Why Teachers are So Stressed

August 23rd, 2009 Posted in Web 2.0

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Ubuntu Netbooks

August 18th, 2009 Posted in Ubuntu

In the Netbook market, Ubuntu is the clear winner, with Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and the other  hardware OEMs like ZaReason shipping Ubuntu-based Netbooks. But it’s not yet clear what “winner” means. Microsoft, after all, still apparently claims 90 percent of all Netbooks shipped with Windows.
UbuntuNetbookMillions of users have already come to the consensus that Ubuntu is the most compatible, and thus, it’s the number one most popular Linux distribution, and is currently running on 25 % of all netbooks.
Canonical has collaborated with Intel and is working with a number of OEM’s to deliver Ubuntu on netbooks in retail. Ubuntu Netbook Remix is an optimized and  most feature-rich open platform for netbooks.
Ubuntu Netbook Remix offers an enhanced user experience with more intuitive icons, consistent notifications across applications and numerous design changes that give the product more visual appeal
Dell and others are said to be prepping Android netbooks, and low-power ARM-based netbooks and “smartbooks” are heading for shelves this holiday season, as well as being distributed via wireless carriers. On Intel Atom netbooks, Moblin 2.0 should offer a richer Linux experience that is more targeted at the netbook format. » Read more

Moving Options inside a Select Box using Jquery

August 13th, 2009 Posted in Web 2.0

Using Jquery  we can easily move or change the order of options inside an input select element. For eg consider the  the following select box and we need to move the option element “other” to the end of the list or after the element “goa”

<select id=”myselectbox” name=”state” >
<option>Select a state</option>
<option>Kerala</option>
<option>Other</option>
<option>Goa</option>
<option>Delhi</option>
</select>

We can use Jquery manipulation function like append, prepend, appendTo, prependTo, insertAfter,insertBefore for moving the options inside the select box.

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Vaccination for H1NI or swine flu

August 11th, 2009 Posted in Our World

The race to develop a swine flu vaccine is on. A day after the H1N1 influenza was declared a pandemic, there was heightened activity with Indian pharma majors  like Novartis, GlaxoSmithswine_flu_h1n1_ symptomsKline and Sanofi speeding up plans to manufacture a vaccine that will immunize populations against the disease.
Indian vaccine majors like Serum Institute of India, Bharat Biotech and Panacea Biotec too are hoping to make a vaccine which can be administered as a ‘flu shot’ within six months.

More than 700 people have already died from the H1NI virus worldwide.
In Australia  also a trials for the vaccine will be conducted on some 600 adult and child volunteers at the Royal Adelaide Hospital in South Australia. They will be receiving two injections of the vaccine, three weeks apart.

Doctors will analyze the participants who have got both standard and increased dosage and look to find at what dose they develop an appropriate immune response. Melbourne-based CSL company will test the vaccine for the H1N1 virus.

Mozilla Jetpack – HTML Based Extensions

August 11th, 2009 Posted in Open Source, Web 2.0

Mozilla Labs has launched a new project called Jetpack to explore new ways to extend & personalize the Web. Jetpack is an open source project to enhance the browser, with the goal of allowing anyone who can build a Web site to participate in making the Web a better place to work, communicate and play.

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In short, Jetpack is an API for allowing you to write Firefox add-ons using the web technologies you already know like  HTML, CSS and Javascript etc. » Read more

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