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Unable to Login to your PC Forgot Password?
Unable to login to your PC as administrator.. ??
Here is the trick that you can use if you forgot your PC password..
Press ALT + CNT
and
Enter DELETE two times..
Now a box will appear..
Saying,
Log in as
Username: Administrator
Password: No
Now you can enter your computer and change the password if needed..!!
CableDrop Cable Clips – $9.99
Place the CableDrop Cable Clips behind or on your desktop, even onto a facing wall – anywhere you wish to have cables temporarily held yet easily removable or extended. CableDrop gently grasps your power and peripheral cords so they do not fall off your desk every time you unplug your laptop. CabledropÕs unique design makes cable management fun and can also be used as a general purpose clip in a multitude of creative ways.
The CableDrop Cable Clips is available from Think Geek for $9.99.
E-Ball: A Complete Computer in a Ball
How about taking whole computer in your pocket all the time? This ball predicts the future of computing. You might have seen many things like this but the unique feature of this ball is that when it is closed, no one can guess that whole computer is hidden inside this ball. Much like the 5 in 1 Pen drive which was fetured in this blog earlier.
The concept PC is called E-Ball designed by Apostol Tnokovski. It’s shaped like a sphere because in Tnokovski’s opinion this is the best shape in nature and it draws everybody’s attention.
E-Ball will feature a dual core processor, 250-500GB HDD, 2GB of RAM, integrated graphic card and sound card, 2 x 50W speakers, HD-DVD recorder, wireless optical mouse and laser keyboard, LAN and WLAN card, modem, Web cam and integrated LCD projector.
The E-Ball PC supports a paper holder and the paper sheet on the holder could act like a screen where you can watch movies or something. This concept PC will measure 160mm in diameter and it was designed for Microsoft Windows OS. For the moment, there is no word on pricing or when it’s going to be available. But upon release, it will surely hit the markets as everyone would like to see a small spherical PC like this one.
The spherical shape may not be practical. A sphere isn’t a very good idea for an object that needs to dissipate heat. Spheres have the highest volume/surface area ratio possible (which is why bubbles are spherical) and so would have the hardest time getting rid of waste heat. But hey, the most important here is that someone is pushing the envelope of PC computing and getting bigger ideas. It takes a brilliant mind to think these ideas which engineers then bring to reality. Sure there are some very dodgy concepts like the round mobo etc, but if nobody demands that engineers stretch their imagination we would still be having dinner with a pick axe out of stone.
The world's largest BitTorrent tracker shuts down for good!
Today marks the end of an era, as The Pirate Bay team announces that the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker is shutting down for good. Although the site will remain operational for now, millions of BitTorrent users will lose the use of its tracker and will instead have to rely on DHT and alternative trackers to continue downloading.
In the fall of 2003, a group of friends from Sweden decided to launch a BitTorrent tracker named ‘The Pirate Bay’. It soon became one of the largest BitTorrent trackers on the Internet, coordinating the downloads of more than 25 million peers at its height.
Despite this success, The Pirate Bay operators today decided to pull the plug and close down the tracker permanently. The evolution of the BitTorrent protocol has made trackers redundant they say, as BitTorrent downloads work well with trackerless solutions such as DHT and PEX.
“Now that the decentralized system for finding peers is so well developed, TPB has decided that there is no need to run a tracker anymore, so it will remain down! It’s the end of an era, but the era is no longer up2date. We have put a server in a museum already, and now the tracking can be put there as well,” the Pirate Bay crew write on their blog.
Aside from this shutdown, there is also another major development quietly under discussion.
TorrentFreak has learned that behind the scenes the Pirate Bay operators are talking to other BitTorrent site owners to encourage them to follow suit and completely ditch torrents in the future. BitTorrent has reached a point where trackers and torrents are no longer needed to download files successfully. Supported by all of the major BitTorrent clients, DHT and PEX can handle the transfers and Magnet links can largely replace traditional torrent files.
“We’re talking to the other torrent admins on doing magnet links and DHT+PEX for all sites. Moving away from torrents and trackers totally – like pick a date and all agree ‘from this date, we’ll not support torrents anymore’,” a Pirate Bay insider told TorrentFreak.
Switching to trackerless and torrentless downloading on public BitTorrent sites does indeed seem to be an option. Previously, many people thought that BitTorrent would collapse if a dominant tracker like the Pirate Bay went down, but this doomsday scenario never unfolded. In fact, the recent downtime of the tracker did not slow down or stop many transfers, as DHT and PEX seamlessly took over.
