For example, if you change the color of an element from white to black, normally the change is instantaneous. With CSS transitions enabled, the change occurs over an interval of time you can specify, following an acceleration curve you can customize.

So lets return to the beautiful transition effect i was telling you. I´ve just seen this effect on Joomla control panel and I thought its just awesome. If you are using Joomla you know what I’m talking about. If not, here you can see a demo. So I tried to reproduce the transition effect on mouse hover. The css properties I use to achieve this cool effect are:

• css transition
• css border shadow
• css border radius

and added

• css rotate
• css positioning
• css before
• css after

Like I said Joomla uses a transition for the shadow and border properties to achieve the on hover animation, but I played a little bit more adding rotate effect, position animation, and I combined with a strange effect using the css “before” and “after” properties.

Please note that the CSS transition property is still in draft and is not supported by Internet Explorer. On the other hand, Firefox requires the prefix -moz-, Chrome and Safari requires the prefix -webkit- Opera requires the prefix -o-.

Playing around with CSS properties like “after’ and “before” it turn out to be peaty awesome. I have also did some testing with the “rotate” css property witch is quite cool.

See it for your self. Here is the CSS code

div {float: left;}

.bg1 {background: url(img/CSS3-logo.jpg) center center no-repeat; width:200px; height:150px;}
.bg2 {background: url(img/android-logo.jpg) center center no-repeat; width:200px; height:150px;}
.bg3 {background: url(img/css3_logo.jpg) center center no-repeat; width:200px; height:150px;}
.bg4 {background: url(img/logo-html5-css3.jpg) center center no-repeat; width:200px; height:150px;}

.position {
	position:relative;
	top:0;
}
.border {
	border:#CCCCCC 1px solid;
	-webkit-border-radius: 5px;/* WebKit */
	 -khtml-border-radius: 5px;/* Firefox */
	   -moz-border-radius: 5px;/* Opera */
			border-radius: 5px;/* Standard */
}
.transition {
	-webkit-transition: all 1s ease;/* WebKit */
	   -moz-transition: all 1s ease;/* Firefox */
		 -o-transition: all 1s ease;/* Opera */
			transition: all 1s ease;/* Standard */
}
.position:hover {
	position:relative;
	top:-10px;
}
.rotate:hover {
	-webkit-transform: rotate(10deg);/* WebKit */
	   -moz-transform: rotate(10deg);/* Firefox */
		 -o-transform: rotate(10deg);/* Opera */
			 ransform: rotate(10deg);/* Standard */
}
.shadow:hover {
	-webkit-box-shadow: -10px 10px 35px #888;/* WebKit */
	   -moz-box-shadow: -10px 10px 35px #888;/* Firefox */
		 -o-box-shadow: -10px 10px 35px #888;/* Opera */
			box-shadow: -10px 10px 35px #888;/* Standard */
}
.border:hover {
	-webkit-border-bottom-left-radius:70px 20px;/* WebKit */
	   -moz-border-bottom-left-radius:70px 20px;/* Firefox */
		 -o-border-bottom-left-radius:70px 20px;/* Opera */
			border-bottom-left-radius:70px 20px;/* Standard */
}

And here is a pice of the the HTML code.

<div class="bg1 border transition shadow position rotate"></div>
<div class="bg2 border transition shadow position rotate"></div>
<div class="bg3 border transition shadow position rotate"></div>
<div class="bg4 border transition shadow position rotate"></div>

See some more advanced examples here.

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Obviously, if the device was terrible, the price savings wouldn’t matter. But — at least on first impression — the Kindle Fire is solid, fast, and smooth. In fact, it seems to be just as nice, if not nicer than the iPad.

Kindle Fire has flash support

Flash is not dead. It’s baked into many web sites, and I’m talking about real web sites, not just small and unimportant websites. There are quite a few educational websites that are using flash as their engine

Kindle Fire has native USB drive mode

These next two reasons are related. There’s much better access to the Kindle Fire as a storage device than Apple provides with the iPad. For example, you can take a USB cable, plug it into the Kindle Fire and then to your PC, and drag-and-drop documents for later reading.

There are some hacks for this for the iPad, but native USB drive mode is supported, out of the box, for the Kindle Fire.

