On July 31,2008 Yahoo announced 10 new features to it’s Map service. New features includes an update to Yahoo! Local Search integration, usability, and Print Page improvements.
Improved Local Search integration that utilizes the Search/Direct Display Index
More user-friendly Driving Directions - a more user-friendly left rail that’s both wider and more legible (larger text), for easier reading of driving directions
A redesigned Print Page
The ability to minimize multiple driving direction instructions to save vertical space
The ability to display inline turn-by-turn images for each driving direction segment
An Interactive Print Page Map
Users can now select from a variety map views (full route, full route + finish, full route + start + finish)
Drag/Pan/zoom functionality for print page maps
Interactivity between Points of Interest (POIs) and Map view; minimized POIs are removed from the map view
Improved POIs - with ability to minimize/collapse multiple POIS to maximize viewing area
He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open byRabindranath Tagore.
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. byElbert Hubard.
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. byCharles Caleb Colton.
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. byBernard Meltzer.
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend. byAlbert Camus.
Hold a true friend with both your hands. byNigerian Proverb
One who looks for a friend without faults will have none. byHasidic Saying.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. byWalter Winchell.
Friends are needed both for joy and for sorrow. bySamuel Paterson.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship’s sake. byWilliam Blake.
Tell me what company thou keeps, and I’ll tell thee what thou art. byMiguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist.
If you judge people, you have no time to love them. byMother Teresa.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. by George Washington.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. bySocrates.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. by Martin Luther King Jr.
Hi guys. 3rd August is the Friendship day. Like if I am telling you that its such a big news. Anyways, just wanna wish you all a Happy FriendShip Day. Thanks for being a part of Readeszone. Why I am wishing you happy friendship day is simply because, we the authors of Readerszone, think that all our readers are our friends. You helped us grow since the beginning of this blog, you gave us your valuable comments, your feedback and suggestions. We feel like we owe you all a lot. So, we whole-heartedly thank you all for being with us, and wishes you a very happy friendship day. But, wait don’t you think that I have not written this post just to wish you a happy friendship day, So, guys here are some interesting facts about this day.
In year 1935, US Congress announced first Sunday as the International Friendship Day.
For women, there is a special friendship day too. It is celebrated every third Sunday of the September.
Apart from a day, friends have got a weekend in their name too. Best friend’s weekend is celebrated from June 23 to June 25th.
International Friendship month is February.
Winnie the pooh, was announced as Ambassador of friendship, in year 1997.
The importance of friends in life, is also depicted in Bible at places. According to Bible,
“Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.” John 15:13-15
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.” Matthew 7:7
Adobe has updated it’s online free photo editing tool with a number of new features. Adobe has added total 7 new features in Photoshop Express. Drag and drop image uploading, tagging, one-click resizing , improved printing options, music tracks, refreshed web galleries and an integration with an online photo printing service. Let’s have a closer look to each of these features.
Image Uploading: Adobe has added Adobe Photoshop Express uploader to it’s online Photo editing service. Express uploaders makes life really easy for uploading images. User can just drag and drop images from their desktop or any other photo applications. Before uploading images users can see thumbnails view of their images.Photoshop Express Image uploader can be used to send images to to Flickr, Facebook, Photobucket and Picasa accounts.
Tagging: Photoshop Express user now mark images with one or more tags. Tagging makes image search really easy. Tagging also makes viewing images accordingly by name, subject or whatever option they want to use.
One-Click Resizing: Photoshop Express get’s updated with one click resizing. Users can resize their images according to preset dimensions like facebook, mobile,web or email whatever they want to choose.
Print Pictures: Adobe has integrated shutterfly to Photoshop express that makes photo printing really easy and adds a better image printing quality.
Add Music: Photoshop Express now enable users to add music to their sideshows or presentations. Go to settings panel and add your favorite music from there.
Google has updated it’s Map and Earth with fresh new pictures of China. According to Google Official blog some of the imageries are less then 2 weeks old.
Matt Manolides, GIS Specialist Said
We’ve published brand new imagery of Beijing in time for the Olympics, and that some of the new imagery is less than 2 weeks old! Everyone on the imagery team is very excited to make this data available to you just before the start of the games; it’s very hard to get good satellite photos of Beijing due to clouds and other atmospheric conditions, but our partners GeoEye and DigitalGlobe pulled through and were able to get us some really amazing shots. Some updated areas include Beijing, Tianjin, Shenyang, and Quindao — you can check out the new data in both Google Earth and Google Maps.