Those BitTorrent users who don’t want to go trackerless just yet can of course still use OpenBitTorrent and PublicBitTorrent, or indeed one of the many other alternative trackers currently available.
Whether or not The Pirate Bay and others will move away from torrent files in the future, the closure of the world’s largest BitTorrent tracker is nevertheless a milestone in the history of the Internet. Starting today, the Pirate Bay has changed its tagline from “The world’s largest BitTorrent tracker” to “The world’s most resilient (magnetic) BitTorrent site.”
Hot Chair offers surround sound
If you’re all about being immersed in you music, this chair is definitely the way to pull that off. With the speakers right up around your head, and the cozy look of the chair, you’ll be able to get lost for hours. I just wish it were a swivel chair, then it’d have that command center type appeal. Although, you could get that super villain kind of look if you picked up the black version of the chair.
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Google's Open-Source Closure Tools Project
Google's open-source Closure Tools project, commenced Thursday, is an attempt to help developers in creating Web sites and Web applications. Google being a strong proponent of JavaScript based programming, intends to help with writing, debugging, and optimizing heavy-duty JavaScript by the program.The Closure Compiler, is first in the suite of software packages, it tends to boil down a JavaScript program to smaller codes to run faster. The compiler removes dead code, then rewrites and minimizes what's left so that it will run fast on browsers' JavaScript engines. Also, Closure Inspector, is an extension for Firefox's Firebug add-on designed to help programmers understand and debug the rewritten JavaScript program. Another add-on for the Google Page Speed extension lets programmers see how much the compiler helped.
The Closure Library, second in the list, is a collection of prebuilt JavaScript code that lets programmers handle relatively complicated technology. And last on the list, Closure Templates, extensive pre-written codes to ease creation of JavaScript and HTML user interfaces. They are components that can be composed to form user interface, instead of having to create one big template per page.
Google plans to make the compiler available as a Web application hosted on its Google App Engine service.
VIRUS REMOVAL TECHNIQUES
Viruses are the major problems of our pcs, just as sickness is to human so is virus to computers.. There are many types of viruses which includes malware, spyware, Trojans e.t.c. A virus is an unwanted program that runs on the computer without the consent of users. A virus attack can lead to malfunction and decreased computer performance. There are different antivirus programs, which prevents the computer from virus attacks.
1.Mcafee
2. AVG
3. Norton
4. Esset
5. Kaspersky
6. Panda
7. Avast
All of the above antivirus programs work on the same principle. Suppose that when a virus attack on your computer a virus scanner, basically, then recognizes the virus definitions after the role of an antivirus program that blocks the virus. Therefore, it is essential to update antivirus software regularly; otherwise an antivirus does not recognize the virus definitions. Many organizations are providing technical support also includes anti-virus support. Vendor technical support in general, offers virus removal with the aid of remote desktop support. A technician can take remote control of the computer user’s permission. A technician can take appropriate steps troubleshooting support to provide antivirus and computer security. aA good antivirus support program that helps the client to the computer free of viruses.
1. Delete all temporary Internet files on your computer.
2. Uninstall unwanted programs installed on your computer.
3. Perform the “defrag” and “Disk Cleanup” utility in the specified time.
4. Scan your computer with any updated antivirus program.
5. Install and download the “Anti-malwarebytes.
6. Update Anti-malwarebytes.
7. Scan your computer using the “Anti-malwarebytes’ program.
8. Install and download the “SuperAntiSpyware” program.
9. Scan your computer using the spyware removal program.
WHAT GOOD ANTI VIRUSES DO
1) Scans, Removes Viruses
2) Email
Ready for 3D flat-screen TVs?
CHIBA (Japan) - JAPAN'S big name electronic manufacturers are readying flat-screen TVs that can show high-definition movies and video games in 3D for launch next year.
At the country's biggest consumer electronics show that opened Tuesday just outside of Tokyo all the major makers displayed 3D prototypes. Sony Corp and Panasonic Corp said they would bring their first models to market next year.
The companies are plowing ahead even before there is much content available, with corporate spokesmen saying only that preparation is under way. Demonstrations at the exhibitions were mainly short clips of movies, nature scenes and sports.
