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Thursday, 4 June 2015

What make you crazy??

In life all things atrium are beautiful and each have its own beauty.

I like to make others happy and I am always helping in nature to make other smiles. It's also give me inner satisfaction and peace in a day. 

Wednesday, 27 May 2015

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Class X CBSE Result update

CBSE Board 10th Class Result is likely to be updated on the official website on 27th May 2015 at 12:00 noon. On the officail website of CBSE Board did not update any exact date so we are just informing you all students with an expected date. As soon as board update the exact date of result declaration we will update here. Dear students you are advised no need to worry just keep patience and be with us.

Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Blaster Headphone: Simple looks, but sound companion

Creative Technology announced the launch of Ultra-Light Sound Blaster JAM, a Bluetooth headset which aims to compete with the already heated up sub-Rs.4,000 headphones segment.

This particular segment assumes significance as there has been a continuous demand for sturdy and bass-kicking headphones at an affordable price. The JAM enters the market with a price tag of Rs.3,499 and here is our evaluation of the new headphone:

Design: The device looks like any other normal over-the-head Bluetooth headphone. It comes with extendable flaps that helps the user adjust the headphones over his or her head and rather feels comfortable on the ear owing to the ear cushions.

The headphones sports a dedicated bass button and volume rocker controls on the right flap. The circle on the right flap acts as the start or the stop button while playing music and doubles up as a button for accepting or rejecting calls on the go. A dedicated button for changing music would have been an icing on the cake.

Audio and Connectivity: This headphone is seriously loud and has a great bass effect although the headphones seemed to miss a few lower notes at the bass mode. The Sound Blaster JAM supports Bluetooth 4.1 audio streaming allowing users to communicate and stream audio content from their mobile device.

It features Near Field Communication (NFC) wireless connectivity for one-touch pairing. Creative boasts of Neodymium drivers that has the effect of bringing the audio alive. The device has a built-in microphone with noise reduction and acoustic echo cancellation abilities that allows the user to enjoy voice clarity during calls too.

Special Mode and Battery: The headphone is loud enough but once connected to a PC it goes to extra loud mode. Sound Blaster’s SBX Pro Studio comprises a suite of audio technologies, such as Surround, Crystalizer, Bass, Smart Volume and Dialog Plus, giving users the ability to fully customize every aspect of the headphones' audio settings.

SBX Surround increases and expands the virtual surround spaciousness, allowing users to enjoy realistic surround sound when watching movies or playing games while SBX Crystalizer restores details and expands the dynamic range of audio. The headphone has great battery backup and can run up to 10-12 hours on a single charge.

Pricing and Availability: The Creative Sound Blaster JAM Bluetooth headset, priced at Rs 3,499 will be available in India from end of May 2015 onwards. The product will be available for purchase online on Amazon India, Flipkart and Snapdeal.

Verdict: Although the device will face stiff competition in its segment, our verdict is that the JAM is a perfect sound companion which will let users enjoy hands-free voice communication, music playback, watching movies and mobile gaming on the go for a fairly reasonable price.

Twitter cyberbullies targeted with new anti-abuse tools

TV presenter Sue Perkins stopped posting to Twitter after receiving abusive messages
Twitter is to act against a wider range of violent threats as part of renewed efforts to tackle abuse.
The social network has acknowledged that its previous rules, which said a threat needed to be "direct" and "specific" to justify its intervention, had been too "narrow".
The firm will still require a complaint to be made before it blocks an account.
But it said it was also attempting to automatically make a wider range of abusive tweets less prominent.
Its actions follow a series of high-profile cyberbullying incidents.
Earlier this month, TV host Sue Perkins stopped posting to Twitter after reporting that her timeline was "full of blokes wishing me dead", following false claims that she was to present the TV show Top Gear.
Shaun Himmerick, producer of the video game Mortal Kombat X, also recently stopped using the network after he said users had threatened his wife and daughter.
The problem is not limited to Twitter - in March, a study of 1,000 UK-based 13-to-17-year-olds by broadband provider Europasat indicated that nearly half of those surveyed had been sent abusive messages over the internet.
But in February, Twitter's chief executive Dick Costolo highlighted the issue when he sent a memo to staff telling them that "we suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we've sucked at it for years".

'Over the line'

Twitter's rules now state that it may act after being alerted to tweets that contain "threats of violence against others or promote violence against others".
Tweets
By making its criteria more vague than before, the platform can now intervene if, for example, someone says that a victim ought to be beaten up.
It had previously required the aggressor to have provided specific details, such as the fact they planned to commit the act using a baseball bat at the victim's place of work, before it would respond.
"Our previous policy was unduly narrow, and limited our ability to act on certain kinds of threatening behaviour," wrote Shreyas Doshi, Twitter's director of product management, on the firm's blog.
"The updated language better describes the range of prohibited content and our intention to act when users step over the line into abuse."
In addition, Twitter will begin freezing some abusers' accounts for set amounts of time, allowing those affected to see the remaining duration via its app. Abusers may also be required to verify their phone number and delete all their previous offending tweets in order to get their account unlocked.
The firm said it could use this facility to calm situations in which a person or organisation came under attack from several people at once, where it might not be appropriate to enforce permanent bans on all involved.
While such decisions would be taken by Twitter's staff, the company said it had also started using software to identify tweets that might be abusive, based on "a wide range of signals and context".
Such posts will be prevented from appearing in people's feeds without ever having been checked by a human being. However, they will still show up in searches and remain subject to the existing complaints procedure.
A side-effect of this could be that some abusive tweets become harder to detect.

