Friday, 4 April 2014

How to root any Android device in one click?

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Maximum Android devices run slow then they are supposed to. You can make them run faster. Moreover a lot of you phone storage is full with bloatware, those software that comes pre-installed in your Android phone you never used and you'll never use.

Remove bloatware from Android devices

For example, a bunch of pre-installed Carrier App Stores like "Samsung App" and pre-installed games that are on trial and you are allowed to play only certain times. Without rooting the device, you can disable the application.

Disadvantages of rooting Android device

  1. Warranty void - Your rooted Android smartphone will be considered as out of warranty.
  2. Bricking you phone - As after rooting you will be able to remove a number of applications from you device. So, it is possible that you'll remove some important app that is required by you phone to work properly. 

Advantages of rooting

You can free a lot of phone memory by removing bloatware from you device. You will also have greater amount of RAM.

How to root any Android device in one click?

There are software that can save you from the technical part. One click and you will be done with rooting your Android device. The best part another click and you can un-root it too. The two software packages are  Kingo Root and SuperOneClick.

Kingo ROOT

how to root any Android device in one click
How to root any Android device in one click
  1. Go to "Developer options" and check "USB debugging".
  2. Connect your phone to your computer and launch Kingo ROOT application.
  3. Wait for the application to connect to your Android device.
  4. Click the Root button and wait till all the processing is done.

enable usb debugging option in Android
USB debugging option in Android 4.1.1
NOTE -  In case you will connect your device without turning on the USB debugging option. The application will automatically guide you through the process with the help of screen shots.

SuperOneClick

This application also follows similar steps. Enable USB debugging from developer options. Connect and hit the big ROOT button.



In case of any queries feel free to comment below. Enjoy


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

Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Make your Selfie your Gmail theme

| Tuesday, April 01, 2014 | | 1 Comment so far

Takin selfie is now a trend. In case you don't know, a selfie is a portrait or DP (Digital Picture) of yourself usually from a hand held digital camers.

Gail now allows users to place their own images like selfies as their Gmail's background image. Gmail also allows you to take your own picture via your WebCam, to help you get instant selfies.

make your selfie your gmail theme
Add custom theme on Gmail 
The Google team is calling it Shelfie not selfie, where the word refers to Shareable Selfie.


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

Friday, 28 March 2014

Write Better Copies for SEO by Using These Seven Tips

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Copy writing is the very core of search engine optimization. This is due to the fact that Google, Firefox and other search engines utilized several updates that gives weight to quality original articles. Thus, a web master or blogger should know how to deliver the best copies he/she can give in order to excel in today's SERPs.Of course, knowing that you need to write quality copies and actually doing them are two different things. The following are seven easy to apply tips on how to do the latter. Make use of them and you will surely improve your rankings in the future.

Think about your site's niche

What does your site aim to achieve? Is your blog/page focused on discussing the newest trends on the Internet or are you out there to inform everybody about several government conspiracies? Ponder about your goal and always go back there because it's going to be the very thing that holds your site together.Of course, there could be times when straying from your path is good. It's good to break the monotony every now and then. Still, you must never forget your roots for it's going to determine the very identity of your site.

Focus on your strengths as a writer

Do you write things on a personal level or are you more of the "facts first" girl/guy? Can you use hifalutin words without confusing your readers or is it better if you just keep thing as simple as possible? Have a little self-check and know what sets you apart from other writers. Concentrate on your strengths without forgetting to improve your flaws in order to achieve your desired results.

Do some keyword research

Write your article with the appropriate keywords. Keywords are the terms used by web readers in order to search for a specific topic. Thus, having them in your article heightens the chances of your work appearing on various SERPs.Of course, you also have to be mindful about the quality of your work. Stuffing too much keywords in your copy will be counterproductive to what its trying to achieve. Use keywords moderately and see to it that everything comes in perfect unison.

Reiterate important statements

Always put reiteration on notable statements that you wish to be remembered by your readers. It's more likely that your readers will forget the entirety of your work. You lessen the chances of that happening by placing emphasis on key ideas. A good technique in doing this is by playing with the fonts of notable phrases.

Write your content wholeheartedly

Don't underestimate the power of sincerity when writing your copy. Your readers won't enjoy digesting something you never liked doing yourself. If you truly want your audience to be entertained with the content you've made then see to it that you've had fun while doing it.

