Know To Create An iPhone Or Android App Without Any Coding Skills

Learning how to code and produce a basic iPhone or Android app is not a simple drag and drop process. While Apple’s Xcode helps lay down the foundation for building an iPhone app, it can take hours of coding and trial and error to produce a basic RSS feed or portfolio application.
But if you’re really eager to make a mobile app based on your website, business, organization, or just a fun quiz game, a website called Buzztouch may well be the web-based solution for you. Buzztouch is essentially Content Management Software for iOS and Android. It provides a template-based process in which you import your app’s information into the online software, and in turn it will create the code that you need to compile the data for your application. I gave a try and it does work.

What You Need

MUO has previously covered the steps on how to develop a simple iPhone app and submit it iTunes. You should read that article as it’s part of this process. Buzztouch however does not get your app onto iTunes, nor does it compile it in the programming application, Xcode, or the Android counterpart. What Buzztouch does is help you develop your app so that you can export the code to Xcode, and then from there you go through the process of submitting your app to the iTunes App Store. Since I’m an iPhone and Mac user, this review will focus on creating an iPhone app.
The tools Buzztouch provides are totally free. It seeks to inspire aspiring developers, designers, content publishers, and the like to leverage their technology.
However, beyond Buzztouch, you will need a copy of Xcode on your Mac. If you already have a current or older free version of Xcode, you’re set to go. If not, you will have to download it from the Mac App Store, for $5. Once you get your app completed, you will need to shell out $99 for a developer’s license to upload your app to the iTunes App Store where it will go through the approval process.

Developing Your App

Buzztouch provides some excellent video tutorials for developing your iPhone application. I will provide simply an overview of the process. Basically, the core content of the Buzztouch app consists of one or more basic mobile iPhone template items. For example, I partially created an iPhone RSS feed app for p2ktech.com, although of course you can download the official MUO app from the App Store.
After you do the free registration on the Buzztouch site, you will need to be familiar with the tools and templates that the app creation software provides. You will need to create and gather the content for your app before you get started in the process. It’s like gathering content for producing a website. In fact, your existing website could be the basis of a web-based iPhone app. Thus a Buzztouch app could be useful for realtors, modelling agencies, small restaurants, performers, bloggers, etc.
You start off the process by creating a name for your site.

Next, you need to add a logo for your app. I borrowed one from MUO’s existing application. A professional looking logo is highly recommended for your app to have any chance of being purchased and downloaded from the App Store. As you can see, Buzztouch makes adding the icon very easy. In each step of the process, an iPhone simulation will show you the results of the content you provide.

As shown in the following control panel, you will need to add a homepage image and introductory information for your app. That’s very easy to do. Where it says “Manage this app’s menus & screens” is the core content of your app.

Clicking on that tool, you are provided with a set of tools for building your app. So far example, if you want to an RSS feed app for your blog site, you would add the RSS feed tool as one of your Home Screen Menu items.

There are 20 other templates for adding items, such as a Streaming and/or YouTube video, an Email Us page, a multiple choice quiz, a single image, a PDF doc, and a share via Facebook tool.

As with any professional looking website, you will want to have the content of your app polished and well edited.

Compiling Code

At any time during the process of building your app, you can have Buzztouch compile the code and send it over to Xcode to see the results. After Buzztouch prepares your code, it will download it to your computer. In the resulting folder, you will want to click on the file with the name of your app and the extension, “xcodeproj.” When you click the Run button in Xcode, it will open the iPhone simulator that is a part of the programmer.

You really don’t need programming skills to produce your application, but you do need to be comfortable with using this sort of technology.
A few examples of apps developed by Buzztouch include Ian James’ Piano Live which is designed to keep his fans updated about  his live shows and other information;

and Thrifty Car Sales, a calculator produced by Thrifty Car Sales to calculate the interest rate on a car loan, as well as other tips for buying a car.

Let us know what you think of Buzztouch. If you create an app and post it for free download on the App Store, let us know about it. We might consider reviewing it as a follow-up to this article.

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How to get a free domain name + 1 year free hosting from DreamHost

If you are thinking it’s a joke, it’s NOT. Here is a fully working trick to get a FREE 1-year domain name + Free Unlimited Hosting from DreamHost. Dreamhost is one of world’s most popular and reliable services.

We had tried this method and it worked flawlessly.

Follow the steps below carefully to get 1-year domain and Unlimited Dreamhost hosting Free:

Step 1. Sign up for Free Dreamhostapps account. Choose dreamhosters sub-domain in step1. In step 5 fill up your details and sign up.

Step 2. Visit http://kproxy.com

Step 3. Enter this URL, http://www.dreamhost.com/ into the text box and click on surf.

Step 4. Click on Sign up Now and choose to Host a domain.

Step 5. Fill all the information properly (use one year plan etc.)

Step 6. Very Important - While entering the address choose country as US and not IN. Also enter the same email address which you used for DreamHostApps.

Step 7. Use the Code BARCAMPLA7 for 100% discount.

Step 8. Enjoy!



Code BARCAMPLA7 (got this using Twitter search for “Dreamhost code”), provides 100% discount, but only for US locations ( so choose country as US ).

Do share your experience here. As always, p2ktech will keep sharing the fantastic tips and freebies  .

PRASHANT KUMAR

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How To Use Mobile Phone As Webcam

This tutorial will show you How to use your mobile as a Webcam.

Many of us don’t have Webcams and might want to use your mobile as a Webcam to save on some cash and also to put your mobile camera to better use.
You will need to install your Bluetooth stack / drivers – Microsoft, Bluesoliel, Widcomm etc if you plan to use Bluetooth to connect your phone and PC. You will also need to install Nokia PC Suite in case you are using a Nokia phone.
There are two applications to use your mobile as a Webcam:

1. Mobiola Webcam

Download Mobiola Webcam

Mobiola Webcam is the most popular Webcam software for mobiles, it is compatible with many phones – Symbian S60, S60 V3, UIQ, Windows Mobile, Blackberry etc. In case it isn’t compatible with your phone, but your phone supports J2ME, you can use the Mobiola Webcam Lite version. It runs on almost all J2ME phones. In case, you have some prehistoric phone with no J2ME support, then it’s time to dump it and get a new phone.
Just download Mobiola Webcam / Webcam Lite from the above links after selecting your platform. Install the Mobiola Web cam setup on your PC and transfer the mobile sis / jar file to your mobile and install it. Be sure to give it all the access permissions it requires during installation.
Just start the Mobiola application on your mobile and PC. From your mobile, select Options > Connect and select the connection method – Bluetooth, USB or Wi-Fi. We would recommend connecting via data cable as it is faster. After you are connected, you can use the mobile camera as your Webcam. Just start your favourite application and in the Video / Webcam options, select the Mobiola Webcam / Your Phone. You can adjust the video quality, contrast and brightness from Options > Settings.

