YOU Broadband starts offering 100Mbps at Rs. 1699 for 200GB in Bengaluru

You Broadband is one of the leading ISPs in Bengaluru and they have come up with a recent plan that will delight heavy Internet users. The ‘WTF 100’ plan offers a whopping speed of 100Mbps and a free data usage quota of 200GB per month. After the free data quota is over the speed would be throttled to a respectable 1Mbps.

8 handy Firefox Tricks You must Know!

Mozilla's Firefox is undoubtedly one of the most preferred choice for developers/designers as far as web browsers are concerned. The fact that it lets you play around conveniently with its settings so as to ensure you have an amazing browser experience all the time makes it one of the better options available today. Did you know, there are a few interesting tips and tricks that can speed up Firefox remarkably?

6 Of The Best VPNs For Anonymous Surfing

 

The following VPNs are highly efficient in case you're looking to browse anonymously. Both free and paid versions exist.

VPNs are very handy when it comes to enabling you to surf the internet anonymously without leaving behind a trail. This is handy when you don't want others using your system to know what you've been doing. Here are 6 handy VPNs to get the job done.

101 useful websites with easy to remember names

Here's the list

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I was surfing the web and found this list of 101 useful websites. I liked it so much I took the time to make all the links clickable for you. This should keep you busy for while

1. http://www.screenr.com – record movies of your desktop and send them straight to YouTube.
2. http://www.ctrlq.org/screenshots – for capturing screenshots of web pages on mobile and desktops.
3. http://www.goo.gl – shorten long URLs and convert URLs into QR codes.
4. http://www.unfurlr.com – find the original URL that's hiding behind a short URL.
5. http://www.qClock.com – find the local time of a city using a Google Map.
6. http://www.copypastecharacter.com – copy special characters that aren't on your keyboard.
7. http://www.icerocket.com/ – a better search engine for Facebook, Twitter and blogs.
8. http://www.lovelycharts.com – create flowcharts, network diagrams, sitemaps, etc.
9. http://www.iconfinder.com – the best place to find icons of all sizes.
10. http://www.office.com – download templates, clipart and images for your Office documents.
11. http://www.followupthen.com – the easiest way to setup email reminders.
12. http://www.jotti.org – scan any suspicious file or email attachment for viruses.
13. http://www.wolframalpha.com – gets answers directly without searching - see more wolfram tips.
14. http://www.printwhatyoulike.com – print web pages without the clutter.
15. http://www.joliprint.com – reformats news articles and blog content as a newspaper.
16. http://www.ctrlq.org/rss – a search engine for RSS feeds.
17. http://www.e.ggtimer.com – a simple online timer for your daily needs.
18. http://www.coralcdn.org – if a site is down due to heavy traffic, try accessing it through coral CDN.

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One Second on Internet

When you’re online, it’s very easy to have hours of time pass without even really feeling it. A reddit post here, a tweet there, and before you know it you’re late for something because you spent a chunk of your afternoon watching an hour long fail compilation.
There’s good news if you’re curious how the rest of the world is spending its time on the internet. Someone has made a website to visualize it. The stats even update while you’re looking at the page!

http://onesecond.designly.com/

100 Amazing Learning Sites to Teach Yourself Anything

General Tutorials
These sites offer a wide range of tutorials and videos.

1. Expert Village: One of the biggest how-to sites on the Web, this site is home to hundreds of thousands of videos on an infinitely broad spectrum of topics.
2. LearnThat.com: With categories like business, finance, home repair, and computers and tech, this site has plenty of classes for avid learners.
3. Koonji: With tutorials that are extremely easy to follow, this site will make it simple to learn just about anything.
4. SuTree: Whether you want to learn new skills or share some of your own, you can do both on this video how-to site.
5. VideoJug: With great videos on topics as diverse as doing well on the SAT and knitting a scarf, you’ll be able to find just what you’re looking for here.
6. FindTutorials.com: This huge collection of tutorials contains listings for education, hobbies and DIY projects around the house.
7. TrickLife: Want to make your life better? This site is home to numerous tutorials to help improve your home, your body and your personal well-being.
8. Instructables: This site offers a wide range of video tutorials where users can showcase all their valuable skills.
9. MyTutorials: Search through the tutorials on this site to find just what you’re looking to learn.
10. Tutorial Ninjas: From investing to getting healthy, you’ll find loads of tutorials here.
11. Hodder Education: Check out this site for a range of self-learning opportunities in sports, music, health and more.
12. Sofia: Promoting free sharing of intellectual assets, this site offers several free courses in programming, typography and geography.
13. I Can Learn Anything: Pay this site a visit to get access to a wide range of social learning resources.
14. Wikiversity: With over 10,000 free learning resources, you’ll find tons of great instructional materials here.

