Login to Same Site with Multiple Account using Firefox

If you want to access multiple login to a same website (viz. Facebook, Gmail) then here’s a simple three steps trick for you. It’s outlying from enabling private browsing, or access multiple login from different browser. This might be useful when you are with your friends, and all want to access Facebook at a time, or many of us own more than one Gmail account and this is one of the most annoying aspects of dealing with it is the fact that you cannot have more than one opened at a time.

Your techie mind will say to open different browsers and also enabling private browsing for each of them. For example, open Google Chrome, Firefox, IE all at once and login to the required site with different username from each browser. Hence, you’ll able to use 3 usernames. Again open private browsing and login to the same site with another 3 new usernames. This time you’ll have a total of 6 user login in the same site.

You’re quite familiar with the above trick but the DRAWBACK is –
• You’ll lose your processing power since 3 browsers are running actively.
• This might not be possible if you have low configuration system.

But using some extensions added to Firefox, you would be able to do it all in one browser. Multifox is an extension that allows Firefox to connect to websites using different usernames…simultaneously!

Let’s try Multifox!

To install Multifox extension to your Firefox, all you have to follow is 3 basic steps:

1) go to Multifox Homepage and click on Install Extension (be sure that you are browsing from Mozilla Firefox browser only).

2) Install it.

3) Finally, restart your Firefox.

Now you’ve installed the new extension successfully.

Let’s play with it!

• Go to File (Alt + F) and click on New Identity Profile.

• This will open a new window of Firebox browser. Make note of the 2 at the right corner of the address bar.

This says that it’s the second window. Opening the new tab or new window with Browser window 2, you’ll have the same session for all the new windows and tabs.

• But in case you repeat the same process (Go to File and click on New Identity Profile), you’ll have another new Browser window with 3 indicated in it.

Hence, in this way you can access unlimited number of accounts in same website with different username.

How to Activate new Google Navigational Bar

Everyday Google is experimenting and making changes in different things like Google's doodle or services as Youtube, Reader, GMail and now the latest update is the navigation bar or as it is known, "Google Bar". This change adds up a navigation bar from top to the left hand side of your browser window. Through this change the appearance of the Google page look cool and much more attractive & simple to navigate to other Google services. 

Before starting with the activation of the navigation bar, it is important to know that this tutorial only works bearing accounts or service in the English language (U.S.) i.e. to make change, we need to have Google+ accounts, Gmail, Reader in that language and having a Google Chrome Browser. Once said that, here are the steps:

1) You’ll have to download and install the free extension called as Edit This Cookie for Google Chrome.

2) Once installed, go to Google homepage (i.e. www.google.com) since as said before the change is only available with English language, hence this won’t work for many countries like, google.it, google.de, etc. 

3) You’ll see a Cookie on the omnibar or top-right corner of your browser (refer screenshot).

4) Navigate to the PREF section, and change its value with:

ID=03fd476a699d6487:U=88e8716486ff1e5d:FF=0:LD=en:CR=2:TM=1322688084:LM=1322688085:S=McEsyvcXKMiVfGds

Apply your changes and reload the page. You should have now the new Google navigation bar.

Google activates 700,000 Android devices per day

On 20^th December, Andy Rubin one of the Founder of Google Inc. and currently Senior Vice President of Mobile at Google announced on Google+  that more than 700,000 Android devices are being getting activated daily. That makes to 29,166 devices activated every hour, or 486 devices every minute, or by the time you finish reading this post. Or to be more exact, 8 devices per second.

Rubin also explained how the term “Activation” counts to:

"We count each device only once (i.e. we don't count re-sold devices), and "activations" means you go into a store, buy a device, put it on the network by subscribing to a wireless service."

Android and iOS measures their growth according number of devices Activations. This is a fine way to know that if someone actually using the devices. It is obvious that, mobile phone devices that are laying on the store shelves would not be counted.

It looks like Google is on the path with the amplified count of handsets in the Android network. But what can't see from the illustration graph, is the share of Android tablets being released. Google does not split the activation numbers into tablet or smartphone sections. But we expect that the tablet sale has increased during the last two years. If that is the case, the number of new Android smartphone activations does not climb like it used to.

Samsung announces two Dual sim Android powered smartphones

Samsung announces two new smartphones Samsung Galaxy Y DUOS and Samsung Galaxy Y Pro DUOS, satisfying the desires of the budding market.