2. WWIGO (Webcam Wherever I Go)

Download WWIGO
WWIGO is also a nice little application that allows you to use your mobile camera as a Webcam. It supports connections via Bluetooth only though. Just download the application from the above link and install it. After installation, navigate to your Program Files directory and get the WWIGO mobile application from there. Transfer it to your mobile and install it.
Now start both the PC and mobile WWIGO applications. Now select an GPRS access point in your mobile, and select Options > Connect. Select your PC as the Bluetooth device and let the PC and mobile WWIGO applications connect.
After the connection is done, you can use your mobile camera to record videos as a Webcam. To use it as a Webcam, open the Webcam / video settings of your application and select WWIGO as the Webcam. You can adjust the video resolution and zoom levels from Options > Settings
That’s it, You are done. Happy Chatting.
Note: Yea, I know there are loads of similar tutorials everywhere. But as I was running out of ideas to write on, I thought this would be fine.

PRASHANT KUMAR

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Make Social Technology Count in Your Workplace

A friend, who was involved in developing early word processing systems (imagine a world without Microsoft Office or Open Office), was recently talking about the productivity-improvement claims made by proponents of word processing. I’m like WHAT decade are we in? Smiles. I’m GASPing for air. By moving offices and workers away from typewriters, Dictaphone machines and stenography, businesses were supposed to see huge productivity gains. Individuals would be empowered and secretaries (try finding a few of those today) would have time to work on projects of higher value to companies. There would be no reliance on White-out, steno pads or other mostly-dead products and everyone would be freed from the drudgery of office work. The payoff for companies? The holy trinity of time-savings, cost-reduction and ROI!


What really happened? We all – more or less willingly – took on responsibility for our own busy work, and a whole work classification was eliminated. There are no “secretaries” any more – Phew. There are a few executive assistants, reserved mostly for the V and C-suite. This is something my baby boomer friend regrets; early in his career he had a secretary, Jean, who could type 105 words a minute with no errors and take dictation at 90 words a minute. She kept his schedule, remembered everything, and shielded him from useless meetings and other distractions. Now he’s on his own, working without a net, like most of us, in a world where notions of value have changed. What gives?

We’re seeing a similar shift now in the world of work with social technologies and social media tools. From Yammer to wikis, talent management software and enterprise instant-messaging platforms like Salesforce Chat and Microsoft Lync, businesses are structuring a workplace where most interchanges are not person-to-person but are instead mediated by technology. This shift has been valued at upwards of $1.3 trillion by no less an authority than McKinsey , which studied the use and impact of social tech in four sectors: professional services, retail financial services, packaged goods and advanced manufacturing.



Not surprisingly, McKinsey sees a large percentage of the value of social tech coming from two sources: improved communications and collaboration. These benefits will be realized internally, as employees collaborate, and externally, as consumers interact with brands.

But value isn’t something you get by buying technology, closing your eyes and making a wish. Value is real only if it can be measured. Further, it’s arguably possible to extract value from technology only when your work culture understands and accepts the reasoning for adopting the technology, which requires employees to trust the company and its managers. Without trust, in other words, value cannot be calculated.

So leaders and employees unite and celebrate! Here are five things to put in place if you hope to extract value from social technology in your workplace:

1) Define what value means to your organization. For example, is there more value in social tech-mediated collaboration than there is in face-to-face meetings? In which circumstances or use cases is the statement true or false? At which employee grade is it true or false? Is your notion of value organizational (e.g., human factors), financial (e.g., measureable ROI) or process (e.g., time savings)? Create different timelines for each vector to see where you’ll experience a value bump first.

2) Create a value measurement methodology. If you’re measuring collaboration, for example, tie hard costs to it: less travel, less time to complete a task, more people on board with an idea or initiative.

3) Determine which tools, processes and policies support your definition of value, and which must be changed. Email may not support your definition of value in the above model, nor may in-person meetings. Processes designed to support building teams will need to be revised so teams can be constructed virtually among people who’ve never met F2F. Policies requiring performance reviews to be conducted by team members may need to be adjusted, and so on. This may requires a close look at many policies, which is time-consuming; factor that into your value equations.

4) Create a link between your notion of value and the value of employee trust. This will be tough, but one place to start is to create a value statement describing the organizational value of employee trust. Then look for the deltas in your model of the value of social tech. You may want to bring in an HR or organizational consultant to help structure the examination if you need help from the outside.

5) Socialize your expectations of the value to be realized from social technology. Poll employees to see if they buy in. If they don’t, you’ll gain not only understanding of why there may be resistance to using social tech tools, as well as a roadmap of policies and procedures which may require change for the organization to realize value from social tech.

We’re just beginning to see the disruptive effects of social technology and social media at large. Very exciting times in the world of work. Will it destroy whole job categories? It remains to be seen. Will it deliver value? I vote yes.

What about you? Is your leadership or employee style one the embraces parts or all of this?

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Reffer and earn money

Hey frinds, today i am going to tell you how to earn money only by reffering limk to people

http://incomepart.com/ref.php?page=act/ref&invcod=228967


How to Promote referral link?
Promote your referral links on forums, blogs, comments, chat rooms, chats, facebook wall, facebook pages, groups, twitter, ptc sites, advertising websites to get link visits and earn money on every visit you sent through referral link
When I will get payout?The min balance for payout is 10$ and you will get through Alertpay, Liberty reserve, Paypal, Moneybooker, Perfect Money, Solid Trust Pay, Cheque, Western Union, bank transfer at end of every month.

How much I can earn?
You can earn without any limits, its on your efforts and hard working that how much you can give time to promote referral program of IncomePart.com, Many of our top members are earning more then 100$ per day and 2000$+ per month

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How to send SMS without using mobile number

Hey friends today i am going to tell u how to send sms without using mobile number.

