compatible. Also it is designed based on standard web patterns. It helps HTML 5 applications run faster by taking control of the hardware through Windows (OS).
I tried downloading and installing in my old laptop which runs Windows XP Home Edition. I got the following error — “Windows Internet Explorer Platform Preview does not support any operating system earlier than Windows Vista SP2″
In the nextarticle, I’ll be discussing on steps I followed while installing IE 9 in Windows 7 OS (new laptop).
Installing WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) Server, WAMP Prerequisite For Installing CMS (Joomla) Learning PHP, Create Dynamic Database Driven Website With WAMP:
WAMP Server - Windows, Apache,MySQL,PHP is a package that is available for free. Joomla, the most popular content management system(CMS), needs WAMP Server as the prerequisite.
This articles describes step by step installation of WAMP Server. Various server versions get released periodically. Kindly refer documentation for WAMP server and Joomla version compatability. WAMP package can be used with Windows OS. For Linux, LAMP - Linux,Apache,MySQL,PHP is used.
What does WAMP stand for?
W - Windows OS - Operating system
A - apache - Web Server
M - MySQL - Database
P - PHP - Scripting language
Above mentioned packages can be downloaded seperately and installed. Version compatability with Joomla release needs to be done before downloading and installing above mentioned packages.Steps for installing WAMP Server is presented below:
1) Download WAMP Server by clicking on Download tab from :
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
2) Unzip and Run the executable
3) Accept the Agreement
4) C:wamp is the default installation location. If different browse and choose it
5) Click Install
6) Choose the default browser
7) If firewall is enabled, it might ask you to unblock ports. click on unblock and Finish
8) Launch the WAMP Server
9) Check if the server is up and running by typing:
http://localhost
(or)
http://localhost:80
You'll get an UI view of WAMP Server
10) The Server dial icon will appear in taskbar of Desktop
11) If services are not in started state, left click and start all services. The dial will be red, become yellow on partial service startup, become white on starting all services
12) Server becomes online
13) Check if the server is up and running by typing:
http://localhost
(or)
http://localhost:80
You'll get an UI view of WAMP Server. WAMP Server installation acts as prerequisite for installation of content management systems (CMS) such as Joomla
Beware Of New Facebook Virus, New Facebook Virus, McAfee Warns Of Facebook Virus, Facebook email virus:
This tuesday Macafee Malware and Research Communication director Dave Marcus has warned facebook users of the new facebook malware.
Many of us know that Facebook overtook google last week. Hackers have now targeted facebook users and created malware viruses to hack the users passwords and credentials. These spammers send an email mocking Facebook official emails with the message that passwords of their accounts have been reset and will urge them to click on a link to reset their login credentials. This malicious programs will then steal the user's passwords.
With about 400million people using Facebook on a daily basis, even if 1% of them turn out to be a victim of these hackers, then its a huge deal for them. So kindly be beware of this malicious email message.
If you get such emails kindly log onto www.facebook.com and check if your credential works. Simple delete this email.
Google Apps For Education is an google apps edition geared towards schools and universities. Google apps for education offers a set of customizable tools that helps faculty and students help together more effectively. Google apps for education is absolutely free. Following are the features included in google apps for education
1) Gmail
2) Google calendar
3) Gtalk/Google Talk
4) Google Documents
5) Google Sites
6) Google Video
7) Several API's
64bit itunes installer Windows 7 :
iTunes is needed to make use of podcasts these days. the default installer we find is the 32-bit installer. Some system architecture requrie 64-bit itune installer. I found this 64-bit installer from the following website.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1047
Is it Raining Now Website Interesting :
I wanted to blog details on some interesting websites. It is change of weather and it is raining here. In MSN we have a widget to dynamically update(weather) conditions and it is implemented based on AJAX technology. I did a simple research on interesting weather reporting websites
It it Raining Now?Enter the name of your place and get to know if it is raining there. This is very simple and cool
What is the weather now?
You can get to know what the weather condition is. Also, you can get a forecast one month well in advance and plan your trips
Compressing And Uncompressing A File Using bzip2 an bunzip2 utility:
bzip2 utility compresses a file by analyzing it and recording it more efficiently.It works well particularly on files that contain repeating information, such as text and image data, although most image data is already in compressed format.
