Keotag

Keotag is a latest little search engine that searches tags. The site offers a simple search tool for single-word tags It allows for direct, quick queries to 17 different “web 2.0″ type engines (and Google), including Technorati, del.icio.us, Newsvine, 43 Things, etc. It can also generate tags for your blogs automatically. This will be quite useful because there needs to be a difference, hierarchically between categories and tags. Categories are more general, where as tags are more specific. There seems to be a lot of confusion on the matter.Instead of visiting Technorati, digg and del.icio.us, you can now spider searches through Keotag to all of them, one after the other. It can also generate html code for social bookmarking services, such as del.icio.us. automatically.

Keotag -tag search multiple engines, tag generator and social bookmark links generator. Here it will perform a number of different tag searches. Not only does it return tag results really quick to you but it also displays them in a very intuitive and user friendly way asking always for the end-user interaction, which makes it even much more personal, involved and approachable since you feel you are part of the experience. Also there is another feature that would become really handy, especially for web loggers, and that is the fact that you can generate your own tags from three different services using the tag criteria. But overall what you really like about Keotag is that anyone can use it. It is just so easy to be able to use it with just two single clicks.

The interface is nothing remarkable, but it’s easy to use, fast and, as I’ve been noting with many of the social tagging/blog search sites, returns far more timely and interesting content than your standard web search engine. It doubles as a decent competitive analysis tool, assuming you look in the right industries (tech, financial, webdev, search, photography, etc.). There isn’t anything fancy or complicated about Keotag, but sometimes the simplicity of a service is useful. Features that would be nice is the ability to combine the search results from all the services rather than having to click them one at a time to see the results. Still as a single page for bloggers and those interested in covering the virtual scene across many different sites, it’s a handy tool.

Social Scan

Social Scan is a tool which helps you to check the popularity of a particular website among well known social networking sites. However it doesn’t allows you to check the popularity of a particular link within the website. There are some discrepancies as well, it shows the number of stumble reviews and delicious saves to the main link, but when it comes to Dig, it considers the post link which went popular on Dig if you paste a post link in the social scan search bar; it just shows the same thing. So it can’t tell how many times a particular post has been saved to delicious or reviewed on stumble.

The methodology allows the experts to examine popular as well as obscure online databases and social networks in order to detect exactly what is exposed on the Internet about your organization. In addition, we will manually assess conversations about your organization found on Social Media sites to determine brand, reputation, and security risks. Social Scan assesses all of the information that your organization, employees, ex-employees, and the public are making public on the Internet. Specialized tools and custom scripts and methods are used to find information about your company.No registration required

Social Scan incorporates cutting edge tools as well as custom developed scripts and methods to search for company specific information on Social Media sites. Using this methodology, it manually analyzes the information returned and follows conversations related to your organization. It correlates comments from a blog posting back to Facebook, Twitter, and other popular Social Media sites. This can reveal the true source of the conversation as well as all of the people involved. Social scan looks at the most popular Social Media sites including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Flicker.

Social Scan is very easy to use. Just enter the URL of the blog or website that you want to scan and hit the submit button. Within seconds it will pull and display the total number of links from different social sites. Presently, Social Scan displays the link popularity from Blinklist, Bloglines, Delicious, Diigo, Digg, Furl, Reddit, Shadows, Simpy, Stumbleupon, Technorati and Yahoo MyWeb.

 

Google Trends

Google Trends is a public web facility of Google based on Google Search that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages. The horizontal axis of the main graph represents time and the vertical is how often a term is searched for relative to the total number of searches, globally.

Google Trends also allows the user to compare the volume of searches between two or more terms. An additional feature of Google Trends is in its ability to show news related to the search-term overlaid on the chart, showing how new events affect search popularity. With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.

Google Trends analyzes a portion of Google web searches to compute how many searches have been done for the terms you enter, relative to the total number of searches done on Google over time. Currently, Google Trends is only available in English and in Chinese. Hot Searches is only available in English, but both Singapore and India show information specific to their regions.