First of all go to http://madsacsoft.com/mad/sms/anonymous.html

After that select the server from which you want to send sms

Than type the mobile number of the person whome you want to send sms

After that type the message and than type security code and send sms and your sms will be delivered to that person.


PRASHANT KUMAR

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MAD SMS Sender:Way2SMS ,Site2SMS, 160by2,FullonSMS,SMSSpark,Fast2MS....API's

You can make Get/Post Request to :
http://madsacsoft.com/mad/sms/smsapi.php

with values :
usr as Username
pwd as Password
to as number which will recieve message.
mes as message.
deli as delimiter it can be anything & is option, by default ";".
gui =1 if you want userfriendly message ex: gui=1 by default it is 0.
site as Gateway

Gateways Supported :

Site2SMS
160by2
FullOnSMS
Way2SMS
SMSSpark
Fast2SMS
SMSFi
SMSabc
100Nests
Ultoo
FreeSMS8
SMS440
BhokaliSMS

If result is
0 = Wrong username or password
1 = Message sent
2 = Message not sent
3 =Invalid number to send message

Some Get Request Examples are given below :

Example 1:

http://madsacsoft.com/mad/sms/smsapi.php?usr=7275960444&pwd=Password&site=way2sms&mes=Hello_Message&to=9451430071;7275960444;8888888888;
In above example  username is 7275960444, Password is Password , Website or Gateway is way2sms Message is Hello_Message, Message is sent to 9451430071,7275960444,8888888888,

Example 2:

http://madsacsoft.com/mad/sms/smsapi.php?usr=9451430071&pwd=testPass&site=site2sms&mes=SampleMessage&to=7275960444,9450313528,9451430071&deli=,
In above example  username is 9451430071, Password is testPass , Website or Gateway is site2sms Message is SampleMessage, Message is sent to 7275960444,9450313528,9451430071
You should note that using deli=, we seprated all numbers using comma ",".

Example 3:

http://madsacsoft.com/mad/sms/smsapi.php?usr=9451430071&pwd=testPass&site=site2sms&mes=SampleMessage&to=7275960444,9450313528,9451430071&deli=,&gui=1
In above example  username is 9451430071, Password is testPass , Website or Gateway is site2sms Message is SampleMessage, Message is sent to 7275960444,9450313528,9451430071
You should note that using deli=, we seprated all numbers using comma "," & above examples shows user friendly message.


You can embed our sms sending script using below code :
<iframe src=http://madsacsoft.com/mad/sms/embed.php height=100% width=100%></iframe>


PRASHANT KUMAR

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Apple Breaks The Record Of Microsoft

New York: Apple Inc’s market value climbed past $623 billion on Monday, surpassing the record set by Microsoft Corp during the heyday of technology stocks in 1999.

Apple shares rose 2.6 percent, bringing its gains this month to almost 9 percent as Wall Street bets on the September 12 rollout of the latest version of the iPhone, the device that revolutionized the mobile industry.

Microsoft, however, retains the title of history’s most valuable company if its 1999 peak value of about $621 billion were to be adjusted for inflation.

Apple’s stock usually rallies in the run-up to major product launches, among the most heavily watched events on the annual tech calendar. The iPhone is the company’s biggest product, yielding half or more of its sales.

Sources have said the company will take the wraps off a larger version of its iPhone on September 12. Some analysts also think it intends to announce a smaller iPad to safeguard its market share, as rivals from Google Inc to Amazon.com Inc begin selling cheaper, seven-inch tablets.

But Bernstein Research’s Toni Sacconaghi warned that questions remain about the availability of components for both the iPhone and the iPad, which in the past has constrained Apple’s product shipments.

“A key question for the launch will be Apple’s expected rollout schedule,” the analyst wrote on Monday. “Apple’s intention is to continue to ramp offerings as quickly as possible, but the company’s ability to do so remains a key near-term question.”

Apple’s shares have risen 64 percent in 2012. On Monday, they closed at a session high of $665.15, conferring on the Silicon Valley giant a capitalization of $623.5 billion, exceeding Microsoft’s 1999 value of $620.8 billion, according to data provided by S&P Dow Jones Indices.

But Microsoft’s value would rise to $853.7 billion after adjusting for rising prices, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ inflation-calculator.

POLAR OPPOSITES

Apple overtook Exxon Mobil (XOM.N) to reach the No. 1 spot by market capitalization last year. Monday’s move means it has now entered the record books as the biggest company ever, in terms of market value.

“Everyone loves a winner; if you play the quick trade be careful,” said Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices in emailed comments. “If you are an investor, check the fundamentals and business plans, and avoid the hype in your decision.”

Apple climbed even as fellow technology heavyweight Facebook Inc (FB.O) plumbed new depths. The No. 1 social network slid to a record intraday low of $18.75 in the morning before bouncing back to close just above $20 after Capstone upgraded the company’s stock to buy from hold.

Facebook’s stock has gone south in the past month as investors worried about its ability to make revenue grow. Last week, some early investors were given the go-ahead to sell for the first time since Facebook’s May 18 IPO. Several similar lockups will expire through the end of the year.

Facebook rebounded above $20 in afternoon trade after Capstone’s upgrade, based on a combination of a more attractive valuation since its decline, and good long-term advertising prospects.

“It seems to be down around levels that people who didn’t like the deal thought it was really worth. And now it seems to have stabilized,” sad Eric Kuby, chief investment officer, North Star Investment Management Corp in Chicago.

It may have “found a level which seems more of a better price for people valuing the company in terms of the future.”


PRASHANT KUMAR

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Know To Increase Traffic Through These 10 Ways Of Twitter

Twitter provides a great platform through which you can increase your blog traffic.  Many people know this yet they fail to actually take full advantage of it. Here are 10 ways that you can do this without
being viewed as a spammer.

1.) Send out short tips about a topic covered on your blog and include a url to one of the posts.  This is great because people who read your tips will be interested in learning more and many of them will click the link and visit your blog.

2.) Set up your blog posts to automatically post to twitter. You can do this with the wordpress blogging plugin called twitter tools or with the networked blogs application on facebook. The second one posts your blog posts to facebook and then also to twitter.