Steps in using bzip2 utility :
1) Obtain information about the file
ls -l
2) The --verbose(-v) optionncauses bzip2 to report how much it will be able to reduce the size of the file
bzip2 -v file_name
3) obtain file information
ls -l
While executing the above command we find that .bz2 file will be created. The bzip2 utility does not change the modification data associated with the file, even though it completely changes the file contents.
Decompress / uncompressing a file using bunzip2 utility :
$bunzip2 filename.bz2
The bzcat utility displays a file that has been compressed with bzip2.
bzcat file_name.bz2 head -4
bzip2recover - supports limited data recovery from media errors.
RSS - Really simply syndication - Introduction And Uses:
RSS - Really simply syndication - A popular term among the blogger community.
What is RSS? What does it stand for?
RSS stands for "Really Simple Syndication".
Uses :
1) RSS is utilized by many blogs and websites
2) RSS is used to publish content using a document called as feed
What is a RSS feed? What does it contain?
A RSS feed is a summary of text from a participating website.. Information includes/ can be any of :
1) News
2) Podcasts
3) Information that is updated often
Google Search Story Video Creator, Create Own Free Search Story, Youtube Search Story Creator:
I found an interesting tool from Youtube (Google) a tool called as search story video creator (web application). Simply keyin search terms, this pulls results from google search, creates a video, uploads this to you tube upon confirmation. This is interesting and great tool. click on Create you own blue button. This takes us through the process. It is interesting to see that we can integrate music with our video. Variety of music scores have been recorded and can be added at the click of a mouse (shown in screen shot below)Create your Google/You Tube Search Story Today
Microsoft Hardware Blog:
Microsoft Hardware Blog is the official site from Microsoft corporation. This is the excerpt from Welcome Post in Microsoft Hardware Blog
"If you’re looking for a new product, or want to make the most out of the one you already have, then this is a great place for you. We’re going to use this space to tell you about new mice, keyboards, webcams, headsets and gaming devices, keep you up-to-date on new software or product features, and give you insight into how we design our products for you that maybe you weren’t aware of.But the most important thing is that you can use this blog to give us feedback and ask us questions. If you like something – tell us! If you don’t like something – tell us!
You’ll hear from a variety of people on this blog, and each of us look forward to telling you more about what we do, and hearing from you.
Again – welcome to the Microsoft Hardware Blog.
Brett Ostrum, General Manager"
Microsoft Hardware Blog http://microsofthardwareblog.com/
We can get latest hardware news and product updates from Microsoft Corporation. Webcams is the major product listed in Top Categories Section of Microsoft Hardware Blog
Rename Multiple Files In Windows 7, Renaming Multiple Files in Windows 7:
It is possible to rename multiple filenames at once in Windows 7
Click on one file and press arrows to select all the files to be renamed
Click on File Menu. Click Rename. One file (first selected file) gets highlighted. Change its name. This automatically changes all other filenames in sequence
Worth Of Websites, Flip your websites at its value, Website Valuation:
Website business has been growing at a great pace. Creating and flipping websites have become a good business. Most of us don't know how to calculate the worth of a website. We flip it based on the general concept that it is 2 times worth of average annual income. Say if we make $1000 on an average per year, then we can sell our website somewhere between $2000 to $3000.
I found an interesting tool which will tell us the worth of our website based on criteria such as alexa ranking, google rank etc. This interesting tool is names MyWebsiteWorth
Log onto mywebsiteworth tool which is a website.Type the URL and click on worth button to find the worth of your website
Enterprise Microblogging Microsoft Officetalk, Social Networking In enterprise Microsoft Officetalk, Microsoft Officetalk Twitter Enterprise Version:
Microsoft officetalk is the enterprise microblogging solution from Microsoft corporation. We all know that the most popular microblogging platform among world community is twitter which was launched on 2006. In the same way officetalk is aimed at microblogging among the business users within an organization.Social networking among the enterprise community is the core behind microsoft officetalk.More information on office talk can be seen at Microsoft officelabs
Google Operations Shutdown In China, Google Quits China,China Says Bye To Google, Google China Shutdownwww.google.cn screenshot, China Says Bid Adieu To Google:
Google had earlier announced that April 10,2010 will be their last working day in China. Its shutdown will affect the Google Engineers working in Beijing and Guangzhou. More than 300 google engineers will be affected due to this shutdown.
