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How to select multiple mails in Gmail in a row

Ashish Mohta — Sat, 17 May 2008 17:50:30 +0000

Ok, I found this accidentally and it worked, In case you want to select multiple emails in a row in Gmail, just select the mail you want to select and then scroll down till you want and select it keeping shift+ctrl pressed. Here is a small video on it

I had been looking for this feature from ages and never knew it was there. So over to you, have you ever found any hidden gmail features?.

PS: Looks like a gmail day for me. and in case you cant see the video, just click this to watch

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In case you are using Free Sms Sites for Tv Contest

Ashish Mohta — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:26:09 +0000

In an interesting conversation with one of our readers Mr Chandrakumar he pointed on an important aspect on our post on Free Sms services in India. Here is what he said to me

” Sometime back I had received another tips from technospot regarding the ‘Free SMS’. I received it at a time when all the local TV channels were encouraging people to take part in a contest through SMS. The tip I received from you, I thought, would enable me to take part in the contest free of charge. However, I decided to read their conditions before registering the Free Service Provider. To my surprise, I noticed that there were many conditions enabling the telephone companies to charge for the SMS if the message is in connection with any commercial purpose.

Normally, one would not bother to read all those pages of conditions before accepting it. I started to read it only out of curiosity. But my finding was terrible.”

From 160by2

It is important to understand that 160by2 offers free SMS services to its Users so that they can send personal SMS messages to their known persons. It is vital to realize that communication should be between known persons. You may not use the 160by2 products and/or services to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your business for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales

Its is important to understand that these services are free to use if you are using it for personal messages but not for other services which charges and are not like normal sms. I hope we understand in order to avoid unnecessary charges. On our part we will be more careful to include such information in posts like this.

Thanks to Mr Chandrakumar, who has 2 blogs one is for the ‘CONSUMER’, dealing mainly with Right to Information and Consumer Protection Act and matters connected with it. The other blog describes the various ways in which public money is wasted, looted and spent by various officials causing loss to the public. He is a senior guy and the effort he is making even at this stage is really great. Even his article has reached news papers and TV channels.

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Why Gmail loads faster even in slow connection

Ashish Mohta — Sat, 17 May 2008 08:43:27 +0000

Thanks to Swaroop who pointed out why the image we posted on our last post showed up and why people now see Gmail loading even faster. An Offical post where Gmail team explained

We reduced the weight of each request itself by eliminating or narrowing the scope of some of our cookies. We made sure that all our images were cacheable by the browser, and we consolidated small icon images into single meta-images, a technique known as spriting. We combined several requests into a single combined request and response. The result is that it now takes as few as four requests from the click of the “Sign in” button to the display of your inbox.

That really sounds a good technique. Here is what Spriting means

Spriting is usually defined as the act of creating partially transparent 2d raster graphics for use in video games, commonly referred to as sprites; by extension, it is also used to refer to the act of creating pixel art, though not all sprites are necessarily done in that style. Pixel art comprises a large part of “sprite art” as a whole; though technological advances since the mid-nineties allowed pre-rendered raytraced imagery, or essentially any 2-dimensional image style to be used as a sprite. In some communities, “pixel art” is considered a synonym of “sprite art”, and classification of artwork as “sprite art” is held to the same standards.

Thanks Swaroop.

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Slow Loading Gmail - Looks Changed

Ashish Mohta — Sat, 17 May 2008 04:54:49 +0000

Not sure if any body noticed but the loading of Gmail when your net connection is slow seems to be changed and its pretty. Did any body else seen that ?

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Photoshop Express Intigrates with Flickr and More

Manav — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:07:18 +0000

A quick update on Photoshop express which is an online version of Photoshop from Adobe, now its integrated with Flickr which is the most awaited and will give it more points against the other online editing tool. Now you can pull photos from Flickr into Photoshop Express, amp them up, then upload them back into Flickr to show them off to the world.

But this is not the end. You can also embed slide show of your photos in Myspace,facebook with their embeddable player which is another exciting feature. So just give it a try and share your experience

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Grab Free Ebook on Photoshop [ Download ]

Ashish Mohta — Fri, 16 May 2008 07:33:07 +0000

Sitepoint is giving out an ultimate e book on Photoshop Tips, Tricks and Hacks which you can download for next 28 Days ( as I write now ) without any charges. All you need is provide them an email id which is used for verification.

The Book is in 2 versions 64 MB ( High Resolution ) and 23 MB ( Low Resolution ). They have covered topics like

Design attractive web graphics
Touch up photographs for web use
Create web site mockups using Photoshop
Improve your digital workflow
Master menus, buttons and background tiles
Use nondestructive editing techniques and Many more

So just go and grab it. Its worth downloading.

Thanks HongKiat

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White Box Testing and its Types

Deep’sti — Fri, 16 May 2008 05:23:44 +0000

Let us take a scenario where you go to the market to buy a cell phone.Before finalizing the cell phone, you check for the look and feel of the phone, features, technical specifications such as battery life, dimensions, color etc.Here what you are actually doing is testing the structure of the phone. Technically speaking, in this example, testing the structure of the cell phone is white box testing.

Here is an Image to give you an idea on types of white box testing and then we are discussing each of them one by one.

Please consider the following piece of code as an example for further understanding.

Fig 1.

Unit Testing

Unit testing is a software testing technique in which the functionality of small software pieces is independently tested.
Depending upon the system, these units could be the individual programs/ subprograms or a larger component.
Testing focuses on only characteristics related to unit under testing.
Developers can easily identify and make necessary changes to the source code of unit under testing.
This testing involves programmers who wrote the code.

