B-Factor

When XP first appeared, there was a lot of conversation about the new interface,
both good and bad. In spite of the initial complaints, most users stick
with the default settings rather than reverting to the Classic interface found
in previous Windows versions. But you might want to change the delay you
notice when you click the Start menu. I see no reason for there to be any
delay when I click the Start menu. Effects are pretty, but I wouldn’t click it if
I didn’t have business inside, so let’s get it open and get moving. The default
speed can be adjusted with a quick Registry hack.
Go to the Registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\
MenuShowDelay. The default value is 400. Set it to 0 to remove the delay
completely, but if you do that it will be nearly impossible to move the
mouse fast enough not to activate All Programs if you mouse over it en
route to your final selection. Pick a number that suits your style, make the
change, and then test it until you find a good compromise between speed
and usability.

One of the true strengths of blogging is the power of personality. Many bloggers blog in a
traditional sense, diarizing their lives each week with personal anecdotes, stories and opinion.This is fine for hobby and personal blogs but if you are talking business blogging you don’t want to turn people away by complaining about how big
your nose is after all the food you ate at Barista, including a bunch of pictures to prove
it!

To get the right kind of traffic to a business blog you want to project your humanity but also stay tightly on-topic. One of the best ways to do this is to blog about your business mistakes. By explaining how you went wrong, what you learnt as a result and how you dealt with the situation you provide fantastic blog content.

Your readers connect with you (rapport building)because they make mistakes too, all humans do.You provide a practical lesson that your readers will learn so as not to make the same mistake you made. You also demonstrate your professionalism by explaining how maturely you dealt with the situation. Of course this assumes everything did work out reasonably well in the end, but I’m sure you get my point.

The key to good business blog traffic is personality and focus without too much of either
ingredient. You don’t want to express your deepest darkest fears, fantasies and passions
(unless that is the purpose of your blog - voyeur blogging perhaps), but you do want to inject your emotions, personality and unbiased opinion into your articles. Emotive and personal opinions should be used to enhance your content, not
dilute it with rambling off-topic diatribe.

Atlast after a deep contemplation,  I have started another Blog, this time it is Tech Blog…  Visit my blog at http://allaboutseo.wordpress.com

Thanks Subbu, Anand

Adobe Photoshop has a bug where a thumbnail embedded inside a picture can reveal lot more content than what it is actually supposed to. Read this interesting but embarrassing story found on PC World .[Pg-13 content]

When cute G4techTV host, Catherine Michelle Schwartz, posted some photos on her personal blog, little she would not have imagined that her fans and rest of the world would get to see her nude through these photographs..

Actually Cat, popularly known as the Tech Chick, had taken some topless photos of herself with a digital camera and then cropped the sensitive portions using Adobe Photoshop before posting the pictures on the internet.

Though Catherine had saved the JPG files after cropping, buggy Photoshop embedded the original topless pics as the thumbnail [see screenshot]

Here’s some explanation about the whole issue: Photoshop generates small preview images for the pictures it produces and hides them in the original image. If you change the image drastically, the preview thumbnail is changed too.

But if you don’t make a major change, and instead just crop the picture and resave it under the original file name, the preview thumbnail stays the same and reflects not what your image currently looks like but instead what the original looked like.

Thanks:Techmeme

GWT(Google Web ToolKit) is Google’s Tool which is a Java Development Framework that facilitates writing AJAX applications in an easier way, for more information on this see GWT. I am currently working in a GWT project, While working I thought about an issue which will smash down the crawlability of Search Engine(SE) Robots.Everyone is aware of SE Robots, which crawl through the Web pages thereby feeding the Search Algorithim with all necessary stuffs, To brief on that” Search engines generally use robot crawlers to locate searchable pages on web sites and intranets (robots are also called crawlers, spiders, gatherers or harvesters). These robots, which use the same requests and responses as web browsers, read pages and follow links on those pages to locate every page on the specified server”. and it is also necessary that you need to know

How your web page is crawled? How your WebPage is read by the Search Engine? (more…)

Current wireless headphones typically use infrared, radio spectrum, or Bluetooth, all of which are prone to casual disruption. Sony aims to change that with their body-wired headphone patent application. Their headphones would basically use your own body to carry the music up to the headphones, via a few millionths of an amp that turns you into a human capacitor. The resulting music would be 48kps quality, which according to Sony is plenty. (Could someone explain how that’s plenty?)

After finishing the project its easy to run it in the GWT Shell… But to run it as a stand alone say in Tomcat, you need to follow certain steps. Let us take the RPC example given in the VistaFei Site…

The steps to run RCP under tomcat in VistaFei
1. run project in Hostmode
2. click “Compile/Browse

in Tomcat
under $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps
1. create folder {ApplicationName}
2. create folder {ApplicationName}/WEB-INF
3. create folder {ApplicationName}/WEB-INF/classes
4. create folder {ApplicationName}/WEB-INF/lib
5. copy from VistaFei {project}/www/*.* to step 1 {ApplicationName}
6. copy from VistaFei {project}/bin/*.* to step 3 {ApplicationName}/WEB-INF/classes
7. copy from VistaFei {project}/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml to step 2 {ApplicationName}/WEB-INF and replace the following code
<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>shell</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.google.gwt.dev.shell.GWTShellServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>shell</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
with
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC “-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN”
“http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd”>
<web-app>
8. open $GWT_HOME/gwt-user.jar remove javax.* packages and copy it to step 4 {ApplicationName}/WEB-INF/lib