Tag: Technology

How to choose and Buy a Laptop

Laptops are very much important in today’s world. Many times we wonder how to choose and buy a new laptop. In this article we discuss about what we need to check in laptop and what types of questions we need to ask to shop owner.

How to choose and Buy a Laptop

First I would suggest to understand your requirement and where you are going to use the laptop. What kind of functionality or programs you are going to use on laptop. If you are targeting to do some very simple operation and going use for as a replacement of PC for some time then go for simple notebook.

If you are going to use laptop more frequently then you should check following things in your laptop before purchasing it.

CPU – CPU is more important part of computer. We can say that is heart of computer. Depending on that we can major how computer will perform. Now intel core I3 and intel core I5 processors. There are more options also with atom mobile processors they are cheap but still choice is yours.

RAM- Ram is also important for our laptop. More ram will give you more speed and faster and better result. If you are getting 3-4 GB of  ram with your laptop than that really good.

OS – If you are using 3-4 GB ram then you better use the 64bit operating system. That will give you really nice experience.

Graphics Card – Pre-graphic card will come with your laptops motherboard. Extra graphics card will be really nice and helpful. Because if you want to play some 3d and latest games then that is really nice.

Screen Size – Now laptops are becoming PC’s replacement So bigger screen size is recommended. Now these days we will got the 18 Inch bigger wide screen sized laptops.

Storage capacity: Minimum storage capacity these days is 250 gb hard drive and external DVD writer is must. If your laptop is not offering these functionality then don’t go for that.

Battery Life : Battery life is most important factor when it comes to laptops. don’t go for normal battery. Ask for extended battery is supported or not. Extended battery is must.

Wireless connectivity: wi-fi is most important feature in these days for laptop. If you don’t have wireless connectivity in your laptop then there is no use of laptop.

External connectivity : How many usb and other ports you are getting with our laptop that is very important.

Warranties & Support : warranty and support and service center that is most important part. you need to ask for where you get instant service and what is the call center numbers.

How avoid Bluehost auto renewal billing process

Many old bluehost customers are talk about issue with bluehost company. Which is automated billing process., How avoid Bluehost auto renewal billing process.

How avoid Bluehost auto renewal billing process

When new users want to take any hosting service then they read about auto renewal process of bluehost. If you removed your sites from blue host and still they will charge you and your hosting account with bluehost will renewed automatically.

Which is really bad thing, later on many people know they have been charged by Bluehost because they are old customer of bluehost.

In this article I will show how to skip the bluehost’s auto renewal process.

Many old bluehost customers are talk about issue with bluehost company. Which is automated billing process., How avoid Bluehost auto renewal billing process
Many old bluehost customers are talk about issue with bluehost company. Which is automated billing process., How avoid Bluehost auto renewal billing process

You need to login to your Cpanel account then choose the “profile/Billing” tab from menu. Left side you can see the Billing information. There you can clearly able to see your credit or debit card information is saved through bluehost.

If you does not want the auto renewal process then delete your credit or debit card information. Then Bluehost will not  be able to do auto renewal without informing you.

Put following credit card infromation in that.

Credit card no- 41111111111111111

exp date – 03-2013

csv no -123

If you are planning change your hosting from bluehost then dont forgot to delete your credit and debit card information profile tab.

cheap hosting for wordpress blogs and sites

Many times we look for best and cheap hosting service for wordpress. I tried so many hosting services for hosting multiple wordpress website. Whenever you are choosing the cheap hosting we need to take care about quality also. Many hosting providers gives the cheap wordpress hosting but they are not provide the hosting support.

I personally used following services. All hosting services are nice with limited traffic. Now I am using VPS for hosting my site.

cheap hosting for wordpress blogs and sites

Here I will tell you about specially where to host the wordpress sites. First you have analyze the your website category and traffic of website. How much traffic you are targeting for your site. What is actual traffic of your website.

1. Hostso

cheap hosting for wordpress
cheap hosting for wordpress

Hostso is really cheapest web hosting service. I really like this hosting for wordpress.

2. Mochahost.com

As compare to other hosting providers mochahost is really cheaper. I did not used this service. For wordpress website mochahost is also good. But many people had not good experience with mochahost. So I recommend not to use this hosting.

3.  Bluehost

Blue host is most recommended hosting service for wordpress sites. I used the Bluehost for last three years and I did not find any issues with my sites. In very cheap rate they provide the best features and service.