The data Trends produces may contain inaccuracies for a number of reasons, including data-sampling issues and a variety of approximations that are used to compute results. If you see all zeros for one of your search terms, it could be that the term doesn’t have enough search volume to be reflected on a graph. It’s also possible that the term’s search volume is insignificant compared to the other terms you’ve entered. In those cases, the system will automatically rank your results by whichever term has greater search volume.

You’re free to use any of the information you find on Google Trends, subject to the Google Terms of Use and the Trends Legal Notices. If you choose to use the information, please make sure to appropriately attribute it to Google. Google Trends shows users’ propensity to search for a certain topic on Google on a relative basis. You can rest assured your personal search data remains safe and private.

Green Certified Site

Green Certified Site is an eco-friendly web badge that calculates your website’s environmental footprint, finds ways to make your site more energy-efficient, automatically neutralizes its calculated carbon footprint, and displays the widely-recognized Trustmark. Once you sign up, you will get a short code snippet to insert into your website. That snippet will automatically monitor and neutralize the end-to-end carbon footprint of your website.

The methodology for calculating energy consumption is extremely rigorous, as it must be for something like this to be accepted. The system takes into account geographic location of a site’s servers and visitors, time spent on a site, client device type and even the size of the page window on the user’s screen.

 

CO2Stats is an easy-to-use service that makes your website carbon neutral and energy-efficient, and that provides certification that you have taken steps to make your site environmentally friendly. Your website has a carbon footprint and for this reason, it contributes to climate change. Your site has a carbon footprint because electricity is required to power the servers that host your website, the computers used to view it, and the global networks that connect them.

CO2Stats makes a website “green” by calculating its environmental footprint and buying green power elsewhere on the grid to compensate. The service calculates not only the energy used to power a site’s server, but also the power used by client machines visiting the site. It turns out that visitors actually consume more power than the servers themselves.

The methodology for calculating energy consumption is extremely rigorous, as it must be for something like this to be accepted. The system takes into account geographic location of a site’s servers and visitors, time spent on a site, client device type and even the size of the page window on the user’s screen.

Sites supporting the service sport a clean energy badge that, when clicked on, displays CO2 emissions resulting from visitors, servers, and the network, along with a breakdown of the fuel types used to power the site and where the power was generated.

CO2Stats charges a flat rate that is dependent on the cumulative amount of power they spot their clients. This ensures that sites aren’t punished for peaks in traffic, and makes the idea more attractive to sites with a large user base. The service could make it big if it becomes standard practice for companies to maintain a “green” web site.

pringoo

Pringoo is an online retailer of custom t-shirt screen printing and embroidery. It sells custom t-shirts, outerwear, hats, tote bags and other accessories. Customers can design their own t-shirt using the online Design Studio, a Photoshop-like web application, which also enables them to upload their own graphics or photos. The Design Studio is available for both embroidery embellishment as well as screenThis application enables customers to create and preview their own shirt designs by choosing a shirt style and color, adding and manipulating text, clip art, shapes, and effects, or upload their own images. T-shirts can also be personalized with their own individual names or numbers. printing.

Pringoo offers some salient features which, make it a strong competitor in this market. Sellers can create their own ‘store’ and sell their designs through the store. Sellers can make their designs editable for the buyer. So, if a buyer wants to extend / further customize the seller’s design, they can easily do so.

Pringoo allows you to create, share and sell your unique designed products. It combines innovative manufacturing, a robust community, the largest online collection of customizable digital images and unmatched personalization tools to empower you to create apparel, mugs, teddy bears and more. In addition, you can open a store to sell your unique creations in Pringoo’s Marketplace. For anyone who wishes to create, wear, display, sell or celebrate their interests, Pringoo provides a compelling interactive marketplace to a worldwide audience.

