Internet Download Manager

Internet Download Manager (IDM) is a tool to increase download speeds by up to 5 times, resume and schedule downloads. Comprehensive error recovery and resume capability will restart broken or interrupted downloads due to lost connections, network problems, computer shutdowns, or unexpected power outages. Simple graphic user interface makes IDM user friendly and easy to use.Internet Download Manager has a smart download logic accelerator that features intelligent dynamic file segmentation and safe multipart downloading technology to accelerate your downloads. Unlike other download managers and accelerators Internet Download Manager segments downloaded files dynamically during download process and reuses available connections without additional connect and login stages to achieve best acceleration performance.

Internet Download Manager supports proxy servers, ftp and http protocols, firewalls, redirects, cookies, authorization, MP3 audio and MPEG video content processing. IDM integrates seamlessly into Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape, MSN Explorer, AOL, Opera, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firebird, Avant Browser, MyIE2, and all other popular browsers to automatically handle your downloads. You can also drag and drop files, or use Internet Download Manager from command line. Internet Download Manager can dial your modem at the set time, download the files you want, then hang up or even shut down your computer when it's done.

Other features include multilingual support, zip preview, download categories, scheduler pro, sounds on different events, HTTPS support, queue processor, html help and tutorial, enhanced virus protection on download completion, progressive downloading with quotas (useful for connections that use some kind of fair access policy or FAP like Direcway, Direct PC, Hughes, etc.), built-in download accelerator, and many others.

Version 6.07 adds IDM download panel for web-players that can be used to download flash videos from sites like YouTube, MySpaceTV, and Google Videos. It also features complete Windows 7 and Vista support, YouTube grabber, redeveloped scheduler, and MMS protocol support. The new version also adds improved integration for IE and IE based browsers, redesigned and enhanced download engine, the unique advanced integration into all latest browsers, improved toolbar, and a wealth of other improvements and new features.

Google sketch up

Google sketch up is the new application of Google which has appeared very interesting to me, as always google applications have lived up to their expectations.Google sketch up is an open source version  to well known CAD ,software used to create three dimensional images and design.Guess what it is easier to use,i can guarantee you that if you sit with for a half an hour ,you will be able to make your own 3D design.It is a small sized app and very convenient to make 3D design.Once a design is made,the designer has the flexibility to make images of the design in different angles in JPEG format. The various tools are easy to understand ,there are templates available to use directly ,saving your time.There are measuring tools ,just in case you want your design to have proper dimension ratio.

This is one of the design ,i came across

It is easy to make a design in sketch up, the few tools which might be new to user are 3 D projection tool and offset tool .

you just use projection tool to drag in the direction of projection needed

Apart from this others are self understandable .

People all over the world have used this software to design things which are not technical, just to pass their time.It has become the new 'Paint'...

Hats off to Google for making such a dynamic and useful application...I personally feel everyone should try this application once.

google/recent events/The Pluses and Minuses of Google+

It’s clear that Google has created an interesting suite of tools and is trying to take advantage of how people rely on their social networks to discover new content.These days, you may rely on your social networks to find the latest news or funny cat videos rather than using search. Google+ clearly is an attempt to move with the times.But does it work? The short answer is that there’s a lot of potential in Google+. We’ve heard that before — Google Wave was a tool that had nothing but potential. But it was hard to define what Wave did in a way that made sense to the average user. In some ways, Google+ falls victim to the same problem. Let’s take a look at the advantages and disadvantages. We’ll start with the pluses:

Google+ uses “Circles” to help you group people into categories and makes it easy to share content with specific people. I have circles for my friends, my family and my professional peers. Creating circles is easy and Google+ uses a simple drag-and-drop interface to let you add people to each circle. You can add the same person to multiple circles if you like.

Sharing using circles is a breeze. If I want to share a funny story about my day, I may only want my friends and family to see the post and keep the rest of the world in the dark. No problem, I just select those circles when I create the content and everyone else is spared my anecdote. Or I might choose to share it with the world and keep the post Public, meaning anyone could read about my hilarious misadventures.

