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Google’s Android mobile operating system will easily dominate the smartphone market by 2016, and it will be followed closely by Apple’s iOS.
Symbian captured about 36 percent market share in 2010 while Android was running on about 23 percent of all smartphones that shipped last year. Apple’s iOS held a solid 15 percent of the market share, while Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS captured about 16 percent market share last year. Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 share was mere 0.6 percent.  Android market share will continue to grow in the next five years. Prediction says that Android will be running on about 45 percent of all smart phones by 2015.
The estimation says that Apple’s market share will increase by 20 percent in 2015, while RIM will touch 14 percent share. It is assumed that Samsung’s Bada operating system could touch a 10 percent market share in 2015. It is also estimated that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 OS will have a market share of only 6.5 percent and Windows Mobile will witness even less than 0.5 percent of the mobile operating system market.

Among the Open-Source mobile platforms – MeeGo, Android and Symbian – Android is the clear winner. 500,000 new Android-powered phones and tablets are now being activated each day worldwide. This number is growing at 4% per week. In the last quarter, Apple sold about 19 million iPhones, for a daily activation rate of about 210,000. Including iPads and iPod touches in the survey, Apple’s activation rate was about 325,000.

Does this matter?

Mobile is becoming more like a platform game where the developers are building applications that run on top of mobile devices. These applications are making these devices more valuable to users – market share is a critical component. If Android holds a dominant market share, the way Microsoft’s windows did in the 1990s, Apple will get a setback & eventually iOS’s value as a platform will plunge.  Apple has learned several lessons from its failure in 1990s, one of the factor was competition in terms of price. iPhones and iPads cost the same or less than Android phones.

Apple still has an advantage that it didn’t have in the 1990s – Android is still a fragmented platform with so many different versions and customizations. Fragmentation of different versions of the Android Platform is still a problem for developers.

A smart move from Apple can be to work on the pricing model and plan to sell a ‘cheap’ iPhone to compete against Android threat.

A new Web browser, Rockmelt debuts in limited beta Monday and aims to help you keep tabs on your Facebook friends and your favorite sites, and make your Web searches faster. Backed by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, Rockmelt was first reported on by The New York Times in August 2009. At the time, Rockmelt was supposedly going to be a next-generation Web browser designed to take advantage of new Web applications and services.

A year later, and Rockmelt appears to be nothing more than another social networking-focused browser similar to Flock. Just like Flock, Rockmelt incorporates your social networking activity into browser sidebars so you can stay up to date on your friends’ activities while you browse other parts of the Web. Unlike Flock, however, Rockmelt features a single sign-on profile tied to your Facebook ID that you can carry with you using any computer running Rockmelt. Both browsers are based on Chromium, Google’s open source project that is basically a test ground for Google Chrome.

If you’d like to try out Rockmelt, you can sign up for the limited beta at Rockmelt.com by signing in with your Facebook ID.

I haven’t had a chance to get my hands on Rockmelt yet, but here’s a look at some of the key features of the world’s latest social-focused browser.

All About Facebook

You can use Rockmelt as you would any normal Web browser by just firing it up and surfing the Web. But Rockmelt’s real power is unlocked when you log into the browser using your Facebook ID. This allows the browser to display a list of your Facebook friends in a slim sidebar on the left side of the browser window; feeds from your favorite sites in a sidebar on the right; and stores your browser bookmarks and preferences.

All of this personalized information is saved on Rockmelt’s servers so that you can access it by logging into the Rockmelt browser from any computer. Rockmelt does not, however, save your Web searches or browsing history, according to an interview with Rockmelt co-founders Eric Vishria and Tim Howes by blogger Robert Scoble. The company also says that all of your personal data is stored as an encrypted bundle on its servers to keep it private. It’s not clear if Rockmelt has the ability to decrypt your data, but the company does say they are not interested in your information for the purposes of ad targeting.

It should be noted that in addition to being an investor in Rockmelt, Andreessen also sits on Facebook’s board of directors.

Facebook Friends on the Left

On the left side of your browser window is a thin sidebar that lists the Facebook profile pictures of your “favorite” Facebook friends. It’s not clear how Rockmelt determines which people are your favorite Facebook friends or how you can change that setting.

As you hover over each picture in the left sidebar you see a summary of their latest Facebook activity, such as whether they have an updated status or how many photos they’ve uploaded recently. Clicking on the profile photo opens a small pop-up window where you can see their recent Facebook activity at the top along with a chat area on the bottom for instant messaging.

Your own Facebook profile photo sits at the top of the left-hand column and you can click on it to update your Facebook status from there.

Favorite Sites on the Right

On the other side of your browser window is a second sidebar where you can get feeds from your favorite sites including news sources such as The New York Times or CNN. You can also add other social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook. Rockmelt didn’t explain what the differences are between the Facebook updates on the left side and right side of the browser. If I had to guess, however, I would say that including Facebook in your right sidebar shows you updates from your newsfeed, while the left sidebar features select updates from your “favorite” Facebook friends.

