How to add Microdata BlogPosting in Blogger?

Download a free template from any website or buy a premium one. All of the Blogger templates already have microdata added to them.

BlogPosting Schema in Rich Snippet Testing Tool

What is microdata?

In simplest term, microdata is way to highlight some data from the whole to the search engines.

For example, you have a webpage about your company. It contains 3 paragraphs, in those there paragraphs you have -

1. name of the company
2. name of founder
3. address
4. phone number, etc. 

So, these are the minor details that can be highlighted.

How to add Microdata BlogPosting?

To add 

1. Go to Template, then Edit HTML.
2. Use Ctrl + F, to search for <data:post.body/>.
3. You will only find one occurrence of the above code.
4. Just above it add, <div itemscope='' itemtype='http://schema.org/BlogPosting><span itemprop='articleBody'>
5. Just below <data:post.body/>, add </span></div>.
6. Save it and you're done.
7. To check, go to Google Structured Data Testing tool. Put any of your article's URL and hit Preview button.

Top 10 Comedy YouTube Channel in India

People waste a lot of time on YouTube. Watching hours of YouTube video.

The people who don't are always wondering what do they actually do to kill hours. Watching random videos.

Top 10 Comedy YouTube Channel in India

1. All India Backchod (AIB) -All India Bakchod (a.k.a. AIB) is India's edgiest comedy collective. Co founded by comedians Gursimran Khamba and Tanmay Bhat, along with Rohan Joshi and Ashish Shakya, AIB believes in edgy, politically incorrect and several other other adjectives describing their humour. The 3 boys regularly perform stand up shows at auditoriums around the country.
   
   
   
   This is their YouTube channel where you can expect podcast episodes, sketches, live streaming of their comedy shows along with other sundry funnies. Recently AIB team came up with there sequel channel, AIB Doosra.
   
   
2. Bollywoodgandu - A channel by Akshay Kumar's chest hair waxer. He usually works with Schitz En Giggle, which comprises of Varun Thakur, Karan Talwar, Aadar Malik, Brij Bhakta and Neville Shah.
   
   
   
   
3. TheViralFeverVideos - Founded by Arunabhav kumar,  is a new age Media Brand, driven by the spirit of "Lights...Camera...Experiment !" with businesses in Branded Content, Live Events, TV Shows, Production Services & Youth Entertainment.
   
   
   
   All the episodes are created especially for the young audience, across genres like Humor/ Drama/ Trends etc. on its channels "TVF-Qtiyapa" & "TVF-RecycleBin".
   
   
4.  BeingIndian - The channel highlights quirks of people in India. Most of the videos revolves around talking to general public and taking their opinions and checking their awareness on different events happening around.
   
   
   
   
5. The Satya Show - This channel aims at bringing the truth into light. The videos focuses on Bollywood, politicians, IPL, etc. Videos are coupled with actual footage caught in the action.
   
   
   
   
6. ManiaKi Duniya - The channel consists of short animated cartoon movies. The channel has two series named, Bollywood Classroom and Mehta Kuch Nahi Kehta.
   
   Bollywood Classroom is about giving entirely new meaning to original bollywood songs. Mehta Kuch Nahi Kehta deals with a poor guy named Mehta who has a blabbering, short-tempered, psycho girlfriend. See it to relive your memories.
   
   
7. Shudh Desi Endings - This channels aims at bringing back old style bollywood movie endings to new movies. Shudh Desi Endings is full of animated series of new Bollywood movies. 
   
   
   
   
8. MeenFriedChickenCurry - Are you interested in documentary videos. This is a new channel with fun as well as interesting videos, presented in documentary  format. The channel currently have few videos only, support the channel to get more.
   
   
   
   
9. TroubleSeekerTeam - Do you love pranks? If yes, then this channel is for you. See some college students, doing pranks and they are really seeking some trouble out there.
   
   
   
   
10. Awkwardness Unlimited - Pranks never gets old. This channel is dedicated to putting people on the spot and creating awkward moments in public. Here, you will find unlimited supply of awkwardness, public pranks, social experiments, public trolling, Pickup Lines, etc.
    
    
    
    

So, now you know. And you are ready to kill some time and have a smile. Share with friends.

If, you have another channel you like to share, please comment below.

Make your Blogger Template load faster

A fast loading website is a good website. In terms of both SEO and user experience. Google PR algorithm take into consideration time spent in downloading a page. Also, the bounce rate, that is, how many users left your blog as soon as they visited, without navigating to another article on your blog.

When, page takes time to load user leave your page. Increasing bounce rate.

Minify JS and CSS in Blogger

Minified JS is must. In blogger platform, you have to play with codes to tweak your template's/theme's looks. But even in that case, you'll find yourself playing with HTML and CSS not with JavaScript.

After minifying JS it almost becomes unreadable. Still you don't have to worry about it, because you don't need to read them at all.