The hangout feature is a blast. Hangouts let you create a video chat room with up to nine other people. Whomever is talking — or speaking more loudly than anyone else — takes center stage. As one person finishes speaking and someone else begins to chat, the main video feed switches automatically. Considering most of the people I know on Google+ right now are tech journalists, this feature makes it feel like you’re hopping from one podcast to another.

The Android integration is great, particularly for huddles. Huddles make it easy to create a social group on the fly. Imagine you want to organize a quick get together among friends but you don’t want to broadcast it to the world at large. Creating a huddle lets you send messages to this specific group while excluding everyone else. Everyone in the group can read and respond to messages, turning the huddle into a party line. This is sort of what Twitter was supposed to be and what services like Beluga are doing now.

Sharing photos is easy. You can create photo albums, tag people and share images with whichever circles (or the public at large) you like. I have some images that anyone can see and others that only my friends have access to. And if you have Google+ on your phone, the instant upload feature makes it insanely simple to share a photo snapped by your phone that very second.

Now let’s look at some of the minuses as I see them:

It’s still a little confusing, though nowhere near as mystifying as Google Wave was.

Many of the features in Google+ are in other social networking sites or services. Facebook lets you create filters (though it’s not quite as easy or intuitive as it is in Google+). Beluga lets you create quick messaging groups among a set number of people. Google+ might be a solution looking for a problem that doesn’t exist. I’m not sure there’s enough there to compel people to use it in place of (or in addition to) other services.

Sparks, a Google+ service that pulls links related to your interests, hasn’t blown me away yet. I can’t see it replacing Google Reader or other RSS services for the moment. But maybe that will get better as time goes on.

I know a lot of people who have multiple email addresses, apparently. I don’t see an easy way in Google+ to consolidate these addresses into a single contact. I know I can do that in gmail and fix the problem that way but it would be nice to be able to do it in Google+. There may even be a way to do it and I just haven’t seen it yet.

Pulling content from other sources such as Facebook, Flickr or even YouTube isn’t intuitive. And it’s a little perplexing that YouTube compatibility isn’t built in at the beginning considering it belongs to Google. You can share videos on your Google+ stream but you have to upload them — you can’t just link to a YouTube account. I hope Google adds in a YouTube feature in a subsequent version of Google+.

It’s also difficult to really see the full potential of Google+ with such a small number of users. I don’t count that as a minus — Google wants to give the product a field test before unleashing it upon the world at large. But it does mean that getting a handle on exactly how useful all the features will be once the service goes gold is a bit tricky.

For the moment, Google has put a freeze on invitations to the network. I know that’s frustrating for people who really want to give the service a try but it makes sense from a quality assurance perspective. Will Google+ manage to do to Facebook what Facebook did to Myspace? We’ll have to wait and see

internet/recent/Google's New Social Network: Google +

Google's New Social Network: Google +

It is weird, I have yet to see Google +, Google's newsocial network, myself. I was on the pre-invite list but for some reason, the invite never came and I am locked out. It is very weird for me to write about something that I did not experience first hand and also very weird for me to not have access to a new Google product early.

That being said, everyone else at Search Engine Land has been having a blast teasing me about having access to Google Plus. The SEL team has been 'huddling', 'sparking' conversations, creating 'circles' without me, and even doing 'hangouts' without me - so I feel a bit left out.

Okay, in all seriousness, the reviews seem fairly positive. Since I cannot give you a first hand recount, I recommend reading Danny Sullivan's Google + review and Greg Sterling'sfirst look.

Google has a very easy to understand overview of how Google + works over atgoogle.com/+/learnmore/ - so check that out.

10 Open Source Alternatives To Photoshop

10 Open Source Alternatives To Photoshop: "However there are several alternatives to Photoshop and you can get similar features if not all, in the Freeware and Open Source alternatives.

