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DarkTable: An Open Source alternative for Adobe Lightroom

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:06:00 +0000

Came across this software few days back, was searching for an open source alternative for Adobe Lightroom.


Darktable

While reading and digging about it, many people in forums has asked how to install it on Linux.

In this post i will try to explain how to install and link with few interesting posts on Darktable.

What is darktable?
Here is what darktable site says
"darktable is an open source photography workflow application and RAW developer. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance them."

How to install on linux?
Open the terminal and run the following commands

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmjdebruijn/darktable-release
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pmjdebruijn/darktable-release-plus
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install darktable

If everything went well darktable should be installed on your computer.

Below are the few links worth reading before diving into darktable

Please comment if you find some nice tutorials explaining Darktable...

Custom Screen Savers on Kindle Touch

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:52:00 +0000

Before proceeding to install custom screensaver on your kindle touch download the following package
Download | Mirror

We Need this package to enable us to connect to Kindle using SSH.
Extract it into the root folder of your Kindle Touch

Note:

The USB Networking can be toggled by entering ;un into the search box of the menu.
You can also set the root password (useful before your first login attempt) by issuing ;un password
The IP of the kindle is 192.168.15.244

Open the terminal on your Linux Desktop and type the following command:

sudo ifconfig usb0 192.168.15.1; ssh root@192.168.15.244

Example:

blah@blah-desktop:~$ sudo ifconfig usb0 192.168.15.1; ssh root@192.168.15.244
root@192.168.15.244's password:
#################################################
# N O T I C E * N O T I C E * N O T I C E #
#################################################
Rootfs is mounted read-only. Invoke mntroot rw to
switch back to a writable rootfs.
#################################################
[root@kindle root]# mntroot rw
system: I mntroot:def:Making root filesystem writeable
[root@kindle root]# cp -f /mnt/base-us/screensaver.png /usr/share/blanket/ad_screensaver/screensaver-unregistered.png
[root@kindle root]# cp -f /mnt/base-us/screensaver.png /usr/share/blanket/ad_screensaver/screensvr.png

The /mnt/base-us is the root folder of you Kindle where screensaver.png is your custom screensaver, copy it to the required folder as mentioned above.

Enjoy your Custom screensaver!!! :)

To Know more about Kindle Hacking read this:
Kindle_Touch_Hacking
kindle-touch-5-0-jailbreakroot-and-ssh

How to recover lost data from failed harddisk or formatted harddisk.

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:10:00 +0000

It has happened to me many times, formatted hardisks without backup, sometimes deleted the data unknowingly but, now you can recover such lost data with TESTDISK.

TestDisk is OpenSource software and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

TestDisk is a powerfull FREE data recovery tool it can run under windows as well as Linux.

Here's what their site says,

    * Fix partition table, recover deleted partition
    * Recover FAT32 boot sector from its backup
    * Rebuild FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 boot sector
    * Fix FAT tables
    * Rebuild NTFS boot sector
    * Recover NTFS boot sector from its backup
    * Fix MFT using MFT mirror
    * Locate ext2/ext3 Backup SuperBlock
    * Undelete files from FAT, NTFS and ext2 filesystem
    * Copy files from deleted FAT, NTFS and ext2/ext3 partitions.

Technically you can recover all your lost data if only if you have not written over the recovering data.

To know more about TestDisk visit their site: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

Step by step tutorial of TestDisk http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

Free Ebooks on how to use twitter to promote youself and for profitable business

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 12:59:00 +0000

If you are twitter addict and you have a website, business then read on!.
Twitter is gaining its popularity day by day and we would be fool to not use such an emerging technology for our profits.

Many of the bloggers use twitter to drive traffic. organizations use it to spread the news and gain readership.

If you don't know how to use twitter to promote yourself, to increase you traffic or for business profits, then here is a list of three ebooks which might be useful for you.

1. Mastering Twitter

Before you can use Twitter, know twitter. This books lets you master the simple website which has been so successful in such a short time, twitter.

This is a 30 page ebook is written by Chris Demetrios, this book starts with setting up account, how to customize the homepage and how to follow rule.

New to twitter? read it!.

2. A geek’s Guide To Promoting Yourself and Your Online Business in 140 Characters or Less with Twitter

This is a PPT ebook, its like slides arranged together in a meaningful way. Only 48 slides.
This ebook is from Geekpreneur explaining how to build a strong twitter profile and how to use it for mini blog, and promoting the business. It even explains some twitter tools and how to use them.

