June 06, 2011
Twitter's follow button - source twitter blog
May 27, 2011
twitter will kill twitterdeck in future
is no longer third-party and might also end up becoming the official Twitter client for the PCs. TweetDeck brings
no real value for
Twitter! TweetDeck is a great app for the desktop.Even its Chrome browser app is great. I use it everyday to manage my Twitter account. TweetDeck also has a nifty apps for iPhone, iPads, Android Phones and Mac desktops. Twitter itself has official apps for mobile phones and Apple Macs. So the real question is why will Twitter keep funding two different types of apps for the same platform? Chances are that over the year or two (if TweetDeck fans are lucky), Twitter will kill off the various TweetDeck applications or integrate them.
It might keep the Desktop version for PCs as an official client. Hopefully, Twitter finds a way to keep TweetDeck alive and thriving but logic tells me that this will be beginning of the end for TweetDeck. Do you use TweetDeck and what are your views on it being bought by Twitter? Do drop in your comments.
twitter enabled email notif for mentions and retweets
notifying users through an email about retweets and when ever someone mentions their username in a tweet. Twitter had earlier announced it was rolling now the new notification feature in a tweet .How Email
Notification will
work! For power users, such notifications will be a good idea. The retweet or @mention notification is sent only if it is from a person you are following. That way, useless spam can be avoided especially when bots can often end up retweeting or mentioning your username. The option should show up under Twitter Settings >> Notifications. I did not have the new notification feature on my account, but Deepak Jain (Editor – DW) @DJain1989 has the feature on his twitter account. Here is a screen-shot of how the email looks for @mention notifications. Email notification are very good for people who cannot spend time on Twitter looking
up and replying to all mentions and retweets. Currently, Twitter is used to share information and links a lot more than anything else. This new feature might increase interaction between users when it comes to discussions. Do drop in your comments and views
twitter enabled email notif for mentions and retweets
notifying users through an email about retweets and when ever someone mentions their username in a tweet. Twitter had earlier announced it was rolling now the new notification feature in a tweet .How Email
Notification will
work! For power users, such notifications will be a good idea. The retweet or @mention notification is sent only if it is from a person you are following. That way, useless spam can be avoided especially when bots can often end up retweeting or mentioning your username. The option should show up under Twitter Settings >> Notifications. I did not have the new notification feature on my account, but Deepak Jain (Editor – DW) @DJain1989 has the feature on his twitter account. Here is a screen-shot of how the email looks for @mention notifications. Email notification are very good for people who cannot spend time on Twitter looking
up and replying to all mentions and retweets. Currently, Twitter is used to share information and links a lot more than anything else. This new feature might increase interaction between users when it comes to discussions. Do drop in your comments and views
April 17, 2011
Sony Xperia Arc, Xperia Play lauched in India
The Android based phones, Xperia Arc and the Xperia Play are available in India for Rs 32,000 and Rs 35,000 respectively.
Sony Ericsson has officially launched two Android handsets, Xperia Arc and Xperia Play, in India.
Xperia Play, which is a combination of an Android 2.4 Gingerbread based Xperia phone and Sony's handheld gaming device 'PlayStation', will be available for around Rs 35,000.
The phone sports a four inch capacitive touch screen, full PSP game controls, five megapixel camera with an LED flash, a front facing camera for video chat and Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon processor. Besides it has a dedicated Adreno 205 graphics processing unit and a mighty 1 GB RAM.
Being a gaming phone, it has a collection of more than 60 games from the industry's biggest content providers including Sony Computer Entertainment, Gameloft, Electronic Arts and Glu Mobile. Popular games in this device include top franchises Assassins Creed, Need for Speed and The Sims.
The company has partnered with over 20 publishers to ensure a steady flow of new games.
