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IF {this} THEN {that}

Internet, its not just a word, its a world. Now a days its growing like anything. There are number of services and applications available to manage, to educate, to entertain, to socialize, to share and to make you available for the rest of the world. But what if you can integrate them?



IFTTT is a service that lets you create powerful connections with one simple statement: "if this then that".

IFTTT, the service that lets you automate common tasks on the web, mostly focuses on consumer services like Dropbox, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Didn't get it? Bored for reading this? Now how about a magical trick?

Want to instantly save all your Instagram photos to Dropbox when you take them? What about automatically updating your Twitter profile when you update your Facebook profile? Or, what about sharing any article you read in Read It Later to Twitter and Facebook, staggered by time via Buffer? A small bootstrapped startup called If This Then That has abstracted a simple set of tools to help you do each of these things, and many more.

How this works?











You need to create a recipe, which contain a trigger(this) and action(that).


Recipes: are a combination of a Trigger and an Action from your active Channels.

Channels: are the basic building blocks of IFTTT. Each Channel has its own Triggers and Actions. Currently the are 47 channels supported, that includes facebook, twitter, RSS, sms, call, instagram, email, weather etc.

Triggers: The this part of a Recipe is a Trigger. Some example Triggers are “I’m tagged in a photo on Facebook” or “I post a tweet on Twitter.”

Actions: The that part of a Recipe is an Action. Some example Actions are “send me a text message” or “create a status message on Facebook.”

You can know more about IFTTT at IFTTT.com/WTF

Now some examples:

• If {morning} then {send me weather updates via sms}.
• If {anyone tag me on facebook} then {set its privacy to only me}.

In more simpler words you can do following:-

• iTunes #FreeAppoftheWeek via Email
• Created a photo album "tagged" and set the privacy on it to Only Me. 
• Text me the weather every morning.
• When Facebook profile picture changes, update Twitter profile picture.
• Every time you are tagged in a photo on Facebook, it will be sent to Dropbox.
• Let me know if it's going to rain.
• Keeping all the images you upload to FB photos in one safe place
• Save photo from Instagram to Dropbox

Also, there are many ready to you recipes at IFTTT.com/Recipes

Once you will understand the whole concept, eventually you'll fall in love with it. Like, I am. :)

Use it. Share it. Share happiness.

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Low Battery! WTF!!

How to improve battery life

Hello everyone. Namastay!
Now a days everyone's life dependents upon battery.
"Hell, What?" 
No people are not running on battery :P. But their important gadgets and devices are. And almost everyone faces the problem that after few months their battery's performance decrease drastically. So what is the problem actually? Are manufacturers not working on this thing? No, this is not. The reason is we are not caring out our batteries. 
"Who told you? I care my battery like anything. I kill unwanted tasks, switch off WiFi/ Bluetooth if I am not using, adjust screen brightness as per day light."

Well you are doing good, but I have discussed it with few battery experts and customer care executives. I came to know about many facts on batteries. Following are some best practices for you. So here we go:

• Always use the original/native charger to charge a battery. Each type of battery has some specification and you must use an original/native charger for it. Never use things like multi-battery charger, duplicate car chargers, etc.
• Don't charge if your batteries are not really drained out. I saw many people, As soon as they enter into their room or find a empty charger they just plug it in. You should always charge you device if its showing low battery sign.
• Charge it fully. Everytime when you charge your device, charge it fully(100%). Don't plug out in between.
• Try to avoid the use of device while charging it. I know its not possible everytime. But still you can keep this thing in your mind.
• Avoid extra heating of device. While charging you can put your mobile/laptop/tablet keep its back side in front. So that the batteries can cool down.

You can find these things silly, but believe me once you start following them, on a long run your battery performance will improve for sure. 

I am using mobile, laptop, tablet, trimmer, digital camera since ages :P and have not faced any battery problem :) (touchwood). 

I have tried to keep it more readable, simpler and hide most of the technical details. If someone want to know more, can write me.

Have fun with your batteries.
Share it. Share happiness.

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Create free online profile page

A personal web-page that's all about you. Create free online profile using about.me.
Using about.me services you can quickly build a personal and dynamic splash page that points visitors to your content from around the web.

This is my about.me profile.

