Google recently added insert inline drawing for google docs like office. The tool allow us to insert custom drawing in our docs / spreadsheet. This allow us to create custom drawings like Microsoft Office, but google docs still lacks professional software with Office.

Just click on the menu item called “Drawing” from the menu “Insert”. Draw your favorite image and add to your favorite document(s) and spreadsheet(s).

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Semantic Scuttle is an open source social bookmarking tool which is an enhanced version of Scuttle. The application is developed in PHP with database support to mysql, postgre, oracle and sqlite. The installation is very simple.

Installation

1. Download Semantic Scuttle form Sourceforge.net, at the moment the latest version is 0.89
2. Extract the Zip-File and upload the files to your web-server
3. Import the file “tables.sql” to your database. With phpMyAdmin this is quite simpel.
4. Rename the file “config.inc.php.example” to “config.inc.php” and open it with your favorite editor.  This file contains all basic information about your system

Settings in “config.inc.php”

Basic Settings

$sitename = ‘SemanticScuttle’;

Name of your site, will appear in the header.

$welcomeMessage = ‘Welcome to SemanticScuttle! More than a social
bookmarking tool.’;

Welcome-message, will displayed above your bookmarks.

$root = NULL;

Leave here “NULL” if your installation is not placed in a sub folder, otherwise you should write here the url to your installation e.g. “www.yoursite.xx/subfolder/”.

$locale = ‘en_GB’;

Here you can set the language of your installation.

$usecache = false;

The cache-system, for now we leave “false”.

$dir_cache = dirname(__FILE__) .’/cache/’;

Path to cache, leave the preset value.

$cleanurls = false;

This is for setting “nice urls”, for now leave it with the default “false”.

Database

$dbtype = ‘mysql4′;

Choose the type of your database, leave mysql4 for MySQL.

$dbhost = ‘127.0.0.1′;
$dbport = ‘3306′;

For over 99% of all installations the default settings are good.

$dbuser = ‘username’;
$dbpass = ‘password’;

Place here the username and password for your database.

$dbname = ’scuttle’;

The name of your database.

$tableprefix = ’sc_’;

Prefix of the tables in your database. If you imported the file “tables.sql” than leave the default.

User

$adminemail = ‘admin@example.org’;

This emails-address is used if a users has lost his password and is requesting a new one.

$admin_users = array(‘admin’);

Until now there is no user but here you should already put in your login-name. If there are more than one admin use:

array(’name1′, ‘name2′, ‘name3′);

$reservedusers = array(‘all’, ‘watchlist’);

Which words can not be used for usernames.

Antispam

For registration there is a simple antispam-question.

$antispamQuestion = ‘name of this application (no Caps)’;

The question, e.g. =’What is 2 plus 3′;

$antispamAnswer = ’semanticscuttle’;

The answer, e.g =’5′;

Remaining files are not important to us for the time being.

1. Save the file “config.inc.php” and upload it to your webserver.
2. Browse to your installation. If everything is OK you will see:

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RIM is here again with stylish legendary phone, The Blackberry Storm 9500. Making touch screen keyboard and messaging the best feature give more appeal to business people. This device vibrant feature called surepress which is touch screen technology enable sensitive touch in the screen.

Key features:

• 3.25″ 65K-color capacitive touchscreen of 360 x 480 pixel resolution
• A new touchscreen experience thanks to SurePress screen
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and 2100 MHz 3G with HSDPA support
• 3.15 MP autofocus camera, LED flash
• BlackBerry OS 4.7
• 624 MHz CPU, 128 MB RAM
• Built-in GPS and BlackBerry maps preloaded
• 1 GB internal storage
• Hot-swappable microSD card slot, ships with an 8GB card
• Landscape virtual QWERTY keyboard goes as close to hardware keys as we have seen
• Great build quality
• Solid looks
• 3.5mm standard audio jack
• Bluetooth and USB v2.0
• Really nice web browser
• Document editor
• Excellent audio quality

Main disadvantages:

• No Wi-fi
• Only BlackBerry email support out of the box
• Interface not as quick as competitors
• Chubbier than most touchscreen phones
• Mediocre camera
• No FM radio
• No Flash support
• Fingerprint-prone front panel

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Video sites are getting lots of popularity these days. Today I am going to explain how to set up video streaming for a conference or any events. We can use open source application VLC player for this. The main advantage using VLC player is the application is open source, support most of the video formats, moreover the application works well with most of the operating systems which include Windows, Linux, Mac OSx etc.  Download VLC player for your operating system.

Now I will explain the steps to stream video online.

Requirements

1) VLC Player

2) Video Camera (to shoot conference and or event)

3) Camera connector to your server system. (May be some USB cable from camera to the system)

4) High speed Internet connection (If you want to stream through internet) with a good up link capacity.

5) If possible a static IP so that the IP can be used by clients

6) VLC player supporting operating system mentioned above.

