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3 Ways Bing Search is Bad for You and How to Fix it

July 9, 2022July 9, 2022 Karan S

Why Microsoft’s Bing search is bad for you and what you can do to fix it Bing is a web search engine and web browser developed by Microsoft. It has been criticized for its low market share, however, it has many features that make it a strong competitor against Google. Bing is the default search engine on Microsoft’s Windows 10 & 11 operating system and has been included in versions of Apple’s Safari browser on OS X and iOS since 2013. The main reason for Bing’s decreasing popularity is that…

Signs That Indicate You Should Switch Your LMS

February 8, 2022February 14, 2022 Karan S

When you decided to opt for a learning management system, you might have had specific requirements to achieve with the tool. However, over time, the conditions of your organization change, or the LMS gets outdated. As a manager, you should quickly spot the change and fix it as early as possible. If your employees are facing a lot of trouble using it or any specific negative feedback regarding LMS indicates that you should consider switching your LMS. The issues raised by the learners using it should be appropriately documented and…

Web Apps Vs Native Apps - Winner Hybrid Apps

October 20, 2015 Karan S

You have an idea for an app which you wish to develop yourself or get it done through a developer. Or probably you already have a popular website and the number of visitors accessing through mobile device is going through the roof and in a bid to captivate your mobile user traffic you wish to expand onto an app. Thereby giving you some real estate on their mobiles or tablets. Whatever the case may be, Apps are no cliché. Today or tomorrow you have to go the App way or…

HEVC H.265 vs H.264 video codec

January 28, 2013January 28, 2013 Tarandeep Singh

Video codecs control the videos streaming networks around the web whether its YouTube or video stream from VH1, Hulu, or your favorite sports channel. A Good video codec can ensure good quality video at lower bandwidth and bitrate. H.264 Mp4 video codec has been industry standard for video on the web as well as HD videos offline. However, due to licensing issues, it had lot of trouble. Eventually Google came up with VP8 trying to make video codecs free for everyone. ITU has now raised the bar with H.265 video…

Edge - HTML5 Visual Editor

August 3, 2011August 4, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

Flash vs HTML5 war is far from over, both are here to stay for years. But HTML 5 is getting more and more adoption and anticipation. Adobe realizes the fact and that’s after releasign a tool to convert flash to hmtl5, now the are here with program with a Visual Editor/ development tool for HTML 5 called Edge. Edge brings a Flash-like development environment to HTML5. With timeline and direct scripting, developers can dig into HTML5 features without having to play much with the code. Edge Features: It is a comprehensive…

Optimize HTML5, CSS3, DOM Performance [video]

April 23, 2011May 1, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

The future of web is with the modern web languages and its not hard to anticipate the adoption rate. Over the last year, 20% of the Top websites have moved to modern web languages such as HTML5, CSS3 and use DOM extensively for various transitions, and rendering techniques. Your HTML5 webapp can be powerful enough to compete with the desktop version, but you might be limited byt eh performance advantages as your app runs in the browser, instead of native code. But good web development practices can definitely help you…

BitCoin: P2P Internet Currency for Foreign Exchange

March 24, 2011March 24, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

How often does a technology comes from Open world and changes our lifes forever. The Open Web did this to us years back and today we spent most our lives on the web. BitTorrent did it to all kinds of file sharing and here come BitCoin - The Open currency for the internet. BitCoin was started in 2009, and it was until very recently that it started getting more adoption worldwide. Unlike most currencies, bitcoin does not rely on trusting any central issuer. Bitcoin uses a distributed database spread across nodes…

IE9 vs Chrome 10 vs Firefox 4 Benchmarks

March 16, 2011March 16, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

The browser wars has always brought good stuff for us: All new set of features and significant speed improvements. And when we talk about speed, we trust Benchmarks more than anything else. But relying a single benchmarking technique is risky, and that’s why we execute all popular benchmarking tools before declaring a winner. IE9 vs Chrome 10 vs Firefox 4 Benchmark Platform: Windows 7 32bit on a Intel i7 Macbook Pro, 4GB RAM. We are not testing 64bit since IE9 has poor performance on 64bit as it still uses older javascript engine,…

Convert/Translate Adobe Flash to HTML5 [Wallaby]

March 8, 2011March 8, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

Flash is everywhere, and we don’t expect it to be gone anytime soon. Flash vs. HTML5 is still a debate left for the critics, what we know is HTML5 is an innovative technology that would change the face of the web. Adobe acknowledges this value and that’s why they have launched a product called “Wallaby” an experimental Flash-to-HTML 5 converter tool. Wallaby is a cross-platform Adobe AIR application that allows users to instantly convert Flash output (FLA files) to HTML5 via a simple drag and drop. It is available free…

Cache Images with HTML5 local storage for Faster Page loading

February 27, 2011February 27, 2011 Tarandeep Singh

There are several ways by which you can increase site loading speeds. Among the most popular ones is lazy load and dynamic async javascript are first. Typically these methods are used to control and prioritize the rendering of primary web page elements to the benefit of the overall user experience. HTML5 is the most beautiful that that happened to the web. HTML 5 would eventually make webapps powerful and as capable as native apps, with Chrome’s Native client. HTML5 Client-side Local Storage provides a great solution for database storage on…

Web 2.0 Summit Live Video Stream

December 6, 2010December 6, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

Web 2.0 is all about latest and greatest in the web 2.0 world. The latest technologies that are changing the way we live on the web and away from the web. O’Reilly and TechWeb’s Web 2.0 Summit, probably the biggest and most influential web technology event of the year from a business perspective, is about to start in San Francisco and for the first time - anyone can watch the speakers live on stage, for free. This year’s Web 2.0 conference is special as we hope to see lots of…

Edit, Test JavaScript, CSS, HTML Online

February 23, 2010February 23, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

A number of times I have felt need of an online JavaScript editor specially when I’m away from my PC, or on the move. jsFiddle is a great webapp that lets you edit HTML, JavaScript, CSS just like a normal IDE like Dreamweaver would do, all the syntax highlighting. The screen gets divided into 4 sections: HTML, CSS, Javascript and Result (Preview) as show below: You can also add resources, an Ajax echo backend, and auto load from a slew of JavaScript frameworks. It also includes some built-in examples that…

HTML5 Paint WebApp

February 7, 2010March 1, 2010 Tarandeep Singh

It was predicted long back that RIA (Rich internet Applications) no longer needs Flash’s domination. AJAX/ JQuery, HTML 5, CSS will together form the best army against the closed Flash (which can’t be open sourced). Though few predict that HTML5 would kill Flash, it’s more evident that HTML5 will innovate new web applications co-existing with flash. The Latest web application “SketchPad” let’s you do a lot in your web browser. I’m deeply impressed by the capability of this app. Sketchpad by Mugtug is a Pixelmator-like application that has desktop like…