3. Beginner’s Guide to Using Twitter for Business

This is a 20 page ebook from John Jantsch explaining the basic terminology like what is RT? what is DM? to how to use it for business. how to get social.

Have any suggestions or any ebooks you want to include? please drop a comment

Use draft blogger to display HTML code directly and schedule posts

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:13:00 +0000

Have you ever visited blogger discussion?
People ask a lot of questions, among many questions this one struck me "How to display HTML code directly in Blog posts?"

There are 2 ways to answer this qustion
1. Either you can visit a code converting tool like this Google's code converter Gadget or
2. Use draft blogger

What is this draft blogger?
draft blogger is a blogger platform, where upcoming blogger tools, plugins which are going to be released are tested

Blogger in draft is a special version of Blogger where we try out new features before we release them to everyone.

What can i do using draft blogger?
Using draft blogger you can
1. schedule posts
2. show HTML code literally
3. Disable converting newlines to <br/>

Go now and test draft blogger

Have any suggestions?

Wolfram|Alpha loves AppsTime!

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:36:00 +0000

I check everyday, how my blog is performing with google analytics and alexa. So yesterday i thought why not check how my is rated/doing on search engines

So, I started to type "appstime" in different search engines. and below is the result

1: Ranked 3rd in google

2. Ranked 1st in yahoo search

3: Ranked 3rd in Bing

4: Ranked 9th in ask

After searching through these search engines i thought why not give a try to Wolfram Alpha- its the buzz guys! New thinking search engine.

Don't know what is Wolfram|Alpha ?

Here what wiki says

Wolfram Alpha (also written as WolframAlpha and Wolfram|Alpha) is an answer engine developed by Wolfram Research. It is an online service that answers factual queries directly by computing the answer from structured data, rather than providing a list of documents or web pages that might contain the answer as a search engine might.

So i type "http://appstime.blogspot.com" the url of my blog.

and here is the answer!!!

Now, remember why i said Wolfram|Alpha loves appstime!

Note: Those are inaccurate results!

Happy Friendship day to all my readers and everyone

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 18:34:00 +0000

Happy friendship day to all !!

Now, to those who don't know, Second Sunday of August is celebrated as "FRIENDSHIP DAY." So, have a nice wonderful day.

Have a Nice Friendship day!

Capture your favourite amazing web design pages FOREVER!

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:48:00 +0000

Stumbled upon a site whose web design, look and feel you loved, wanted to capture the web page?

well, then read on this post is just for YOU!

iterasi.net is a website where you can capture the webpage as it is!, if the web page do change in the future the captured web page won't change and you can view the web page as you had captured.

AppsTime through iterasi viewer

Current look of AppsTime

Go ahead and save your favourite web design web pages

Have any suggestions? please leave a comment.

Touch Down..! Firefox crosses 1 billionth download !!

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:14:00 +0000

UPDATE !

Firefox download counter is going to hit 1 billionth very soon. check out here Firefox download counter

Latest counter as i checked

Firefox has proved over the years that its the best, fastest, secure and fully featured browser on the net right now.

There are few tips on site as how you can be spread the message

1. Add a link to www.firefox.com to your Instant Messaging profile.

2. Use the Firefox logo as your profile picture or buddy icon.

3. Vote up a Firefox story on a social news site like Digg or Reddit.

4. Wear a Firefox t-shirt today!

The Internet Explorer has lost a good market share
These statistics have been taken from w3schools

The market share of Internet explorer in Jan 2008 is 54.7 which fell to 40.7 in June 2009.

Firefox has emerged winner with 47.3% market share

Check out my Previous blog on 10 Must have Firefox addons for bloggers who browse alot!

Leave your suggestion, views in comments

10 Beautiful Handwritten fonts which are FREE for personal use

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:28:00 +0000

In this post i will list 10 awesome handwritten fonts which are FREE for personal use.

1. Lewis Hand

This is a true type font designed by Misile law foundry, licensed under FREE for personal use.

2. Handwritten Crystal

This is a bold true type font by Crystal Suovanen

3. Scriptin

This is a "fast" running letter handwitten font.

4. Arsenale White font

This is another beautiful font by studios kmzero. Licensed under GNU/GPL.

5. Qokiji 1.0

This is another great font from Joanne taylor licensed under Freeware.

6. Khand fonts

This fonts comes in lowercase, uppercase, numerals and punctuation. This is a bold font licensed under Freeware by Kevin Richey.

7. Cat's Awesomely Awesome Font

Beautiful "big" font designed by Catherine Cunningham.

