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Back to the Black Bar

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:54:05 +0000

Google admitted that the navigation UI launched last year wasn’t good enough and brought back the black bar (the color is actually dark gray). Some of the features from the old interface are still available: the list of services, the notification and sharing boxes, the settings menu.

“The new design retains many of the feature changes we made in November that proved popular, including a unified search box and Google+ sharing and notifications across Google. The biggest change is that we’ve replaced the drop-down Google menu with a consistent and expanded set of links running across the top of the page,” explains Google.

The black bar doesn’t look that great in Google’s redesigned interfaces, but it’s more functional than the “invisible” menu hidden behind the Google logo. It’s always a bad idea to hide important navigational features, even if they clutter the interface. When you have to explain basic features because they’re not obvious, you’ve already failed:

{ Thanks, Cougar and Matan. }

Google Operating System

Zoho Recruit Links up with LinkedIn

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:51:09 +0000

At Zoho Recruit, our mission is to provide recruiters a simple, easy-to-use, single user-interface eliminating the need to juggle with multiple tools. Early last week, we had announced a bunch of new features; LinkedIn Integration was one of the most …

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Inside The Insider #3 – Evernote Edition

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:48:58 +0000

In this week’s Inside The Insider, I talk about what’s in this week’s issue of The Insider, as well as send a big “thank you” to everybody who signed up in the last week.

How to get started using Evernote (a lot of people are confused how to integrate it into their lives. We’ll help.)
Fixing Java on your Computer
A resource to turn your Gmail account into a full-blown task manager
How to use “old school” Outlook Express 6
Using the Internet to “automate” regular household tasks

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Thanks to everybody.

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You can join for as little as /month – but this pricing is going to be changing shortly.

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Analyse your Business Reports – Now in 9 Languages!

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:47:11 +0000

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What To Know About Drug Addiction Counseling

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:55:05 +0000

Counseling in a drug rehabilitation center can be a critical part of recovery from addiction. Therapy with a group can help the patient know that there are others who have experienced similar or worse problems. This group alcohol counseling may bring new coping mechanisms to the surface to help in recovery. This type of therapy can occur in group sessions or individual meetings with specialized therapists.

Rehabilitation

Those who first check in to a rehab facility may be questioning their ability to complete the program initially. After settling in, the patient may find a new rhythm to life with the center’s routines and therapy. The counseling sessions can begin to focus on addictions and the surrounding problems as each person begins to share his or her story.

Consequences Of Addiction

These meetings for counseling may be the first opportunity a patient has to sit down and give some thought to his or her past behavior. The road of addiction may start to become clear during discussions with others, or just listening to what other patients have to say about what led them to seek treatment. This can be enlightening as patients may see similarities between other patients’ stories and their own.

Therapy

As the therapy sessions progress, solutions can start to emerge as he or she considers and focuses more on the problems at hand. These group meetings might be a learning experience as individuals talk about their tips and strategies for coping. The patient may begin to consider new ways to arrange his or her life without falling back into addictive habits.

Changes

Keeping a journal may be part of the therapy and counseling sessions, in which patients may share some of their writings as a cathartic process for healing. These daily writing sessions, perhaps part of the person’s rehab routine, can help in exploring changes occurring in rehab, as well as past problems that may have led to the initial addiction.

Trained Professionals

One-on-one therapy can help further explore issues of addiction. The counselor also can present different ways of looking at situations in a controlled setting to help guide a patient toward a solution-based process. This can help a patient from becoming bogged down in circuitous thoughts that merely focus on problems without resolution.

After Treatment

When the patient is ready to leave the drug rehabilitation treatment facility, counseling sessions may continue as part of extended treatment. These follow-up meetings can be beneficial to help support the patient as he or she continues to make lifestyle changes and adopt new ways of dealing with problems to avoid addictive tendencies. The discussions can help a patient sort through any lingering issues.

How to SSH to Linux Hosts for Beginners

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:44:54 +0000

This is a simple tutorial for beginners to SSH to a Linux host. This is quite easy with the easy-to-use software freely available but the beginners need a tutorials to start with. Hence, I write this tutorial about how to ssh to a Linux host. This tutorial is for users on Windows.

1. Download a SSH client

I suggest PuTTY. The download link can be found in Open Source and Portable SSH, SCP, SFTP and VNC Clients for Windows to Remote Control Linux (this post also provides links to other software that may be usefull).

2. SSH to the Linux host

At least, the user should already get the host’s name and port for SSH along with the username and password from the administrators.

Then SSH to the Linux host following this tutorial (it is short and easy to follow).