Xperia Arc, also known as the X12, is based on Android's latest version, the Gingerbread 2.3. It features a custom built User Interface developed in house. The Xperia Arc features a 1 Ghz processor from Snapdragon including a dedicated Adreno 205 graphics engine for faster operations and a more vibrant display. The phone also features a 512MB of RAM and a 364 MB of ROM which can also be used for storage. The phone comes bundled with an 8GB microSD card and can manage up to 32 GB of external storage.
The biggest feature of Arc is its 4.2 inch touchscreen, which is armed with a scratch resistant surface to protect it for longer run. The display is powered by Sony's acclaimed mobile Bravia engine for smooth video playing experience.
The 8 mega pixel auto focus camera is the only phone in the category to feature a CMOS sensor. With the help of a CMOS sensor, the camera is able to capture images that are noise free and competitively sharper and brighter than the regular camera phones.
Xperia Arc also features touch focus, which allows the user to manually select which area to focus on while capturing an image. The user can also leave the phone on full auto mode or can select smile detection for that perfect shot.
The Xperia Arc is available in select stores in India and carried a price tag of Rs 32,000 but once it is officially announced it will be available across all stores at the same price.
April 13, 2011
Windows 7 is now the most used OS in USA
Windows XP was launched in August 2001, however, it still commands a huge market share in the PC market. Windows 7 though has been the fastest selling OS in history with it selling over 150 million copies in a very short time.
Ironically, Windows 7 did not compete with Windows Vista for market share, but did it with a 10 year old OS in the form of Windows XP. The reason being that many corporates are not yet ready to switch from Windows XP. I still find that many offices continue to use Windows XP as their primary operating system.
Microsoft though will be happy with the news that Windows 7 has finally managed to take over Windows XP as the top Windows operating system in United States. This data was generated through reports from StatCounter by Royal Pingdom for visitors to over 3 million websites.
Windows 7 now has a marginal advantage over Windows XP in U.S. This is bound to grow in future with more users buying new laptops and desktop PCs and dumping their older ones. Also, most of the newer Windows based tablets run some variants of Windows 7, so that might add to this number in future.
Overall, Windows XP has definitely been one of the best operating system from Microsoft. The fact that it still holds more than 31% of the market share after 10 years says a lot about it.
Microsoft has been mulling to remove support for Windows XP for a long time now, but they still continue to support it. However, Microsoft has been culling off major software support for the OS by not adding XP support for Windows Live Wave 4* and Internet Explorer 9. However, Windows XP still continues to dominate the operating system wars. Unlike IE6, this baby is a long way from becoming extinct.
If you are using Windows 7 or just bought a new PC with it installed, make sure to read out Ultimate List of Tips and Tricks for Windows 7 or the 3 Most Useful Windows 7 Tips.
April 11, 2011
YouVid - chrome extension to download videos from directly from youtube
Recently, I wrote a post about the 10 best Chrome Extension for YouTube. These extensions were basically useful for people who spend a lot of their time on YouTube. I had not found a good and decent extension to download YouTube videos while watching them.
Thanks to a tip by Marco on my post, I came across YouVid a nice extension which helps users download videos from YouTube.
YouVid Chrome Extension Features
- Install the YouVid extension on your Chrome browser.
- Start looking up videos and play it. When the video starts playing you will see a download icon on the right hand corner on the address bar.
- Download the video in .flv format.
Now that you have the video in FLV file format, read this post which shows you how to convert FLV format to other file formats like AVI, 3GP, MOV, MP4.
If you liked such tools then looking up 5 websites to convert YouTube videos in mp3 might also interest you.
Do use YouVid Chrome extension and drop in your comments.
Link: YouVid
March 30, 2011
Get the best of your Google Chrome
Even though Google Chrome is not the most used browser (Firefox snatches the 1st place), it will defeat Firefox in the near future.
To be frank, Firefox 4 almost copied the interface of Google chrome! The only feature Chrome lacks (when compared to Firefox 4) is Panorama and toolbar support.
