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plain Plain text url to clickable URL convertion java code

2011-10-22T23:33:00.002+05:30

There are some situations where you read the data from the database and display the text in a browser. But the data contains some urls or email ids, when we place this data in a browser it looks like a normal plain text instead of showing a hypyerlink. But we want to display it as click-able url. Here is the java code which converts plain text links to clickable links


import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class textToURL {

/**
* @param args
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
String re = textToHtmlConvertingURLsToLinks("raju is jj-sd@prog.com asdsfdf reeuud https://www.raju.com?asa=sd kdf disfsd www.progress.com asdsa dsfgvf dfgdf dfgfd  http://www.scs.com xc");
System.out.println(re);

}

public static String textToHtmlConvertingURLsToLinks(String text) {
if (text == null) {
return text;
}

/* search for the substring like www.text.com and replace with http://www.text.com */
Pattern wwwStr = Pattern.compile("\\swww.");
Matcher wwwStraction = wwwStr.matcher(text);
text = wwwStraction.replaceAll(" http://www.");

/* converting plain text email id linkable email id */
Pattern emailStr = Pattern.compile("(\\w*\\.*\\-*\\w*)@(\\w+\\.)(\\w+)(\\.\\w+)*");
Matcher emailStrction = emailStr.matcher(text);
text = emailStrction.replaceAll(" $1@$2$3$4 ");

/* converting plain text url to linkable url */
Pattern urlStr = Pattern.compile("\\b((https?|ftp|file)://[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:,.;]*[-a-zA-Z0-9+&@#/%=~_|])");
Matcher urlStraction= urlStr.matcher(text);
text = urlStraction.replaceAll("$1");


return text;


}

}

Make 2 Free Calls Per Day Anywhere in The World

2011-10-14T01:14:00.000+05:30

Now you can Make 2 Free Calls Per Day Anywhere in The World. Yes you read it correct! 2 Free calls per day anywhere in the world. You can do this by using EvaPhone. EvaPhone provides Internet telephone calls for free. They let you make PC-to-phone free international calls. All you need is a computer to start making free VoIP calls using Internet to phone.

You Can Use these Free calls to call any number around the world but for just 1minute. Although Time duration is just 1 minute per call but I guess its good opportunity for people who want to call others by some international numbers and play a prank on their friends. Share your views about it. Also share about any pranks you plan to play with your friends using it.

Appear Offline to Some of Your Friends on Facebook Chat

2011-10-14T01:00:00.001+05:30

There might be some times when you don’t want to chat with few peoples or in other words you want to chat with the selected one. If you get frustrated with the disturbance caused by these “No to Chat” people, in that case, Facebook provides you with the nice facility which enables you to choose the people with whom you don’t want to chat.

It’s a hidden feature which can be enabled by following these steps:

Open your account on Facebook.
Click on the “Chat” option which is present on the lower right side of your profile.
There you will find two options. Choose “Friend List”.
There you will find an option of creating a new list. Name it, for example, “Blacklisted”.
Now, select or write the names of the people with whom you don’t want to chat.
Set the status as offline for this chosen list.

Make Your Computer Speak Whatever You Type

2011-10-14T00:25:00.009+05:30

Now you can convert your computer in to a text to voice software. You can make your computer speak whatever you type. For this you don’t require any programming knowledge, You can achieve this by a simple trick. Just follow the steps given below to make your computer speak whatever you type :

Step 1 : Open a notepad and cope and paste the code given below.

Dim message, sapi
message=InputBox("Type the text which you want me to speak","Text To Voice Software")
Set sapi=CreateObject("sapi.spvoice")
sapi.Speak message

Step 2 : Save The notepad file as speak.vbs (you can save it with any name but extension should be .vbs).

Step 3 : Now double click on the file and type in the box whatever you want the computer to speak and click ok.

Other way of doing -By using Google API

There is also another way of doing this by using Google “Unofficial” API to convert Text to Speech.

Google Translate had announced few weeks back some new enhancements. Where a new feature was added that can convert the text into speech.

You may want to create a small HTML form to convert text to speech. All you need is to copy following code and create a HTML file in your machine. And run it using any browser then write some text in text area box, at’s it. This will generate an MP3 file which you can download and play

<form method="get" action="http://translate.google.com/translate_tts">
    <textarea name="q"></textarea>
    <input type="submit" value="Text-To-Speech"></input>
</form>

Currently, This “Unofficial” API is limited to 100 characters only. Also I am not till when google will support this API.

How to bring off-screen window back to your Desktop

2011-09-09T13:29:00.001+05:30

If you’ve ever hooked up your laptop to a secondary monitor and then disconnected without remembering to move the windows back to the primary desktop, you’ve probably encounted this problem:

I had faced this problem recently. I was extended my laptop to another Monitor in Office. Some of the office applications dragged to the extended screen but I forgot to bring it back to the actual screen (laptop screen)when I removed the extended Monitor. When I went to home and trying to open this application (office application) , it was not showing on screen but showing in taskbar.I tried and tried and but didn't make it happen. So I googled and found solution. Below is the detail explanation.

The application is running. You can see it in the taskbar, but you can’t see it on the screen, because it still thinks it’s running on the secondary monitor. You try and use right-click, Move, but that doesn’t do anything, and the window doesn’t move anywhere. You end up rebooting and cursing Microsoft.
There’s a simple trick to get around this. First make sure you’ve alt-tabbed to the window, or clicked on it once to bring it into focus. Then right-click on the taskbar and choose Move

At this point, you should notice that your cursor changes to the “Move” cursor, but you still can’t move anything.

Just hit any one of the arrow keys (Left, Right, Down, Up), move your mouse, and the window should magically “pop” back onto the screen.

Note: For keyboard savvy people, you can just alt-tab to the window, use Alt+Space, then M, then Arrow key, and then move your mouse.

This should work on any version of Windows. It’s really amazing how many people are not aware of this little trick.

Update: Note that you can also right-click on the taskbar and choose to Cascade your open windows, which will often help bring the windows back onto the screen.

How can i know if my email was read or not?

