If you have high volume of sites to navigate, then it is always tough to keep track of all tabs in your window and it takes a lot of your valuable time and can be extremely draining at times to visit each tab to view whether the content is worth visiting or not. But now with Informational Tab Add-on for Firefox you don't have to take that burden anymore.

Thumbnail-style preview of web-pages in each tab

With Informational Tab Add-on you can view thumbnail-style preview of the web-page in each tab that enables you to view the contents of the webpage in brief before opening.

There's also a progress meter (in blue above the thumbnail) for each tab that shows you how much of a page has loaded.

Informational Tab Add-on Options

Informational Tab Add-on for Firefox also has options that lets you choose whether to show the preview of the whole web-page or just partially, size of the preview, Location of the preview, Position and Style of the progress meter and much more...

Download and Install Information Tab Add-on for Firefox

Continue Reading >>Informational Tab Add-on for Firefox Lets You Preview Web Pages Before Opening

If you're someone who always wanted to easily synchronize your home and office browsers (or) backup your extensions before installing an extension upgrade so that you could go back if the upgrade doesn't work (or) just back up your work or files in general while you browse, then Firefox Environment Backup Extension (FEBE) developed by Chuck Baker is all you need.

With FEBE you can backup your Firefox extensions, as well as bookmarks, preferences, cookies, Greasemonkey scripts, passwords, profiles, or virtually any data on your computer related to Firefox and can create multiple folders for saving certain backups in different locations. Besides backing up your extensions, FEBE can rebuild your extensions individually into installable .xpi (or .jar for themes) files so that you can reinstall them whenever required.

Click To Install FEBE Add-on for Firefox

or Download from addons.mozilla.org

For a quick tutorial with screenshots on how to backup using FEBE, Click Here

Continue Reading >>Quickly and Easily Backup Your Firefox Extensions with FEBE

Beyond its own medium, the world of social networking has effected many aspects of the internet and now Kutano takes it one step further by integrating traditional websites you visit into a social scene where you can discuss, post and share your opinions.Kutano is a rich Twitter extension for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer that opens a sidebar whenever a new webpage is loaded up and lets you interact with your timelines, track followers, comment about the site, and at the same time, see what Twitter says about each webpages you view.

Kutano - The New Twitter Extension for Chrome, Firefox and IE

Download Kutano - It's Free!

For more info visit http://www.kutano.com/

Continue Reading >>Kutano Makes Traditional Websites a Part of the Social Scene

Weave Sync Add-on for Firefox is a part of the Mozilla Labs Weave project that mainly aims to integrate services more closely as you browse along.

Weave Sync Add-on Synchronizes your bookmarks, history, customizations, passwords and preferences wherever you go

The inspiration for this project comes from the users that hardly use just one device to access the world wide web and are in search of a program that can save all their browser data for bookmarks and tabs and allow them to access it on any device connected to the internet. This is what exactly Weave Sync Add-on does.

With Weave Sync Add-on for Firefox you can synchronize sites you have bookmarked or set as 'favorite', your browser history, tabs and passwords etc., and access them on multiple devices wherever you go. Also all your personal information will be heavily encrypted for security purposes.

Try Weave Sync Add-on for Firefox

Continue Reading >>Access Your Favorite Sites On Multiple Devices with Weave Sync

As you know, widgets are simple, fun, and useful applications that can be embedded on a webpage, blog, or social media page. These widgets are very useful for sharing your ideas and experiences on the web in a simple and dynamic way and they are the best source to spruce up your blog. Talking about widgets, we have to turn to Widgetbox which is the world's best place to find and make widgets.


Widgetbox has a rich collection of over 170,000 widgets covering a wide range of topics and interests, including games, slideshows, blog feeds, news headlines, twitter polls, countdowns, educational quizzes and many many more.

Installing widgetbox widgets on your blogs is as simple as it gets and it takes no more than five minutes. Just browse by tag, topic, or featured lists to find fun and useful widgets that suits your blog and personalize it to get a HTML snippet to paste in your blog.
Not just on blogs but Widgetbox widgets can be installed almost anywhere on the web including Facebook pages, Twitter, iGoogle or any other widget-friendly site.