PC-format document viewer

Once again, out of the box, the Kindle Fire supports PC-format documents, ranging from Word files and PDFs, even to PowerPoints.

Of course here are add-on apps that will do this for the iPad, but the Kindle Fire supports it, out of the box.

Amazon integration

That said, the integration between the Kindle Fire and the Amazon cloud is excellent. There certainly is an iPad-based App store and iTunes store, but their integration isn’t nearly as smooth. iCloud is still substantially untested, and — to be fair — Apple has very little successful experience providing cloud services while Amazon provides them to the entire planet.

Size does matter

There is something deeply satisfying about the 7″ tablet form-factor. It’s possible to easily hold it in one hand like a paperback, carry it around without worrying that you’re lugging an entire window pane in your backpack.

So did I mention that you get all this for 300$ less then the iPad? Well you do. If you think I´m wrong pleas fee free to comment.

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The nice thing about HTML 5 is how easy it is to implement. You use the HTML 5 doctype, which is very simple and streamlined:

<!doctype html>

Yes, that’s it. Just two words “doctype” and “html”. It can be this simple because HTML 5 is no longer part of SGML, but is instead a markup language all on its own.

The character set for HTML 5 is streamlined as well. It uses UTF-8 and you define it with just one meta tag:

<meta charset="UTF-8">

HTML 5 recognizes that Web pages have a structure, just like XML documents. In general, Web pages have navigation, body content, and sidebar content plus headers, footers, and other features. And HTML 5 has created tags to support those elements of the page.

• <section> – to define sections of pages
• <header> – defines the header of a page
• <footer> – defines the footer of a page
• <nav> – defines the navigation on a page
• <article> – defines the article or primary content on a page
• <aside> – defines extra content like a sidebar on a page
• <figure> – defines images that annotate an article

There are also a few exciting new elements in HTML 5:

• <canvas> – an element to give you a drawing space in JavaScript on your Web pages. It can let you add images or graphs to tool tips or just create dynamic graphs on your Web pages, built on the fly.
• <video> – add video to your Web pages with this simple tag.
• <audio> – add sound to your Web pages with this simple tag.

You also need a browser that supports canvas. Browsers that I know support canvas include:

• Chrome 5 or later
• Firefox 3 or later
• Opera 9.5 or later
• Safari 5 or later

Other browsers and versions may support the canvas tag as well, but those are reliable.
HTML 5 is getting more and more traction as companies find different ways to create websites that use it and devices that rely on it. So go ahead and open your favorite text application and write your firs piece of HTML 5. Who knows you may be the best new HTML 5 developer.

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The restrict download feature for Google docs has bran released for Google Apps, Google Apps for Business, Government and Education editions and it is available in all languages supported by Google Docs

To access what’s new just select the file that you want to restrict, select the ‘More’ menu and choose the new option. Alternatively, right-click a document in the docslist and select ‘prevent viewers from downloading’ from the menu options.

For more information visit https://docs.google.com/support/?hl=en

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If you’re a long-time Android user, some of these apps will look familiar, although in a few cases, I noticed that the best apps aren’t necessarily the ones that have been most popular. Newcomers are also suplling the market with good apps.

Still, here’s my list of Android apps that I can see quite useful.

1. Google Voice

Google Voice is one of the top benefits of Android. Google Voice gives you one number for all your phones, a phone number that is tied to you, not to a device nor a location.Google Voice allows you to access all of your voice mail and text messages from the Web. The Android app integrates even deeper. It can make outgoing calls look like they’re coming from your Google Voice number so that you can keep your real mobile number private.

2. GTasks

The GTasks task manager syncs with the desktop Google Tasks, which you can also access in the Web version of Gmail and Google Calendar. It’s so useful, it should be in­­cluded on every Android phone.

3. Dropbox

Dropbox, the service that lets you store your files in the cloud and access them from anywhere. This app extends Dropbox to Android and it is also compatible to your Windows, Mac, or Linux). It allows you to sync files like PDFs, image files, and business documents by simply dragging them to a folder on your computer and then you immediately have access to them from your mobile phone once you installed this app in you Android device. It has a simple interface, easy uploading, and swift syncing across all accounts.