Coding Challenges to Help You Train Your Brain - iTechTall

14 Coding Challenges to Help You Train Your Brain

Programming is becoming an essential part of nearly every industry known to man, the way it helps to organize and maintain large systems is not possible to compare to anything else, and so more and more people begin their journey.

You can learn coding both from interactive platforms, and also from books – whichever you find most appropriate and easy to learn from. But, sometimes that’s not good enough, and we want to practice new things.

Coding is a lot about creativity, your ability to come up with new and interesting ideas; but sometimes, due to the large amount of time spent tackling common problems, we forget about creativity. I’m not quite sure whether that is the reason coding challenges were made, but they certainly help with the part where you need to think of your own stuff to program.
We could say that coding challenges are great for:

Dos and don'ts of online shopping

With online shopping now part of our daily lives, it helps to be as street smart as you would if you went to a mall. Here are the dos n don'ts of online shopping

             With the temperatures soaring, the weather makes it extremely impossible to venture out for anything. The scorching heat can be a turn-off even for a die-hard shopaholic, who has now found a new venue to indulge — online shopping . With the sites offering huge discounts, it becomes even more imperative to not get carried away by it all. There are some things that you need to keep in mind:
 

Things to do

Keep an eye for best discounts
Although most of these online shopping sites have great discounts around the year, make sure these discounts are not merely to earn clicks. Many of these discounts are on select products, which are usually not mentioned on the homepage. Find out if the product you are buying has a discount, and make sure you apply the right coupon code for the same.

Read the conditions behind the product
Just for clicks — is a common tactic that most online shopping sites use to monitor the number of visitors on the site. While making a purchase, make sure you read the terms and conditions associated with the product. There are times when a certain offer is valid only on purchase worth a certain amount, or buy 1 get 1 free offer on identical products, etc.

Get familiar with the return policy of a purchase
Since it is a virtual platform, you do not get check the product first hand, so there are chances that you might not like it on arrival. Make sure you go through their return and refund policy whenever you shop online as you can either get it exchanged or exchange product or get a refund. Some sites do not refund your money, instead they transfer the amount into your credit account wherein you are forced to repurchase from their site.

Play safe and choose COD
Cash on Delivery (COD) is the best payment option you can avail of, as part of online shopping. This is the safest bet, since you pay only after you are handed the product. Most online sites do not allow you to open the product before paying, this prevents your from being able to return it then and there.

Things to avoid

Skip online payment if the payment gateway is not safe
We are all used to paying our utility bills online. It is a convenient way to make payments, but one must be aware of every aspect of internet banking as a payment option while making purchases online. Since you are directed to your bank site from the shopping website, there are chances of your personal or account details being hacked, if the payment gateway is not safe.

Don't ignore the fine print
Most of the products you buy have a fine print engraved within; make sure to read it thoroughly, especially while buying cosmetics, skin care, IT products or electronics online. Make sure to read every single detail of the product or offer you choose. Check for ingredients, warranties and lapses, as well as service policies if any.

Compare sites to check the products' authenticity
Although you choose to buy a product from a particular site due to the discounts it offers, do not forget to compare the product and its price on two to three different sites. This will give you clarity if you are actually availing a discount or it is just superficial. Make sure to check the manufacturer details and confirm if that particular site has online rights to sell the product.

Do not buy food products online
It is difficult to personally go grocery shopping or buy fruits on a regular basis. There are many sites that claim to sell the purest form of food products, especially organic food or health products at reasonable rates. Do not fall for these offers as fresh produce and health products should be bought over the counter to ensure authenticity. Moreover, health products should be bought from reputed stores since there are chances of you ending up with fake product online. Similarly, organic food products are extremely expensive and rarely come at discounted rates. 

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Save money in On-Line Shopping

                                                   Online Shopping in India is Zoomed in the past one year with e-commerce like ebay , flipkart , amazon , jabong leading the chart , its always easy to find what we need but the hard thing is to know whether the price is as good as cheap or not , so its always a tough task for consumers to check on each site , some websites also provides this price comparison but still we dont know that what we think is cheapest is really the cheapest , Buyhatke has got a solution and here it is ...

How to Send Large files Quickly ?

Traditional e-mails won't let you send/receive large files. But, there's always a way out!

Monday, May 12, 2014:  Are you bogged down by the fact that your regular e-mail client doesn't let you send/recieve large files, files beyound a certain limit? Well, you're not the only one. Don't you always wish you had something, an online tool or a website for that matter that could help you send/receive large data with ease. Afterall breaking your data into little chunks when sending can be a daunting task. Here are 8 free websites that you should try!

10 Cool HTML5 Animation Tools

HTML5 has a lot of potential for web designers and developers when combined with CSS3. By using this combination several designers/developers have been making amazing things which weren’t possible earlier with HTML and CSS. Here we bring you some interesting animation tools for HTML5 developers.

