28Mar 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Microsoft Office is now available for iPad

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Microsoft has finally started offering an iPad edition of its Office software suite.It was announced at the first launch event hosted by Satya Nadella since he became chief executive of the firm. Three separate productivity apps are available - Word, Excel and Powerpoint - each of which has been optimised for touch-based controls.Within hours of the launch, Word became the most downloaded application for iPads in Apple's app store.The Excel and Powerpoint apps were the third and fourth most popular free app downloads, respectively, in the store.The popularity shows that customers are interested in accessing Microsoft's signature Office products in their new, easier to use incarnation, compared with the web-based alternatives provided before. Mr Nadella said that the announcement was part of a strategy to empower people "to be productive…
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27Mar 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Facebook buys virtual reality gaming firm “Oculus”

APPS, Internet and Media, News
Facebook has bought the virtual reality technology firm Oculus VR for $2bn [£1.2bn], it revealed on Tuesday. In a surprise announcement, the social networking company said it had paid $400m in cash and the rest in more than 23m shares, currently worth $1.6bn [£970m], plus an additional $300m pegged to future performance. A detailed company statement said that Facebook recognised how Oculus had built a solid following among game developers, but that virtual reality technology would expand to other industries from communications and entertainment to education and media. "Mobile is the platform of today, and now we're also getting ready for the platforms of tomorrow," said Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. "Oculus has the chance to create the most social platform ever, and change the way we work, play…
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26Mar 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Learn to Say “No”

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Here’s a mantra to help you re-learn this important word: “It’s okay to say no.” Some people, unfortunately sometimes even our supervisors, seem to think that saying no is an excuse or some kind of cop-out. It’s funny. We spend the first two or three years of our lives being told no, and then the rest of our days, especially at work, forgetting everything we have learned about that little three-letter word. Saying the word “no” is something you have to learn again if you hope to gain a good work-life balance. They make us feel like saying no is a personal failing, or even worse a personal insult. Whenever they try that on you, just repeat the mantra: “It’s okay to say no.” It’s okay to say no when…
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24Mar 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

phplist: A open source Newsletter Manager

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PHPlist is an open source software for managing mailing lists. It is designed for newsletters, news, advertising to list of subscribers management. It is developed in PHP and have MySQL database to store the information.Public interface is available in 35 languages. The documentation detailing the functions and features of the software is available in English and is partially translated into Spanish, French, and Dutch. PHPlist can manage a list of subscribers and send e-mail messages to large numbers of subscribers. The subscription management, registration, personal data changes, and unsubscribe requests, are automated. Subscriptions to one or more lists are made through a subscription page that can be integrated into a website.The information requested during registration, for example, country, language, date of birth, favorite food, etc is determined by the list…
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21Mar 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Adding Facebook Like Buttons to Your WordPress Blog

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Facebook`s new Open Graph API lets users to add their like button on their website pages. Facebook has their detailed documentation to help you for implementing the "Like" buttons onto your own website or blog, it's easier on some other platforms like Wordpress.There are dozens of Facebook Like plugins for WordPress available in the official WordPress.org Plugin Repository. These solutions are the easiest way to add a "Like" button to your site, but they don`t provide you a full control for customizing that button like you want  so you can get this by just inserting a few lines of code into your theme files.Open your single.php file in your wordpress theme, and in the post loop, add the following line wherever you want the button to appear: You can adjust the parameters like…
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19Mar 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

WHY WORDPRESS ASKS FOR FTP CONNECTION INFO?

PHP, Web Design & Programming, Web Development Services, WordPress
Whenever you use the WordPress admin panel to  install, upgrade, or delete plugins, WordPress must make changes to files on their filesystem.Before making any changes, WordPress first checks to see whether or not it has access to directly manipulate the file system. If WordPress does not have the necessary permissions to modify the filesystem directly, you will be asked for FTP credentials so that WordPress can try to do what it needs to via FTP. HOW TO RESOLVE IT? In order to fix this issue, you will need to make sure that the scripts which need to write to the filesystem are owned by the same user that apache is running as. WordPress asks for your FTP credentials when it can't access the files directly. This isusually caused by PHP running…
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19Mar 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. 1 Comment

Skype database viewer and merger

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Skyperious is a Skype database viewer and merger, written in Python. You can open local Skype SQLite databases and look at their contents: search across all messages and contacts browse chat history and export as HTML, see chat statistics import contacts from a CSV file to your Skype contacts view any database table and and export their data change, add or delete data in any table execute direct SQL queries and synchronize messages in two Skype databases: keep chat history up-to-date on different computers, or restore missing messages from older files into the current one Additionally, Skyperious doubles as a useful database browser for any SQLite file. Also, a command line interface is available with key functions like exporting, searching, and merging. Making a backup of the database file is…
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13Feb 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Skype multiple Instance in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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You can install Skype 4.x from skype.com and download the linux version and install. You can aslo install it from Ubuntu Software Center as well.Now you need to create new copies of Skype. Open terminal and run these commands: cp -r ~/.Skype ~/.Skype.one cp -r ~/.Skype ~/.Skype.two Now you have two installed instances of Skype. Now create a launcher for these two different Skypes.Now create a folder in your home directory to put these launchers in. I have created a folder "allskype", but you can name  it as yours whatever you want. Open a terminal  and run these commands: mkdir allskype gnome-desktop-item-edit ~/allskype/ - -create-new A new launcher box will pop up. Enter Name and pick an icon what you want . Now fill this in command field with command: skype --dbpath=~/.Skype.one And lets…
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15Jan 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Snapchat hacked, 4.6 million usernames and linked phone numbers published

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[caption id="attachment_742" align="alignnone" width="585"] Snapchat hacked[/caption] Details of 4.6 million users of the popular mobile photo-sharing service Snapchat have been leaked, if a new website called SnapchatDB! is to be believed. A new website called SnapchatDB! is now live with tagline, "Bringing 4.6 million users' information to your fingertips..." The site is said to be made by a team of hackers who have posted downloadable 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers of Snapchat users. As of now, the leaked database on the SnapchatDB! site has listed downloadable phone numbers with the last two digits obfuscated. However, the site by the anonymous hackers clearly said that, "For now, we have censored the last two digits of the phone numbers in order to minimize spam and abuse. Feel free to contact us…
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