8. King cool KC

I love this font , you can use this font for header looks damn kool. Released by Kimberly Gewesin Licensed under free to use for personal use.

9. Luismi Murder Font

This is a beautiful font by DarkoJuan

10. Sue Ellen Francisco

Another beautiful font from Kimberly Gewesin.

Suggest your favourite FREE handwritten fonts in comments.

Find your Twitter Grade and your twitter ranking!

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:27:00 +0000

Twitter has become a phenomena and almost 99.99% of all bloggers use it to drive traffic and lure its readers by tweeting on a niche.

Why u need twitter grade?

Twitter grade is basically a type of Technorati which give the authority and reach of the that twitter profile.

Here's what their official blog says

What Twitter Grader is trying to measure is the power, reach and authority of a twitter account. In other words, when you tweet, what kind of an impact does it have?

How does its algorithm works?

Twitter grader algorithm takes many factors which are given equal weight

1. No. of Followers

2. Power of Followers

3. Updates

4. Update Recency

5. Follower/Following Ratio

6. Engagement

To know what above factors mean and to know more

Read the offical twitter grader blog! Here

Find your twitter grade and let us know. Here

Comment your grade and ranking who knows I may end up following you!

10 Stunning, Professional look Blogger Templates which are FREE!

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 06:39:00 +0000

In this post i will list 10 truely professional looking Blogger Templates.

Note: Before downloading please visit the original post for info on how to customize and all, and contact the relevant author / developer of the Template for further queries.

1. Solitude

Solitude is a simple very professional blogger template. It has a stylish Menubar and a bird on the left corner.

Download Demo

2. Excellence

Excellnce is very professional blogger template. It has a special column for Author and special tab for private advertising.

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

3. Daily Inspired

Daily inspired is a highly customizable blogger template release by Woork. At first look you may confuse whether it is blogger template!
If you know HTML and CSS then only go for this template.

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

4. Template Blue

Template Blue is a simple 2 color blogger template. Its a 3 column template with body in Middle.

Download Demo

5. Gadget Blog

Gadget Blog is like a tech blogger template, having 2 Menubar with one Menubar dropdown list which can be very helpful if your blog is gadgets related. It gas 3 column footer!

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

6. Community

Community Blogger template and Gadget Blog Templates are very similar both have 2 menubar with one having dropdown menubar and 3 column footer.

Plus point: It has private advertising space and the social bookmarking is configured and also follow on twitter!

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

7. Chethstudios Life

Chethstudios Life is a template released by Cheth Studios.
Want a very simple 2 color blogger template looking professional? this is the template.its also boosts 3 column footer. checkout its more features at the provided link.

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

8. Simple Box

If I had to rate these templates on a scale of 10, I would rate this template 9, damn good, easy installation and very professional template. it has 3 footer column and almost everything configured.
.Recent Posts
.Recent Comments
.Read More

What More you need?

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

9. Typoork

Typoork is a clean and professional Blogger template released again by woork which is totally free and highly customizable. It supports inline comments form, delicious and retweet counters in each post.

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

10. Personal Mag Theme

This was my first template.. i installed this template at its first look very professional. Its a 3 column template.Built-in RSS feed and Email Subscription links. built in adsense ready
check this template for yourself!

Visit Post for more info

Download Demo

Suggest any other templates which you think are professional?

10 Must have Firefox addons for bloggers who browse alot!

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:45:00 +0000

If you are a blogger freak and love Firefox then, here's a list of 10 must have Firefox addons for YOU!

1. Adblock Plus

If you are annoyed of ads and browse a lot websites this addon is must. Blocks ads and make the site loading faster if you have low connection internet.

2. No script

The best security you can get in a web browser!
Allow active content to run only from sites you trust, and protect yourself against XSS and Clickjacking attacks.

3. WOT

WOT, Web of Trust, warns you about risky websites that try to scam visitors, deliver malware or send spam. Protect your computer against online threats by using WOT as your front-line layer of protection when browsing or searching in unfamiliar territory. WOT's color-coded icons show you ratings for 21 million websites - green to go, yellow for caution and red to stop – helping you avoid the dangerous sites. Surf safer and add WOT to your Firefox now.

4. Stumble Upon Bar

I love this bar when you don't know what sites to browse.
StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.

5. Better Privacy

Ever wondered why you are still tracked though you tried everything to prevent it?
BetterPrivacy is a Super Cookie Safeguard which protects from usually not deletable LSO's. It blocks longterm tracking on Google, YouTube Ebay and many other domains.

