Saturday, March 9, 2013

How To Add A Slideshow From Picasa Web Albums To Blogger or Wordpress

Adding a Slideshow in your blog posts can always be a good option in order to present your content in a better way. Many sites offer services to make customized slideshows with a choice of "free" and "premium" services and the "free" option always have certain limitations. A better way to make a slideshow is to use Picasa Web Albums, with an added advantage of the 5GB storage provided by Google. You can also write your own slideshow code, but that would be a bit difficult.

Your slideshow will look something like this:

1. In order to make a slideshow from Google Picasa Web Album, goto the following link: https://picasaweb.google.com/home, log in to your Google account. If you don't have a Google+ profile then Picasa Web Album will open automatically but if you have a Google+ profile then you'll be redirected to your albums in your Google+ profile. In that case, a small message in a yellow box will popup at the top of the screen which will provide an option to go back to Picasa Web Album. After clicking on it, you'll be redirected to Picasa Web Album.

2. Now in order to create a slideshow, begin with uploading your photos from the upload option at the top bar.

3. After completing the upload process open the newly created album. Now on the right side bar you'll find an option of "Link to this Album." Clicking on it will display another option of "Embed Slideshow." Selecting Embed Slideshow

will popup a small window with some more options to customize your slideshow, like the one shown in the screenshot below:

4. Check the "HTML Links" option to get the HTML code of your slideshow. Copy and paste this code to the desired place. Quite Easy!

Friday, March 8, 2013

New Facebook News Feeds And How To Get It ASAP


On Thursday, Facebook unveiled its new News Feeds that offers a host of new options. The revamped version of the news feeds, inspired by mobile design of Facebook, will allow a user to adjust their feeds the way they want. It offers Multiple feeds in which a user can customize their feeds with options like friends, photos, music, following, games along with an option of a simple chronological news feed, most recent.

Although Facebook will automatically roll out this revamped version of news feed sooner or later, users can manually join the waiting list by clicking on the "Join Waiting List" button located at the bottom of this page https://www.facebook.com/about/newsfeed.

The newer version of news feeds will take away all the clutter and bring all the goodness of what is offered in Facebook mobile - bigger pictures covering 50% of the news feeds, iconized side bar, better cover design etc.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

[New App] Opera Browser With New Webkit Rendering Engine And New Design

Get ready for the fastest browsing experience - for now the new Opera Browser has finally gone live in Google Play Store. The new Opera Browser is completely redesigned and now provides a better alternative for your default internet browser - with functions like Off-Road Mode, new Private Tab/Incognito mode, switching to desktop version of the websites, options to open new tab in background/foreground etc. The best feature that will gain users attention is the bandwidth-saving Off-Road Mode, which is designed to access websites faster in case of slow internet connection.

Unlike the previous build of Opera Browser that used Presto rendering engine this new release of Opera Browser uses a new Webkit rendering engine, the same used in Google Chrome and AOSP browser(used in custom ROMs), is touted to be the fastest rendering engine so far. This redesigned and reprogrammed version on the new Opera Browser looks elegant and goes well with the holo UI used in the newer versions of Android devices(4.1+).


Along with some common features carried by most of the other Android browsers, the new Opera Browser is definitely going to stand out when it comes to the new Off-Road Mode for slow internet connections.