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YouTube Enhances Automatic Caption Capability
WASHINGTON: YouTube, in a significant development for deaf Web users, extended automatic caption capability to all English-language videos on the video-sharing website on Thursday.
YouTube users have been able to manually add captions to videos since 2008 and in November of last year the site began offering machine-generated captions for about a dozen partner channels, reports AFP.
Hiroto Tokusei, a YouTube product manager, said in a blog post on Thursday that the automatic caption, or auto-caption, feature was now being expanded to all videos on the site in English.
Auto-captioning uses speech-to-text technology to generate subtitles.
“Making video easily accessible is something we’re working hard to address at YouTube,” said Tokusei, citing studies that predict that over 700 million people worldwide will suffer from hearing impairment by 2015.
While the auto-caption feature currently only works for videos where English is spoken, Tokusei said [...]
19 Interesting Internet Facts – 2009
Couple of days ago, I covered 18 interesting firsts of the Internet. Today, I am going to share 19 most interesting and amazing facts about Internet (as of year 2009). So, without wasting time, let’s start;
1. Out of 100 pictures on Internet, 80 are of naked women. That’s means 80% pictures on Internet are of naked women.
2. 17 billion devices will be connected to the Internet (in total) by the year 2012.
3. More than 3.7 million domain names are registered every month in 2009 (according to Domain Name Industry Brief).
4. Which came first? Email or Website? Yes, that’s email which predates websites. Find here.
5. The ration between ‘normal’ and porn pages is 1:5. That means, there are 5 porn pages for every ‘normal’ page.
6. Out of 8 Married couples in US, one met online (2009 report).
7. The first banner advertisement on Internet was used in 1994.
8. The total number [...]
Add Seasonal Signatures to Your Hotmail Emails
Email signatures mean a lot to some people and they keep on try to make their signature look better. People using Yahoo and Hotmail can customize their signatures easily with the help of Signature options.
I’m posting a way to add seasonal signatures to Hotmail as they offer HTML based signature which enables users to place links or images in signatures. Hotmail keeps on offering various signature packs for users to easily add to their signatures.
Hotmail has recently come up with a seasonal signature pack. These signatures could be used in accordance to the season like winter, summer, fall & spring.
Details on how to place these signatures are:
Right Click and Copy the image you want to use
Choose “Account Options” within your Hotmail email
Select “Customize your Mail” and choose “Personal Email signature”
Paste the image within your signature
Click on “Save signature” and you are all set with your new signature.
Here is the [...]
18 Interesting Firsts on the Internet
There are more than 18.5 million Internet users in Pakistan among them 1.7 million are broadband users (as of June 2009). Internet has become a necessity of our lives especially for student and working class. But most of the Internet users do not know the history of Internet or many Internet services they use daily.
The purpose of this article is to increase your knowledge about what were the first different things happened in Internet World. Below are the 18 “firsts” of the Internet. This is quite an interesting study.
1. The First Email
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson sent first email and also made use of @ symbol in email addresses. Same systems were available even before (early 60s) but they were only used it to exchange messages on mainframe computer. The current shape of email emerged in 1970s. It is to be noted that Internet didn’t even exist at that time [...]
PayPal Resumed Bank Withdrawals to India on March 3
PayPal made an announcement regarding bank withdrawals to Indian PayPal account holders on February 27, 2010. Withdrawals were scheduled to resume on March 3rd, 2010, which has already taken place. We have also covered the article on Bank Withdrawal Instructions for Indian PayPal accounts.
Earlier yesterday, PayPal officially announced that Bank withdrawals have been enabled for Indian PayPal users. They will however need to fill in an additional field known as “Purpose Code”. This is a requirement by Indian Government in order to know the nature of transactions. Vendors/Sellers will need to fill in the most appropriate purpose code against their business/services to withdraw funds to local bank accounts.
Details on purpose Codes can be found on PayPal’s Website.
That is good news for Indian users as they can withdraw to their bank accounts after little inconvenience.
Feline Frenzy – Yet another Facebook Game By Pakistani Developers
“White Rabbit” an Islamabad based start-up recently launched a Facebook Game called Feline Frenzy: Robot Wars. This is the second Facebook game developed by Pakistanis which is impressive and shows we too are planning to move along the world.
Game is to shoot Birds flying and dropping cats with the help of cannon (I’d call it cannon). This thrower or cannon (Whatever you want to call it) throws boots at birds.
Objective of the game is to prevent any cats from reaching the ground. Player must hit the balloon holding the cat in order to kill it or else they will land on the ground. If 4 cats manage to land, the game is over.
Arrow keys are used to move the cannon to the different sides of the screen (Top, left & right) and space/left mouse click is used to fire (Throw boots ). As levels pass, bird’s spree increases resulting in [...]