Try Web Widgets @ widgetbox.com

Continue Reading >>Spruce Up Your Blog With Web Widgets @Widgetbox

Cross-Site Requests are generally initiated by the websites you are visiting making your browser send requests to a completely different website. And whenever you visit such as website, a cross-site request will send you to another place.

These Cross-site requests are performed legitimately by big companies like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Amazon etc., mainly to know some of your browsing habits. Hiding under these legitimate sites, there are many other sites that initiate cross-site requests and sometimes their habits are considered to be security threat especially when used to perform Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and other attacks.

To stop this from happening and improve the security of browsing on the internet, it is always important to take control of your cross-site requests and this can be made possible by an extension called RequestPolicy developed by Justin Samuel.

RequestPolicy Flag Icon

RequestPolicy gives you the full control over cross-site requests by stopping all the cross-site requests originating from the website you are visiting and allows only the ones you approve.

The latest version of RequestPolicy supports the following browsers:

• Firefox 3+
• SeaMonkey 2.0
• Flock 2.0
• Fennec 1.0
• Songbird 1.0

Download RequestPolicy Add-on for Firefox

For the Quick tutorial on how to use RequestPolicy, visit requestpolicy.com

Continue Reading >>Stop Cross-Site Requests with RequestPolicy

When you minimize your Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 window, like all other programs it will be by default minimized to your task bar and if are running many programs at the same time it would take up space on your task bar and it can be an annoyance. So, it would be better if you can place the minimized Outlook window in your system tray.

This can be achieved from within the system registry by modifying the Outlook settings to place the minimized Outlook icon in the system tray. You can then maximize the program whenever you want by double clicking the icon.
Here is how it can be done:

1. Click Start, click Run... and type regedit or regedt32 and then click OK. This opens your System Registry Editor Window.

Run Command to Launch Windows Registry Editor

2. From the left pane of the Registry Editor window, navigate to the following registry key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Preferences

Outlook Preferences Registry Key

3. Now, in the right pane create a New > DWORD Value and set its Value name as MinToTray

Create a New > DWORD Value and name it MinToTray

4. Edit the MinToTray DWORD Value just created by double clicking on it (or) right-click to choose modify and change the Value data to 1 in Hexadecimal mode and click OK. Finally Close the Registry Editor.

Edit MinToTray DWORD Value

That's it!! From now-on-wards whenever you minimize your Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 it will be minimized to an icon into your system tray and if want to disable this setting or re-enable it again, you can do it all from your system tray itself.
All you have to do is, right click on the minimized outlook system tray icon and select/deselect Hide When Minimized option from the menu.

Continue Reading >>How To Minimize The Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 Window To The System Tray

Over the years, robots have changed from being stationary and simply performing one specific task to doing varied activities on its own and these days we have robots automatically performing almost all the activities to assist humans such as cooking, dancing, playing, serving and not to forget robots that can even show emotions. Following these very lines of innovation come the Care-O-bot 3

Care-O-bot 3 is the next-generation serving robot developed by research scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, Germany that is mainly intended to help humans in the household in their daily life. This highly flexible one-armed robot is popularly known as the "Robot That Serves" as it can carefully pick up bottles, cups and similar objects with its three fingers and serve them to you.

Care-O-bot3 at IREX 2009

To find the items it needs to pick up correctly, Care-O-bot 3 is fitted with stereo-vision color cameras, laser scanners and a 3-D range camera that can register its surroundings in three dimensions in real time. Care-O-bot 3's database consists of three-dimensional impressions of numerous household articles to perfectly differentiate between items it need to pick up. Users can also make the robot to recognize new objects by placing any unfamiliar object in its hand and it can automatically gain a 3D impression of that item.

Care-O-bot 3 is only 1.45 meters high and based on a omnidirectional platform with four separately steered and driven wheels that enable the robot to move in any direction with ease. Other important feature of Care-O-bot 3 include ability to be directed by spoken commands, recognizing and responding to some of the gestures and inclusion of sensors to prevent it from touching humans inadvertently.