NOTE- Online JS Minifier(s) won't compress all of your JS or jQuery codes. Because Blogger replaces some special characters like " into equivalent HTML entity or codes like &quot; which would throw errors like -

Unexpected operator &

If you are non-technical publisher then, all JavaScript are placed in-between script HTML tags.

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
YOUR JS Codes are placed here
//]]>
</script>

So, now you know where your JS codes are.

1. Cut all the codes in-between //<![CDATA[ and //]]>.
2. Use any online JS minifier to generate minified code. 
3. Copy minified code and paste it from where you took those codes (in-between //<![CDATA[ and //]]>).

There could be jQuery, that won't minify using the above tools. So, leave them for now. A lot of modern templates have JS minified already.

How to know if it is jQuery?

By the time you will minify some JS codes, you will realize that there are no $ signs in simple JavaScript code. In jQuery, the $ if the short hand of jQuery function used to select different tags and attributes from DOM or Document Object Model.

Also, some special characters are converted into equivalent HTML entities, like " sign will be converted into &quot; that's why the online minify tool will show an error.

Optimizing CSS

Similarly, CSS you can aslo minify CSS. There are a number of online tools available. CSS is placed in <style> and </style> tags. But remember when doing so, don't kill the sequence in which they appear.

Normally, I won't do that or else it will become very hard to tweak CSS. Other way round, is to copy your CSS into any file. If, you are not planning to tweak any style codes then feel free to minify CSS.

Optimizing Images in Blogger

Having low size images would help your blog load faster. But reducing the size of images all way down will kill the quality of the image. So, first crop the image and then work on quality reduction. Sometimes, the crop will reduce enough size.

• One simple way out is by keeping only required part of the image. See how I reduced image of width 981px to 622px. So, reduce image size without loosing quality.

How to know time spent during downloading a page?

time spent in downloading a page

Google Webmaster tools lets you see the time spent downloading a page. Because you are on Blogger platform, so you will get the webmaster data without even verifying you blog.

Top things to know when blogging using Blogger

When it comes to blogging, people get confused about whether to use Blogger or WordPress. Then they go to biased reviews. Some favour Blogger other favour WordPress. Next, when bloggers learn or start learning about SEO they again get stuck whether to take WordPress or blogger.

WordPress maybe great in terms of SEO, but that doesn't mean SEO cannot be achieved by Blogger.



I use Blogger, and implementing SEO could make things go better. The only problem is that you have to jump into some coding.

Top things to know when blogging using Blogger

This is a list of all the article that I have done previously and now you can utilize all of them to be better blogger since day one.

1. Meta Description Tag - When crawling and indexing, description meta tags are paid attention to, by all major search engines. Description meta tags are used to add small description about your blog post or article. This description maybe used by Google and displayed as excerpt. Meta description for blogger
   
   
2. Custom Permalink - Blogger added this functionality in 2012. Now, users can throw-in a custom URL for each post. Previously URL were made automatically, by taking some words from the post title, which caused keyword loss if title has main keywords as last words of the title. Adding custom permalink
   
   
3. Custom 404 Page - Sometimes you have to remove some article causing users to land on not found error. You can create a custom 404 page with list of your top articles or search bar so that all readers landing on that page won't wander away.
   
   
4. Auto publish your feeds on Twitter - Traffic through social media is important. But to get that traffic you must share your own content online. But lack of time or attention may keep you from doing so. Using a FeedBurner tool that let you auto publish your feeds to twitter, you can check those "Oh! I forgot to tweet".
   
   
5. Auto publish your Facebook page status on Twitter - Bonus point. You already have published you Feed on twitter. But you can tweet same thing a hundred time. Don't make your followers feel spammed. So lets add only one more auto tweet, by tweeting Facebook fan page update to twitter.
   
   
6. Scheduling article - Let's say hypothetically you got a news, that was supposed to get published in tomorrow's news paper. Well, you had your Confidential sources. So, you can type your article today and schedule it to get published when you were fast asleep.
   

   It's better to be late then never.

   Similarly, you can also post article with past date.
   
   
7. Auto Publish on Google+ - Blogger blog have this build in functionality. As soon as you publish an article on Blogger it gets posted as an update on your Google+ profile or Google+ page. Your call. Go to, Google+ tab in Blogger to set auto publish.

Domain

• Blogger allow users to get a custom domain name and set it very easily. But Blogger does not allow users to publish their blog on naked or non-www version of domain. So, after setting up custom domain you need to redirect from non-www to www version.

Crawling and Indexing

When it comes to crawling and indexing, there are some major seach engine you must take care of. On top there is Google, then Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, Yandex, etc.

So every body knows about Google. So, lets jump to Bing and Yahoo. Working with Bing is divided into 3 steps,

1. Verification - Before you can do anything you need to tell Bing webmaster that you own the site. Bing Webmaster site verification process takes seconds.
   