Six Revisions has put up a list of 10 Excellent Open Source Alternatives To Photoshop, where they list our several useful alternatives which are pretty good. The alternatives include:

GIMP
Krita
Paint.NET
ChocoFlop
Cinepaint
Pixia
Pixen
Picnik
Splashup
Adobe Photoshop Express
Definitely a huge list of alternatives to Photoshop"

software/9 cool features of vlc player worth knowing

For most people,  VLC is the favorite media player because it plays everything they throw at it without hiccups. No hunting for codec. But VLC can do a lot of other things as well. Find out how many of these listed below you knew, and how many you did not.

1. Rip DVDs: VLC includes a basic  DVD ripper. You probably would never use it when there are better DVD rippers available, but it helps to know that you can in fact, get a decent quality DVD rip with VLC. To rip a movie follow these steps:

• Go to the Media menu and choose Convert/Save. Click on the Disc tab.
• Here you can adjust the Starting Position and rip only specific titles or chapters.
• Enter file name making sure to end with .MPG, and start ripping.
• Click Save.

2. Record videos: With the new VLC, you can record  videos during playback. The record button is hidden by default. To see it, click on View>Advanced Control. The record button will now appear. Clicking on the button while playing a movie or video will start recording. Clicking again will stop recording.

3. Play RAR files: Do you know VLC can play videos zipped inside RAR files? They play like normal video files and you can even use the seek bar. If the RAR file is split into several files, no problem. Just load the first part (.part001.rar ) and it will automatically take the rest of the parts and play the whole file.

4. Play in  ASCII mode: VLC media player has an amusing ability, to playback movies in ASCII art. To enable ASCII mode, open VLC media player and click on Tools>Preferences. Open the section “Video” section and under “Output” select “Color ASCII art video output” from the drop down menu. Save it. Now play any video file to enjoy the ASCII art.

5. Listen to online radio: VLC includes hundreds of Shoutcast  radio stations. You just need to enable it through Media>Services Discovery>Shoutcast radio listings. Now, open the Playlist and browse through the stations.

6. Convert Audio and Video formats: In VLC you can convert video and audio files from one format to another. Several different formats are supported like MP4, WMV, AVI, OGG, MP3 etc. To access the converter:

• Go to Media>Convert/Save.
• Load the file you want to convert using the Add button and click Convert.
• Now choose the output format and output file location.
  

7. Download YouTube and other online videos: First grab the URL of the YouTube video page. Now click on Media>Open Network stream. Paste the URL and click Play. Once VLC starts streaming the video, click Tools>Codec Information and at the bottom of the window you will see a Location box. Copy the URL and paste it on your browser’s address bar. The browser will now download the file which you can save it to your hard disk. Alternatively, you can record the video. (See #2).

8)you can take screenshots while playing a video

9)you can play video at desktop-wondering how go  to video in settings and set wallpaper mode ,now you can work and see video at same time.

software/Google Advanced Operators

google Advanced Operators
Google supports several advanced operators, which are query words that have special meaning to Google. Typically these operators modify the search in some way, or even tell Google to do a totally different type of search. For instance, "link:" is a special operator, and the query [link:www.google.com] doesn't do a normal search but instead finds all web pages that have links to www.google.com.
Several of the more common operators use punctuation instead of words, or do not require a colon. Among these operators are OR, "" (the quote operator), - (the minus operator), and + (the plus operator). More information on these types of operators is available on the Basics of Search page. Many of these special operators are accessible from the Advanced Search page, but some are not. Below is a list of all the special operators Google supports.