Continue Reading >>Care-O-bot 3 - The Next-Generation Robotic Home Assistant

YouTube, founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim has started its online journey exactly five years back from this day when the domain name www.youtube.com was registered on February 14, 2005 and got activated on February 15, 2005.

The first YouTube video entitled Me at the zoo was uploaded on Saturday April 23, 2005 by one of its founders Jawed Karim which can be viewed even now. That's the beauty of this #1 video sharing website!!

The first video on YouTube - "Me at the zoo"

The company was sold to Google in October 2006 for $1.65 billion and over these years, it has grown from strength to strength and has certainly served the core purpose of starting the website. Now anyone with a video camera and internet connection can upload videos and share their story with the world. And the other exciting part of it is, there are always guys out there willing to watch your videos. In fact YouTube is now the most trafficked video sharing site on the web.

Congratulations YouTube !!

And hey, here are some of the books I found interesting @Amazon.
Hope you'll invest a little time and money by buying and reading these books.

     

     

Continue Reading >>Happy Birthday to FIVE Year Old YouTube

Quick Response (QR) codes also known as hardlinks or physical world hyperlinks are a popular type of 2D barcode introduced by Japan based Denso Wave, Inc. in 1994 as a powerful medium for storing and exchanging meaningful information inside black & white images.

"Wonderful Tech. Stuff" QR code

These QR codes are the most space-efficient of all of the two-dimensional codes as they can carry meaningful information in both vertical as well as the horizontal directions and are thus capable of storing several hundred times the amount of data stored by ordinary bar codes which are just capable of storing information in horizontal direction.
In QR Codes you can encode and store up to 7,089 numeric (or) 4,296 alpha-numeric (or) 2,953 binary(8 bits) (or) 1,817 Kanji/full-width Kana characters that can be anything like your contact information, telephone number, blog/website URL, SMS, email address, or any other normal text. The QR code images thus formed can be read by dedicated QR code readers and camera mobile phones having appropriate decoding software that can photograph QR codes and decode them.

Here are some of the popular resources for Generating QR-Code

The KAYWA QR-Code Generator

QR Code Generator from ZXing (pronounced "zebra crossing")

Nokia QR-Code Generator for Mobiles

Duncan Sample 'Mobile Barcoder' Add-on for Firefox

QR-Code Generator Tool @Mobile-Barcodes

NFG Games QR Code Generator

Now, for decoding and reading these generated QR Codes you need the following

Dedicated QR code readers & Decoding software for Java enabled built-in camera cell phones

The KAYWA Quick Response Code Reader for Mobile Phones

Get the iPhone App @iMatrix 2D Sense Platform

                              iPhone App QR-Code Reader

Windows "Standard" Decoding Software from 2D Technology Group
(Download Brochure and User manual)

Nokia Code Reader Application for mobile phones

ZXing Decoder Online

Continue Reading >>How To Generate Quick Response Codes and Decode Them

Linguistic Hedges:-

In linguistics, the fundamental atomic terms are often modified with adjectives or adverbs like very, more, slight, more-or-less, almost, nearly, roughly, approximately etcetera. We call these modifiers as linguistic hedges.

Basic Linguistic Atom:-

Basic linguistic atom α is defined as
, then

"Very" α

"very very" α

"plus" α

"slightly" α

"minus" α

"Intensify" α

"not very" α

while considering the linguistic hedges like It should be interpreted such that the precedence should be given from the right. In other words, ambiguities in precedence order may be resolved from the use of "association-to-the-right".

Example:-

Suppose we have universe of integers y={1,2,3,4,5}
we define the following linguistics as a mapping onto y.

• 
  



• 
  

By modifying these two linguistic terms with linguistic hedges to find "very small", "not very small", "not very small & not very very large" we get

1. very small


2. not very small


3. not very very large


4. not very small & not very very large is the minimum of both of the linguistic hedges not very small and not very very large.

Continue Reading >>Linguistic Hedges and Basic Linguistic Atom

Fuzzy Tautologies, Contradictions and Logic Proofs:-

Truth operations for tautologies, contradictions and logic proofs are not different for fuzzy sets. But these can differ considerably in the result from those of classical logic.