   
2. Indexing - To get indexed you are required to submit your sitemap to Bing Webmaster tool. NOTE - Submitting sitemap doesn't mean that you'll get indexed, sitemaps just help search engine in crawling.
   
   
3. SEO Analyzer - A tool offered by Bing Webmaster that gives suggestion about how you can improve your page in terms of SEO.

You are done with Bing. Now Yahoo, Yahoo uses Bing. So, you are done with Yahoo as soon as you are done with Bing.

Fun stuff - Access robots.txt file of your blog. Robots.txt is used by robots to determine what should be accessed and what must be left.

www.sectortechno.com/robots.txt

Russian Search Engine Yandex

• Russia have their own local search engine. So, you can also submit your site to Yandex.

Fun thing to do

1. Just a fun thing to do. When going through other blogs, doesn't matter if they rank higher or lower you might want to know if the website runs on Blogger or on WordPress. There are other platforms too, by the way.

FeedBurner

Publishers who use Blogger use FeedBurner too. FeedBurner allows publishers to collect subscribers or regular reader. Every post that you will publish will get emailed to your subscriber's inbox.

1. Get More subscribers - To subscribe a user has to input email address into your FeedBurner subscription form. So, place a beautiful FeedBurner subscription form on your blog.
   
   
2. FeedBurner Branding - If you are using custom domain name on you Blogger blog, then you should also brand your feedburner with custom domain name.
   
   
3. Custom new subscriber email - When a user puts email address and hit submit, they are never added to your subscribers list automatically. Instead, they will first receive an email to verify subscription. You can use  FeedBurner customize verification email.

Create your eBook

• Create eBook download system with download stats. But don't unnecessarily do it. Don't piss off your loyal readers who are wasting time in downloading your content.
  
  Let me tell you, the person downloading your eBook is a fan or is in need.

Ubuntu for Bloggers

Number of Companies are adopting Ubuntu, and selling laptop units packaged with Ubuntu OS. This one is my personal experience -

Consumers want Windows OS, so laptop sellers (the middle mens) at store Format new out-of-the-box unit and install pirated version of Windows OS.

You can track this, if your laptop is running on Windows and Windows sticker is not on your unit. Also, look for Ubuntu sticker on your system's body.

So, if your system is packed with Ubuntu. There you need to know what apps blogger require on Ubuntu.

How to Bring back classic menu on Ubuntu?

Newer versions of Ubuntu have perfectly handled the application search and access. Now, you only need to press that super key and type to search. So, the dash is just enough.

ALSO SEE: Customize Ubuntu for bloggers

In older versions, applications were accessed from classic menu. Some users still find it better for easily accessing applications and want classic menu back on Ubuntu.

Classic Menu on Ubuntu 14.04

Using the above is completely user's choice some find it better others find it of no use. The layout and orientation is different from the original. But if you'll use it you'll get familiar in couple of hours.

To get Classic Menu-

1. Go to software center and search for ClassicMenu Indicator, and Install it.

How to install Sublime Text theme on Netbeans?

PHP developers love Sublime Text. I have Sublime Text installed on Ubuntu. But Sublime Text is a text editor with modern features like code completion, syntax highlighting, etc.

For bigger projects or when you have to meet deadlines, you are required to use some IDE to decrease development time.

ALSO SEE: Install NetBeans IDE 8.0 on Ubuntu

Import Sublime Text theme

How to install Sublime Text theme on NetBeans IDE?

1. Download Sublime Text theme.
2. Open NetBeans, go to Tools then Options, and then Import.
3. Browse and select the downloaded .zip file. And hit OK.

This will force your IDE to restart. After restart your theme will become active.

NOTE - Systax Highlighting is only applicable for HTML, CSS, XML and PHP codes only.

How to install NetBeans IDE 8.0 on Ubuntu?

NetBeans IDE 7.0.1 is available on Ubuntu's Software Center. But the latest stable version online is 8.0. Also using the method below you are required to get programming language specific bundle only.

If you are PHP developer, then why would you install IDE for Java or C or C++.

Installing Netbeans IDE 8.0

1. Go to NetBeans official website and download the bundle required. There are 5 NetBeans bundle. NetBeans for Java SE, Java EE, C/C++, HTML5 & PHP, All (this package will support all individual bundles).
2. The file downloaded will have a .sh extension.
3. You have to make the file executable. To do so follow the steps below-

• Right click on the file, select Properties.
• Navigate to Permission Tab.
• Check Allow executing file as program option.

Making file executable

NOTE - In the above method, if Group has Read-only permission the above method won't work. As soon as you'll check it, it will automatically get unchecked.

Using terminal to make file executable

sudo chmod +x 'path/to/file.sh'

To execute

sudo bash 'path/to/file.sh'

The program will also search for JVM on your system. It will also automatically install some updates while installing like Symphony framework, etc. I did only PHP bundle installation.