Steps

1) After installing VLC player in your operating system (check all components while installing), open the application. Normally you can browse the application from the start menu with the path like this(Start Menu->All Programs(Program Files)->VideoLAN) if you are using windows.

2) Click on the file menu, select menu item called “Wizard”. Select the radio button that shows “Stream to Network” and click “Next” button.

3) On the next window you will be prompted with a window to select stream. You can either use a file to stream or if it is live conference select the camera input from the Window. You can select the camera input from the tab “DirectShow” or from disc or even from network. Click OK button and then “Next” button.

4) Select HTTP radio and enter your static IP address in the “Destination” textfield and then select “Next” that will prompt you file format. Select the default format that may be either ASF if you are windows or MPEG or something if you are using some other operating system. Click next and fill in the TTL field as 1 and click “Finish” to complete the streaming server installation and configuration.

Client

Open a new instance of VLC player. Click on the file menu and select Open Network Stream’. On the dialog that shows up, select the ‘HTTP/HTTPS/..’ radio button on ‘Network’ tab and enter ‘IPAddress:8080′ in the edit box beside it . Click ‘OK’.

Embedding the video into a web page.

Create a simple HTML page and deploy it in some web server that can handle it online. On the HMTL page enter the HTML below.

<embed type="application/x-vlc-plugin"
         name="video1"
         autoplay="no" loop="yes" width="400" height="300"
         target="http://localhost:8080" />
<br />
  <a href="javascript:;" onclick='document.video1.play()'>Play video1</a>
  <a href="javascript:;" onclick='document.video1.pause()'>Pause video1</a>
  <a href="javascript:;" onclick='document.video1.stop()'>Stop video1</a>
  <a href="javascript:;" onclick='document.video1.fullscreen()'>Fullscreen</a>

The will also stream the same video through a web page.

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I had some bad experience about Lenovo service some days back. I have researched about Lenovo authorized service centers. I came to realized that main distributor of Lenovo laptops and desktops is Redington India Private Limited. Lenovo offers only one year warranty to laptops and desktops, on the other side popular brands like DELL, hp etc are providing extended warranties for 2 more years also. That of course depicts the poor quality of lenovo laptops and desktops compared to other laptops.

Here is the list of lenovo owned and authorized service centers in India. I have a serious advice if you are willing to invest INR 5,000 more you can go for Dell, hp laptops which are far far better than lenovo.

Ahmedabad
IBM Global Services (I) Pvt. Ltd.,
Unit # 54&55, 5th Floor,
JMC House, Near Parimal Garden,
Off C.G Road,
Ahmedabad – 380006.
Ph: 079 – 26465892/ 26465856

Bangalore
IBM Global Services (I) Pvt. Ltd.,
Subramanya Arcade, Ground Floor,
12, Bannerghatta Road,
Bangalore – 560029.
Ph: 080 – 22063043/ 22063037/ 22063035

Baroda
Redington India Limited
Ground Floor, 31 Nutan Bharat Society,
Near M K High School,
Alakapuri, Baroda – 390005.
Ph: 0265 – 2343235/ 2343236
Fax: 0265 – 2355407
email: servbar@redington.co.in

Bhopal
CMS Computers Limited
G-57, 1st Floor,
Grace Towers, Zone-II,
M.P Nagar, Bhopal
M.P – 462011.
Ph: 0755 – 5229477/ 257200

Bhubaneshwar
Authorized Thinkpad Service Center,
5, Gopabandhu Square, 1st Floor,
Bhubaneshwar
Ph: 0674 – 2407656/ 2408068
Email:wixtech_bbsr@rediffmail.com

Calcutta/ Kolkata
IBM Global Services (I) Pvt. Ltd.,
16, Camac Street,
2nd Floor, L&T Chambers,
Kolkata – 17.
Ph: 033 – 228264 Extn: 205/ 206

Chandigarh
Authorized Thinkpad Service Centre
Plot No. 181, Industrial Area Phase 1,
Chandigarh (UT) 160002
Ph: 0712 – 5018075/5018074

Chennai
IBM Global Services (I) Pvt. Ltd.
IBM Towers,
222, TTK Road,
Aiwarpet,
Chennai – 16.
Ph: 044 – 24660033 Extn: 220/222

Cochin/ Kochi
Authorized Thinkpad Service Centre
28/3299A Cheruparambath Road,
1st Floor, Melka Towers,
Kadvanthara,
Cochin.
Ph: 0484 – 2318815/ 2318834

Coimbatore
Redington India Limited
No. 94A & 95, Prasad Chambers,
East Arokiasamy Road, R S Puram,
Coimbatore – 640002.
Ph: 0422 – 2548096/ 2547509
Fax: 0422 – 2555216
Email: servcom@redington.co.in

Delhi
IBM Global Service (I) Pvt. Ltd,
First Floor, Birla Towers,
25, Barakhamba Road,
Connaught Place, New Delhi
Ph: 011 – 52292147/51511870/52293000

