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Omegle has became a recent favorite time pass for my hostel mates and unfortunately for my friends (for me too) who were using Ubuntu Linux OS, Omegle was not working very fine. The problem was with a privacy security warning which appeared before they connected themselves to the stranger on the other side. Though my friends on this side was least cared about PRIVACY they were unable to click the Allow Button. The message was that

Camera and Microphone access

www.blahblah.com is requesting access to your camera and microphone. If you click allow you may be recorded.

Now there is a button to Allow but it is UN-CLICKABLE 

Immediately after facing the problem we googled a lot but were unable to find a solution.

Even now though we haven’t solved it, we are able to work fine with the Camera.

Now here I will explain how to access Adobe Flash Player Settings Manager to correct the problem of “Un-Clickable”.

For getting it well you have to change a few settings of Adobe Flash Player at the Settings Manager. Now you can’t actually access this settings manager from your computer but you have to goto SettingsManager

Now you can see various options like

• Global Privacy Settings Panel
• Global Storage Settings Panel
• Global Security Settings Panel
• Global Notifications Settings Panel
• Website Privacy Settings Panel
• Website Storage Settings Panel

On clicking on these various panel options, Settings Manager which appears to be a image is seen. It’s actually your Settings Manager and not just an image. You can change the settings here. In this particular case for fixing the issue with the camera, Click Website Privacy Settings Panel.

In the website list, scroll down to find omegle.com or the site which camera is not working fine for you. After selecting the website click on ‘ Always Allow ‘. Now you won’t be asked any privacy security question at that particular website, here Omegle. So you can have comfortable chat with Strangers now.

Now this same Adobe Settings Manager Can be used to increase the Volume of recording while using flash based Webcam applications. For increasing it goto Microphone Settings.

The procedure to change the adobe flash player settings is the same in all Mac Operating systems Lion and Snow leopard, Windows 7 and Windows XP and other linux based OSs like Ubuntu, Fedora just to name a few. This is because we are not having an offline serttings manager but an online Settings manager.

After one of my friend’s blog started creating considerable revenue through Google Adsense, he wanted to try his luck in Mobile Advertising. I had heard about Google Adsense for Mobile Content and also rumours that mobile ads were high paying compared to the usual web ads. So I thought why not help him. Browsing number of forums and posting my thread, none drew much response. I was actually searching for plugins for monetization with Google Adsense for Mobile Content. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any. But that was when I heard about AdMob which was yet another mobile advertising networks. Just like me for many, had a doubt if it was legit? Though I don’t have much experience with it personally,  I think it’s worth giving a try as Google has recently acquired AdMob for it’s expansion, with Adsense for Mobile Content. So it’s future is not going to be dull

The other advantage is that with mippin, you will have your webpages optimized for viewing in Mobile Browsers.

I will explain step by step about installing the plugin and Configuring with AdMob and Mippin.

1. Get your mobile version of the site registered at Mippin.

As the first step give your RSS feed URL/Website URL, Select the Layout and Customize it according to your likes.

Now for proceeding you will have to register at Mippin.com. Get it done.

2. Under the Publicize tab, give the URL  of your Mobile Webpage of your like. Give your tags. Also keep a note of the “code below”. Just Copy it into somewhere in your PC.

You will be needing the id in that code when configuring the plugin.

3. Now under the Monetize Tab, you will have to validate your website.

So copy “Mippin Feed Validation Key= XXXXXX” and publish as a post in your blog with the the copied statement as the title and content.

Then click Validate.

4. Now register for an account at AdMob. After confirming the account, login with your username and password at Admob. Click Add new Sites and App under the MARKETPLACE tab.

Now give your Mippin Site URL under the url coloumn.

Now you have to enter your admob id for getting it Click on “Here” and Click on the name of your website.

Now enter your Admob id at the coloumn at Mippin Webpage.

5.Things are almost done. Now get this Mippin plugin installed in your WordPress blog. After installation is complete go to the page of Mippin Plugin, there is a coloumn for entering Mippin id. Give the id found in the earlier code [Step2] found at the Mippin website.

6.Now just wait for a day for your ads to appear in Mippin website. Try accessing your website from the mobile.

You don’t need to manualy set the position of Mobile Ads in your website. Everything will be done by the plugin.

Best Wishes.

Just comment at the bottom if you have any trouble setting this up. I will try to help you.

Alternatively,reading  about  WordPress  hosting review can help in your budgeting as  hosting  these blogs do come  with a price.