6. Web developer tools

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools.
You can test small snippets of code right there and see the results.

7. ReadIt Later

Read It Later allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.

8. XMarks

Xmarks is the #1 bookmarking add-on. Install it on all your computers to keep your bookmarks and (optionally) passwords backed up and synchronized. Xmarks also helps you uncover the best of the web based on what millions of people are bookmarking.

Note: This Addon is available for Internet Explorer and Safari users too. Free download at http://www.xmarks.com

9. FireBug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page...

10. GreaseMonkey

Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.

Suggest any other addons which are your favorites.

Collection of Blogging Tips n Tricks for Bloggers

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:08:00 +0000

This post is a collection of Blogging tips and tricks for bloggers.

1. Add .gif favicon for Bloggers on Blogspot

When you have a .ico favicon on blogspot, it gets replaced by the default blogspot's favicon. In this post i will discuss why to have a .gif favicon.
Read More...

2. How to build Contact form in Blogspot

Bloggers before beginning should always have a contact form so that your readers can contact you back. This post discusses how to have a contact form.
Read More...

3. Why Tag Cloud is Important and How to add to Blogger

A blog design should always be unique and easy navigation should be provided. tag cloud can act as a very easy and efficient way of navigation as well as adding a value to your blog! Read this post as why tag cloud is important.
Read More...

4. How to Add Adsense within Blogspot Posts

Many people start blogging for monetization. But bloggers don't realize that adding adsense within posts will increase their click rate. This post discusses how to add adsense within posts.
Read More...

5. How to Add Tweetmeme for Every post

Blog cannot survive on Content alone, it needs to be publicize and tweeting is a good way. this post discusses how to add tweetmeme or retweet button to your post.
Read More...

6. Free Ebook on Authority in Blogosphere

Blogging is all about authority the more authority you have the more popular your blog is. This Ebook is all about the authority in Blogosphere. Its FREE! go and download.
Read More...

7. Free Blogger template Ebook, A must for Bloggers using Google's Blogspot Platform

As i said having a unique blog has its own advantages, people will recognize ohh its his BLOG! and keeping a simple and minimalistic design helps your readers to comeback again! Larger load time may lose you a few readers also ... to know all about this read this ebook its a very great resource to have.
Read More...

8. Are you Beginner Blogger? Read this Book!

If you are beginner blogger then you got to read these books. first book - 12 websites you must visit is very small ebook it will hardly take your time. Second ebook give you steps , tricks and all info on how to market your website/blog.
Read More...

9. All About Permalink

This is an interesting post which will help you understand what are permalinks and how they can boost your pageranks.
Read More...

10. 5 things every blogger should do

Last but not least 5 things every blogger should know and do.
Read More...

Twitter has become phenomenal success but, has tweeting?

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:03:00 +0000

Twitter has gained its popularity very fast... reaching alexa rank of 23(Currently)

We tweet more than we digg, stumble or share on facebook but, is tweeting helping bloggers to spread and gain popularity of their blog?

I see many famous blogger posts they have 100 tweets and yet only 4 to 5 diggs.

I have 62 following yet when i share something the tweet disappears into more within an hour. I wonder do my followers even get to see my tweets who have like 1k to 10k followers?

This is an open question

1. Have we valued twitter more?

2. Do you guys prefer tweeting or other sharing form like digg,stumble,delicious or facebook?

Best Web Resources on Fonts

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:13:00 +0000

This post is a collection of some of the fine, ultimate web resources on FONTS.

If your are FONT Freak you got to look at these post!!!

1. 40+ Extremely Beautiful FONTS Hand-picked from deviantART.

2. 80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design.

3. Beautiful High-Quality Free Fonts For Your Designs.

4. 45 Beautiful Free Fonts for Modern Design Trends.

5. 10 Beautiful and free fonts for web designers.

6. 20+ Beautiful Free Serif Fonts.

7. 65+ Smoking Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials.

8. 200+ Textures, Brushes, and Fonts: Ultimate Grunge Roundup.

9. 40+ Excellent Freefonts For Professional Design.

10. 45+ Exceptionally Useful Free Handwritten Fonts.

There are many fonts resources... This post will soon be again edited with the available resources.

Please leave a comment and link if you want your post on font to be included.

Are you Beginner Blogger? Read this Book!

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:03:00 +0000

You think starting a blog is tough? Then read these two books which will make your work a lot easier.

1. 12 Websites you must Visit!

