Computers and Internet

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Nita's Random Thoughts

Generate Traffic Through Social Media Marketing

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 03:31 PM PDT

Many people who go for this way asks that is it the best way for going for web traffic? Does this social media marketing really work? Whom to choose who can send the right message across to the people? Whom to trust who gives a positive image to your company's name and not the label of spam? There are many websites online which offer social media marketing but this is not necessary that they offer what they say. You know there are some companies which mess up the reputation of the company by sending spam messages about the companies on the various communities and people really hate getting these spam messages, they do not even look at them.

But there are some companies which do justice to the social media marketing. Companies like TBS, they are a social media expert and they provide social media solutions to various businesses online. They are the ones who serve the purpose by advertising the company in a right way and making people aware about the company. The social media marketing services of TBS are at par excellence, they help in getting better result, they spread positive about the company in the right way and get traffic to your website.

Affordable Books Rental And Audio Books On CD

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:37 PM PDT

There are people who are book lovers and they need a good book seller or an online library which offer decent schemes for issue of the books. There are so any websites available online but when you look at them you get to know that they offer schemes and also have hidden cost attached to their schemes which are of no good use.

Sometimes, some online libraries charge late fees for late submission of books. Some people read faster than others. Some people enjoy every moment of reading the book, they imagine the scenes and everything and do justice in actual to the imagination of a writer. Hence, these readers take time and read when they get free from their busy schedule. You can Rent books by search for some good Book rental after comparing it with the rest and you can also get Audio books on cd.

You just have to look for one such website which offers you the weekly, monthly or annual plans. Mainly websites offer monthly and yearly plans and hence you can choose the one which you really think is going to be worth. Go for a trial plan, if any is offered by the website.

TechGravy

iPhone 4 Bug Allow Bypass Lock Screen With Password Protected

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 10:30 PM PDT

A Brazilian posted a video on internet showing how to bypass iPhone 4 lock screen with password protected accessing the phone's contents. This guy taps the 'emergency call' button in iPhone 4,then enter three '#' signs,taps the green call button and immediately presses the button on top of the...

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Peter Vanschajik hasn’t payed his debt to Computer Aid

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 11:08 PM PDT

Yet another customer (Peter Vanschajik from Victoria), asked me to fix various computer problems, and then either closed his business (mushroom farming) or just gave me false information.

The debt was not large, so it couldn’t have been too hard to pay it, yet he decided to not pay.

Anyway, I suggest that anyone who deals with Peter Vanschajik should do so with an appropriate amount of caution.

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Friday, October 29, 2010

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Alternative to Conditional stylesheets and CSS Hacks

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 02:18 AM PDT

When we need to apply CSS for other browsers, we either create new CSS files and enclose it with conditional comments. This actually causes blocking issue, which slow downs the site’s loading speed for a few seconds. We might also use browser specific hacks which will create issues while getting W3C validation.

What happens with Conditional Stylesheets?

Below I am using a typical example of using conditional stylesheets to work with various versions of Internet Explorer.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="css/style.css"/>
<!–[if IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="css/ie7.css"/>
< ![endif]–>
<!–[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="css/ie6.css"/>
< ![endif]–>

Conditional style-sheets will mean additional HTTP requests to download.
As the statement is included in the tag, rendering of the page is affected. This happens because the page has to wait until the style-sheets are loaded.
This can separate a single CSS rule into multiple files which should be avoided.

What happens when we use CSS Hacks?

Example:

.ClassName{ margin-right: 15px; _margin-right: 5px; float:right;}

CSS hacks are targeted at specific browsers but it certainly does not validate the code.
Use of hacks are not necessary as many time hacks and workarounds can be avoided by just coding things to work in IE from the beginning.

Solution

We can make use of "Rob Larsen's" technique which is used in Paul Irish's boilerplate.

<!–[if lt IE 7 ]> <html class=”ie6″> <![endif]–>
<!–[if IE 7 ]> <html class=”ie7″> <![endif]–>
<!–[if IE 8 ]> <html class=”ie8″> <![endif]–>
<!–[if IE 9 ]> <html class=”ie9″> <![endif]–>
<!–[if (gt IE 9)|!(IE)]><!–><html class=”"><!–<![endif]–>

This will fix the file blocking issue and we do not need to write any empty comment which also fixes the issue.
CMS platforms like WordPress and Drupal use the body class more heavily. This makes integrating there a touch simpler.
This technique when used will not be validated in HTML 4 but it works fine with HTML 5.

So CSS experts out there, do you find this article useful? Do drop in your views and any other alternate solutions through your comments.

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Bloody Computer!

Top Three Web Based Image Editors

Posted: 29 Oct 2010 09:39 AM PDT

If you are using a computer that doesn't have a decent image editor program, then you can make use of a variety of web-based image editors. Having surveyed those that are freely available, I present a list of the top three. Each of these alows you to perform a variety of simple tasks upon an image, such as cropping and resizing. Each also includes the usual drawing tools as well as supporting layers. Please try them out and leave a comment to share your experiences.

Editor by pixlr.com

Editor enables you to create new images or open image files from your computer or from the web in the following formats: bmp, gif, jpg, png, psd and pxd (Editor's own format). You can save images as bmp, jpg, png or pxd to your computer or to Facebook. It offers a good selection of tools and filters.

Sumo Paint 2.0

Sumo Paint also lets you create new images and open files from your computer or the web. You can open files in gif, jpg, png and its own sumo format, and you can save as jpg, png and sumo. It has the best selection of filters and tools of the three here.

Splashup

Splashup will open bmp, gif, jpg and png files not only from your computer and the web, but also from Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket and Picasa. You can save files back to each of these in jpg, png, and the somewhat obscure fxo format. It has the most limited selection of tools and filters of those listed here.