Android Auto: How Google can make it better?

The Google I/O last month led to the launch of a range of Android products. The preview of the next version of Android — Android L — was shown off. Also updates to the Google Chromecast were announced along with the introduction of Android TV. Then there’s Android Wear; spawning the next generation of smartwatches. We pretty much knew about most of these before the keynote, except for Android Auto.

Android Auto

It’s a fact that people now spend a considerable amount of time in their cars. The car population has been on a rise and can be expected to grow consistently. Android Auto has been introduced by Google to bring the Android experience to the car. What Android Auto does is provide a receiver that will display your Android phone on it. Just like the Chromecast made your TV smarter, Google plans to do the same to your car with Android Auto.

Car with Android Auto Dash

The software for Android Auto will run from the phone and will be displayed on the dashboard of the car. From what Google demoed at the I/O, it is certain that it’ll do navigation, play your music etc. But come to think of it most existing car infotainment systems already do that. The “Ok Google” functionality is new you’d say, well not really. Some car have voice input available but it might not be as good as Google is.

The point I’m trying to make here is that Android Auto is not doing anything extraordinary compared to what currently exists in the market. I was expecting more from Google, you simple can’t sell a dumb unit with a car that needs a phone to run the whole damn thing. A couple of questions come to mind when I think about this.

What if I don’t want to connect my phone to the head unit, will it be useless without it?

Will it play FM Radio or music from a flash drive if I want it to?

What if I have an Apple iPhone 5s? Do I need to change my buying decision just so that the system is compatible with my phone?

If you still manage to get the car you want with Android Auto, the experience still could’ve been better. Google has not made any information public about integrated on-board diagnostics, the OBD-II (On Board Diagnostics) port is become standard on all cars since 1996. Google could use it to make Android Auto better. Imagine the experience where the Android Auto console could show details about the car. Diagnose problem on the go and since its connected to your phone anyway maybe send it to the manufacturer. Maybe book an appointment for a maintenance check with a dealer. The possibilities are endless, these updates might come in later after a while who knows.

Android Auto Alliance

Google has a good concept in hand and the list of manufacturers in the Automotive Alliance is impressive. There are also aftermarket system providers who are part of the Alliance so you expect some Android Auto enabled head units finding their way in older cars.

Author Bio: Aditya Shenoy, Associate Editor at Pricebaba.com
A management graduate, passionate about gadgets and automobiles. Likes to be up to date about the latest things in the tech industry. An avid Android user who Lives to Drive. Follow me on twitter @adishenoy.

How to install JDK 8 on Ubuntu?

JDK 8 on Ubuntu

When setting up JDK 8 or any other version in Windows platform you are required to set PATH environment variable manually. In case of Ubuntu, you can skip that step and everything will work jut fine.

Install JDK 8

Oracle JDK 8 stable version was released on 18th of March, 2014.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

Check Java Version

To check the version of Java. just check the version of java tool. To get a complete set of options just type java in terminal and hit enter.

$ java -version

java version "1.8.0_11"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_11-b12)
Java Hotspot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.11-b03, mixed mode)

Check Javac tool version

$ javac -version
javac 1.8.0_11

How to switch to JDK 7?

$ sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-7-oracle

To switch back to JDK8,

$ sudo update-java-alternatives -s java-8-oracle

What if OpenJDK is also installed?

No, need to worry. After installing JDK 8 via ppa, it will get set as default. But, if openJDK is installed then, while trying to switch back to JDK 7, the above command will not work.

Make your email, website, blogs, twitter public on Facebook

Fans, users, new customer, etc want to contact you. Some users have their contact on business cards or on their websites, but not all.

A lot of users, pick emails and other data from Facebook profile. Just to keep an option open. Moreover, you can control which email to show to which user. This will help you, and you won't get work related emails on your personal email account and vice versa.

You can also select which email to put on your timeline.

How to make your social profile and email public?

1. Go to your Profile.
2. Navigate to About tab, then to Contact and Basic Info.
3. Hit edit button in Email, Website, Screen Names.
4. In Email, you should add all of your email contacts. But visibility of each email can be altered individualy. Furthermore, in email you can choose whether to show emails on Facebook timeline or not.

Make social profiles visible on Facebook

You have any story to share like your YouTube video or channel, gadget, Windows, Mac or Ubuntu app. Use contact form to submit the link or any description.

How to record better quality sound without buying expensive microphones?

Screencast are broken into modules. Improve each module and you'll get high quality screencast video.

These modules are-

1. Video
2. Audio

Record better quality sound for screencast

To record screencast a number of screencast software are available, like Camtasia, Kazam for Linux, etc.

These will help you in creating HD video in various format like avi, mp4, etc.

When it comes to recording sound you need a microphone. Inbuilt microphones of laptops, they pick up vibrations from system's fan and also from table, etc.