As each site is updated, an unread count appears next to the site’s icon telling you how many new articles or updates there are. Clicking on a site brings up another pop-up window that shows you a summary of the new stuff you haven’t seen. If you’d like to read further, clicking on the link for each article brings it up in the main browser window.

If you put your Twitter account in the right sidebar, you can click on the Twitter icon to send out an update, reply or retweet a message and access any Twitter lists you subscribe to.

Rockmelt also has a share bookmarklet in the browser toolbar to let you quickly share links with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.

Rockmelt Search

Rockmelt features two search boxes: a regular Chrome-style Omnibox and a special Rockmelt search field. Rockmelt’s search feature is designed to help you get to your Web results faster, and the company said it wanted to make search as “simple as leafing through a magazine.”

Let’s say you were searching for information about flu shots, and the top search results were links to the Center for Disease Control, Wikipedia, and a CNN news item followed by four other site links. Rockmelt would display the results just as you would see them in Google in a drop down menu. You would then see a preview of each site in the main browser window as you scrolled through your results in the drop down menu. So you could preview the content from the CDC, Wikipedia, CNN, and so on until you find what you’re looking for.

If you just want typical Google results then you can use the Omnibox instead of Rockmelt’s dedicated search box.

Rockmelt appears to be an interesting take on integrating social features into your Web browsing and the new search feature could be useful. But Rockmelt has a tough road ahead to gain a foothold in an already crowded browser market that includes Apple’s Safari, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Flock, and many others.

Guys as you know my geek mind last night i was working on ” AJAX PHP Voting Script ” and i found one good article on 9lessons.
But i don’t am i true, but there is bug on their scrip and i must have to do for my next project in which user can vote image.
And whoila… after 25 min RnD i found some mismatch variable and db problem and solved it! and presenting it for you free !!

message TABLE

CREATE TABLE messages(
mes_id INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
msg TEXT,
up INT,
down INT);

Voting_IP Table : Storing IP address

CREATE TABLE Voting_IP(
ip_id INT PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT,
mes_id_fk INT,
ip_add VARCHAR(40),
FOREIGN KEY(mes_id_fk)
REFERENCES messages(mes_id));

voting.php

Voting with jQuery, Ajax and PHP
<script src="jquery.js" type="text/javascript"><!--mce:0--></script>

<script type="text/javascript"><!--mce:1--></script>

<!--
body
{
font-family:'Georgia', Times New Roman, Times, serif;
}
#main
{
height:80px; border:1px dashed #29ABE2;margin-bottom:7px;
width:500px;
}
a
{
color:#DF3D82;
text-decoration:none;

}
a:hover
{
color:#DF3D82;
text-decoration:underline;

}
.up
{
height:40px; font-size:24px; text-align:center; background-color:#009900; margin-bottom:2px;
-moz-border-radius: 6px;-webkit-border-radius: 6px;
}
.up a
{
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration:none;

}
.up a:hover
{
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration:none;

}
.down
{
height:40px; font-size:24px; text-align:center; background-color:#cc0000; margin-top:2px;
-moz-border-radius: 6px;-webkit-border-radius: 6px;
}

.down a
{
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration:none;

}
.down a:hover
{
color:#FFFFFF;
text-decoration:none;

}
.box1
{
float:left; height:80px; width:50px;
}

.box2
{
float:left; width:440px; text-align:left;
margin-left:10px;height:60px;margin-top:10px;
font-weight:bold;

font-size:18px;
}
img
{
border:none;
padding-top:7px;

}
-->
<div>
<h3>Voting with jQuery, Ajax and PHP</h3>
<div id="main">
<div class="box1">
<div class="up">
<a id="<?php echo $mes_id; ?>" class="vote" name="up">

</a></div>
<div class="down"><a id="<?php echo $mes_id; ?>" class="vote" name="down"></a></div>
</div>
</div>
</div>

down_vote.php

include("config.php");

$ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

if($_POST['id'])
{
$id=$_POST['id'];
$id = mysql_escape_String($id);

$ip_sql=mysql_query("select ip_add from voting_ip where mes_id_fk=$id and ip_add='$ip'");
$count=mysql_num_rows($ip_sql);

if($count==0)
{
$sql = "update messages set down=down+1  where mes_id=$id";
mysql_query( $sql);

$sql_in = "insert into voting_ip (mes_id_fk,ip_add) values ($id,'$ip')";
mysql_query( $sql_in);
echo "<script type="text/javascript"><!--mce:2--></script>";

}
else
{
echo "<script type="text/javascript"><!--mce:3--></script>";
}

$result=mysql_query("select down from messages where mes_id=$id");
$row=mysql_fetch_array($result);
$down_value=$row['down'];
echo $down_value;