Gurgaon
IBM Global Services (I) Pvt. Ltd.,
DLF, Village Silokhera,
National Highway No. 8, Sector 30,
Gurgaon.
Ph: 0124 – 5053288/2834151/2834141
Fax: 0124 – 2382425

Guwahati
Redington India Limited
Bajrangbali Building,
1st Floor, Bora Service,
G.S Road, Ulubari,
Guwahati – 781007
Ph: 0361 – 2450611/ 2450612
email: servgwi@redington.co.in

Hyderabad
IBM Global Services (I) Pvt. Ltd.,
No. 8-2-502/1/AG,
Uma Aishwarya House, Road No. 7,
Banjara Hills, Hyderabad – 500034
Ph: 040 – 23350260-62, 66 Extn: 30

Indore
Authorized Thinkpad Service Centre
G-1, Swadesh Bhavab, Press Complex,
Agra Bombay Road,
Indore.
Ph: 0731 – 5009995/ 5009994

Jaipur
Authorized Thinkpad Service Centre
A-28, Parwal Mansion,
Basement Area, Jaipur – 302016
Ph: 0141 – 5128675

Jamshedpur
IBM Global Services,
Kashi Kunj, Road No. 2,
Contractor’s Area,
Bistupur, Jamshedpur – 831001

Lucknow
Authorized Thinkpad Service Centre
DTL Plaza, 19-way lane,
Behind Hindustan Times Building,
Luchnow
Ph: 0522 – 2207313/ 2207303

Ludhiana
Redington India Ltd
Basement, Kichlu Nagar Market
Ph: 481590

Mangalore
Binary Systems
213, Mahendra Arcade,
Karangalapady,
Mangalore.
Ph: 0824 – 5272000/ 2493000/ 2492000

Mumbai
IBM Global Services (I) Pvt. Ltd.,
IL&FS Financial Centre,
4th Floor, Bandra Kurla Complex,
Mumbai.
Ph: 022 – 56962105/ 56962106/ 56962107/ 56967108

Mysore
Enet Solutions
C/O Bios Infotech Pvt. Ltd.,
66/1, 3rd Main, 5th Cross,
Saraswatipuram,
Mysore

Nagpur
Micron Services
Micron House, Next to Hotel Midland,
Central Avenue, Nagpur – 18
Ph: 0712 – 2726134/ 2726135

Nasik
Radington India Limited
Off Sharanpur Road, Nasik,
Maharashtra.
Ph: 0253 – 5605531/ 3092836

Panaji
Ingram Micro India Pvt. Ltd.,
Chirantan Apartments, Nevgi Nagar,
Qurem Road, Panjim – 403001

Pondichery
Redington India Limited
81, SV Patel Salai,
Deva Complex, Pondichery
Ph: 0413 – 2221476
Email: servpondy@redington.co.in

Pune
IBM Global Services (I) Pvt. Ltd.,
Parvaaz, Shankar Sheth Road,
Pune – 411001
Ph: 020 – 56033707/ 56041101 Extn: 1256
Fax: 020 – 26446156

Raipur
Ankur Computers
2nd Floor, Raipur Complex,
MG Road, Link – 1,
Raipur – 492001,
Chattisgarh.
Mobile: 9826129991

Trivandrum
Redington India Limited
Chaandni, T.C 9/1437(3), D-10, Moolayil Lane,
Sasthamangalam,
Trivandrum – 695010
Ph: 0471 – 2315203

Vijayawada
ACS Technologies Ltd.,
302, Sindhoor Apartments,
Gayathrinagar,
Vijayawada – 530008.
Ph: 0866 – 2477893
Email: acs_vja@yahoo.com

Vizag (Visakhapatnam)
Redington India Limited
101, Medicherla Towers
47-10-3, Dwaraka Nagar,
Near Diamond Park,
Visakapatnam – 530016.
Ph: 0891 – 2793073/ 2793028
Email: servvizag@redington.co.in

If you require any further assistance, please contact us at:

Zyxware Technologies
4/486, Rangoon Lane,
Kowdiar P. O.,
Trivandrum – 695003.

Ph: 047 -2437711
Mob: 0-944-606-9446

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Last day my Windows Vista got crashed, So I restored my laptop to factory setting. After the restoring my operating system I installed all my useful applications. Soon after the installation I opened firefox browser but then I got an error saying.

“Firefox could not install this item because of a failure in Chrome Registration. Please contact the author about this problem”

And the solution

Just run the firefox in Administrator mode.

How to run firefox in Administrator mode?

Just right click the firefox icon you can see a menu item called “Run as Administrator”. Just click the menu for a single time. You don’t need to worry that you have to do this each and every time. No there is no need once you run firefox in Administrator mode, the error will not pop up next time even if you run firefox from a normal user.

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