Chromebox - The Real Desktop

Google chrome became the number one web browser beating IE recently. Cashing in on this success they are all set to promote Chrome OS as an alternate operating system for desktops targeted at business users. Google in association with Samsung today launched the Chromebox, a mini PC running on Google’s browser based OS. The device is designed for people who want some screen flexibility in their Chrome OS experience.

The Chromebox is ‘thin client’ device. Users can plug in their monitor, keyboard and mouse to access applications stored elsewhere. It gives users a change from windows and OS X and an opportunity to try a brand new cloud connected, Linux based OS.

The Chromebox comes with more ports than the Chromebook, though it is missing an SD card reader. Apart from this the device is just a ‘box’ version of the new Chromebook 550. Users are comparing the Chromebook with Apple Mac Mini, which is ideally used for home theatres. But in reality the makers have launched the device to compete with the Mac and Windows PCs.

Chromebox is prices at $329. Google gives users added administration tools, hardware warranty, and lifetime support including 24-hour phone support for the retail price plus $150. This clearly indicates that the device has been launched keeping businesses and educational institutions in mind. It will cost an institution $479 plus the cost of desktop and keyboard to have a fully functioning desktop. Since more than one user can use the same desktop it makes for a smart buy for management.

What makes Chromebox work is the OS is runs on. With Google providing newer updates on short intervals with the latest Chrome OS 19 being desktop like. It is a smart buy when various users use a single unit, but it is more on the pricier end for an individual user. Let us hope Samsung is listening.

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3 Indian Innovators Who Have Made a Mark in World

Indian innovators have since forever, made 
their mark in the world of technology with great inventions and ground-breaking ideas. With a continuously exponential growth in the number of people interested in new technologies and numerous students starting their own tech projects for this evolving market, there have been many inventions by the Indian technologists like advanced GPS software and robots that have left the world awestruck.

On May 11, celebrated as National Technology Day in India since the 1998 Pokharan Test, the country awards its scientists and technologists who have made a mark in tech world. Former President, APJ Abdul Kalam himself felicitated the winners of the prestigious award for the National Technology Day 2012.

1. Ramesh Sojitra

Managing Director, Scanpoint Geomatics

Innovation: Created Software that matches satellite images with GPS co-ordinates

Coming from a small town in Saurashta, Ramesh started his career by mopping floors in a printing studio of Mumbai. He has redefined the Indian Geo-Informatics System with his commendable work in Scanpoint. The software generates 3D maps which can be used to plan new cities, estimate farm and forest cover, even guard borders at half the cost of what the foreign software charge. "It gives us pride to prove that we can compete with big MNCs," said Ramesh to IBN.

2. K Guruswamy

Director, Perfint HealthCare Corporation

Innovation: Designed Robots that treat Cancer

Guruswamy’s work has resulted in the most brilliant achievement by Indian medicine in the past decade. The Robot analyses the affected area and finds the part of the body that contains the cancerous tumor. By sending the data to its control unit, it then generates a microwave signal targeting the affected area and destroys the malignant tissues. "We are the only company in the world that offers the entire gamut of services in one package, from identifying to destroying the cancer," said Guruswamy describing the services of his excellent invention.

3. Ashok Atluri

Managing Director, Zen Technologies

Innovation: Developed Driving Simulators

Designed to save hundreds and thousands of lives lost in Indian road accidents every year the driving simulator of Zen Technologies simulates life like conditions of Indian roads to coach the drivers for real time situations. An alumnus of the Indian School of Business, Ashok says,” We've designed it according to Indian conditions, so there are cows crossing the road, pedestrians jumping in suddenly, everything you could think of on a typical Indian road.”

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Clean Your RAM using Notepad

Are you fed up of your computer working slow? Or you are tired of restarting your computer again and again due to its slowness?

This problem might occur due to RAM because at the time RAM might be full of remaining progress pieces which you are working with and you do not need them anymore. So, if you deleted or erase all those unnecessary piece of information, your RAM will be clean and your computer would work faster.