4. One.com

 

One .com hosting service is cheaper and stable. I used this service for one year. I did not find any major issues with this hosting provider. They have servers located in latherland. There service is good. support is very nice. For normal traffic wordpress website this hosting is really nice.

5. Go Daddy

Go daddy is not cheaper but as per service and stability godaddy is good. I recommend to register your domain with godaddy. I have experience with godaddy with last 9 years. They are good. But support is not good as they said. Website speed will little slower then other service providers.  For wordpress hosting godaddy is good.

6. HostMonster

Hostmonster is having really good features and for big wordpress blogs and sites Host Monster is really good option. If you want to host multiple sites in one account then go for this Hosting service. I am using this hosting service and I did not find any issue.

7. Web Hosting Pad

This hosting is cheap for unlimited domain hosting. For wordpress this hosting is quite ok but not really best. But lower traffic website this hosting is good. WebHostingPad provides a fast, reliable and comprehensive service that you will be completely satisfied with.

If you have any suggestions about hosting providers who are cheaper and good for wordpress hosting. Please write a  comments here.

First web browser for India launched -Epic by Mozilla

We have given news and details about First web browser for India launched -Epic by Mozilla. We have given features and their uses. Screen shot and epic.The browser has been created by a team of Indian engineers on the opensource Mozilla platform, it said in a statement.

First web browser for India launched -Epic by Mozilla
First web browser for India launched -Epic by Mozilla

First web browser for India launched -Epic by Mozilla

Epic Browser is looking as follows:

epic browser

“Epic provides a uniquely Indian browsing experience. Epic’s India sidebar supports Indian content by providing users access to the latest national and regional news from popular publications, live television channels, videos, stock quotes, live cricket scores, top music albums, and local events,” it said.

Epic browser has following features:

•    An inbuilt anti-virus, powered by ESET, whose NOD 32 product is very popular the world over

•    India centric with support for 12 different Indian languages including Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Kannada, Telugu, Bengali, Tamil, Malayalam, Urdu and Punjabi

•    Indic app allows for typing in these Indian languages

•    More than 1500 themes ranging from freedom fighters to film stars to represent the unity in diversity of the country

•    A word processor to create or edit documents

•    India specific news from popular publications

•    Social Networking sites like Facebook and Twitter on the sidebar, apart from YouTube( watchable in a pop-up window), Gmail and Yahoo

•    Other useful sidebar widgets include Travel, Stocks, Maps, and Jobs

•    File backup and My Computer utilities

Users can choose from 1500+ customised Indian themes and wallpapers ranging from freedom fighters to famous Bollywood and regional film stars. Writing in Indian languages is supported throughout Epic. Users can instantly write in Indian languages on any webpage or in Write, Epic’s free built-in word processor. Twelve Indian languages are currently supported, the statement said.

Free antivirus scanning and healing is built into Epic, while another security measure warns users when they’re about to visit potentially dangerous websites.

Phone blogging is future of WordPress

Matt is announced the new feature of wordpress which is phone blogging by wordpress. This is really great news for bloggers. In future you can write post by phone.

 

Phone blogging is future of WordPress

The future is now, folks. You can now go to your My Blogs tab, enable Post by Voice, and get a special number and code to call your blog. After you’re done, the audio file from your phone call will be posted to your blog for all to listen to and enjoy. (And added to your RSS feed for podcast support.)

So now you can post to your WordPress via the web, email, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, desktop clients, and now any telephone in the world. Of course when you post it can be pushed to Facebook, Twitter, and more using the Publicize feature. What more could you want?

Right now this is completely free, but we’ll charge you money to take down posts. Just kidding! We’re making it free and allowing recording lengths up to sixty minutes, but that limit may go down without a paid upgrade in the future. Mostly we’re just curious to see how people use this.

Post by Voice is a way to publish audio posts to your blog from your phone. You call a phone number, enter a secret code, record a message, and we handle the rest.

Enable Post by Voice

In order to use Post by Voice you need to enable the feature on your blog and generate a secret code. The secret code is unique to you and your blog so it is important to keep it secret.

  1. Visit Dashboard->My Blogs

    Phone blogging is future of WordPress
    Phone blogging is future of WordPress
  2. Locate the blog that you wish to post to and click on Enable.

↑ Table of Contents ↑

Sending a Post by Voice

Call the phone number listed on the My Blogs screen, enter your secret code when prompted, and follow the instructions.

↑ Table of Contents ↑

Example Recording

↑ Table of Contents ↑

Regenerate Secret Key

If your secret key is compromised, others will be able to publish audio posts to your blog. Go to the My Blogs screen and use the Regenerate link below the secret key to create a different one.

