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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Google DevFest coming to Australia

Google DevFest Australia is a week long series of mini-conferences similar to Google I/O. DevFest will run from June 28th through July 2nd with scheduled sessions on Google Apps, App Engine, Wave, Chrome, Social, and Geo/Maps. Patrick Chanezon and I will be speaking on Tuesday covering Google Apps, App Engine, and Google Apps Marketplace.

DevFest is a Google kind of event for developers that is part hackathon, part seminar, and all fun. Developers will have access to Google developers, our newest APIs, and hear about the latest code to be open sourced.

It is also a learning experience for us at Google. We always like to see what developers are doing with our code and APIs. Working with developers is natural for us. Come see us if you are in Australia, and watch for blog updates and Tweets throughout the week. Here is a link to the sessions and registration information.

Watch this space for announcements of upcoming DevFests in other parts of the world.

Posted by Don Dodge, Google Developer Advocate

ODBC connection to failed

Oh this wasted 45 minutes of my life. The error:

ODBC--connection to ODBCName failed.

1. Linked tables from SQL to Access via ODBC
2. Created queries
3. Queries worked, no problem (linked tables and tables in database)
4. Ran the same query in ASP.NET web application, got the error above

As it turns out, the problem was Ive created an ODBC entry as "User". It should have been a "System" DNS. So if you have such a case, this might be a solution. Thxs e_masoudifard (in the end of this thread):

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/linked-table-odbc-connection-failed-t1238828.html

Hack to School

Editor’s Note: Guest author Andrew Stillman is a teacher who works at New Visions for Public Schools, a non-profit that provides direct support services to 76 New York City high schools. — Arun Nagarajan

On March 16th, as a green tide tide of college students flowed into Manhattan for a day of rousing revelry, more than 50 young coders from New York-area computer science programs and 30 teachers were drawn instead to Kean University in New Jersey by the gravity of St. Hacktrick’s Day, our first Apps Script for EDU Codeathon. Inspired by the viral popularity of the Flubaroo, Doctopus, and autoCrat scripts for teachers, St. Hacktrick’s Day aimed to pair coders with educators to produce more free, smart tools for education.

Teacher Daniel Scibienski works as an elementary ESL teacher in NJ. He helped organize and emcee the event, and was on the winning team that built a picture-prompt generator for Google Docs.

Most of the student scripters were on their first day of spring break, making our huge turnout for this event all the more remarkable. Product designers — all working educators who took time out on a Saturday — traveled from as far north as Ulster County, NY and as far south as Virginia, while we had others who joined teams via G+ Hangouts from Singapore, Montreal, Vancouver, and London.

This team built a class-roster Google Site replicator using Apps Script, cookies, and Coke. Their EDU design partner was located in the UK!

Unlike a typical hackathon, teams weren’t simply building their own ideas — instead, to ensure their scripts would be truly useful in the classroom, we solicited project proposals through a Google Moderator board. By the day of the event, we had 48 ideas with 187 votes from educators around the world.

In all, 17 teams built demo-ready prototypes in less than 6 hours of coding. The Apps Script team rounded up a few Nexus 7 tablets for the winners below and invited them to present their projects to the Google Docs engineering team:

Popular vote: Picture Prompt Generator
Summary: Inserts kid-friendly pictures from Google Image Search into student documents. Elementary students then write stories based on the visual prompts.
Design: Daniel Scibienski
Code: Ashish Nandwani and Krutika Shah

Judges choice: Plagiarism Detector
Summary: Uses a similarity algorithm to rank Google Documents by originality.
Design and code: Alice Lin, Basim Baig, and Jackie Wei (Stony Brook University)

Judges choice: Unpivot Google Form Data
Summary: Removes duplicates from Google Form data and transforms it for use in a pivot table.
Design: Ron Turchyniak
Code: Andrew Ireland, Sangwook Lee, and Steve Byung Park (Stony Brook University)

Teams have been asked to open-source their code and donate it to New Visions for Public Schools, the support organization I work for, and to consider improving their projects for use by educators everywhere. We’ll keep you posted as these resources become available.

Big thanks to our participants, to organizers Meredith Martin, Dave Zirkle, Daniel Scibienski, Emily Graves, Diana Potts, Lisa Thumann, Andrew Carle, and to Google’s Arun Nagarajan, Saurabh Gupta, and Zach Yeskel.