How to host your websites on Google Drive

Google Drive doesn't just host files and folders. You can also use it to host your website.

Almost everyone who owns a computer also owns at least one website these days. Be it personal or professional. There are a number of hosting services available on the web for us to host our websites but most of them cost money.  A simple and efficient way to host websites can be Google Drive. With its free storage space of up to 15 GB, you can host a fairly large website without any cost.

Google Drive can be used to host basic websites or even complex JavaScript-based web apps. You may publish any kind of static content on your website including HTML pages, images, CSS, icons, audio, video etc.
Note: However, Google Drive does not support web resources that make use of server-side scripting languages like PHP.

RSOE EDIS - Emergency and Disaster Information Service

 This Site is pretty Useful with live indicators

The Hungarian National Association of Radio Distress-Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE) operates Emergency and Disaster Information Service (EDIS) within the frame of its own website which has the objective to monitor and document all the events on the Earth which may cause disaster or emergency. Our service is using the speed and the data spectrum of the internet to gather information. We are monitoring and processing several foreign organisation's data to get quick and certified information.

The EDIS website operated together by the General-Directorate of National Disaster Management (OKF) and RSOE, in co-operation with the Crisis Management Centre of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, provides useful information regarding emergency situations and their prevention. Extraordinary events happening in Hungary, Europe and other areas of the World are being monitored in 24 hours per day. All events processed by RSOE EDIS are displayed near real time - for the sake of international compatibility - according to the CAP protocol on a secure website (https://hisz.rsoe.hu). To ensure clear transparency all events are categorized separately in the RSS,XML, CAP directory (e.g. earthquake, fire, flood, landslide, nuclear event, tornado, vulcano). RSOE EDIS also contributes in dissemination of the CAP protocol in Hungary.

Why You Should Learn To Code (And How To Actually Do It)

In the Lost Interview with Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder said, “I think everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you how to think.”

I like to think of coding as applied math and sciences because it teaches us an iterative approach to solving problems and testing out our ideas. While I don’t consider myself a coder, apart from HMTL/CSS I don’t code in my daily work, I did notice that learning the basics of how to code on CodeAcademy has done wonders for improving my problem solving skills.

Now that software is eating the world by automating all kinds of routine jobs, the basic knowledge of  how lines of code create the digital worlds we explore every day is becoming a fundamental digital literacy. It’s not particularly easy but it’s also not nearly as hard as you probably think it is. Even if you don’t want to become a software developer, learning to code is an excellent challenge to sharpen your mind’s ability to troubleshoot and solve problems.

Watch the video below to discover why coding is the new “superpower” that isn’t being taught in in 90% of schools.




Fortunately, it has never been easier to learn how to code. There are now so many education platforms and tools to make creating software applications and mobile apps easier. Who knows, you may discover that coding is something you really enjoy and you may actually want to become a software developer. Considering that a experienced developer can earn more than $100,000+ a year, it’s not a bad skill to start learning.

Learn To Code Platforms:

 

1. CodeAcademy - The education startup CodeAcademy has done a lot of incredible work to make learning to code more accessible for everyone. On their interactive website, you can learn to code in HTML/CSS, Javascript, PHP, Python and Ruby through building and executing your own code projects.

Their Code Year initiative has helped introduce over 450,000 people to coding through a series of a simple code exercises that land once per week in your email inbox. And now they have made it even easier to learn the basics of coding with the release of their Hour of Code app for iPhone. This app let’s anyone code their first program in less than in an hour on their iPhone.

For their latest One Hour Code initiative they have teamed up with Code.org. This initiative even received a shout out from President Obama who ask every young Americans to learn to code by saying, “Don’t just play on your phone — program it“. Incredibly, all of CodeAcademy’s project-based learning programs remain 100% free.




2. Code.org - This initiative backed by Silicon Valley heavyweights like Facebook, Google and Apple offers a number of excellent free beginner’s tutorials for learning how to code.



3. Programmr - Learn to code by completing live HTML exercises in your browser.




4. Code Avengers - Discover how to make web apps and websites using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript.



5. Google Cloud Playground - Venture Beat’s John Koetsier calls it ““Codecademy for the cloud, Google App Engine for idiots, or cloud-enabled applications development for newbies.”