↑ Table of Contents ↑

Disable Post by Voice

If you would like to disable the feature, use the Delete link below the secret key.

↑ Table of Contents ↑

Additional Info

  • Post by Voice is powered by the Twilio API.
  • The maximum length of a recording is 1 hour. We will probably decrease this after we have a chance to watch usage stats.
  • If there is 10 seconds of silence, the recording will end.
  • You do not need a space upgrade to use Post by Voice.
  • Normal calling rates will apply for the phone call.

WordPress completed 100th Million Plugin Download

WordPress has just announced the 100th million plugin has now been downloaded. It’s a smaller milestone but just as impressive if not even more so, since blogging tools are not going to have the same mainstream audience or appeal as a web browser. WordPress is also celebrating a smaller milestone, the newly launched WordPress 3.0 has just passed three million downloads.

WordPress completed 100th Million Plugin Download

WordPress completed 100th Million Plugin Download
WordPress completed 100th Million Plugin Download

What wordpress is saying?

WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed 3 million downloads yesterday, and today the plugin directory followed suit with a milestone of its own: 100 million downloads.

The WordPress community’s growth over the years has been tremendous, and we want to reinvest in it. So we’re taking the next two months to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major part of that will be improving the infrastructure of the plugins directory. More than 10,000 plugins are in the directory, every one of them GPL compatible and free as in both beer and speech. Here’s what we have in mind:

We want to provide developers the tools they need to build the best possible plugins. We’re going to provide better integration with the forums so you can support your users. We’ll make more statistics available to you so you can analyze your user base, and over time we hope to make it easier for you to manage, build, and release localized plugins.

We want to improve how the core software works with your plugin and the plugin directory. We’re going to focus on ensuring seamless upgrades by making the best possible determinations about compatibility, and offer continual improvements to the plugin installer. And we also want to give you a better developer tool set like SVN notifications and improvements to the bug tracker.

We’re also going to experiment with other great ideas to help the community help plugin authors. We want it to be easy for you to offer comments to plugin authors and the community, including user reviews and better feedback. We may experiment with an adoption process for abandoned plugins as a way to revitalize hidden gems in the directory. I’m not sure there is a better way to show how extendable WordPress is and how awesome this community is at the same time.

As Matt said in the 3.0 release announcement, our goal isn’t to make everything perfect all at once. But we think incremental improvements can provide us with a great base for 3.1 and beyond, and for the tens of millions of users, and hundreds of millions of plugin downloads to come.

There are now a little over 10,000 plugins in the WordPress directory which really puts the 100 million downloads number in perspective. Of course, some plugins are more popular than others, but it does indicate that bloggers are very interested in the added functionality these plugins provide.

The most popular plugin is the antispam tool Akismet with over 8.5 million downloads to date. The tool comes pre-installed with WordPress, so that may explain its popularity, although, these installs may not be counted as downloads. However, later updates are probably counted. Other popular plugins are the All in One SEO Pack with five million downloads and Google XML Sitemaps with close to four million.

Given the popularity of WordPress plugins, it’s no surprise that they are now getting some attention from the development team. Having wrapped up WordPress 3.0, the team decided to focus on some of the things surrounding WordPress rather than the software itself.

“The WordPress community’s growth over the years has been tremendous, and we want to reinvest in it. So we’re taking the next two months to concentrate on improving WordPress.org. A major part of that will be improving the infrastructure of the plugins directory,” Andrew Nacin, a WordPress developer, announced.

“We’re going to provide better integration with the forums so you can support your users. We’ll make more statistics available to you so you can analyze your user base, and over time we hope to make it easier for you to manage, build, and release localized plugins,” he explained.

On Twitter now you can Follow your Facebook friends

The Twitter is micro-blogging site and it is become very famous in last few years. Twitter provides addition of Facebook and LinkedIn to its Find Friends feature.

On Twitter now you can Follow your Facebook friends

On Twitter now you can Follow your Facebook friends
On Twitter now you can Follow your Facebook friends

The Twitter Facebook app now lets you know which of your friends are on Twitter. It lets you save those users to a list or follow them instantly. Users can now also post tweets directly to their Facebook pages, in addition to their profile.

 

On Twitter now you can Follow your Facebook friends

As per Twitter blog post They are saying,

“Many Twitter users follow their favorite celebrities, sports heroes, or brands. They often find and follow even more nearby businesses or experts in their industry. And, of course, people also follow friends, family and associates so that they can keep updated on what’s happening with them. In fact, one of our most frequent requests from users is how they can find and follow the people they are connected to on their social networks.