IT to generate 5.8 million new jobs by 2013
Information technology will be an employment machine, generating 5.8 million new jobs in the coming four years, according to International Data Corporation (IDC) research released on Sunday.
IDC predicts that the IT industry will be an engine powering economies out of economic doldrums, creating more that 75,000 new businesses in the next four years and adding jobs at a rate of 3 percent annually.
“Countries that foster innovation and invest in infrastructure, education and skills development for their citizens will have a major competitive advantage in the global marketplace,” said Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.
“In this fundamental economic reset, innovative technologies will play a vital role in driving productivity gains and enabling the creation of new local businesses and highly skilled jobs that fuel economic recovery and support sustainable economic growth.”
US software colossus Microsoft sponsored the IDC research into the impact of IT in 52 countries that represent 98 percent of the global IT spending.
“IT spending growth is a good sign as we come out of the recession,” Microsoft Corporate Affairs communications manager Scott Selby told AFP.
Employment growth in IT related jobs will be three times that of overall job growth in what Selby said is a “good driver of economic growth.”
While the world has been in the gripes of a recession, it has also been in the midst of a “technology renaissance” flush with advances in software, devices, and Internet-based services, according to IDC.
IDC expects IT spending in the countries studied to grow at slightly more than three percent annually, three times as fast as the gross domestic products between now and the year 2013.
In what is good news for software powerhouse Microsoft, spending on software is predicted to grow faster than overall IT spending, rising 4.8 percent annually.
“Software is a driving force behind this IT growth,” Selby said. “IT allows us to do more with less.”
New technologies are also ushering in a new “cloud computing” paradigm in which applications are provided online as services instead of as software bought and installed on home or office machines, according to IDC.
Money saved by using software as needed “in the cloud” instead of buying, maintaining, and updating applications will likely be devoted to bringing new products or services to market faster and cheaper, according to Selby.
IDC estimates that cloud services could add 800 billion dollars in net new business revenues between the end of 2009 and the end of 2013.
“Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen transformative power in how investments in IT innovations foster economic growth,” said Robert D. Atkinson, founder of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation in Washington, D.C.
“Continued innovation and investment in information technology will help jump-start recovery from the current recession and will significantly contribute to the growth of employment and new businesses.”
Emerging markets will reap the greatest economic gains from IT, according to Selby.
“Emerging markets are really going to take advantage of IT for years to come,” Selby said.
“One reason is they will be able to leapfrog and enjoy benefits of innovations like cloud computing much more quickly.”
Microsoft played up the prime role its software is playing in IT systems worldwide.
How to Increase the Phone's RAM Memory to boost up speed ?
How to increase 50% of ram of mobile.
Is your phone slow and have a short memory back up time which is considerably decreases day by day ? If yes then don’t worry because i have very simple handy solution to this problem.
Why Phone becomes slow and have less back up time ?
Normally there are lots of applications keep running in the background on the other hand also consuming about most of your RAM(random access memory) due to which your phone becomes slow consumes the phone memory so the memory back up time also decreases considerably.
Solution to the above situation is Memory Up
Some of the main features of Memory Up
Is your phone slow and have a short memory back up time which is considerably decreases day by day ? If yes then don’t worry because i have very simple handy solution to this problem.
Why Phone becomes slow and have less back up time ?
Normally there are lots of applications keep running in the background on the other hand also consuming about most of your RAM(random access memory) due to which your phone becomes slow consumes the phone memory so the memory back up time also decreases considerably.
Solution to the above situation is Memory Up
Some of the main features of Memory Up
It sets up a Smart management of Java virtual machine (JVM) which manually performs a quick boost for your phone. It also has warning RAM at your preset threshold
Memory Up runs in the background so makes an efficient use of the memory of your smartphone Performs a advanced boosting features (like prohibit kernel to disk swapping, auto-allocate critical threads, etc.)
Compatibility: compatible with the following models
LG: B2000, B2050, B2070, B2100, B2150, C1100, C1150, C2000, C2500, C2600, C3100, C3300, C3400, CG225, CU400,
Motorola: A1200, A760, A768, A780, A835, C168, C257, C261, C290, C350, C350M, C380, C385, C390, C450, C550, C650, C975, E1000, E1070, E380, E398, E398B, E398i, E550, E680, E680i, E770, E770-Vodafone, E790, E815, i830, i930, K1, KZRK K1, L2, L6, L6i, L7-Vodafone, Motorola Q, Motorola Q Plus, MPX220, PEBL U6, Razr V3, RAZR V3m, Razr V3x.