Both the new DUOS smartphones runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread and comes with a 3 megapixel fixed-focus camera. Plus with additional features viz. Bluetooth, Wi-fi, GPS, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, FM radio and a 3.5mm audio jack.

The Galaxy Y DUOS is a touch smartphone that comes with a 3.14 inch QVGA screen and 320x240 resolution. The smartphone has a 512MB of internal memory and external memory can be expanded up to 32GB. It consists of a 384MB RAM memory, an 832 MHz processor and comes with a 1300mAh battery. A 2GB microSD card would be embraced with the package of the Dual-sim smartphone.

         

Samsung Galaxy Y DUOS

The Galaxy Y Pro DUOS is giving up some of the screen area for the QWERTY keypad and hence comes with a 2.6 inch QVGA touch screen with a 400x200 resolution. The rest specifications are the same i.e. it has the same memory, RAM and processor but the Y Pro DUOS comes with a slighter larger battery of 1350mAh.  

        

Samsung Galaxy Y Pro DUOS

The Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos disclosed a many a times last week, so we can't truly say we are amazed to see it go official now.

Samsung haven’t announced any further information or the pricing of either the DUOS smartphones, but I’ll do my best to update you, once announced.

Transform your Windows XP into Windows 7

Have you got bored with the old Windows XP look? Wanna transform your Windows XP to newly Windows 7 keeping it XP. Meaning, your Operating System would remain Windows XP besides the looks or the theme will tainted to Windows 7.

Many users still prefers to use Windows XP as their Operating System even after the evolution of further versions viz. Vista and Windows 7. Even I personally prefer to use Windows XP as there are some applications that are unable to run on Windows 7 on the contrary successfully runs on XP. I am not articulating that Windows XP is better than Windows 7, it depends upon the users' demands and requirements.

So, if you are using Windows XP and want to experience Windows 7 without installing it, then here is Seven Remix XP transformation pack to transform Windows XP to Windows 7.With this simple app you can make your XP look like Windows 7 in just few clicks. It supports Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Media Center Edition and some other flavors of XP. This app will work with only 32 bit edition of Windows.

Screenshots:

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Seven Remix 2.5.rar (23.3 MB)

The War of the Smartphones

There is a battle in progress - the winner will take a profitable chunk out of the mobile phone market and with it the ad and app revenue generated therein. The problem is that the media, bloggers, journalists and even the public believe there is an on-going battle between Google and Apple/BlackBerry in progress. But in reality this isn't the case, far from it, in reality Apple and BlackBerry are competitors as they have handsets which use a proprietary operating system and then they spend a small fortune marketing the brand. Google does something else. It does not make handsets (granted the Nexus is a Google handset but made and co-branded by Samsung) and it does not sell its operating system (it gives it freely to handset manufacturers under terms which allow Google services to interact within the network and handset to generate advertising revenue).

This creates a quandary whereby Apple and RIM are creating in all intense and purposes 'lifestyle' devices incarceration within a pre-determined ecosystem and enclosed application-based environment but Google leaves the portcullis to the castle open to anyone able to adapt, develop and thereafter resell their software. The problem is that Apple/RIM are intoxicated by their own 'brand', although that is not to say Android isn't a brand it's just what that brand means and therein becomes associated with is completely different to anything Apple or RIM create and distribute.

Market share

So, what the issue here surrounds is that of the public perception whereby 'Google' is going to steal or beat Apple and RIM into inferiority within the smartphone market. However this just isn't the case, in reality a free Google product will help to see an increase in market share, but that does not mean Google captures that market share for its self. HTC or Samsung capture that market. We need to remember that Handsets and Operating Systems, partially due to the success of Android, have become divorced from one another. This cleavage creates a perception  problem and one that needs to be cleared up.

Manufacturer Operating system share

Android is battling BlackBerry and Apple

Apple makes the iPhone. The iPhone is in incredible piece of both technological and marketing accomplishment yet it's operating system iOS is confined to the Apple mobile computing environment. You cant install iOS on a BlackBerry 9780 or a HTC Sensation. So that means Android cannot be compared to Apple or BlackBerry in the same way. Yet, this is what has happened so far. The question is can this be healthy for the future of Android.

The argument about Android's open eco-system are predominantly based on the Wintel arguments of the 1990s where, generally perceived, PC manufacturers and Software manufacturers colluded to bring down quality and technical excellence so as they could compete on a race to the bottom. Price was everything and that's how Intel, Windows and HP/Dell or IBM won out! The arguments are transplanted into the twenty first century that Google's Android will with Samsung, HTC and Sony Erricson's help see 'excellence' eroded through a battle of 'dumbing down' and racing to the bottom and competing on price.