The truth tables for approximate Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens are given below:

Approximate Modus Ponens

A	B	A → B	A∩(A → B)	A∩(A→B)→B
0.3	0.2	0.7	0.3	0.7
0.3	0.8	0.8	0.3	0.8
0.7	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.7
0.7	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.8

Approximate Modus Tollens

A	B	A → B	A∩(A → B)	A∩(A→B)→B
0.4	0.1	0.6	0.4	0.6
0.4	0.9	0.9	0.4	0.9
0.6	0.1	0.4	0.4	0.6
0.6	0.9	0.9	0.6	0.9

In the above table the last column which is (A∩(A→B)→B contains values other than unity, this represents a quasi tautology.

If propositions have truth tables all equal to 0.5 (half-truth) then the resulting truth value of the tautology is also half truth.

Tags: fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, truth tables, quasi tautology

Continue Reading >>Fuzzy Tautologies - Contradictions and Logic Proofs

Fuzzy Tautologies, Contradictions and Logic Proofs:-

Truth operations for tautologies, contradictions and logic proofs are not different for fuzzy sets. But these can differ considerably in the result from those of classical logic.

The truth tables for approximate Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens are given below:

Approximate Modus Ponens

A	B	A → B	A∩(A → B)	A∩(A→B)→B
0.3	0.2	0.7	0.3	0.7
0.3	0.8	0.8	0.3	0.8
0.7	0.2	0.3	0.3	0.7
0.7	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.8

Approximate Modus Tollens

A	B	A → B	A∩(A → B)	A∩(A→B)→B
0.4	0.1	0.6	0.4	0.6
0.4	0.9	0.9	0.4	0.9
0.6	0.1	0.4	0.4	0.6
0.6	0.9	0.9	0.6	0.9

In the above table the last column which is (A∩(A→B)→B contains values other than unity, this represents a quasi tautology.

If propositions have truth tables all equal to 0.5 (half-truth) then the resulting truth value of the tautology is also half truth.

Tags: fuzzy sets, fuzzy logic, truth tables, quasi tautology

Continue Reading >>Fuzzy Tautologies - Contradictions and Logic Proofs

The Google once again is buzzing the world with the launch of its brand new "Google Buzz", which is a Google approach to sharing information real-time and communicating with your friends and followers inside your Gmail.

With the social features of networks like Facebook added to the micro-blogging features of twitter, Google Buzz seems to have left a positive impression on Gmail users which is evident by the massive response it has got from Gmail users - a whooping nine million posts and comments recorded so far and counting.

So, its time for bloggers out there to join the buzz adding Google buzz links and buttons to their blogs for sharing the blog posts with Gmail friends. To make these Google buzz links & buttons work for you, first you'll have to manage your Google Buzz connected sites making sure that you have added Google Reader to it.

Google Buzz Connected Sites

If your question is -
"why add Google Reader to Connected sites?"

the answer is -
"because the posts you buzz, first gets into your Google Reader shared items which will then be shared with your buzz followers."


Having done that, now is the time to add the Google buzz links & buttons to your blogs.

Add Google Buzz links & buttons to Wordpress blogs

Paste the following codes in your single.php file and it should be within the Wordpress Loop.

Code for "Buzz This" link

<a href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?title=
<?php the_title();?>&url=<?php the_permalink();?>"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow external">Buzz This</a>    

Code for "Buzz This" button

<a href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?title=
<?php the_title();?>&url=<?php the_permalink();?>"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow external">
<img src="http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x166
/ramarao_bobby/mine/Google%20Buzz/buzz-this.png" border=0>
</a>    

How To Add Google Buzz buttons to blogger blogs

1. Sign into your blogger account and go to
Dashboard > Layout > Edit Html

Blogger Layout > Edit HTML

2. Click on Download Full Template and save a copy of it so that you can go back to it in case you screw up something.

3. Under Edit Template click on "Expand Widget Templates" tickbox

4. Now, you can add the button at two locations -

• Either at the end of each post
(OR)
• below the title of each post

5. To add "buzz this" button at the end of each post, Click Ctrl+F for Find and search for the code below -

<data:post.body/> 

and immediately after it, copy and paste the following code

<div style='float:left;padding:2px;'><a expr:href='&quot;http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' title='buzz this'><img alt='buzz this' border='0' src='http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x166/ramarao_bobby/mine/Google%20Buzz/buzz-this.png'/></a></div>

Then Click SAVE TEMPLATE and view your blog.

