GOOGLE +

Another social networking experiment from Google after the flop shows like Orkut, Wave, Buzz etc. Today I got my Google Plus account activated and spent the whole day played with the brand new Social network. First impression shows that, plus is almost an imitation of Facebook in terms of appearance and features.  Just see the comparison of Google Plus and Facebook home page screenshots. I’ve marked the clone portions.

You can see the clones of Wall, Newsfeeds, Notifications,Facebook like, Share menu (Link, Video, Images, Places) etc in Google Plus. Facebook list is cloned as Plus Circles

Google Plus is more emphasized on Circles (A clone of Facebook lists) and Privacy settings. An easy to use drag and drop interface makes the categorization of contacts comfortable. Now the pages are advertisement free . By default, your Google contacts are linked with Google Plus account and you can also import the contacts from other email services like Yahoo, Hotmail etc. Privacy setting is much simpler and comfortable than Facebook. One can very easily decide what to share with whom. Your Picassa account is linked with Plus profile to share the albums and photos with your friends and circles.

A new Hangout Feature is a noticeable difference from Facebook . Facebook permits simple text chat only, but with the power of Google Voice and Video Chat, Plus Hangout feature  allows  to do Group Video Chat and streaming.

It is too early to reach in a verdict that whether it will beat Facebook or not. Facebook has changed the face of social networks and now it’s a synonym of social networking. Google knows this fact better than anyone and I feel that they’ve launched this product by learning from their past flop shows in this field.

REFERENCE :http://www.techlineinfo.com

MACBUNTU

To install Macbuntu, you can either manually download the archive, extract it and then run the “install.sh” script via a terminal or copy/paste the following commands in a terminal to download and run it:

Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx:

wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/macbuntu/macbuntu-10.04/v2.2/Macbuntu-10.04.tar.gz -O /tmp/Macbuntu-10.04.tar.gz tar xzvf /tmp/Macbuntu-10.04.tar.gz -C /tmp cd /tmp/Macbuntu-10.04/ ./install.sh

Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat:

wget https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/macbuntu/macbuntu-10.10/v2.3/Macbuntu-10.10.tar.gz -O /tmp/Macbuntu-10.10.tar.gz tar xzvf /tmp/Macbuntu-10.10.tar.gz -C /tmp cd /tmp/Macbuntu-10.10/ ./install.sh

Then you’ll be able to select what to install / tweak:

After Macbuntu finishes setting everything up, restart your computer and enjoy your new MacOSX-looking Ubuntu.

If you’re upgrading from an older Macbuntu version, replace “install.sh” in the commands above with “upgrade.sh”.

>How To Upgrade To Ubuntu 11.04

>

The Ubuntu developers are rapidly moving forward with the Ubuntu 11 project. The Ubuntu 11.04 Alpha 3 release is now available as an Ubuntu upgrade. It is an initial release to give common users and open source developers a taste of the final product which will be released in April 2011. In this post we will tell you how to upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 to Ubuntu 11.04.

To start the upgrading process, Press ALT+F2, type update-manage –d and click Run.

This will open the Update Manager where a message will be visible explaining that the New Ubuntu 11.04 is available as an upgrade. Click Upgrade to continue.

Before you can continue further, you will be provided with the Ubuntu release notes. The release notes clearly state that this is an Alpha release and should not be installed on production machines. ClickUpgrade to continue.

Shortly after continuing, you will be prompted to enter your password, after which the upgrade process will proceed further.

During the upgrade process, the unsupported packages will have to be removed. For that a prompt will appear with a list of the packages that will be removed during the upgrading process. Click Start Upgradeto continue.

After the upgrade is complete, you will be prompted to restart your computer.

