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Explore The Stock Market In Most Interactive Way Using StockTouch

admin — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:10:13 +0000

Are you new to stock market and wants to understand/know about stock market, StockTouch app for iOS device helps you to drive through the state of stock market. Are you a financial professional or technical mind or a casual investor – here is the right app for you to know latest updates on to see the top 900 stocks in the U.S. market. With this app you can get up-to-the-minute market data and it is available at your finger tips, this app keeps you updated with the advanced features like providing the stock details in most interactive and efficient manner of visual presentation. You are just click away to know more about your stock updates, it has got many advanced level of features which helps the users in all aspects like it has a search facility offering two different ways to find any publicly-traded stocks, with live up-to-minute information, StockTouch allows you to see 1400 companies at any one time, supported by over 16,000 news articles.

StockTouch is recognized as best of the iPad Finance category in App Store in the year 2011 – click here for more information. This is one of the best app which I have ever seen before for Apple iPad and iPhone.

StockTouch App gives you a bird-eye view representation of individual stocks, can easily identify which individual company is losing-in-value and which are gaining-in-value. With StockTouch you can go back in time using the slider to see results from 5 years ago, 1 year ago, 6 months, 3 months, 1 Month, 1 Week, 1 day, 5 Minutes ago and less. In the home screen you can see 900 companies divided into 9 different sectors – 12,600 tiles of heat, 6300 charts, 10,800 news stories, all updated every 5 minutes, all at once.

Through favorites, StockTouch App allows you to keep track of the stocks that matter most to you, automatically syncing between your iPad and iPhone via iCloud.

Below are some of the videos which explains the features of StockTouch App

Below video depicts on how to navigate different sectors of the 900 companies and more.

Below one explains briefly about the favorite feature and its advantages.

Below depicts on how you can make use of the search functionality better to identify on how your favorite company is doing in market.

In addition to above videos we do have many as such which explains you more on the features involved in StockTouch App.

I would love to recommend everyone to use this app and be update-to-date in your stock world.

50 Most Efficient Mobile Websites Of Top Sites

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:40:31 +0000

Most of the top websites are now leaping into mobile websites to increase their business and to get profit in all aspects. As per latest market stats, most of the customers were connected online while they are ‘on the go’ through their handheld mobile devices. Mobile computing enables you to access most of the effective information ‘on the go’ at time you need, it is helping customers in all aspects of life, like if you would like to know your bank balance in the respective account you have – just tap-in, and get updates accordingly in a most secure way.

Earlier, if you want to order or want to know more about the product you like most – you used to check about that product in a website through our desktop/laptop, now trend has been changed a lot. Most of the customers were get to know their product details ‘on the go’ – most of the information is now available through mobile websites. Most of the mobile websites are providing rich user experience to know more about their products for example: if you would like to know more about your latest model car available in the market (or) features about new Audi released, just jump-in and type m.audiusa.com in the browser you have in your handheld device.

Most of the enterprises provide services for Mobile App/Mobile Website development, by developing mobile apps and websites they are empowering their own business to keep pace with the growing business needs not only this, with these apps you can connect to your loved ones ‘on the go’ with most social websites like facebook, google+ etc., Most recent iMessage – in iPhone, it is a messaging services which has been introduced recently for all iOS5 users. You can send unlimited free text messages either when you are connected with Wi-Fi or 3G from your iPad, iPhone or iPod.

Here in this article you can have a look at some of the mobile websites of top sites – where you can stay connected where ever you are ‘on the go’:

