Wednesday 29 June 2011

Brief overview of Word Press

Word press is a popular online blogging software and it is written in PHP and backed with a MySQL database. It is an open source software. Everybody don't require any PHP expertise to create blog with wordpress. PHP is required to support your hosting only. Once it is being installed, one can easily run WordPress, make posts, change themes, etc. Wordpress often customized into a Content Management System (CMS). The wordpress comes up with some features like a plug-in architecture and a template system.

There are lots of free wordpress theme available online and one has to upload them and activate from your web hosting control panel.

Required knowledge for setting up wordpress :-
Programming language syntax
WordPress system operation as a php/mysql web application
Network and server operations
Installing WordPress

Installation System :-
After downloading extract the WordPress package.
Make a database for WordPress on your web server alongwith a MySQL user having capabilities for accessing and modifying it.
Change the name of wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php.
Open wp-config.php in your desirable text editor and fill in your the details of database.
Place the WordPress files in the desired location on your web server.

The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 3.1.4) is available in the market with a maintenance and security update for all previous versions.
downloadable link
http://wordpress.org/latest.zip

The wordpress comes up with some exclusive features like Automated graphic insert tools, in-built site design formats, an extensive library of free design Theme templates, in-built form generators, free custom designed themes.

Free wordpress themes :-
http://www.freewpthemes.net/
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/08/100-excellent-free-high-quality-wordpress-themes/
http://www.wpskins.org
http://themes.rock-kitty.net/





Tuesday 21 June 2011

iOS 5 for iPad, iPhone, or iPod with integration to Twitter


Apple is going to introduce iOS5 in September, 2011. iOS 5 will be compatible with iPhone 4 and 3GS, iPad 1 and 2, and iPod touch 3rd and 4th generation.

iOS 5 comes up with more than 200 new features for your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch.

With iMessage features the user will be able to send unlimited text message through Wi-Fi or 3G from your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch. iMessage is in-built with the message app and facilitate users to send text, photos, videos, locations and contacts. iMessage contains delivery and read receipts - an indicator while the other party is typing and the capability to push messages to all your devices. With Notification Center, one can keep track of all kinds of notifications like new email, texts, friend requests, and more in one convenient location.

iOS 5 systematizes your magazine and newspaper app subscriptions in a folder which is called Newsstand. This feature will help the users avail their favorite publications rapidly and easily. The users can go to a new place on the App Store just for newspaper and magazine subscriptions. And one can acquire it straight from Newsstand. New purchases go directly to your Newsstand folder. Then, as new issues become available, Newsstand automatically updates them in the background — complete with the latest covers.

From now iOS 5 can be integrated with Twitter. iOS 5 simplied it to tweet from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The user will be able to tweet directly from Safari, Photos, Camera, YouTube, or Maps after being signed in Settings.
A single sign-on feature permits you to retrieve a user’s identity, avatar, and other profile data. There’s also a frictionless core signing service, allowing you to make and sign any call to the Twitter API.

Downloadable link

Thursday 16 June 2011

Filter Forge – A high end Photoshop plug-in for creating stunning design


Filter Forge – A high end Photoshop plug-in for creating stunning design

Filter Forge is a versatile high-end Photoshop plug-in that contains a multitude of filters that generate textures, special effects and image enhancements to generate a wide variety of realistic and abstract textures and effects.

Filter Forge come up with over 8141 free community-created filters in the online filter library. These high quality filters are easily downloadable, resolution independent and customizable.

The users can create diffuse, bump, specular and normal maps with the help of these filters.

One can create their own filters in the visual filter editor by assembling them from components such as blurs, gradients, color adjustments, noises, distortions, or blends.

Filter Forge 2.0

The 2nd version of filter forge is launched with some exclusive features like :-

Shadows via Ambient Occlusion

Point/Area Lights

New Lighting Options

Full HDR Support

Color Inspector

Bomber Component

Transform Components (Scale, Rotate and More)

Polygon and Ellipse Components

Free Gradients and Shapes

Lua Scripting

RGB Math Components

Instant Filter Search

Median, Minimum, Maximum and Percentile Components

Non-Seamless Filters

Supported host applications for Photoshop CS5 and Elements 7

Now the beta test version of Filter Forge 3.0 both for Windows and Mac OS X is launched with several major features and enhancements

Software:

Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7

Hardware:

Pentium III 733 MHz

128 MB RAM

50 MB free disc space

Screen Resolution 1024×768

Internet connection (for filter library and to submit filters)

Host Applications For Plug-in Use:

Adobe Photoshop 6.0 – CS5

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 – 7.0

Corel Painter 8 – IX

Corel PHOTO–PAINT 10 – X4

Corel Paint Shop Pro X – XI

Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 – 9

Ulead PhotoImpact 11 – 12

Trial Download for 2.0 version

Trial Download for 3.0 beta version


Tuesday 14 June 2011

Usefulness of social network for small business

To set up a small business and make it a success story is not an easy thing. The hardest part of it is the publicity of the business. But now in the time of hi-fi technologies and up to date gadgets a flood named social networking marketing change the whole concept of marketing and advertisement. This new genre of marketing surely helps one to promote his or her company and its requirements. It is a boon for those small enterprises which generally don’t have much budget for publicity. So now days, the social network has become one of the most important marketing tool.

