Monday, July 25, 2011
How to use CSS to display rating stars in Blogger, Blogspot
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Khyati
Rating stars are widely used in Blogger blog posts. Everyone will be Reviewing some or the other things using Blogger. But I have never come across any of the posts which will describe how to use CSS to display rating stars in Blogger. Hence, I am writing this post to describe how to display rating stars in Blogger. Rating stars are star like images that indicates the rating of an item. The more stars, the better is the product. Usually we find a scale of 0 to 5 stars, and most often these are in increments of half-stars of even full-stars only.In this tutorial we’ll discuss how we can "use CSS to display the stars" in a very elegant manner. It even allows to show any rating very clearly, so you’d be able to distinguish a rating of 3.8 from...
Posted in: How-TosThursday, July 21, 2011
How to find out Human Head Weight?
How much your head weighs? If someone asks this question, it seems to be funny to us. But did we ever try to get answer of this question? How can I weigh my head? Well, sometimes answer to this question may be terrible as well!!! Because some people might think that to weigh a head, I should ask some magician who will detach my head, then weigh it and again fix it. What about lying down and placing head on a scale?Thank God, Science has answer to it. So we should not rely upon above solutions. 1. Get a (very) large metric measuring tub placed into another tub and a friend. 2. Ask him to tie a rope on your leg and hang you upside down. 3. Fill the tub with enough water to fully submerge your head. 4. Make sure the tub is fully filled with water...
Posted in: Sci-TechMonday, July 18, 2011
Why buttered toast falls butter side down?
Have you ever observed a Buttered toast? A Buttered toast that is falling from your dinning table, kitchen table or platform where you often butter your bread slices. If you have observed it carefully you will find that the toast has fallen to the floor - butter side down!!!! In ancient Rome, parents apparently visibly worried about their children's toast falling and landing buttered-side down, since the breakfast table accident supposedly forecasted as bad luck. So, does a floor mysteriously favours butterry side? Or Butter is so heavy that it always flips bread and make it fall - Butter side down? Or Any Other Myths? Lets explore from Physics point of view, Why Buttered toast falls butter side down? As per law of physics it all depends how...
Posted in: Sci-TechThursday, July 7, 2011
Facebook VideoCalling Feature Reviewed
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced last week that the company had planned to “…launch something awesome” this week. Finally we know what he meant by saying this. Facebook has unveiled a new feature that allows you to make video calls right from your browser, just like Google+ does It with its Hangout feature. It was in news that something was cooking between Facebook and Skype, and now we know what that was. The new video calling feature has been made possible with the partnership between FB and Skype. Now, don’t worry because you don’t need to install Skype but a small add-in will do the job of integrating Skype video calling feature within your browser. On the hardware front, you need a webcam, a headset or speakers and a microphone....
Posted in: How-TosMonday, July 4, 2011
Is your Point and Shoot Camera HDyed or 3Dyed Yet? Demystify PS Cameras
This quick buying guide on Point and Shoot Camera is intended for end users who want to purchase new Point and Shoot camera. Confused customers who have little or no knowledge on how to buy Point and Shoot camera. Most of these consumers have very well used their mobile phones cameras and they want to discover photography world. It is very easy to say that the cameras on mobile phones don’t really provide same kind of performance and functionality as a digital camera would. And hence the demands of Point and Shoot Cameras are increasing in market. Where there is demand, there are competent players. What is Megapixles? Are Megapixels more important in camera? More Megapixels you have the better is the camera. These are some of the myths and...
Posted in: How-TosFriday, July 1, 2011
Nokia Reinvents Older Generation Mobile phones
Well there’s something new in Nokia’s sac. Nokia is reinventing the older generation mobile phones. Now this is what a good news for all older generation mobile phone user. Nokia will be definitely appreciated for this good move. Nokia has announced firmware updates for their Symbian 3.2 and Symbian 5 platforms. Few refreshing changes for handsets are also being announced.
Few of the changes which are expected:
New emoiticons in MMSes.
Upgrading to Nokia browser v7.3: This browser is available for Latest Symbian Anna running smartphones. Nokia claims that this will result in faster, better browing experience and it will also support for International Domain Names (IDN).
Updates in OVI Maps: Symbian 3.2 handsents will have OVI Maps 3...
Posted in: NewsQuit Smoking by Motivational SMSes
Want to see your loved ones quit smoking? Then, send them motivational text messages, as they double their chances of giving up the habit, scientists say. A British Medical Research Council study, published in the medical journal The Lancet, found that participants were twice as likely to expel their habit after receiving messages designed to encourage quit smoking. Dr Caroline Free, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine who led the “txt2stop” trial, said, “Text messages are a very convenient way for smokers to receive support to quit. “People described txt2stop as being like having a friend encouraging them or an angel on their shoulder. It helped people resist the temptation to smoke.”The trial tested the effects of motivational...
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