Now, you should have logged in to the Linux host with access to a shell (such as bash) and achieved the goal in this tutorial.

Linux and Virtualization

Re : New field, with data based on 2 other fields.

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:41:49 +0000

You mentioned it is a lookup type, then I don’t think it will be number. if it is not a number, then you will get the syntax error.

can you let me know what kind of value will be in: ${Sales.OtherValue}

James

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The Bump is Back

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 14:41:17 +0000

The Bump is back; only this time, sexy new smartphones are doing the dance instead of booty-shakers. Users of iOS and Android mobile devices are being treated to a new phenomenon, created by a tiny business in California called Bump Technologies, Inc. The company employs thirty techies whose passion it is to make life easy for the millions of smartphone users who wish to exchange information.

Imagine you are in Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The networking amongst colleagues is fast and furious. Instead of having to put down everything you are carrying, pull out your pen and paper, and jot down phone numbers, email addresses, or exchange business cards, you simply “bump” your phone up against the other person’s phone and voila – you have both just shared your contact info!

"Bumping" Money from One Phone to Another with PayPal

The service has been around for a couple years, but the next iteration has some surprises to offer. Users will be able to exchange photos and share personal interests like that being share on social media sites. Money transfer between phones is also enabled thanks to Bump’s partnership with PayPal. Unfortunately, the service is currently unavailable to Blackberry and Windows Phone users.

The intricate dance is manifested by using Cloud software and storage combined with motion-sensing-hardware and GPS features built into today’s mobile devices. When two people touch their phones together, the system recognizes that action as a desire to exchange and automatically sends data to the cloud and then back down to the other device. This saves the user from having to walk through the standard technical steps that prove so confusing to many smartphone owners.

In the following video, Bump CEO, David Lieb, explains the value and the mechanics behind the tricky fun. Thank you, to our great friend Robert Scoble for the enlightening video.

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Converting JPG Images to EPS

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:35:05 +0000

I write a lot latex documents and most of the documents have images in it. Latex deals EPS very well, while sometimes we need to add JPG / PNG images to it. I find converting the JPG images to EPS ones is the most convenient way to embed JPG images to latex documents. On Linux, this is quit easy with ImageMagick.

An online tool is available: JPG to EPS Converter.

You need to install ImageMagick if it is not already installed in the system:

# yum install ImageMagick

Convert image image.jpg from JPG to EPS format:

$ convert image.jpg image.eps

For other image formats, the command is similar.

Linux and Virtualization

QuickJava 1.7.5 Is The Easiest “Block Everything” Browser Extension

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:33:00 +0000

Even though I use Google Chrome as my primary browser these days, I admit with no hesitation that Firefox completely obliterates every other browser in the plugin/add-on/extension department. To this day, nothing else comes close to the extension options that are available for Firefox.

Some people when browsing just want a simple-as-possible on/off toggle for everything other than text, meaning on/off toggles for everything. Does such a toggle utility exist? In Firefox it does, and it’s called href="http://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/quickjava/">QuickJava.

Contrary to its name, QuickJava is not just for the on/off toggle of Java, as it does do The Big 5 (JavaScript, Java, Flash, Silverlight and images).

How to configure it is as such:

1. Install QuickJava. Use the Firefox browser and click the link above, the install the extension.

2. In Firefox, click View > Toolbars > Customize OR Firefox > Options > Toolbar Layout.

3. For the new window that opens, scroll the bottom and you will see drag-able buttons for Css, Proxy, JavaScript, Flash, SilverLight and Images.

align="center"> style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="image" border="0" alt="image" src="http://pcmech.pcmediainc.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/image24.png" width="481" height="201" />

4. Drag JavaScript, Java, Flash, SilverLight and Images after the "Stop" button (the Stop button is the one with the X).

Note: Its normal to see some blue (enabled) and some red (disabled) or either all blue. We’ll get back to that in a moment.

When done, click the Done button on the Customize Toolbar window, and you’ll be left with this assuming your Firefox is using the default layout:

5. Click each button so it turns red.

You will have this once you do that:

At this point, JavaScript, Java, Flash, SilverLight and images are all disabled.

Now all you have to do it test it. Go to a content-heavy site like href="http://www.yahoo.com">www.yahoo.com and you’ll be amazed at how fast the site loads when you have certain things disabled.

Will certain features of websites be disabled with everything turned off?

Yes. For example, most webmail services will not work with everything disabled. But that’s fine because you can toggle on/off certain things at whim whenever you want. For example, you don’t need Java, Flash or SilverLight to use webmail, so you can toggle on/off whatever you need at the given moment.

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