Nokia: 2355, 2610, 2626, 2650, 2760, 2855i, 2865, 2865i, 3100, 3105, 3110c, 3120, 3125, 3152, 3155, 3200, 3220, 3230, 3250, 3300, 3410, 3510i, 3530, 3586i, 3587, 3595, 3600, 3620, 3650, 3660, 5070, 5100, 5140, 5140i, 5200, 5300, 5500d, 6010, 6015, 6020, 6021, 6030, 6060, 6060v, 6061, 6070, 6080, 6085, 6100, 6101, 6102, 6102i, 6103, 610
Compatibility: compatible with the following models
LG: B2000, B2050, B2070, B2100, B2150, C1100, C1150, C2000, C2500, C2600, C3100, C3300, C3400, CG225, CU400,
Motorola: A1200, A760, A768, A780, A835, C168, C257, C261, C290, C350, C350M, C380, C385, C390, C450, C550, C650, C975, E1000, E1070, E380, E398, E398B, E398i, E550, E680, E680i, E770, E770-Vodafone, E790, E815, i830, i930, K1, KZRK K1, L2, L6, L6i, L7-Vodafone, Motorola Q, Motorola Q Plus, MPX220, PEBL U6, Razr V3, RAZR V3m, Razr V3x.
Nokia: 2355, 2610, 2626, 2650, 2760, 2855i, 2865, 2865i, 3100, 3105, 3110c, 3120, 3125, 3152, 3155, 3200, 3220, 3230, 3250, 3300, 3410, 3510i, 3530, 3586i, 3587, 3595, 3600, 3620, 3650, 3660, 5070, 5100, 5140, 5140i, 5200, 5300, 5500d, 6010, 6015, 6020, 6021, 6030, 6060, 6060v, 6061, 6070, 6080, 6085, 6100, 6101, 6102, 6102i, 6103, 610
Warner, YouTube near deal for music videos
NEW YORK: Warner Music Group and YouTube are finalizing an agreement that would allow music videos from artists such as Madonna and Green Day to once again be featured on the popular web site, according to sources close to the deal. The deal, which one source described as imminent, would resolve a dispute over licensing rights that caused Warner Music to pull music videos by its artists from Google Inc's YouTube in December. YouTube and Warner, the third largest music company, declined comment on the deal, first reported by AdAge on Monday. A deal would mean that Warner Music's stable of artists would once again appear on the world's most popular video sharing site, joining those from EMI Music, Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group, all of which have renewed deals. Financial details are unclear; but Warner Music Chief Executive Edgar Bronfman has made known his desire to improve terms of his previous deal with YouTube. Like other industry executives, he faces a music market that has been stung by tumbling CD sales and slowing digital music growth. The deal would also open the door to a possible role for Warner in a new music video website called Vevo, which is backed by Universal and Sony and will be supported by YouTube's technology platform. At the moment, talks about Warner joining Vevo are still in "early stages" and could break down over a range of issues, one source said. The source declined to be named because of the sensitive nature of the discussions. Music industry insiders say that Web videos are catching up with radio and music television as one of the most important music discovery tools for fans. They say Vevo would create a more sophisticated way to experience music on the web, describing a site that would be the music industry's version of Hulu, the popular U.S.-based online TV service backed by NBC Universal, News Corp and Walt Disney Co. Former Universal Music digital chief Rio Caraeff was appointed as Vevo's top executive earlier this summer. The venture has held talks with major advertisers and deals with at least four big brand names are expected to be ready in time for its debut later this year. |
Things I Love ! About Google Chrome
My primary browser is NOT Chrome, but I keep it loaded for testing and as an option; you should always have options.
But Chrome is not one to be dismissed it’s got some power and speed. And while the browser doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of… say Firefox; it hasn’t crashed on me yet. And from that there are some things I like about the speedy browser.
So these are just some things I like about Chrome and as the wheel turns and Chrome actively supports plug-ins, I might be swayed a bit more easily.
Program Startup
From my perspective, Chrome loads a lot faster than Firefox. There’s times when benchmarks say they’re faster, but it’s not noticeable, but there’s a noticeable difference between Chrome and Firefox loading. So getting to where you want to go, faster, can be done with Chrome.
System Memory
It doesn’t use a lot of memory.