AdBlock Plus defeats German publishers in court

The creator of software that stops adverts from appearing on websites has defeated two news publishers that want to prevent its tech being used on their pages.
The owners of Germany's Die Zeit and Handelsblatt had claimed that AdBlock Plus's product was anti-competitive and threatened their ability to make money.
But a court in Hamburg ruled that users do have the right to use the plug-in.
The judgement has implications for other disputes involving the tool.
"The Hamburg court decision is an important one because it sets a precedent that may help us avoid additional lawsuits and expenses defending what we feel is an obvious consumer right: giving people the ability to control their own screens by letting them block annoying ads and protect their privacy," wrote AdBlock Plus's project manager, Brian Williams, on its blog.
"Now that the legalities are out of the way, we want to reach out to other publishers and advertisers and content creators and encourage them to work with Adblock Plus rather than against us."
However, the publishers have indicated that they intend to fight on.
"We are still convinced that AdBlock Plus is an illegal and anti-competitive practice," they said in a joint statement.

AdBlock Plus offers its service as a free plug-in for popular web browsers 
AdBlock Plus 
"It infringes the freedom of the press. Therefore, we will await the written reasons for the judgment, analyse them and examine the prospects of an appeals procedure."
AdBlock Plus - which is owned by the Cologne-based firm Eyeo - faces three separate but related cases involving the media groups, ProSiebenSat.1, RTL Interactive and Axel Springer.

White list

The recent court case had contested the legality of AdBlock Plus's software suppressing adverts from the pages of the Zeit Online, Handelsblatt and Wirtschafts Woche news sites.
Their publishers had sought damages, but said their motivation was to challenge the software provider's wider business model.
"We are, of course, questioning the offer [of] Adblock Plus in general," Ebba Schroder, a spokeswoman for Zeitverlag Gerd Bucerius told the BBC.
While AdBlock Plus offers its web browser add-on to the public for free, it makes money by operating a "white list" of adverts that it allows to get through its filters.

Sunday, 18 September 2011

How to Delete (or Archive) Attachments in Apple Mail and Free Up Disk Space


Apple Mail is a pretty decent email client, but it saves all your attachments in a folder deep within your user library, sucking up disk space without ever really letting you know. Fortunately, this is an easy problem to solve if you know where to look. Sort of, anyway. Apple made removing your attachments very simple, but if you want to actually save and archive them it can be a bit more complicated—especially if you're running Lion. But not to worry, we'll walk you through the whole thing. The process can be a little tedious, but it's not too tough.

Deleting Your Attachments

How to Delete (or Archive) Attachments in Apple Mail and Free Up Disk SpaceDeleting your attachments is very easy to do in pretty much every version of Apple Mail. Here's the fastest way to obliterate them all:
  1. Open up Apple Mail and create a new Smart Folder. You can do this by clicking the + sign in the bottom left corner of your Mail window, or by going to the Mailbox menu and choosing New Smart Mailbox.
  2. From there, make sure to specify that this Smart Mailbox's rules apply to all. (This should be the default.)
  3. Now all you have to do is set one simple rule: "Contains Attachments". You may also want to specify that the smart mailbox should include messages from your junk and trash folders, just so you're covering all your bases. When you're done, just click OK and Mail will create the smart mailbox.
  4. If Mail doesn't do it for you automatically, select the new smart mailbox you just created and watch the messages roll in. There will be a little indicator next to the mailbox in the sidebar to let you know Mail is still working. When it's done and all the messages with attachments have appeared, press Command+A to select every one of them (or go to the Edit menu and choose Select All).
  5. Go to the Message menu and choose the Remove Attachments option. (It should be toward the bottom.) It may take awhile for Mail to perform this task on every message if you have many, but go grab some lunch and check back in about an hour. By then, you should have attachment-free mailboxes.
One thing to note about this process, however, is what's happening behind the scenes. When you're deleting attachments from these messages, it not only kills the attachments on your hard drive but also on the server (assuming you're using IMAP—if you're using POP3 you're probably not storing anything on the server anyway). Basically, Apple Mail removes the attachments from the message, uploads an attachment-free version to the server, then delete the original from the server as well. This is especially bad if you were hoping to keep a copy remotely but not locally, but also kind of annoying because it's performing a mass update on lots of remote messages. When you do that, there's a decent chance something is going to get messed up and you'll wind up with some duplicates. While that's not the end of the world, it doesn't make this method the very best solution—just the simplest. Read on for the harder, but more thorough, method.