How to record better quality audio?
Use your phone. Android users,

1. Open Sound Recorder.
2. From menu select Voice Quality.
3. Select High.

Just an experiment, play any song on loud speaker and record in High, Mid and Low voice quality. Now, playback the recorded sound to notice the difference.

After recording, open the file with audio editing software like Audacity to make any necessary changes. One of the main edits will include noise reduction. Now, export the sound in format like mp3, etc. Use this exported audio in your video maker.



Noise reduction is a little bit challenging because noise may vary according to your location and conditions. There are different type of noise.

The above video will explain you the concept. Rest is practise. Now, get ready for better quality screencast.

One more tip, before making screencast longer than 30 seconds, first create a word document and write whatever you have to speak. Then use a parallel screen or printout this will make video shorter.

Top applications to install on Ubuntu for Bloggers

Ubuntu is the third most used Operating System. Ubuntu is fast and secure and is backed up by a lot of free software.

For blogging, there are some features and applications that are must. So, here is a list of all.

Ubuntu for Bloggers

Top Applications to install on Ubuntu

Note taking Application - Springseed

On windows and other platforms like Android, people use applications like Evernote. Evernote is a powerful note taking application. Unfortunately, Evernote is not available for Ubuntu.

Springseed

Therefore, we need to switch to other note taking apps. Springseed is best for blogger. Springseed has a very clean and simple UI.

Other app like NixNote is also available, and NixNote/NeverNote uses Evernote's server to store data. So, you can access you notes from anywhere.

Sticky Notes - Xpad

Windows provide Sticky Note for making small notes and stick them to your system's desktop just like your refrigerator. Xpad is just like Window's sticky note app.

Create notes, change color of each note. Type in whatever is important and close it without saving your content manually.

Social Networking clients - Turpial and Empathy

Social Networking is very important for driving traffic to your blog. Creating and maintaining connections. Friends are not interested in your work, but other bloggers from around the globe are.

Turpial, is a Twitter client. This client will provide all basic feature to maintain a twitter account on the go. You can create columns of whatever is most important to you like your Twitter timeline or maybe mentions.

Twitter Client for Ubuntu - Turpial

You can update status on the go without even launching the app. Turpial get integrated with Ubuntu. You can set your own refresh time after with app will fetch new updates rather than getting instant updates. You'll get disturbed once.

Status update will allow you to put permalinks, images, etc. Send direct messages.

Image editing software - GIMP Image Editor

Images adds look and feel to a blog post. Also, meta tags in images are used to provide better SEO to an article.

Images have to look good great and professional blogger even use royalty free Stock images. But, having control over the size of images are of great concern.

Vector Editor - Inkscape

Vector Editors are hard to use. You need to have good practise. But creating great illustrations can be done using Vector Graphic software.

Browser - Firefox and Chrome

Firefox is default web browser but some user are comfortable only with Chrome web browsers. Such users can download and install Chromium web browser available for Linux disro. Available in Ubuntu's Software Center.

Chrome browser goes with the name of Chromium in penguin's world.

Email Client - ThunderBird

ThunderBird is default email client on Ubuntu. Again, there are other alternatives but not very good. ThunderBird got privileged by being a part of the Operating System. It can be customized with rich add-ons.

ScreenShot and Screencast - Kazam

Screenshot, is an inbuilt screenshot taking app.

To create screencast, apps need to be installed. Again, there are a number of applications available. Kazam Screencast app is one of the best. Light weight, fast, and will help you in recording low size HD screencast. You can change FPS (frames per second) from preferences. FPS can be made to vary from 1 to 60 fps.

WEBM, MP4 and AVI format videos can be created. You can also record sound from speakers(song playing on your system will get recorded) or microphones.

Kazam also has an option to take screenshot.

How to install Sublime Text in Ubuntu?

Sublime Text in loved most among PHP programmers. Sublime Text is a cross platform text and source code editor. Sublime text is not available from Software Center.

It is not an IDE or Integrated Development Environment. But provides some features like code highlighting, auto code completion, multiple selections, split editing, distraction free mode, etc.

Sublime Text on Ubuntu

How to install Sublime Text on Ubuntu?

1. Go to Sublime text official website, and select to download Sublime Text 3 Beta release.
2. From beta version page download 32 bit or 64 bit version. From here you will get a file with .deb extension. Don't download the one with .tar.bz2 extension.
3. Now, double click on the file. It will get opened in software center, and will install.

NOTE- If you'll download file with .tar.bz2  extension. You're required to extract the file and then double click the executable file again and again to run Sublime Text.
Also, it won't get installed on your system, and you cannot search Sublime Text from Search bar.

Finally, Orkut is shutting down

All Orkut users received last email(s) from Orkut. Orkut will shut down on September 30. 2014. All the details are provided in the email, copy of email is given below. But still, important points-

• Orkut will close on 30th September 2014.
• Users can download a backup of their data, which will be available till September 2014.