Chrome reports back like this in my task manager:
36mb [basically]
Firefox reports back to me like this:
74mb [basically]
Task Manager
I don’t know why no one thought of this earlier. This is an awesome feature and you truly get to see who is responsible for crashing your browser. There’s been countless times I’ve tried to go to websites where they just stall; you never find out why they didn’t load.
Well Chrome handles this differently. It just starts loading and displaying stuff as soon as it’s got some structure. All the processed are divvied out and if they don’t pull their load, they’re pointed out and shunned.
Example:
Web Graphics
The graphics in Chrome are rendered better in Chrome than in Firefox. I’ve seen plenty of examples where Firefox and Chrome have presented images clearer.
Skia seems to be the graphics engine Chrome uses.
Web Security
I like the thought that if I go to a website and get misdirected by some malicious code that the browser is going to be thrown for a loop using browser exploits [not saying Chrome is perfect], but the fact that each site and function is ’sandboxed’ in to it’s own process so that if there’s something bad trying to go on; it’s not going to affect other processes.
Sandbox operates at process-level granularity. Anything that needs to be sandboxed needs to live on a separate process. The minimal sandbox configuration has two processes: one that is a privileged controller known as the broker, and one or more sandboxed processes known as the target. Throughout the documentation and the code these two terms are used with that precise connotation. The sandbox is provided as a static library that must be linked to both the broker and the target executables.
Barebones and Simple
While Chrome doesn’t have all the plug-ins everyone wants, it does have a simple options menu. There’s really not that much to muck around with and the options seem to pretty straight forward. This means it’s ready for the average user and IT Administrator/Consultant guys should enjoy it as well.
Stable and Consistent
I haven’t had Chrome crash on me yet. I’ve had Firefox crashed on me several times and sometime Firefox has this cute little error message type response like, ‘..oops’. But when Firefox crashes on a page it takes the whole browser with it. With Chrome, it reports back this site has a problem and has an intelligent type recovery. So I really like this feature.
Program Updates
Ever since I’ve loaded Chrome, I’ve never seen it tell there’s an update or it’s downloading an update OR anything about an update; it just is. Chrome has always been current anytime I checked the version info. It’s just nice to not have to check back every few weeks and update, OR get the latest update, to see what’s new. It’s refreshing.
Stealth Browsing
It’s one of those things you ask yourself, ‘…why wasn’t this in there from the beginning?’; it’s a common function now, but Chrome was the first to offer it and now everyone has followed suit.
Concept Innovation
Chrome/GGoogle has been pushing the innovation thing a lot. They keep to be really trying to make things better and actively promoting new and better ways to do things. So when a program has this much support behind it it’s encouraging
So, while Chrome is not my browser of choice, it’s really nice to have in the background to play with and test with.
What do you think? Plz do comment ! ! ! !How to Promote a Blog in Search Engines
Blogging has become very famous for promotion of businesses. People love to do blogging. Blogging is one of the easiest and wonderful way to express your self, your ideas and thoughts. Blogs can also be very well used for promotion of websites and ultimately to promote the business.
Instructions
- Step 1
Blog promotion help in promotion of business. You can promote your product, services through the blog and these days with the blog promotion people are getting lots of business and an expansion of their business. Now the main term comes that how to promote a blog? Blog promotion is a moderate and an easy way. Initially it was somewhat difficult because people had a less knowledge about blogs and their promotion. These days there are number of sources and strategies through which you can promote your blog.
- Step 2
1. Submit blog in top search engines
2. Exchange links with other blogs
3. Submit blog in blog directories - Step 3
4. Submit blog in general web directories
5. Submit the blog in blog pinging sites
6. you can join communities at http://www.mybloglog.com - Step 4
7. Submit blog in RSS directories
8. Do commenting on dofollow blogs
9. Create more blogs on relevant themes and link to your main blog
10. Do social bookmarking of blog at social bookmarking sites - Step 5
Blog optimization is also very important in order to get fully benefited. For on page optimization perform keywords analysis, meta tags generation, content optimization, alt tags implementation, W3C validation, sitemap creation, RSS feed etc.
- Step 6
All the above mentioned techniques applied in a proper manner will surely give good hikes to the blog in search engines. This will help you in getting high search engine rankings and visitors on the blog.
- Step 7
Blogs not only help in promotion of business, even you may earn revenues through fully promoted blogs. Revenues can be generated through affiliate links and google adsence. Overall blogs are best of income and business promotion.