Other then customizing and publishing your page you can also understand how many people see your profile, where they're coming from, and what they do on your page.

Create you online profile now.
URL: https://about.me/

Create a Panorama image

Panoramic photography is a technique of photography, using specialized equipment or software, that captures images with elongated fields of view. In most simple words its "wide format photography". The term has also been applied to a photograph that is cropped to a relatively wide aspect ratio.

Above image is an example of panorama-image. Now its very easy to create these type of images.

Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location, the application creates a high-resolution panorama that seamlessly combines the original images. The stitched panorama can be shared with friends and viewed in 3D by uploading it to the Photosynth web site. Or the panorama can be saved in a wide variety of image formats, from common formats like JPEG and TIFF to the multiresolution tiled format used by Silverlight's Deep Zoom and by the HD View and HD View SL panorama viewers.

You can download its 32-bit version and 64-bit version.

Find more details on its native web-site.

WebRupee

Symbol for Indian currency was approved by the Union Cabinet on 15 July 2010. WebRupee is a web api for the symbol of Indian currency, it makes the rupee symbol available to everybody on the web. WebRupee API provides a simple, cross browser method for using the Rupee symbol on your webpage, blog or anywhere on the web.

How To Use WebRupee?

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1. Add a stylesheet link in the head section of your webpage: http://cdn.webrupee.com/font
   
2. Add the following code enclosing your "Rs."
   
   

   span class="WebRupee" "Rs" span

   Rs. 200

OR

1. Just include the following javascript and it will update all the " Rs " / " Rs. " for you
   

Source: WebRupee.com

Computer Acronyms List

Hi....
I know it was a very long time since I posted my last post.
I was .....................
Leave it and enjoy the list of Some Usefull Computer Acronyrns...............

ADSL - Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line
AGP - Accelerated Graphics Port
ALI - Acer Labs, Incorporated
ALU - Arithmetic Logic Unit
AMD - Advanced Micro Devices
APC - American Power Conversion
ASCII - American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASIC - Application Specific Integrated Circuit
ASPI - Advanced SCSI Programming Interface
AT - Advanced Technology
ATI - ATI Technologies Inc.
ATX - Advanced Technology Extended

--- B ---
BFG - BFG Technologies
BIOS - Basic Input Output System
BNC - Barrel Nut Connector

--- C ---
CAS - Column Address Signal
CD - Compact Disk
CDR - Compact Disk Recorder
CDRW - Compact Disk Re-Writer
CD-ROM - Compact Disk - Read Only Memory
CFM - Cubic Feet per Minute (ft�/min)
CMOS - Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
CPU - Central Processing Unit
CTX - CTX Technology Corporation (Commited to Excellence)

--- D ---

DDR - Double Data Rate
DDR-SDRAM - Double Data Rate - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
DFI - DFI Inc. (Design for Innovation)
DIMM - Dual Inline Memory Module
DRAM - Dynamic Random Access Memory
DPI - Dots Per Inch
DSL - See ASDL
DVD - Digital Versatile Disc
DVD-RAM - Digital Versatile Disk - Random Access Memory

--- E ---
ECC - Error Correction Code
ECS - Elitegroup Computer Systems
EDO - Extended Data Out
EEPROM - Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EPROM - Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
EVGA - EVGA Corporation

--- F ---
FC-PGA - Flip Chip Pin Grid Array
FDC - Floppy Disk Controller
FDD - Floppy Disk Drive
FPS - Frame Per Second
FPU - Floating Point Unit
FSAA - Full Screen Anti-Aliasing
FS - For Sale
FSB - Front Side Bus

--- G ---
GB - Gigabytes
GBps - Gigabytes per second or Gigabits per second
GDI - Graphical Device Interface
GHz - GigaHertz

--- H ---
HDD - Hard Disk Drive
HIS - Hightech Information System Limited
HP - Hewlett-Packard Development Company
HSF - Heatsink-Fan

--- I ---
IBM - International Business Machines Corporation
IC - Integrated Circuit
IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics
IFS- Item for Sale
IRQ - Interrupt Request
ISA - Industry Standard Architecture
ISO - International Standards Organization

