SpellDial has Launched!

The new revolutionary way to dial has opened its doors for people everywhere to avail of a FREE Spelldial account. Now you can start dialing names NOT numbers! It's easy, convenient and costs you nothing! Start dialing the names of your registered friends, your favorite restaurants and fast food chains. No numbers needed!


SpellDial believes in making connecting simple and easy. Since numbers are extremely difficult to remember and totally unrelated to your identity, Spelldial allows you to dial names instead of numbers. The reality is, names are easier to remember than numbers! Its system is designed to let you assign a custom name to your number, allowing people to contact you by dialing that custom name.

Businesses and individuals can now give out their custom spelldial names to their customers and contacts. For in Spelldial, your name is your number. When you change your number all you have to do is update your Spelldial account, change the number you name is linked to, and your friends will immediately be calling your new number when they dial.

You can register and create your custom name at www.SpellDial.com. You may start dialing names on your smartphone by accessing www.SpellDial.com/app on your phone browser.

SpellDial has also opened its doors to developers. You can avail of their API and create your own SpellDial App for different mobile platforms. Just check out their Developer's page. Be part of the shift from numbers to names!

More importantly, SpellDial has created a platform where individuals can convert numbers of businesses, establishments, and services in their community into names. So that the citizens can easily contact them. The goal is to change the all the numbers into names. Be part of the movement and make your city a SpellDialing city! Contribute and convert numbers into names at www.spelldialmovement.com!

Register now before someone else gets the name that you want! Go to www.spelldial.com! Connecting has never been easier! SpellDial - the future of connecting, the new way to dial.

Note: Currently, in order to dial SpellDial Names, you have to use the SpellDial Web App (www.spelldial.com/app - it works on browsers of most smartphones.) or use an app that uses the SpellDial API.

Continue Reading >>A Revolutionary Way of Dialing Has Launched!

Here is the list of areas that Computer Science Engineering students need to be thinking and focusing about to amass the life career.

1. Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills.


2. Communication Skills.


3. Soft Skills.
   
4. Presentation Skills.


5. Problem Solving Skills.


6. Coding Skills.


7. Networking and Network Administration.


8. Database and Database Systems.


9. Principles of Software Engineering.


10. Pointers and Data Structures.

Continue Reading >>Top 10 Things That Computer Science Engineering Students Should Focus On

Today, when I was trying to tweet about this article on mensxp.com -
Anna Hazare: The Fight Against Corruption via tweetmeme button, I got a 502 error page on the TweetMeme site with three big whales, and a twitter bird saying -

We're sorry but an error has occurred in TweetMeme. Please try again. If this problem continues, please report it @tweetmeme on twitter.

I quite like the image showing my favorite twitter bird in the blue sky with clouds but it is so unfounded to imagine whales in the sky. May be that have caused the error, who knows what happens behind the closed doors of the frontend, in the backend server space.

Continue Reading >>502 error on the TweetMeme Site - Daily Screenshot

@vozMe.com you can easily convert written text into speech with male or female voice all for free. To convert from text to speech mp3 audio, visit vozMe.com and enter text in English, choose between male or female voice and click create mp3.

When you're on the site, do check out what vozMe has to provide for Webmasters visiting the links located on top left. I quite like its handy WordPress plugin that lets your blog visitors conversion of text to speech with a click of a button.

Adding text-to-speech capabilities in your browser is zupper easy with vozMe speech synthesis bookmarlet. To install the bookmarklet and know how to use it, visit vozMe - Bookmarklet

Continue Reading >>Convert Text to Speech @ vozMe

Samsung has recently unveiled a new android phone as a predecessor to Samsung Vibrant in the name of Galaxy S 4G which has excellent build quality and sleek measurements. It is only 0.4-inches think and weighs just around 4 ounces. The length and width suit to any typical smartphone with 4.8-inches and 2.5-inches respectively.

Samsung Galaxy S 4G houses a gorgeous 4-inch Super AMOLED display and on-screen virtual keyboard with Swype technology that facilitates quick and accurate typing with slightest practice.

Here is a brief overview of Swype for those of you who aren't familiar with Swype - It is a latest text input technology designed especially for touchscreen devices and smartphones that allows entry of letters just by sliding your finger or stylus and lifting only between words. This text input system also includes error-correcting algorithms, word guessing and predictive text system.

Moving to further feature line-up, it comes with a 5 megapixel camera with zoom and several shooting modes, including beauty, smile shot, panorama, and vintage. It also has a front-facing VGA camera offering an excellent photo and video quality, and with Skype app included it is ready for video chats and online conferencing.

Samsung Galaxy S 4G runs on Google Android OS 2.2 on a 1GHz Hummingbird processor that perfectly fuels the full touch user interface with TouchWiz technology. It boasts built-in Wi-Fi calling feature that finds itself very useful in a dead zone or office environment having access only to a wireless network.

The 4G network on Samsung Galaxy is super blazing fast in handling network-dependent tasks that can give your download speeds up to 21 Mbps, according to sources at Samsung. When it comes to music, it contains built-in music player with pre-loaded Amazon MP3 and DoubleTwist app that efficiently syncs with iTunes playlists, videos and podcasts.

Samsung Galaxy S 4G holds a special place for navigation and travel enthusiasts. It comes pre-loaded with Google Latitude & Places, Google Maps, and TeleNav GPS providing free access to point of interest and turn-by-turn directions. And with the premium app update you can exploit more with real time traffic updates, traffic camera locations, and voice search capabilities. Also adding more is the layer app that gives social aspects to your navigation getting you the information about nearby shops and restaurants and enabling to add your own listings on your favorite hot spots.