For detailed camera troubleshooting@omegle webcam check  How to change Flash Player Settings

I used to just wander on the WEB when I have got nothing better to do and recently during one of my strolls, I cam across a website omegle. I would suggest you to just check it out, when you just want to kill your time somehow. It’s a website where you can have a personal chat with someone complete stranger around this globe and “make friends” as it goes. Just as any other chat-rooms, girls are preferred here by everyone and mostly just after connecting you will get a question from the stranger on the other side “asl?”. And if your answer is “m 20 india” chances are high that the stranger will disconnect. Don’t misunderstand this as yet another chatrooms where all are just shouting aloud and even if you try personal chat, just after a few secs you will realize that the guy on the other side was nothing but a BOT which is trying to promote most probably a porn site promising live Cam view I had this experience often using YAHOO messenger. So just  check it out, frankly speaking, do it only if you haven’t got anything better to do !!

VISIT OMEGLE

Now Omegle has got even more better with the video chat feature enabled. You can chat with anonymous people around the world with your web-cam. If there are any problems with viewing your webcam properly, try this. Right Click on the part the screen where you camera is supposed to be working and try changing the various options.

For more detailed camera troubleshooting check How to change Flash Player Settings

Here is any interesting investigation about Omegle !

Hope you have read

Will The GPU Replace The CPU Or Will It Be The Other Way Around?

Here we discuss about the coordinated and synchronized use of CPU and GPU to improve efficiency of applications even further than using either device independently. This is made possible with the help NVIDIA’s parallel computing architecture, CUDA.

Computing is evolving from “central processing” on the CPU to “co-processing” on the CPU and GPU. To enable this new computing paradigm, NVIDIA invented the CUDA parallel computing architecture that is now shipping in GeForce, ION, Quadro, and Tesla GPUs, representing a significant installed base for application developers.

CUDA parallel computing architecture which is now being shipped with GeForce, ION,Quadro and Tesla GPUs ,make the new computing paradigm possible. The CUDA architecture’s applications can now be found in Medical Simulations like in analysis of CT and MRI scan images, Fluid Dynamics Simulation, Seismic Analysis and much more. The buzz is that in the near future itself almost every application which uses video rendering will be accelerated by CUDA.

With the recent launches of Microsoft Windows 7 and Apple Snow Leopard, GPU computing has got even more better with the GPU being evolved GPGPU which stands for General Purpose Graphical Processing Unit. It’s being said that BOINC distributed computing now uses CUDA technology for it’s better efficiency.

OpenCL (Open Computing Language) and Microsoft’s DirectCompute, a new GPU Computing API are just two tools which make the developers possible to harness the power of GPU computing. A Fortran language solution is also in development which can use the power GPU computing.

Download CUDA SDK, Developer’s Drivers, Code Samples and Toolkits for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Many times there are situations when you want to host private web conferences may be it for business or academic purposes. Here I list some of the finest Online Tools which can be used for web conferencing and Online Collaboration. These provide the best services in terms of Online  Web Audio and Video conferencing.

Yugma

With Free Yugma web conferencing service , you share you desktop and ideas with anyone online. Yugma Free web conferencing Sign Up allows you to invite up to 20 attendees and receive a free 15-day trial of Yugma Pro services. With pro features they provide online collaboration tools like whiteboards and also mouse & keyboard sharing. You can schedule meetings and send invitations in advance. You can even record your webcast and play it at some other time. The Shared File Space can be used for secured file sharing. Live Technical support is also provided to the customers.

Dimdim

Along with all the facilities provided by Yugma, DimDim provides an Open Source version of it’s product for use in the intranet. It allows you to deliver synchronized live presentations, whiteboards and web pages while sharing voice and video over the internet with nothing to download.

00V00

ooVoo promises to provide Amazingly Simple Crystal Clear Video Chat with upto Six family members at once. It also provides 2 way chat free of cost. You can try the ooVoo video chat right from here .

TokBox

TokBox provides free video conferencing for upto 20 peoples free of cost and NO DOWNLOAD required.  During Sign Up they provide with a link that can be shared among different users. This can be even embedded into a website.

Aside from video conferencing tools, another must-have for any business that wants to take advantage of full  advantage of the web, is a reliable
business website hosting provider.  Nothing beats a company with a good online presence.

Many times we have tried searching for pdf/chm books online and using our ordinary search queries, rarely give any results fast. But with a simple geeky search you can find what you want in first page of Google Search Result.

I am just giving the method and you can try and verify it yourself.

In the first case I am using just the Book Name as the search query in google.