3.) Look for people who are tweeting about the same topics your blog covers and follow them and then share specific blog posts with them.

4.) Use the twitter search feature at search.twitter.com to located people asking questions about topics related to your blog and then reply back to them by answering their question and referring to a blog
post.

5.) Include your blog url as your website url on your twitter profile and include the link on your twitter profile background.

6.) Convert the content of some of your posts into audio and then share these audios with your followers via the audioboo application. People who may not read your posts, will listen to them.

7.) Do a search for lists on twitter. Find lists that cover topics you also talk about on your blog and then share your blog posts with the people on that list.

8.) Install the tweetmeme button application on your blog to encourage people to share your blog posts on twitter.

9.) Propose a share on twitter exchange with a few other blog owners. You tweet their posts and they tweet yours.

10.) Encourage your blog readers to connect with you on twitter. This increases the likelihood that they will come back and share your posts.

PRASHANT KUMAR

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5 tips to make the best out of your WOT add-on

Hey Friends,
Thank you again for choosing Web of Trust as your safe surfing tool!
Here are some tips to help you get the best out of your WOT add-on.

5 tips to make the best out of your WOT add-on 1)  Consult ratings before you visit a site

WOT’s traffic-light style reputation icons tell you how much other users trust a website. You'll see them on Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia,
Facebook, and many other popular sites on the web. Consult reputation ratings to make informed decisions on what sites to use.

2)  Visit scorecard for detailed information

For more detailed information, visit the site’s scorecard. You’ll find additional information from trusted sources and other users’ comments. Also take a look at the confidence indicator that represents the amount of supporting evidence that the WOT system has for the reputation rating. The higher the confidence level, the more reliable the rating.

3)  Leave your own rating

Take part in making the web safer by reviewing and rating sites that you know and have visited. If you don't have opinions in all four rating components (trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy, child safety), rate just the components that you want and leave others unrated.

4)  Supplement your rating by leaving a comment

Is there something you’d like to say about a site? Go to the site’s scorecard and leave a comment. Please be pertinent and to the point so that your comment is useful and relevant to other users.

5)  Join discussion on our forum

Are you interested in web safety and reputations? Join the discussion on our forum to share your interest: www.mywot.com/forum

Together we can make the web more trustworthy. Please recommend WOT to your friends and family.

Stay in touch with us by liking us on Facebook, http://www.facebook.com/weboftrust
and following us on Twitter http://twitter.com/Web_of_Trust

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Tricks Of A Blogger To Look Familier

ABOUT 85 percent of the Internet population uses the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser to surf the Web, even though it's relatively ancient, crusty with neglect and about as secure as a screen door. In what other industry would 85 percent of consumers choose such a product — when better ones, also free, were also available?

Microsoft has redesigned the Internet Explorer browser to open more space for Web pages. This version also accepts material sent by R.S.S.

Trick question. Those consumers aren't actually choosing Internet Explorer; in fact, they're not choosing. They just use what came on their Windows computers. Thanks to this built-in following, Microsoft hasn't felt much need to keep Internet Explorer current. Version 6 has been creaking along for five years — an eternity in Internet time.

But hope is in the air. Earlier this week, Microsoft took the wraps off IE 7. The new version is a public beta — Beta 2 — and therefore technically unfinished. Still, Microsoft feels that this release is ready for average people to try out; you can download it from www.microsoft.com/ie. Phone help is available, and you can easily restore Version 6 if necessary.

How this new browser measures up depends on the ruler you're using. If you've never used anything but Internet Explorer, you won't be able to wipe the grin off your face.

But next to rivals like Firefox, Opera and Safari, IE 7 is a catch-up and patch-up job. Some of its "new" features have been available in rival browsers for years.

For example, IE may be the last Web browser on earth to offer tabbed browsing. This useful feature lets you keep several Web sites open on the screen simultaneously — not in a hopeless mess of overlapping windows, but all in one window. File-folder index tabs at the top of the window keep them straight.

Truth is, Microsoft's version of tabbed browsing offers some very nice features. (And yes, dear e-mail correspondents, I'm aware that many of them also made their debut in other browsers.)

For example, you can summon a sheet of Web page miniatures, offering a handy, visual, clickable table of contents for your open tabs. IE 7 can also memorize a fleet of open tabs, saving them as a single bookmark. Later, one click opens them all again, arrayed just as you had them. Similarly, when you quit the browser, it offers to memorize the current open-tab setup, so that later you can pick up where you left off.

SCREEN real estate has been given a priority in Internet Explorer 7, too. ("Say goodbye to bulky toolbars," says the IE Web site — never mind that Microsoft gave us those bulky toolbars in the first place.)

The menu bar (File, Edit, View and so on) is gone, having been replaced by tiny pop-up menus at the right side of the window. (Those feeling disoriented can still summon the menu bar by tapping the Alt key.) And a single, noncustomizable toolbar contains the address bar, Back and Forward buttons, and the welcome new Search box, which can be programmed to use Google, Ask.com, MSN Search or whatever you like. Even with the added height of tabs, Microsoft has conserved so much space that you can see an additional inch or so of Web goodness without scrolling.

R.S.S. feeds represent another major new feature — new to Internet Explorer, anyway. R.S.S. (for Really Simple Syndication) is the Web's version of home delivery: instead of having to slog on over to your favorite sites, you are sent their latest articles and news automatically. To receive these convenient, free "subscriptions," though, you used to need a piece of software called an R.S.S. reader, which you had to download and configure yourself. No wonder R.S.S. doesn't yet play in Peoria.

But IE now joins the list of browsers with built-in R.S.S. readers. Whenever you visit a Web site that offers an R.S.S. subscription, a special logo lights up in IE; click it to see a sample of the R.S.S. broadcast (usually one-paragraph summary blurbs), and click Subscribe if you like what you see. The reading window offers a useful assortment of searching and sorting controls.

Other IE 7 enhancements include a Shrink to Fit printing option that eliminates chopped-off printouts; a print-preview mode whose draggable margins let you print only the useful parts of Web pages; a pop-up menu that magnifies the entire Web page (not just the text); and a single Delete Browsing History dialogue box that can erase all your tracks at once: History list, saved cookies and passwords, Web form data and temp files. (Who will find this feature useful? You know who you are.)

