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Ajax Tutorial- Loads of Information Available Online

December 15th, 2009

It’s often a difficult scenario on the part of an I.T aspirant to get into a thorough analysis of the particular subject matter but since the advent of internet as a valuable source of information, there have been the emergence of tutorials that are available online related to Ajax. The first and foremost tutorial defines Ajax that stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is the use of the nonstandard XMLHttpRequest object to communicate with server-side scripts. It can send as well as receive information in a variety of formats, including XML, HTML, and even text files. The tutorial provides with Ajax’s most appealing characteristic, of having an “asynchronous” nature, which means it can do all of this without having to refresh the page.

The Ajax tutorial gives an introduction to ECMAScript for XML (E4X), a simple extension to JavaScript that makes XML scripting very simple. The tutorial has related information on how to make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and Ajax, informative material on Ajax – Try/Catch Blocks of Code, sending requests with XMLHttpRequest to allow user to make requests and receive responses, adding AJAX to a website, Form validation with AJAX/PHP/MySQL, Callbacks and Ajax where user sets the onreadystatechange property of the XMLHttpRequest object to the name of the function to run. Then, when the server has processed the request, it will automatically call that function,to build Ajax-enabled applications using Dojo and JSON, the two very different but complementary technologies that can significantly enhance the interface and usability of web applications and more reference tutorials.

There are mini-tutorials on the black art of iframes and browser history, known to AJAX experts but rarely presented clearly, mini-tutorial on saving state across page loads on the client side, without using cookies so as to save large amounts of data beyond cookies size limits, valuable and effective resource on Easy Ajax with jQuery, Top Ajax Poller Scripts, fast introduction to the basics of Ajax for people that already know how to write the server-side part of the process using servlets and JSP, AJAX username availability checking that allows a user who is registering for your site to see if the username they want to use is taken already or not, without having to submit a form and reload the page, RadAjaxPanel that exposes a rich set of client-side events which allow for easy and flexible use in a wide range of application scenarios and tutorial that explains on how to work with the XML Response or “The X-Files” and more in line in order to enhance and learn new aspects in Ajax. Online education therefore is the most reliable and active source for gaining knowledge for I.T. aspirants through, Asp, Java and Ajax tutorial and the internet is a vast knowledge based environment making things a little more easy with downloadable and accessible information relevant to AJAX.

Peter Parker, content writer and author of this article writes about Ajax tutorial and how internet has been regarded as the knowledge based environment for I.T aspirants and developers. For more information visit at www.soloscript.com.

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Build Up your Own Computer Game

December 12th, 2009

Have you ever wished you could build your very own gaming computer at a cheap price? Gaming computers sold by manufacturers like Alien ware, Gateway or Dell will cost a lot more money, anywhere from $2000 to $4000. In my new 67-page eBook How to Build A Gaming Computer For Under $1000, I show you how to build your own gaming computer for under $1000 – without compromising the quality of hardware and gaming performance.

I know how hard trying to build your own computer can be. As a newbie to the world of computer building you have to learn how to select the best components, pick up various new technical terms like PCI Express, SATA and RAID, and also grapple with installing and configuring the hardware. Even for seasoned computer builders, getting a list of the best components and still staying within your budget can be a challenge.

I’ve been building computers for 15 years now. I started off trying to get my computer to work with the latest games in the early 1990s – and in the process went through a lot of frustration and pain. With each computer I built, I gained valuable experience and have kept up with the latest computer technologies. How To Build a Gaming presented in Computer for Under $1000 is a culmination of my experience in building gaming computers, one easy-to-read volume.

Buying a list of components for your gaming computer is easy. Installing and configuring them to build a functioning gaming PC that screams in 3D performance is another matter. In my eBook How to Build a Gaming Computer for Under $1000, I will show you exactly how to install each and every component in your new computer.

I hold nothing back – everything from CPU, heat sink and fan installation to motherboard jumper configuration and hard drive partitioning – it’s all here. And with full-color photographs for each installation step! Forget about those bits and pieces of “build your own computer” knowledge you find in the library or the Internet. My eBook is the only encyclopedic reference you’ll need.