For doing so you can download or get software that can keep your RAM free, if anyone doesn’t have any software, then you can follow the tutorial that I am going to mention.

Steps to clean your RAM using Notepad

• Open your Notepad.
• Type FreeMem=Space(128000000)
• And save the file in any location that you like, named “CleanRAM.vbs”
• Now run the file.
• It will free memory in your RAM

If you want more memory to be free in your RAM, then you can use following codes instead of that mentioned in point2.

• FreeMem=Space(24000000), for 24 MB
• FreeMem=Space(32000000), for 32 MB
• FreeMem=Space(64000000), for 64 MB
• FreeMem=Space(72000000), for 72 MB
• FreeMem=Space(128000000), for 128 MB
• FreeMem=Space(256000000), for 256 MB

NOTE: Do not select the code that exceeds the memory than your RAM’s capacity

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Create New Folder using Keyboard

How to create “New Folder” using keyboard shortcut

Generally we create a “New Folder” using mouse. By right clicking and then going to new and clicking Folder.

But can we create a “New Folder” using keyboard shortcuts? The answer to it would be YES!

 

ALSO SEE: Create AN Invisible folder in windows

To create a “New Folder” by keyboard shortcut- Hold down Alt key + F. Then, let go of Alt key, press W and then press F.

The above keyboard shortcut would work for Windows Xp and Windows Vista.

Windows 7 is much user friendly, so you can simply press Ctrl + Shift + N. This will instantly create a “New Folder” in Window 7.

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Create an invisible folder in windows

Have you ever had a folder on your desktop that you wanted nobody to see or want it to be hidden from each and every person except you?


Now you can make your folder truly invisible but then you have to remember where you placed it. This is a very funny trick and works greatly in Window 7.

With the steps mentioned below you can create a folder which nobody would be able to see:

• Using your mouse, click right button of it and create a new folder.
• Click on rename option. Delete the name of the folder so that nothing is written there.
• Now hold down “Alt” key and type 0160 using number pad and then release the Alt key.
• Now just click anywhere outside the folder. The folder will be created with an invisible name.
• Now you are required to change the icon to make the folder hidden. Right click on the folder and then to properties followed by Customize, then select a blank icon to make the folder invisible. Then click on apply and then OK.

And, you have a folder which is invisible.

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Download Wikipedia Articles for Offline Reading

Would you like to download the entire Wikipedia on your computer or mobile phone for offline reading? Well, here are some good options to consider.

Wikipedia, the world’s largest encyclopedia, provides database dumps of all their wikis that one can download for free and thus access the entire Wikipedia content on computers that are not connected to the Internet.

The database dumps are frequently updated and include every single article that’s available on the main Wikipedia website. The dumps are available as .xml.bz2 files that you can easily open on your computer using the free and portable WikiTaxi software.

WikiTaxi ships with an importer that will first un-compress the Wikipedia database files (.bz2) and then converts them into a .taxi file format. Now you open these .taxi files inside WikiTaxi just like the way you open .doc files inside Microsoft Word. If you are running low on space, the original Wikipedia dumps can be safely discarded.

A good alternative to WikiTaxi is Kiwix – this is also free software and available for Mac, Windows and Linux systems. You need to install the Kiwix software on your computer and then download one of the Wikipedia editions – the articles are packaged as .zim files that will open directly inside Kiwix without requiring any conversion.

The latest .zim package for various editions of Wikipedia can be downloaded from kiwix.org using any download manager or you can use this .torrent file to download using any BitTorrent client. This is 9.7 GB file and includes all the text of Wikipedia pages but no images.

Kiwix is definitely easier to use than WikiTaxi and the packaged .zim files can read across all popular platforms but the downside is that, unlike the database dumps used by WikiTaxi, the .zim files aren’t very frequently updated. Also, the zim package for English Wikipedia doesn’t include every article though the packages for other languages are complete*.

If you have an iOS device – like the iPhone, iPad or iPad Touch – you may grab the excellent Wiki Offline app and carry all the Wikipedia articles in your pocket. The app renders Wikipedia articles in a beautiful interface and supports tabbed browsing so you can open multiple articles side by side. Wiki Offline is also available in the Mac App Store for your Mac OS X.