}
?>

up_vote.php

include("config.php");

$ip=$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];

if($_POST['id'])
{
$id=$_POST['id'];
$id = mysql_escape_String($id);

$ip_sql=mysql_query("select ip_add from voting_ip where mes_id_fk=$id and ip_add='$ip'");
$count=mysql_num_rows($ip_sql);

if($count==0)
{
$sql = "update messages set up=up+1  where mes_id=$id";
mysql_query( $sql);

$sql_in = "insert into messages (mes_id_fk,ip_add) values ($id,'$ip')";
mysql_query( $sql_in);

echo "<script type="text/javascript"><!--mce:4--></script>";

}
else
{
echo "<script type="text/javascript"><!--mce:5--></script>";
}

$result=mysql_query("select up from messages where mes_id=$id");
$row=mysql_fetch_array($result);
$up_value=$row['up'];
echo $up_value;
}
?>

Do not forget to include JQuery file

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One of the most common CSS effects is using shadows in various ways. Before, we needed to resort to images, but now we can offer this to all major web browser with CSS!

Web browser support

Believe me or not, but all of these web browsers we can offer shadows with CSS:

• Firefox 3.5+
• Safari 3+
• Google Chrome
• Opera 10.50
• Internet Explorer 5.5

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css" />
<title>Cross Browser Drop Shadow for all side in IE/FF/Crome/Safari Browser </title>
</head>

<body>
<div class="shadow-bringer shadow"> HI ! Welcome to EngiGuide. </div>
</body>
</html>

style.css

.shadow-bringer {
    background: none repeat scroll 0 0 #FFFFA2;
    height: 100px;
    margin: 20px auto;
    padding: 5px;
    width: 100px;
}
.shadow {
    box-shadow: 0 0 8px #CCCCCC;
	-moz-box-shadow: 0px 0px 8px #ccc;/* for mozila*/
-webkit-box-shadow: 0px 0px 8px #ccc;
	/* For IE upto 5.5 not for 9*/
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(color='#cccccc', Direction=45, Strength=3)
progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(color='#cccccc', Direction=135, Strength=3)
progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(color='#cccccc', Direction=225, Strength=3)
progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(color='#cccccc', Direction=315, Strength=3);
}

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Guys I received an email stating the teaching scheme and syllabus for 7th and 8th sem. G.T.U students.
I am posting the teaching scheme specified in the mail. I am not totally sure of it as it is not available on the G.T.U website but I suppose it is true and so I am posting it here.
The proposed teaching scheme for 7th sem. I.T. is

SR. NO.	SUBJECT	TEACHING SCHEME (HOURS)			CREDITS
		THEORY	TUTORIAL	PRACTICAL
1	Mobile Computing	4	0	2	6
2	Data warehousing & Data Mining	4	0	2	6
3	Advance Java Technology	4	0	2	6
4	Distributed Database Application & System	4	0	2	6
5	Elective-I	4	0	2	6
	TOTAL	20	0	10	30

Elective 1

1.Software Project Management 2.Dot Net Technology 3. Enterprise Resource Planning

And the proposed teaching scheme for 8th sem.is

SR. NO.	SUBJECT	TEACHING SCHEME (HOURS)			CREDITS
		THEORY	TUTORIAL	PRACTICAL
1	Advance Computer Networks	4	0	2	6
2	Data Compression	4	0	2	6
3	Elective-II	4	0	2	6
4	Project Work	0	0	12	12
	TOTAL	12	0	18	30

Elective 2

1. Artificial Intelligence 2. Information Theory 3. Design and Analysis of Algorithm

I again would like to specify that this is what I received in a mail and the original syllabus can probably consist of some modifications.

This is just to give you all an overview..

If you are looking for some money spinning and productive career opportunities then IT is one of the most popular fields. Tech jobs have completely revolutionized the career front for all the young people who have a creative urge and knack of technical knowledge. Communication facilities, entertainment media, and information technology are three of the crucial facets of present day working scenario.

The recruitment of the technological team invigorates modern society to run efficiently and effectively.This provides the developers of the technology as well as the supporting staff enhanced work opportunities and career prognosis.

Some time ago it was fore-said by the analysts seeing the declining I.T stocks that technological degrees wont remain important now on and techies wont be able to fetch good jobs with handsome salaries they could not have been more incorrect then.

Now for the techies who want to know the latest ratings provided by the govt. unfolding the top 10 varieties of the tech jobs then they are as stated follows:-

1.The very first job is for the designation of information systems manager. The responsibility of this manager is to determine the overall technological strategies.With the combination of computers training with business intelligence, the managers take various decisions regarding desktop tools, bandwidth, and servers for the corporation.