--- J ---
JBL - JBL (Jame B. Lansing) Speakers
JVC - JVC Company of America

- K ---
Kbps - Kilobits Per Second
KBps - KiloBytes per second

--- L ---
LG - LG Electronics
LAN - Local Are Network
LCD - Liquid Crystal Display
LDT - Lightning Data Transport
LED - Light Emitting Diode

--- M ---
MAC - Media Access Control
MB � MotherBoard or Megabyte
MBps - Megabytes Per Second
Mbps - Megabits Per Second or Megabits Per Second
MHz - MegaHertz
MIPS - Million Instructions Per Second
MMX - Multi-Media Extensions
MSI - Micro Star International

--- N ---
NAS - Network Attached Storage
NAT - Network Address Translation
NEC - NEC Corporation
NIC - Network Interface Card

--- O ---
OC - Overclock (Over Clock)
OCZ - OCZ Technology
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer

--- P ---
PC - Personal Computer
PCB - Printed Circuit Board
PCI - Peripheral Component Interconnect
PDA - Personal Digital Assistant
PCMCIA - Peripheral Component Microchannel Interconnect Architecture
PGA - Professional Graphics Array
PLD - Programmable Logic Device
PM - Private Message / Private Messaging
PnP - Plug 'n Play
PNY - PNY Technology
POST - Power On Self Test
PPPoA - Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM
PPPoE - Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet
PQI - PQI Corporation
PSU - Power Supply Unit

--- R ---
RAID - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
RAM - Random Access Memory
RAMDAC - Random Access Memory Digital Analog Convertor
RDRAM - Rambus Dynamic Random Access Memory
ROM - Read Only Memory
RPM - Revolutions Per Minute

--- S ---
SASID - Self-scanned Amorphous Silicon Integrated Display
SCA - SCSI Configured Automatically
SCSI - Small Computer System Interface
SDRAM - Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
SECC - Single Edge Contact Connector
SODIMM - Small Outline Dual Inline Memory Module
SPARC - Scalable Processor ArChitecture
SOHO - Small Office Home Office
SRAM - Static Random Access Memory
SSE - Streaming SIMD Extensions
SVGA - Super Video Graphics Array
S/PDIF - Sony/Philips Digital Interface

--- T ---
TB - Terabytes
TBps - Terabytes per second
Tbps - Terabits per second
TDK - TDK Electronics
TEC - Thermoelectric Cooler
TPC - TipidPC
TWAIN - Technology Without An Important Name

--- U ---
UART - Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter
USB - Universal Serial Bus
UTP - Unshieled Twisted Pair

--- V ---
VCD - Video CD
VPN - Virtual Private Network

--- W ---
WAN - Wide Area Network
WTB - Want to Buy
WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get

--- X ---
XGA - Extended Graphics Array
XFX - XFX Graphics, a Division of Pine
XMS - Extended Memory Specification
XT - Extended Technology

CrossPlatform Task Scheduler

Now its very easy to schedule your tasks like connecting to internet, backups, opening browser. Here is a brief description about a utility called ScheduleIT.
ScheduleIT is a Java based process scheduler with great features. You can use it to schedule the tasks with custom arguments. It provides exports and imports features, templates saving and task history management.

Download:
If you do not have the JRE 1.6 installed on your computer then click here to get it. Download the appropriate file as per your operating system.
Here is the download page: Download ScheduleIT Binaries 

Source:SourceForge.net

Send Your Name to Mars

Mars Science Laboratory had started a program to send the name of people on Mars by their next Space-Misson.
To send your name to Mars:

• Open Link 
• Fill in your information and your name will be included with others on a microchip on the Mars Science Laboratory rover heading to Mars in 2011
• You can also check World Participation Map
•  You can also download your Participation Certificate.

 

Promote your country on Participation map.

Portable Applications

Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind and you need not to install the software on every PC you use. Just install it into your Portable Drive and move on.