Archiving Your Attachments

Deleting or archiving your attachments is a pretty easy process in Snow Leopard, but Apple decided to make it more complicated in Lion (thanks Apple!). Because the instructions diverge quite a bit pretty quickly, we're going to include two sets. Follow the set of instructions that applies to your version of Mac OS X.

Instructions for Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.x)

Step 01: Open up your home folder in the sidebar. (Don't know which one that is? Make a new Finder window by going to the File menu and choosing "New Finder Window", then look in the sidebar on the left for an icon of a house. It'll have your username next to it. Click on that to get to your home folder.)
Step 02: You should now see a folder called Library. Open that, then open a folder inside of Library called Mail. Once you're in the Mail folder, you should see folders prefixed with IMAP or POP followed by your email address and some other information. For example, mine would look like this: IMAP-adachis@lifehacker.com@imap.gmail.com. You'll have as many folders like this as you have email addresses in Apple Mail, and you'll need to go into each to clean them out. Start by opening up the first one.
Step 03: Here you'll see a bunch of folders. Primarily of note is your INBOX folder (named something along the lines of INBOX.imapmbox), so let's start with that. Open it and you'll find an attachments folder. Everything inside the Attachments folder is—you guessed it!—another folder! Wait, what? So Apple Mail stores its attachments in kind of a weird folder structure, but basically every folder in the Attachments folder contains more folders with attachments. This means that if you archive these folders on another hard drive (and delete them on your main hard drive), you'll be deleting attachments and nothing else. It's not as straightforward as it could be, but at least it's not complicated.
Step 04, 05, 06, etc.: The remaining steps in this process involve rinsing and repeating. You just scrubbed your INBOX folder for attachments, but if you store attachment-based messages in other mailboxes in that same account, you need to go back through all of those and remove their attachments the same way. If you have multiple email accounts you have to repeat this entire process for each account as well. Yes, it's tedious, but so long as you don't have more inboxes than fingers you should be able to pull it off on your lunch break.
Just be glad you haven't upgraded to Lion yet. Those folks are in for some pain.

Instructions for Mac OS X Lion (10.7.x)

Step 01: Show your user library! One of the annoying parts of Mac OS X Lion is that Apple hid the user library so, presumably, you don't accidentally go digging around in there if you don't know what you're doing. Since we're going to tell you what to do so you don't screw anything up, you don't need to worry about that. You do need to worry about making your user library visible, however, so let's start there.
First things first, jump into the Terminal (Hard Drive -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal) and paste in the following command:
chflags nohidden ~/Library
Press enter and your user library will be visible in your home folder. Don't know which one that is? Make a new Finder window by going to the File menu and choosing "New Finder Window", then look in the sidebar on the left for an icon of a house. It'll have your username next to it. Click on that to get to your home folder.
Alternatively you can just hold down the option key in the Finder, click on the "Go" menu, and you'll be able to choose Library from the list. Some people may find this method easier since it do, but we prefer to have the Library visible since we like to go in there and mess around now and again.
Step 02: Head on into your home folder, then open up Library, and then Mail. You should have a folder labeled "Mail Lost+Found" and another labeled "V2". V2 is the folder you're looking for, so open that one up. In the V2 folder, you should see at least one folder prefixed with IMAP or POP followed by your email address and some other information. For example, mine would look like this: IMAP-adachis@lifehacker.com@imap.gmail.com. You'll have as many folders like this as you have email addresses in Apple Mail, and you'll need to go into each to clean them out. To start the purging process, open up the account folder you'd like to scrub first.
Step 03: Because Lion organizes its Mail a little differently—and by differently we mean horribly—you have to go through a lot of trouble to dig out all your attachments. To make this easier, we're just going to search for them. Press Command+F (or choose Find from the File menu). By default, the search window will search "This Mac" instead of the current folder. You need to switch that to the current folder, which should appear to the right (see the picture for an example). Once you've made that selection, search for the word Attachments. Lion's search will provide a drop-down menu offering to search for only filenames containing the word Attachments. Choose this option. When the results show up, make sure they are sorted by Kind. Next, locate all the folders (which will most likely be on top). You should see tons of folders called Attachments. Move them onto another hard drive and delete them. That'll clear out all your attachments for that account. Just note that they'll be re-downloaded if you view their associated message in Mail again.
Step 04: Repeat the previous step for your other accounts. Why not just perform the search for all accounts instead of each individually? Technically you could do that, but if you want to archive your attachments so they're separated by account you'll need to do them individually. If you don't care, or if you're just deleting everything, then ignore this step and perform Step 03's search on the V2 folder instead of the each individual account folder.
Congratulations, you survived and you're rid of your attachments!
Stock image of the paperclip used in the title image was photographed by Francesco Chinazzo(Shutterstock)

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