Google

Website: http://www.google.com

Facebook

Website: http://m.facebook.com

YouTube

Website: http://m.youtube.com

Yahoo

Website: http://m.yahoo.com

Twitter

Website: http://mobile.twitter.com

MSN

Website: http://extreme.mobile.msn.com

WordPress

Website: http://wordpress.com

eBay

Website: http://hp.mobileweb.ebay.com

Bing

Website: http://m.bing.com

Flickr

Website: http://m.flickr.com

IMDB

Website: http://m.imdb.com

Tumblr

Website: http://tumblr.com

BBC

Website: http://bbc.co.uk/mobile

ASK

Website: http://ask.com

CNN

Website: http://m.cnn.com

ESPN

Website: http://m.espn.go.com

AOL

Website: http://m.aol.com

About

Website: http://about.com

Adobe

Website: http://adobe.com

Go Daddy

Website: http://godaddymobile.com

Amazon

Website: http://amazon.com

CNet

Website: http://m.cnet.com

Dailymotion

Website: http://touch.dailymotion.com

Vimeo

Website: http://vimeo.com/m/

Stackoverflow

Website: http://stackoverflow.com

Stumbleupon

Website: http://stumbleupon.com

Bank Of America

Website: http://bankofamerica.com/mobile

Deviantart

Website: http://deviantart.com

MySpace

Website: http://m.myspace.com

eHow

Website: http://ehow.com

Skype

Website: http://m.skype.com

PhotoBucket

Website: http://m.photobucket.com

Chase

Website: http://mobilebanking.chase.com

Walmart

Website: http://mobile.walmart.com

Foxnews

Website: http://foxnews.mobi

Rediff

Website: http://m.rediff.com

Download.com

Website: http://download.cnet.com/mobile

Yelp

Website: http://m.yelp.com

Digg

Website: http://m.digg.com

Reuters

Website: http://mobile.reuters.com

Wellsfargo

Website: http://wf.com/mba

Comcast

Website: http://m.comcast.net

Mashable

Website: http://mashable.com

ESPN Cricinfo

Website: http://m.espncricinfo.com

Tech Crunch

Website: http://m.techcrunch.com

BestBuy

Website: http://m.bestbuy.com/m/e

Target

Website: http://sites.target.com/site/en/

Dell

Website: http://m.dell.com

Xing

Website: http://touch.xing.com

NFL

Website: http://m.nfl.com

The above mentioned list is only 50 most efficient mobile websites of Top sites, likewise most of the other websites are leaping into mobile websites to increase their business in all aspects.

Easy Steps To Develop Your First iPhone App

admin — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 05:33:02 +0000

Although developing an iPhone application isn’t really rocket science, there are a number of potentially challenging obstacles that you will have to surmount. There is a fair degree of programming involved, and although it is not quite as intensive as that required for other software development tasks, it may prove a bit challenging for someone with relatively little experience. Nevertheless, there are many resources available on the Web, and anyone with the inclination to learn-and the willingness to put in some work–may just be able to develop an iPhone app that measures up to the best of them.

This article helps you in understanding the process or steps involved in developing iPhone Apps.

You might be interested in knowing how to reboot your iphone? and some useful tips and tricks of using iPhone which all users should know.

Apple/iPhone related articles: If you would like to go through our Apple related articles, click here to find more.

Before we get started on the steps involved in creating your first app, it would be helpful to mention that creating one will require spending $99 in order to upload your creation. Furthermore, you will either need to already own a Mac-or purchase one-since you will have to program your app using Mac-specific code. If you are willing to put up with these considerations, then you can move on to the steps in creating your own iPhone app! – http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/

Snapshot of iOS Developer Program page.

Come up with unique idea

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The first step toward building an iPhone app is coming up with an idea. And not just any idea, mind you–it really has to be something unique in order to stand out from the hundreds of apps that are already on the market. If you want to have a chance at being able to sell your app, you have to ask yourself what makes your planned app so special, and why people should pay money for it.

Of course, there is a good chance that your app is similar in form and/or function to a few others. If you still want to go through with your plan, it would be a good idea to improve on your design by adding more features, increasing functionality, or simply making sure that your app does what the other apps do, but better.

Get a Mac

This is an inevitable part of the app building process, and there really is no getting around it: you absolutely need a Mac in order to build an app for the iPhone. While you may be able to design iPhone apps on a PC using jailbreak mode, making full and efficient use of the iPhone development tools–all of which are only available for the Mac platforms–will require you to pony up for a Mac at some point. The good news is that you don’t necessarily need to purchase a high end Mac Book Pro for developing an app. In most cases, a Mac mini would be more than sufficient.

Register as a developer

To gain access to Mac tools, you will have to sign up as an official Apple Developer. The registration is free however, so all you have to do is provide some personal information and agree to the terms. The registration process is a one time sign up as well, and you will be able to use the same username and password that you use for your iTunes account. Once you have been approved as an Apple Developer, you will have access to all the development tools necessary for building iPhone apps – here is the link for iOS Dev Center.

Download the iPhone SDK

The next important step of the process is downloading the iPhone Software Development Kit. This will give you all the tools necessary to start building your app. Keep in mind that the download might take a long time, as it includes all the documentation, sample codes, and utilities necessary for app development.

Download XCode

Another key piece of software is XCode. This is a complete IDE that ensures a more efficient workflow when it comes time to edit source code. XCode will come in handy during the building and compilation processes, and when you being graphical debugging. XCode allows you to perform all these tasks while still keeping an eye on your source code. Like the SDK, this is also a huge download, so you will want to allot plenty of time for it before getting started.

Snapshot of iOS Dev Center page – After Login

Develop your app using the SDK templates

At this point, you should have already made a draft of your app design either on paper or in a computer graphics program. You can then begin the actual process of design using the templates that came with the SDK. Remember the long wait for the download to complete? This is when all that time waiting will pay off, since the SDK comes with a wealth of useful templates that you can use in your work. You should also check out the many tutorial videos on the Internet in order to learn how to make full and efficient use of these templates.