Andrew Stillman profile

Andrew Stillman is a career STEM educator who works as Program Officer for Digital Instruction at New Visions for Public Schools, a non-profit that provides direct support services to 76 New York City high schools. Andrew founded YouPD.org and has written a number of popular Apps Scripts for schools designed to improve efficacy through better workflows, communications, and data management in Google Apps.

Monetize Videos on Youtube to Earn Money

If you want to earn money from google adsense without any blog or website you can earn money from youtube with uploading your videos on youtube and monetize them with youtube monetization program.

Friends in this post i will tell you how to monetize your videos with youtube monetization program. To monetize your videos you will have to apply for youtube monetization program and get a Google Adsense account.

Read More about: How to Apply for Youtube MonetizationProgram and get Google Adsense Account

When you have your adsense account after getting approved for monetization program. Follow these steps

1: Sign in to your youtube account.

2: Click on Upload Video

3: Upload a video

(Note: Never use any copyright video to monetize. Videos like movie trailers, songs or any other copyright material is not allowed for monetization by youtube.)

5: Chose your video title, description, tags and thumbnail.

6: wait till your video uploaded successfully.

7: Now Click on Monetization Tab right next to Basic Infos.

8: Click on Monetize with ads, Ads format and Syndication.

9: Click Save

Now your video is applied for monetization and will get approval within 24 hours. Some times it takes only 10 to 15 minutes, some times it takes up to 24 hours.

Don’t forget to share my post with your friends if you think its helpful. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask. Just comment and ask I will solve your issues.

How to Make Easy Page Borders in Microsoft Word!

This weeks technology tutorial is something that is easy but SO awesome! I have to give a big shout out to my friend Katie for showing my this one! Shes one of my lovely co-workers and has the most amazing ideas! And she absolutely needs to start a blog! (Hint, hint!!!) :)

This tutorial was by far the most popular on the poll this week!

Before I start the tutorial, I just want to take a quick moment to think about all the lives that were lost eleven years ago today. Being from NY (north of the city), the attack really hit close to home. Two weekends ago I went down to the city and saw some of the new towers that theyre building. Theyre absolutely amazing, but its unfortunate to think of the events that led us to the new construction.

Im sure you already have already, but just take a moment to think about the lives that were lost.

Now, heres the tutorial for the week...

You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture!

Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs. To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer!

For next weeks poll, Im going to add how to use both portrait and landscape lines in PowerPoint. Be sure to vote!

How to Make Any Picture a Coloring Page!

Its time for another technology tutorial... and this one is super fun (and could make a great gift for the holidays! This week well learn how to make any picture into a coloring page!

Heres the poll for this week... this one won by a landslide!

The picture that I used for this tutorial is one of my husband when he was 3. How cute is he!?

This tutorial definitely works best with a picture that has good lighting. I tried it with another picture that had a dark background and it didnt look as nice... so try it with lots of different pictures!

You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture!

Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs. To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer!

The next poll will be up for two weeks... since next Tuesday is Christmas Day, I wont be posting a new tutorial, but you can definitely expect one the following Tuesday (even though its New Years Day!)

Next week, Ill add how to make a text box transparent or semi-transparent (in Word or PowerPoint).

How to Organize Your Classroom Library Complete Library Organization Kit!

If youre in the mood to do some spring cleaning, why not clean up your library by reorganizing it? I absolutely love the way I organize my classroom books! Like most teachers, I use labels on my book bins that have pictures, but, I went even further than that! I put matching labels on each book so that the children put them back in the right bin! The system is so simple, that even a preschooler can use it!

The labels for the bins are 5" x 3.75," which is the perfect size for many book bins, including Lakeshore bins (LC91 & YB10).

The labels for the books are easy to print... they line up perfectly on Avery 5160 labels, so all you have to do is peel and stick! I put the labels on the back cover of my books for two reasons:
1. Its not covering any of the front cover!
2. Its the perfect way to introduce the vocabulary "back of the book," which is on many Kindergarten reading assessments!

I am selling this complete library organization system for your classroom for only $8. And I havent even told you the best part! If you want me to add any labels, Ill make them asap and revise the file on TPT. This is all youll ever need to organize your books forever!

