Saturday, June 5, 2010

GOOGLE DOODLOGRAPHY - CELEBRATING DENNIS GABOR'S 110TH BIRTHDAY


First of all, Happy World Environment Day folks! On the same day as today, a 110 years back (i.e. 5th June, 1900), was the great inventor of holography, Sir Dennis Gabor born. And today, Google celebrates this event across the world. Dedicated to the birthday, Google has Doodled its logo representing a 3D holographic image.

Friday, June 4, 2010

THE STATISTICS BEHIND STUMBLE UPON'S SOCIAL REACH

This is my post #2 of the day just after I posted a review on TinEye reverse image search engine. I simply got inspired to post this second article in a shot after I came across these enormous statistics delivered by Search and Social regarding the user traffic on Stumble Upon across the past year(s). Stumble Upon has really been a content broadcasting-cum-social networking fame in a very short span of time since its launch in 2001. The following statistics speak enough to prove the point right.
 

TINEYE - REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH

Guys believe it or not, this is not an affiliate stuff or paid post that's gonna get me some kind of hot cash to wet my pocket. This is just one of those websites that I landed upon while stumbling across the web using the Stumble! button of my SU Toolbar (and that's why I say- "Stumbling works!"). This is a simple review that I was tempted to write on my own on this super-cool website just to spread some awareness about its "coolness" across the web.

Monday, May 24, 2010

THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND WHILE DESIGNING WEBSITE UI


As I had promised in my previous post to write on the basic things of web designing, here is an article that focuses on the basic aspects to keep in mind while designing a website. They say, if you're a salesman, then its not the product or the service, but rather, its the customer whose of prime importance to you, as he is the person to whom the stuff is targeted. In web designing as well, the case is somewhat the same. You need to customize the website according to the audience intended. Hence instead of directly designing a website in an ad hoc manner, I recommend that you try to perform a case study of your audience.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

5 THINGS TO DO WHEN YOU ARE NOT BLOGGING

STUMBLE THROUGH VARIOUS PAGES USING STUMBLE UPON

Stumble Upon enables you to visit random website according to your tastes and hence you have a great chance of discovering really good web content that can be both knowledgeable as well as worth inspiration for posting on your website.
Not just that, SU also allows you to interact with people of your tastes and share web pages and web content of your liking with them and vice versa. Hence there is a great opportunity that you send any article of your choice to your subscriber which may in turn be sent to his subscriber and further stimulating a chain of visits, both direct and indirect to your blog arousing a possibility of greater reach depending on the quality of content and taste of user.

Friday, April 30, 2010

AWESOME iPHONE AD POSTERS

Since its launch, Apple, Inc.'s iPhone has been one of the best loved phones worldwide till date. With its sleek trendy looks and design it has nearly swept every day-to-day mobile phone user and critic of his feet. From it's feather-weight OS to it's capacitive touchscreen, every feature pulls the mob's attention to envy their own phone at it's first glance. And finally, the icing on the cake, it's ever-growing number of Apps that are said to be it's biggest positive, all make it a heartthrob in the global mobile phone market.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

VIMEO PICK OF THE MONTH #4 - VANCOUVER 2010


With the Winter Olympics 2010 going on in Vancouver this season, the scenes are turning really freezing including the minute-by-minute focus of the media on every nudge of the event. The event is also on the rise on many social networking websites including Twitter and Facebook. Many promotional videos are out for the sake of propagation of the event across the world.

The above video is by the Freezelight Team cinematographed using timelapse technique. The whole movie has been shot with nearly 400 photographs in 4 days. But the most commendable point about the video is that while it was shot, the temperature was cracking approximately -30° C. Hats off!

Sunday, February 14, 2010

BLOGGER ALLOWS STAND-ALONE PAGE CREATION

After all the long and painstaking wait of all the Blogger blogging freaks, its finally the time to cherish. "Blogger- In Draft" has ultimately come up with the feature of stand-alone pages. That's something like a dream come true for every loyal Blogger supporter. Ever since the concept of push-button blogging was brought in by Pyra Labs in the name of Blogger, there was an overwhelming demand for permitting addition of stand-alone pages on Blogger blogs.