2011-03-24T20:34:00.001+05:30

Have you ever wondered..., why are you not getting any reply to your mails..?
Have you ever anxious...to know if an important mail sent by you has been read by the recipient or not..?
How to find out if your email has been read or not..?
Lets have look at my today's post....

The Reason behind my today's post....

These days i am buzy with sending mails to companies for job openings..
I have been sending a number of mails...but was not getting anu reply from them..
i was disgusted by these mails..and decided that not to send any more mails...
but one day i got a doubt whether the mails are sent by me are read or not.. or .. is there any wrong with my mails.... to know my anxiety.. i decided to search for a solution.. luckily find a solution....

Have you ever wondered, why you are not getting any reply to your mails? Maybe the friend to whom you sent the mail did not even bother to open it or maybe it never reached the recipient. How will you know?

How to find out if your email has been read? If you have ever been anxious to know if an important mail sent by you has been read by the recipient or not, then here is the perfect tool for you.
SpyPig will send you an email as soon as the recipient opens and reads your message.

There are many ways you can benefit from SpyPig.Check out whether your job application reached it’s target, or if the classified you responded to on Craiglist was read by its owner

This online tool works with almost all modern email programs: Outlook, Eudora, Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail, AOL and many others.

How do I use it?

The system is very easy to use. In just few minutes, you’ll be able to use it like a real spy! To start using SpyPig, follow the simple steps in the SpyPig Farm on the right.

Enter your email (not recipients)
Give the title to it ( So you can Know this is a Notification )
pick a custom tracking image to track
Click on the Activate Button (Generates a tracking Image for You)

How does it work?
When you generate the picture it gives a code, you have to put the code in your email (which is to be sent). After pasting the code in the email just send it along with your matter. When the recipient receive the email and opens it to read, the image loads from SpyPig server, since each image has a unique tracking ID, SpyPig sends you a message to notify you that your message has been read.

Requirements

Both you and the recipient must use an HTML-formatted email, not a plain-text or rich-text formatted email. SpyPig works by using a tracking image (SpyPig image) whose reference to its location on our server is embedded in your HTML email message. When the recipient opens your email, the tracking image will be automatically downloaded from our server, triggering the “email opened” alert on our system.
SpyPig is dedicated to all those anxious individuals out there who can’t stand wondering all day and night if their important email has been read or not.
Best of all, SpyPig is FREE! No spam, no virus, no adware. You can use it as often as you like, and there’s no catch.

Life of a software engineer..

2011-03-18T12:49:00.000+05:30

A software engineer calls his friend...

Hello,
plss.. talk to me... y u r not picking up the call ?????"

Friend: "everything is alright?"

"wat alright.. noting is alright.. see the time.. its 11pm.. n I m
coming now from office..no food for me today also.. now I will cook...
From the past 3 days..I m eating only maggie... n my PM eating only
me..see the price hikes, everything is 2/- more frm yesterday.. except
my salary...I think the begger in front of my office.. earns more than
me.. wat shud I do..."

"wat happened.. wat r u talking"

"wat i m talking???? no, I m not talking.. Manager dont allow anyone to
talk except the client.. who always talks something.. from past 3 months
i didnt take any leave..now from 3 weeks.. i m just begging for one dam
leave.. n wat response i got....'why u want to waste an important day of
ur life??'

i now finalize one more time... yes..i m gonna quit.. this project...
but, i cant. no, i can.. but i wont..uh..."

"ok.. now Relax..."

"How can i relax... for relaxation ppl do yoga, but its night so i cant,
then else they watch movies... but see, in every channel all bogus
movies r repeating, same.. 'Welcome', 'Suryavansham',Govinda's movies...
it really irritates... everyone is faking in TV, fake news, fake
stories, fake swaynwars, fake reality...ah see the movies u will get to
know... In "Rock-on" last scene... Arjun Rampal's wife says to taxi
driver, that "hurry up, we r going late for Airport..." Airport...??? I
dont understand, how can thought he find a job in Cruze.. not
Airlines..

In 3 Idiots... starting scene... Madhvan does the drama to leave his
flight, then what happened to his luggage??
In same movie... Kareena is a doctor.. that too a surgeon.. to bcame a
surgeon.. It requires atlest 5[MBBS]+3[MS] years..
so she shud be 28... n Aamir as a student.. only 18 or 20 ?? then after
10 years they decide to marry.. means she is 38 ??
I dont understand, how can spiderman reach to the church-bell in part-3,
when he lost all his power ??
I dont understand, how Balakrishna can send a train back just by Hitting
his thighs, when I cant ??
I still dont understand how could Rajnikanth fly without wings ?? i just
dont....."

"hey stop it now.."

"am I a train who will stop it, by pulling chain... ohh train.. I dont
understand, how can I didnt see one in last 3 months... how will i see
?
All the time monitor is in front of me.. in night also wen I open my
eyes, I find my username and password window..
I need to cool down..

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

but someone tell me howw.. everytime there is a powercut here..
except wen i m not in home.. home, wat rubbish,its a dam single room..
where i m living alone with my pillow..

I also want girlfriend yaar, like my rivals have..
smita, rashmi, priti, sruti, madhu.. anyone frm my odc is ok, but they
all r engaged, u know y ?
Bcoz their boyfriends do not work in IT companies, outside girls do have
chat wid me but only on my salary day..
I got rejected 31 times.. u know y ?? each time I propose them, they ask
where do u live..
I say in my Cubicle.. Bcoz thats the only place u can find my soul all
the time.."

"hey man, u better take rest, we will talk in Morning"

" Morning.. are u talking the same morning.. Sun rises, bird flies,
omlette fries, employee cries... dam , i didnt see the Sun,from 3
years.. how it looks like... every morning I catching shuttle, reaching
my birthplace 'cubicle' working n working n leaving when Sun uncle is
not there... i will hit my room-owner some days, every morning he used
to cry for increasing room rent, I will always tell him to go n meet my
Manager... I dont understnd how can i be so nice to my colleagues..
Each time they want leave, they repeat the same old dialogue... "my
sister's marriage".. my colleague's 9 sisters got married,
3 times grandpa expired,
5 times frnd went to ICU.. but my colleague is fine..
and his favorite dialog "i need to drop a frnd to hospital, as he is not
feeling well" later i find movie tickets in his purse... then my pm's
motivational speech.. 'u will work.. u will grow'.. means if i wont
work.. i will shrink or what...

when I need hike, I m junior.. still need to grow.. when I do mistakes..
comon man u r senior now, u can not do mistakes.. ahhh God gimme some
power to understand the greatness of a super natural person known as PM
in this world.."