Image quality is really good and you can see all the places where world’s best athletes compete with each other. Some of the updated areas are Beijing, Tianjin, Shenyang, and Quindao.
The Windows Live Messenger Library is a client-side library for building Web-based applications that integrate with Windows Live™ Messenger. With the Windows Live Messenger Library, developers can build presence-enabled instant messaging applications that Web site visitors can use to interact with each other and Windows Live Messenger client users.
The Windows Live Messenger Library is written in C# and compiled into JavaScript using Script#. Messenger Library applications can be written either in C# (with Script#) or JavaScript.
The Messenger Library can be used by Web sites hosted in any domain and works by using cross-site API calls to the Windows Live Messenger service. Registration with Microsoft is not required to use the Windows Live Messenger Library for development purposes.
New Features
Sorted contact collections
Contact display picture links
Customization for the Sign-In Control
A new URL for loading the library
Hosted static images for status icons and Messenger logos
URL strings for Messenger resources
Sign-In Control returns extended authentication results
Many of the times we come across different terms in computer security and more home user AntiVirus and Spyware are the two most common terms, but they are and how to handle them. Let’s find out in this article.
Spyware:Spyware issoftware programs that show performs some operation or behaviors such as advertising, collecting personal information, or changing the configuration of your computer, generally without appropriately obtaining your consent first.
Signs of Spyware
Advertisement pop-ups comes all the time.
Computer settings has been changed.
Browser install some additional extension that you never installed.
Computer performance goes down.
Unfamiliar websites are handling your search.
Antispyware programs stop working and keep asking that some files are missing or your computer requires a critical update.
How to Prevent yourself from Spyware
Use a Firewall :Spyware’s are generally bundled with some other programs after installation spyware try to access Internet or performing some other activity on your system, Firewall may block or ask user permission for all these activities. Always go for two way firewall.
Adjust Internet Explorer Settings: Internet Explorer is now more secure and offers a better control over your browsing. Always use Internet Explorer’s Protected Mode.
Download and Install a Good Antispyware: Download and install a good Antispyware program. Windows Vista comes with preinstalled Windows Defender. Windows XP users can also download and install Windows Defender with free of cost.
Downloads software’s only from trusted websites. If you find any webpage is vulnerable then instead if using mouse use ALT+F4 to close that webpage. Beware before downloading or visiting various free music and movie websites.
Virus: Virus are small computer programs that are designed to infect the computer also spread from one computer to another computer. A computer virus can delete all your computer data, use computers email program to send and receive email as well as spread the same virus. There are a number of way for a virus to come in computer system like e-mail message or instant messaging messages, e-mail attachments,attachments of funny images, greeting cards, or audio and video files.
Signs of viruses:
Computer runs more slowly than normal.
Computer stops responding or locks up often.
Computer crashes and restarts every few minutes.
Computer restarts on its own and then fails to run normally.
Applications on computer don’t work or stop working correctly.
Disks or disk drives are inaccessible.
Unusual error messages are keep coming.
Distorted menus and dialog boxes.
These are common signs of infection—but they might also indicate hardware or software problems that have nothing to do with a virus. Unless you run the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool and install industry-standard, up-to-date antivirus software on your computer, there is no way to be certain if your computer is infected with a virus or not. If you don’t have current antivirus software installed or if you’re interested in installing a different brand, you can try Windows Live OneCare free for 90 days or visit our Security software downloads page for software from other companies.
How to Prevent yourself from Virus
Use a Firewall
Use Good AntiVirus Software program
Regularly update computer software’s.
Remove unwanted software’s from computer.
Never open an e-mail attachment from someone you don’t know.
Only download or accept programs and content (including photos, video clips, ring tones, mobile device themes, and games) from a source you trust.
Just a day back, CUIL was launched. And from the day one, every one started raising questions, whether it can be a Google Killer or not. So, I decided to use CUIL for one full day, instead of Google.com, just to figure out whether CUIL is worth the hype or not, and figured out that somehow its not a good idea to switch to CUIL. Well, there are a lot of reasons for that. But before that, lets just list out why it is getting so much of hype.