7 Useful Design Tips for Beginner Blogs
Bloggers and webmasters are always keen and worried about their blog’s design.They tweak the templates,change the colors,adjust the css and positioning and take every possible means to ensure that the blogs looks good in the eyes of the readers. But at some point of time the design and the feel of the blog can be really disturbing if you are committing design mistakes.If you are a beginner and have just started out , here are some useful design tips and suggestions to improve your blog’s design.
#1. Use a Clean and Simple Theme
The first thing you Do after you have started your blog is choose a theme. If your blog is hosted on WordPress or Blogger there are Plenty of themes to choose from. Just Google around for WordPress themes or blogger templates and you can get hundreds of Free themes that you can use in your blog.But before choosing a theme keep in mind that it should be simple and clean.
Do not use a theme with heavy graphics,eye catchy colors or Images. Sure they look ” fascinating ” but after some days they will start distracting your readers attention.If the reader is disturbed by your graphics or other design elements he wont stay in your blog to read your articles.Thus it is recommended to choose a clean and simple theme for your blog.
#2. Use White Background and Black text
How many blogs you have seen use a dark background ? Can you easily read the content or text on a Dark background ? Reading articles on blogs having a dark background can be really difficult at times and is not recommended.
Hence it is always advised to use White or a Light background and Dark or Black text.Users want to read your content and they do not visit your website to see the design skills you have.If you make things difficult for them they wont come back even the second time to read your articles.
#3. Keep the Main Attention on the Content Column
This one is no brainer and should be followed at all costs. You should keep the content column the main focus in your blog. The content column should be wide enough ( e.g 600px ).If you have a two column template keep the content column to the left and the sidebar in the right.
Also do keep in mind that the content should begin immediately after your templates header. SO start the content section as early as possible so that the user need not need to scrool all the way down to read your posts.
#4. Use Minimum Advertisements and Widgets
You should Avoid distractions at all costs.The most disturbing and distracting affair in a Blog is advertisements and widgets. So keep the advertisements to a minimum and if possible do not use them within your content.Using advertisements embedded within content makes it hard to read your article all together and readers may feel disturbed. Result : they will stay away from your blog and go elsewhere.
The same is true in case you are using too much of widgets in your sidebars.Using too many widgets will eventually slow down your blog and above all it takes the focus away from the main juice : your content.use widgets sparingly and use them only when you need them , not because it adds one more functionality in your blog.
#5. Use large Font size and Proper fonts
I have seen many blogs playing with their fonts every now and then and they think it looks “cool”.Believe me nothing can be more irritating than using obtrusive font styles. Choose between the standard fonts like : Arial,Verdana,georgia etc. and the size of your font should be more than 12 px (at least). Using low font sizes to save space is a crazy idea.It creates a very bad impression to your first time visitors.
#6. Avoid horizontal Scrollbars
Nobody will be interested if they have to use a horizontal scrolbar to read your articles and posts.You should take utmost care while designing your blog template so that there aren’t any horizontal scrolbars.The scrolbars may occur in differeent screen resolutions( e.g 800 X 600) which is unavoidable but in all other screen resolutions it is recomended to check and say No to scrolbars.
#7. Have a Unique Logo and favicon
The first thing that comes to a readers mind about any blog is its logo.A good logo creates a solid brand and makes your blog remembered in your readers minds and hearts. So create your own blog logo and make it unique. Don’t just use text to represent your blog’s name.
Similarly you should also try to create a favicon for your blog. A favicon is seen in the browser address bar , in RSS feeds and its again a style element that brings clarity and brand value in your blog.
#1. Use a Clean and Simple Theme
The first thing you Do after you have started your blog is choose a theme. If your blog is hosted on WordPress or Blogger there are Plenty of themes to choose from. Just Google around for WordPress themes or blogger templates and you can get hundreds of Free themes that you can use in your blog.But before choosing a theme keep in mind that it should be simple and clean.
Do not use a theme with heavy graphics,eye catchy colors or Images. Sure they look ” fascinating ” but after some days they will start distracting your readers attention.If the reader is disturbed by your graphics or other design elements he wont stay in your blog to read your articles.Thus it is recommended to choose a clean and simple theme for your blog.
#2. Use White Background and Black text
How many blogs you have seen use a dark background ? Can you easily read the content or text on a Dark background ? Reading articles on blogs having a dark background can be really difficult at times and is not recommended.