Now, if you currently use IE 6, those are all good reasons to upgrade, perhaps when the final version becomes available this summer. But the most important reason is mostly invisible: security.

As a bulwark against frauds, viruses and spyware, Internet Explorer has been about as solid as a sieve. It was such a fat target for Internet bad guys that using it was like hanging a blinking neon Hackers' Entrance sign on your PC.

Internet Explorer 7 is a different story. Not many people beyond engineers will find its 15-page list of patches compelling reading; it's about stuff like Cross-Domain Script Protection, IDN Display Protections and Enhanced Validation SSL.

But some of the security measures are comprehensible even to laymen, and they sound reassuring indeed. For example, any files that you download go into a Temporary Internet Files folder that prevents them from running automatically, in that way thwarting the installation of many evil programs. Spyware can no longer enter your machine by piggybacking on some piece of innocent software, either.

Most welcome of all, a sophisticated phishing detector warns you, with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer, whenever you open a fraudulent phishing page. (An example of a phishing fraud is an e-mail message that says, "Your eBay account will soon be closed; click here for details." Worried, you click the provided link and confirm your account information. Unfortunately, you've just handed over your credit card and account numbers to the Internet baddies, who have set up a fake eBay screen just for suckers like you.)

All those desperate swindlers, spammers and phishers will, no doubt, devise even more nefarious ways to invade PC's and trick their owners. But Internet Explorer 7 will make their job a heck of a lot harder.

Compared against Internet Explorers past, the new version is more secure, better looking and more efficient. There are, however, a few strings attached.

For example, it works only with Windows XP with Service Pack 2. (It will also work with next year's Windows Vista, of course — in fact, that version will offer an additional feature or two, including excellent parental controls.) The installation process is somewhat eccentric, and requires a restart of the PC.

Note, too, that Internet Explorer still offers no Autofill button that completes online order forms with a single click. The new placement of controls will baffle veterans of almost any browser — for example, the Back/Forward, Refresh, Home and Stop buttons are no longer near each other.

Finally, Microsoft says IE 7's better compliance with behind-the-scenes Web technology standards will delight Web designers. Still, some Web sites won't look or work right until they're rejiggered to accommodate the new browser. Thousands of lazy designers, for example, deny access to their sites to anyone not using Internet Explorer 6.

If you want the best browser on the market, several million fans will recommend that you look at programs like Firefox or Opera.

But without question, Internet Explorer 7 represents a big, long-awaited step in the direction of modernization. Millions of people still consider Internet Explorer their window into the Internet — and the sooner they leave the 1990's, the better.

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Know To Create Fake Websit ScreenShot using Firebug

When you think of faked or edited screenshots, programs like Photoshop probably pop into your mind. I’ve never been very creative when it comes to design and graphical work, so that’s nearly out of the question for me. If you’re trying to swap faces in a picture, you’ll need to learn how to use programs like that. If you’re trying to do something like change the text in a Facebook conversation, there’s no need. All you need is Firebug and a PrtScrn key.

Firebug is available for every major browser: IE6+, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. In this example, I’ll be running you through a tutorial on how to use it for its native browser, Firefox. What is Firebug though? Firebug is a browser add-on that allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. To manipulate webpages as I’m going to show you today, you won’t need to know any of those languages.

Installing Firebug

Installation is incredibly easy. Head on over to the official website to download the add-on. From there, select your browser (Firefox preferred, so that following along is easier). Install the add-on and restart your browser if necessary.

Using Firebug

Upon installing Firebug, by default, the icon should be displayed in your add-on bar, Tools menu, and possibly the context menu. Click on the icon in your add-on bar and you’ll see a new tab pop up at the bottom of your screen.

What you’re seeing here is an HTML view of the elements of the webpage you’re on. In this example, it’s the Firebug download page on Firefox add-ons. If you’re interested in using Firebug for the more usual purposes, feel free to poke around the tabs and get a feel for its features.
The button that I’ve highlighted in that screenshot is the inspect tool. This is the tool we’re going to be using. Click that button and then you’ll notice that every area of text that you hover your cursor over will become highlighted in the webpage view, and then highlighted down in Firebug’s HTML view.

Changing Text

Click on the block of text that you want to manipulate. You’ll see that the text has been selected in Firebug’s HTML view. From there, double click the line of HTML that includes the text you want to change. You can begin typing in whatever you want.

As you type, you’ll see that the preview updates live on the webpage.

Cool, right? It’s especially easy because of the way that Firebug allows you to isolate raw text from wrapped HTML. That way, all HTML elements, CSS styles, and other important visuals are preserved so that it looks like the real copy.

As you get more comfortable with Firebug, or if you already know HTML, you’ll find it just as easy to change other on-page elements, like images.

PRASHANT KUMAR

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News:Facebook to undergo privacy checks for 20 years

WASHINGTON: Social networking giant Facebook will be subjected to two decades of regular privacy checkups and other penalties, as part of a settlement finalised by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).

The FTC agreement implicated that Facebook must now obtain 'consent' before sharing a user's information with advertisers or others, which differs from its current privacy settings, and also bars the social site from misrepresenting its privacy and security practices again.

The settlement has the same outlines as the agreement, which FTC reached with Google in 2011 over that company's botched rollout of the Buzz social network, Politico reports.

The FTC faulted Facebook in 2011 for the way the company had handled users' private information, and allowed access of third-party apps.

Among other slip-ups, in December of 2009, Facebook changed its site in ways, which resulted in the private information of users being available to the public, the report said.

The FTC also charged Facebook with misrepresenting the sort of information that it shared with advertisers, and said that the social site wasn't clear with users about the fate of their photos and videos, upon deletion of their accounts, as some of the content didn't disappear, contrary to what the site states, it added.

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How To Change The Footer Link Of Blogger

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I have not checked the Blogger Terms and Conditions to find out whether you are allowed to remove the Attribution.   Even if they don’t mention it today, a requirement to keep the statement could be added tomorrow.   This advice does not mean that I, or Google/Blogger, are saying that you should/can/may/must remove the attribution statement.

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Hey Frnds here is the way of changing or removing blogger footer link.

1  Go to Design > Edit HTML.

2  Take a backup:

Download a copy of your template:  this is a backup – save it somewhere safe, in case things go wrong.