The very good thing about this search engine I found is its massive index of nearly 120 billion pages, compared to 40 billion pages on Google.
It is developed by former Google employees, making sure that the indexing methods used by google are further improvised and used here.
It not only search for the results, but shows them in a nice format along with a thumbnail too. Also, it displays further options to find relevant searches.
It indexes the pages based on the contents and not on the page ranking system, which ensures that you find related information, much easily.
It displays possible search options in a dropdown box, as you type in the search box.
It loads faster than google. It may be because of low traffic as compared to google, but still its a good thing. Also, animations are crisp, smooth, and even with those animations, page doesn’t seems too flashy. Really nice graphics.
Enough of praise of CUIL, as a potential google killer. Lets just face it now. The search engine is not worth the hype, as I found. Atleast I am not switching to CUIL permanently, for next few months. May be it will be just another search engine, like Powerset or Wisenut, which also tried to make a dent in Google’s market share, but miserably failed. Obviously, I have got a proof for the same, as I have used it for one day. Listing out my findings below.
It is not google. Sorry, for being so mean. But, I never really use term “search” in context of internet. It is by default Google. For so many years, everyone is using Google as their favorite search engine. It is not easy to get such a big fan base easily.
Google provides other services, based on their own search index, like page ranking, adsense etc. Adsense won’t work on basis of CUIL or other search index.
You can search just web pages in CUIL. To search for images, news, blogs, or using advanced search, I had to switch back to google. CUIL does not support using “filetype:” keyword while searching for a PDF file.
“Did you mean: jitendra garg“. I missed this auto spell check in CUIL. You have to start playing scrabbles to improve your spellings before using CUIL.
Where is the option to “Search pages from India”. I am not interested in all results but just from Indian sites, but still CUIL displays me all the results for my search query. Option to search regional pages is missing. One more negative point for CUIL.
How many times, do you have used Google to check the current dollar prices in INR, or to calculate a mathematical equation, or to know the current time or temperature of the city? I use these features a lot. It helps saving you a lot of time, looking for icon of Calculator, or Weather gadget, in your Vista sidebar. But sadly, this feature is also missing from so-hyped CUIL.
Most of the sites, uses google page rank and Alexa rating to determine your page’s importance on internet. So sad, they have to write their algorithm once again. Clearly, not a feasible option.
Advertisers prefer google. They have a reason for it after all.
Google is one stop solution to most of your needs. Calculator, maps, weather information, foreign exchange, image search, and lot of such features, integrated with search, provides a richer experience. While, CUIL just boasts of a massive index for web pages, and nothing else.
Finally after one day of using CUIL, and missing google, I feel a bit too relaxed, as I am back to Google. Any search engine trying to call itself a Google killer, should atleast think again. After powerset, wisenut, a9.com, and now CUIL, it seems that for the next few years, Google have to wait for the true contender. May be MS-Yahoo merger can result in a better alternative of our most beloved search engine. Till then, happy googling.
Hi guys. 3rd August is the Friendship day. Like if I am telling you that its such a big news. Anyways, just wanna wish you all a Happy FriendShip Day. Thanks for being a part of Readeszone. Why I am wishing you happy friendship day is simply because, we the authors of Readerszone, think that all our readers are our friends. You helped us grow since the beginning of this blog, you gave us your valuable comments, your feedback and suggestions. We feel like we owe you all a lot. So, we whole-heartedly thank you all for being with us, and wishes you a very happy friendship day. But, wait don’t you think that I have not written this post just to wish you a happy friendship day, So, guys here are some interesting facts about this day.
Adobe has updated it’s online free photo editing tool with a number of new features. Adobe has added total 7 new features in Photoshop Express. Drag and drop image uploading, tagging, one-click resizing , improved printing options, music tracks, refreshed web galleries and an integration with an online photo printing service. Let’s have a closer look to each of these features.
The Windows Live Messenger Library is a client-side library for building Web-based applications that integrate with Windows Live™ Messenger. With the Windows Live Messenger Library, developers can build presence-enabled instant messaging applications that Web site visitors can use to interact with each other and Windows Live Messenger client users.