2. Database Administrator. These administrators work is to assure the accessibility and security of the information for various customers and the employees. Various degree programs in computer science foster only the basic skills of a database administrator. For being a successful DBA u need to instigate continuous training and stay up to date about recent products their upgrades etc.

3. Operating System Developer. Operating systems have of late popped in various devices besides computers as well. Now the various manufacturers of cars, mobile phones, and refrigerators are relying heavily on the skilled technology graduates.

4. Application developers. The application developers work for large corporations that are involved in the development of spreadsheet tools, word processors, and various other software tools.  They design the basic applications for your gadgets like computers, mobiles etc.

5. Computer systems analyst. They usually dig deep in the types of tools that the corporation uses to solve the challenges of computing working with the managers of the information systems.

6. Computer systems designer. Various designers focus exclusively on the particular section or the single function of large software project. for developing a software it is divided into modules and various computer system designers are hired for developing each functionality.

7. Data processing specialist. Various administrators and mangers provide a platform for the data of their corporation where as the team of the data processing specialists provides assurance for data€™ being accurate. In huge corporations these specialists make use of their degrees and knowledge for handling highly complex tasks and data.

8. Web hosting technician. Folks and companies rely heavily on promoting their sites, applications, and photo libraries to meet their needs Web hosting companies stalk for expert professionals, with appropriate training in computers for client servicing.

9. Computer support specialist. Computer support specialist help people use computers. They solve their problems figuring out what went wrong. they also work on free lancer basis or in companies to solve problems of their customers.

10. Desktop publisher. big companies rely on their staff who have appropriate IT training for producing internal documents such as manuals and other reports. Desktop publishers are hired for this work and paid heavily.

So techies now Google around the listed jobs and select the job best suitable for you..

Hi guys, today i am going to learn you that how to Design Effective Login Page for your website project.

A completely distraction-free log in page. These are becoming more and more popular with web applications which require you to log in before you can do very much. The log in page can be a great place to have fun with design and do something unique.

Lets start …

First of all you need to create a form for login.html page.Design simple login page with -form- tag.

</code>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

 <title>Login Page</title>

 <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
 <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />
</head>

<body>

 <form id="login-form" action="#" method="post">
 <fieldset>

 <legend>Log in</legend>

 <label for="login">Email</label>
 <input type="text" id="login" name="login"/>
 <div></div>

 <label for="password">Password</label>
 <input type="password" id="password" name="password"/>
 <div></div>

 <label for="remember_me" style="padding: 0;">Remember me?</label>
 <input type="checkbox" id="remember_me" style="position: relative; top: 3px; margin: 0; " name="remember_me"/>
 <div></div>

 <br />

 <input type="submit" style="margin: -20px 0 0 287px;" name="commit" value="Log in"/>
 </fieldset>
 </form>

</body>

</html>
<code>

Now create style.css file wits css , keep in mind you should need some css knowledge.

</code>*                    { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
body                { font-family: Georgia, serif; background: url(images/login-page-bg.jpg) top center no-repeat #c4c4c4; color: #3a3a3a;  }

.clear                { clear: both; }

form                { width: 406px; margin: 170px auto 0; }

legend                { display: none; }

fieldset            { border: 0; }

label                { width: 115px; text-align: right; float: left; margin: 0 10px 0 0; padding: 9px 0 0 0; font-size: 16px; }

input                { width: 220px; display: block; padding: 4px; margin: 0 0 10px 0; font-size: 18px;
 color: #3a3a3a; font-family: Georgia, serif;}
input[type=checkbox]{ width: 20px; margin: 0; display: inline-block; }

.button                { background: url(images/button-bg.png) repeat-x top center; border: 1px solid #999;
 -moz-border-radius: 5px; padding: 5px; color: black; font-weight: bold;
 -webkit-border-radius: 5px; font-size: 13px;  width: 70px; }
.button:hover        { background: white; color: black; }<code>

Now design effective login image background.you can design it in photoshop or other designing software.

TITLE:	Effective Login Page
Demo	Clik Here !!
Download Link:	Login.rar

Form Validate is a free jQuery plugin which helps create easy form validations with high flexibility and a large set of options.

Form Validate Features

• Supports custom validations
• Options to toggle between live and onsubmit validations
• Completely customizable CSS

Everyone loves Facebook

The application you will build in this tut uses jQuery

Google was one of the first major companies to start using AJAX, and Google

Facebook is a huge platform for improving the community of anything (a business, blog, etc.) or for creating applications and reaching lots of users.Smashing Magazine is sharing a full-layered Facebook GUI PSD Kit, designed by SurgeWorks, which can be very helpful for any Facebook application or fan page designer/developer to better imagine what the output will look like.

Besides the Facebook icon and logo, the kit includes items like the header, menu, chat window and all the modal components, comment boxes, buttons, message boxes, tabs, etc.
They are all in vector format (.PSD) with full layers.
Website: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/07/23/free-face…