At the moment, the labels that are included are:

Authors and Series:

Amelia Bedelia
Arthur
Berenstain Bears
Cam Jansen
Clifford
Dr. Seuss
Eric Carle
Ezra Jack Keats
I Spy
Junie B. Jones
Little Critters
Lois Ehlert
Magic School Bus
Richard Scarry
Wheres Waldo
Winnie the Pooh

ELA Topics:

Alphabet
Fairy Tales
Nursery Rhymes
Poetry

General Topics:

Art
Language Arts
Music
Social Studies

Holidays and Celebrations:

100th Day
Birthday
Christmas
Easter
Fathers Day
Graduation
Halloween
Hanukkah
Kwanza
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mothers Day
New Years Day
Passover
St. Patricks Day
Thanksgiving
Valentines Day

Math:

Addition and Subtraction
Counting Backwards
Counting
Graphs
Math
Measurement
Money
Multiplication and Division
Patterns
Shapes
Sorting
Time

Science:

Animals (Fiction)
Animals (Non-Fiction)
Animals in Winder
Apples and Pumpkins
Dinosaurs
Environment
Five Senses
Human Body
Insects
Keeping Healthy
Magnets
Ocean
Outer Space
Plants
Season - Autumn
Season - Spring
Season - Summer
Season - Winter
Seasons
Weather

Social Studies:

Community Helpers
Family
Friends
I Am Special
Manners
Neighborhood

Misc.

Favorite Stories (For those classic stories like The Velveteen Rabbit or Corduroy!)
Our Books (For student authors!)
Starting School
Transportation

That means you get labels for 82 different categories... for only $8! And again, the best part is that if you want me to add any additional labels, all you have to do is ask! Ill make them asap and revise the file on TPT. This means that $8 is all youll ever need to spend to organize your books forever!

Click any of the pictures below to head on over to TPT to download the free preview and check it out for yourself. (Note: The free preview is a PDF, but the actual download is a ZIP with DOC and PDF files.)

Baby Salma Uses iPhone to Learn Apple!

I suppose a 36 second video clip would make more sense now:

FLASHCARDS
In the video clip above, my wife is teaching baby Salma new words using voice narrated Flashcards. The cool thing about apps like My First Words, is that you can also record your own voice, and even create your own Flashcards. Cool!

If you notice, baby Salma is not satisfied by simply watching passively my wife clicking the NEXT button. Instead, she wants to grab the iPhone (Ownership), so that she can hold it and play with it herself. We all know what happens, when babies dont get what they want. However, what about students?

In other words, when we teach or facilitate learning, we should perhaps provide more opportunities for students to explore learning, and take ownership of their own learning process, which is often more inspiring than being told what to do for 15 weeks per semester.

99.999% of us love to learn, but how many of us like to be taught? Or have you ever been inspired to learn by following instructions?

Think about it!

LADYBUG
Baby Salma simply loves Frank Letos Ladybug Ladybug Song, which she sings (and claps her hands) along in her own baby GAGA language.

Yes, what if we could learn boring stuff through songs and poetry? Wouldnt that be cool? Here is a reasonably convincing example:

But then again, is it worthwhile spending so much time and effort to create a learning song covering perhaps just one concept? I suppose we could instead empower students to create their own learning songs. Or perhaps they could mind map their learning into a rap song. I wouldnt mind a rap song teaching me history!

TED TALK

Alright, my baby Salma 36-second video clip and short reflection is not going to award me with giving a TED Talk. However, if I catch every moment of my daughters life for the next 3 years using multiple cameras wired up in my house, requiring 20 terabytes of storage, so that I can understand how she learns a language... WOW! Too late! MIT researcher Deb Roy did just that, and then he (or his research team) parsed 90,000 hours of home video to watch his son "gaaaa" slowly turn into "water."

In other words, it will be thrilling to listen to Salmas "Ta-Ta" turn into "Apple" over the coming days, weeks, or perhaps months. Perhaps the iPhone, or coming iPad 2 (to me!) might speed up the learning process.

I skipped iPad 1, as I usually keep away from first versions of anything, but I will probably invest in iPad 2 when it comes to Malaysia (officially!). Based on my kids (3) obsession to play games with iPhone, I suppose I will only be able to use the iPad for self-learning when they all are asleep!

Although, I am no fan of having babies or young kids stuck in front of an iPhone or iPad (or mobile devices) all day (Hint: Radiation and Glasses!), I suppose a few minutes a day learning something useful wont harm too much. Would it?

What do you think? :)

How to Make Items That are Easy to Cut!

Cutting out lamination can be such a pain... but if you make your classroom games/signs yourself, you can actually make them incredibly easy to cut! the cards that I have in the preview only took me three slices to cut out!

Here are the poll results!

Now onto the tutorial!

You can download this tutorial as a PDF by clicking this picture!

Note: This tutorial is hosted on Google Docs. To save it from there, just open the file and click File > Download to save onto your computer!

