Thursday, September 20, 2012

Computer Programming Tools

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Gamestar Mechanic
Create your very own computer games as you go on epic quests!

Microsoft Small Basic
Learn computer programming, write your own games, and then share them with your friends.

Scratch
Make your own interactive stories with games, music and art. You can save them or share them online.

Sodaplay
Create, play, and share your own models.

Gamestar Mechanic
Create your very own computer games as you go on epic quests!

Microsoft Small Basic
Learn computer programming, write your own games, and then share them with your friends.

Kodu Game Lab
Kodu is a visual programming environment designed for building your games.

Alice
Learn fundamental 3D programming concepts to create animation for stories and games.

Codecademy
Learn and practice the basics of computer coding.

Scratch
Make your own interactive stories with games, music and art. You can save them or share them online.

Sodaplay
Create, play, and share your own models.

Gamestar Mechanic
Create your very own computer games as you go on epic quests!

Microsoft Small Basic
Learn computer programming, write your own games, and then share them with your friends.

Kodu Game Lab
Kodu is a visual programming environment designed for building your games.

Stencyl
Create your own 2D Flash games.
Learn fundamental 3D programming concepts to create animation for stories and games.

Codecademy
Learn and practice the basics of computer coding.

Monday, September 3, 2012

Learn to Code a Basic iPhone App


Developing for iOS isn't the easiest task in the world, and it's hard to know where to get started. App developer and Instructables user A-Nony-Mus decided to help out and put together a guide to get you coding your first iPhone app as well as learn the basics of the Xcode platform.

Read more here
http://lifehacker.com/5936586/learn-to-code-a-basic-iphone-app

Thursday, August 16, 2012

Free computer science online tutorial service Khan

On Wednesday, free online tutorial service Khan Academy will launch a new series of instructional videos covering the field of computer science.

"This project is going to blow the doors off Computer Science education," boasted Khan's dean of computer science and noted JavaScript programmer John Resig, in a Twitter message. "I have a feeling that people are going to have A LOT of fun with it."
 
Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free.

With over 3,300 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice, we're on a mission to help you learn what you want, when you want, at your own pace.
 
Khan Academy offers more than 3,000 free instructional videos in various subjects, including math, physics, finance, and history.
 
 
 
Introduction to programming and computer science

Learn To Code Today with Google Code University

Google Code University (GCU) does not require any registration, and materials are free to use. In Web Programming, for example, there are lectures, videos, and contributed course content to teach users how to create interactive web applications that go beyond your basic static web page. Click the link to view the material below

HTML, HML, CSS, JAVA, ASP, SQL PROGRAMMING FREE

HTML, HML, CSS, JAVA, ASP, SQL PROGRAMMING FREE

W3Schools Tutorials CLICK THE LINKS TO SEE

HTML & CSS

XML Languages


Browser Scripting

Server Scripting

Multimedia


References  

W3Schools References

HTML & CSS

XML Languages


Browser Scripting

Server Scripting

Multimedia


References  

W3Schools Examples

HTML & CSS

XML Languages


Browser Scripting

Server Scripting

Multimedia

Friday, June 29, 2012

Download YouTube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Hulu, Vevo, Facebook, WonTube, Blip.tv, Twitvide

Wondershare vDownloader is a single application which meets all your needs of video downloading allowing you to grab videos from the popular video sharing websites. It supports almost all the famous sites such as the YouTube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Hulu, Vevo, Facebook, WonTube, Blip.tv, Twitvide, and a few more. Most of the video lovers would have been using the YouTube downloaders just because YouTube is a popular video sharing website. However, the other sites mentioned above have gained popularity over the years and the demand for freemium video downloaders have risen over some time now. Wondershare vDownloader is capable of downloading videos which are of Full HD 1080p quality where this tool is very handy as it performs much better than the other available video downloading software. The software is compatible with all the three major browsers i.e. Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Chrome.

Download here


Get Your Facebook Account Under Control

You're probably well aware that this week Facebook decided to change the email address on your timeline to @facebook.com without asking you first. While it was easy enough to fix, there's plenty about the social media site that's been causing problems for users for quite awhile. Let's get them under control this weekend.

Install Social Fixer
Audit Your Approved Apps
Audit Your Facebook Privacy Settings
Clean Up Your Friends

Read how to do it here
http://lifehacker.com/5922396/get-your-facebook-account-under-control-this-weekend

Web-Based Word Processor

Bubbles attempts to turn your web browser into a place where you can write just as you would on real paper—whether that means typing a letter, making a collage, sketching notes, or a combination of the three. It provides several tools that allow you to create your own, personalized letters and easily share them with others.

Bubbles works by providing you with a blank sheet of paper and tools you'd find in a word processor and in some art applications. You can type, but you can also upload images, draw with a pen or pencil, create shapes, and more. This is practical if you want to draw something in a letter you want to send someone or just fun if you want to sketch something in some notes you're taking. Bubbles was created with social capabilities, so you can easily share what you create with a link—such as the example you see above.