Customer Views'

Yet, the issue here is that we are arguing that BlackBerry and Apple, the undoubted smartphone pioneers, worked hard to keep their phones at a certain cost level so as to retain their incredibly profitable revenue streams from collapsing because of engineering excellence. Apple and RIM make billions from selling phones, so when Android came along and people like DoCoMo, Huwaei and HTC created mid-range phones offering similar experiences to the iPhone or BlackBerry but at a substantially reduced price this created the perfect storm to occur within the mobile phone market. Apple and RIM went tooth and nail for the premium customers whilst Android's open handset alliance went all out for the budget and mid-size customers. The result was the undoubtedly that Android would dominate the smartphone market. Android handsets are shipping at 3-1 to Apple or RIM handsets according to Catalyst/comScore but, importantly, to different customers. 

Apple and RIM are rivals but Google's Android isn't, yet, a competitive rival to these two smartphone rivals.

PHP Captcha Code

In this tutorial I will explain how to create a Captcha in PHP. We are using some of the features available in PHP for creating an image. This is very simple and basic tutorial and we are not using any custom fonts for generating captcha image. And we know that captcha code used to avoid spam/abuse or auto-submission.


       

Captcha.php

<?php
session_start();
$ranStr = md5(microtime());
$ranStr = substr($ranStr, 0, 6);
$_SESSION['cap_code'] = $ranStr;
$newImage = imagecreatefromjpeg("cap_bg.jpg");
$txtColor = imagecolorallocate($newImage, 0, 0, 0);
imagestring($newImage, 5, 5, 5, $ranStr, $txtColor);
header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
imagejpeg($newImage);
?>

Verifying captcha code is equal or not
Here we are storing a captcha code in SESSION variable and while verifying we have to compare the session variable with user entered data.
$_SESSION['cap_code'] - is having actual captcha code
$_POST['captcha'] - user entered captcha code

<?php
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
{
if ($_POST['captcha'] == $_SESSION['cap_code'])
{
// Captcha verification is Correct. Do something here!
}
else 
{
// Captcha verification is wrong. Take other action
}
}
?>

Read This

The below html/CSS/Jquery code I used is just for an extra enhancement only and all the code is not needed actually. The above code is enough to check whether Human Verification is correct or wrong.

index.php
Contains HTML and PHP code. Image scr='captcha.php'

<?php
session_start();
$cap = 'notEq'; // This php variable is passed to jquery variable to show alert
if ($_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD'] == 'POST')
{
if ($_POST['captcha'] == $_SESSION['cap_code'])
{
// Captcha verification is Correct. Do something here!
$cap = 'Eq';
}
else
{
// Captcha verification is wrong. Take other action
$cap = '';
}
}
?>
<html>
<body>
<form action="" method="post">
<label>Name:</label><br/>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name"/>
<label>Message:</label><br/>
<textarea name="msg" id="msg"></textarea>
<label>Enter the contents of image</label>
<input type="text" name="captcha" id="captcha" />
<img src='captcha.php' />
<input type="submit" value="Submit" id="submit"/>
</form>
<div class="cap_status"></div>
</body>
</html>

Javascript

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/
ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function()
{
$('#submit').click(function()
{
var name = $('#name').val();
var msg = $('#msg').val();
var captcha = $('#captcha').val();
if( name.length == 0)
{
$('#name').addClass('error');
}
else
{
$('#name').removeClass('error');
}
if( msg.length == 0)
{
$('#msg').addClass('error');
}
else
{
$('#msg').removeClass('error');
}
if( captcha.length == 0)
{
$('#captcha').addClass('error');
}
else
{
$('#captcha').removeClass('error');
}
if(name.length != 0 && msg.length != 0 && captcha.length != 0)
{
return true;
}
return false;
});
var capch = '<?php echo $cap; ?>';
if(capch != 'notEq')
{
if(capch == 'Eq')
{
$('.cap_status').html("Your form is successfully Submitted").fadeIn('slow').delay(3000).fadeOut('slow');
}
else
{
$('.cap_status').html("Human verification Wrong!").addClass('cap_status_error').fadeIn('slow');
}
}
});
</script>

CSS

body{
width: 600px;
margin: 0 auto;
padding: 0;
}

#form{
margin-top: 100px;
width: 350px;
outline: 5px solid #d0ebfe;
border: 1px solid #bae0fb;
padding: 10px;
}