This will upgrade your system to Ubuntu 11.04. In case you would like to confirm the version of your Ubuntu machine, open a Terminal from Applications –> Accessories and enter the following command:

lsb_release -a

>Gmail: Email from Google

>Gmail: Email from Google

>Google

>Google

>About AdSense and Google Affiliate Network for Your Blog – Blogger Help

>About AdSense and Google Affiliate Network for Your Blog – Blogger Help

>ABOUT LaTeX

>

• Latex - GUI front end for latex -Texmaker
  
  Texmaker
  Texmaker is according to its site:
  Texmaker is a free LaTeX editor, that integrates many tools needed to develop documents with LaTeX, in just one application
  And according to Wikipedia its features are:
  a unicode editor to write LaTeX source files (syntax highlighting, undo-redo, search-replace, spell checker...)
  the principal LaTex tags can be inserted directly with the "LaTeX" and "Math" menus
  370 mathematical symbols can be inserted in just one click
  wizards to generate code ('Quick document', 'Quick letter', tabular, tabbing and array environments)
  LaTeX-related programs can be launched via the "Tools" menu
  the standard Bibtex entry types can be inserted in the ".bib" file with the "Bibliography" menu
  a "structure view" of the document for easier navigation of a document (by clicking on an item in the "Structure" frame, you can jump directly to the corresponding part of your document
  extensive LaTeX documentation
  in the "Messages / Log File" frame, one can see information about processes and the logfile after a LaTeX compilation
  the "Next Latex Error" and "Previous Latex Error" commands let you reach the LaTeX errors detected in the log file
  by clicking on the number of a line in the log file, the cursor jumps to the corresponding line in the editor
  an integrated LaTeX to html conversion tool
  Installing Texmaker
  apt-get install texmaker
  Useful shortcuts
  F2 = LaTeX (Will compile the .tex document, using latex)
  F4 = Dvi to PS (dvips command line equivalent)
  F8 = PS to PDF (equivalent to command line ps2pdf)
  And those are the commands you need to have a PDF file if you are inserting images, if are not doing to that, you will get a PDF directly by pressing
  F6 = PDFLATEX (equivalento pdflatex command, at the command line)
  
  Latex - My first document
  
  On this second part of the document we will start to see the structure of a LaTeX document.
  As our first step we will install the necessary software
  apt-get install texlive-latex-base
  Then to create the document we first declare the document type and the letter type (at least)
  \documentclass[10pt]{article}
  The document will 10pt letter, and will be an article, you can also define the size of paper here:
  \documentclass[10pt,letterpaper,titlepage]{article}
  Or make it two column (like books)
  \documentclass[10pt,letterpaper,twocolumn,titlepage]{article}
  After that we can go with the author title and date of the document.
  \author{Guillermo Garr\'{o}n}
  \title{Hello World}
  \date{November, 2007}
  From here with all that defined we can start writing the document itself.
  \begin{document}
  This is the control sequence to start the document,
  \maketitle{}
  To insert the title on the document
  \newpage
  To start a new page for the document.
  We can use sections, subsections, subsubsections, bullets and numbering, here are the control sequences for that.
  \section{Part 1}
  \subsection{Part 1.1}
  \subsubsection{Part 1.1.1}
  These are the main sections of a simple document.
  To use bullets
  \begin{itemize}
  \item First item
  \item Second item
  \end{itemize}
  And to use numbering
  \begin{enumerate}
  \item First item
  \item Second item
  \end{eenumerate}
  
  To make this file a pdf file create your document as TXT file with .tex extension, then enter these commands.
  latex my_first_latex.tex
  The output will be my_first_latex.dvi
  dvipdf my_first_latex.dvi
  
  
  
  
  
  

>PLANNINNG FOR MINIPROJECT

>

TOPIC:CAR PARKING AREA

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Through this embedded system project our aim is to implement a simulation

of car parking area management system in a City or Shopping Complex.There

are many problems faced by the cities or Shopping complexes due to improper

use of parking spaces.So this project will have many applications in real world.

In this project our initial aim is to implement a simple parking area man-

agement system with few number of parking slots.This project will be modi able

like parallel parking system,Prepaid parking system etc…

There are several advantages of employing a car park system for urban plan-

ners, business owners and vehicle drivers. They o er convenience for vehicle

users and e cient usage of space for urban-based companies. Automated car

park systems save time, money, space and simplify the often tedious task of

parking.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

We are planning to implement this project based on a small working model

which consists of a microcontroller module and a system of sensors.The avail-

ability of a parking slot and the presence of any vehicle at the entrance can be

checked by using sensors.The driver can view the nearest available slot in an

LED or LCD display.

The project can be viewed as di erent modules.

1.Write the program in C on PC.