Alternate query types

cache:	If you include other words in the query, Google will highlight those words within the cached document. For instance, [cache:www.google.com web] will show the cached content with the word "web" highlighted. This functionality is also accessible by clicking on the "Cached" link on Google's main results page. The query [cache: ] will show the version of the web page that Google has in its cache. For instance, [cache:www.google.com] will show Google's cache of the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the "cache:" and the web page url.
link:	The query [link: ] will list webpages that have links to the specified webpage. For instance, [link:www.google.com] will list webpages that have links pointing to the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the "link:" and the web page url. This functionality is also accessible from the Advanced Search page, under Page Specific Search > Links
related:	The query [related: ] will list web pages that are "similar" to a specified web page. For instance, [related:www.google.com] will list web pages that are similar to the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the "related:" and the web page url. This functionality is also accessible by clicking on the "Similar Pages" link on Google's main results page, and from the Advanced Search page, under Page Specific Search > Similar.
info:	The query [info: ] will present some information that Google has about that web page. For instance, [info:www.google.com] will show information about the Google homepage. Note there can be no space between the "info:" and the web page url. This functionality is also accessible by typing the web page url directly into a Google search box.

Other information needs

define:

The query [define:] will provide a definition of the words you enter after it, gathered from various online sources. The definition will be for the entire phrase entered (i.e., it will include all the words in the exact order you typed them).

stocks:

If you begin a query with the [stocks:] operator, Google will treat the rest of the query terms as stock ticker symbols, and will link to a page showing stock information for those symbols. For instance, [stocks: intc yhoo] will show information about Intel and Yahoo. (Note you must type the ticker symbols, not the company name.) This functionality is also available if you search just on the stock symbols (e.g. [ intc yhoo ]) and then click on the "Show stock quotes" link on the results page.

Query modifiers

site:	If you include [site: ] in your query, Google will restrict the results to those websites in the given domain. For instance, [help site:www.google.com] will find pages about help within www.google.com. [help site:com] will find pages about help within .com urls. Note there can be no space between the "site:" and the domain. Advanced Search page, under Advanced Web Search > Domains.
allintitle:	If you start a query with [allintitle:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the title. For instance, [allintitle: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the title. Advanced Search page, under Advanced Web Search > Occurrences.
intitle:	If you include [intitle: ] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the title. For instance, [intitle:google search] will return documents that mention the word "google" in their title, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (title or no). Note there can be no space between the "intitle:" and the following word. Putting [intitle:] in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting [allintitle:] at the front of your query: [intitle:google intitle:search] is the same as [allintitle: google search].
allinurl:	If you start a query with [allinurl:], Google will restrict the results to those with all of the query words in the url. For instance, [allinurl: google search] will return only documents that have both "google" and "search" in the url. Note that [allinurl:] works on words, not url components. In particular, it ignores punctuation. Thus, [allinurl: foo/bar] will restrict the results to page with the words "foo" and "bar" in the url, but won't require that they be separated by a slash within that url, that they be adjacent, or that they be in that particular word order. There is currently no way to enforce these constraints. Advanced Search page, under Advanced Web Search > Occurrences.
inurl:	If you include [inurl: ] in your query, Google will restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url. For instance, [inurl:google search] will return documents that mention the word "google" in their url, and mention the word "search" anywhere in the document (url or no). Note there can be no space between the "inurl:" and the following word. Putting "inurl:" in front of every word in your query is equivalent to putting "allinurl:" at the front of your query: [inurl:google inurl:search] is the same as [allinurl: google search].

software/electronics/iPhone meets Arduino, tilt joystick for mobile games results (video)

This is a article contributed by friend nirav.

Even though games like Infinity Blade can be great fun on the iPhone, there's no getting around the fact that touchscreen-centric, buttonless devices don't offer the best gaming ergonomics. A modding project gone horribly right, however, might just fix that right up for all of us. Shane Wighton set out to build a robot to try and beat his favorite iPhone game, replete with a webcam and an Arduino setup, but in the process of doing so he "just realized that [he'd] made a mechanism to play tilt based phone games with a joystick." Yes indeedy, one of the most awesome DIY gaming accessories was built by fluke as much as design. See it revolutionizing mobile gaming just after the break.




my views-this  is  a great development spreading among people who integrating embedded systems with mobile and other consumer electronics,this might lead to something great future...

software/photosynth

What is Photosynth?