Various social networking sites namely Facebook, Twitter, Orkut, Flickr, LinkedIn, and even YouTube are the hot spot for many small business organization. The online presence of the organization is enriched by the help of these social networking sites. In these sites you can put your message that is made to promoting your small business organization. And whenever you try to socialize by any of these social networking sites, your promotion will get bigger exposure to a larger audience. As in these web sites many community or group have been created by like minded people, one can also get his or her target customers without any hardship. It is also used to find out new business partners or employers by developing his or her business presence.

Whenever any company registers under any social networking sites, it gets it unique domain name. As soon as the domain name becomes the identity of the organization, anyone can visit the profile, customized for the particular business house. It will be great if the owner creates many profiles in various social networking sites because it will help it to get good search engine ranking for the unique brand name of the enterprise. In this way, social networking sites help one who is seeking information or looking for the name of the particular brand. The unique URL of the domain name of the small business body becomes the title tag of the product and enhances its brand value as well.

Social networking marketing depends on three main things: 1) unique content, 2) good SEO and 3) useful links. After registration under any social networking site, one gets a space to write down the endorsement message for public view. This content should be clear, user friendly and rich of right number of keywords. The clarity and proper word selection make content more attractive. The proper SEO handling helps the URL to gain good optimization. And as soon as you get the social networking link index, it will be treated as inbound links to your main website. This is a right option to gain not only the traffic but also the sale of your product or service. In this way you can get link of your own small business organization and the best part of all is that it is free of cost.

Once you get the entry in this magical world of social network marketing, you can start socializing and interaction with your target customers by scrapping, chatting or simply twitting. This personal interaction helps one to make a bond of trust and belief on the mind of the customers. By this powerful tool, one can not only convince the customers to purchase the product but also can take advantage of conveying the further information about the product, company or services. Moreover, the customers can give you the feedback of the product or the service instantly and directly. This type of feedback surely helps you in advancement of your product or providing better service in future. By this tool, you can easily channel various messages like information about the product or service, the details, any promotional offers like discounts or free gift the background of your company etc. This new genre of promotion with a personal touch makes its way to popularity day by day.

Social networking sites also make a new path for communicating with like minded people. One can not achieve success without any co operation from its peer group. Getting help and ideas from the people of the same field is the most productive way in small business organization. You can also get in touch with the business tycoon of your field simply by following him or her and can share thoughts and opinion of each other at any point of time. Additionally one can discuss about his or her business with the people of same field and can get new and useful information.

Social network marketing is also very cost effective way of advertising and PR which is a perfect choice for the small budget business organization. It is a time consuming way also. The owner of any small business enterprise can communicate with general people and disseminate his or her message in many ways through various social networking sites.

Among many available options, blogging is the most simple and powerful way to communicate with the potential buyers. You can write blog via RSS feeds about your product, company or service and can have a continuous conversation with your readers. Micro blogging in social networking sites like Twitter or its business version Yammer is another useful path for instant customers back up. Discussion on the forum of any social networking site is beneficial for them. One can have many -to- many communications in this way. Web sites like Facebook, Linkedln or Orkut are successfully used for promoting, recruiting, marketing and brand endorsing.

In this techno age, social network marketing opens a new cost effective and trendy door of advertising for the minor businessmen. Through this gateway, they can convey their messages, share their thoughts, listening to the customers all over the world and above all create a personal bonding with them. In this way, small business enterprises can embrace the social networking sites to get huge success in future.

Friday 10 June 2011

HTML5 & CSS3 - The future of Web development



HTML5& CSS3 is well matched with older browsers and is able to work on everyplatform. One can make a powerful and easy-to-maintain, future-proof web pagesas these new technologies can handle errors efficiently.



Onewill be more expressive in the semantics of your markup without sacrificingclean markup or resorting to complex workarounds.



Onewill get new styling and layout abilities with CSS3. Use shiny-new APIs tobuild applications with location sensitivity and full offline functionality.One can also create intelligent and self-validating web forms with these newtechnologies.


You will be able to rotate, scale, skew, and otherwisetransform HTML elements with CSS 3. Explore CSS3 CSS Transforms (supported in Opera 10.5, Firefox 3.5 andSafari 4 and higher).


Example of some design work by using HTML 5

Thursday 2 June 2011

The incorporation of SAP NetWeaver Gateway and Flash Builder 4.5


Adobe System will integrate the SAP NetWeaver Gateway technology and its Flash Builder 4.5 for the development of rich Web and mobile applications for Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS and iOS.

Flash Builder 4.5 software is considered to be the Eclipse-based development tool for creating communicative mobile, Web and desktop applications through ActionScript and the open source Flex framework.

This new incorporation will facilitate developers to increase front-end experiences and widespread SAP business and consumer systems and allow  enterprise customers to access the critical business data instantly across a range of devices and platforms.

The SAP NetWeaver Gateway, is an open, standards-based framework providing a simple way to interact with SAP apps through any environment or device enabling rapid development of a new class of applications using any development tool.