As far as cutting the lamination, I also recommend getting a nice paper cutter. I have one like the one below, which seems to cut nicely through cardstock/lamination.

As for next weeks tutorial, Im going to add something a bit more specific... how to make your own cut/paste items in powerpoint!

My Mouse is not Working How to Use Mouse With the Help of Keyboard

Hi friends, after a long time I am back again to share some tips and tricks with you. Many times it occurs that your mouse stop working due to some reasons, in that case you are unable to use the mouse pointer. You may face so many difficulties to work on your computer. In this post I am going to share a trick by which you can control the mouse pointer without actually using mouse. You can do this with the help of keyboard. Some simple steps are given below by which you can perform this trick.

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How to Use Mouse Without Actually Using it?

1. First of all click on start button by pressing windows key on your Keyboard.

2. Than with the help of arrow keys navigate to Control Panel option and than press enter.
3. Now again with the help of arrow keys navigate to Accessibility Options and than press enter.

4. In the next window, go to mouse option by pressing Tab button 9 times and than pressing right arrow key.

5. Now again press Tab button and than Space-bar to select Use Mouse Keys Option.

6. You can also change the mouse pointer options such as its speed, Acceleration by going to Settings option.

7. Than with the help of Tab button go to OK option and than press enter.

8. If every thing will be done correctly than you will be able to see a mouse icon in the system tray near the system time.

9. Now you can move mouse pointer with the help of buttons 7, 8, 9, 4, 6, 1, 2, 3 on the Numpad. Button 5 on the Numpad can be used to perform mouse’s left button function.

Note: To control mouse pointer with keyboard the Num Lock key must be on.

Update: Or you can try a simple way i.e. just press Alt+Shift+Num Lock at a time, then activate mouse keys in the dialogue box that appears and press ok.

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C Program to find sum of first n natural number

#include<iostream.h>
#include<conio.h>
void main()
{ clrscr();
int i,n,sum=0;
cout<<"How many numbers? ";
cin>>n;
for(i=1;i<=n;++i)
{
sum+=i;
cout<<"
SUM="<<sum<<endl;
}
getch();
}

How to Send Email Using VB Net

Sending and receiving emails has now became an important task in our daily life. Email service providers such as Hotmail, Gmail & Yahoo have provided their SMTP Ports so that third party developers can use them in their applications.

In visual basic.net we use SMTP i.e Simple Mail Transfer Protocal which help us in composing electronic mails and send them to various sources.

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We need to import the following namespace “Imports System.Net.Mail” in order to use the SMTP class.

About System.Net.Mail Namespace

This Namespace provides various list of classes that help us to create, send, receive and do many other email related tasks.

You can get a more detailed information from the Microsoft Developer Network’s website http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.mail(v=vs.110).aspx

How to Send Email Using VB.Net

I’ll demonstrate a simple example that allow us to send emails in vb.net:

1. Create a new windows form application project in visual basic.net.

2. Add three labels and three textboxes and name them as given below:

Label1 - To
Label2 - Subject
Label3 - Body

3. Add a button and change its text to Send.

4. Double click button to switch to code view and paste the code given below.

Dim MyMailMessage As New MailMessage()
        Try
        MyMailMessage.From = New MailAddress("youremail")
        MyMailMessage.To.Add(TextBox1.Text)
        MyMailMessage.Subject = TextBox2.Text
        MyMailMessage.Body = TextBox3.Text
        Dim SMTP As New SmtpClient("smtp.gmail.com")
        SMTP.Port = 587
        SMTP.EnableSsl = True
        SMTP.Credentials = New System.Net.NetworkCredential("youremail", "yourpassword")
        SMTP.Send(MyMailMessage)
        MsgBox("Your Mail has been Successfully sent")
        TextBox1.Clear()
        TextBox2.Clear()
        TextBox3.Clear()
        TextBox1.Focus()
        Catch ex As Exception
            MsgBox(ex.ToString)
        End Try

5. Change youremail with your current email address and yourpassword with your email ID’s password. Don’t forget to import the following namespace: Imports System.Net.Mail

That’s it!! Run your Project and send a test email.

Note: It works only with Gmail Account because we have used Gmail’s SMTP Port.