On Twitter now you can Follow your Facebook friends
On Twitter now you can Follow your Facebook friends

Today, we’re improving our Find Friends section to make it easier to find and follow the people you already know — your friends on Facebook and connections on LinkedIn — who use Twitter. Our Facebook app, which launched in 2007, now shows which of your Facebook friends are on Twitter and lets you follow them instantly and save them to a list. The app also lets you post your Tweets to your Facebook profile and now, to one of your Facebook pages too. With the Tweets application by LinkedIn, you can see which of your LinkedIn connections are on Twitter and follow the ones you choose right from the app. The app also lets you save your LinkedIn connections as a list, post your Tweets to LinkedIn, and add your Twitter account to your LinkedIn profile.

UPDATE: The Facebook app cannot currently access your Facebook friend list. We believe this is an issue on Facebook’s end.”

Firefox 3.6.4 is for Download, with Crash Protection Now Available

Today, Mozilla is happy to release Firefox 3.6.4, the latest security and stability release for Firefox, used by nearly 400 million people around the world to browse the Web. This release provides crash protection for Windows and Linux users by isolating third-party plugins when they crash.

Results from our beta testing show Firefox 3.6.4 will significantly reduce the number of Firefox crashes experienced by users who are watching online videos or playing games. When a plugin crashes or freezes while using Firefox, users can enjoy uninterrupted browsing by simply refreshing the page.

Mozilla recognizes that third-party plugins provide important functionality in many of today’s websites. At the same time, plugins can lead to problems for users as they browse. With the ability to automatically alert users when they have out of date plugins, and now crash protection, Firefox 3.6.4 allows users to experience all the content they love without any of the hassles. (If you’re not running Firefox, Mozilla recommends that you make a habit of visiting the Plugin Check page to keep your plugins up to date.)

At this time Firefox offers crash protection for Adobe Flash, Apple Quicktime and Microsoft Silverlight on Windows and Linux computers. Support for other plugins and operating systems will become available in a future Firefox release.

All Firefox users are encouraged to upgrade for free by using the “Check for Updates” function in the Help menu, or by visiting www.firefox.com. For more information, please visit:

Source Link

Apple sells 3 million iPads in first 80 days

Apple Inc. has sold more than 3 million iPads just 80 days after the tablet computer’s launch in the United States.

The touch-screen iPad blew past analysts’ expectations even in its first month when it sold 1 million, and Monday’s 3-million mark signaled that it was not losing any steam.

Apple sells 3 million iPads in first 80 days

Apple sells 3 million iPads in first 80 days
Apple sells 3 million iPads in first 80 days

“People are loving iPad as it becomes a part of their daily lives,” Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs said in a statement. “We’re working hard to get this magical product into the hands of even more people around the world, including those in nine more countries next month.”

The news came as the prices of iPad’s e-reader competitors — Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble Inc.’s Nook — were slashed Monday to under $200. The iPad starts at $499.

But it seems price isn’t an issue when it comes to some of the hottest, and coolest, pieces of technology on the market, said Richard Doherty, analyst at Envisioneering Group.

“It’s fashionable and it’s ‘in’ and it’s less geeky than a keyboard,” he said. “It’s the new definition of ‘it.’ ”

Doherty said that at this rate he expected iPad sales to far surpass his original prediction of 5 million to 8 million within a year. And if there’s anyone who has returned an iPad, he’d like to meet them, he said.

According to Reuters, the iPad also is sold in Canada, Japan, Australia, Italy, France and Germany.

Google Voice is out in U.S.


Google Voice is now available for everyone (provided you have a U.S. phone number).

The service, which started life out as GrandCentral, acts as a unified phone number. It can be used to make free calls to the U.S. and Canada, to send free text messages and more. Its voicemail system can even be.

Now, after more than fifteen months of testing with invite-only accounts, Google Voice is ready for the masses.

As great as the service is, it hasn’t existed without controversy. Last summer, Apple was criticized when the company barred the Google Voice iPhone app from its App Store. The battle over Google Voice was arguably the first shot in the current Apple-Google war.

And earlier today, Business Week reported that Frontier Communications is suing Google over alleged patent violations within the Google Voice service.

For many users however, Google Voice is a wonderful solution to the increasingly complex web of communication profiles. Instead of having to try to maintain separate phone numbers, users can just have one central number forwarded to different devices based on time of day or location.