Online Courses: Introduction To Computer Science

If you want a more fundamental understanding of how computers operate, I recommend also taking an introductory computer science course from a skilled professor at an elite University like Harvard or Stanford. Fortunately, you don’t need $30,000 to access Ivy League-quality higher learning anymore, these institutions are now offering these courses online for free.
These are all free MOOCs (Massive Online Open Courses) sorted by their next session:



1. Introduction to Computer Science (Harvard)
Next Session: January 1st, 2014
If you want to really learn computer science Harvard University’s David J Malan is the guy to learn from (as of 2012, this is the second most popular course at Harvard). In this entry-level course, Malan teaches you to think algorithmically and he covers a broad range of programming languages such as C, PHP, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

The problem sets in this course force you to do the work to finish the course and are inspired by real world issues in biology, cryptography, finance, forensics, and gaming.
Instructor: David J. Malan, Senior Lecturer on Computer Science at Harvard University
Duration: 16 Weeks
Platform: edX




2. Introduction to Computer Science (University of Virginia)
Next Session: January 2014

The best introductory computer science course on Udacity. Learn how to write your first computer program in the popular Python language by building a web crawler that actually works. You don’t need any prior programming knowledge to take this course.
Instructor: David Evans, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia
Duration: 7 Weeks
Provider: Udacity





3. Creative, Serious and Playful Science of Android Apps (University of Illinois)
This course just started on December 2nd, 2013 but you can still join in on the action. Learn to code by programming your very own Android apps for smartphones and tablets. No prior prorgramming knowledge is necessary but you’ll need an Android device to test your creations.
Instructor: Lawrence Angrave, University of Illinois
Duration: 11 Weeks
Platform: Coursera




4. Computer Science 101 (Stanford)
Another course aimed at people with no previous programming knowledge, this computer science course attempts to demystify coding. You learn to code through play and experiments by writing short bits of computer code to explore the power and limitations of computers.
Next Session: Self-Study
Instructor: Nick Parlante, Computer Science Lecturer at Stanford University
Duration: 12 Weeks
Platform: Coursera




 5. Startup Engineering
Next Session: Self-Study
Instructors: Balaji S. Srinivasan and Vijay S. Pande, Stanford University
Duration: 10 Weeks
Platform: Coursera

Other Good Options:

6. Introduction To Programming: Problem Solving With Java
Next Session: Self-Study
Instructor: Cay Horstmann, Instructor at San Jose State University
Duration: 9 Weeks
Platform: Udacity

7. Learn to Program With Python: The Fundamentals

Next Session: Self-Study
Instructors: Jennifer Campbell and Paul Gries, University of Toronto
Duration 7 Weeks
Platform: Coursera

8. Learn to Program: Crafting Quality Code

Next Session: Self-Study
Instructors: Jennifer Campbell and Paul Gries, University of Toronto
Duration: 5 Weeks
Platform: Coursera

9. Introduction to Programming for Musicians and Digital Artists

Next Session: Self-Study
Ajay Kapur, California Institute of the Arts
Duration: 8 Weeks
Platform: Coursera

10. An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
Next Session: To Be Announced 

Instructors: Joe Warren and Scott Rixner, Rice University
Duration: 9 Weeks
Platform: Coursera

Developer Communities You Should Join:

 

GitHub - Open-source code repositories in the cloud, GitHub is the place where new and experienced developers collaborate and build on other’s code.



Mozilla’s School of Webcraft - A free online community for learning  web design & development from the makers of the open source Firefox browser.

Best Mobile Apps for Live Streaming IPL 2014

India's One of the Biggest Fever has already Started and it might not be possible to catch all the matches , especially for working professionals. If you own smartphones, you can still watch the IPL live, right on your smartphone. Here are some of the best apps to catch live streaming of IPL 2014.

Pepsi IPL 2014

How to remotely log out of Gmail

If you’ve left Gmail logged in on another computer, there’s a quick and easy fix for logging out remotely. In this video tip, we’ll not only show you what you need to do but how to spot suspicious activity with your Gmail account as well.
First, log into Gmail on your home computer and scroll all the way down past your inbox to the bottom right of the screen where Gmail displays the last time your account was logged into. Click the Details link to see all the IP addresses that have accessed your account. If someone logs into your account from a suspicious location, Google sends you an alert.

That Sign Out All Other Sessions button will log you out of any Gmail accounts you’ve left open on other devices.

That Details screen contains a Sign Out All Other Sessions button. Click it if you’ve forgotten to log out from another computer.

Microsoft Research’s new tool TELEPATHWORDS can guess your password : Try it out !

                   How many of us are struggling to have a password that is easy for us to remember and hard at the same time to guess? Well, i think many of us. Microsoft came up with a solution for this problem .

Bing goes 360'

                                               BING came up with 360 view search engine Background which looks pretty good , User can move around and zoom in /out at a particular place in the wallpaper , the attempt to get more user is on its cards ..

Gmail on top with New Compose look :

                           New design form Google , now Google launched new composing mail look for Gmail users (who still spends most of the time in Email) , Google today launched a interesting and improved design to its Gmail compose interface by making it more customizable . ie  Gmail users can multitask both inbox and compose new mail .

The old outdated compose :