C program to write student record to a binary file

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<stdlib.h>

struct student
{
int rollno;
char *name;
int m1,m2,m3;
}s1;

void main()
{
FILE *fp;
clrscr();
fp=fopen("Record.dat","wb"); //opening binary file in writing mode
if(fp==NULL)
{
printf("File could not open");
exit(0);
}

printf("Enter student details
");
printf("Roll No:");
scanf("%d",&s1.rollno);
printf("Name:");
scanf("%s",s1.name);
printf("Marks in three subjects:");
scanf("%d%d%d",&s1.m1,&s1.m2,&s1.m3);

fwrite(&s1,sizeof(s1),1,fp); //writing to binary file
printf("
Record has been added successfully...!!");
fclose(fp);
getch();
}

Java program to check whether a given number is palindrome or not

class Palindrome
{
public static void main(String...s)
{
int n,m,rev=0,i;
n=Integer.parseInt(s[0]);
m=n;

while(n!=0)
{
i=n%10;
rev=(rev*10)+i;
n/=10;
}

if(m==rev)
System.out.println("
Number is

palindrome");
else
System.out.println("
Number is not

palindrome");
}
}

#include<iostream.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<stdio.h>

void main()
{
clrscr();
char a[20],a1[20];
int i,j;
cout<<"Enter any String:"<<"
";
gets(a); cout<<"Reverse of the string is: ";

for(i=0;a[i]!=

C program to find whether a given number is an Armstrong number or not

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<math.h>

void main()
{
int n,m=0,x,y;
clrscr();
printf("Enter any three digit numnber:");
scanf("%d",&n);
y=n;

while(n!=0)
{
x=n%10;
m+=pow(x,3);
n=n/10;
}

if(y==m)
printf("The given number is an Armstrong number");
else
printf("The given number is not an Armstrong number");
getch();
}

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>

void main()
{
int a[5][5],b[5][5],c[5][5],i,j,m,n;
printf("How many rows and columns?");
scanf("%d%d",&m,&n);
printf("
Enter first matrix: ");

for(i=0;i<m;++i)
for(j=0;j<n;++j)
scanf("%d",&a[i][j]);

printf("
Enter second matrix: ");
for(i=0;i<m;++i)
for(j=0;j<n;++j)
scanf("%d",&b[i][j]);

printf("
Matrix after addition:
");
for(i=0;i<m;++i)
{
for(j=0;j<n;++j)
{
c[i][j]=a[i][j]+b[i][j];
printf("%d ",c[i][j]);
}
printf("
");
}
getch();
}

C program to check whether given string is palindrome or not

#include<stdio.h>
#include<conio.h>
#include<string.h>

void main()
{
int i,j,flag=1,len;
char str[50];
clrscr();
printf("Enter any string:");
gets(str);
len=strlen(str);

for(i=0,j=len-1;i<len/2;++i,--j)
if(str[i]!=str[j])
{
flag=0;
break;
}
if(flag)
printf("String is palindrome");
else
printf("String is not palindrome");
getch();
}

C Program to print following triangle

*
* *
* *
*****

code:

#include<iostream.h>
#include<conio.h>

void main()
{
clrscr();
int i,k,j,n;
cout<<"Enter size of triangle in odd number(min-5,ex-5,7,9):";
cin>>n;
cout<<"
";

for(i=1;i<=n;i+=2)
{
for(j=n;j>i;j-=2)
cout<<" ";
for(k=1;k<=i;++k)
{
if(i==n)
cout<<"*";
else
if(k==1||k==i)
cout<<"*";
else
cout<<" ";
}
cout<<"
";
}

getch();
}

Infokus

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Google DevFest coming to Australia

ODBC connection to failed

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Hack to School

Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Monetize Videos on Youtube to Earn Money

Monday, March 2, 2015

How to Make Easy Page Borders in Microsoft Word!

Saturday, February 28, 2015

How to Make Any Picture a Coloring Page!

How to Organize Your Classroom Library Complete Library Organization Kit!

Friday, February 27, 2015

Baby Salma Uses iPhone to Learn Apple!

Thursday, February 26, 2015

How to Make Items That are Easy to Cut!

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

My Mouse is not Working How to Use Mouse With the Help of Keyboard

How to Use Mouse Without Actually Using it?

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Lifestyle To Health

Saturday, February 14, 2015

C Program to find sum of first n natural number

How to Send Email Using VB Net

About System.Net.Mail Namespace

How to Send Email Using VB.Net

C program to write student record to a binary file

Friday, February 13, 2015

Java program to check whether a given number is palindrome or not

C Program to reverse a string

Thursday, February 12, 2015

C program to find whether a given number is an Armstrong number or not

C program to add two matrices

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

C program to check whether given string is palindrome or not

C Program to print following triangle