"ok enough now, i m disconnecting"

"wait.. i called you.. n u r disconnecting.. u know previously i was
normal, when i was in college, i used to talk continuosly watever i
want, now i m talking only this much... 'yaa its done', 'that work is
completed', 'Please..', 'Good Morning','Lunch','Tea','Snacks'..

I dont know wat i m talking abt, i shud b happy.. i have saturday n
sunday..
Saturday to recover from the disaster been made from monday to friday..
Sunday to think about upcoming disaster from monday to friday.. cool
naa..

you heard that in 2012 earth will end.. then also my ODC and my cubicle
will remain as it is.. u know why ??
because that's not a part of earth.. n we employees are not human
beings... we are aliens, so better before u start getting headache... go
have a nice dream.. me, I will again start my day tomorrow like I m
starting everyday..
good night..."

beeeeeeeeep...beeeeeeeeeep...beeeeeeeeeep
**********************************************************

Next Day, in office:-

Manager: "Dude, Please come here"

"Yes sir.....!!"

M: "I approved your leaves.. i think you should go and have some fun"

I happily came out, and checked my phone Dialled calls..
"Ohhh my God, yesterday I called my PM instead of my friend...
shiiiiittt "

Google once again proved everything is possible.

2011-03-17T16:22:00.000+05:30

Today am going to write a post on what i have been thinking for the last 3 years...
which is my dream.. which is my reasearch work.. which is my aim......but...
sad news for me.......... but gr8 news to the world....
because google has started their research on what i have been thinking ......

My thinking..

imagine you have a video of 2 hrs. youd dont have the time to listen whole video. but your specifc content is somewhere midlle in the video. you want to start listening from there ..so you Just type out some of the words and you’ll be directed to that part of the video, where he says what you want to hear.

Google implementation....

Searching through what’s said on videos might sound a little too much like science fiction, but the folks from Google once again proved everything is possible. With this new service, you’ll be able to search for specific audio clips from given keyword..

This technology is amazing, and when it grows it’s going to add great value to powerful search service. The internet is quickly growing towards a more video-oriented scheme, and this site will allow you to search through it. While it’s a little limited as of now, it’s sure to grow into something truly amazing.

What is Google Audio Indexing(GAUDI)?

Google Audio Indexing is a new technology from Google that allows users to better search and watch videos from various YouTube channels. It uses speech technology to find spoken words inside videos and lets the user jump to the right portion of the video where these words are spoken.

Why is Google doing it?

Google's mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". As more video content is being created everyday, Google Audio Indexing tries to make it easier for people to find and consume spoken content from videos on the Web.

link: http://labs.google.com/gaudi

Voice-based Browsing coming soon to India!

2011-03-11T12:22:00.001+05:30

Are you one of those who have still to be part of the internet age? Do you long to be on the social networking sites? Do you long to send that exclusive email which you always dreamt of? If the answer to any of the above questions is yes, then you could be in for a treat.

The Internet age has swept across the world in just a decade or so. Today if you don’t have an email id or a presence on Facebook, you are really looked down up. But then, everyone is not as fortunate as all of us.
That’s precisely the reason; Center for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is coming out with software which allows one to browse the net by simply talking to the computer . This software also encompasses the text to speech and speech to text software would prove really beneficial.

In case one wants to surf Facebook, he/she will have to just have to speak to the computer. Since the software has a speech recognition system, it will convert this speech to text and search the net on its own. Once the search is done, the answers would be given to the user in English, Hindi, Urdu or Bengali.
Simply put, there are a lot many Indians who are visually challenged or aren’t efficient in using the keyboard. Whether it’s due to the lack of computer literacy which is very low throughout the nation or due to difficulty in typing – in general, a large number of Indians do have problems in typing. And I am not talking about the urban fellows who have graduated from desktops to laptops to QWERTY phones and to iPads now.

Interestingly, there is one problem with voice processing technology. If one has to go to a particular link, it would involve traversing through a large number of layers of information before finding the correct one. But in a voice browser, one can just directly speak out the link and it would take to the particular website.
Voice based browsers though new in India have been there in the West since quite a long period of time. In addition to being helpful to you and me, it would be a pretty money-making exercise for many private players out there. One wonders whether C-DAC would share this technology with the IT behemoths or try to establish its own monopoly.

Whatever be the result, it could prove to be a boon for the thousands who have not been as lucky as us to use the Internet.

how can we map our dynamic IP to a domain name free??

2011-03-10T19:34:00.000+05:30

We face a problem that our ISP is providing us a dynamic IP not a static one, so we need to figure out a way on how can we map our dynamic IP to a domain name ??!!

Fortunately someone has done all the effort for us and provided it to us as a free service . Now open your web browser on Windows and go to the following URL http://www.no-ip.com/ no-ip provides a free service that automatically updates our dynamic IP with a specific domain “This is called Dynamic DNS”. When you open no-ip website, first you have to choose the free service that this great company provides and create a new account (see the screenshot below):

After a successful registration process you should have an active account, now we need to add a host. Click on Add link in the Hosts/Redirects menu (step 1 in the below screenshot), you will be presented by new page where you enter your new host details (step2 in the below screenshot), and when you finish entering the required information press Create Host button (step 3 the in below screenshot) :

The last step we are going to do is- In no-ip website click on Downloads link (step 1 in the below screenshot), and click to download no-ip updater client for our platform which is Microsoft Windowz (step 2 in the below screenshot)

You may wonder what is the updater thingy? why are we downloading it? The no-ip updater client is the voodoo behind all this, it constantly checks whether our external IP is changed or not and if it did change it will automatically update and remaps the new IP with our host/domain “very neat haaa “. After the download process is finished start installing it. You should see something similar to this:

You must check the check box(es) beside your host(s) and click update.. Now no-ip has our latest IP in its database.