Yes, building your own gaming computer can be very confusing – if not downright demoralizing if you don’t understand what’s going on. That’s why in How To Build A Gaming Computer For Under $1000, I’ve provided you with a super “one-of-a-kind” checklist that I created myself, based on my years’ of computer building expertise.

This checklist provides all the pre-installation and post-installation checks you need to make when you build your own computer. Simply print it out, stick it on your computer case or some convenient location and tick off each step as you complete it. You’ll never be lost again. You’ll know precisely where you are in the installation process every time you build a mounted core.

We’re the only ones who know how B.S. it when you get killed because of lag because we’re the only ones who even care to look for it. That’s why we include a little bit of everything. Want to level up your WOW character in just a few days? We know how. Need some ROM’s or just a way to “backup” your games? No problem. Even if you want to make anywhere from a few bucks to an entire career by playing video games, we’ve got the answers. All of these answers are just a few clicks away, so take your time and check out everything my site has to offer.

The author of this is an internet marketer. He is one of the experts in many Build Up your Own Computer Game Ideas. And his latest Veterinary Secrets-Taking Good Care of our Pets Ideas are one of the helpful ideas on the latest strategies in innovations and development in the present.

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jquery Translate Bookmarklet

December 11th, 2009


jquery Translate plugin (sunday morning) used as a Firefox Bookmarklet

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Computer Games for Brain Fitness

December 9th, 2009

Just came across some interesting research from Arthur Kramer at the University of Illinois, which buttresses the already steady stream of information about how brain fitness can be improved.

This study indicates that 60 and 70 year old folks can improve some brain or cognitive skills by playing a strategic video game.

From the Science Digest article about the study,

“A desire to rule the world may be a good thing if you’re over 60 and worried about losing your mental faculties. A new study found that adults in their 60s and 70s can improve a number of cognitive functions by playing a strategic video game that rewards nation-building and territorial expansion.”

According to the article, “this is the first such study of older adults, and it is the first to find such pronounced effects on cognitive skills not directly related to the skills learned in the video game, said University of Illinois psychology professor Arthur Kramer, an author on the study.”

“Decades of laboratory studies designed to improve specific cognitive skills, such as short-term memory, have found again and again that trainees improve almost exclusively on the tasks they perform in the lab – and only under laboratory conditions, Kramer said.”

This is important for those of us with 60 year old brains who are interested is sustaining our viability, especially if you are a parent, like me, of a 10 and 4 year old brain. I want my training to generalize to the rest of my life. When I lift weights, the strength that results is very useful in lawn mowing and parenting realms. It makes it possible for me to wrestle with my kids, for example, and even their friends. I can feel the strength when I am tasked with that chore, which overwhelms my younger wife. I want my brain fitness to translate to my parenting and counseling practice in the same way. I also like to know what Dr. I would like to know what Dr. Kramer’s opinion of the fluid intelligence training provided by the dual n back task is in regards to executive intelligence.

“When you train somebody on a task they tend to improve in that task, whatever it is, but it usually doesn’t transfer much beyond that skill or beyond the particular situation in which they learned it,” he said. “And there are virtually no studies that examine whether there’s any transfer outside the lab to things people care about.”

This has been a concern for me with some of the commercial programs available to consumers. Other programs have indicated that the training in the exercise translates to other activities, and some have said there is limited or no transfer to activities not specifically in the game. Kramer is saying. I would be very curious to know what games the researchers tried and discarded and why.

“Kramer and his colleagues wanted to know whether a more integrated training approach could go beyond the training environment to enhance the cognitive skills used in every day life. Specifically, the researchers wondered whether interactive video games might benefit those cognitive functions that decline most with age.”

“Older people tend to fare less well on things that are called executive control processes,” Kramer said. “These include things like scheduling, planning, working memory, multitasking and dealing with ambiguity.”

So it is old age and not ADD? Will my wife believe that? She is already sceptical].

The evidence in this study indicates that there was improvement.

“In medical terminology, these would be dose-response effects,” Kramer said. “The more drug – or in this case the more training on the video game – the more benefit.”