The other option for using Wikipedia offline is WikiReader – this is a 3.5” monochrome device with a capacitive touch screen and contains over 3 million Wikipedia articles. The  updates to Wikipedia articles are released every quarter – you can update the device by connecting it to your computer – or you opt to receive updates on SD cards.

The WikiReader device costs  $99 and though I haven’t tried it myself, it did get a huge thumbs-up from Ars Technica. You definitely don’t need this if you carry a smart phone that is always connected to the Internet but could be a good reference tool for the rest of us with an impressive battery life – much like the Kindle.

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Reduce the File Size of Google Fonts for your Website

Google Fonts is a collection of open fonts that you can use in your websites, documents and other design projects without any restrictions around licensing.

It takes a single line of code to embed any of the Google Font families into your website design. Just substitute the font family in the following code (line #2) with the name of Google Font and copy-paste it inside the <head> tag of your HTML template.

<link href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=GOOGLE_FONT_FAMILY_NAME" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Page Speed and Google Web Fonts

While Google Fonts can make your website look good, there’s one related problem – they increase the page load time of your website because the font files have to downloaded on the visitor’s computer and some of them, like the Cabin Sketch font, can exceed 100 KB in size.

There is however an easy workaround to help you reduce the file size of the Google Fonts so that they do not reduce the load time of a web page. Instead of using the entire Google font family, you can specify a limited set of letters or digits that are used in your text and Google will dynamically generate a new font file containing only the requested characters.

How to Reduce the Size of Google Font Files

All you have to do is add a new text parameter to the Google font request URL and value of this parameter will have all the letters that you need.

For instance, if I need to render the text Digital Inspiration in Cabin Sketch font, the modified CSS requesting the Google font file will look something like this:

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cabin+Sketch&text=DigitalInspiration' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />

The original Google font file was around 101 kb but with this limited text, the font file is reduced to 7.6 KB.

Google Fonts are commonly used to render the text of logos and and headings (h1, h2, h3, etc.) on a web page so you can modify the CSS accordingly. Alternatively, if you wish to request all alphabets and numerals in the Google Font but none of the extra glyphs, your font CSS will looking something like this:

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Cabin+Sketch&text=1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz%20' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />

The font file in this case is 37 KB in size and that’s still 64% lower than the original Google font file. Also, if you are wondering why I have included %20 in the text list, it represents the encoded space character. Similarly, you can add %27 and %22 to the list for single quote (‘) and double quote (") respectively.

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Happy Birthday Sachin Tendulkar [pics]

Coming 24th April is Sachin's Birthday so Wish Him
Famous Quotes on Sachin

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Poem on Sachin Tendulkar

To,
Dear Sachin Tendulkar,
With the passing sands of time, the moving clouds, the blowing breeze,the materialistic world comes to a stand still;
To greet you, to pray for you, to bless you;
In this world of unknown few people become so special, so their deeds, so their birthday;
This birthday we call it as a hey day;
A blissful day, a cheerful day;
This is your’s heyday, this is our hey day;
We celebrate you, we emulate you;

Every new time, gives the reason to hope, a hope to rope the seasons to come;
The hope that is faith, the faith that is power;
The faith is magnanimous, the power is unanimous;
A nation inspires by you, a nation swears b you;
A nation rejoices you, a nation stands by you;
The hope is you, the power is you;

The hope when turns into smile gives rush for miles in the lives of us;
The hope when turned into a tear brings the hush of fear in the lives of us;
The faith, when turns into courage bring the gush of enthusiasm in the lives of us;
The emotion is you, the emotion is you;
The equanimity you show in the face of adversity, the simplicity you show in the face of complexity;
When the nation’s demand becomes your command;
The demand to place the nation’s pride on the pedestal;
You lead us stoically, showing no pains, for nation’s gain;
We feel grateful, we feel heart filled;
The attitude is you, the gratitude is you;
When the things don’t work within us, we feel dejected;
When the things don’t work for our happiness we feel rejected;
We try to search happiness through others;
Few people come across to entertain us; few come across to shower happiness on us;
The entertainment is ephemeral, the happiness is eternal;
The happiness is you, the happiness is you;
It’s very difficult to match the standards set by an individual;
It’s very ideal to follow the path set by an individual;
You inspire us in many ways, yet remain simple;
You deeds speak in volumes, yet you remain simple;
The inspiration is you, the inspiration is you.