Although Bubbles essentially wants to be digital paper, one of the (probably obvious) drawbacks is that your mouse or trackpad isn't exactly the best surface, just as your hand or finger isn't a great replacement for the pen. You can digital sign a letter, but how good that signature is going to look is another story. If you have a drawing tablet, or even a capacitive stylus and multitouch trackpad, you'll be in better shape. Everyone else will struggle to actually sketch like the webapp suggests. Additionally, I couldn't find a way to make text wrap around images. Doing that manually is pretty tedious, so hopefully they'll add that feature. All of that said, Bubbles is a pretty comprehensive word processor. While your hardware may not be capable of taking full advantage of its digital paper aspirations, Bubbles is mostly up to the task if you are.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Learn to type faster and with fewer errors

Have you ever wished that you had a way to practice typing so that you could become a more efficient and capable keyboard jockey? Typing at the “speed of thought,” perhaps? Enter Keybr.com — the flash–based typing instructor you’ve been waiting for!

Learn to type professionally here http://www.keybr.com/

Keybr.com is very straightforward. You can choose from three basic lessons that start with a certain number of keys on the keyboard, and then, as you progress through the lessons, more keys are introduced to the mix to make things a little tougher. As an added bonus, our software keeps track of all your mistakes and your words–per–minute (wpm) — and even creates graphs of your day–by–day performance.
But, things get even better! Once you have determined that the lessons you have completed have reached their maximum result, get ready to play with custom mode, where you can edit and personalize the text that you wish to practice! Very bare–bones, but oh, so functional.

Finally, to up the entertainment level of your typing lessons, you can import content from a web site or blog into Keybr.com to type it out.

But why even bother to learn touch typing? The answer is simple — it is healthier for you, faster and more accurate. Blogging, writing long documents and e–mails, instant messaging with your friends, and even coding sophisticated computer programs will become much easier and more enjoyable once you eliminate distraction of hunt–and–peck typing.

How long would it take for you to develop a good typing speed? It would probably take you weeks to polish your skills up to a top level, but really decent speed can be achieved in a matter of hours with daily training. We promise that we can teach you to type at a speed of above 50 words per minute in less than ten hours with our course. And who wouldn’t benefit from that?

How does Keybr.com work?
Unlike much of the teaching typing software available out there, Keybr.com does not force you to type random characters over and over again; that is simply boring and contributes very little to your learning. Instead, Keybr.com generates readable random words using the phonetic rules of your native language.

These words look almost natural, and often they really are. Typing sensible text is much easier than random letters, and it helps you to remember frequent key combinations. For example, it’s almost impossible for the letter ‘W’ to follow the ‘Z’ in English, and you will never type this combination in Keybr.com. Instead, you will type more common words, such as “the,” “that,” “with,” and so on. Keybr.com lets you introduce as few keys as possible to the lesson, adding more keys later when you feel that you are competent and fast enough on the current level. So, if you start with the keys from the Caps Lock row, then add keys form the Tab row, and then from the Shift row, you will eventually end up typing real text with capital letters and punctuation.
Keybr.com is a web–based software that runs directly in your browser. You don’t have to download or install anything! The most recent and up–to–date version is always with you. You can use it from any computer connected to the Internet, and your typing statistics are kept on the web site and available on–demand.

Thursday, May 24, 2012

How to Build a Computer from Scratch: The Complete LIFEHACKER Guide

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Lesson 1: Hardware Basics

Building a computer from scratch gives you the perfect machine for your needs, but it can be daunting the first time around. For our first lesson in building your own PC, we start with a little computer hardware basics.

Lesson 2: Choose and Buy Your Parts

In this lesson, we'll show you how to most effectively pick out and shop for your parts.

Lesson 3: Building the Computer

Assembling your computer can seem daunting, but it's actually pretty easy. In lesson 3, we show you step-by-step how to put everything together.

Lesson 4: Installing Your Operating System

Once you've put it together, you're past the difficult portion. Lesson 4 deals with installing your operating system and get everything up and running.

Lesson 5: Further Resources

There's a lot more computer-building info out there than we can fit into one Night School. In our final lesson, we share some other resources that should help you in both the building and post-building steps.
If you'd like all of these lessons in a printable PDF file, click here to download one. That way you can take it with you to the store, to your workbench, or anywhere else you may need it.

FROM LIFEHACKER

HOW TO reinstall your programs AUTOMATICALLY AND QUICKLY AFTER CRASH OR NEW COMPUTER ?


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To more efficiently install all the usual goodies —Firefox, LibreOffice, VLC Media Player, Gimp, Dropbox, AVG Free and Skype, to name a few—I turn to the first tool, Ninite (http://ninite.com), a utility that automates the process of downloading and installing software.

To use Ninite, simply visit the site, choose the applications you want to install, and download and run the Ninite installer.