Learn Objective-C

Another inevitable step of the process is learning Objective-C. This shouldn’t pose too much of a challenge if you already have an aptitude for programming languages. Otherwise, you might be in for a significant learning curve. Thankfully, there are many resources available on the Internet and in print, so you should be able to gain sufficient proficiency with the language with a little time and study.

Books for learning Objective C: Below are reference books which helps you in learning Objective C.

The Objective-C 2.0 Programming Language – PDF Download from Apple Site.
Objective-c, Cocoa, and Xcode All-in-one for Dummies (Paperback)
Learning Cocoa With Objective-C

There are many more like this, choose your favorite writer and pick your book in which you are comfortable enough. I recommend PDF from Apple site which suggests good examples.

Program your app

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Once you have gained a bit of familiarity with Objective-C, the actual programming part of the task can begin. It would be a good idea to take screenshots periodically throughout the process so you can go back and revise parts of your code if necessary. There really is no shortcut to this part of the process, and depending on the particular app you are trying to develop, you may have it put in anywhere from a few hours to several weeks–or even months–into the programming process.

Test your app using the iPhone simulator

The SDK comes with a particularly useful tool called the iPhone Simulator. This will allow you to load up your app and test it before release, giving you the opportunity to identify any bugs and modify your app to suit as many user preferences as possible.

Upload your app on iTunes

In order to upload your app to iTunes, you will have to pay a membership fee of $99. The good news is that you only have to pay this fee once, and if your app is any good, there is a good chance that you will make more than your money back. And as a further benefit, you get to become a member of a global community of iPhone developers.

Have your app tested?

After you have paid the fee, you will be given access to the worldwide app developer community. This is particular useful for “test driving” your app and having other developers check for bugs. This will help ensure the stability and performance of your app.

Submit your app

After having your app extensively tested, and ironing out any bugs that may have been detected, you can finally submit your app to iTunes. Keep in mind that dozens of apps are submitted every month, so you may have to wait a couple of weeks before receiving word that your app has been approved.

These are the most important steps in the development of an iPhone app. With any luck, it shouldn’t take too long before your creation becomes a sought after part of the global iPhone apps collection, and you might even make some money in the process.

I have a link which Guide for Apple App Store submissions – Article by Joe Ward

Conclusion

This article helps you in understanding the process or steps involved in developing iPhone Apps.

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25 Hand Picked Truly Creative And Inspirational Websites

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:57:04 +0000

Most of the trending websites/blogs are standing uniquely out of box because of the way they represent UI/Design which automatically grabs users’ attention, we have to understand about the efforts which all designers and developers put-in to build a uniquely exquisite website or a blog, most of the websites concentrate on visual experience of what user wants and they proceed accordingly to build such a website. It is very difficult to find a designer or a developer or both who can understand the concept of visual designing and implements the same in the respective projects. I am also looking for a good designer and a developer who can understand these concepts and puts-in his efforts on the work which he/she implementing – if you are interested? Please Write for us.

In this article you can find most of the upcoming hand picked truly inspirational websites/blogs which may grab your attention. In this list, some of the websites were stylish and has got exquisite designs which may impress you.

Editor’s Note: If you are a good and unique web designer / developer and interested in writing an article to this website, you can write for us and get paid accordingly.

Design related articles: If you would like to go through our design related articles, click here to find more interesting design articles, PSD freebie’s…

Creative and Inspirational Websites

I Love Spoon

Website: http://www.ilovespoon.com/

Fork CMS

Website: http://www.fork-cms.com/

Thepixel

Website: http://www.thepixel.com/blog/

Blether

Website: http://www.blether.co/

Platlas

Website: http://www.platlas.com/

Litfy

Website: http://litfy.com/

Rentsavvy

Website: http://rentsavvy.com/

Kccreepfest

Website: http://www.kccreepfest.com/

Empirevintage

Website: http://www.empirevintage.com.au/

Tabspresso

Website: http://tabspresso.com/

Kylesteed

Website: http://kylesteed.com/

Gettheglass

Website: http://www.gettheglass.com/

The Lost Thing

Website: http://www.thelostthing.com/

Sylvain Ollier

Website: http://www.sylvain-ollier.com/

The Kennedys

Website: http://www.thekennedys.nl/

TM Design

Website: http://www.tmdesign.sk/

Worry Free Labs

Website: http://worryfreelabs.com/

Gangibob

Website: http://www.gangibob.com/

Thomas Aull

Website: http://www.thomas-aull.de/

Big Eye Creative

Website: http://www.bigeyecreative.com/

Mathieuclauss

Website: http://www.mathieuclauss.com/

Shout Digital

Website: http://www.shoutdigital.com/

Blitz Agency

Website: http://www.blitzagency.com/hi/

Moods of norway

Website: http://www.moodsofnorway.com/

Dear future astronaut NY

Website: http://www.dfany.com/

Conclusion

Most of the design sites which I have showcased above were awesome not only in design but in-terms of user experience as well. The above mentioned were all brand new sites which has launched in 2011. Hope you might have enjoyed mush by looking at this article, if you would like to share any feedback – please do post your comments in the comments section below.