Wish Sachin on His 39th Birthday 

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Sachin Tendulkar 100 Not Out [Records]

India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was amongst the first to wish Tendulkar and said he has made the country proud. "Tendulkar's long career has been a triumph of class, character and courage. I wish him many more innings and feats to continue inspiring the youth," Singh said in a press release.

Wish Sachin on His 39th Birthday
Tendulkar was also congratulated by ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat said he is a marvel to cricket lovers around the world, adding he is a true role model. "On behalf of every cricket fan around the globe I congratulate Sachin on becoming the first person to score 100 centuries for his country. This is indeed a magnificent feat and not likely to be easily emulated," Lorgat was quoted as saying in an ICC release.

Lorgat also said: "Like millions of others I have personally followed his career ever since he first played for India as a gifted 16-year-old and now, more than two decades later, his passion and personal records, which include more than 33,000 runs at international level, is a modern day wonder." 

Sachin Tendulkar Stats...

Tendulkar scored his first international century - 119* - against England at Old Trafford in August 1990; while his first ODI century (110) came against Australia at Colombo on 9 September 1994.

Tendulkar scored 12 centuries in 1998 - the most he has in a year in his career. He has scored eight centuries in three different years (1996, 1999 and 2010).

Tendulkar, who is the most capped player in Tests and ODIs, holds an array of batting records including for the most runs and centuries scored in those two formats of the game. 

In his 188 Tests, Tendulkar has scored 15470 runs, including 51 centuries; and in his 462 ODIs, the batting maestro has scored 18,374 runs, including 49 centuries.

Tendulkar has scored 1000 or more runs in a calendar six times - 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2008, 2010. He has also scored 1,000 or more ODI runs in a calendar year seven times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2007.

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How to Copy Text from Images

Most of the time, we require the Text part from images but unable to do that. Then what we do, just start typing the whole Text part by referring to the image. But now you can ignore the typing, you have the power to copy the Text part from directly image.

1. Microsoft OneNote

If you have Microsoft office installed in your computers, the best and the easiest way to copy text from image is to use Microsoft Office OneNote.

Following steps can help you to copy text from image through Microsoft Office OneNote:

 1. Run Microsoft Office OneNote. (Start->All Programs->Microsoft Office-> Microsoft Office OneNote.)

 2. Now, copy the image and simply paste it in Microsoft Office OneNote.

 3. Select the entire image and right click on the selection.

 4. Then, select “Copy text from image option”.

 5. Now open any word document and paste the content over there.

 You can now format or edit the content in your word document and save the favorable data.

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2. Optical Character Recognition

It might have happened quite often that you really like the text from a scanned image and you wanted to copy it. For that you can either re write the whole text which might be a bit time consuming or you can use OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software.

OCR makes it possible to edit the text, search for a word or a phrase or store it more compactly, it also recognizes handwritten, printed or typewritten text.

Download OCR

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Angry Bird Space is now available for download

The new Angry Bird Space game has been released by Rovio for which people have been waiting from long time. Angry Bird Space for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch is now available for Download from iTunes App Store.

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The application is available on Android, iOS, Mac and Personal computer devices for $99.Rovio promises regular free updates for the future and says that the game play has been fully optimized for each device, including full support for the Retina display on the new iPad.

According to the review, keeping and maintaining the original intent of the game- the players are going to have new power ups and some zero-gravity excitement.

With added sense of adventure, the new game is featured with 60 stages, in addition to Danger Zones for those. The extra stages are also available as an in-app purchase. The game is featured with hidden bonus levels and beautiful detailed background.

Screenshots

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