Mobile Devices that make emailing and browsing easier

August 4th, 2010 | Posted under Internet Trends, Miscellaneous, Software, The Internet | No Comments »

Mobile Devices that make emailing and browsing easier

The mobile market is now considered to be one of the fastest expanding and profitable markets in the world. With virtually everybody above the age of twelve possessing a mobile, there has been a rapid increase in the number and variety of mobile sets and connections available. With a wide array of smart phones hitting the market browsing the net is now just a swipe-of-the-finger away. The World Wide Web no longer rests on your desktop; it now cuddles on your palm.

iPhone

Manufactured by Apple, this multi-touch screen phone is equipped with internet browsing and is multimedia enabled. Being 3G enabled it supports very high speed internet and smooth connectivity in addition to sporting a high resolution camera.

Nexus One

A smart phone manufactured by Taiwan’s HTC Corporation that uses the Google based Android Open Source Mobile Operating System the phone sports a sleek design in addition to supporting high speed internet browsing and fast data transfer.

Nokia/Samsung

Samsung and Nokia manufactures mobiles in a wide range starting from ordinary phones to those having state-of –the art internet browsing and downloading capabilities. Their high end models Samsung Omnia and N-97 has packed in a lot of features within a reasonable price and boasts of a large market share.

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What Sets CPanel Apart from Other Web Control Panels

July 15th, 2010 | Posted under Software, The Internet, Web Hosting | 2 Comments »

What Sets cPanel Apart from Other Web Control Panels

Web Hosting Control panels are generally a set of tools and interfaces designated for maintaining and monitoring  hosting account on WWW. These are mainly meant for monitoring server logs, quotas usage, web statistics, FTP accounts, databases, domains, add-on etc.

Webhosting cPanel is the most popular and used control panel worldwide due to its attractive features and easy usability. Day by day the no of users is increasing and cPanel is becoming more popular among common public. So if some problem arises while working with cPanel we can easily get a solution to that problem through different posts available on net.

Client Server Interface

CPanel offers a very friendly client server interface that makes it extremely easy for the user to interact with the software.

Add-ons

Various add-ons are available for this software and it’s very easy to attach these add-ons with cPanel. These add-ons are also frequently updated according to the growing requirements of the people.

Cheap cost and easy available updates

CPanel releases updates to their software quite often. CPanel allows us to get low-cost licenses for their dedicated server clients.

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Libraries based on Java and JavaScript

July 8th, 2010 | Posted under Computer Advice, Internet Trends, Software, The Internet | 1 Comment »

Libraries based on Java and JavaScript

With every passing day, automation is becoming increasingly popular; a well-programmed machine is replacing many men in almost every job. Even the horizons of programming language have broadened with time. Programming languages such as Java, C, C++ and scripts such as JavaScript, etc are being put to more use than ever before. Java and JavaScript with its wide range of libraries have proved to be a boon. Let us discuss some of the most useful libraries based on Java and JavaScript.

Ajax

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a group of technologies that uses a combination of HTML and CSS to create interactive web applications. It uses dynamic display and enhances the interaction between the information and the user.

JQuery

It is free, lightweight, open source software designed to simplify scripting on the part of the client. It can be used to create animations, handle events, create plug-ins and develop Ajax applications, thus enabling the creation of powerful and dynamic web pages.

JScript

This is another scripting language library that is used in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Jscript is nothing but the same as JavaScript but under the purview of Microsoft. However, it comes with the additional feature of supporting conditional compilation.

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Open Source Imaging Tools

June 28th, 2010 | Posted under BounceWeb Company, Software, Web Design Tutorials | 1 Comment »

Open Source Imaging Tools

In today’s world where everything comes at a cost the concept of freeware or open source software comes as a major boon considering the fact that it comes free of cost and most importantly it allows the user to experiment by means  of studying, changing and improving the software.  With improved cameras being easily available at affordable rates photography as a hobby is rising in popularity among the common masses. Therefore, it is natural that imaging software that helps edit, resize, and add effects to images are becoming increasingly popular. Let us look at some very useful open source imaging tools:

GIMP

GNU Image Manipulation Program is a high-end graphics application that can give a run to Adobe Photoshop on any application concerning cropping, editing, resizing and converting between image formats.

Inkscape

A vector graphics application, which is compatible with almost all operating systems in addition to having multi-lingual support, particularly for complex scripts.

Imagemagik

Another freeware, which provides a wide range of format conversion, image identification, with all popular features apart from the fact that it can be manipulated by programs in any programming language.

Photoscape

This is another powerful tool, which apart from providing a wide array of features is very easy to use.

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Web Security by VeriSign

June 28th, 2010 | Posted under Computer Advice, Internet Trends, Software, The Internet | 1 Comment »

Web Security by VeriSign

VeriSign one of the most popular and well known SSL brands, provides a high quality of security for e-commerce as well as communications over intranets, extranets as well as the Internet. Given the brand’s reputation for online security, several organizations choose its services just to provide their customers with the confidence of conducting online business without any apprehensions. VeriSign customer organizations have reported a considerable increase in their transactions after deploying the VeriSign Secured Seal to inform potential customers that they could carry out their online transactions under the protection of the VeriSign SSL.

Some characteristics of the VeriSign SSL security system are-

Authentication

The SSL certification is the proof that the site is not a “spoof” or a fake site, it is authentic. VeriSign’s authentication procedures are recognized throughout the industry, and a VeriSign certificate gives confidence that the site can be trusted.