How To Check Whether Particular Div Is Present Using jQuery

admin — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:21:32 +0000

There might be some scenarios where we need to check whether a particular DIV is visible or not and if that DIV is visible do some extra functionality. Below code might help us in understanding on how to code the same in jQuery if a specific scenario occurs.

I got into one similar scenario, Where I need to invoke a function when particular DIV is visible, if that particular DIV is not visible do not invoke any function. In-order to achieve this, in jQuery we do have one selector called Visible

Visible Selector: jQuery(‘:visible’)

Description: This selector selects all visible elements

Using this Visible selector we can achieve the output which we are looking for in this article.

Sample Example:

<script language="javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
	if($('#TheIDWhichWeAreLookingFor').is(":visible")){
		//call your function
	}
})
script>

Code Description: In the above example, If a particular div ID is visible – the IF condition which we are using will returns ‘true’.


<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script language="javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.4.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="DivHide" style="display:none;">This div is not visible</div>
<div id="TheIDWhichWeAreLookingFor">If this Div is visible, invoke a function</div>
 
<script language="javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
	if($('#TheIDWhichWeAreLookingFor').is(":visible")){
		//call your function
	}
})
</script>
</body>
</html>

Please let me know your feedback through the comment section provided below.

How To Reboot Your iPhone?

admin — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 05:11:38 +0000

Today, I faced one issue with my iPhone, it went to frozen state and non of the keys were working. I could not restart/reset/reboot my iPhone to revert back to the working stage. For this I just searched in Google for the solution, I got to see one good video which explained on how to overcome this issue when iPhone frozen suddenly.

“Rebooting your iPhone 4 is a common task that may need to be carried out when the phone freezes, leaving you stuck and unable to restart normally. When possible, you should restart your phone rather than reboot. Rebooting, sometimes called a “hard reboot” will cut off anything you’ve been doing – it is imminent you will lose any unsaved data or changes. However, in case you become stuck, it is a good idea to learn how to reboot the iPhone 4 before the first time you need to do it.” – Content Courtesy – www.mahalo.com

Below is the respective video which has helped me in resolving the issue with my iPhone, the Mahalo.com has got many tips on iPhone.

20 Most Amazing Videos Of Glimpse Into Future Technology

admin — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:04:45 +0000

As we are aware, the evolution of Technology has changed our life’s the way we are living from the way we were lived in the past. If we look back in early 80′s most of our work were done manually, the era of technology has started in 90′s, gradually the World has started changing, right now we are using latest technology equipments. Now we can attend our important mails on-the-go that is through our smartphones with latest Apps in it. Thanks to the one who has started / invented new products, if we take a word innovation – we remember Steve Jobs and his valuable efforts who put in inventing iPod, iPhone & iPad, he has given life to millions (and more) of people who were jobless by inventing iPod, iPhone and iPad, now most of the developers were busy in developing different Apps and want to give their customers a better quality of what the users need to be done on their finger-tips, like the one ordering Pizza from Pizza-Hut while you were on-the-go.

We have many things which we can discuss here, for example evolution of hand-held devices – earlier we use mobile phones only for making calls and it does nothing else more effective work than this. Now, most of the business is running through this hand-held devices only, yes! if you want to approve/decline any order of raised request – its in your finger tips, create your app – through your app you can track your orders. Here the best example would be, iPad – this device has broken lots of records in the tablet market with its awesome handy features.

Below are some of the videos which I have selected and want to put in-front of you, these videos depicts on how the World is going to change in coming future [Hope Our Wish May Come True!] – people’s opinion is that its going to change a lot. Below videos are virtual and glimpse into future technology.

A Look Into The Future: A Day Of Glass Where Technology Is Amazing (Touch Screen Everything)

Advance Future Technology, You Must See

Mobile phones concepts

The future of touch technology

Living Tomorrow: house of the future

SAMSUNG Future Life and Style WMV 90segs

The Future of Mobile

FUTURE DESIGN – Hi-Tech Car User Interface GUI / Dashboard Speedometer

Future Phone – Mobile Phone Concept by Mozilla – Don’t Miss the Link Below the Video

Microsoft Office Labs Vision 2019 Montage : Retail

Microsoft’s Future Vision in HD ; Windows Home Concept

Future Applications of Graphene

Nokia future vision

Future Technology 22nm Intel microprocessor

Amazing future technology for data transfer : Using Led lights.