Polish your work via proofreading

This is one of the most important tips in this list. Seemingly simple grammatical errors could turn off your beloved web readers. It is your duty as a writer to see to it that anything you post adheres to today's standards of grammar. Proofreading takes out the little chinks in your armors which eventually translates to better reception of your work.

Entertain criticism

Avoid getting pissed off when you received criticism. You will never be able to make everyone happy with just one or two articles, regardless of how much effort you've placed into them. The only way you'll be able to improve your craft is by listening to your reader's comments. Be open-minded and hear out those suggestions whenever you can.

The art of copy writing for SEO purposes can't be learned within a span of a day. Heck, you'll be considered lucky if you managed to be decent with it in a week's time. Practice and patience is a must. Steel yourself, do your best and good results will surface themselves eventually.

Author's Bio: Katherine Smithson is a budding copywriter who is trying to pave her way through theblogging realm.Through bestessays.com, she is currently venturing modern writing and blogging in different websites in hopes that someday she'll be able to make a name in the industry of blogging and writing per se.

Friday, 14 March 2014

How to add Google Analytics to WordPress?

| Friday, March 14, 2014 | | | | 3 Comments so far

Google Analytics is used to track the traffic data received on a website or a blog. You as a webmaster can use that data to analyze your visitors or audience. And implement the perfect or more accurate marketing strategies.

How to add Google Analytics to WordPress?

Users rely on plugin to integrate Google Analytics, code into WordPress blog. But accomplishing this task is very simple. Without using any plug-in you can very easily put your Google Analytics code to your blog or website.

Google Analytics recommends to add the code just after the opening body tags <body>. So, we will take that into consideration. You can also add the codes just before ending body tags </body>. The advantage in using the code just before </body> tag is that, it will not hinder the rendering of the page on slow internet connection.
  1. Login into Google Analytics.
  2. Navigate to Admin tab.
  3. Select to Account and Property values.
  4. From Property column click on Tracking Info and select Tracking Code. You will get your tracking code JavaScript here.
  5. Copy all the codes.

Google Analytics to WordPress

  1. Now, login into WordPress blog.
  2. Navigate to Appearance > Editor
  3. Select header.php or footer.php.
  4. Now, in case you header.php paste the copied tracking code just below <body> tag. In case of footer.php, you will find </body> tag at the bottom. Paste the Google Analytics tracking code just above the ending body tag, </body>.

Problem with above method

There is one very big drawback. Every time, you will update your template your codes will be gone. So, you are required to do this again if you have applied any update.

In case you have a custom made template, you may rely on this method. Because custom made template don't get regular updates.

how to add google analytics to wordpress
Add Google Analytics to WordPress
So, try using the text widget to avoid the error. Paste the codes, in any text widget and place it anywhere.

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

Sunday, 9 March 2014

How to learn PHP web development ?

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PHP is a very popular language. Yet, it is the most easy to start with. In case you have no idea about the popularity of the language, let me tell you, Facebook is powered by PHP. Top CMS or Content Management Systems namely, WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, etc. are made using PHP and MySQL. Magento a very popular e-commerce framework, is made using PHP.

learn PHP web development
PHP web application on Sublime Text
So, it is quite clear. If you learn PHP web development,  you can rule the web. Create any type of application. PHP is open source, and has a vast external library that you can use, like PEAR package and frameworks like CodeIgnitor, CakePHP, Symphony, Zend, etc.

Prerequisite- What you need to know to learn PHP?

Any one can learn PHP. Even if you are from a non-programming background. Having previous knowledge of any programming language will just help you learn things quicker. You can skip basics, as they are always same in maximum programming languages.

  1. HTML - HTML is important to develop a web application. But to learn PHP, only a very basic understanding of HTML is sufficient.
  2. CSS - Again, CSS is important to make your web application look beautiful, but to learn PHP, it is not required at all.

Does that mean, I can go with PHP with very basic knowledge of HTML?

The answer is, Yes. But don't think that you can survive without HTML. Thinking that would be a pitfall.

Resources to learn PHP

Starting with HTML, CSS and PHP, before diving straight into it, start with getting familiar. The best way to learn basic HTML and CSS is nothing other than W3School.