A real time saver, Ninite spares you the trouble of hitting the Next button again and again on different installers, and automatically rejects offers to install toolbars and other junk programs.

A Ninite installer always gets the latest version of the applications you choose, no matter when you downloaded it. To update installed software, simply run the Ninite installer again.

Software choices are fairly extensive, with support for four popular browsers, nine messaging clients, 15 multimedia programs (including iTunes, Winamp and VLC), seven runtimes and plug-ins (including Flash), seven imaging applications, eight office productivity packages (including MS Office, OpenOffice and LibreOffice), seven anti-virus and anti-spyware programs and more than 30 other utilities.

LEARN TO CODE PROGRAMMING & WEB DESIGN


 CLICK THE LINKS BELOW TO READ THE TRAINING ARTICLE

HTML5 Quick Learning Guide

Learn the Basics of Coding

Learn to Code: The Full Beginner's Guide

If you've been looking to learn how to code, we can help you get started. Here are 4.5 lessons on the basics and extra resources to keep you going. Check out our complete compendium of guides to teach you how to learn programming from scratch.

The basics of programming

Top 10 Pro Tips and Tools for Budding Web Developers and Designers

Web development and design are two great skills to have because they allow you to work from anywhere and create amazing, beautiful sites and apps. Nonetheless, it can be hard to get started when you don't know what to do.

Grovo Offers Video Tutorials and Tips for Some of the Web’s Most Popular Services The next time someone asks you "Why should I use Twitter," or "How would I get started with Evernote," instead of sighing deeply and writing a massive email to them or directing them to a useless help page, send them over to Grovo.

The next time someone asks you "Why should I use Twitter," or "How would I get started with Evernote," instead of sighing deeply and writing a massive email to them or directing them to a useless help page, send them over to Grovo. 

See the video by clicking the link below

http://lifehacker.com/5889903/grovo-offers-video-tutorials-and-tips-for-some-of-the-webs-most-popular-services

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

10 Windows keyboard shortcuts you need to know

You may already know about CTRL+ALT+DELETE and ALT+TAB, but what about the all-important F1 key? And what happens when you hit the shift key five times? Read on for 10 keyboard shortcuts that every Windows user should have at their fingertips.

1. CTRL + ALT + DELETE


The last resort (well, besides the power button) for many a Windows user after a program freezes on the desktop, this essential three-key combo call up the Windows Task Manager, which lets you pinpoint and close a misbehaving application.
Note: on Windows 7 systems, CTRL+ALT+DELETE calls up a screen with other options besides launching the Task Manager, including locking the computer, switching the current user, and logging off altogether.

2. ALT + TAB


Here’s another keyboard shortcut every Windows user should know. Press ALT+TAB to call up a rectangular window with icons representing your currently running programs; just “tab” over to the app you want, then hit Enter to make the switch.

3. F1


Need a little help? Tap the F1 key at the top of your keyboard to launch a Help window for the application you’re currently using, or for Windows in general.

4. CTRL + ESC, or the Windows key


Gives you instant access to the Start Menu; just use the arrow keys to navigate to the program, directory, or option you want, then hit Enter to select.

5. ALT + F4


Closes the active window you have open, such as an open Internet Explorer window. Also, if the window you’re closing is the only one that’s open for a given program, the app in question will go ahead and quit.

6. Windows key + the “E” key


Launches Windows Explorer, the essential desktop browser for all the applications, directories (like your personal Windows user directory), documents, and other system files on your PC.

7. Windows key + “M” key


Need to see your desktop this instant? Use this keyboard combo to minimize every open window at once, thus revealing the Windows desktop.

8. Windows key + SHIFT + “M” key


So, you found that missing file on your desktop, and you’re ready to dive back into that Excel chart. Now what? Strike this trio of keys to restore all the windows you just minimized.

9. Windows key + “L”


Sends you instantly to the Windows lock screen, perfect for hiding your work (or your Facebook wall) during a quick trip to the restroom.

10. Pressing the SHIFT key five times


So, what exactly does striking the shift key five times in rapid succession get you? Well, it’ll turn on a Windows feature called “Sticky Keys,” which lets you press the shift, control, “alt,” or Windows keys one at a time rather than all at once—handy for anyone who has trouble dealing with complex keyboard combinations.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Learning Android Programming

There are countless methods out there for learning Android development from the Android Bootcamp video series to the boatload of print publications currently in circulation to Google's own Android tutorials. 

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 Looking to create something both unique and helpful however, Android Cookbook has compiled a crowd-sourced set of recipes for "writing great Android apps," making them available for free online.




The online cookbook, which relies on user recipe submission and group moderation, was recently finalized for publication by O'Reilly, meaning it's now available both on the web and in print from various retailers. In its 22 chapters (plus an "other" category available online), the cookbook already has nearly 300 recipes for those eager to learn Android, and it continues to expand.



If example-based tutorials are your preferred method of learning, Android Cookbook is a great (free) resource.