In the second method instead of using just the Book Name, use the following query for searching in Google.

intitle:index.of chm|pdf <book name>
Results are incredibly different. Instead of being taken to their Website you can access their website just as you access various directories in your computer and download it at ease.

NB: Never use this method for downloading WAREZ from illegal websites. Hope you would use it right way.

In one of the following posts I will explain about the various Advanced Search Operators which can be used while searching on internet with Google.

Here you have a very simple javascript code that enables you to reveal typed-in or saved passwords in a webpage that are hidden under asterix.

This a cool code which unlike other password revealing softwares require no installation and can be typed in directly into the address bar of your web browser.

Copy the entire code as it is

javascript:(
function()
{
var F,f,i;
F = document.forms;
f = F[0];
for (i=0; i<f.length; ++i)
{
if (f[i].type.toLowerCase() == "password")
alert(f[i].value);
}
}
)
();


Checkout the following Screenshot

PS :

1.In line 7, it is F[0] (zero)

2.This will only work if you have not disabled javascript in your browser.

We are very familiar with Linux and its relation with UNIX. But most us of don’t actually know what are differences between the two.
Linux is called Unix-like and is not a true Unix operating system. Linux is a Unix clone written from scratch by Linus Torvalds.
Unix is popular operating system, developed by AT&T in 1969 whereas Linux was first released in 1991. Note that the time difference between the introduction of the two is a long 22 yrs. It is a myth that Linux is a GUI for the UNIX core. However, GNOME and KDE are GUIs for GNU/Linux. UNIX is the foundation for a number of operating systems, with Linux being the most popular one.

1.DIFFERENT AT THEIR KERNEL LEVELS
UNIX kernel is not freely available. So a geek, named Linus Torvalds, at the age of 21 sat down and wrote a kernel right from scratch borrowing ideas from UNIX. This later came to be known as Linux Kernel which he licensed under the GPL (GNU General Public License). Linux kernel is freely available. Hence Linux is called UNIX-like. He later said in an interview that “This is the best thing I have done in my life”.

2.HARDWARE
Linux runs on many hardware platforms, including Intel x86 computers. On the other hand, UNIX is proprietary-hardware-bonded and this hardware is much more expensive than a typical PC.
Unix requires a more powerful hardware configuration. It will work in large mainframe computers but not in an x86 based personal computer. Linux will work on both a large mainframe computer and an x86 based personal computer.
Putting it in simple words, UNIX will not run in the normal desktops or laptops that most of us use.

3.LICENSE
Unix is a proprietary software and you would need to buy it if you want to use it.
GNU/Linux is licensed under the GPL (GNU General Public License) which is an open source license. This means that the kernel-code is available for anyone to use or change as long as the changes are again licensed under GPL.

4.LINUX – JUST A KERNEL & UNIX – A COMPLETE OS
Linux is just a kernel. All Linux distributions (Fedora,Ubuntu,OpenSUSE etc.) includes GUI system,GNU utilities and various other applications (such as OpenOffice, Firefox) and of course the kernel. It is the distributions that make Linux a complete, usable Operating System.
However, UNIX operating systems are considered as complete operating systems.

5.EASE OF USE
Linux was built with the common user in mind, therefore most Linux distributions provide users with a very capable GUI ( that also eats up a portion of the computer’s processing power). Owing to Linux’s flexibility, the GUI can be removed.

6.SUPPORT FOR FILESYSTEMS
Most commercial version of UNIX supports two, or possibly three, different local filesystem types. Linux, however, supports almost all of the filesystems that are currently available on any operating system.

SIMILARITIES

• Both Linux and UNIX use same shells (eg. bash and korn).
• Both are capable of using a command line and a GUI.
• Linux is used in many applications that need to maintain up-time because Linux, like UNIX, can run for months at a time without rebooting. While the typical method of solving Microsoft problems is to “reboot”, that particular requirement does not seem to be appropriate in a Linux/Unix environment.

Appendix

Having said so much about kernel, let us see briefly what actually a kernel is.
Kernel is a bridge between applications and the actual data processing done at the hardware level. Its responsibilities include managing the system’s resources. Hence it forms the most vital part of an operating system.
A kernel has facilities to receive requests (eg.commands from user) and grant access to resources such as allocating space for a new file or creating a network connection (which mainly deals with hardware). Kernels use a system call (or syscall) interface to handshake with applications [Applications ==> syscall(INTERFACE) ==> Kernel]. At the user level the device details are not visible. The kernel recognizes what a device is (eg. I/O devices,RAM etc.) and how to communicate with it at the lowest level.
Generally, the boot loader starts executing the kernel in supervisor mode. The kernel then initializes itself and starts the first process. After this, the kernel does not typically execute directly, but only in response to external events (e.g., via system calls used by applications to request services from the kernel).