6. To add "buzz this" button at top right below the title of each post, Click CTRL+F for Find and locate the code below

<div class='post-body' entry-content'>

and immediately below it, paste the following code

<div style='float:right;padding:2px;'><a expr:href='&quot;http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=&quot; + data:post.url + &quot;&amp;title=&quot; + data:post.title' target='_blank' rel='nofollow' title='buzz this'><img alt='buzz this' border='0' src='http://i181.photobucket.com/albums/x166/ramarao_bobby/mine/Google%20Buzz/buzz-this.png'/></a></div>

Then Click SAVE TEMPLATE for the changes to take effect and go view your blog.

That's it!! You have successfully added Google buzz links/buttons on your blog.

Continue Reading >>How To Add Google Buzz Links and Buttons On Your Blog

Tools Menu:-

• Spelling & Grammar

  This option is used to correct spelling mistakes and grammar mistakes if any in out document.

• Language Thesaurus

  When this option is selected it displays thesaurus dialog box (or dialogue box) which displays a particular word meaning and its synonyms. We can change that word with another word of our choice from the list of synonyms.

• Word Count

  It displays the statistical report of a document. That is number of pages, number of paragraphs, number of words, number of characters and so on.

• Auto Summarize

  This option is used to highlight the key points in our document. We can increase or decrease the percentage of the summary. Type of summary include:
  --> Highlight Key points.
  --> Insert an executive summary or abstract at the top of the document.
  --> Create a new document and put the summary there.
  --> Hide everything but the summary without leaving the original document.

• Auto Correct

  This option is used to correct two initial capitals, capitalize the first letter of sentence, capitalize names of days, correct the accidental use of caps lock key and replace text as you type. It converts strike codes with smart codes, ordinals with super script, fractions with fraction characters and so on.

• Track Changes

  This option is used to highlight the changes while editing. We can accept or reject the changes.

• Protect Document

  This option is used to protect track changes or comments or entire form. Any user cannot modify or insert or correct any data until you unprotect the document.

• Mail Merge

  This option is used to merge two documents like main document and data source and it will give the result in a new document.

Continue Reading >>Brief Overview of Tools Menu Options in Microsoft Word

While browsing the web you come across numerous sites that ask you to login or register just for using their service, which is a unnecessary process that can risk your original email ids of annoying spam. This is where BugMeNot has lot to offer.

BugMeNot - Bypass Compulsory Registration

BugMeNot is an internet service powered by users just like you, that can help you to easily bypass mandatory registration process by providing working login info for any site that force you to register.

All you have to do is to type in the URL of the website you wish to get login details into the box provided @ http://bugmenot.com/ and press the "Get Logins" button.

Get Logins for sites @ BugMeNot

This will present you the list of users submitted Account Details that you can use to login. You can also vote whether the login details worked for you or not so that only working logins are shown on top.

username/password details for sites at BugMeNot

As all of the username/password accounts provided by BugMeNot are user submitted, and chances are that some login details don't work for you in which case you can register with that site and submit the username/password details using the "Submit A New Account" form provided on BugMeNot.

Submit A New Account to BugMeNot

Beside this conventional method of visiting the BugMeNot website whenever you need some login info, the faster way of using BugMeNot is to use BugMeNot bookmarklet or the by adding BugMeNot Add-on that uses a context menu to automatically log in to web sites.

Automatically Log in to websites using BugMeNot Context Menu

Get the BugMeNot 2.2 Add-on for Firefox here

Hope this helps...

Continue Reading >>Using BugMeNot Bypass Compulsory Registration For Websites