Slyde HD3 Watch – Latest Technology Future technology

Ask The Buffalo: Windows Phone 7 and How Technology Will Shape Our Future

Smart buildings the future of building technology

Technology Transforming Retail

Touchscreen Technology

Let us know what you think about our future technology and how its going to change our life’s. Please use below comments section for the same to know your feedback about this article.

Write Articles, Tutorials, Tips, or Other Content For Us

admin — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:41:04 +0000

DeveloperSnippets.com is well known for its simple and effective representation of tips and tricks for creative designers as well as for developers around the web world. Main goal of DeveloperSnippets.com is to help designers and developers with effect solutions for some of the issues we face in our daily coding life.

Here in this website most of the articles were related to design and development in various environments like Technology, Adobe, Ajax, Blogger, Books, CSS, DIGG, Entertainment, ExtJS, Flash, Flash CS3, Fonts, Gadgets, General, GMail, Google, HTML, HTML 5, Internet Explorer, JavaScript, ActionScript, ActionScript 3.0, Microsoft, Mobile, Mozilla, Photoshop, Reference Websites, Skype, Web Features, Web Templates, Widgets, WordPress, Yahoo, YUI… and More.

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CSS Tip: Wrap Long Text In Table Cell Or In A Constant Width Div Using CSS

admin — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 17:44:34 +0000

You might have come across weird situations where a long text inserted into a table cell or into a well formatted div disturbs the entire look and feel of the page. Most of the developers might have faced this situation where dynamic data comes in from the server and merges into the specified div container or table cell. Why the long text without spaces cannot wrap when we place the same into a div container? do we have any solution for the same?…

Yes! we do have a solution for the above scenario. This can be handled through CSS3, we do have some properties where we can wrap a long text easily. Below is the simple example where we can experiment the same.

Here is the situation we face in our development

1	<div class="container">abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz</div>

.container{
width:200px;
background-color:#cccccc;
}

Output of the same is shown below:

Here is the solution were we can apply some CSS properties to wrap a long text.

1	<div class="container wordwrap">abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz</div>

/* Word Wrap */
.wrapword{
white-space: -moz-pre-wrap !important; /* Mozilla, since 1999 */
white-space: -pre-wrap; /* Opera 4-6 */
white-space: -o-pre-wrap; /* Opera 7 */
white-space: pre-wrap; /* css-3 */
word-wrap: break-word; /* Internet Explorer 5.5+ */
}

Above would be helpful for most of the developers.

Useful Tips And Tricks Of Using iPhone Which All Users Should Know

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:44:14 +0000

As we all aware Apple iPhone is mostly widely used mobile phone which Apple has introduced, because of its awesome features most of the users were using this mobile for their personal as well as for business use. It has got many features which are very handy to use and which are very similar like Operating System in our Desktop / Laptop machines.

Apple iPhone apps were used for almost anything, most of the iphone apps helps us in Business, Banking, Cooking, Music, For Managing Money, For Traveling etc.,

Below are some of the tips and tricks available on the iPhone to make users life much simple and handy. Now a days most of the productive work is done on the go that is by making use of these tips and tricks. By following these tips and tricks you can navigate to the features very easily by which we can save lot of time.

How to take a snapshot of the current screen in iPhone

As we have “PrtSc” [Print Screen] button option on keyboard to grab a screenshot of current screen – we have a similar feature in iPhone as well, yes! you can take a screenshot of your current screen and can be saved into your photo album automatically. To do this, By Holding your Home button – press the Lock button which is present in the top of the iPhone, this will automatically takes a screenshot of the current screen and saves that image into your photo album automatically.

How to check current version of iOS software in iPhone

If you would like to know your current version of iOS software of your iPhone, Tap the ‘Settings’ icon -> Tap the ‘General’ icon -> Then Tap on the ‘About’. In the About screen you can see an option ‘Version’ which lets you know about your iOS version in your iPhone. Other than Version you can view so many options like What is the ‘Network’ you are using, How many ‘Songs’ are available in your iPhone etc.

How to save webpage images to your iPhone

While you were in Safari browser in iPhone, if you like an image in a website and want to save that image to your local iPhone Camera Roll then just touch and hold an image to Save it [Save Image] or Copy it [Copy] by the options provided in iPhone.

