29Apr 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Microsoft browser`s flaw

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In the PC browser market, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) still dominates with a 58 per cent market share across the globe, as per tech research firm netmarketshare.com data.While, in India, the IE is the favoured browser of government agencies as well as the banking sector, gs.statcounter.com, which uses page views to study Internet traffic movement, ranks the browser at number 3 with just over 10 per cent market share in March in the country, way below Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox. Incidentally, gs.statcounter.com puts IE’s global market share at 21.4 per cent, less than half of Chrome.As per the data from India, it could be assumed that Indians use the browser only when they have no other option. However, that is not good news because if they are forced to…
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28Apr 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Vic Gundotra quits from Google+

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Vic Gundotra had been at Google since 2007, and was the company's vice-president for social media.While boasting a large number of users, Google+ is still considered to be very much in the shadow of other networks - particularly Facebook and Twitter.Chief executive Larry Page thanked Mr Gundotra for "all his hard work and passion" at the company.Mr Gundotra, who previously worked at Microsoft, will be replaced by David Besbris, who is currently vice-president of engineering on the network.Google+ was launched in June 2011, and the latest figures released by the firm suggest it has 540 million users.
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19Apr 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Future smartphones may be made from sea deposits

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Scientists from Germany have developed a new method to efficiently extract rare earth metals such as Yttrium, Praseodymium and Dysprosium from deep-sea rocks that can be used in smartphones and other electronic gadgets. Scientists have unearthed an untapped source of rare earth elements widely used in cell phones in deep sea deposits that lie under the sea. So, now there is a possibility that your future smartphone may be made out from deep-sea rocks! With millions of smartphones and other gadgets using rare earth metals, supplies of these high-tech materials may become scarce. The potential deep-sea sources of rare earth elements are actually nodules of iron and manganese that are abundantly found on the ocean floor. German researchers have successfully developed a method to efficiently extract these rare earth metals…
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05Apr 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

Is Firefox’s future under threat?

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The survival of her company, which pledges to make the web a better place, is at the mercy of one of its main competitors, Google. If you haven't heard of Mozilla, you almost certainly know - and perhaps use - its most famous product: the Firefox browser. Since 2002, it has been steadily gaining market share against Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft's pre-loaded, oft-criticised equivalent. It now has about half a billion users, a huge number of which are evangelists for the software. Many even help create it - it is one of the largest open-source projects on the net. Google likes this. So much so, they pay Mozilla millions of pounds every year to secure a piece of prime real-estate on Firefox's default homepage encouraging users to perform a Google…
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29Mar 2014 by Startbit Solutions Pvt. Ltd. No Comments

“Google India” has been fined Rs 1 crore

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Google's failure to provide complete information in response to seven notices sent by the investigation arm of Competition Commission of India (CCI) resulted in its decision to impose Rs 1 crore penalty on the internet major. While deciding to impose the fine, the fair trade watchdog CCI said that Google Inc and Google India Private Ltd failed to comply fully with various notices issued by the Director General (DG) on various occasions. DG, the investigation arm of the fair trade regulator, is probing alleged anti-competitive practices by Google in the Indian market. "Despite reminders and opportunities extended by the DG, the opposite parties advanced frivolous and vexatious pleas to delay and avoid compliance. It may be noted that the period of failure to comply commenced w.e.f. 26.02.2013 in terms of…
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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. 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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