Car Home app provides you quick access screens housing full maps, navigation, voice search, phone, contacts, music and settings. DriveSmart app is there to apply safe driving into your lifestyle by automatically muting notifications and forwarding all calls to your phone while driving straight to voice mail. With DriveSmart app you can even set customized automatic responses for callers that reach you while you're on the drive.

Social networking space shines on this feature-full smartphone as it comes with Facebook pre-installed and supports your favorite web browser and twitter app integration. Gaming is always a fun experience @ Galaxy S 4G. And as usual calendar, contacts, a memo pad, basic calculator, alarm clock, a news & weather app, and a file manager are all included with the Galaxy S 4G. The feature worth noting here is that the calender and contacts can be integrated with your Google account to remain up-to-date with your latest contact info.

The pre-loaded app in Galaxy S 4G that interest me a lot is the Mini Diary app with photo insertion and GPS locator that facilitates entry and sharing of thoughts on the go promptly as they strike your mind. Also with Amazon Kindle app pre-loaded, reading and explore your favorite kindle books becomes a breeze.

All in all Samsung Galaxy S 4G can be attributed as an feature-full entertainment powerhouse android mobile phone and it's priced in India at around Rs. 29,000. For more, check out Samsung Galaxy S 4G full phone specifications @gsmarena

Continue Reading >>Samsung Galaxy S 4G - An Entertainment Powerhouse Android Mobile Phone

You might be well aware of those GUI widgets better known as toolbars seen at the top of the window just below the URL bar or awesome bar of your favorite web browser housing buttons, icons or menus for easy one-click access to your favorite locations.

Here is the important step in adding toolbars or extensions to your browser window.

When you click on the link that provides the toolbar or add-on, a bar appears at the top of your browser asking whether you wish to allow that site to provide extensions. All you need to do is click Allow to install that software for your browser.

In the Software Installation screen, click 'Install Now' and after the installation is complete restart your browser to see the toolbar in action.

Continue Reading >>Important Step to Add Toolbars to Your Browser

Dot Matrix Printer (or Impact Matrix Printer) is one of the first models of computer printer that involves print head running in back and forth motion or horizontally across the page and prints mainly by impact of pins striking the paper through an ink ribbon cable forming bunch of dots for printing each letter.

Different types of Dot Matrix Printers

1. Based on printing directions, Dot matrix printers are classified into two types namely, unidirectional and bidirectional printers. A unidirectional printer prints only in one direction i.e., from left to right whereas, a bi-directional printer prints in both the directions - from left to right & right to left.


2. According to number of pins or dots used per letter, there are mainly 3 types of printers - 9 pin, 18 pin and 24 pin.


3. Based on the movement of print head, there is 80 column printers and 132 column printers. In these two types of printers, the print head moves 80 columns and 132 columns respectively.


4. According to print color, there is monochrome printer and color printer. Monochrome printer prints only one color (black) and color dot matrix printer is made to print a maximum of 4 colors - Red, Green, Blue and Black.

Printing Process in Dot Matrix Printer:

1. First the computer sends a series of ASCII codes to the printer.


2. The ASCII codes received by the printer are first stored in the RAM buffer.


3. The bitmap table contained in the printer's ROM chip tells the printer the pattern of dots it should use to produce the required character shape represented by the ASCII code.


4. The printer processor takes the dot pattern information from bitmap table and send the signals to the printer head.


5. The printer head contains 9, 18 or 24 pins aligned vertically such that one end of each pin is connected to individual electromagnet.


6. To fire the print pins against the ribbon and paper this electromagnet is energized due to which the moving pin strikes the ribbon that is coated with ink.


7. After the pin fires, the electromagnet is de-energized which makes the spring pull the print pin back.

Read more on Dot Matrix Printer @ Dot Matrix Printer Wiki

Continue Reading >>Dot Matrix Printer Overview - Types of Dot Matrix Printers and Its Printing Process

Yummy Google Doodle is here celebrating the 119th Anniversary of the First Documented Ice Cream Sundae. As you may already know, Ithaca, New York is considered as the birthplace of the ice cream sundae in 1892.

Summer temperatures are rising each day here at our place and so having a dessert ice cream like this one with various fruity toppings added to it is the best way to escape heat and feel the bliss. Here's more reading on - History and Legends of the Ice Cream Sundae

Continue Reading >>Google Doodle - 119th Anniversary of the First Documented Ice Cream Sundae

The three basic needs of every human being on earth are food, clothing and shelter. It is rather sad to know that even in 21^st century the very first basic need is not yet met for millions of people worldwide and they sleep in hunger each day. It is estimated that there are close to one billion hungry people in the world.

So, with the main motto of fighting this hunger worldwide, World Food Programme has launched a short hunger emergency quiz online and for every person who takes this quiz, a child will be fed.

As you may already know, the voluntarily funded World Food Programme is part of the United Nations agency and is considered to be the world's largest humanitarian agency that is fighting hunger worldwide.

To Show your helping hand in fighting hunger worldwide and support WFP, take hunger emergency IQ test now @ http://gifts.wfp.org/quiz/crisis and forget not to spread the word!

Continue Reading >>Take World Food Programme Hunger Crisis Quiz - Feed a Child