April 29, 2013 / Kannan / 0 Comments
Photography is one of the very interesting hobbies most of the people have. But for most of the newbies, understanding the concepts of various aspects like ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed can be slightly daunting. People need a real SLR or bridge to understand how these parameters work hand in hand and becomes difficult when they don’t have one.
But now, thanks to Canon, you could understand these aspects without a need for real camera. Visit the site mentioned below and you could understand the basic of these parameters as well as try them out with virtual camera provided in the site.
http://canonoutsideofauto.ca
Check out a screenshot of the page
April 9, 2013 / Kannan / 0 Comments
Bringing search count in refinement panel of SharePoint 2010 search result page is very easy and straight forward.
- Edit the page containing the search result page with refinement panel.
- Go to the web part properties of refinement panel.
- Expand the “Refinement” section and edit “Filter Category Definition”
- For each “Category” add ShowCounts=”Count”
- Check-in and publish the page
<Category Title="Title" Description="Use this filter to restrict results authored by a specific author" Type="Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.WebControls.ManagedPropertyFilterGenerator" MetadataThreshold="1" NumberOfFiltersToDisplay="4" MaxNumberOfFilters="20" SortBy="Frequency" SortByForMoreFilters="Name" SortDirection="Descending" SortDirectionForMoreFilters="Ascending" ShowMoreLink="True" MappedProperty="Title" MoreLinkText="show more" LessLinkText="show fewer" ShowCounts="Count"/>
If the count doesn’t show up, then uncheck the “Use Default Configuration” checkbox under the same “Refinement” section.
April 6, 2013 / Kannan / 8 Comments
Most of the people who work with Xamarin’s Mono for Android in Visual Studio 2012 face a bug where Intellisense doesn’t work for AXML in source view.
One of the fix which worked for me is mentioned below.
- Launch Visual Studio 2012
- Open a solution with .AXML file in it
- Now XML main menu should be visible on top
- Open “Schemas…” menu
- Sort by “File Name” column and see if “android-layout-xml” and “schemas.android.com.apk.res.android” are there. If found, skip to step 13
- If not found, go to “Program Files” if 32-bit system or “Program Files (x86)” if 64-bit system.
- Then go to “\MSBuild\Novell” or “\MSBuild\Xamarin\Android”
- You should be able to see 2 files “android-layout-xml.xsd” and “schemas.android.com.apk.res.android.xsd”
- Copy these 2 files to “\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Xml\Schemas”
- Again open the “Schemas…” menu as mentioned in steps 3&4
- Now click “Add…” button and add these 2 files which should be located as mentioned in step 7 & 8
- Now restart visual studio and the XML editor for design layout should work fine with Intellisense
- From step 5….
- If above steps don’t work, then close the Visual Studio 2012.
- Now open “Developer command prompt for VS2012” under Windows programs menu.
- Type “Devenv /ResetSettings” without quotes.
- Launch Visual Studio 2012 and see if Intellisense works.
- If still not working, better go to Xamarin forums and post there.
April 1, 2013 / Kannan / 0 Comments
We have a document list with 2 columns. One is a text column and other is a lookup column
The requirement was that, user should be able to search across two columns, where the condition being, search should match with either of the column. The following url format works for this particualr scenario.
http://server/sites/site1/sitePages/DocumentSearchPage.aspx?k= &r=Column1:”query*” OR Column2:”query*”&cs=This List&u=http://server/sites/site1/library1
Note:
DocumentSearchPage.aspx has a Search Core Results webpart.
The parameer “k” is not required. But sometime without this parameter search result is blank. Hence “k” will have a empty character as string.
cs=This List is a query paramter which helps in searching a particular library. This depends on the parameter “u” explained in next line.
u=http://server/sites/site1/library1 is the library from which search result should come.
April 1, 2013 / Kannan / 0 Comments
February 13, 2013 / Kannan / 0 Comments
When I started using Internet Explorer 10 in Windows 8 Pro the default search provider was Bing. I wanted to switch to Google Search Provider.
So when I searched for that add on, it was not showing up for various reasons mentioned across the internet.
The one thing which worked was visiting the following link and add the Google search provider.
http://www.iegallery.com/en-US/Addons/Details/813
January 28, 2013 / Kannan / 0 Comments
US Defence might soon or already have a 1.8 gigapixel video surveillance system called “ARGUS-IS” which should be able to identify a 6″ item from an altitude of 17,000 feet !
Take a look at the amazing technology in the below video !
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Source: Reddit
January 23, 2013 / Kannan / 0 Comments
One of my favourite drag race videos !
“Bugatti Veyron vs Lamborghini Aventador vs Lexus LFA vs McLaren MP4-12C”
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Enjoy 🙂
January 21, 2013 / Kannan / 0 Comments
Seems like Micromax is going to launch another flagship A116, mobile most probably a successor of A110.
Following is the specs based on various sites.
- 5-inch (1280 x 720 pixels) HD IPS 16.7 million color display
- 1.2 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT6589 processor
- 1GB RAM, 4GB internal memory, 32GB expandable memory with MicroSD
- Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
- 8MP rear camera with LED Flash, VGA front-facing camera
- 3.5mm audio jack
- 3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, GPS/A-GPS
- 2100 mAh battery
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The phone might cost Rs. 15,000/-
Source: FoneArena, EYF Times & iGyaan
January 20, 2013 / Kannan / 0 Comments
At Verizon, a developer outsourced his job to China and he spent most of the time at office surfing social sites.
Excerpt from Verizon’s security Blog.
As it turns out, Bob had simply outsourced his own job to a Chinese consulting firm. Bob spent less that one fifth of his six-figure salary for a Chinese firm to do his job for him.
Authentication was no problem, he physically FedExed his RSA token to China so that the third-party contractor could log-in under his credentials during the workday. It would appear that he was working an average 9 to 5 work day. Investigators checked his web browsing history, and that told the whole story.
9:00 a.m. – Arrive and surf Reddit for a couple of hours. Watch cat videos
11:30 a.m. – Take lunch
1:00 p.m. – Ebay time.
2:00 – ish p.m Facebook updates – LinkedIn
4:30 p.m. – End of day update e-mail to management.
5:00 p.m. – Go home
The best part?
Investigators had the opportunity to read through his performance reviews while working alongside HR. For the last several years in a row he received excellent remarks. His code was clean, well written, and submitted in a timely fashion. Quarter after quarter, his performance review noted him as the best developer in the building