Hence it is always advised to use White or a Light background and Dark or Black text.Users want to read your content and they do not visit your website to see the design skills you have.If you make things difficult for them they wont come back even the second time to read your articles.
#3. Keep the Main Attention on the Content Column
This one is no brainer and should be followed at all costs. You should keep the content column the main focus in your blog. The content column should be wide enough ( e.g 600px ).If you have a two column template keep the content column to the left and the sidebar in the right.
Also do keep in mind that the content should begin immediately after your templates header. SO start the content section as early as possible so that the user need not need to scrool all the way down to read your posts.
#4. Use Minimum Advertisements and Widgets
You should Avoid distractions at all costs.The most disturbing and distracting affair in a Blog is advertisements and widgets. So keep the advertisements to a minimum and if possible do not use them within your content.Using advertisements embedded within content makes it hard to read your article all together and readers may feel disturbed. Result : they will stay away from your blog and go elsewhere.
The same is true in case you are using too much of widgets in your sidebars.Using too many widgets will eventually slow down your blog and above all it takes the focus away from the main juice : your content.use widgets sparingly and use them only when you need them , not because it adds one more functionality in your blog.
#5. Use large Font size and Proper fonts
I have seen many blogs playing with their fonts every now and then and they think it looks “cool”.Believe me nothing can be more irritating than using obtrusive font styles. Choose between the standard fonts like : Arial,Verdana,georgia etc. and the size of your font should be more than 12 px (at least). Using low font sizes to save space is a crazy idea.It creates a very bad impression to your first time visitors.
#6. Avoid horizontal Scrollbars
Nobody will be interested if they have to use a horizontal scrolbar to read your articles and posts.You should take utmost care while designing your blog template so that there aren’t any horizontal scrolbars.The scrolbars may occur in differeent screen resolutions( e.g 800 X 600) which is unavoidable but in all other screen resolutions it is recomended to check and say No to scrolbars.
#7. Have a Unique Logo and favicon
The first thing that comes to a readers mind about any blog is its logo.A good logo creates a solid brand and makes your blog remembered in your readers minds and hearts. So create your own blog logo and make it unique. Don’t just use text to represent your blog’s name.
Similarly you should also try to create a favicon for your blog. A favicon is seen in the browser address bar , in RSS feeds and its again a style element that brings clarity and brand value in your blog.
Cool Wunderland - Amazing Miniature World
Cool pictures and videos of Wunderland, the largest miniature railroad in the world. Miniatur Wunderland, located in Hamburg. Just looking at the cool pictures and videos below of the Miniatur Wunderland, a $10 million, 9,600 square foot train set, you may mistake it for a living, breathing place! This is so cool!
Several places, in fact, including its native Hamburg, and America (complete with an Area 51), Scandinavia and Austria — all painstakingly recreated down to the major landmarks, working traffic and ships and, of course, trains. Soon there will even be an airport. It's all part of an expansion planned for 2014, that will see Miniatur Wunderland add 36,000 feet of track to the almost 30,000 feet already in place, as well as doubling the set's $10 million price tag.
It took 500,000 working hours to build, going from Norway, Denmark, and Sweden to North America, through Germany, Austria, and Switzerland—complete with the Grand Canyon, 20-foot tall Swiss mountains, and:
- 800 trains.
- Over 10,000 train cars in total, running several hundred kilometers every day.
- One train is 47.5 feet long.
- Over 170 computer controlled cars.
- More than 200,000 people (there's all kinds of things here, even a crime scene).
- Controlled by 40 computers.
- 200 cameras control the premises.
- Day and night lighting simulator.
- 300,000 computer-controlled LEDs
The Miniatur Wunderland has a pretty darn impressive list of numbers, from track length to the number of traffic signals. They are opening an airport this year, which has taken 2.5 years to build. If you are not impressed after watching the video, seriously, I don't know what will. Oh, wait, I know: This cool model even has a fully working model whorehouse, casinos, and a secret underground base.
The attention to detail is obsessive to say the least. All framed by the sweet poetry of stilted translation: “see wild animals/and other very shy herds/and above all you examine the life like it is real”.
The wunders also include thousands of model cars, hundreds of thousands of lights, and scenes recreated from busy harbors to red light districts to football matches to hauling a body out of a river, across countries including the US, Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
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