3  Click Expand Widgets, so you can see all the code

4  Find this section in the template:

<!– outside of the include in order to lock Attribution widget –>
<b:section class=’foot’ id=’footer-3' showaddelement=’no’>
<b:widget id=’Attribution2' locked=’true’ title=” type=’Attribution’>
<b:includable id=’main’>
<div class=’widget-content’ style=’text-align: center;’>
<b:if cond=’data:attribution != &quot;&quot;’>
<data:attribution/>
</b:if>
</div>
<b:include name=’quickedit’/>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
</b:section>

4  Comment-out the code that displays the Attribution gadget, by putting it inside these characters  <!–   –>    so it ends up looking like this

<!– outside of the include in order to lock Attribution widget –>
<!– <b:section class=’foot’ id=’footer-3' showaddelement=’no’>
<b:widget id=’Attribution2' locked=’true’ title=” type=’Attribution’>
<b:includable id=’main’>
<div class=’widget-content’ style=’text-align: center;’>
<b:if cond=’data:attribution != &quot;&quot;’>
<data:attribution/>
</b:if>
</div>
<b:include name=’quickedit’/>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
</b:section>
–>

5  Preview the template change, to check that everything is ok.  If not, fix the problem.

6  Click Save Template

7  As the template tries to save, you will get a warning message:

Warning: Your new template does not include the following widgets:
Attribution3
Would you like to keep these widgets on your blog or delete them?
Deleting widgets cannot be undone.

Click Keep Widgets:  This will leave an attribution Gadget in the set of Widgets that your blog has data about, even though it’s not actually showing it on the screen.

PRASHANT KUMAR

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Kaspersky :Virus found in Middle East that can spy on finance transactions.

BOSTON: A new cyber surveillance virus has been found in the Middle East that can spy on financial transactions, email and social networking activity, according to a leading computer security firm, Kaspersky Lab.

      A new cyber  surveillance virus has been found in 

      the Middle East that can spy on financial

      transactions, email and  social networking 

      activity, according to a leading computer 

      security firm, Kaspersky Lab.

Dubbed Gauss, the virus may also be capable of attacking critical infrastructure and was built in the same laboratories as Stuxnet, the computer worm widely believed to have been used by the United States and Israel to attack Iran's nuclear program, Kaspersky Lab said on Thursday.

The Moscow-based firm said it found Gauss had infected personal computers in Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian Territories. It declined to speculate on who was behind the virus but said it was related to Stuxnet and two other cyber espionage tools, Flame and Duqu.

"After looking at Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame, we can say with a high degree of certainty that Gauss comes from the same 'factory' or 'factories,'" Kaspersky Lab said in a posting on its website. "All these attack toolkits represent the high end of nation-state-sponsored cyber-espionage and cyber war operations." 

Kaspersky Lab's findings are likely to fuel a growing international debate over the development and use of cyber weapons. Those discussions were stirred up by the discovery of Flame in May by Kaspersky and others. Washington has declined comment on whether it was behind Stuxnet.

According to Kaspersky Lab, Gauss can steal Internet browser passwords and other data, send information about system configurations, steal credentials for accessing banking systems in the Middle East, and hijack login information for social networking sites, email and instant messaging accounts.

Modules in the Gauss virus have internal names that Kaspersky Lab researchers believe were chosen to pay homage to famous mathematicians and philosophers, including Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, Kurt Godel and Joseph-Louis Lagrange.

Kaspersky Lab said it called the virus Gauss because that is the name of the most important module, which implements its data-stealing capabilities.

One of the firm's top researchers said Gauss also contains a module known as "Godel" that may include a Stuxnet-like weapon for attacking industrial control systems.

Stuxnet, discovered in 2010, spread via USB drives and was designed to attack computers that controlled the centrifuges at a uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran.

PRASHANT KUMAR

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Check Daily Website Traffic

We create websites to make business, to become popular and to educate people about the knowledge we have about a particular niche. There are lots of free as well as paid tools available that will give us exact idea about the incoming traffic to a website that you own. But what you will do to check traffic to a website that you don’t own or have any control. Luckily there are some websites that can help you check traffic to your competitor or any website you like. There may be certain variation in the traffic numbers that you get through these websites. But you can use these website traffic numbers to have an idea about the kind of traffic a website must be having. I have noticed some websites giving traffic estimates very close to the original traffic numbers of a website. I came to this conclusion when I checked website traffic for some of websites and blogs whom I own or have access to their Google Analytics Statistics.


Lots of website owners and bloggers use these traffic checking websites to guess about the kind of traffic their competitors are able to generate on daily, month or yearly basis. Some of popular traffic estimating websites are Google Ad Planner, Alexa, Compete, Qunatcast and BuySellAds. You can use these traffic estimating tools to compare how your website is doing in traffic terms when compared with your competitors websites.

5 Ways to Check Website Traffic

Here is the ultimate list of tools that you can use to check website traffic of your competitors or any website of your choice:

1. Google Ad Planner

I would strongly recommend using Google Ad Planner when you are interested in checking website traffic for other’s website. Google Ad Planner will give you very accurate and detailed traffic details about a website in a specific country and worldwide. This traffic estimating tool from Google will give you important traffic metrics like average number of visits per visitors, average time on site, unique visitors, total page views, total unique visitors to a website in month time and broad category for the entered website.


To start using Google Ad Planner to check traffic to a website, click here and enter the website URL in the search box available just after site:. After clicking the arrow mark shown after the search box, you will get detailed traffic details including top keywords, it’s demographic details etc. I have analyzed data available from Google Ad Planner with the traffic details of some websites I own and I find data available from Google Ad Planner very close to my website original traffic numbers. Traffic details available from Google Ad Planner kind of traffic estimating tools can be very handy when we are analyzing the real worth of a website or blog.