Skype App Launched for Nokia Symbian SmartPhones
Luxembourg and Espoo, Finland – Skype and Nokia today jointly announced the release of Skype for Symbian, a Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform, the world’s most popular smartphone platform. Skype for Symbian will allow Nokia smartphone users worldwide to use Skype on the move, over either a WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, and 3G). It is now downloadable for free from the Ovi Store, Nokia’s one-stop shop for mobile content.
Skype for Symbian enables Nokia smartphone users to:
Make free Skype-to-Skype calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world*
Save money on calls and texts (SMS) to phones abroad
Send and receive instant messages to and from individuals or groups
Share pictures, videos and other files
Receive calls to their existing online number
See when Skype contacts are online and available to call or IM
Easily import names and numbers from the phone’s address book
Skype for Symbian will [...]
Bank Withdrawal Instructions for Indian PayPal Users
Indian PayPal customers were affected by the latest policy regarding withdrawal. PayPal announced to resume bank withdrawals on March 3rd.
After March 3rd, “Purpose Code” will be required to withdraw funds to local bank accounts. Purpose Code is required to know the nature of transactions to avoid money laundering.
Indian PayPal users cannot receive personal payments anymore. This includes all three types of PayPal accounts (Business, Premier& Personal). Clients now have three available ways to send payments through PayPal:
Customers can pay using Goods or services tab
Checkout at a website
You can Request Money from other PayPal users
In order to get bank withdrawals in India, a purpose code would be required for the transaction. Once the purpose code will be provided, payment would be issued to the local bank in India.
What is a Purpose Code?
A Purpose Code enables a bank to provide necessary information regarding online transactions to Reserve Bank of India. Details [...]
HOW TO: Install WordPress Script for the First Time
WordPress is a Content Management System that allows maintaining blogs or online journal. WordPress offers an easy facility for blog solution to have it set up and running very swiftly. WordPress is well known for its easy installation. Its installation is a very simple process and takes less than five minutes to complete under most circumstances. Fantastico is a tool offered by many web hosts to automatically install WordPress. Fantastico in the cPanel is the easiest way to install WordPress.
Here is a helpful guide if one wishes to install WordPress personally,
Step 1: First, click the icon labeled Fantastico. Under the heading of ‘Blogs’ on the left panel, there is a link named ‘WordPress.’ By clicking the link, a WordPress install directory will be opened. A heading labeled ‘New Installation’ is on the right side of the install directory. By clicking it, an installation panel will be opened for the [...]
PayPal Resumes Local Bank Withdrawals to India – Personal Payments Still Suspended!
A while ago, PayPal stopped personal payments and bank withdrawals to India but now many Indian IT Firms, Freelancers, SEOs, Developers and many others will take a sigh of relief as PayPal is resuming local bank withdrawals. According to PayPal email notification, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed bank withdrawals for the settlement of export of goods and services. The service will be officially resumed of 3rd March 2010.
PayPal has made some changes in this regard and Indian PayPal holders will have to fill a new field “Export Code” when withdrawing to local bank as per Indian law. On 1st march 2010, PayPal will get back to it’s Indian customers will guidelines of how they can withdraw funds to local bank accounts. However, Personal payments will remained suspended.
This is the email I received from PayPal:
Dear Customer,
We have been diligently working with the RBI and our business partners to [...]
HOW TO: Configure Wireless Router
A wireless router is a wireless device that connects one computer or a whole network to another computer or network. They are present in homes and offices. A wireless router powers a wireless network which is responsible for sending information from one computer to another.
The router configuration manual has to be consulted before configuring. The manual is helpful for understanding the router features and steps for configuring it. If the manual is not along with router, then it can be downloaded it from vendor website.
How does a wireless router work
A wireless router works in a similar manner as a wireless mobile phone. The router helps to share a single Internet connection between two or more computers which can be on the same floor or even on different floors.
Wireless router is connected to a broadband cable or a DSL (Digital Subscriber Line) Internet connection and makes use of radio frequency [...]
HOW TO: Access Blocked Websites
There are several times when websites may be blocked in schools, colleges, universities or at work places. This is not the end of the world and the blocked websites can still be accessed using a proxy website which uses a different IP address than the one directly used by the computer.
Proxy websites are used by internet users for different reasons, some use for accessing potentially blocked websites by their colleges or offices and some use it to test their scripts. Proxy websites allows to bypass the current ISP’s IP and connects to the targeted website with a different IP; it hides the actual origin from being detected.
Work places normally block social networking websites including Google News, YouTube, Facebook, Typepad, Myspace, Yahoo! Messenger, Bebo, Orkut, Photobucket, Pandora, Flickr and others.
Accessing blocked websites
Learning how to access blocked websites is not a big deal. Just follow the steps below;
1. For accessing blocked [...]