How to use Trial Version software forever without Expiration

2011-03-10T12:07:00.000+05:30

So you downloaded a trial software and loved it, now what? The next step would be to use this software forever, but how would you do so? Time Stopper(Update: New version link added, now it comes without ads) is a free tool for Windows that can stop any trial software’s time for you. For example you downloaded a software that comes with 15-days trial, you used for 3 days which means 12 more days are left before it expires. Just run Time Stopper, choose the program, set the date between the trial limit, and it would handle the rest by stopping the time for you.

Below is the complete guide on how to stop a time of a trial software. Make sure that you have read it thoroughly till the end before using this tool.

How it Works

Open Time Stopper
Browse and select .exe of required trial software
Choose the new date (Any date which occurs in between your trial software time period before expiration, suggestion: set it to two days before trial software expiration date.)
Choose any time
Click open software on your selected date

If you wish to create an icon for your modified trial software and do not want to open Time stopper every time then use last button in software to create new icon. open that trial software after that from that newly created icon always otherwise it can expire.

The Future Technologies

2011-03-10T11:17:00.000+05:30

Staying up to date with everything that's going on in PCs and tech is almost impossible, so these are the ten technologies that you should be most aware of, as they're the ones that'll make the biggest difference to your life.

1. 3D gaming

The fact that to get any kind of 3D image from a 2D screen means wearing a pair of sunglasses or worse means that three dimensional gaming isn't quite as convincing as multitouch and natural user interfaces, even though the two have been commoditised at almost the same time.
An Acer Aspire 5738 laptop with a 3D display costs about £550 at the moment, not bad for something with cutting edge technology that adds depth to any DirectX 9 game. The screen is of the polarised filter type, which is the new norm for extra dimensions.

Instead of using coloured filters splitting an image into two – one for each eye – the vertical pixel columns are alternated between left image and right image and shone through a piece of polarised glass. A pair of dark glasses with oppositely polarised lenses ensures that only one image is seen by each eye. The difference to a game is tangible too, something like WoW runs and looks incredible on the low-end graphics hardware.
It's over in TV land that the real push for 3D is happening, though, as LCD suppliers ask us to upgrade again to watch hyper-real cinema in the lounge. Compared to the other technologies we've talked about here, though, 3D requires a lot of effort on behalf of the watcher (those pesky glasses) and most of us are very lazy; hence the ubiquity of MP3 and standard definition movies, while Blu-ray and higher resolution sound standards continue to flounder. We value ease of use over quality every time.
In its favour, 3D doesn't actually require any work on behalf of games developers or publishers, as the stereoscopic image is created at the driver level. On the other hand, that means there's no massive push by the people who make and sell games to encourage us to adopt it.

2. Streaming games

The advancements in superfast broadband hasn't just helped the cause of downloadable games. It will also have no some small impact on the future of streaming games over broadband, or at least that's the theory.
There are several companies pursuing and a significant amount of money invested in the idea that one day, your precious PC will be almost entirely redundant as a games machine.
The concept is simple: all the game's data is hosted on a central server and all you will have to do is receive the display and send back input commands. It's a little like the technology used for MMORPGs, except that the rendering engine isn't on your PC, it's actually in the same server farm as the core intelligence.
This idea was actually mooted some years ago with the Phantom console, which never made it to the stores. It's looking unlikely that OnLive (www. onlive.com), Gaikai and Microsoft's own streaming project will end up as vapourware though, despite the obvious concerns about input lag: the delay that occurs every time you press a key. The signal has to travel hundreds of miles before a character even moves.
Proponents say that even twitch gaming FPS games are possible but we're a little more sceptical. There's another reason that at least one of these services will be properly launched soon, and that's vested interest by games publishers.
Because no content is stored on your machine, of course, it's impossible to pirate a streamed game, which is obviously an attractive proposition for them. In the immediate future, though, it is more likely to be a technology that runs like games such as Quake Live, which use a combination of some local processing power and some server-based cycles. That's certainly the route Microsoft is taking, and seems more achievable than relying on 'the cloud' at this stage.

3. Six-core processors

You won't have to wait long for this one. Intel's Westmere CPUs may be hanging around with the dregs of processor society at the moment, chucking their chips in with the integrated graphics crowd, but they're about to grow up – and fast.
Sometime over the next few months Intel will go two better than the current line up of quad-core CPUs by launching a six-core version of its high-end Core i7 line. Based on the existing Nehalem architecture, the headline feature is a process shrink down to 32nm, while the rest of the spec sheet remains largely the same. It could be a genuine upgrade.

Games programmers are getting much better at working with multithreaded code so that most major titles, like Empire: Total War and its forthcoming sequel Napoleon, will see a much bigger performance increase when given extra cores to play around in than the often sporadic leaps in frame rate we saw going from two to four cores.
Because the benefits will be in the amount of cores, rather than the speed of things you can do at once, Intel are encouraging some developers to add extra content specifically for people with a six-core CPU. Given the plethora of disappointments we've had lately with almost every technology that's promised to increase our frame rates, we'll reserve judgement until we have one in the office.
The good news is that these hexa-powered processors will fit into most existing X58 motherboards after a simple BIOS flash. The bad news is X58 motherboards are still very expensive too.

4. Wireless power

A few years ago we saw a demonstration by a team at Fulton Innovation of a product called eCoupled. Using the principle of electromagnetic induction, by which an electrical charge can be stimulated in a wire coil by placing another one nearby, the crazy boffins were able to display wireless power transfer.
Despite being high voltage, they said, it was safe, efficient and could be applied to any surface. The demo room consisted of a kitchen without plugs, but full of lights that could be stuck anywhere and a frying pan that heated up just by sitting it on the counter. Put a phone on the same counter and it began charging. Clearly, this was the future.

Fulton are still working on wireless power, but it's a different company that's beat it to the shops, Powermat – and its products are expensive for something that replaces a 50p mains plug.
The good news is that the Wireless Power Consortium are going to be finalising a standard for wireless power called Qi later this year, which should mean prices drop and manufacturers have the confidence to build the technology straight into devices, rather than requiring an adaptor.
If you think that's crazy, though, take a look at Airnergy by RCA. It's a tiny dongle that can turn Wi-Fi signals back into electricity for charging phone batteries and the like.