4. Evernote

On an Android phone, Evernote works smoothly, looks great, and most importantly, integrates with dozens of other apps and services. So Evernote is a great note-taking app. It is similar to Dropbox in that it saves data locally but syncs it across all your machines and devices.

5. Google Docs

Create, edit, upload, import, export, sync and share your documents with the Google Docs app. Google Docs is a great Android app to access to all the docs you uploaded (including uploaded Microsoft Office files to your Google Docs) or created in Docs. It’s a nice mobile implementation of document management, although the one annoyance is that always open up files in a web browser rather than within the app itself, which would be a little smoother.

6. Google Places

This is an awesome app for finding shops and services near your current location. From restaurants to medical facilities to taxis, this app is very accurate and takes advantage of the business information from Google Local. This app is better than the info you get from a GPS unit (or app) and better than any of the similar apps available on the iPhone. It’s also integrated into Google Maps.

7. Google+ (plus)

One of the great things that Google did was to release a Google+ Android app at the same time it launched the service as a beta. And, surprisingly, the app was actually pretty good and has been improved since. It immediately became one of my most used mobile apps mostly because Google+ is a little more interactive.

8. Google Goggles

This is a fun app that does visual searches. You can take pictures of things and then the app tries to tell you what they are. It’s limited in its scope but it is pretty cool, and it’s definitely a peek into the future. n a more practical level this app has the ability to take pictures of text in a foreign language and the app translate it for you which is basically QR code reader.

9. Smart Measure

The Smart Measure app, which uses your phone’s camera, measures the height of objects and estimates the distance between your phone and the object

10. Photoshop Express

Photoshop is, of course, the best known photo editor in the world and its mobile app doesn’t do anything to hurt that reputation. But while the desktop version is known for having a zillion features, the mobile app is distinguished by its simplicity. It’s the best Android (and iPhone) photo editing app for simple crops, brightness adjustments, and sharpens, for example.

11. ConvertMe

The in-beta ConvertMe app is a handy unit converter, currency converter, and tip calculator. It comes with more than 1500 units across more than 65 categories, and it supports 14 languages

12. Audible

With the Audible app you can connect to your Audible library and download over the air. The app also gives you a self-contained player optimized for audio books, with a skip-back-30-seconds button and the opportunity to make notes and bookmarks (although I wish the app would store these online so that they could be accessed from the Audible site).

13. Shazam

If you want to impress your friends with a mobile app, show them Shazam. Ever hear a song being played at a store or on the radio and ask yourself, “Oh, what song is that?” That’s where Shazam comes in. Just hit the button and let it listen for 15 seconds, query its database, and then return the name of artist and the song. It has about an 80% success rate. This one isn’t particularly productive, but it is really cool.

14. Google Finance

This is a great little app that regularly gets overlooked. It connects to your Google Finance account, where you can set up a list of stocks and companies to follow and sort them into groups (portfolios). The app provides three simple tabs — a look at the market, a look at your portfolios, and the latest market news. It even does real-time updates when you have the app open.
Your picks?

15. Picasa Tool

Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website. Using Picasa Tool Pro you can batch-upload photos, as well as browse and manage your albums, photos, and comments. The best part: it´s free.

16. Digital Recipe Sidekick

Digital Recipe Sidekick is another Android app that makes your like easier. You can browse and import recipes from AllRecipes.com, save recipes to SD Card, e-mail them, edit them, or enter your own. The app will even read recipes to you.

17. AntiDroidTheft

If you lose your phone, AntiDroidTheft turns on remote GPS tracking so that you can determine its location. You can also trigger the phone’s camera to shoot an image that might help you locate the handset. Cool isn’t it?

18. Wifi Analyzer

Want to find the least-crowded Wi-Fi channel? Wifi Analyzer shows a graphical representation of Wi-Fi SSIDs’ signal strength, plus which channels are being used.

19. Launcher Pro

Launcher Pro is a third-party application that does something your phone already does on its own (launch apps), except that it adds the ability for you to customize your phone in more ways than you normally can so that you can launch apps quicker and more easily. For example, you can create up to seven different home screens, giving you quick access to more apps than before.