First to get most out of Chrome you need to switch to Developer channel or at least to the beta channel (I’m using Developer channel, so some of the tips I mention here may not available in your channel).
There are many interesting things to do in Chrome.
Here are 9 tips to get the most out of your Chrome browser.
#1. Make Your Own Custom Themes
You can find many good looking themes at Chrome Webstore but if you are thinking of something crazy like creating own Google chrome themes, then head on to Chrometheme.net or Chrome Theme Maker or Chromizer.
Read More about Chrome Theme Maker.
#2. Chrome Instant
Chrome Instant fastens searching and browsing. For this, the Omnibox (Chrome Address bar) will be logged. With Instant enabled, most pages begin loading as soon as you type a URL in the Omnibox, before you press Enter.
Just look up the wrench icon at top left and then click on Options. Under Options you will can select “Enable Instant for faster searching and browsing” as you can see in the image below.
#3. AutoFill
With AutoFill you can enter your credentials like name, address, age etc in web forms with a single click. You can also save Credit card details so the next time you shop online, you don’t need to re-enter them.
For security purpose you can only see the last four digits of the credit card number. You can enter your AutoFill information on the Options page. 
#4. Google Cloud Print
Google cloud print allows you access and share printers online. Using Google Cloud print you can make your printers available to your from any Google Cloud Print enabled web or mobile app.
To enable Google Cloud Print, sign in to your Google account on the options page and you’re done! Now you can send print jobs from your mobile to your windows computer.
Read More about Google Cloud Print.
#5. Manually Importing and Exporting Bookmarks
Xmarks has made exporting and importing bookmarks easy but you can also do it manually. Just head on to Bookmarks Manager (in your chrome browser), Open “Organize” menu and hit “Import bookmarks”. If you want to export bookmarks, then hit “Export bookmarks” in the same menu.
Remember that Chrome supports only HTML files (which contains bookmarks) to import bookmarks.
#6. Purge Memory
Chrome consumes lots of memory (than other browsers) which eventually slows down a PC, but if you’re on the developer channel then you can make use of purge memory button to decrease the memory usage of Chrome. By default “Purge memory” doesn’t appear in chrome but you can make it appear by adding the ”–purge-memory-button”
(Check this YouTube tutorial on how to add command line switches to Chrome) command line switch, and you’ll be able to free up unused memory via button on the chrome task manager. Check out the image below, I freed up about 22,000K memory in less than a second!
Proof
#7. Create Application shortcuts
You can create application shortcuts to websites that you regularly visit, as well as apps that you have installed from the Chrome Web Store.
These shortcuts can be placed on your computer desktop, quick launch toolbar and start menu for quick and easy access. Application shortcuts don’t have any other attachments like new tab page, address bar, wrench icon etc.
To create an application shortcut for a webpage, go to the webpage and click wrench icon > Tools > Create application shortcut.
#8. Useful Shortcuts
Another great way to use Chrome efficiently is to use all the useful shortcuts.
- Ctrl + Esc ® Task Manager
- Ctrl + Shift + B ® Hides Bookmarks bar
- Ctrl + Shift + N ® Incognito window (Private browsing)
- Ctrl + N ® New Window
- Ctrl + T ® New Tab
- Ctrl + U ® View source of current webpage
- Ctrl + F ® Opens the find bar
- Ctrl + J ® Downloads
- Ctrl + Shift + D ® Saves all open pages as bookmarks
Those are some of my favorites; you can check Mac and Linux shortcuts here
#9. Chrome Channel changer
Chrome Channel changer makes it easy to switch between Google chrome channels (Stable, Beta and Dev). These channels only differ in frequency of updates. Personally, I prefer to go with Beta channel. You can download the app here.
So are these tips useful for you? Do share your tips and experiences with Chrome!