#form label
{
font:bold 11px arial;
color: #565656;
padding-left: 1px;
}

#form label.mandat
{
color: #f00;
}

#form input[type="text"]
{
height: 30px;
margin-bottom: 8px;
padding: 5px;
font: 12px arial;
color: #0060a3;
}

#form textarea
{
width: 340px;
height: 80px;
resize: none;
margin: 0 0 8px 1px;
padding: 5px;
font: 12px arial;
color: #0060a3;
}

#form img
{
margin-bottom: 8px;
}

#form input[type="submit"]
{
background-color: #0064aa;
border: none;
color: #fff;
padding: 5px 8px;
cursor: pointer;
font:bold 12px arial;
}

.error
{
border: 1px solid red;
}

.cap_status
{
width: 350px;
padding: 10px;
font: 14px arial;
color: #fff;
background-color: #10853f;
display: none;
}

.cap_status_error
{
background-color: #bd0808;
}

Motorola RAZR review

Motorola has formally announced the slimmest 4G LTE networks supporting new Motorola RAZR in US. This new handset will be made available as Motorola DROID RAZR through Verizon Wireless exclusively. The Motorola RAZR has 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display that supports quarter-HD resolution. Packing a dual-core mobile processor, the contract-free pricing of this handset remains unknown and will be available from next month onwards.

Previously, the handset was known as the DROID RAZR, DROID HD and even Motorola Spyder. Sanjay Jha, CEO for Motorola Mobility unveiled the new Motorola RAZR at the launch even in US. Motorola RAZR promises external strength with the chassis built from KEVLAR fiber and measures mere 7.1-mm stunning slim. Also it comes with water repellent nanocoating that protects the phone against water spills.


Design


The 4.3-inch Super AMOLED display promises sturdy nature with Corning Gorilla Glass technology to be scratch resistant. Motorola RAZR is the first smartphone with qHD (960x540) resolution and featuring Super AMOLED display. For the eager souls, this smartphone runs Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread with a touch of new Blue Blur custom user interface.

The Hardware

Under the slim body, the Motorola RAZR houses a dual-core 1.2 GHz mobile processor coupled with 1GB RAM on board. By default this smartphone will come with 16GB onboard memory and 16GB memory card bundled with it.


This smartphone will support high speed 4G LTE networks for data connectivity and also offer HD quality video chat. The front facing HD camera is usable for HD video chat over 4G LTE, 3G or WiFi networks. Also the 4G LTE mobile hotspot features accommodates up to eight WiFi devices at once.

The 8-megapixel image sensor bearing HD camera at the back comes with 1080p HD video recording capability and image stabilization technology for clear and crisp imagery. Besides that, this smartphone contains GPS chip, low energy consuming Bluetooth 4.0 and WiFi support.


Loaded with enterprise level security features, Jha also gave a sneak peak to the new MotoCast feature that creates a personal cloud for the user to stream data from PC. To power this super slim yet big screen bearing smartphone, Motorola has added 1780mAh battery that will make it last longer, especially on 4G LTE networks.


Launch & Price


Motorola will make this phone available in early November along with bunch of accessories like the Laptop Dock 500 with bigger keyboard.


Clove will be selling the phone for a sim-free price of £379, with the first stock expected around November 1st.

Specifications

Networks:	2G:	GSM 850/900/1800/1900   CDMA 800/1900
	3G:	HSPDA 850/900/2100   CDMA2000 1xEV-DO / LTE
Operating System:	Android v2.3.5 (Gingerbread)
3.5 mm jack:	Yes
USB:	Yes, microUSB v2.0
Display:	4.3-inches Super AMOLED screen, 540X960 pixels
Camera:	Primary		8MP, autofocus, dual-LED flash
	Secondary		Yes, 2MP, 720p videos
Memory:	Internal		16 GB storage, 1GB RAM
	Card slot		microSD, up to 32GB, 16GB included
Size:	Dimension		130.7 x 68.9 x 7.1 mm
	Weight		127 grams
Bluetooth:	Yes, v4.0 with LE+EDR
GPS:	Yes, with A-GPS support
Battery:	Standard Li-Ion, 1780 mAh
	Stand-by		up to 204 h
	Talk time		up to 12 h 30 min
Special features:	-  Java, via MIDP emulator        -  HDMI port        -  Digital compass        - MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA player  - MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
Processor:	1.2 GHz, dual core