20. Google Maps

Google Maps may be one of the most popular of the Android apps from Google. A few of its signature features, such as navigation and layers, work better on Android than most other mobile operating systems. It’s indispensable for finding addresses, service providers nearby, and just for simply getting around.

21. Better Keyboard

The one thing we don’t like about Android is its standard onscreen keyboard. Fortunately, there is another way: the Better Keyboard offers compact Qwerty and full Qwerty layouts, easier symbol entry and, crucially, effective prediction and auto-correction.

You can also tweak text to your heart’s content, with extras such as the ability to use words in your contacts file in word suggestions, and the option to display blobs that show exactly where you touched each key. And there’s a raft of downloadable skins to give it a fresh new look. Excellent stuff.

22. 3G Watchdog

If you don’t have an unlimited data plan, it’s vital to keep track of your monthly allocation – 3G Watchdog will make sure that you don’t incur any hidden charges. Tell the app your data cap and monthly rollover allowance and it will do the rest, displaying a color-coded icon in the corner of your screen: a green icon means you’re safe; orange indicates you’re nearing your limit; and a red symbol means you should probably reign in your downloads.

23. Angry Birds Rio

A game based on the movie, Angry Birds Rio is not only addictive, it’s also free. On each level, the goal is to rescue the birds Blu and Jewel, featured in the film. The game mechanics are the same as the original, minus the pigs: you pull a rubber band back and launch a bird to knock down buildings. OS, I think this was the number 21 Android app and the title said “20 Apps for Android”. Sorry about that!

Finally, if you have some more recommendations, post your suggestions in the comments. Enjoy

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This is nothing revolutionary as we have seen such work on Facebook and MySpace, but it’s still a big stepping stone for Google+ as it continues to grow.

For a closer look at Google+ Pages, check out the video below:

But this is not all. Google has just lunched a new feature called Direct Connect, which makes very simple for to find brands on Google+ Pages via Google Search. The only thing a user have to do is type “+” in the Google Search box followed by the brand or business they want to follow, and this brings up a direct link to the Google+ Page of the searched brand.

A simple example: If you want to find the Google+ Page of Amazon, just type “+amazon” and Google Direct Connect will take you to Amazon Google+ Page.

In the past the “+” operator made it so that any word with the plus sign before it was required in all search results. But today Google retired that operator and Direct Connect changes the function of the “+” operator in Google Search.

Direct Connect helps Google+ Brand driving his way up in front of the Facebook Pages, Twitter profiles and even brand websites. The link appears just under the search box, so it essentially acts like a search result above the search engine page. It’s also the only operator that takes users directly out of Google Search and to another website. This way Google+ Pages becomes a must-have for any company looking to establish a presence on the Internet

You can see here a small demo of the Google new Direct Connect feature.

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Google give two code alternatives that can be used to place the buttons on pages. Unfortunately, one is not valid HTML or XHTML at all, and the other is only valid for people using the experimental HTML5. The other issue is that you need to include a javascript from Google’s server, and some are reporting that this slows their page load speed significantly.

So to take the plus one button from Google to the next step and make the code xhtml compliant, you have to replace the following:

<g:plusone></g:plusone>

With this next line. Please note that the html id value can actually be whatever you want.

<div id="plusone"></div>

Then place the link to Google’s Javascript right at the end of your page, just before the body tag ends:

<script type="text/javascript"
   src="https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js">
{"lang": "en-GB", "parsetags": "explicit"}
</script>

After calling the Google plus one API you will nead to call some javascript to insert the button in place.

<script type="text/javascript">
gapi.plusone.render("plusone",
   {"size": "standard", "count": "true" });
</script>

Note that the “plusone” used here is the same “plusone” id we used in the div. The rest of the attributes: size and count, are just used for styling purposes.

If you like, you can go even further an place a div around the button div itself and set the size of the button. This is used so that the place for the div to be hold in your template be before the button loads. So the code of your div for the valid plus one button will be like this>

<div id="plus"><div id="plusone"></div></div>

If you chose to use this additional div, yo will also have to insert a small line in your .css file to set the width and height of your second div.