March 27, 2011
Samsung 9 series laptop | Samsung 9 series specification, price & review
Samsung 9 series specification and price
samsung-9-series-laptop
Samsung has launched its 9 series laptop, it with give a good completion to others. Samsung new 9 Series laptop is a small and ultra-slim 13.3†notebook, which weight only 1.31kg with a thickness of just 1.73cm, something quite comparable for example to the all might MacBook Air. This said, the Samsung comes also with a powerful set of specs including Intel latest Core i5 2537M CPU, 4G of RAM, a 128GB SSD, HDMI, Ethernet, USB, LED backlight monitor, and a 1.5W set of speakers plus sub-woofer.
The Samsung 9 series equipped with Bluetooth 3.0, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, WiMax, HFMI port, USB port and runs on Windows 7 Home Premium Operating System. the machine also has fetaures USB Sleep & Charge technologies and Samsung’s Back-up & Recovery Solution that allows users to create and restore back-ups of system data on the device, or on a network or removable storage device.
Samsung 9 Series Notebook Specs
- 13.3-inch LED backlit display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels
- Powered by second generation Intel Core i5 processor
- Runs on Windows 7 Home Premium OS
- Integrated 802.11b/g/n WiFi connectivity option
- Intel HD GT2 integrated graphics
- Provides contrast ratio of 100,000:1
- 4GB of DDR3 RAM
- 128GB SSD
- 3 watt (1.5W x 2) stereo speakers
- 1.5 watt sub-woofer
- WiMAX modem
The Samsung 9 Series Notebook includes a Lithium Polymer battery which provides up to 6.5 hours of battery life. It also includes various types of ports such as USB 3.0, HDMI, etc. It measures 1.7cm thick and weight 2.89 pounds.
Its comes with a price tag of $ 1550.
HP G62-361TX a budget gaming series Laptop with 1 GB dedicated Graphics
My friend was looking for a decent priced Gaming Laptop and I came to know about HP G62-361TX laptop. This is the best one in G series and priced very well at RS 38000. This laptop has charm of both Intel Core i3 and 1GB dedicated Ati graphics. This laptop is gaming ready, beside that it has a HD LED screen and a HDMI port too. Display is crisp and good looking.
Features of the Laptop:
- Ø Intel Core i3 370 M 2.40 GHz
- Ø 3GB DDR3 RAM, 1GB Ati dedicated Graphics
- Ø 15.4 “ HD LED screen
- Ø Windows 7 Home basic
- Ø Wireless, Bluetooth inbuilt
- Ø HDMI port (1) and 3 USB ports
- Ø DVD writer
- Ø Blue matte finish with chicklet, spill proof keyboard
The best thing I liked about laptop is that it does not heat up in long run time. You can keep working for 6 hours without heating it. The Battery is big and provides a support of 3.5 hours. Gaming is also cool. I tried Need for speed: shift, Unreal tournament and some other Graphic hungry games and it handled it well in moderate graphics. I can be sure that you can enjoy gaming and other professional activities on this Laptop on move. My friend is very satisfied with this Laptop and we have tested the Laptop almost every way to get the best out of it.
Price in India : Rs 38000
March 23, 2011
Now switch to gmail with ease
If you aren't a gmail user and want to switch to gmail but fear loosing all your contacts and messages and that you would have to start afresh, then you need not worry.
The "Switch to Gmail" feature makes your switch easy and smooth. All your contacts and messages from previous mail account are transfered to your new gmail account provided that your previous email host is supported.
List of supported email domains : [ expand/collide ]
To get started, visit : http://www.gmail.com/switch
March 22, 2011
Discover retweets - new feature on twitter
Today, I was looking for a way to find out who Retweeted my tweets and just thought off sharing it with our readers too. Check below:
1. Login to Twitter and open twitter homepage.
2. Click the Retweets option in right sidebar.
3. You'll now see 3 columns ;what's been retweeted by people you follow, what you've retweeted, and who retweeted your tweets!
Just select any column and you&'ll see the user profile avatar by whom it was retweeted.
