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JotForm - Efficient Form building for email / web

JotForm is one of the best tools to create a form for your website or to mail some group and get responses.
Its features are -
1. Easy to use Interface
2. Drag and Drop form elements
3. Choose from the 40 form elements
4. Variety of themes
5. Customizable email responses
6. No registration required

All that you need to do is just log on to their site

http://www.jotform.com

And start building your new form.

You can add captcha, a rating scale, a grade scale, and many more survey tools. You can also apply validation rules to your fields. Most common fields like email and phone numbers are automatically validated.

When you save the form it asks for your email id to which responses of that form will be sent to. Best part is that you can completely customize the responses using another simple interface. You can get the URL of the form or the code that links to it so that you can then embed it into your website.

Following screenshots will help you understand it better.

Creating a form using JotForm. Add any tools from the side pane.

Saving your email id to which your form responses will be sent.

Customizing your email responses

Use the tools in top panel to edit Email Alerts, Thank you message, Share the form, Get Source Code or to set the preferences.

The finished form. Look at the URL. This is created for you.

Google Body Browser - An educational tool by google

Google has released the new Body Brow ser in its Lab website. It is an educational tool built to completely browse the various parts of a human body. Initially you find a woman dressed in a blue attire and on the left side are your controls that guide you to browse through her. You can rip her skin off(not the clothes) and see the organisation of various organs, bone structure, muscular tissues, nervous system and much more.

Google Body Browser gives you a variety of controls. You can control the depth of visibility of bones, organs, muscles and nerves either individually or in a chained way. Enabling the labeling option will label the various visible parts. Search option given in marvelous in giving instant result by animating the body.

Google Body Browser is yet another showcase of HTML5's beauty. The Body browser also needs WebGL support which is not implemented in most browsers other than Firefox and Chrome Beta. Download the beta version of the Chrome from here and try the Body Browser by logging in to bodybrowser.googlelabs.com or you can just check out the video on youtube here.

The Body browser is still in Google Labs and expected to have much more features in the times to come.

Get started with Google Chrome's Web Store

Chrome has come out with a new store for webapps called Chrome Web Store. Not probably a completely new concept if you look at Apple's AppStore and Android's 'Market', but definitely a new functionality for browsers. Chrome web store is probably a small step of Google's towards the Chrome OS which is in its beta testing side. Initially launched only for US users, it is now open to the world. So what exactly do you find in the Chrome Web Store?

After I logged on to their web store, I installed few and realized that they're only packaged bookmarks which doesn't do anything more than just redirecting to the website(the very first app I downloaded was the Blogger app which only redirected me to http://blogger.com). Disappointing? yes. But it doesn't end there. There are some exclusive apps that use HTML5, which is the latest major revision of HTML and still under development (see wiki). Some of them are mentioned later in this article. Consider Web apps as feature rich versions of their website.

Chrome Web Store provides a variety of categories to download from. Some free and some paid but helps any kind of users, be it shoppers, bloggers, students, gamers, developers etc.. Some of the best app that you can start off with could be Scribble, Aviary's Advanced Image Editor or NYTimes and you also have some games like the classic PacMan.

With the introduction of WebStore, Chrome has made available, the extensions and themes under one roof.

All you need to do is download Google Chrome stable version, access the Chrome Web Store and select an app and click Install as shown in the screenshot below.

Once you've installed a web app, you will find them when you open a new tab just before your Last Visited section.

With extensive work going on in HTML5, I'm sure Google's new Chrome Web Store is going to be a hit among the other browsers.

CCleaner - for a faster cleaner windows

If you're using Windows then this is probably a must-have application for you.

CCleaner is less than 3MB and a freeware privacy and cleaning software. It deletes all the unnecessary and unused files from your computer safely and frees considerable hard disk space from your computer. It cleans the temporary files from you IE, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari and also some locations on your computer like the Recycle bin. It also supports cleaning some third party applications and is integrated with a fully featured registry cleaner. CCleaner has topped the Popular Downloads list of Filehippo.

Screenshot:

CCleaner

Download Link

You can download CCleaner from their website or from the filehippo which is my favorite.
Post your reviews on it.

How to Block Ads when you're browsing?

If website ads are really annoying you then here is a simple way to get rid of it.

Answer is AdBlock.

This is a simple extension available for Google Chrome and as well as Mozilla firefox. Install them and select your preferences to activate the AdBlock. Now just go to any page and see the ads disappeared.
You can configure AdBlock to display only text ads or allow ads on certain websites or just block everything.

Download links are given below.

Chrome users click here.

Firefox users click here.

Configuring AdBlock settings is very intuitive (Go to Tools -> Extensions -> Options of AdBlock), but if you still find it difficult somewhere, feel free to comment and we will be glad to help you.

Arista Transcoder - Video conversion tool for Ubuntu

Every now and then, you find it necessary to convert your video format to some other format to fit it into your mobile device, ipod or any other video player. If you're on windows you may use Videora, or Total Video converter. But when you're on Ubuntu, you may find it very difficult to find the right package. But here's one which's too good, very simple and very intuitive.

