Like every budding photographer I went on a quest to find out the best DSLR Camera that I can afford. Being a 22 year old software engineer, who wants to fund his own expenses, the maximum I can afford is 50K Rupees. How did I come to that number – 50K? Life always has unlimited number of ifs and buts. And given my financial circumstances all I can manage is 50K. Also photography, being just a hobby and not a profession, I cannot afford the luxury of buying new models as and when they are released. So this will be just a one-time investment. Well, the starting price of a decent SLR Camera is about 30K but it’s definitely one of those old models. But don’t you think that it is not too much of a compromise at least when I am planning to use this camera for the next 5 years? And thus, out of sheer enthusiasm and greed, Read more
Introduction to D-SLR ( Single Lens Reflex ) and SLT ( Single Lens Translucent ) SLT is a type of camera by Sony which is used in its Alpha family of products which replaced D-SLR cameras. To know about the differences between a D-SLR and SLT Camera we must understand the way cameras operate to capture the image. SLT technology used by Sony in its Alpha family of products has replaced the D-SLR cameras. But why? To answer this, let us first try to understand the operation of both D-SLR and SLT cameras. Guess it’s now time to brush up some concepts of physics! Let us go with the traditional approach of following the chronology. So, the D-SLR comes first. Digital Single Lens Reflexive [ D-SLR ] Camera : In a D-SLR camera light will enter through the lens and passes through a partially transparent mechanical mirror system which is placed at an angle of 45 degrees so that it Read more
Creating a ZIP File using PHP is very simple using the built-in Class “ZipArchive“. All one has to do is create an instance of this class and use the methods of this class to create the zip file. Lets take a look how we can create a zip file. The snippet for creating a zip file is <?php if (isset($_FILES['upload']) === true ){ $files = $_FILES['upload']; $zip = new ZipArchive(); $zip->open('zipname.zip', ZipArchive::CREATE); for( $i = 0; $i < count($files['name']); $i++) { $tmpname = $files['tmp_name'][$i]; $name = $files['name'][$i]; move_uploaded_file($tmpname, $name); $zip->addFile($name); } $zip->close(); echo "File(s) have been zipped"; } ?> <form action="" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data"> <input type="file" name="upload[]" multiple> <input type="submit" value="Archive"> </form> To understand how we have created the ZIP file, there are 4 very simple steps that involved in creating the zip file. 1. Creating the instance for “ZipArchive” Class. You have to create an instance for this class using standard PHP syntax. The following PHP Code lets Read more
WordPress recently from its version 3.0 have started a new feature called Featured Image where we need to set Featured Image for every individual post manually before we are going to publish the post. Although it is a great feature many of our previous posts doesn’t have featured image and day by day many new themes have started using this feature because of which we may miss some design aspects of the new theme because of not having a featured image. To work around this problem we can convert / set first image of your wordpress post as a featured image. We can achieve this requirement using following two simple SQL Queries. For using this particular select queries you need to access your database either through SQL Command Prompt or Front End PHPMyAdmin. Note: You need to change the prefix of tables in the above select query if you are using prefix any other than “WP” To explain about the Read more
There are guys who maintain hidden folders and try to access them directly using the windows explorer address bar and you know what when you are typing next time you will find that the address you have typed is stored in windows explorer history. You will hurry up to clearing the history of recent items and windows explorer but sadly the steps you have taken will not workout as it is under Auto Complete data which is not cleared using Clear History option. So in this post let us see both the easy and hardest way to clear the history data from internet explorer address bar history. Steps to Delete Windows Explorer Address bar history Whenever you type some address in your address bar of your windows explorer it creates a registry entry in the following path. So, Now we will delete the registry strings that are stored in the following path to delete any history entry alternatively you can Read more
Pronouncing a name correctly is not so easy when you come across unfamiliar names. Probably you might join in a new client engagement and come across a situation where you need to talk to your foreign client and embarrassingly you don’t know how to pronounce his name. In such cases you probably should have to consider how to pronounce name of the client in advance. Some of the popular names had been entered in dictionary and you can learn how to pronounce them using google itself by just typing meaning after the name and clicking on the speaker icon in the search result. But they do not contain all the names that you are looking for. So, here comes the solution in the form of few websites which maintains huge list of database of names along with their pronunciation. Best Sources for How to Pronounce Names Pronounce names is an initiative by Pinky Thakkar who realized that pronouncing a name Read more
VLC is one of the most popular open source applications that have been installed in many of our personal computers. Many of us know VLC as a media player but it can also be used as a convert, transcode and rip media. If you wonder why you should use VLC to convert video formats then answer is simple, it is already installed in your personal computer and you don’t need to install any other video converter software’s. If you haven’t installed VLC yet in your PC then probably you might have to consider installing VLC as it is a very useful all in one media playback application. How to Convert Video using VLC Step 1 : Open VLC Media Player and select “Convert / Save” option from “Media” menu alternatively you can use “Ctrl + R” shortcut key to access the option. Step 2 : Select the media file that needs to be converted by selecting “Add” option under File Read more
Minify Definition : Minifying / Minification is the process of compressing a file without changing any of the functionalities by removing unwanted spaces, new lines, comments from its content there by reducing the file size and improving page load time. This process will make the content in the file unreadable but every functionality of the code will remain unchanged. Minification and Search Engine Optimization : SEO is not just about keywords and links, it is more than that. Google has over 200 signals based on which a particular page ranks above other. Surely, Improving your page load time would be one of the factors for SEO. It not only improves your blogs SEO performance but also improves conversion factors which in turn again can be SEO factor. How to Minify CSS ? CSS Minification is one of the many aspects of improving page speed and is one of the most common practices by many webmasters, If you haven’t heard of Read more