Pringoo pioneers new printing technologies enhanced with proprietary, automated manufacturing systems to produce high-quality, on-demand products. It is a leading online marketplace that offers e-commerce services for sellers and buyers. It enables individuals, organizations, and businesses to create, buy, and sell customized merchandise online, as well as manages various aspects of doing business online, including printing, shipping, payment processing, order management, fulfillment, and customer service. The company offers apparel, ceramic products, gift items, and home and office accessories.

Pringoo.com is the new home of creativity, style and individuality. Pringoo is an attempt to provide a creative outlet to people who do not believe in clichés and are open to experiment. This platform is also for people who have the idea, but do not have the means to incorporate it.

Market for customized products – t-shirts, mugs, bags, mousepads etc.. Just upload your design or select one of the site provided clipart  and customize it to your needs. Use the design to create your own customized products or you can purchase one of the existing designs from their marketplace.

want to connect for your favorites then go to http://www.pringoo.com/

Clients From Hell

It is a collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.A cult phenomenon among those who work in graphic, print and web design – and those lucky enough to have discovered the blog – Clients From Hell has been bringing to you with its unbelievable and always hilarious anecdotes from the twenty and thirty-somethings on the frontlines of design. It exposes the designer’s trade for what it really is: new, misunderstood and often unappreciated.

CLIENT: Can you make this blue redder?

ME: Like, purple?

CLIENT: No. A red blue. Or even a blue red. Are you color blind?

The communication failures that are all part of the daily life of working with clients. With anonymous submissions from over a thousand creative freelancers, Clients From Hell sheds an insider’s perspective on difficult – and all-too-often irrational and insane – interactions with clients. Anyone who has ever worked with clients may find these tales frighteningly familiar. New designers may think twice about their chosen profession – or at least find relief in the fact that they’re not alone in absurd client interactions. And non-designers they’ll just feel grateful – while they laugh and discover the new and uncharted territory of miscommunication.

Sometimes you’re going to have to earn your client’s respect and trust, and it may not always be easy. Some of the clients from hell seem to think a custom website can be had for a couple hundred dollars. That’s not their fault either; help them understand why it’s worth more. Just as a mercedez and a tavera may look alike to someone who doesn’t know, our clients may not at first understand what makes our work different from a Blogger template. “Clients from Hell” teaches us with a sense of superiority, and not only that but a tendency to overreact to a client’s innocent requests or questions.

Our clients hired us to help them find their way, not freak out when they misstep. The trick, and the mark of a professional, is to hear what the client is trying to say and respond to that.Here in this site you can learn how to behave your clients,how to respond there non-sense questions(joke) and to interact with them.In clients from hell there are so many client stories that you will never see,so read it enjoy yourself and earn your respect.

This site has not made to responsible your clients but to avoid mismatch between you and your client.

So don’t go away anywhere with the fear of your client,visit http://clientsfromhell.net/ to avoid your tension ……..

paper,js -The Amazing Paper Work

About it

Paper.js is an open source and “JavaScript + HTML5 canvas-powered “vector graphics scripting framework. Paper.js is largely based and inspired by Cryptographer, a scripting plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. Paper.js is one of these frameworks that uses Document Object Model (DOM) to structure objects in an easy-to-understand manner. It offers creative and neat ways of doing lots of stuff on a Web browser that supports the <canvas> tag. It also offers a new and interesting approach to drawing vector graphics.

Paper.js is easy to learn for beginners and has lots to master for intermediate and advanced users.

                                                 

Method

The framework has methods for mouse and keyboard interaction. And, it has the well-known blend modes from Illustrator and Photoshop with JS emulation like: multiply, screen, overlay, soft-light, hard-light, color-burn, darken, lighten,  hue, saturation, luminosity, color and more. .The framework supports mouse and keyboard interaction, vector geometry, images, color averaging, symbols, paths, segments, selection outlines, mathematical operations, object conversion and a scene graph via a special Document Object Model.

