"Wait:" is to specify the computer idle time after which the screensaver should be appeared. Check the "On resume, display logon screen" box. This allows the system to ask for password when someone is interrupting the screensaver.
Customize variety of items using Window color and Appearance Dialog Box.
Select the item you want to customize. Change the color of the object selected and format the text.
How Facebook can be used beneficial within Workplace?
Connect with your co-workers through Facebook. There exists a myth that it is a very bad idea to friend your co-workers on Facebook. This may be true or false to some extent. By being aware of some norms, Facebook can potentially be used in the workplace with a bunch of positive use.
To start with, understand the security settings of your Facebook profile. This is the Facebook page with key info about the Privacy settings of your profile http://www.facebook.com/help/privacy and its mandatory to be familiar with all those access settings completely.
"Who can see What" - We should always keep in mind that, We, the central players of the Facebook portal are the one who decide what information to share and with whom. It is absolutely under our control. We can create customized groups of friends list (a separate list for colleagues) and have the autonomy to share something to specific people or hide something from specific group.
We have to be alert and concerned about the fact that "Many Employers are currently watching their employees through Facebook". This should be ethically and legally questionable action of employers, but it is far beyond the topic to talk over in this particular post.
Be conscious about every single piece of info (particularly about your office politics/colleagues/clients) you share with your co-workers on Facebook. "You own your own words and their impacts".
Company specific events like Tournaments for employees, weekend trip, pizza party etc can be hosted to maintain cooperative relations among coworkers with the help of Facebook. Create a Facebook event providing details about the event and invite your co-workers. The event can be in person or online.
Fundraising social cause campaigns like Go Green, Book Sale, Craft show etc can be run within the workplace which is beneficial in constructing the workplace community. Facebook facilitates this process.
You can build a powerful professional network. Facebook aids you to establish your professional identity and to collaborate with networks specific to your field of work. This can be achieved by maintaining your profile updated, complete and appropriate.
Create Facebook Groups having members from the workplace with similar interests and passion like Writing, Walking, Yoga, Hiking etc. When you find people with similar interests within the workplace, it becomes easy to explore the passion to next level, accompanied by your workplace friends.
Instant messaging through Facebook becomes a effective tool within the organization as it paves way to increased interaction and communication and instantaneous information sharing among the employees.
Collaborate and learn through Facebook. Employees can learn together within networks of knowledgeable people by sharing their interests, sharing helpful videos, engaging with peers, having meaningful conversations which leads to quick learning and success.
Hence within the workplace, the employees can acquire extensive benefits from Facebook by handling it with appropriate responsibility.
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What is Rotating Banner? Web banners play an immense part in today's advertising methods. While browsing in the web, you can see advertising banners that is cycling through a number of images each of them linking to specific target pages. Let us see the code to create such a rotating web banner to be used in your website and bit of understanding about the code. I am using Dreamweaver as my HTML editor software. You can use any available editors of your choice.
Create a new HTML file and my editor automatically provides the very basic tags embedded within the file.
Create a top section on your web page for the banner to be displayed using <div> tag
<div> <a href="_blank"><img src ="images/Chrysanthemum.jpg" height="200" width="1345" id="banner"/> </a> </div> My first image on the rotating banner is "Chrysanthemum.jpg" placed in images folder with id attribute for <img> tag as "banner".
Now enter into the JavaScript code within the script tags.
We write a rotate() function to flip through the images with a tiny time gap. Create a variable "ad" and initialise it to "0" outside the function.
function rotate() { var images = new Array ("images/Chrysanthemum.jpg", "images/Desert.jpg", "images/Hydrangeas.jpg"); ad++; if (ad == images.length) { ad = 0; } document.getElementById("banner").src = images [ad] ; setTimeout(rotate, 2000); }
Within the function a new array called images is created with the image files. The setTimeout function is used to call the rotate() function every 2000 milliseconds. Each time the function is called the "ad" value will be incremented and the "src" attribute of the banner element will be substituted with image from the images array with index as the current "ad" value.
We need to add links to each image with a function namednewlocation().
function newlocation () { var url = new Array ("http://www.google.com","http://www.yahoo.com","http://www.bing.com"); document.location.href = url [ad]; return false; }
Within this function a new array called url is created with the links to each image. The entire URL of the document is substituted with link from the url array with index as the current ad value.
Whenever an image is clicked the newlocation() function is called with the help of onclick event and rotate() function is called directly. This is the basic code for rotating banner and you canadd any style to your banner with the help of CSS. Download code here
Go to Settings -> Mail ->Fetch New Data and turn off Push. Select the option "Manually" from the Fetch options given below. Open the Mail app to receive the emails whenever you wish to read.
Auto-Lock feature
Go to Settings -> General ->Auto-Lock. Set the Auto-Lock to 1 Minute to save the battery life.
Turn off Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
When you are not using any Bluetooth devices with your iPhone, turn off Bluetooth. Go to Settings -> Bluetooth and turn off. Similarly turn off Wi-Fi when you don't use it. Go to Settings -> Wi-Fi to turn off.
Turn on Auto-Brightness
Go to Setting -> Brightness and turn on Auto Brightness. The sensor will detect if you are in bright or dark lighting condition and adjust the brightness of your iPhone as per the condition. This will protect your eyes as well as save battery power.
Adjust Equalizer
Go to Settings -> Music ->EQ. Set EQ to "Flat" to conserve battery power.
Update to the latest version of the iPhone software.
Turn off Location Services
Go to Settings ->Privacy ->Location Services. Turn off the location services and whenever you open a app that requires location services, it will ask you to turn on the Location services in settings. You can either turn on the feature at that moment or use the app without enabling the service.
Keep the iPhone always in room temperature. Avoid leaving the phone either in too hot/cold conditions.
Turn off Notifications
Go to Settings ->Notifications and turn off notifications for those apps from which you don't want to receive any notifications.
Once a month, drain your battery completely and then recharge to save battery lifetime.
Note: All the above stated tips or some of them can be used, based on the preferences in the elements of the iPhone that are intensely being used by the particular person.
What is a Screencast? A Screencast is a video of your computer screen with audio narration. Many Screencast applications are available in the web and Camstudio is one of them. It is a free open source screencast application. How to create a Screencast with Camstudio?
Go to http://camstudio.org/, Click on the Download links at the middle of the page. Download and install the application on your computer.
After installing open the CamStudio program.
You can see the buttons to Record, Pause and Stop your screencasting.
Go to Options -> Program Options and select "Minimise Program on start Recording". This helps the application to minimise its window automatically when you start recording.
By default no audio is recorded. If you want to record audio, Go to Options -> Audio Options and select "Audio Options for Microphone".
Select the "Region" on the computer screen to be recorded.
Begin recording your How to videos, lectures etc by clicking on the red circle (Record Button). After finishing your task on the screen to be captured, press F9 to stop the recording.
Now you will be prompted to save the avi file on your computer. You Screencast is now ready to be shared on YouTube.
Who can benefit more from screencasting technique?
Software Professionals - to demonstrate software features.
Teachers - for tutorial purpose.
Students - to organise seminars and for e-learning.
Business Professionals - for publicity, training etc.
I have created a sample ScreenCast and uploaded in YouTube. How to embed the sample video from YouTube in this post?
Go to your YouTube video.
Right click on the video and select "Copy embed html".
Come back to the blogger post and select HTML view instead of Compose view.
Paste the html code copied from YouTube to the existing html code. Postion the code as per your wish for target position.
Note:Many other paid ScreenCastapplications areavailable in the market with more and more features. Based on the type of use and the price they can afford, one can use the screencast program which suites them best.