How to ‘Copy’ and ‘Paste’ text from a Webpage / Mail to iPhone Notes (or) any other options provided

If you want to ‘Copy’ and ‘Paste’ a text from a Webpage / Mail to iPhone Notes, here are the steps to go. Touch and hold a text or a message which you want to Copy – then double click on the Home button twice, it will showcase respective icons at the bottom of the screen in that scroll to select ‘Notes’ icon – tap to open that, after opening Notes, touch and hold to paste the text accordingly. In this way you can copy email id / link / phone no. from a webpage (or) mail – follow the same procedure what we have above.

How to view text in a Magnifying Glass

If you would like to view text in a Magnifying Glass, then simply hold a text or area of text to get a Magnifying Glass Popup. This helps users who could not see the small text properly – I like this feature a lot.

How to call a friend / Call to a new number / Play Favorite Tune & more using Voice Control Option in iPhone

If you want to call your friend / loved once from the list present in contacts (or) want to call to a new number (or) want to play music which you like – Using Voice Control its simple to achieve this. Just hold Home button on your iPhone for a while, it will take you to Voice Control feature – This feature helps us in calling to a new number by saying ‘Call’ followed by the number, or if you want to call to your friend who were listed in contact list – say, ‘Call’ to ‘John’, and want to play your favorite tune you can do so by simply using Voice Control by saying ‘Play’ followed by the favorite tune.

How to find a word / text in iPhone Safari Browser

While you were browsing a webpage in iPhone Safari Browser, if you want to search a word / text in that webpage. Then just follow this steps: In iPhone Safari Browser, next to address bar – you will see a Google Search Box, in that type in your word to search, it will showcase number of instances present on that page click on one instance and navigate to other instance by tapping ‘Next’ option provided.

How to open a link in a New Page from iPhone

If you would like to open a link in a New Page of Safari browser in iPhone, simply hold the link with your finger to get options like ‘Open’, ‘Open in New Page’ and ‘Copy’ – then tap on ‘Open in New Page’ option provided, it will open that link in a new page of Safari.

Apple iPhone Apps For Everything – Part 1

admin — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:18:49 +0000

Its been few months from now using my awesome Apple iPhone. It is helping me a lot in all aspects of my life – I love to use my iPhone when I’m at work, when I’m moving from one location to other. My day will not start without this as it has got tons of Apps which helps in my daily life and make me very busy. Some Apps even helps us all the way in Business, Banking, Cooking, Music, For Managing Money, For Traveling etc., Some apps are absolutely free but some apps were worth buying it. Below are some of the most widely used apps which you would love to have in your iPhone.

Apps Related To Business

List of iPhone apps which are widely used for your Business to grow.

Square

Website: https://www.squareup.com/
Apple Store URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/square/id335393788?mt=8

Square is a mobile POS app which is commonly called as mobile payment system which enables you to accept credit card payments through your iPhone app with free card reader plugged in. It is a new way of accepting credit card payments from your valuable customers and friends with no contracts, no monthly fee, or no hidden costs but with only 2.75% of charge per transaction. If you want to grab a free card reader you need to initially signup with Square. This app has got built-in analytics like track sales, collect tips and tax, and send electronic receipts via email or text message. It is safe and secure, it meets all industry standards on all the transactions you made through Square.

GoPayment

Website: http://gopayment.com/
Apple Store URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/intuit-gopayment-credit-card/id324389392?mt=8

A mobile payment system, which allows you to accept all the respective bank cards. It is compatible with all modern devices like Apple, BlackBerry and Android devices. It can accept all compatible cards like Visa, MasterCard, AmericanExpress, Discover. You can give it a try by signing up, download free app, and plug the free card reader into your mobile device. Here the transaction fee would be very less like it would be 2.7% per transaction with no hidden charges, no monthly fees and with no contracts – you can cancel anytime.

Credit Card Machine – By Paynet Systems, Inc

Website: http://paynetsystems.com/
Apple Store URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/credit-card-terminal/id290137919?mt=8

Paynet Systems is a leading “Full Service” provider of credit card processing solutions. Its services and secure payment platform empower businesses to increase sales while simultaneously providing convenience, mobility and a positive user experience.

Paynet Systems delivers our customers overall savings and virtually unlimited solution options without compromising the highest quality service your business deserves. Our merchant service expertise, commitment to client satisfaction, achievements and value-added solutions make Paynet Systems the clear choice for any business. Just choose your best business type and proceed with this system with low cost starter program it is as low as $10 per month.

Best Seller 2.0

Website: http://www.bestsellerapp.com/en/
Apple Store URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bestseller-point-of-sale/id414782271?mt=8&ls=1

BestSeller is a best application for the iPhone to take orders, invoices and collecting payments. It can synchronize with growing list of ERPs, CRMs & accounting packages.