5. Wireless displays

The last two standards for monitors, HDMI and DisplayPort, didn't exactly have us all rushing out to upgrade our PC screens and graphics cards, so it's a safe bet that DVI will remain the cabled interface of choice for some time to come. What about connecting a monitor to your PC without wires though?
That's something that could be worth shelling out for. Two different technologies were on the show floor at CES, which should be available en masse this year.
The first, WirelessHD is being pushed by the usual line-up of TV and DVD player manufacturers as a replacement for HDMI. It uses a short range, high bandwidth in the Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) spectrum to transmit HD video and audio from a set-top box or media centre to a TV screen.
The idea is nothing new, Philips have had a kit out for a while that does the same thing, but WirelessHD is a proper standard and should ensure maker A's TV works nicely with maker B's Blu-ray machine and so on.
Perhaps more relevant for us, though, is Intel's new Wireless Display, or WiDi. It's designed specifically for laptops in order to remove the hassle of cables when you want to dock them with a proper screen, and like WirelessHD sends the video signal to a receiver box.
Unlike WirelessHD, WiDi can't handle protected content and the like, but it is much simpler since it requires no new hardware inside the laptop. Instead of using a separate transmitter, WiDi is a software layer on top of the existing Wi-Fi chip, so it's much cheaper to produce. Providing there's no latency introduced to the picture refresh rate, this could be a killer.

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2011-02-28T14:44:00.000+05:30

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60+ Useful Adobe AIR Applications

2011-02-12T00:40:00.001+05:30

Adobe AIR was first introduced on 19 March 2007 with the name of Apollo and designed as a cross-operating system runtime that enables web developers to use their existing web development skills, code and tools to build and deploy rich web applications and content to the desktop.

With Adobe AIR’s rich features, developers are able to build application using HTML, Ajax, JavaScript, Flex and Flash. Therefore, we strongly believe that Adobe Air has unleashed the power to extend user experiences beyond the browser. Here’s our collection of 60+ Adobe AIR Application you should know. Full list after jump.

Google

Collection of Google product related AIR applications.

GMDesk
GMDesk is an application that lets you run Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Maps as a stand-alone application to do all your mail handling, calendar event reading etc with.
ReadAir
ReadAir is a desktop client for Google Reader.
Google Analytics Reporting Suite
Google Analytics Reporting Suite brings Google Analytics to the desktop, with a host of features that help you understand how your website is performing and where you can improve.

Photo & Video

Adobe AIR applications that allow you to search, edit, save or upload photo and video.

Flickr Desktop Search
Flickr Desktop Search is an Adobe AIR based utility which helps you to search Flickr images.
ImageDropr
ImageDropr is a new tool for uploading your images to flickr. This application takes a unique approach towards preparing your content, titles, tags, etc. by creating tools that expedite this process.
Flickr Flipper
Flickr Flipper allows you to search for Flickr photos and also search for photos from specific Flickr users. It uses Papervision to display the photos one at a time and even allows you to download the photo to your computer.
Snoto
Snoto Photo is a desktop application for browsing your recent photos as well as the recent photos of others. You can also do a slideshow of the photos.
FLVPlay HD
FLVPlay HD plays your local or remote flv and mp4 videos, as well as the ones from the YouTube servers which are available via the “Search” feature of the application.
AIRTube Video Downloader
AIRTube Video Downloader allows you to download YouTube FLV videos by simply dragging or pasting in the video’s URL. After the video downloads the application will expand and show you a preview of the video.
RichFLV
RichFLV allows you to read and edit FLV data. You can cut FLVs, convert the sound of the flv to mp3 and convert flv to swf.
uvLayer
UvLayer is a social video application where you can discover, watch, collect and share video media. Searching currently focuses on videos from YouTube and Truveo.
mooFlair
A desktop application that helps you to manage and watch both online and offline FLVs videos. More than a simple flv player, build your own FLV library and save your compilations in playlists.
Adobe Media Player
Adobe Media Player allows you to queue up and download your favorite Internet TV content, track and download new episodes automatically, and manage your personal video library for viewing at your convenience.

Design

Adoeb AIR tools that sharpen your design skill.

Websnapshot
Websnapshot allows you type a URL then take a snapshot using one of the three sizing methods; Thumbnail, Browser or fullpage view.
Shrink-O-Matic
Shrink O’Matic is an AIR application to easily (batch) resize (shrink) images. It handles JPGs, GIFs and PNGs.
Colorpicker
colorPicker is a widget-like AIR application that lets you either choose a “web-safe” color from a color grid or design a color using sliders to adjust the red, green, and blue values of the color.
ColourLovers Desktop Color Finder
Desktop Color Finder lets you search our entire database of nearly 1 million named colors and more than 300,00 user created color palettes.
Font Picker
Font picker allows you to find the right font for the job.
Icon Generator
Icon Generator is a little application that lets you generate a CS3 or Web 2.0 style icon, only 3 step. Pick color, type characters, and save it.
WebKut
WebKut is an AIR application that allows you to capture web pages, or parts of them in a very simple way.
Color Browser
Color Browser is a simple way to create and organize your favorite color palettes. Sets of colors are easily viewable in a clean interface.
Photoshop Express Uploader
Photoshop Express Uploader lets you drag and drop photos from your desktop to upload to Photoshop Express.

Microblogging

Adobe AIR applications that allow you to communicate with microblogs easier and faster.