But no matter  what  OS you end up  using  in creating your websites, most likely, they  will be compatible with most of the hosting methods available

Encoding videos has always been time consuming task. Time consumption has been so long because of the CPU’s inability to use its raw power for image processing, which has always been below par when compared to GPU. Traditionally the encoding was done by the CPU with playback assist from DirectX. But with the introduction of Nvidia’s CUDA and Ati’s Stream  parallel processing power video encoding wont be the lazy bit of task anymore. GPU video encoding not only reduces the load on the CPU but also reduces the time for encoding, since GPU is more powerful than the CPU for image processing. Reducing the CPU load makes it possible to all possible things along with the encoding processes which were unimaginable otherwise.

Even though transcoding Blu-ray movies isn’t exactly at the top of everyone’s list, but one can significantly reduce its size using H.264/x264. x264 is the new DivX and its usefulness extends far beyond just ripping HD movies. Its use isn’t going to increase unless encoding using the codec gets faster. Elemental Technologies has been working on a technology they called RapiHD, which is a GPU-accelerated H.264 video encoder. This is introduced in Nvidia’s CUDA.

Many Software’s are already in market capable of using this raw GPU power.

Some of them are

1)Badaboom: Badaboom is a blazingly fast media converter that formats video files for a variety of devices, including iPod, PSP, Blackberry, and YouTube, by using your system’s graphics processing unit (GPU). In a practice that used to take several hours, Badaboom converts feature-length movies in a matter of minutes while keeping the videos looking crisp and clear. By harnessing the power of NVIDIA CUDA-enabled GPUs, Badaboom offloads the CPU to allow users to continue browsing the Internet or checking email without decreased system performance, making transcoding high-quality video fast, easy, and painless. Have a look at it here.

2)ATI Avivo Video Converter: ATI Avivo Video Converter supports transcoding between H.264, VC-1, WMV9, WMV9 PMC, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX video formats, as well as formats used in iPod and PSP. Earlier versions of this software uses only the CPU for transcoding, but have been locked for exclusive use with the ATI X1000 series of GPUs. Software modifications have made it possible to use version 1.12 of converter on a wider range of graphics adapters. The ATI Avivo Video Converter with GPU transcoding acceleration is now also available for use with HD 4800 and HD 4600 series graphics cards and is included with the Catalyst 8.12 drivers. Support for Vista x64 is available via a separate download starting with Catalyst 9.6. The new software is faster than Badaboom, an encoder that uses NVIDIA’s CUDA to accelerate encoding, but has a higher CPU utilization than Badaboom.Have a look at it here.

3)CyberLink MediaShow Espresso: MediaShow Espresso’s support for NVIDIA® CUDA™ and ATI ® Stream™ technology delivers huge gains when transcoding high-definition video content. Delivering up to 10X FASTER performance, MediaShow Espresso leverages the power of the GPU to the maximum and produces faster results. With faster speeds for HD video transcoding, you’ll spend less time converting home videos to H.264, and more time enjoying your movie masterpieces. MediaShow Espresso allows the output of H.264 content for playback on PSP, iPod, iPhone and PS3 and a choice of video profiles for high quality or small file sizes.Have a look at it here.

If you are really interested in 3D animation do check this out  IllusionMage.com 3d Animation Click Here!

Do you think you could have created AVATAR if you don’t had to pay hefty sum for the licenses of Autodesk 3D max or the Adobe Creative Suite they may have used. Then here is Free and Open Source 3D content application for you. Yeah, it’s BLENDER 3D. (I know my earlier promise is a bit exaggeration)

Blender is a 3D content creation suite available free under the GNU General Public License. Blender is simply an incredible 3D modeling and animation program that provides you with everything for your own Pixar Movie. Blender is available for most of the Operating System used today. The interface though seem to be complicated actually provides more room for personalizing your interface compared to other usual commercial softwares. Don’t worry if you are not familar with this application. The Official Website of blender provides excellent tutorials for beginners in every aspects. The comparison of blender with other 3D applications can be found at CGS. Also don’t forget to check out these cool works done using Blender.

Installation of Blender in Ubuntu

In Ubuntu, Blender can be easily installed with the command

sudo apt-get install blender

Check out this short movie made with Blender

Kajimba – snippets from Kajimba on Vimeo.