Users data, mainly all the pictures that you uploaded on Orkut, some years back.

How to backup your Google data on services like youtube, blogger, etc.

Farewell mail from Orkut

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

How to view Security Certificate of Websites on Android devices?

Website offer an additional layer of security, by implementing secure server protocols (https). HTTPS stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer. Implemented using OpenSSL, etc. This

How to view security certificate on Android devices?

1. Open any website having https URL's.
2. Tap on the Lock icon.
3. A pop up will show up, click on "View Certificate" option.
4. The Security Certificate will pop up.

View Security Certificate on desktop

To view these certificates on desktop. Follow the steps below in browser image. Certificates can be viewed from all major browsers.

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

Android L - Google I/O 2014 Keynote - Brief Introduction

Next version of Android OS is ready to be launched later this autumn, and will bring to users a lot of better features.

According to Google I/O 2014 - Keynote Android L will have more than 5000 API. Newer libraries for developers. One of the key feature in new UI (user interface) will be animation. New buttons and taps will provide active feedback. For example, ripple on touches/taps.

A single application design will update according to the screen size (watch, smartphone, tablet, etc.). Typography and grid is changed to make text look a lot more clean. A library named "Polymer" will take web experience to a whole new level, with animation running at 60fps.

Users can now access all notifications from the lock screen. The notifications will be prioritized to give users the most relevant and useful notifications.




For developers, the Preview version of Android L is available from June 26th. Full version will be available to users later this year in autumn.

Google's first priority has always been its users or consumers. So, Android L is made to evolve in accordance to human needs. When using any Android smartphones, the first thing a user wants is to get fast notification of everything. Smartphones have redefined online social life. Android L will take it to a step further with even better innovations.



On developers side, Android L will have a depth specification. This will allow developers to arrange elements, and elements will virtually cast shadows in real time.

A new library named, Pallets will automatically extract colors from images to display on the applications. Developers can now customize entry and exit animation.

Watch full details on Google I/O 2014 Keynote.

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

Adsense India got updated, get money via wire transfer

Adsense is upgrading it's Payment page that will allow publishers to enjoy faster payment options. Along with this update, Adsense will discontinue providing payments by cheque. No more waiting for long time, and then rushing to bank to deposit your cheque. In case your city don't have any CitiBank branch, then it may take upto 14 days to get your cheque cleared.

But now, Adsense allows Wire transfers. With wire transfer, your funds will get transferred directly to your bank account.

How to setup wire transfer in Adsense?

1. Log-in into your Adsense account.
2. Navigate to your "Payments" page and then to "Payment settings" tab.
3. Click "Add a new form of payment", a form will open up. Fill all the details, account holder's name, bank name, IFSC number of your bank, SWIFT-BIC code and account number. All the other details are optional. Look if they apply in your case.
4. Hit Save button.

All Indian banks SWIFT-BIC codes are provided on http://www.theswiftcodes.com/india/. To get IFSC code use http://www.ifsccodebank.com/ website. Just to be on the safe side confirm these codes from your Bank.

More Control on your Billing

With new Payment page publishers can also control "Hold Payment" feature more efficiently. User can select date range to hold payments.

Also, Minimum threshold can be altered. Default value is still $100. Which can b changed to any value you like.

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

How to change Time Zone in Google Adsense?

Analyzing Adsense revenue data allows Adsense publishers to keep a track on their revenue generation. Maximum revenue can come from a specific country, in a specific interval of time.

Change Time Zone in Google Adsense

Navigation

1. Log-in into your Adsense Account.
2. Switch to "Settings" page using the wheel icon from top right corner.
3. Now, switch to "Account information" tab.
4. Hit the "edit" link, in the Time Zone row. Time Zone are set to Pacific Time (-07:00) by default. Also, "Changing your time zone will affect AdSense performance reports for your account from today onwards. Your billing information will remain in Pacific Time."
5. Hit Save button and your changes will take effect.

This means you billing cycle's time zone will continue using the default value. All of your billing process will be done in Pacific Time Zone.

Time Zone in Google Adsense

Now, you can view and analyze all of your Adsense data in your preferred time zone.

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

Top 10 Resources to learn photography from novice to pro

Photography, is key ingredient to capture memories as well as breath taking moments. Taking great photos are now a part of life. The list starts from Facebook, and continues to school or college magazines, pamphlets, websites, blogs, family albums, instagram, etc.

Or maybe you want to opt photography as your profession. You need to learn, practice and improve as much as you can.

Learn photography from novice to pro

1. Know your product with Nikon

I like NIKON DSLR's but I don't want to go biased on their product. But Nikon have a great video library for each of their products. Watch the videos to learn how to use DSLR cameras.

Along with the product other technical aspects are also explained in the videos, which may differ from camera to camera, but you'll learn something new about beginner level photography techniques.