I've taken a screen shot of Google China Website www.google.cn as a remembrance. First is in chinese language. Next photo is an English Translation of www.google.cn website
SEO (Search Engine Optimization ) Starter Guide From Google:
Google the best and biggest search engine in the world has helped people grow their business online. The core ambition of any online enterpreuner would be to have a good pagerank in google. This helps them pull plenty of google traffic. This free traffic from google is called as Organic traffic. Studies on traffic trends, increasing traffic comes under SEO. SEO is crucial for any online business these days. Most of us wonder where do we start learning it. Google has published a starter guide on SEO that can be downloaded for free and utilized to improve our pagerank.
Internet Explorer 9 HTML5 Browser, IE9 HTML5 Browser, IE9 Download And Installation,Windows Internet Explorer Platform Preview does not support any operating system earlier than Windows Vista SP2:
An interesting information on IE9 is that it is a HTML5 compatible. Also it is designed based on standard web patterns. It helps HTML 5 applications run faster by taking control of the hardware through Windows (OS).
I tried downloading and installing in my old laptop which runs Windows XP Home Edition. I got the following error — “Windows Internet Explorer Platform Preview does not support any operating system earlier than Windows Vista SP2″
In the nextarticle, I’ll be discussing on steps I followed while installing IE 9 in Windows 7 OS (new laptop).
Installing WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP) Server, WAMP Prerequisite For Installing CMS (Joomla) Learning PHP, Create Dynamic Database Driven Website With WAMP:
WAMP Server - Windows, Apache,MySQL,PHP is a package that is available for free. Joomla, the most popular content management system(CMS), needs WAMP Server as the prerequisite.
This articles describes step by step installation of WAMP Server. Various server versions get released periodically. Kindly refer documentation for WAMP server and Joomla version compatability. WAMP package can be used with Windows OS. For Linux, LAMP - Linux,Apache,MySQL,PHP is used.
What does WAMP stand for?
W - Windows OS - Operating system
A - apache - Web Server
M - MySQL - Database
P - PHP - Scripting language
Above mentioned packages can be downloaded seperately and installed. Version compatability with Joomla release needs to be done before downloading and installing above mentioned packages.Steps for installing WAMP Server is presented below:
1) Download WAMP Server by clicking on Download tab from :
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
2) Unzip and Run the executable
3) Accept the Agreement
4) C:wamp is the default installation location. If different browse and choose it
5) Click Install
6) Choose the default browser
7) If firewall is enabled, it might ask you to unblock ports. click on unblock and Finish
8) Launch the WAMP Server
9) Check if the server is up and running by typing:
http://localhost
(or)
http://localhost:80
You'll get an UI view of WAMP Server
10) The Server dial icon will appear in taskbar of Desktop
11) If services are not in started state, left click and start all services. The dial will be red, become yellow on partial service startup, become white on starting all services
12) Server becomes online
13) Check if the server is up and running by typing:
http://localhost
(or)
http://localhost:80
You'll get an UI view of WAMP Server. WAMP Server installation acts as prerequisite for installation of content management systems (CMS) such as Joomla
Beware Of New Facebook Virus, New Facebook Virus, McAfee Warns Of Facebook Virus, Facebook email virus:
This tuesday Macafee Malware and Research Communication director Dave Marcus has warned facebook users of the new facebook malware.
Many of us know that Facebook overtook google last week. Hackers have now targeted facebook users and created malware viruses to hack the users passwords and credentials. These spammers send an email mocking Facebook official emails with the message that passwords of their accounts have been reset and will urge them to click on a link to reset their login credentials. This malicious programs will then steal the user's passwords.
With about 400million people using Facebook on a daily basis, even if 1% of them turn out to be a victim of these hackers, then its a huge deal for them. So kindly be beware of this malicious email message.
If you get such emails kindly log onto www.facebook.com and check if your credential works. Simple delete this email.