The findings are meaningful, Basak said, because they show that multi-dimensional training can affect many individual components of cognitive function.

“The fact that you’re training people in a molecule and finding transfer to atoms I think is very impressive,” she said.

“This is one mode in which older people can stay mentally fit, cognitively fit,” Kramer said. “I’m not suggesting, however, that it’s the only thing they should do.”

Other activities, in particular socializing, exercising and eating well, are also important to maintaining healthy cognitive function in later years, he said.

Thanks Dr. Kramer, and for your lead researcher Chandramallika Basak.

Brain fitness expert, domestic violence educator, anger management provider, webmaster, seeker, and user of brain fitness programs. Late life father, husband to and partner with Julie Logan, RN, LCSW, and dad to Shane and Hannah Marie.
http://www.askmikethecounselor2.com

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Free Helpdesk for non profit projects & New version of Facil Helpdesk

December 7th, 2009

Helpdesk software can help you to do simple tracking of tasks,  provide technical support, document issues, etc. Every event can be stored as a “ticket”.

Facil HelpDesk is a software that requires PHP at the web server supports end users, staff members and administrators. Tickets can  be submited by web (registered users), form and email.

We are happy to announce the immediate availability of free, perpetual and unlimited licenses for open-source software and charity projects. Sometimes price and specially complexity  are barriers, to avoid it we are giving away our help desk software.

Second, we want to announce the new version of Facil HelpDesk 2.6, software that include new features:

For staff

You can know if your response was readed (tickets submited using web interface, answer and close ticket at the same time, internal responses (when is required a second opinion and you are not ready for giving solution for a ticket), daily report (how many tickets you answered?), there is a link near “logout”.

Security

Were fixed XSS/LFI vulnerabilities but is recommended to use ModSecurity or something similar.

Admin

Check polls with comments (255 chars),daily report (how many tickets were answered,open for your staff of the last 30 days).

For end users

Link for taking polls for closed tickets, text field for comments (polls) ,the link for taking polls were secured.

Email, department and subject validation before of submiting an ticket from tickets.php thanks to Jquery.

You can order this version with 10% off. using this Coupon: CRFG5 here: valid for first 50 orders.

http://sites.fastspring.com/cromosoft/product/facilhelpdesk  

demo: http://www.demo.cromosoft.com/helpdesk/index_admin.php

Cromosoft Technologies EIRL is a small company of TI and software established online in 2003 located at Per. with users wordwide. Facil HelpDesk is a affordable help desk solutions to organizations of all kinds specially for small business, we follow this rule: simple is better.

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Bring Your Body Back To Shape With The DDR Computer Game

December 6th, 2009

Even though most people around us are way out of a healthy figure, they do not think much about exercising. It’s not that they do not know the consideration of some physical exercise; the important reason is that they are not motivated enough to exercise. And that is true, for someone who has led a more or less stationary life, exercising can be a real pain.


But Dance Dance Revolution has changed all that. Here’s a way by which people can exercise, and that too doing something everybody likes to listening to music and playing a video game to boot! The concept of Dance Dance Revolution is simple. There is a game screen with an arcade game set on it. But instead of the regular joystick or the keyboard controls, there is a dance pad on the floor. Yes, the floor! The dance pad has the four arrow keys. The player has to step on these keys in order to play. So, instead of pressing the arrow keys by hand, the player has to step on the keys.


What’s more fun is that the arcade game plays to music, and you can select the music. People who look upon the Dance Dance Revolution as an exercise machine will do well to begin with a slow tune first. The game will play according to music and you control it by jumping onto the dance pad. It’s actually jumping, but you can convert it into a kind of dance later on as you become proficient. You can loop the same tune so that you keep playing, or you can pause the game and shuffle the track. As you become a proficient at playing the game with slower tunes, you can go on to faster tunes that will give you more exercise.


There’s good reason too you can keep scores. The scores are on the basis of the hits and misses you have had in the game. Naturally, if you want to improve on the scores, you will have to play faster the next time. And that means more exercise. But, drawn to the game, people do exercise more and more on Dance Dance Revolution.