Credit Card Terminal

Website: http://www.innerfence.com/
Apple Store URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bestseller-point-of-sale/id414782271?mt=8&ls=1

Convert your iPhone device to Credit Card Terminal and accept customers payment when you are on the go. Its a secure and robust app which is free to download from Apple Store.

Other Business Related Apps:

Apps Related To Social Networking

CLIQUE

Clique – The Modern Twitter Client is an on-the-go Twitter client for quick access to your multiple lists, multiple accounts and easy-to-organize Cliques of your own creation. For more visit official website here and here is the Apple Store URL

Facebook

Everyone knows about Facebook, Facebook for iPhone makes it easy to stay connected and share information with friends. Use your iPhone to start a conversation with Facebook Chat, check your friends’ latest photos and status updates, look up a phone number, or upload your own mobile photos to Facebook while on the go.

Website: Facebook App
Apple Store URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facebook/id284882215?mt=8

Twitter

Twitter App is the best app ever for tweeting your interest on the go, you can easily update your friends about your happenings and want to share any important stuff with limited text, yes you can go for this free app.

Website: Twitter App
Apple Store URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id333903271?mt=8

With this app you can connect to your professional network with most of the professional around the World. Find and connect with more than 120 millions of members who were already connected. You can share your content with your network from anywhere.

Website: LinkedIn App
Apple Store URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/linkedin/id288429040?mt=8

Myspace

With Myspace app you can browse to new content from anywhere without even logging in.

Website: Myspace App
Apple Store URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/myspace/id284792653?mt=8

Seesmic

Seesmic app allows you to manage multiple social media accounts on the go. You can manage multiple Twitter accounts, your facebook account, your Chatter accounts, a Ping.fm account.

Website: Seesmic App
Apple Store URL: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/seesmic/id320224577?mt=8

Netlog

Website: Netlog App
Apple Store URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/netlog/id296529070?mt=8

XING

Website: Netlog App
Apple Store URL: http://itunes.apple.com/app/xing/id297625850?mt=8

Hope you might like this article, more to come in next article with all updated apps. Please let me know your valuable feedback with the comments section provided below.

20+ Collection Of Different Clocks Which You Must See

admin — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 19:51:05 +0000

Clock! without which no one can start their life. Clock is an instrument which used to indicate, keep, and co-ordinate time. The word clock is derived ultimately (via Dutch, Northern French, and Medieval Latin) from the Celtic words clagan and clocca meaning “bell” [- Wikipedia.org]. We do have many types of time display methods like Analog Clock, Digital Clock, Auditory Clock. Here in this article you can view a variety of Clocks which you may have not seen before, some includes early mechanical clocks, Astronomical Clocks and different analog & digital clocks.

Below are some of the beautiful historical clocks which you must have a look.

Astronomical Clock

Image Source – Andrew Draskóy

Water Clock

Image Source – Bruce Cooke

Bracken House Clock

Image Source – Richardr

The Spiral Clock

Image Source – http://www.thespiralclock.com/

Gear Clock

Image Source – Rosemariek

Astronomical Clock – Italy

Image Source – cienne45

Globe Clock

Image Source – Sean Gallagher

Flip Clock

Image Source – Junichi Ishito

4 Digit Nixie Clock in Voltmeter

Image Source – Blue Metal

iPad Word Clock

Image Source – Simon Heys

Eternal Clock II

Image Source – Robbert van der Steeg

IN-14 Nixie Clock Display Initial Test

Image Source – Samwibatt

Cube Corner Clock

Image Source – Mark Wilson

Mechanical Clock

Image Source – William Braik

Marshall Fields’ Clock

Image Source – Terence Faircloth

Chinese Clock

Image Source – Jill Zhang

Buckingham Palace Clock

Image Source – Simon Barrett

The Zimmer Tower and The Wonder Clock

Image Source – Martin Beek

Berlin – World Time Clock – Revolving Sphere in Daylight

Image Source – Yen Baet

Astrological Clock set to run to the year 9999

Image Source – Curious Expeditions

The Clock at Jantar Mantar

Image Source – Kalpana Chatterjee

One of the first pocket watches, called “Nuremberg Egg”

Image Source – Pirkheimer

Hope you might have liked this article, let me know your valuable feedback on the same through below comments section provided.

Bunch Of Widely Used jQuery Context Menus

admin — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 05:12:58 +0000

Hi readers, I am back again with some spicy jQuery related article. In this article, you can view bunch of widely used jQuery Context Menus which can be used in various web projects depending on your requirement. I have just consolidated mostly used jQuery Context Menus to help developers to grab one and implement the same in there respective projects – before using check with the disclosures accordingly.