2. Read Some great articles from Nikon

Read more than 300 articles from Nikon

Reading great tips is just the perfect way to start. Take some dosage from the professionals. Learn topics like ISO, Macro, Aperture, Exposure, Flash, Close-Up, Focal Length, HDR, Panorama, etc.

One of the best features provided here is the ability to filter content on the basis of "Beginner content first", "Advanced content first", etc.

3. Digital Photography School

Well, if you want to be a pro. Learn from pro. Digital Photography School is maintained by Darren Rowse.

The site provides great tips and tutorials on -
"Tips for Beginners", "Portrait Photography", "Landscape Photography", "Lightroom tips", "Photoshop tips", "Camera and Equipments", etc.

4. Learn Basic Photography

Learn about types of camera, exposure, basic controls, exposure shutter speed, basic photography, tips while purchasing equipments, camera reviews, etc.

5. YouTube Channels

You might not be able to experiment all the tutorials present on YouTube. because of the expensive gears. But still there is the other side, that will help you in taking great pictures, portraits, landscapes, etc.

Here is a small list subscribe these -

• Bert Stephani
• PeachpitTV
• Rick's Pixel Magic

6. Learn Photo editing tools

Great photos speak. That is the art, conveying messages from the image itself. A simple portrait photograph, will convey an entirely different message if black and white or sepia as compared to the one with vibrant colors.

You don't need to be a master in Adobe Photoshop or any-other professional software package. If you cannot afford Photoshop right now or photoshop looks hard to learn, go for open source alternatives. GIMP image editor and Paint .NET, etc.

 Here are some YouTube channel on Photo Editing tools -

• Photoshop Training Channel
• AJ Wood
• Mac Photography Tips
• Lynda

7. Stock Images

This one is not exactly a resource to learn photography, directly. But if you can sell some of your work, then it is like automatic motivation. It will keep you going, at-least you will be taking photographs more professionally. You will learn from other people's work. Top sellers, recent uploads, high quality images, creativity, etc.

iStock stock image website

A small list of stock images websites-

• Fololia
• Dreamstime
• iStock
• Shutterstock
• Corbis
• Veer

8. Join Groups and communities

Joining groups or communities on Facebook, Google Plus, etc. is a great way to get help from other professionals photographers. All you need to do is ask question, you'll get your problems solved.

As you will learn, you will also be able to answer other users problems. This will help you in getting recognized as a photographer. You can build a fan base too.

9. Photography certifications

A car mechanic and an engineer, both can repair a car. The difference lies in the in-depth study of the subject. That applies when it comes to being a photographer.

Whenever you feel like getting the badge, go for a certification exam. It will help you in standing out from the crowd. You can easily get a job too. One such certification is PPA certification.

If you know more certification courses available national or international level. Please comment below ↓ ↓ ↓.

10. Get your hands dirty

This is the most important part of being a photographer. Your experience with different aspects of photography, is the best tutor, student and motivator.

Got any more resources, please comment below  ↓↓↓ and I'll add them in the list.

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

Should you change your password after HeartBleed - OpenSSL

First of all,

What is OpenSSL?

OpenSSL is an open source commercial-grade security implementation toolkit. It is used to implement SSL (Secure Socket Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) security protocols. OpenSSL is used by a number of small and big firms, even Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, etc. use it.

What is HeartBleed?

HeartBleed is security bug or a programming error that can help hackers exploit all the websites using OpenSSL.

Should you change your password after HeartBleed

Here is a list of websites and apps affected or remained untouched by HeartBleed bug. See if you need to change you passwords orb not.

To discuss about HeartBleed security flaw, comment below ↓ ↓ ↓

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

Play Sperm Race on Windows Phone - Brief Review

If you haven’t encountered it yet, sperm race is an endless racing game, with a 3D perspective. Tap down the player sperm, and move it around other sperms, making it sure that you do not touch any of the hazardous ones. The score is based on the number of Enemy Sperms that you have surpassed. The game starts with a slow speed, but with time, the number of enemies and their speed keeps on increasing, hence making it more and more difficult to make higher scores.

Play Sperm Race on Windows Phone

Sperm Race is a free download, currently present only on the windows phone store, but the developer promises to deploy one soon to the android store.

Sperm Race gameplay

Sperm Race is all about smooth graphics. The game never showed any kind of stutters or lag what so ever. I really liked the way how the front ending of the game has been done, specially the 3D menu screen. Every developer works on the playing scene, but this one has a phenomenal menu screen too, so is its play scene. Also, its awesome that this game supports the parallax view of windows 8.1, right from the first day of its launch!



No strategy of game playing is required, its a perfect boredom buster!!

My Verdict: As the developer says..DOWNLOAD AND START LOADING NEW LIFE!!!