TweetDeck
TweetDeck is an Adobe Air desktop application that aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information.
Alert Thingy
Alert Thingy allows users to see the data stream from people they follow on FriendFeed, and post new messages directly to the service.
Feedalizr
Life streaming to your desktop. View, rate and comment on what your friends are sharing online, using one simple and easy to use desktop tool.
MySocial AIR
MySocial is the newest Twitter/FriendFeed desktop app on the block, although MySocial has previously released a Firefox sidebar addon that offers similar functionality.
Twhirl
Twhirl connects to multiple Twitter, laconi.ca, Friendfeed and seesmic accounts.
Posty
Posty simplifies your microblogging. All you have to do is writing the message and clicking a button. Posty will automatically deliver your message to the services you selected.
Toro
Toro is a very simple Twitter client that aims for a speedier Twitter.
Spaz
Spaz is a Twitter client for users who value free, open-source software, attractive design, and customizability
bTT
bTT lets you receive update from friendfee, post to friendfeed, send and receive tweets with twitter out of one application on your desktop.
Tweetr
Tweetr lets you send files to your friends, but just dragging any file on to Tweetr. Tweetr will automatically upload your file and when it is done will provide a short url to send to your friends

Social Network

Adobe AIR applications that blend your favourite social networks into your desktop.

DiggTop
DiggTop is an application for Windows and MacOSX that lets you view a blended list of your favourite Digg topic or keyword feeds.
Facedesk
facedesk is an application that, when installed, becomes a stand-alone application to do all your Facebook surfing with.
Flair
Flair is a free, easy to install application that lets you know whenever you’re poked, or someone writes on your wall, or adds you as a friend – without having to constantly check the Facebook website or your email.
Babuki
Now all your contacts are in one place wherever you are. There’s no need to create an account and you only have to add details for the other IM networks once.
MINI DIGG
The Digg mini client brings the latest news from Digg to your desktop. It also allows you to store the stories to your computer.

Miscellaneous

Other useful desktop Adobe AIR applications.

WordPress Comment Moderator
Moderator is a WordPress Plugin and associated desktop application, built using Adobe AIR, that allows you to view and moderate comments from your desktop.
Apprise Reader
Apprise lets you read all your news in one place, and share it all in one place, too. With built-in support for over ten different ways to share stories,
Ora Time and Expense
Ora Time and Expense is a small easy-to-use application for tracking and generating timesheets, expense reports, and invoices.
Timeloc
Timeloc is a desktop widget that keeps track of the time you have spent working on a job or project. It will no longer be a case of guess work as to how much you need to bill your clients or assign to a project
Doomi
Doomi is a simple to-do-list application that designed to stay out of your way, be easy to use and look pretty.
Klok
Klok is a tool intended to be used by individuals, who have a need to track the time they spend on projects, tasks or anything else for that matter.
MiniTask
MiniTask is a FREE, fast and easy-to-use task management application that helps you with organising your daily todos more efficiently.
Agile Agenda
Agile Agenda is a project scheduling utility focused on allowing project managers to enter data about tasks. The software is capable of dynamically adjusting to changing conditions that occur during a project life cycle.
Xdrive Desktop Lite
Xdrive Desktop Lite allows you to easily upload files and folders right from your hard drive, desktop, USB devices, or removable storage drives directly into your Xdrive web storage.
AirTalkr
AirTalkr is a multi-protocol Instant Messenger that connects to MSN, Yahoo!, GTalk, AOL and ICQ. Not only that, it also has connects to to various Web 2.0 services like Flickr and YouTube.
Pownce Desktop 2.0
Pownce makes it even faster to read and send notes to your friends
CL Desktop
– Craigslist is huge, and this application just makes sense. It’s easy to use and saves you time with saved searches and the ability to view pictures right from the original list.
EarthBrowser
– EarthBrowser is a revolutionary new platform for viewing and creating geographically based information.
ebay Desktop
– eBay Desktop is made for search, bidding, browsing, and watching. It’s all there, with a brand new interface.
Finetune Desktop
– Finetune Desktop gives you quick access to your custom playlists and will keep track of your favorite music from Finetune.
Pandora Desktop
– With the Pandora Desktop Application, you can play your Pandora stations right from your desktop – without opening a new browser window.
Snackr
– Snackr is a RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. When you see a title that looks interesting, you can click on it to pop up the item in a window.
AIR iPhone
– AIR iPhone is a desktop application created with Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex 3, it simulates the UI of the iPhone. It has the capabilities to make calls, receive calls, check voicemail, add contacts and even send voice messages.
Adobe Developer Connection Developer Desktop
– Adobe Developer Connection Developer Desktop (ADC Desktop) is an Adobe AIR application that delivers a number of helpful resources for Developers.

Resources

Resources, tutorials and collections of Adobe AIR applications.

airapps Wiki
A collection of Adobe® AIR™ applications out in the wild that the community can update.
RIAForge
An online community site, built using their own products and targeted to support developers building open source projects for our products and platform.
Apollo Hunter
A community to share and download Adobe AIR applications with no cost.
O2Apps
The ultimate resource for enthusiasts of Adobe AIR.
Adobe AIR Marketplace
Adobe AIR Marketplace is a place where AIR developers can publish their Adobe AIR applications for users to download.
Adobe Air Tutorials
Adobe AIR Tutorials. Articles, resources, tutorials, and downloads.
Refreshing Apps
Adobe AIR application showcase and resources.

Wireless Charging System for Electric Cars

2011-02-07T00:33:00.002+05:30

Transforming Trees Into Street Lights

2011-02-07T00:30:00.000+05:30

A group of scientists in Taiwan recently discovered that placing gold nanoparticles within the leaves of trees, causes them to give off a luminous reddish glow.

The idea of using trees to replace street lights is an ingenious one – not only would it save on electricity costs and cut CO2 emissions, but it could also greatly reduce light pollution in major cities.

The discovery came about accidentally after the scientists were looking for a way to create high-efficiency lighting similar to LED technology, but without using toxic chemicals such as phosphor powder.

Speaking about the development, Professor Shih-Hui Chang said, “Light emitting diode (LED) has replaced traditional light source in many display panels and street lights on the road.

A lot of light emitting diode, especially white light emitting diode, uses phosphor powder to stimulate light of different wavelengths. However, phosphor powder is highly toxic and its price is expensive.

As a result, Dr. Yen-Hsun Wu had the idea to discover a method that is less toxic to replace phosphor powder. This is a major motivation for him to engage in the research at the first place.