Experts believe that people can burn more calories through the Dance Dance Revolution than with any other method that they can do indoors. There is a psychological reason for that actually. Since people like the songs and the game keeps them hooked, they do not know that they are actually exercising. That means, they exercise for a longer time than on other methods. That is the reason why some doctors have started prescribing exercises on the Dance Dance Revolution. Just about fifteen minutes of exercising on this machine can give very good results at weight loss, but with a Dance Dance Revolution in your home, you might certainly end up exercising much more than you ever intended to.

Sean is a great fan of Dance Dance Revolution. Read some of his reviews why he is a fan at the following website:
http://www.dancedancerevolutionreview.com

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jquery – Slide and slidetoggle() Effects

December 3rd, 2009


Hey! This is just a quick lesson covering a very popular effect on the internet (utilized through jquery) known as the “slide” function. All we do is attach an ID to the trigger, and an ID to the Div element which contains the content. A few basic rules, and jquery takes care of the rest! Hope this is usefull :)

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Affiliate Marketing – the Ultimate Computer Game

December 3rd, 2009

I’m not a gamer. However, when my son was younger, he and I tackled a computer strategy game together. In the game, the player became the main character wandering through a strange land seeking a great reward. Along the way, he encountered both helpers and hinderers. Through these encounters, our hero found opportunities to increase his strength and cunning. That describes affiliate marketing – a feat of strategy that can offer great rewards to those who acquire strength and cunning.

Life Force

It’s Game Over when your character runs out of life force. In our game, life force is measured by the number of visitors to your website. Of primary importance to an affiliate marketer is creating ways to attract visitors. Internet users are seeking information and entertainment. Build a site that offers one or both of these along with an element of uniqueness and you will have the potential for an abundance of life force.

Strength

There’s strength in numbers is certainly true in internet marketing. Find ways to place your link on other sites. Look for sites that are relevant to your own content. Those fellow website owners who will exchange links or write features about your site are important helpers in gaining strength.

Forums are a place where you can personally interact with other internet users. These interactions can result in drawing more visitors to your site. Many forums allow you to post your link along with your signature. Networking through forums can help build links and service exchanges as well. Reading posts from other users can often uncover a lotus blossom of knowledge.

Article databases create more opportunities for visitors to become aware of you and the information or entertainment that you have to offer. Allow these minions to do your bidding and bring traffic to your site.

Cunning

Never stop learning. Subscribe to two or three affiliate marketing newsletters. You have mentors with lessons to teach, open your mind and receive.

Search engines can seem both friend and foe. It takes a lot of work to master the search engine. Words are the key. You must diligently seek out the words that bring you the most visitors and include them in the content of your site. The tricky part is, however, that the perfect combination of words is constantly shifting as if you are building your structure on a sand dune. As the terrain changes, so must your site.

There are seers who can help you master the magic of the words – search suggestion tools. With these tools, you can assign value to the words that your site contains. Choose high-ranking key words that are related to the message of your page and gracefully weave them into your content.

Rewards

Join an affiliate program to find advertisers. Select your ads carefully to cater toward your targeted audience. Some sites do well with flashing banner ads, while others find text links to be more lucrative. Apply your cunning and study your ad campaigns continuously.

Pay per click programs are also available. The commissions are smaller than affiliate advertisers pay, but since visitors will click much more often than they will purchase, the small amounts add up quickly. Apply the key-word strategies and your pages will not only display ads that pay higher rewards for each click, but also ads that are of keen interest to your visitors.

Joint ventures are a combination link exchange/affiliate relationship, a way to share traffic to the mutual benefit of both parties. Look for joint venture opportunities from sites that have parallel interests to your own site. Inviting another person into your boat adds more rowing power and speeds you along your journey.

It’s a game! Enjoy each moment as you gain the next level. Remember that strength and cunning take time and determination to develop. But, as they grow so will your chests of treasure.


 

Jean Fisher is a former elementary school teacher. Her website What?s For Dinner? provides a dinner suggestion for each day of the week, a customizable grocery shopping list, table topics and quality time activities.

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