So, now you have-
  1. W3Schools.com
  2. Codecademy.com - an online web development tutor.
  3. Books - Doesn't matter how many on-line portals you visit, to learn PHP you always need a book.

Books on PHP web development

I read two books to learn the basics. Beginning PHP 5.3 by Matt Doyle and Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional 4th Edition by W.Jason Gilmore. You can go for any of them, but to give a little more recommendation. Go for first book if you are from non-programming background and if you have a programming background then go for the later one to learn PHP.

PHP editor or PHP IDE

You need some program to edit your PHP codes. There are a number of IDE available for PHP like Aptana Studios, NetBeans, etc. But don;t go for any of it. All you need is a PHP Editor, go for Sublime Text. It is a PHP editor and is very light with code completion and syntax highlighting. That is all you need. No need to go for bulky IDE.

Video Tutorials on PHP

Web is full of tutorials on PHP. A great series is available on phpacademy.org. On YouTube, there is a channel named The New Boston they have a playlist of 200 videos that will cover almost everything.

PHP on Google Plus

Join PHP communities on Google Plus. This will help you a lot. You might encounter a number of problems while implementing PHP. But some times there will be errors, or logical problems that you may encounter. Just ask on these communities, all your queries will be answered. You can also ask in the comments below.

For any query related learning the language online or offline, please comment below. You'll get your queries answered ASAP.

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

Friday, 7 March 2014

5 Ways to Increase Traffic from Social Media to Your Site

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Hold your horses and saddle kitties because you are not going to get that much traffic from social media. The online “guru”, “experts”, “marketing companies” and articles are lying to you for their own ends. Facebook and their research affiliates have even run tests themselves, along with other independent groups, and the most commonly held belief is that Facebook only provides an 8% conversion rate that jumps up to 12% if you include mobile Facebooking.

Other social media sites are tiny in comparison to Facebook, with the leading competitor (Twitter) being only 25% the size and 25% as popular as Facebook. It is possible to increase your traffic direct from social media, but the increase is not going to turn your business around. Here are five ways to increase traffic from social media.

Get the influencers on your side

“Influencers” is a fairly new social media term and it means people on social media who have influence over others. The easiest to spot are those on YouTube who make funny posts or review things in a funny way and their subscribers go out and buy the stuff they just recommended. The most well known nest of influencers exists on Twitter, and that is evident by the fact that celebrities are jamming it up and are able to command people to go out and buy things via their influence on Twitter.

Help out other social media users 

It is a nice way of making friends with not just the person you are answering, but also the people who are also on the site. Plus, many times when a popular question is asked on social media then it appears on the Google search engine results too, so your top answer may get a lot more coverage than you know.

If a person asks, “Who’s the hot woman in black in this Iron Man 2 clip”, then tell him who she is (it was the sexy goddess Scarlett Johansson). Answer questions and people will pay attention to your profiles. If someone asks a question on LinkedIn then you can make a lot of friends by answering it correctly, and even on Facebook there are people who will monitor your profiles if you appear to know stuff that they want to know.

On social media platforms, users who are satisfied by your answer, usually check your profile. You can also gain some additional followers on Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, etc.

Use a social media posting tool 

If you have any sense then you already have a blog scheduling tool and an RSS feed scheduling tool. Now you should also have a social media network posting tool. There are two reasons for this, with the first being that at peak times you can make more impact but you cannot always be there to post so you can let your scheduling tool do it.

Secondly, you can write posts all day and plan them out for the whole week. You can plan them out, load them to your tool and have it post them out all week at the best times. You can even set up a routine so that people know when to look at your social media profile for the next posting.

Make it clear you are following the influencer 

You can go onto Twitter and follow a bunch of people and they will follow you back, but if you are going to try it on other social media networks, then follow the influencers. For example, on Facebook an influencer is going to have a lot of people looking at the profile, so it cannot hurt to have your profile next to a comment on there.

On YouTube you may also see what channels that other people are subscribed to, and you may show influencers that they are following them with the hopes that they will follow you. If you are going to follow or subscribe to an influencer, just try to make sure that he or she knows about it (for the best effect).