#plus { width: 106; height: 24; }

Conclusion
Using this code instead of the normal Google +1 code will not boost your site loading speed, but will maintain it exactly the same as the +1 button will be load after your theme and content is loaded.

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At a fraction of the cost of an iPad, Aakash is a cheap tablet that supports web browsing and video conferencing, with a 366MHz processor, 256MB memory, a 2GB SD memory card, a 32GB expandable memory slot, two USB ports, and a three hour battery life. “Our goal was to break the price barrier for computing and internet access. We’ve created a product that will finally bring affordable computing and internet access to the masses,” said Suneet Singh Tuli, chief executive, DataWind.

Aakash Tablet runs on the Android OS and  is the new buzz in the technology world. Using the browser in Aakash Tablet, you will be able to use social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace. Aakash Tablet would be the most cheapest Tablet comes to all Tablet lovers, probably the cheapest tablet in the world with all the technical specifications as you find in a normal tablet.

Akash Tablet Specifications:

Hardware:

• Processor: Connexant with Graphics accelerator and HD Video processor
• Memory (RAM): 256MB RAM / Storage (Internal): 2GB Flash
• Storage (External): 2GB to 32GB Supported
• Peripherals (USB2.0 ports, number): 1 Standard USB port
• Audio out: 3.5mm jack / Audio in: 3.5mm jack
• Display and Resolution: 7” display with 800×480 pixel resolution
• Input Devices: Resistive touch screen
• Connectivity and Networking: GPRS and WiFi IEEE 802.11 a/b/g
• Power and Battery: Up to 180 minutes on battery. AC adapter 200-240 volt range.

Software:

• OS: Android 2.2
• Document Rendering
  • Supported Document formats: DOC, DOCX, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, ODT, ODP
  • PDF viewer, Text editor
• Multimedia and Image Display
  • Image viewer supported formats: PNG, JPG, BMP and GIF
  • Supported audio formats: MP3, AAC, AC3, WAV, WMA
  • Supported video formats: MPEG2, MPEG4, AVI, FLV
• Communication and Internet
  • Web browser – Standards Compliance: XHTML 1.1 compliant, JavaScript 1.8 compliant
  • Separate application for online YouTube video
• Safety and other standards compliance
  • CE certification / RoHS certification

You can actually book the Aakash tablet online. Here is the website from you can book Aakash online: http://www.aakashdatawind.com/

You can also get more updates about Aakash Tablet from their FB fan page.

See how Aakash is made by viewing this video,

Critics say:

I is too early to say how the Aakash will be received as most cheap tablets in the past have turned out to be painfully slow.

“The thing with cheap tablets is most of them turn out to be unusable,” Rajat Agrawal of technology reviewers BGR India told Reuters news agency.

“They don’t have a very good touch screen, and they are usually very slow.”

At a fraction of the cost of an iPad, the Aakash supports web browsing and video conferencing, with a 366MHz processor, 256MB memory, a 2GB SD memory card, a 32GB expandable memory slot, two USB ports, and a three hour battery life.

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However Google have added an additional feature to their new platform, a video conference call service and chat facility called ‘Hangouts’. ‘Hangouts’ allow users to take part in a video conference with a maximum of 10 participants, while the other Social Networks does not offer video chat with more than 2 people. This video conferencing feature has driven a lot of interest to Google Plus, particularly the multi conference call service capability.

As interesting and exciting as the new platform is there are concerns over the video feature and the bandwidth demands for the multi call functionality. The system requirements for hangouts states the suggested bandwidth connection is 900kbps / 1800 kbps (up/down). Supporting multiple, multi conference calls at this connection speed could prove to be difficult for the new Google plus. The user could also experience difficulty trying to achieve the bandwidth requirements.

If businesses are looking to take advantage of Google’s video conferencing service they are likely to face difficulty with the bandwidth requirements.

For some time now video conferencing specialists have been able to provide high definition solutions at 900kbps or less (up/down), and this is unlikely to change in the near future.

The experience of group video conferencing service is smooth and very convenient to use. Google Plus is the first social network site with this one-to-many video chat for its users. This is the best way to interact and have fun with Google+ Hangouts and it certainly adds a very element to social media.

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