A website for UI Designers.

Hi All,
Am not well-versed with color management and CSS in my development. I will be seeking the help of Google for every such kind of works. I surfed for any such tools and i came across the website named fonttester. Click here to have a look on the webpage. The website was really amazing, as the CSS properties will be listed down in the left pane and the subsequent changes made to the CSS properties will be reflected in the right pane message content. You can go ahead and have a look on it. Hope this web page can guide and help the Usability engineers.

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QEngine Web Load Testing

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Testing is the vital thing for every product/project and meanwhile performance should also to be taken in to account before the project/product to be delivered. AdventNet has one such product to test the web performance. If your application is on web based and through HTTP and HTTPS  protocol, you can go ahead with testing your application with load testing tool, AdventNet QEngine. How was your application responding when ‘n’ number of users are accessing your service? AdventNet QEngine come out with very powerful feature and more over the product cost is less compared to some other testing product. QEngine  is also releasing their subsequent release over periodic time. QEngine Web Load Testing tool have some load testing types. You can test your application with ramp-up mode, ramp-down mode, normal mode, burn-in mode and mixed load type mode. You can go through their online help link on the website. Moreover a couple of weeks evaluation time is given with the product and the support is given free during your evaluation. Go ahead and download the product and test your application.

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How to take a screenshot in JAVA…

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            Let us see how to take screenshot and save it as a JPG file with the use of Java Program. It can be acheived by the use of ImageIO API for saving the screenshot as the JPG file and to take screenshot with the Robot class. So as to proceed further, first the screen dimension should be find and we can create a rectangle with this dimension. The size of the screen can be found using the Toolkit class. The following code snippet will help you to find the screen size.

//to find the screen dimension

Toolkit toolkit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
Dimension screenSize = toolkit.getScreenSize();
Rectangle rectangle = new Rectangle(0, 0, screenSize.width, screenSize.height);

 

            After getting the screen dimension create an instance of the Robot class and copy the rectangle from the screen. The createScreenCapture() method in the Robot class can be used to get the BufferedImage of the rectangular dimension passed as argument to it. The following code snippet will help you to do the above said things.

//to get the BufferedImage with createScreenCapture method

Robot robot = new Robot();
BufferedImage image = robot.createScreenCapture(rectangle);

            So further creating the JPG file from the BufferedImage is possible through the ImageIO API to convert the BufferedImage to the JPG file. The following code snippet will help you in converting the BufferedImage to a JPG file

//convert BufferedImage to JPG File

File file = new File(“screen.jpg”);
ImageIO.write(image, “jpg”, file);

 

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Competitor to Microsoft Powerpoint

Hi all,

I am going to analyse the presentation tool, Zoho show, a product among the Zoho Online Suite. It comes out with lucrative features and provide user with ease of mind. The Zoho products are coming out with updation in regular intervals of time. This presentation tool enables user to control the time delay between the alternate slides efficiently. For your reference attached the following frame to analyse on the tool. Cool, the product is coming out as a free tool.

 

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Shortcut to switching between Tabbed Window

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            Frequent browsers might have experienced in tabbed window browsing. These tabbed window was supported in Mozilla and in Internet Explorer version 7.0. Meanwhile it is not supported in the version 6  of Internet Explorer. Hope the tabbed window can be added to it by some add-ons. Switching between the tabbed window can be done through ‘CTRL+TAB’ key combination to proceed in clockwise direction and to proceed on the anti clockwise direction make use of  ‘CTRL+SHIFT+TAB’ key. What you do when need to switch over to the third tabbed window from the first window?. I just stumbled over the Internet for such shortcut key and find atlast. You could achieve by using the combination of ‘CTRL+<num>’ key. For example if you need to look of the sixth tabbed window, just press the key ‘CTRL+6′. Hope many of you might be aware of this. This is just to add upon for those who unaware of it.

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Protecting your Folder from Unauthorized User

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                Perhaps all might be need to safeguard certain confidential matters in their computers. And almost plenty of softwares are available in the market to serve you. Some might be freeware and someother might demand you to pay for their softwares. Why not make use of Disk Operating System for this command?(which is almost inbuilt in IBM based computers). Let me describe how to safeguard your folder view from unauthorised users. Suppose you need to keep the folder ‘Confidential’ in the ‘D’ drive to be unviewable to others. So just go for the command prompt(Start->Run->command) and proceed upto the parent directory of the folder you need to protect for. Type the following command : ‘attrib “<folder name>” +R +A +S +H’ (ie., attrib confidential +R +A +S +H). Go and check for the folder ‘Confidential’ and you could not find it. You can check in the command prompt too. And to renew this folder just type again: attrib “<folder name>” -R -A -S -H.

                  Let me discuss on the pros and cons of making use of it.

pros: 

• You can protect the folder from unauthorised access

• You could not able to delete the folder unless remove the attribute constraint

cons:     

• Though folder name in not avail in the list of command prompt, when just using the Tab key to search for folder in command prompt, it would display it.

• When you forget the protected folder, you could not able to predict the folder from the list of folders on pressing TAB key of Change Directory (CD) in command prompt

                                      Hope the above post will be helpful to you.

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Social Network Web Page – Meebo

 

Hi all,
Social Networking on web is the latest trendz to connect with the friends. Almost sharing of information is quite easy nowadays. Many web pages had been developed to share photos, videos etc. Why do we need to have seperate yahoo messenger, google talk, msn messenger and everything to connect to your friend list? Are you expecting the only one application to connect with all above account users. Yeah I assure meebo would be the best choice for textual sharing of data. This is a web2.0 standard webpage. The main benefits of the meebo is it let us to login with multiple accounts and chat with friend list on all accounts. Meebo is also providing the widget as a free service for their account holders.Meebo widgets can be embedded into your web page and your availability can be known through widgets. Also provided with an option to customize the widgets. It enable the users to send the instant message to the account holder. They could chat if the account holder is in online or else the message will be delivered at offline. So try for Meebo and have fun.

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Search Engine Optimization Tool – Website Grader

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Almost Search Engine optimization work is carried out right from the past few decades and everyone work around their webpage to be listed in the top destination on Search Engines. Almost when we go for searching a resource in web, hope about three quarters of the web surfer are using Google. How could anyone if their web page is competing with their competitor website?. There are plenty of Search Engine Optimization tools available and i found quite useful with the SEO comparison tool, Website Grader. It compares the web page to the competitor web page based on the specified keyword. The comparision report can be directed to your mail for reference. Hurray! the report analyses on the following

• Website Grade

• Alexa Ranking

• Technorati Ranking

• Google Ranking

• Yahoo Inbound Link

• Google Inbound Link

• Google Indexed Page Count

• Delicious Saved Count

The report suggest some hints to improve your web page and point out if any missing out like meta tags missing, page information not available etc. Based on the report we could analyse either our competitor or us been leading in the race. If you lags in the race you could work around on the weaker area and improve your page rank. Hope this tool could be useful to you.

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