Have people come to you for information 

This is not as silly as it sounds when you consider that it is sometimes easier to ask a person on social media something obscure when you cannot find it on Google. The search engine results and other websites are not that great, and many times you find yourself scratching around for information that you know exists such as what was that epic episode of the X-Files called with the long single scene rolling shots? (Triangle, production cost over $2.5 million).

Now, imagine trying to Google such a question and you get stuck, but go onto Twitter or Facebook and ask an X-File expert and he may even tell you the that the episode had more than 18.20 million viewers which is ten times more than many TV shows available today. Be that person with the information and you will be called on online guru.

Author bio: The author of this article is Sonia J. She's from http://writing-service-assistant.com/ that helps students to choose the most reliable and professional essay writing service.

Friday, 21 February 2014

Top 3 premium Blogger blog templates - Magazine

| Friday, February 21, 2014 | | 1 Comment so far

On web, blogger blog still dominates. The best features you can get premium Blogger templates on the web easily. But someday you might require a custom designed paid Blogger template. That falls within the scope of the latest design patterns, like HTML5 and is responsive or mobile customized.

ALSO SEE : Best Blogger Photography templates

Apriezt - Responsive Magazine/News Blogger Theme


  • responsive or mobile customized
  • AJAX based Page Navigation
  • 12 Type Recent Post by Label
  • Supports Blogger, Facebook and Disqus comment system
  • JSON based search results
  • Shortcode for easy touch ups

Nami Press

  • responsive or mobile customized design
  • Easily customize gadgets
  • Auto resize Thumbnail
  • Use multiple type of sliders
  • Short codes

Bpress - New & Responsive/Magazin Blogger Template

  • News ticker
  • Recent post by labels
  • Drop down menu
  • Simple search box

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

Thursday, 20 February 2014

Facebook buying WhatsApp for $19 Billion

| Thursday, February 20, 2014 | | 1 Comment so far

WhatsApp sold for $19 billion to Facebook

WhatsApp Acquisition

WhatsApp has over 450 Monthly Active Users. According to Facebook's blog, Facebook is purchasing WhatsApp for $16 billion in cash and stock. The deal is done for $4 billion in cash, $12 billion in Facebook shares and $3 billion in RSUs for employee retention.

Also, WhatsApp messaging service will remain independent and will also retain its brand name. Furthermore, WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum will join Facebook's board.

WhatsApp growth

  • 450 million active users.
  • 70% of these users are active daily.
  • Messaging volume approaching the entire global telecom SMS volume.
  • 1 million new users get registered every day.

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton was rejected by Facebook and Twitter

In 2009, WhatsApp co-dounder Brian Acton was rejected by Facebook as well as twitter to work as an employee. After 4 years, the same person is selling his work to Facebook for $19 billion.

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

Friday, 14 February 2014

New Identity Gender added by Facebook

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Revealing one's true identity on Facebook is a priority. While signing up, you need to state to Facebook your gender, male or female.
Facebook added custom identity genders male female transgender
Facebook has introduced custom gender, that allows lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgenders to truly reveal their identity with ease. Facebook has worked with LGBT organizations, to compile a list of gender options. In case you fall under LGBT gender category you can now change it by going to your profile's "about" page's "Basic Information" section and edit the gender.

Click edit button, and select custom from drop down menu and then start typing your gender, a list will automatically generate. Select the appropriate option. You can also select your gender as neutral.

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

Saturday, 1 February 2014

Top new Facebook features added in 2013

| Saturday, February 01, 2014 | | | 3 Comments so far

Facebook is an always evolving, social networking website. Everyday Facebook's employees work on introducing new features. This evolution is fast, one after the other new functionality are added and removed from Facebook.

Facebook top new features launched in 2013

Add your feeling, what you are watching, having on Facebook

Facebook rolled out this feature as an extension to your status updates. This helped to express your things in an even better way. You can add books, songs, movies, TV series, feelings, eating, drinking etc. This feature exploded in terms of usage.

Facebook Verified Accounts

Creating pages on Facebook is free, and almost everyone can create one. Because of this, a user won't ever know is he or she is liking the genuine or Official page or a duplicate one. To overcome this, Facebook rolled out verified accounts, to let its users know which one is a genuine page.