Drawbacks : If testing scope is too broad, developers does random testing, that’s risky, because each part of the system is not tested.

Statement Coverage Testing

The benefit of statement coverage is its ability to identify which blocks of code have not been executed.
This testing technique verifies whether each line of the code is executed at least once or not.

For above example:( Fig 1. )

Require one test case for testing
The IF statement must evaluate to TRUE

Drawbacks

It does not check for decisions but is affected by computational statements.
Thorough testing of Boolean expression is not possible.
When if condition evaluates false, this code fails. (Refer code given below - Fig 2.)

Fig -2

Branch Coverage Testing

Also known as Decision Coverage.
This monitors whether every branch (decision point) has taken on every possible result.
2 passes are required for 100% branch coverage through an IF statement.
100% Branch Coverage = 100% Statement Coverage.

For above example ( Fig 1. )

Requires two test case for testing.
The IF statement evaluate to TRUE
The IF statement evaluate to FALSE

Drawbacks: Decision coverage of object code is not ensured, through this testing

Condition Coverage Testing

Also known as Predictive Coverage.
Monitors whether every operand in a complex logical has taken on every True/False value.
100% Condition Coverage = 100% Branch Coverage

For above example: ( Fig 1. )

Require 4 test case for testing
Please refer the table below for the 4 conditions possible.

Mutation Testing

The aim is to determine the test cases efficiency, by introducing a fault (mutant) into the code.
If the test cases designed detect the mutant, this proves that the Test Cases are well designed, otherwise the test cases needs to be redesigned.
Different types of Mutants:
- Killed Mutant: These are the faults injected, which are detected by Test Cases
- Alive/Live Mutant: These are the faults injected, which are not detected by Test Cases
- Stubborn Mutant: these are the faults injected, which no Test Cases can detect

Drawbacks of White Box Testing: –

For large systems exhaustive testing is impossible this means to test each and every path of large system is not possible Its time consuming Patience and complete knowledge of the code is required Detailed documentation is required

Conclusion on White Box Testing: -

The catch here is to understand the essence of what white box testing means and where it can be used. The more we understand in terms of practical example and can relate it the better control on performance you can attain.

Note: Unit tests tell you whether your code performed as expected, and code coverage tells you what remains to be tested.

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Send free sms to India from Desktop with AOL.IN

Ashish Mohta — Thu, 15 May 2008 04:43:21 +0000

AOL.IN has now allowed to send free sms to any Indian Mobile by simply adding a buddy and a phone number to it through Desktop ( AOL Mail or AOl Messenger). This feature also allows the recipient mobile user to answer back to those SMS instantly. Currently the service providers included are Airtel, Vodafone, Spice, Aircel and MTNL.

This will be a huge setback to the Already discussed free sms services in India which we talked about few days back. You can get the all the details at the AOl.In Promos

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Messenger TV goes live in 21 Countries

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:03:06 +0000

Messenger TV for Windows Live Messenger is live now in 21 countries which include Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

This means the new service lets you watch MSN Videos with a friend as you have live text conversations about the videos you are watching together. This is similar to Inline Videos which had already been implemented in Yahoo Messenger and Google Talk.

I will be testing this out once I get back to home but till then enjoy it Messenger TV at http://MessengerTV.msn.com. See the official Announcement at Windows Live Blog

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Convert your music / video files into Stand Alone Players

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 13 May 2008 04:18:26 +0000

In case you don’t have any media player ot play your music files its time you convert them into stand alone players. How ? Audio/Video To Exe converts any music or video file into an EXE or stand alone program which can play the music right for you.

It supports extensions like: 3gp, aac, ac3, exe, flac, flv, gif, mp2, mp3, mp4 and many more which covers almost every format. However the free version does not allow to change bit rate but I don’t think you will be requiring in case you want to use it for time being.

Via Instant Fundas

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Grab your Free Open Solaris CD Today [ Download or Post ]

Ashish Mohta — Mon, 12 May 2008 18:20:29 +0000

Sun Microsystems Inc is giving out free cds of Open Solaris 2008.05 for x86 which you can request by just filling in simple form which asks for your name, address.

The OpenSolaris 2008.05 Live CD makes it simple to boot to a fully functional desktop environment, including Firefox and Thunderbird, without the need to install onto your system. After familiarizing yourself with the OpenSolaris environment, you can then choose to install it onto your disk. Once installed, you can connect to the OpenSolaris Package Repository to install additional software at OpenOffice.org

Not sure till what time the offer is availble so don’t miss out, request now.In case you have good internet speed , consider downloading the CD image if you have a fast Internet connection.

Thanks Atul

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Amazing Striped Iceburgs or Photoshop ?

Ashish Mohta — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:18:34 +0000

Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions. Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with melt water and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form.

When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a green stripe. Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.

or Its Photoshop ?

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Perfect Example of Process Control [ Have a laugh ]

Ashish Mohta — Sat, 10 May 2008 05:02:33 +0000

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Watch You Tube Videos in 3d

Ashish Mohta — Sat, 10 May 2008 04:03:05 +0000

Now if you are already tried of loading pages after pages to find a good video on Youtube, Its just time you start using at PicLens which has integrated You tube Video Search in the latest Firefox Extension update and It works like a charm.Its really cool than Not only I can see them in 3d but searching is like just scrolling similar way we were doing with images both in Web and on Local Machine

Here is a snapshot

You can use it on any page of you tube or in you tube searches. Good work by the Piclens team.

You can download Extensions and support for Firefox (Windows), Firefox (Mac), Internet Explorer and Safari.
or just check all versions.

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