March 21, 2011
Google Reader Play
Reader Play uses the same technology as the Recommended Items feed in Reader to identify and aggregate the most interesting stuff on the internet. If you sign-in, Reader Play will be personalized with other items, like stuff that people you’re following have shared in Google Reader, and items similar to things you’ve previously liked, starred, or shared.
Using Reader Play
To begin, visit http://www.google.com/reader/play and click "Get Started." Access more items by clicking the arrow on the right, or simply use the right and left arrow keys to browse. You can also click on any item in the thumbnail preview below to jump straight to that item.
A few things about Reader Play:
* Click the item's title or the associated image to view the original site content.
* Click the "read more" link to view the full feed content for that item, or click the eye icon in the bottom left to switch to always showing the full feed content.
* Tired of manually navigating Reader Play? Click the TV icon to start a slideshow of items -- simply sit back and enjoy.
* Hide the thumbnails at the bottom by clicking the thumbnail icon in the bottom left.
* To customize your experience even more, click the sliders icon and choose different categories that interest you (we'll start showing them immediately).
Reader Play and Google Reader
When signed in, your likes, stars and shares in Reader Play will transfer to your Reader account. If you've never used Reader, or you're not signed in to your account, you can still use Reader Play to browse interesting items. However, keep in mind that you won't be able to like, star, or share items unless you sign into Reader.
Remember, if you've hooked up your Reader account as a connected site in Google Buzz, anything you share from Reader Play will also automatically appear in Google Buzz.
Free cricket scores for all operator [ 2011 ]
Hello friends, once again everyone can get free cricket score through this method : Just dial 09004444444 and wait for 2 - 3 seconds, your call will be automatically disconnected and you'll get live cricket score in your inbox .
Try this method again and enjoy !
March 20, 2011
Insight of Google's ad serving mechanism ( manage personalized ads )
Google might have several online properties but the single most important one it has is obviously its search engine. Almost everyone types in keywords to search for stuff they need online. So how does Google make money? They simply show relevant text ads, which might interest you while searching. Once you click on their text ad, Google makes money. This sort of simple revenue model has created a multi-billion dollar industry.
How does Google knows which advertisement to show you?
That is quite simple, all it does is track your search patterns, thanks to your browser. This allows Google to show newer and more relevant ads to you. This of course increases the chances of people clicking on the ads which subsequently makes Google billions.
If you do not want personalization of ads on your browser, use Keep My Opt Outs Chrome extension, which does not allow collecting data from your browser.
Features of Keep my Opt Outs Extension :
* Many times we get prompted for Chrome permission warnings. The extension still does not allow tracking any of our records.
* This is done by now allowing cookies to be stored from websites. This conforms to web privacy standards.
* We can do this all by tweaking Chrome preferences for cookies or even checking http://www.google.com/ads/preferences for making sure we do not get personalized ads.
Are you someone who does not mind Google tracking your information for showing preferences? Do drop in your comments.
March 17, 2011
Missing Internet explorer ? It's reborn [ v9 ]
Internet Explorer 9 was released Monday of this week and has already racked up more than 2.35 million downloads in the first 24 hours. According to Microsoft the beta version was downloaded only 1 million times during the first day of its release.
At 27 downloads per second, it gets 98,000 downloads per hour since the initial release. Compared to some other browsers, IE 9 hasn’t been very impressive. For instance, Firefox 3.5 saw more than 1 million downloads in the first hour. And by the end of its first 24 hours, Firefox 3.0 had been downloaded 8 million times.
Now it isn’t just about the numbers but the usability of the application. With updated HTML5 integration and an improved UI, this version of Internet Explorer is comparable to Google Chrome and even Mozilla Firefox. Speed tests done online show that it is comparable with processing and usability of the app.
Between IE8 and IE9 there has been an amazing speed improvement. The main reason why I moved away from Internet Explorer is the speed of the application. To launch, I usually had to wait 15-30 seconds for it to load up and bring me to the home page. Loading pages on the application took ages and I finally gave up migrating over to Google Chrome which loads Web pages in an instant. After short use of IE9, Web pages are loading just as fast as they do in Firefox or Google Chrome.