Launching

Paper.js – publicly launched at the end of June, 2011 – was born from the efforts of Cryptographer, which is an incredible scripting plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. This is important to note because Cryptographer was introduced in 2001, giving it 10 years of robust iterative development and enhancements vs. some of the other, newer vector-based JavaScript frameworks that are in existence today.

Paper Script is the plain old JavaScript that you are used to, with added support of mathematical operators (+ - * / %) for Point and Size objects. Paper Script code is automatically executed in its own scope that without polluting with the global scope still has access to all the global browser objects and functions, such as document or window.

By default, the Paper.js library only exports one object into the global scope: the paper object. It contains all the classes and objects that the library defines. When working with Paper Script, the user does not need to care about this though, because inside Paper Script code, through the use of clever scoping, all of paper‘s objects and functions seem global.

So go for this amazing site at http://paperjs.org/

PLAY MAPS CUBE

                           Play your way through a cubic Google Maps world

PlayMapsCube is a tilt-to-roll marble game using 3-D data from Google Maps. Google Maps has already been a trend in every cell phone, now Google create game application from Google maps, which is Play Maps Cube, but unfortunately this exciting game can only be played in Google Chrome browser only. When you were walking out of town or to strange place and then got lost, Google Maps become one useful thing for me. It because Google maps already able to be accessed from cell phone.

ABOUT GAME:-

Google teased its upcoming Maps game back in January with a demo video. The game was supposed to be released in February, but it seems Google needed more time. They’ve quietly released the game now and you can play it online at http://www.playmapscube.com/. The game is essentially a tutorial for Google Maps, but some features integrated into it make it an addictive game even if you already know how to use Maps.

According to Fusible, Google registered a domain earlier last week called Whois. The site allows you to download the Google Maps Cube game; however, you can still play the game through your browser. Older versions of Firefox are not supported and Google, of course, wants you to play on their own Chrome browser.

HOW TO PLAY:-
Open Play Maps Cube in your Google Chrome browser. After that, click on “Start Playing” in Play Maps Cube. In your first mission, your cursor is assigned to bring ball to Brooklyn Bowl. Try to move your mouse to the direction shown. There’s one more thing I want to convey. If you try to open Play Maps Cube from Mozilla you’ll receive message: Your Browser is Unsupported. So, this game can only be played for Google Chrome.

The game is made up of eight levels, you navigate your marble by using your cursor and your time is recorded when you finish a level. Level 1 has you navigating around Manhattan in New York City, where your objective is to get to your friends at the Brooklyn bowl. Similarly other levels have you navigating through various cities to meet specific objectives. Embedded below is the teaser video from Google

The game wants you to utilize the various features that Google Maps integrates, so for example, level 2 has you biking around San Francisco and Google wants you to use its bike feature to see which roads are safer for bicyclists. Level 3 has you navigating to the Eiffel Tower in Paris and Google wants you to use the traffic feature embedded in Maps. Level 4 has you in London where Google Maps wants you to use its public transport feature, showing you the various lines of the Tube and where they intersect so you can plan your journey. Level 6 and 7 move beyond the navigation features of Google Maps and include the integration of Places in Maps. For instance, in Level 6, you’re in Las Vegas and you have to eat at all the 6 reviewed restaurants in as little time as possible. Level 7 has you go through the Mall of America and collect all the Google Offers on each of the four floors.

For you who like to travel a lot, try this Play Maps Cube game, in addition of taking an adventure, you’re also pursued to be the fastest in mission given by Play Maps Cube. Are you impatiently eager to try this Google Game? Let’s go! Check it out! Try Play Maps Cube in Google Chrome at http://www.playmapscube.com/

Android 4.1 ‘Jelly Bean'(GUEST POST)

What is it?

Google Revealed Android 4.1 ‘Jelly Bean,’ its latest phone and tablet operating system. Jelly Bean’s new features include better support for voice commands, a smoother interface and a predictive keyboard.