A portable application (portable app) is a computer software program that is able to run independently without the need to install files to the system it is run upon. They are commonly used on a removable storage device such as a CD, USB flash drive, flash card, or floppy disk. Portable apps should not be confused with software portability where software allows its source code to be compiled for different computing platforms. Portable applications can be run on any computer system with which they are compatible but typically require a specific operating system such as Microsoft Windows XP or above, certain version of a Linux distro, etc.
Portable software is typically designed to be able to store its configuration information and data on the storage media containing its program files.
To certain operating systems such as AmigaOS, the concept of portable application has no use at all because all applications are portable by definition. Depending on the operating system, portability is more or less complex to implement.
A portable application does not leave its files or settings on the host computer. Typically this means that the application does not write to the Windows registry or store its configuration files (such as an INI file) in the user's profile; instead, it stores its configuration files in the program's directory. Another requirement is that file paths can change on changing computers, at least drive letter is different for most of systems, this means that application should store file paths in relative format. While some applications have options to support this behaviour, many programs are not designed to do this. A common technique for such programs is the use of a launcher program to copy necessary settings and files to the host computer when the application starts and move them back to the application's directory when it closes.
An alternative strategy for achieving application portability within Windows, without requiring application source code changes, is application virtualization: An application is "sequenced" or "packaged" against a runtime layer that transparently intercepts its file system and registry calls, then redirects these to other persistent storage without the application's knowledge. This approach leaves the application itself unchanged, yet portable.

The same approach  is used for individual application components: run-time libraries, COM components or ActiveX, not only for the entire application. As a result, when individual components are ported in such manner they are able to be: integrated into original portable applications, repeatedly instantiated (virtually installed) with different configurations/settings on the same operating system (OS) without mutual conflicts. As the ported components do not affect the OS-protected related entities (registry and files), the components will not require administrative privileges for installation and management.
Microsoft saw the need for an application-specific registry  for its Windows operating system as far back as 2005. It eventually incorporated some of this technology, using the techniques mentioned above, via its Application Compatibility Database using its Detours code library, into Windows XP. It did not, however, make any of this technology available via one of its system APIs.

Source: Wikipedia (Click to read more)

You can download some useful Portable Applications form following links-

1. PortableApps
2. Softpedia
3. PenDriveApps
4. PortableFreeware

Online OS

Imagine that you have a machine which is only capable to a Web Browser only in term of resources which is very relevant when you want to use a cheap system. Means there is only a Damn Small OS which can can only a browser. But you know a web application which will open into your browser and act as an OS.
Yes....
SilveOS.com - Silverlight operating system. It is is a website that simulates an operating system inside your web browser. You can launch applications right away without installation.

Desktop of SilveOS (Click on Image to Enlarge it)

It has games like Chess, File-Explorer and well known Start-Menu (Click on Image to Enlarge it)

Is has many important application as inbuilt like Web-Browser, Media Player, YouTube Player, Tiwtter application, Notepad etc. (Click on Image to Enlarge it)

Other inbuilt applications-

• RSS Reader
• Flicker Viewer
• Paint
• Calulator
• Virtual Earth
• Rich Text Editor

So just start browsing SliveOS.com for a new experience.

Talk To Strangers

If you have some free time then its better chat someone unknown instead of getting bore.
But with whom you can chat?
No friends online?
All are Busy? 

Solution is Omegle .

Omegle is a brand-new service for meeting new friends. When you use Omegle, they pick another user at random and let you have a one-on-one chat with each other. Chats are completely anonymous, although there is nothing to stop you from revealing personal details if you would like.



A Review about Omegle.

Omegle - Meet strangers!: Kinda funny. :D Sometimes you get someone that wants to chat, and it's so completely anonymouse so you can try out anything! You can meet new friends, get experinces from other countries etc. But sometimes you get hooked up with some 46 year old called John who wants to cyber you. That've happened twice for me now, but if your up for that from time to time and just find that fun - this is a cool time waster. :)

Have a look at Omegle.com to kill you time.

But before using Omegle you must read what Omegle says to its users, "Do not behave inappropriately on Omegle, and understand that human behavior is fundamentally uncontrollable. The people you encounter on Omegle may not behave appropriately. Use Omegle at your own peril. Do not use Omegle if you are under 13, or without a parent/guardian's permission if you are under 18. Disconnect if anyone makes you feel uncomfortable. OMEGLE IS NOT PROVIDED WITH ANY WARRANTY, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AND THE OWNER OF OMEGLE DOES NOT ACCEPT LIABILITY OR RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY LOSS OR DAMAGE OF ANY KIND ARISING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY FROM THE USE OF OMEGLE, except to the minimum extent that warranty or acceptance of liability are required by law."