Facebook Hashtags

This one was another followup. Twitter is famous for mentions and hashtags. Hashtags actually started or were born inside twitter's office. This was supposed to increase the search results. But it takes time to figure out what exactly hashtags are used for, doesn't matter you are on Twitter or Facebook.

Post images in Facebook comments on brand pages

First a user was not able to post any image in response to another user's status updates or photos. Now, its possible to post images in comments on both updates from other users or other pages.

Facebook new Insight for Fan page

For publishers or page manager, having page analytic is very important. It tells about engagement of users. View and reach, etc. The insight pages were updated, introducing new user interface. Though a user need a minimum of 30 page likes to be able to see insights.

Upload custom thumbnail on Facebook page posts

While posting URLs on Facebook page, the title of the link, description usually meta description and an image is fetched from the URL. This makes the post way too much better. In case of no image, sometimes logo of the website is fetched. With this update, you can upload your own choice of image.

Compare your Facebook page with other pages

Now, a publisher can add other pages to his own pages, admin panel for easily tracking the progress of other pages. Mainly your competitors, or just the top ones in your stream.

Which of these you like the most, and why? 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.

Sunday, 26 January 2014

How to put some Facebook friends online or offline?

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You some time want to control your chat availability, on Facebook. Turning off chat for everybody, just to turn of chat for some friends is useless. At the same time turning on chat for everybody, when you want to chat with only selected friends, is also useless.

turn Facebook chat online or offline

Advance Settings allows you to control the entire friend list at once. You can also use the list for quick select and deselect. For example, in the above screenshot "Close Friends" is a chat contact list.

ALSO SEE: Facebook adds trending topics

How to control chat options?

  1. Advance chat settings can be accessed by "Options" button at the bottom of chat list.
  2. Click "Advanced Settings".
control your advance chat settings in Facebook desktop
Advanced Settings

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

Thursday, 16 January 2014

Facebook adds trending topics

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Another great functionality from Twitter is now available on Facebook. Facebook, recently rolled out trending topics that are displayed alongside of your Facebook newsfeed. The stories shared publicly are visible on the Trending.


But the fact that all the people don't share things publicly retards the trending. As the trending only contains public posts. For, now it is quite clear that maximum trending topics are from news pages or other such pages. The country of the user is also taken into consideration.

These trending feeds are customized by user interest. It is also possible that Facebook will start to place promoted post in the Trending section.
Trending topics on Facebook newsfeed

This will make Facebook a better stand for news digests. And will surely increase the engagement rate dramatically. The last Facebook hashtag, release is still not used by the majority of Facebook users.
Aam Admi party on Facebook trending

Facebook is testing the mobile version of this feature. Trending is not available to everybody. The feature will be rolled out for a number of countries in the next few weeks.

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

Sunday, 5 January 2014

NVIDIA created crop circle to promote its Tegra K1 processor

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NVIDIA, is prepared with its new Tegra K1 processor, that is reported to have 192 graphics core. NVIDIA tried to pull the graphics processor market with this new product. The graphic cores of this processor use the same Kepler architecture, that are used in the world's most powerful supercomputers.

To make the crop circle more relevant, the artists placed number 192 in Braille at the center of crop circle. The number 192 represents the graphic cores.

nvidia crop circle for tegra k1 processor promo

To get better market focus, and great publicity. NVIDIA used a whole new way to promote its Tegra K1 processor, by creating a crop circle.


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

Thursday, 2 January 2014

How to put twitter timeline, favorite, list, search and custom timeline on blog?

| Thursday, January 02, 2014 | | Be first to comment!

Growing twitter following, or to increase the customer engagement. Twitter timelines enables your users to be able to reply, retweet and follow directly from your website or blog.

Embedding twitter widgets

Embedding a twitter timeline, favorite, list, search or custom timeline on blog is easy-
  1. Log-in into your twitter account.
  2. From "Settings and help" go to, "Settings".
  3. Navigate to "widgets" and click "create new" button.
The screen below will show up, enter twitter handle of the user whose tweet you want to display, it could be any user on twitter.
developer twitter timeline for blog or websites
user timeline on twitter
After selecting the appropriate options, hit "Create widget" button. Your widget will be created and the codes to implement it will be generated, copy and paste it where you want it to be displayed.

Once created all of the widgets, will be saved in your widgets tab you can use the code, again from there or edit the already created widgets.