By implanting the gold nanoparticles into the leaves of the Bacopa caroliniana plants, the scientists were able to induce the chlorophyll in the leaves to produce a red emission. Under a high wavelength of ultraviolet light, the gold nanoparticles were able to produce a blue-violet fluorescence to trigger a red emission in the surrounding chlorophyll.

“In the future, bio-LED could be used to make roadside trees luminescent at night. This will save energy and absorb CO2 as the bio-LED luminescence will cause the chloroplast to conduct photosynthesis,” Dr. Yen-Hsun Su said in an interview with Chemistry World. The Royal Society of Chemistry, the largest organization in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences, has applauded the discovery and published the paper by lead scientist Dr. Yen-Hsun Wu in the journal Nanoscale. via inhabitat

DBMS NOTES FOR INTRVIEWS

2010-08-06T19:36:00.001+05:30

1. What is a Database?

A database is a logically coherent collection of data with some inherent meaning, representing some aspect of real world and which is designed, built and populated with data for a specific purpose.

2. What is DBMS?

It is a collection of programs that enables user to create and maintain a database. In other words it is general-purpose software that provides the users with the processes of defining, constructing and manipulating the database for various applications.

3. What is a Database system?

The database and DBMS software together is called as Database system.

4. Advantages of DBMS?

Redundancy is controlled. Unauthorised access is restricted. Providing multiple user interfaces. Enforcing integrity constraints. Providing backup and recovery.

5. Disadvantage in File Processing System?

Data redundancy & inconsistency.
Difficult in accessing data.
Data isolation.
Data integrity.
Concurrent access is not possible.
Security Problems.

6. Describe the three levels of data abstraction?

The are three levels of abstraction:

Physical level: The lowest level of abstraction describes how data are stored.
Logical level: The next higher level of abstraction, describes what data are stored in database and what relationship among those data.
View level: The highest level of abstraction describes only part of entire database.

7. Define the "Integrity Rules"

There are two Integrity rules.

Entity Integrity: States that ?Primary key cannot have NULL value?
Referential Integrity: States that ?Foreign Key can be either a NULL value or should be Primary Key value of other relation.

8. What is extension and intension?

Extension - It is the number of tuples present in a table at any instance. This is time dependent.
Intension - It is a constant value that gives the name, structure of table and the constraints laid on it.

9. What is System R? What are its two major subsystems?

System R was designed and developed over a period of 1974-79 at IBM San Jose Research Center. It is a prototype and its purpose was to demonstrate that it is possible to build a Relational System that can be used in a real life environment to solve real life problems, with performance at least comparable to that of existing system.

Its two subsystems are

Research Storage
System Relational Data System.

10. How is the data structure of System R different from the relational structure?

Unlike Relational systems in System R

Domains are not supported
Enforcement of candidate key uniqueness is optional
Enforcement of entity integrity is optional
Referential integrity is not enforced

11. What is Data Independence?

Data independence means that ?the application is independent of the storage structure and access strategy of data?. In other words, The ability to modify the schema definition in one level should not affect the schema definition in the next higher level.

Two types of Data Independence are:

Physical Data Independence: Modification in physical level should not affect the logical level.
Logical Data Independence: Modification in logical level should affect the view level.

NOTE: Logical Data Independence is more difficult to achieve.

12. What is a view? How it is related to data independence?

A view may be thought of as a virtual table, that is, a table that does not really exist in its own right but is instead derived from one or more underlying base table. In other words, there is no stored file that direct represents the view instead a definition of view is stored in data dictionary.

Growth and restructuring of base tables is not reflected in views. Thus the view can insulate users from the effects of restructuring and growth in the database. Hence accounts for logical data independence.

13. What is Data Model?

A collection of conceptual tools for describing data, data relationships data semantics and constraints.

14. What is E-R model?

E-R model stands for Entity-Relationship model. This data model is based on real world that consists of basic objects called entities and of relationship among these objects. Entities are described in a database by a set of attributes.

15. What is Object Oriented model?

This model is based on collection of objects. An object contains values stored in instance variables with in the object. An object also contains bodies of code that operate on the object. These bodies of code are called methods. Objects that contain same types of values and the same methods are grouped together into classes.

16. What is an Entity?

It is a 'thing' in the real world with an independent existence.

17. What is an Entity type?

It is a collection (set) of entities that have same attributes.

18. What is an Entity set?

It is a collection of all entities of particular entity type in the database.

19. What is an Extension of entity type?

The collections of entities of a particular entity type are grouped together into an entity set.

20. What is Weak Entity set?

An entity set may not have sufficient attributes to form a primary key, and its primary key compromises of its partial key and primary key of its parent entity, then it is said to be Weak Entity set.

21. What is an attribute?

It is a particular property, which describes the entity.

22. What is a Relation Schema and a Relation?

A relation Schema denoted by R(A1, A2, ?, An) is made up of the relation name R and the list of attributes Ai that it contains. A relation is defined as a set of tuples. Let r be the relation which contains set tuples (t1, t2, t3, ..., tn). Each tuple is an ordered list of n-values t=(v1,v2, ..., vn).

23. What is degree of a Relation?

It is the number of attribute of its relation schema.

24. What is Relationship?

It is an association among two or more entities.

Relationship Set - The collection (or set) of similar relationships.

Relationship Type - Relationship type defines a set of associations or a relationship set among a given set of entity types.

Degree of Relationship Type - It is the number of entity type participating.

25. What is DDL (Data Definition Language)?

A data base schema is specifies by a set of definitions expressed by a special language called DDL.

26. What is VDL (View Definition Language)?

It specifies user views and their mappings to the conceptual schema.

27. What is SDL (Storage Definition Language)?

This language is to specify the internal schema. This language may specify the mapping between two schemas.

28. What is Data Storage - Definition Language?

The storage structures and access methods used by database system are specified by a set of definition in a special type of DDL called data storage-definition language.

29. What is DML (Data Manipulation Language)?

This language that enable user to access or manipulate data as organised by appropriate data model.

Procedural DML or Low level: DML requires a user to specify what data are needed and how to get those data.
Non-Procedural DML or High level: DML requires a user to specify what data are needed without specifying how to get those data.