Here is a screenshot taken from Google Ad Planner showing traffic details for Problogger.net:

2. Alexa.com

You need to go to Alexa.com website and enter a website address in the Search Box Available. After entering website address, you will get important metrics like Alexa Traffic rank (Global), Traffic Rank in Specific demographics like for India specific website, Alexa Traffic Rank in India. Apart from Alexa rank, you will see other website traffic numbers like pageviews, pageviews per user, bounce rate, time on site and search percentage. You will also get list of top search queries for a website. So these search queries can be considered as best performing keywords for that website. Apart from this, you can use Alexa.com website to compare your website traffic graph with 4 websites of your choice. Alexa.com will not give any traffic estimates for new or websites with few daily visits. The data available from Alexa.com is not accurate but you can you’re your own prediction about the traffic numbers about a website after using this tool. Alexa take into consideration only those users who have installed Alexa Toolbar in their browsers. So Alexa will no give you traffic details anyway close to a website actual traffic numbers. But still lots of advertisers and industry experts us it as a tool to check traffic on a website.

Here is a screenshot showing traffic numbers for Bloggers Passion blog:

3. Compete.com

Go to compete.com website and enter a website URL in the search box available under ‘See The Traffic For’. This website gather data from US users and the traffic details shared by this website will be close to the actual traffic generated by US websites only. They have active database of 200000 US users that they use to make prediction about a website traffic and engagement metrics. So you will not be able to predict much about website’s traffic through Compete.com having international traffic. You will get unique visitors numbers and some competitor’s websites list with their monthly unique visitor’s numbers.

Here is a Screenshow showing traffic details for Problogger.net blog:

4. QuantCast.com

QuantCast is another popular website traffic estimating tool among internet users. They share traffic details about a website based on the data sources they have. Again, this tool does not give accurate traffic numbers about a website.

Here is a screenshot checking website traffic for Problogger.net from QuantCast website:

5. BuySellAds.com

Basically BuySellAds (BSA) is an ad network for selling banner advertisements on our websites and blogs. We will get traffic estimates very close to the actual traffic numbers on a page, the only condition is that that website or blog should have buysellads script installed. So we can believe on the data available from BSA. The only downside is that we can get estimated page impressions for a website selling advertisement through BSA. To know traffic details about a website, you need to click on the Your Ads here banner pointing to BuySellAds.com website. Here is a screenshot showing the kind of metrics you will get through BSA.

So, BuySellAds website is giving monthly impressions, Alexa Rank, Compete Rank, Delicious Saves, Twitter Followers, Facebook Likes, Current Page Rank and SeoMoz rank for a website.

Here is a Screenshot checking website trafic numbers for Search Engine Journal using BuySellAds.com website:

This is how I used to check website traffic through the 5 traffic estimating tools, would you be interested in sharing how you used to check a website traffic, please share in the comments section below.

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Add Social Bookmarking Widget With Tooltips For Blogger

Social bookmarking widget is need of every blogger thats why you see such gadgets almost on every blog.Social bookmarking widgets helps you to boost traffic on your blog.Today I am sharing an amazing social bookmarking widget which comes with beautiful animated tooltips,when any user hovers on the social icons the tooltip comes out also it applies a opacity effect to these social icons,this effect increase beauty of this widget.Credit for this widget goes to Shareaholic.Now lets see hoe to add it to your blog,also see the demo at the bottom of this post.

How To Add This Widget To Blogger?

I have created a blogger widget generator form for this widget.Follow below simple steps to add this widget to your blog.

You must login to your blogger account first.
Click on below Add to Blogger button
Now you will redirect to blogger add widget page
Choose your blog and add click on Add Widget button
Drag the widget at the bottom of your page layout
Finally click on Save Arrangements button and you are done.

Note - This widget will appear on post pages only,if you want to show this widget at the bottom of every post on your homepage then remove first line (<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>) and last line(</b:if> from the code.

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How To Make Blog Post Audioble

Hey frnds have you ever thought of making your blog post audioble for the the comfort of readers.
If not than here is the steps for it....


Its very easy!You have to follow just the steps given below.
First go to the Sign up page and fill the form as shown in the picture below and click submit button.Note that you can add your blog URL or your Feed URL.

Now you have to check your Email in which you will get a Blog or Feed id e.g.22350.
Now Grab those listen buttons by Clicking here.
Now you will see a blank area in front of Feed id as shown in picture below.You will enter that Feed id there and click submit button.
When you click the submit button, you will be taken to another page in which you will see a button "Add Odiogo Listen Button Widget", click this button.
You will be drop to blogger add widget page.You have to click the Edit Content link to have the widget code as shown in picture below.Select all that code and copy it to a notepad.

If you want the widget to appera below post title, you have to search this code in your blogger template shown below:
<div class='post-header-line-1'>
After this copy the Odiogo widget code and paste it here and click encode button.Now add the encoded code just below the code shown above.Note that you have to put enclose the encoded code b/w <div> and </div>.

If you want the widget to appear at the end of post body, you have to add the encoded code with "div" tags enclosed just below the code given:
<data:post.body/>


Save your template and you are done.


Thats it!!
Now enjoy your blog.


PRASHANT KUMAR

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Know To Make Use Of CSS To Create An Image Map On Websites.

In the early days of the World Wide Web, HTML designers were always on the lookout for ways to make their pages as graphically and feature rich as possible. This was no small task. XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and Flash were nowhere to be seen and companies were pressed to make their presence on the Web memorable and unique as everyone rushed into this new frontier.

One of the Web designer’s most trusted tools to this end was the Image Map. Basically an elaborate variation of the <a> tag, an image map allowed an image file to contain multiple hotspots that linked to any number of Web pages or external sites. Many early Web sites relied on an image map on the home page to uniquely identify themselves.

But thanks to the rise of Flash technology, image maps are rarely used anymore. However, CSS does allow you to create an image map with some subtle mouse over effects with a few slick modifications to the <ul> and <li> tags.


For this exercise, we’re going to use the image shown in Figure A to create an image map with two hotspots using CSS code. Save the file to your hard drive and then open it in an image editor that will allow you to measure the image in pixels.

Figure A

This image will be used to create a CSS image map

Now that you have the image saved to your hard drive and open in an image editor, let’s start coding the HTML and CSS code that will make the image map. In a text or HTML editor, enter the code in Listing A, then save your file with an .htm extension.

Listing A

<html>


<head> 


<title>CSS Image Map</title> 


</head> 


<body>


<div id="photo"> <ul>


<li class="apple"><a href="http://www.bestapples.com" title="Washington Apples">Washington Apples</a></li> 


<li class="orange"><a href="http://www.floridaorange.com" title="Florida Oranges">Florida Oranges</a></li> 


</ul> 


</div> 


</body>


</html>


You can see that by the content of the body of the HTML code that we will be using CSS to style a bullet list (i.e., <ul> and <li> tags) in order to make the hotspots for our image map. In fact, if you were to preview the document in a browser right now, all you would see is a bullet list.