To put it on blogger,

  1. Log-in and select the blog to put the widget.
  2. Navigate to "Layout".
  3. Hit "Add a Widget", select HTML/JavaScript.
  4. Paste the copied codes, hit save and you are done.
Similarly all other widgets can be selected and displayed on your website or blog.

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

Sunday, 29 December 2013

Report to Facebook when you are tagged in copyrighted uploads

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Facebook, respects copyright laws. But when any platform allows you to share media like pictures, videos, etc. then it is quite hard to keep a track on the media shared. So, it is quite possible and easy to share copyrighted media, on Facebook.


Reporting content like these, requires users concern. Any Facebook user can report whenever, he/she encounters a copyrighted media. To do so,
  1. Go to your activity log from timeline review.
  2. From there hit hide post, 
  3. After the post is hidden it will ask you to report/remove tag, click it.


From the pop-up that appears click on, "Is this your intellectual property?" at the bottom.


Select "Report this to Facebook as a legal rights infringement. And hit continue. Facebook also allows you to contact a designated Facebook officer using the traditional but slower methods,

Facebook, Inc.
Attn: Facebook Designated Agent
1601 Willow Road
Menlo Park, California 94025
650.543.4800 (phone)
650.560.6293 (fax)
ip@fb.com
Author's Bio: Shubhashish Shukla (follow him) is the person behind Sector Techno (twitter, facebook), a technology blog. An always learning web developer.

Monday, 23 December 2013

Gmail, Files not attached notification

| Monday, December 23, 2013 | | Be first to comment!

An amazing Google email feature. Whenever you want to send an email with an attachment, and you have written in the mail content, a message like "I've attached" then your email will be scanned for any attachment, if you do not have any attachments attached then a JavaScript pop-up will open to alert that your email lacks attachment.

compose email on google plus
Attachment not done
So, this is a small but great feature that gmail offers, which prevents users from forgetting the attachment. There could be more of these measures.

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

Sunday, 22 December 2013

Assemble a computer from scratch with Kano

| Sunday, December 22, 2013 | | Be first to comment!

Kano a start-up project funded by KickStarted. Kano aims at helping people of all ages to learn more about computer and coding skills.
kano inside the box components
Launched as a kickstarter project with aim to raise $100,000 but the project successfully raised $1,522,160. The Kano computer is powered by Raspberry Pi (a credit card size computer board), which comprises of
  • 8 GB Micro SD
  • Micro SD Card adapter
  • Chicklet Keyboard
  • Optical Mouse
  • 1 AMP Power Supply
  • HDMI Cable
  • Micro USB Cable

The team also developed Kano OS and Kano block that let users create code blocks and then finally output the code blocks into JavaScfript and Python codes more programming languages will join soon. Kano in the box,
  • Kano Books
  • Kano OS and Levels on 8 GB SD card
  • DIY Speakers
  • Raspberry Pi Model B
  • Kano Keyboard Combo
  • Custom Case
  • Card mods and stencils
  • Stickers
  • HDMI and Mini-USB cables
  • Power Plug
  • WiFi powerup


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

Saturday, 21 December 2013

Create custom sized Adsense ad units

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Google Adsense recently rolled out 'Custom Ad Size' option, that lets users create ad units with various sizes as per publishers requirements. Till now, every user was bound to use, ad sizes from four predefined ad size category namely,
  • Horizontal
  • Vertical
  • Square
  • Link Units
Now, adsense user can select 'custom ad size' and place in their own size and adsense will generate the codes for that size for you.

How to create custom ad size ads?

  1. Login in into your Adsense account.
  2. Navigate to 'My ads' tab and click 'New ad unit' button.
  3. Select 'Custom ad size' option from 'Ad size' dropdown menu.
In case you have created an image ad unit or image/text ad unit, then the image ad will display and image ads are of fixed sizes. So, any image ad will adjust itself by aligning to the center. But,

adsense ad unit problem
The above one, is a custom size ad unit, with an image ad that is smaller in height and width. Now, the image ad gets aligned to center horizontally but leave blank white space vertically.

Existing Ad units

If you already have ad fixed sized ad units, they cannot be converted into 'Custom Ad Size' ad unit, you are required to create a new ad unit and the select 'custom ad size'.

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