Photosynth is a powerful set of tools for capturing and viewing the world in 3D. You can share these views with your friends on Facebook, publish them to Bing Maps, or embed them in your own Wok, publish them to Bing Maps, or embed them in your own Web site. Here’s the big picture:

How do I Capture the World in 3D?

Photosynth offers two styles for creating immersive 3D experiences: synths and panoramas. The following diagram shows the differences between them, and the tools available for creating them.

for more details visit photosynth.net
this is information is taken from the about page of photosynth.

so,as you can see this is a great software created by Microsoft labs availiable for free ,so next time you go on a vacation and save your memories..use this software...
you can also find a TED video on this by the designer of this software

software,robotics-image processing by matlab

Image processing is the most important part of any robot because a robot can take decisions based on image processing for its actions(such as locomotion,performing a task etc..).what is image processing?the answer lies in the word in fact the process of image for any suitable information is called image processing.
why?use matlab ,because in matlab there are toolboxes which make our task of image processing easier and other reason why matlab is because in matlab every picture can be easily transformed in form of matrices and thereby easier and faster processing.
some functions used for image processing
1)imshow-shows image
2)imread- reads image and converts into matrices
3)size gives the size of image (row,column)
for more information ,keep in touch with this blog,tutorials will be provided.

software/serial communication using c

hey guys do you want to communicate to a embedded device using c,then i will tell you how?
Actually,it all began when i had to create a embedded application for direct transfer of data from c user interface to microcontroller.So i began to search on the "help" of c(a general tip-usually help in c  is the best guide),then i found a command called biosky.so use biosky to set the baud rate,port,parity and other control options.Then there is a sample code on serial comm. just use that if you dont want to probe further.But be careful about the port and baud rate settings.
if your baud rate settings is not proper than there will be error in data transfer....

software/NINITE-formatted your computer or bought a new computer worrying about installing basic software-here is a solution

Ninite(www.ninite.com) is a cool website to visit ,it has all the installation of all kinds of software at one place.You name it and you get it ,let it be browsers,antivirus,media players,open source softwares and the best part is that once you select all the software you need and press install,it does the whole process of installation itself.so next time,you formated your computer or bought a new one ,just go to this site and i bet you will like it....

software/Google -The search engine-my views...

Google has been by far the most amazing on the internet.It has wide range of products,it has actually created a revolution on the net itself...and added the word google it to the dictionaries of young generation....But actually i think that the search engine optimization techniques should more user friendly and better,because the problem i get is when i search on topic such as robotics i get millions of pages of results...though i know that the problem is on my part that should google the specific thing  i need and use the SEO(search engine optimizing) techniques,i still think there should some friendly user interface to the engine ..like for example what my  idea is show results divided into different categories, for robotics ,i should get learning robotics,robotics companies etc...
this will actually improve the product more....

software/PHOTOSHOP

1 – Creating a New Image, and Setting Adobe Photoshop's Undo Option

Click File > New, and create a new image of any size you desire.
Press Ctrl+K to bring up the Preferences window.
Change your "Redo Key" to Ctrl+Shift+Z. This enables you to press Ctrl+Z at any time, to undo the last thing(s) you did. Remember this.

2 – Using Adobe Photoshop's Layers window

The Layers window shows the various layers that your image is made up of.
To make a new layer, click the New Layer button, as shown by the red arrow.
To work on a different layer, click on that layer. The eyeball will apear next to that layer.
You can drag layers up and down the list.
Remember – create a new layer for each part of your image. This allows you to go back and edit the layers individually. Every Adobe Photoshop beginner at some time makes a masterpiece, only to find out that they did it all on one layer, and now they can't remove those pink clouds they put on it. :)

MATLAB

hi friends,i just wanted to emphasize the  importance of Matlab.Matlab is becoming increasingly popular due to extensive applications in all fields of engineering and beyond  engineering. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages, including C, C++, and Fortran.It would be advisable to learn matlab.It is becoming a requirement in all industries.I would post some matlab tutorials in  some time.