Google pulled the wraps off its latest sugary OS, Jelly Bean (JB), during its annual I/O conference in San Francisco. The version for JB is 4.1 and the update will be pushed out to devices like Motorola XOOM, Galaxy Nexus and the Nexus S somewhere in mid-July. Here’s a quick look at some of the highlights of JB and what awaits you in Android 4.1.
This involves delivering a constant frame rate of 60fps throughout the OS as well as native apps. With the help of Triple Buffering, the CPU and GPU work in tandem to match keep the refresh rate at a constant 60fps for a much smoother UI experience. JB also uses something called Touch Input Boost that wakes up the CPU from an idle state a lot quicker. It also uses a new algorithm for touch anticipation which learns your usage patterns and predicts which part of the screen you’ll be touching next.

NEW FOR USERS’

Android 4.1 is an incremental release that contains a several nice features for users, including:

• Faster, more responsive, interface throughout the system. Google started an internal effort called “Project Butter” to make the Jellybean UI “buttery smooth”, and you can definitely tell a difference based on side-by-side comparisons. Android will actually use your finger’s speed and direction to predict where it will be a few milliseconds ahead of time, and make sure the UI is there to follow it. This should finally put to rest complaints that operations like scrolling are slower on Android than other platforms.
• Offline voice. This is a Big Deal. Until now, when you pressed the voice icon and spoke a command or query, Android had to digitize your voice, upload it to the cloud, process the waveform, turn it into text, and send the text back down to your phone. Now the phones are powerful enough that this can be built into the device, with no extra network I/O needed.
• Google Now. Remember that combined privacy policy that Google instituted across all its sites and apps? That enables them to combine all the information they have about your work habits, appointments, location, and more. You can opt out of this if you like, but it enables new services such as reviews of restaurants as you walk by them, and sports scores of teams you care about delivered automatically to your device.
• Richer notifications. Android already has the best notification system of any mobile OS, but in Jellybean Google is taking it to the next level. Notifications won’t just be a couple of lines of text – they can be pictures, lists, or whole paragraphs, and they can have action buttons for direct access to do things like reply to email, call somebody back, or vote up an article without opening a separate app to do that. Users can expand and collapse notifications, and even block notifications from apps they don’t want to hear from.
• Home screen widgets will be easier to use in Jellybean. When you drag a widget to the home screen, other widgets will move out of the way, or the one you are dragging will resize itself to fit.

Readability

What is it?

Curious about how complex your documents or Web pages are to read? You don’t have to get a team of experts to generate your readability score: you can just use http://www.readability.com/ to analyze the characteristics of your writing and ascertain a multitude of readability scores. By comparing the readability score of different documents or Web pages you can make better your writing and make sure that you aren’t creating overly complex sentences and paragraphs for your audience.

 

READABILITY is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you are reading.Readability means you can read and understand easily.This is the brand new site that will provide you to turn any web page into a clean view for reading now or later on your computer, smartphone, or tablet.

It make reading on the web even better. Readability now works on mobile phones and tablets and we now provide the ability to save a web article for reading later. You can even share your reading list so that others can follow what you’re reading.

It’s almost like listening to talk radio, except the commercials play during the program in the background. It’s a pretty awful experience. Readability is a browser bookmarklet. You can install Readability by visiting the Readability setup page. Readability works with most major modern browsers and has been tested on many news sites and blogs. It isn’t 100% effective but works surprisingly well.

What you will get from here??

Stitches single-page views of multi-page articles

Print a cleaner page from sites without Print views

Sharing through email, Facebook, and Twitter

Configurable content appearance: font color and size, width, convert links to footnotes, hide images

Save articles for later and mark your favorites

Archives

Rich mobile and tablet experience (with free account)

Offline reading

Enhanced accessibility

Customizable keyboard shortcuts

Customizable toolbar buttons can be moved or removed

For better reading visit at http://www.readability.com/