31. What is DML Compiler?

It translates DML statements in a query language into low-level instruction that the query evaluation engine can understand.

32. What is Query evaluation engine?

It executes low-level instruction generated by compiler.

33. What is DDL Interpreter?

It interprets DDL statements and record them in tables containing metadata.

34. What is Record-at-a-time?

The Low level or Procedural DML can specify and retrieve each record from a set of records. This retrieve of a record is said to be Record-at-a-time.

35. What is Set-at-a-time or Set-oriented?

The High level or Non-procedural DML can specify and retrieve many records in a single DML statement. This retrieve of a record is said to be Set-at-a-time or Set-oriented.

36. What is Relational Algebra?

It is procedural query language. It consists of a set of operations that take one or two relations as input and produce a new relation.

37. What is Relational Calculus?

It is an applied predicate calculus specifically tailored for relational databases proposed by E.F. Codd. E.g. of languages based on it are DSL ALPHA, QUEL.

38. How does Tuple-oriented relational calculus differ from domain-oriented relational calculus?

The tuple-oriented calculus uses a tuple variables i.e., variable whose only permitted values are tuples of that relation. E.g. QUEL

The domain-oriented calculus has domain variables i.e., variables that range over the underlying domains instead of over relation. E.g. ILL, DEDUCE.

39. What is normalization?

It is a process of analysing the given relation schemas based on their Functional Dependencies (FDs) and primary key to achieve the properties

Minimizing redundancy
Minimizing insertion, deletion and update anomalies.

40. What is Functional Dependency?

Functional dependency is denoted by X --> Y between two sets of attributes X and Y that are subsets of R specifies a constraint on the possible tuple that can form a relation state r of R. The constraint is for any two tuples t1 and t2 in r if t1[X] = t2[X] then they have t1[Y] = t2[Y]. This means the value of X component of a tuple uniquely determines the value of component Y.

41. When is a functional dependency F said to be minimal?

Every dependency in F has a single attribute for its right hand side.
It cannot replace any dependency X -->A in F with a dependency Y--> A where Y is a proper subset of X and still have a set of dependency that is equivalent to F.
We cannot remove any dependency from F and still have set of dependency that is equivalent to F.

42. What is Multivalued dependency?

Multivalued dependency denoted by X-->Y specified on relation schema R, where X and Y are both subsets of R, specifies the following constraint on any relation r of R: if two tuples t1 and t2 exist in r such that t1[X] = t2[X] then t3 and t4 should also exist in r with the following properties

t3[x] = t4[X] = t1[X] = t2[X]
t3[Y] = t1[Y] and t4[Y] = t2[Y]
t3[Z] = t2[Z] and t4[Z] = t1[Z]

where [Z = (R-(X U Y)) ]

43. What is Lossless join property?

It guarantees that the spurious tuple generation does not occur with respect to relation schemas after decomposition.

44. What is 1 NF (Normal Form)?

The domain of attribute must include only atomic (simple, indivisible) values.

45. What is Fully Functional dependency?

t is based on concept of full functional dependency. A functional dependency X --> Y is full functional dependency if removal of any attribute A from X means that the dependency does not hold any more.

46. What is 2NF?

A relation schema R is in 2NF if it is in 1NF and every non-prime attribute A in R is fully functionally dependent on primary key.

47. What is 3NF?

A relation schema R is in 3NF if it is in 2NF and for every FD X --> A either of the following is true

X is a Super-key of R.
A is a prime attribute of R.

In other words, if every non prime attribute is non-transitively dependent on primary key.

48. What is BCNF (Boyce-Codd Normal Form)?

A relation schema R is in BCNF if it is in 3NF and satisfies an additional constraint that for every FD X --> A, X must be a candidate key.

49. What is 4NF?

A relation schema R is said to be in 4NF if for every Multivalued dependency X --> Y that holds over R, one of following is true

X is subset or equal to (or) XY = R.
X is a super key.

50. What is 5NF?

A Relation schema R is said to be 5NF if for every join dependency {R1, R2, ..., Rn} that holds R, one the following is true

Ri = R for some i.
The join dependency is implied by the set of FD, over R in which the left side is key of R.

CRACKED SOFTWARE PRODUCT KEYS

2010-07-23T09:07:00.000+05:30

Hello friends...

I think You are all waiting for my new post.

As a Computer user we often install softwares,but we face some problems with the demo versions like expired keys, The same thing i used to face, later i found a solution that to collect or crack the serial keys...

So in my today's post i am providing some various software product keys that we use in our day to day life..

NERO 9:
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9M03-01A1-PCX7-K31A-8A94-98PT-KT2E-522A
91524-54875-14563-85975-87528
NERO 8:
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s/n: 1K22-1867-0795-66M4-5590-8067-CM8M

WINDOWS7:
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TWMF7-M387V-XKW4Y-PVQQD-RK7C8

WINDOWS XP
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s/n: 5.1.2600.2180 or FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8
s/n: b77qf-dp27w-4h68r-72b48-78rpd

WINDOWS VISTA
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s/n: 89578-OEM-7332157-00226

MSOFFICE 2007:
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KGFVY-7733B-8WCK9-KTG64-BC7D8

AVAST:
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s/n: S4800955R6589M0805-7C3DDJ1C or
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s/n: S3108105R7693M0705-9ZBASKPH or
s/n: S8¸15773R6396M1105-6KCR928B
Key: W6754380R9978A0910-4TZ59467 or
Key: W9740570R9942A0910-8NB2E62T

NOD32:
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s/n: EAV-19524552 Key: avtfvrkj4x 2.5.2010

KASPERSKY:
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s/n: 0038-0004F1-04E77B12

TOTAL VIDEO CONVERTER
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Name: Amjad khan s/n: 8ff251a4-6e858c¶c-88d83eaf-bf709222-ed00ec69-5fb35cf4-75294fd4-cef96027-8bc50c21-50a48c7c-6cd83d34-51765f2a-d987f8ec-0f130d8f-ef53a6ee-1e7a1a99

MSIT SPREE 2010

2010-06-09T09:00:00.000+05:30

JNTU Spree 2010 Zoobi Doobi Song

Abhi's performance at SPREE-2010