Encryption

A VeriSign Digital Certificate, when correctly installed, provides a secure encrypted HTTPS connection, all data using this connection will be secured against interception or eavesdropping. Using a secured link will surely boost the confidence of the customers.

High Grade Security

A VeriSign Global Certificate provides the website with a 128bit SSL encryption, which is the strongest grade of encryption available.

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Creating modules with Drupal

June 24th, 2010 | Posted under Software, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Tips | 1 Comment »

Creating modules with Drupal

In Drupal – one of the most popular CMS, module can be of 3 types – core modules – that come with the Drupal installation, Community modules – developed by the Open Source community for use with Drupal, and custom modules that are written by the web-designer for custom tasks in his website. Here are the basic steps to creating a module in Drupal.

Create a folder

Create a folder with the short name for your module in sites/all/modules inside your Drupal directory. For example, if the name is examplemod, create the folder sites/all/modules/examplemod.

Create .module file

Create a PHP file named examplemod.module inside the above directory. The file should have the opening “<?php” tag. The closing php tag should be avoided according to the Drupal coding standards.

Create .info file

Create a examplemodule.info file for your module, and implement the hook_help () function to provide a brief description of your module in Drupal’s help system.

Implement hook_perm() and hook_block()

Implement the hook_perm () to specify access permissions for the module and declare and generate the block content using hook_block (). Use hook_block () to make Drupal recognise the module.

Create content and set configuration file

Create a configuration page and generate page content.

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Top security issues while accessing Internet over mobile devices

June 24th, 2010 | Posted under Computer Advice, Software, The Internet | 1 Comment »

Top security issues while accessing Internet over mobile devices

With a surge of smart phones in the ever expanding Mobile market it is time the world shifted from your desktop to the palm of your hand.  The conventional click is being replaced by a swipe of the hand. According to a recent survey more than 63 million urban users worldwide use their mobile for accessing the internet on a monthly basis. With the advent of 3G networks and better wireless connectivity, accessing the internet via mobile is becoming increasingly popular. However, internet access using mobile always involves a few risks.

Owing to the absence of well developed anti-virus software for mobiles they are always prone to spam, viruses and other malicious content. Such infection is usually characterised by the following abnormalities:

Abnormal Phone Bill

A large unexpected increase in the phone bill would mean that the phone account is being misused.

Freezing of handset

Sudden hanging, malfunctioning or restarting of the mobile phone indicates presence of virus in the handset

Unauthorised usage of email accounts

Unidentified e-mails and messages in the ‘sent’ folder would mean that the phone email account has been hacked.

Changes in configuration

Uncalled for changes in the user interface, background, wallpapers and color settings could either mean virus attack or remote access to the device.

However, with many new mobile operating systems up for the launch a solution to these problems should not be very far.

Red5 – Revolutionizing Media Streaming

June 18th, 2010 | Posted under Software, Web Hosting, Web Hosting Tips | No Comments »

Scaffolding with Ruby on Rails

June 16th, 2010 | Posted under Software, Web Design Tutorials | No Comments »

Scaffolding with Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails (ROR) is famous with web developers for a million reasons – one of the biggest being the scaffolding feature, which lets you to create web applications based on the database within minutes! Here, we see how ROR and MySQL combine to create fast, clean and efficient web applications!

1. Create a ROR Application

An empty application has to be created first using the following command:

rails application_name

2. Create a database for the application

A database on which the scaffolding application will be based has to be created using MySQL basic commands:

create database db_name;

grant all priviledges on db_name.* to ‘user@localhost’ identified by ‘password’

3. Change the database settings of ROR

The database.yml file needs to be updated with the new database name so that the application can connect to the database.

4. Create the tables, model and controller

The table has to be created with the CREATE TABLE command of MySQL, and the ROR model and controller has to be also created by the following commands:

ruby script\generate model application_name

ruby script\generate controller application_name

5. Change the controller file to begin scaffolding

The application_name_controller.rb file could be located from the path app/controller and has to modified by adding the following line

class Application_nameController < ApplicationController

scaffold:application_name

end

This will lead to the automatic creation of the following interfaces: creating new entries, editing new entries, viewing existing entries and deleting existing entries!

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The rising trend of IDEs and APIs versus traditional programming

June 16th, 2010 | Posted under Software, Web Hosting | No Comments »

The rising trend of IDEs and APIs versus traditional programming

In the recent few years, there has been a spectacular rise of APIs and IDEs. Most web developers prefer using web development toolkits that makes it extremely easy to create web applications without getting into the details. On the other hand, simple programming languages have their own advantages that API and integrated environments can never match. Here we have made a compilation of the contrasting features of both techniques

1. APIs take complete care and are easy to use

APIs are extremely easy to use, and do not require much technical expertise to create web applications. Some frameworks like Ruby on Rails are so easy that even a non-technical person can come up with complex applications in minutes

2. Programming languages are best for simple applications

There is nothing better than applications that run on bare minimum. It is easy to use, maintain or port, and can only be guaranteed by standalone programming software. APIs have their own baggage of requirements that tend to make applications heavy.

3. APIs help in standardization of development process

In case of a large development team, using APIs create a set of standards that needs to be followed.

4. Programming languages have better compatibility and advanced functions

There are more advanced functions that can be exploited for additional purposes and can be easily integrated with other technologies as well.