2.Burn the program into the microcontroller.

3.Interfacing microcontroller with LED display

4.Develop a model and Implement this tasks.

PROGRESS

For doing this project my initial aim was to know about microcontrolles.

Project is developing using ATmega8 microcontroller.The ATMega8 as well as

a lot of other microcontrollers from major vendors like Microchip and Atmel

comes equipped with a good amount of `

ash’ memory – non volatile memory

which can be erased using electrical signals. The basic idea is to write programs

(mostly in assembly language or C) on the PC and convert them to machine

code belonging to the target microcontroller’s instruction set. Once this is

done, the machine code can be transferred to the non-volatile memory of the

microcontroller via simple circuits connected to the serial or parallel port. This

process is called `programming’ or `burning’ the microcontroller.

The two factors to be considered when choosing a platform for micro-

controller based development are: Availability of free, high quality development

tools like assemblers, compilers etc. The factors for choosing ATmega8 micro-

controller were the relatively low cost and the absolute ease with which even a

person with very poor soldering skills like me could build a circuit. Now i am

learning to do simple projects like Blinking LED using microcontroller.

Now started learning about ports in AVR and Related registers.I have

also started learning about Obstacle Detection Using IR-led-Photodiode

AVR studio (a GUI IDE For AVR) and WinAVR ( a free C compiler for

AVRs) are installed.eXtrem burner is used for burning Microcontroller.

>SOME TERMINAL COMMANDS

>

//Displays contents in folder
ls

//Changes Directory
cd FOLDERNAME

//Go up one directory
cd ..

//Go to your home
cd

//Make directory
mkdir FOLDERNAME

//Remove a file
rm — FILENAME

//Copy a file
cp ORIGINALFILE NEWFILE

//Move a file
mv SOURCE DESTINATION

Commands:

1) cd

Cd is short for change directory. This will change the current directory to the directory specified. To access the “Desktop” directory, type:

cd Desktop

Hit return to execute the command (do this every time to execute each command line).

To return to your home directory, type:

cd ~

But for now let’s keep the path to the “Desktop” (cd Desktop).

2) mkdir

Mkdir is short for make directory (make folder). To make a test directory, type:

mkdir test

3) pwd

Pwd displays the path of the current directory. Type:

pwd

will display something like this:

/Users/alex/Desktop

4) cp

Cp is short for copy. To copy the “test.txt” file inside of the “test” directory on the “Desktop”, type:

cp /Users/alex/Desktop/test.txt test/test2.txt

This placed a copy of the “test.txt” file inside the “test” directory and named it “test2.txt”.

Notice after the command “cp” we type “pathdir+old name” space, than “dir+new name”.

Change (cd) directory to the “test” directory (see above for help).

5) ls

Ls is short for list. Ls will list files in a directory. Type:

ls

will output.

test2.txt

6) mv

Mv will change the name of a file. From the test directory type:

mv test2.txt test3.txt

Notice after the command “mv” we type “old name” space, than “new name”. Type “ls” to check if it worked.

7) rm

Rm is short for remove (delete). To remove the “test3.txt” file inside the current directory type:

rm test3.txt

Or remove a folder with or without items in side

sudo rm -rf /path/folder_name

man

Man is short for manual. For example to display the manual for “rm” type:

man rm

This will display information about the “rm” command. You can type any command after “man” to access additional information on that topic.

>GOOGLE FAST FLIP-A NEW EXPERIENCE

>

In foreign countries people are depending online newspapers only.The main problem for this online reading is the time delay in reading such online news papers.Now Google solves this problem by introducing a new idea called Fast flip.It will be a new experience for the online readers.BBC News,Newyork times,The Washington Post,News Week,Business Week,The Atlantic Salon etc are co-operating with this project.

In Fast flip ,the selection of subjects can be done automatically.We can select any subject we like.As the first step they included the categories like Business,Opinion,Politics,Most viewed etc… The reader can judge any of the news in these categories.The news which got most votes will be included in the category called ‘Recommend’.

The beta version of Fast flip includes only English newspapers.The mobile version of Fast flip was also released.But it is now available only in IPHONE and ANDROID.We can use the address
http://www.fastflip.goooglelabs.com

to access these services.