I am thoroughly impressed with the way IE9 has made major improvements with the UI and speediness of the application. Overall, I might be persuaded to switch back to Internet Explorer if Google starts to lose its touch with Google Chrome.
By far, Google Chrome is the browser of choice if you want speed and usability. But to say that Internet Explorer is comparable with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox is saying a lot.
Soon Internet Explorer 9 will face more competition from Firefox, which is set to release the final version of Firefox 4 on March 22.
Online image editor like photoshop
It is completely free and rich image editor that brings every imaginable feature right there on your browser. The editor loads fast,lightweight and drawing is smooth.
The website can be of great use to people who keep switching computers and don't want to install image editor on each of them.
Check it out right now :
http://pixlr.com/
http://www.pixlr.com/editor
Other similar sites are :
Cute little world clock @ worldtimebuddy
I sometimes catch up with cousins from the US and Australia. Sometimes to schedule a meeting with all of them at the same time is quite difficult. The US is 9.30 hours behind Indian Standard Time and Sydney, Australia is a 5.30 hours ahead.
In this scenarios where you have to keep in mind, time zones of more than two countries World Time Buddy is a useful website.
http://worldtimebuddy.com/
This website makes it quite easy for setting and planning schedules, taking into account 3 or more different time zones.
Clippy - Helping you copy text to your clipboard
If you are looking for clipboard interaction in your web projects, then clippy is my recommendation. I've loved it for it's ease of use. Thanks to it's developers.
Source and instructions : https://github.com/mojombo/clippy
March 07, 2011
WpFunda.com- A new Blog in Our Network
WpFunda is combo of words â€" Wp+Funda (wp stands for WordPress & Funda -stands for Fundamentals).
I come to a blog named -DotnetFunda which is delivering ASP.NET and programming related Articles so, I decided to launched a Blog related to WordPress tutorials, Fundamentals of WordPress and Tips Hacks for WordPress to accommodate our Web Blog Requirements.
Why a new blog on WordPress?
Well, obvious reason is WordPress’s popularity and my Passions towards wordpress stuff.
I m Professionally a ASP.NET Programmer but When i come to Home my role get changed to PHP Developer + WordPress Expert.
Normally programmers choose either of stream once option is go with Microsoft technogies like .NET,Silver lights and other options as Go with OpenSource Stuff like WordPress,PHP,Joomla,VbBulletin and more
I m enjoying both options so, want to grow my Carier in Both Developement Stream 
As i got requests from many friends as well as my collegues who inspire me start sharing WordPress related tweak,Hacks and some fundamentals knowledge via Blog so, every one speacially who is newbee in Blogging world can take benefits from it.
Main thing I Will consider while writing and posting blog article is - My article should be much explanatory with as much as screen-shots so, any new blogger can easily grasp that knowledge.
We will publish every small details related to WordPress. We have more plans in line to further help new Bloggers to move on Blogger to WordPress .
One excuse, I always encounter when I ask my friends to move my friends to wordpress, they find WordPress more complicated than Blogger services.
Now, with WpFunda, I hope to find their Blog on WordPress soon .Am I Right Jigar and Ritesh
Are WpFunda Offers Adsense Revenue Sharing for Guest Bloggers ?
We are having now one more blog, where you can write and earn. As this is a new blog, we will add Adsense revenue sharing blog features after one month.
Since blog is dedicated to WordPress and Blogger, anything and everything related to WordPress,Blogging is fine. This also means, no WordPress post should be ever published on KnowBest.info
Thanks to…
All bloggers who had written Thesis Theme related articles, which helped a lots to Customized Thesis theme. Without their articles, it won’t be possible to launched WpFunda.com within a Week .
Visit WpFunda
Thank you very much For all of Readers Support