What is Context Menu: A Context Menu, which is also called as Contextual Menu – is the one that appears upon user interaction, such as a right mouse click or middle click mouse operation. In most of the Web Applications we see this feature when user right clicks on a particular table row – it should open up respective sub menu pertaining to that row level – for example: Add, Delete or Edit options. If user wants to delete that respective row from the existing table he/she can just select the ‘delete’ option from the context menu provided – that’s completes the job accordingly. Like wise, in many scenarios this Context Menu comes into use.

Below are some of the depicted Context Menus which are developed using jQuery

jQuery Context Menu Plugin

ContextMenu plugin

Jeegoocontext, a jQuery context menu plugin

Context Menu jQuery Plugin

jQuery Simple Context Menu

jQuery Context Menu

jQuery Context Menu Demo

Context Menu Samples vs Code

jQuery-VS-Context-Menu

jQuery Context Menu script

Context menu jquery plugin: jjmenu

ContextMenu plugin

Using jQuery to Create a Right Click Function to Save Website Logo

How To: Create Simple Jquery Right Click Cross browser Vertical Menu

jQuery Context Menu

Create a simple menu

Context Menu

Modify right-click menu behavior with jQuery

Hope this article might help everyone of you! please let me know your feedback on this through the comment section provided below.

What is Google Wallet and What it does for the people?

admin — Fri, 27 May 2011 20:40:14 +0000

The search engine giant “Google” introduces Google Wallet [http://www.google.com/wallet/] and Google Offers in an event in New York City. The concept behind this is to make your smartphone your wallet, all you need to do is download an app provided by Google into your android device and enjoy the offers on what you are purchasing. As the officials says this “Google Wallet does more than what your leather wallet do in our daily life. It stores thousands of payment cards and eventually your loyalty cards, gift cards, receipts, boarding passes, tickets, even your keys will be seamlessly synced to your Google Wallet.”

“Google Wallet has been designed for an open commerce ecosystem”. If you would like to know more about the vision of this Google Wallet – then try this link [http://www.google.com/wallet/vision.html] which briefs you more about the same on how this app can be used and where.

If you would like to know more on how this is going to work in real time then you need to move on to “How it works” section. You might be thinking whether this type of method is safe for your well owned money – experts says yes! Check out more on security.

If you are interested to know more about this Google Wallet, just click on the Notify me link available in the website.

Below are some of the videos which say all about Google Wallet, which might help you in understanding the features which are involved in it and on how it’s going to work in our real time.

Google Wallet Hands-On

Why are merchants excited about Google Wallet?

Google Wallet Today

Google Unveils “Google Wallet”

Link Checker and Website Analyzer Tool – A1 Website Analyzer

admin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:11:36 +0000

After developing a web page, developer next job would be validating that page to comply with the web standards. While developing a page you might miss out somethings, like to put on a link for a text. I do recommend on of the tool [A1 Web Analyzer] which is very easy to check the links whether the respective links were broken in any case and this tool can also be used to analyze a website very easily. You can see my older post on some of the Recommended tools to find broken links in your website.

A1 Web Analyzer:

With A1 Web Analyzer you can spell check, improve internal linking, validate your HTML and CSS, verify all pages have Google Analytics Installed and with this tool.

A1 Web Analyzer is a website and link analysis tool. It can show you broken links, file sizes, response codes, download times and similar of all pages in a website. If configured so, it can also HTML and CSS validate (using either W3C or Tidy), spell check and perform custom search for text/patterns throughout entire website.

For people focusing on SEO, it can calculate how internal link juice flows around the website. (This is useful if you want to ensure your website links your important website areas and pages the most.)

It has got unique features like:

HTML and CSS validate all pages within a website for errors.
Have link checker tool find and show broken links and broken redirects.
Analyze file sizes, response codes, download times etc. of all pages.
Optimize internal linking to focus link juice on pages you want indexed.

Broken links: Link analysis and validation ensures your website has no broken links.
HTML errors: HTML validator ensures pages are crawled and shown correctly.
CSS errors: CSS validator ensures visual elements render correctly in browsers.
Response time: Can the webserver respond to multiple concurrent requests?
Download time: Is the webserver CPU or bandwidth too slow at serving files?
Character set: If a page outputs this wrong, it can hinder indexing by search engines.
File size: Optimize bandwidth usage and download time caused by large pages and images.
PageRank sculpting: Have link juice flow to pages you want ranking high in search engines.
Page titles: Check if all page titles are optimized and none are duplicated.
META description: Verify page META description and keywords are relevant and optimized.
Custom search: Search and check all pages for custom text and code, e.g. Google Analytics.
Spell check: Check websites for spelling errors using a variety of spell checker dictionaries.

If you would like to know more about the same then move to A1 Website Analyzer website and analyze on how it works.