Let’s start writing the CSS code and creating a style ID called “photo.” Begin by entering the code into the <head> of the document that you see in Listing B.

Listing B

<html>


 <head> 


<title>CSS Image Map</title> 


<style type="text/css">  


#photo {     


width: 300px;      


height: 224px;     


position: relative;       


background-image: url(images/fruity_cones.jpg);    


background-repeat: no-repeat;


 } 


</style>


</head> 


<body>


<div id="photo"> <ul>


<li class="apple"><a href="http://www.bestapples.com" title="Washington Apples">Washington Apples</a></li> 


<li class="orange"><a href="http://www.floridaorange.com" title="Florida Oranges">Florida Oranges</a></li> 


</ul> 


</div> 


</body>


</html>


Note in line five of the code that the CSS style is denoted with a hash mark, or pound sign (#), at the beginning of the photo style. This tells the browser that the style is an ID type and not a Class type, which is denoted with a period (.). CSS IDs are preferable to Classes in many cases, because if an HTML element is wrapped with <div> tag that is defined as an ID, rather than as a Class, we can define how other HTML tags within that <div id> will be displayed and no further markup to the HTML within that <div id> tag will be needed.

You can also see in line nine of the code that we are using the downloaded image from Figure A as a background image. This is because both Internet Explorer 6 and 7 have issues displaying the <ul> and <li> elements over an image that is placed with an <img> tag. Be sure that the path to the image fruity_cones.jpg on your hard drive is accurately coded in relationship the .htm document that you’re building.

Now that the #photo ID has been established, let’s code the cascading elements that will appear within the ID. Enter the new code that you see in Listing C.

Lisitng C

<html>


 <head> 


<title>CSS Image Map</title> 


<style type="text/css">  


#photo {     


width: 300px;      


height: 224px;     


position: relative;       


background-image: url(images/fruity_cones.jpg);    


background-repeat: no-repeat;


 } 


#photo ul {   


margin: 0;   


padding: 0;   


list-style: none;


 } 


</style>


</head> 


<body>


<div id="photo"> <ul>


<li class="apple"><a href="http://www.bestapples.com" title="Washington Apples">Washington Apples</a></li> 


<li class="orange"><a href="http://www.floridaorange.com" title="Florida Oranges">Florida Oranges</a></li> 


</ul> 


</div> 


</body>


</html>


By defining any <ul> tag that is wrapped within the #photo ID as having a list-style of none, we are stripping the display of any type of bullet points.

Continuing on, let’s code how the <a> tag will appear within the #photo ID. Enter the code in Listing D.

Listing D

<html>


 <head> 


<title>CSS Image Map</title> 


<style type="text/css">  


#photo {     


width: 300px;      


height: 224px;     


position: relative;       


background-image: url(images/fruity_cones.jpg);    


background-repeat: no-repeat;


 } 


#photo ul {   


margin: 0;   


padding: 0;   


list-style: none;


 } 


#photo a {   


position: absolute;       


width: 60px;       


height: 60px;      


text-indent: -1000em; 


} 


#photo a:hover {   


border: 1px solid #fff; 


} 


</style>


</head> 


<body>


<div id="photo"> <ul>


<li class="apple"><a href="http://www.bestapples.com" title="Washington Apples">Washington Apples</a></li> 


<li class="orange"><a href="http://www.floridaorange.com" title="Florida Oranges">Florida Oranges</a></li> 


</ul> 


</div> 


</body>


</html>


When defining the <a> tag style within the #photo ID, it is important that the position: absolute; attribute is present, because it tells the browser to constrain them to the top-left corner of the photo. Otherwise, the hotspots in the final image map would be off by however many pixels the browser is going to use to float the background image.

The width and height define the size of the clickable hotspots on the image map, while the vital attribute text-indent: -1000em; tells the browser to display the hotlinked copy within the <li> tags way, way, to the left of the browser window so that they will never be displayed over the background image.

We’ve also defined an a:hover class within the #photo ID, so that when the user’s mouse cursor hovers over a hotspot on the image map, a white box will appear.

The last bit of coding is the trickiest. Go to your image editor, where the image you downloaded in Figure A should still be open. Measure, in pixels, how far from the top and the left edges of the image you should place the hotspots for your links. In this example, we’re going to link to two external Websites. One will be linked by clicking on the apple, the other by clicking on the orange.

Therefore, we need to define two new classes of the <a> tag, which will be wrapped in the <div id=”photo”> tag. We’ll call them apple and orange. These classes will also dictate the location of the links on the background image. Add the new code that you see in Listing E.

Listing E

<html>


 <head> 


<title>CSS Image Map</title> 


<style type="text/css">  


#photo {     


width: 300px;      


height: 224px;     


position: relative;       


background-image: url(images/fruity_cones.jpg);    


background-repeat: no-repeat;


 } 


#photo ul {   


margin: 0;   


padding: 0;   


list-style: none;


 } 


#photo a {   


position: absolute;       


width: 60px;       


height: 60px;      


text-indent: -1000em; 


} 


#photo a:hover {   


border: 1px solid #fff; 


} 


#photo .apple a {  


top: 29px;   


left: 95px; }


#photo .orange a {        


top: 131px;  


left: 152px; }


</style>


</head> 


<body>


<div id="photo"> <ul>


<li class="apple"><a href="http://www.bestapples.com" title="Washington Apples">Washington Apples</a></li> 


<li class="orange"><a href="http://www.floridaorange.com" title="Florida Oranges">Florida Oranges</a></li> 


</ul> 


</div> 


</body>


</html>


And with that, our CSS image map is complete. Save the document and preview it in your browser. (Figure B) You’ll see that the title attributes in the <a> tags of the document give us a nice label, ala the <alt> tag.

Figure B

The final CSS Image map, with mouseover effects

While Image maps are still considered valid HTML, you can use this CSS method to finally separate content from presentation. It also has the advantage of using less code for more complex image maps, and is good practice for knowing when to declare IDs rather than Classes in your CSS code.

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