YouTube automatic captioning to Revolutionize education

A day after publicly revealing its Chrome OS, Google came up with a new YouTube feature. In an interesting revelation YouTube would offer automatic captioning. The new features seems to be inspired by Goolge vice president Vint Cerf who is a hearing impaired.Whatever be the reason YouTube videos with automatic captioning could be a great asset for schools and libraries. Increased accessibility of videos will help deaf students as well as multimodal learners who would be benefited from text accompanying video and audio. YouTube's new addition would be of great help in schools and other fields of education

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Google Chrome OS: Secrets Disclosed

Google Chrome OS has been surrounded by speculations since its inception. Finally, the details about its plans were made public at Googleplex today. Google also announced that it will release the operating system's code and design documents to the public. We had already discussed 7 secrets of the browser based OS.
We has also shared Microsoft's founder and former CEO Bill Gate's thoughts on the Google OS. There lightweight, browser-based OS significantly marks the beginning of a new species of OS that might lead to the extinction of hard drives. Chrome OS is exclusively build for netbooks, which finds more browser based usage. We decided to delve into its features to have a better insight.

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Where to download Microsoft Office 2010 and Office Mobile 2010

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Java Unit Testing: Best Practices

java_startingJunit is a java based tool that offers good, robust test facility. But, if you use it in a wrong way, it produces horrendous output. This article gives you some insight to test java code with the help of the JUnit toolkit. Full article (456 words) »

How much does it cost to design and build a web site for a small company these days

I received a query today from my ex-Boss and a long-time friend,

How much does it cost to design and build a web site for a small company these days? I assume it depends on size of the site and complexity. I am thinking a small "regular" site. no database. no shopping basket. What is a good budget to start with?

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VPS / Dedicated Server versus Amazon Cloud: Questions and Answers

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10 tips for making a mobile friendly website

mobilewebsiteWhen planning to build a mobile version of website you need to consider the diversity of mobile ecosystem. Launching a mobile website version would involve the screen size, browsers and connection speed, which is remarkably different from a desktop environment. Form choosing mobile friendly URL to designing a mobile-optimized layout using CSS and HTML, building a mobile version of website takes multi-facet effort. Adding to the hassles, the next gen phones are upgrading faster than you can ever think of. Clearly you don't have a hint of what mobile your site viewers will have next. Given that the iPhone is enjoying a good market, mobile phones with Google's Android having variety of screen sizes are also gaining mommentum.  At this juncture, making a mobile friendly website is becoming more intricate. We decided to workout some simple tips that would resolve the complexities in making a mobile version of website. Full article (831 words) »

How to find a better suggested users list for Twitter

twitterAre you one those who has been remonstrating against Twitter's suggested users list feature? You can have a sigh of relief now, as the microblogging giant has decided to hark back the feature. The list introduced newbies to the Twitterati's including celebrities, sports personalities and politicians. Why on earth would you follow what the co-founder Biz Stone suggests in the list. Choosing whom to follow on Twitter lies on your personal taste. This was only realized when Twitter poked into frisked through it's retention rates that has declined in past. Well, if you are looking for a better alternative just go through.

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The Associated Press lays off undisclosed number of workers as part of 10 percent payroll cut

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How to autostart any program when Gnome desktop session starts

genomeThe gnome-session program starts up the desktop environment. Essentially, it loads either your last session, or a default session as defined by the user. There might be some applications that you want automatically started after the boot. For instance, those in habit of using the Skype would prefer to have it on even without  having to click. Well, that is only possible when you autostart a program at the start up. If you autostart a program in Gnome desktop it will start only after the session starts. This is in contrary to the PreSession solution that starts before the session has started. Now the question is how to make a program autostart when your Gnome desktop session starts.

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