Arista Transcoder.

As its website says, it is the easiest way to convert your media. Arista comes with a whole lot of features.

Video formats it supports are : H.264, MPEG2, MPEG4/DivX, VP8, Theora, Flash Video.

And some of the audio formats are : AA3, Vorbis, OGG, FLAC, Speex and WAV.

If you're not sure of the format you want to convert it to, you can just right away select the device to which you're converting the file to. Just select any of the following device from the list: Android, Computer, DVD Player, iPhone/iPod/iPad, Nokia N Series or Web.

In addition to all this, you can create a video using your webcam directly and store it in any of the formats as said above. You can also create presets and store them and share them with others. You can visit the preset page of arista transcoder for more information.

Screenshots: http://www.transcoder.org/screenshots/

Installation Instruction

Arista Transcoder being Open-source, you can download the code from their website and compile it.

Or you can straight away download it from your Ubuntu Software Center.

Or in your terminal, you can just type in

sudo apt-get install arista

Hope that saves a lot of time for you.

Download email id's of FACEBOOK friends and add to GMAIL, YAHOO or any other Webmail service or Social Network

You might have tried to export email id's of your friends in FACEBOOK and you would have end up saying Man!! This is not possible, have to copy each email id and should add to GMAIL or YAHOO. But this process is very tedious :( I have a better solution to export your FACEBOOK friends email addresses to GMAIL or YAHOO. You can export all email address within 2mins :) Isn't this a great news? Then let's go ahead and start to export FACEBOOK friends addresses :)

To export, you should have YAHOO account or else it is not possible to export. If you do not have YAHOO account, then sign up now and get started :)

Now go to address.yahoo.com and click the FACEBOOK icon. A login dialog will pop-up. Just sign-in with your FACEBOOK email-id and password and within seconds, you entire FACEBOOK address book will be available inside your YAHOO account. Once the import is done, click this link to download a CSV file with the email addresses of all your FACEBOOK contacts to your desktop.

Now to import it to GMAIL, go to Contacts-->More Actions-->Import and then choose filename.csv or vcard which you downloaded :) Now all your FACEBOOK contacts will be saved in GMAIL address book.

You can follow the same procedure as mentioned above to import email addresses to other sites too :)

Thank you for reading this post :) Please do comment :)

Make your software PORTABLE using CAMEYO in WINDOWS

We all have installed softwares in WINDOWS but have you ever tried to make it PORTABLE? I guess not. So make changes from now onwards with pretty cool software CAMEYO which makes your software PORTABLE.

Why should YOU USE this software?

You will install WINDOWS once in a while and many times you will end up with VIRUS WINDOWS. Haha!! lol!! So, now you will have to re-install your WINDOWS and all the softwares which you had previously installed :( This is very tedious way :( Moreover, if you install more and more software in your system, your WINDOWS performance will slow down gradually and make hell lot of problems for you. Process of re-installing all the softwares will take more time and it's not an easy task. So to get rid from all these problems, here is the solution THE CAMEYO :) :)

Here is the steps to go ahead and create your own PORTABLE SOFTWARES.

Download CAMEYO software from here.

Install CAMEYO software.

Now open CAMEYO software and you will see the main interface as shown below.

Now click on Capture Installation and it will start Taking initial system snapshot before installation.

Once the above process is done, it will show a new window asking you toinstall the software you wish to package. At this point, you have to install software on your computer that you wish to make PORTABLE.

After installation of your software, click on INSTALL DONE. This will starttaking post-installation snapshot.

After the completion of above process, it will ask for the path/directory to save PORTABLE software and the name. Enter those fields and click ok :)

That's it. Your PORTABLE SOFTWARE is ready to use it anywhere and on any system. You can even copy your PORTABLE SOFTWARE to USB stick and share it with your friends :)

Thank you for reading this post and please do comment :)

Make sound quality better with PulseAudio equalizer in Ubuntu

Pulseaudio is the audio system which will be used by Ubuntu. You can go to hardware settings tab and select the output type for your system.[choose Surround or digital output] Here, you cannot change the output mode. To change the output mode, we will make use of PulseAudio equalizer.

Newer version of Ubuntu's will have Pulseaudio installed. If it is not installed, then go to terminal and type

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio

To get equalizer, first download pulseaudio equalizer from here.

Download

Now go to Applications->Sound and Video->PulseAudio Equalizer.

Here you can see the snapshot of pulseaudio equalizer :)

You can select the mode of output and save presets :)

Enjoy with better quality sound from now on :)

Thank you for reading this article :)

Change Ubuntu 10.04 Log-in and Log-out sounds

Do you want to change your LOGIN and LOGOUT sounds in Ubuntu? If yes then, you just need to convert your music file to ogg format.

Now write the following command in terminal :)

sudo chmod -777 /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo

Browse to /usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo folder and backup the desktop-login.ogg and desktop-logout.ogg. Copy and paste your .ogg format created music files into this folder and rename to desktop-login.ogg and desktop-logout.ogg.

You can follow above steps for all types of Ubuntu Sounds.

Thank you :)