Link to Windows Phone Store : Sperm Race on Windows Store

PHP Coding - Top 5 ways to get help from PHP Programmers

Lets start with the problem. You know PHP reasonably good, but still you may find problems with PHP code or maybe MySQL. But what about Linux, I mean the Linux based Operating Systems like Ubuntu, etc.

PHP is great but some day you might wanna work with LAMP stack. You need somebody to help you out with Linux. The permissions can be tricky.

Top 5 ways to get help from PHP Programmers

Here are some resources that, I found extremely useful. Utilize them all as much as you like. But remember don't unnecessarily annoy other users.

Get help from PHP programmers

Google Plus 

Majority is still not using Google Plus. But Google Plus groups have high quality users. Especially, PHP Programmers Community, you will get instant answers here. But ask the right question.

Don't be like, "Hey, I have no idea what I am asking?". And don't you are ask too simple questions. The questions that can be very easily Googled.

Google 

Don't forget. If you are not willing to Google, then better stop programming. If you are not in the habit of Googling, start it by searching you name on Google's web search and image search. See what you can get.

Okay stop searching for your own name. Back to business. Search your problems.

PHP Manual

How to learn PHP web development? Try as much as you want. But you'll find that even in the best books entire PHP is not covered. Maximum authors leave a number of functions unattended. Some function don't have all the optional parameters explained properly.

In the foot note, there are references of PHP Manual. Maybe a bit uncomfortable but the best book on Earth is PHP's own PHP Manual.

StackOverflow

Maximum of your queries are already answered on StackOverflow's forums. Don't miss them. Stack Overflow comes in handy.

Facebook Groups

Not exactly my choice. Facebook can give you hard times in finding the right PHP groups. Also, Facebook is full of idiots. No offence. But you may find users commenting idiotic stuff instead of answers.


Hey, Want any help from me comment below ↓ ↓ ↓

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

Top 3 front end resources that every start up web developer should know

Start Up, a term very common among programmers. Doesn't matter if your application is a web application or a system software package or maybe a console application. To get the required visibility, every start up needs a website. But creating a premium web design is not as easy as it may look.

Top 3 front end resources that every start up web developer should know

When I created my first start up, I never knew these things even existed. But now, you will know a small but complete set of resources for developing premium front end. All resources given here are related to bootstrap front end framework.

Top 3 front end resources that every start up web developer should know

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is a complete front end framework. Bootstrap is a mobile first front end framework, that is, your design will be responsive. With the 12 grid layout you can manage your screen space very efficiently. Bootstrap provides a great documentation, within minutes you can get going.

One best thing about bootstrap is its super fast CDN. Entire bootstrap can be imported from the CDN server directly, and save server cost. Bootstrap CDN.

NOTE - Some functionality require jQuery to work. So, don't forget to include jQuery in your source code.

Bootsnipp

Bootstrap is used by millions, so there are a great chances of ending up with kind of similar design. Therefore there is a need to customize you front end. This is exactly where Bootsnipp comes in. Bootsnipp is a free HTML snippets to use in your project.

These includes a set of customized codes to create various components like forms, login buttons, social login buttons, tables, pop ups, etc. See the previews, and grab the HTML and CSS from Bootsnipp.

Font Awesome

Bootstrap provides a set of icons to use in form of Sprite Sheets. These icons are known as glyphs. But as a developer you might want more.

Font Awesome provides great set of hight quality icons for free. Now, you can push your design beyond the limit. Another GREAT news, Font Awesome too, is on CDN. You can import directly into your source code.

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

Top Science Channels on YouTube

YouTube is full of videos. Of-course videos. and videos. But like Google, YouTube too is a search engine. But like any other search engine, you need to know the best search phrase to land yourself on right results. So, here is a small list that features top science channels on youtube.

Here are some channels that are full of science videos. Enjoy, get entertained and gain knowledge. You won't similar knowledge even on Discovery and National Geographic channel.

Top Science Channels on YouTube

Science channels on YouTube that are listed here do not deal with numerical part. So, no need to fear these videos are as awesome as Sci-Fi movies.

Veritasium

Veritasium deal with answering very simple science questions. These video will amaze you that people out there, including me and you, don't have answers to very simple questions. See the world's new way of approaching daily life events. Join over 1 million other YouTube subscribers.

2Veritasium

If you want to take a step ahead. Then you might be interested in these talk videos. Here you will get behind the scenes videos. These are not exactly science videos. In these videos, Derek Muller will be talking to you on different subjects. Sharing his experience.

Vsauce 1,Vsauce 2 and Vsauce 3

All of the Vsauce channels were discussed, in the previous fact file channels on YouTube article. Vsauce 1 deals with answering the laws of physics, chemistry and biology. The second channel, collection of videos from all around the globe featuring weird people and events. The third channel, Vsauce 3, deals with facts about videos game.

AsapScience

Videos on amazing science facts and various fact files. After all "Science is amazing". Subscribe to these channels and have some scientific fun.

Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.