This is Free Ebook released by Lithium Mind, which lists 12 websites which you must follow. this is a very short book and won't take much of your time. I would definitely recommend you take a look at this book anyway its FREE!.

Building a Blog is not enough you have to market it, share it, publicize it right?
This book will help you in marketing your blog.

2.The Winning Way – Ultimate Checklist of 500+ Proven Internet Marketing Strategies!

This is a 118 page report of all the marketing strategies you want to know. This book covers 500 different internet marketing strategies to market your blog.

Here's what the author wrote:

I’m so confident that this resource will help you as an Internet marketer that I’ll make you a deal. Download the checklist and read through it. If you don’t find at least 3 new ideas that help you to promote your website and drive traffic, I’ll send you $50 via Paypal for your time.

Free Blogger template Ebook, A must for Bloggers using Google's Blogspot Platform

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:54:00 +0000

If you are using google's blogspot platform then this is a sure and must read ebook for all those blog lovers.
This ebook is written by Amanda Fazani of Bloggerbuster. She has an incredible knowledgable on Blogger template. I consider lucky to read her book!.
This book has helped a lot in building of this New Template for Apps Time.

In this book she discusses
1.how and why to build customized blog?
2.how to optimize your blog?
3.and lot of other resources which are worth to look into.

Go now and Download the Blogger Template Ebook for Free !!!

List of High PR dofollow Blogs, topics focussing on web design, blogging, tutorials and inspiration.

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:07:00 +0000

Hi Everyone,

Finding a High PR do-follow Blog List is difficult whose topics focus on web design, blogging tricks and tips, tutorials and inspiration.

I will soon be compiling a blog list of dofollow blogs.

If your blog is Dofollow and topics focus on webdesign then submit your blog by leaving a comment with your blog url and PR.

Apps Time is a dofollow blog so your comment gets you a sure backlink!. Comment and enjoy the backlink!.

Update !
AppsTime is no longer a DO FOLLOW blog.

What do you think about the new layout of AppsTime

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 11:41:00 +0000

Hi All,

Brand new Template for AppsTime. This template is an inspiration from woork based on the template "typoork" released by woork.

What do you think about the new template? please leave suggestions. Thanks!.

Poll: Should we have dofollow Blog?

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:46:00 +0000

Today's post is a poll on whether we should have dofollow blog or nofollow blog?

What is dofollow?
In simple words Dofollow means you tell search engines that the comment url is a valuable link. Ie: your are providing a backlink to the person who comments.

Nofollow:
Having a nofollow may not get you more comments and thus less visits

Dofollow:
Having a dofollow blog can get you lots of comments but it also brings spams.

How to make your blogspot blog dofollow?
Making the blogspot blog dofollow is very easy

go to Dashboard, click on Layout go to Edit HTML and click on Expand widgets

Search for "nofollow" ... you may find two nofollow replace them with dofollow and just remove rel=”nofollow” by default it is dofollow.

Yes , AppsTime is a dofollow blog, comment and enjoy the backlink!.

Update !
AppsTime is no longer a DO FOLLOW blog.

Alternative software for Garage Band in Windows

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:19:00 +0000

All the windows lovers who love Garage Band, well need not worry, if not garage band but there are few other software which are worth to take a look at.

What is Garage Band?
This is what apple says "Welcome to the school of rock. A Mac-sized practice space. Your own recording studio. If you want to learn to play an instrument, write music, or record a song, GarageBand can help — whether you’re a rookie or a rock star."for more info visit GarageBand 09

Garage Band Alternatives to Windows

Mixcraft.
LMMS - Linux Multimedia Studio.
Adobe Audition.
Sony Acid
Band in a box
Sonar Home Studio
Reason
FL Studio

MIXCRAFT

Clear, colorful, and intelligently designed interface to streamline your work.
Custom loop library includes hundreds of royalty-free sounds in dozens of musical styles.
Works with Acid™ and Apple Garage Band™ loops.
Record multiple MIDI and audio tracks simultaneously.
Piano roll to view and edit MIDI.
Includes a General MIDI library, two sampled grand pianos, Hammond B-3™ emulator, MiniMoog™ emulator and a polyphonic synthesizer.
Includes 18 high quality effects.
Create mega presets that layer and split multiple virtual synthesizers and effects.
Add unlimited VSTi™ instruments, VST™ and DirectX™effects.
Mix down to MP3, WAV and other audio file types.
Burn CDs of your mix with just one click.

For More information visit Mixcraft

LMMS

LMMS is a free cross-platform alternative to commercial programs like FL Studio®, which allow you to produce music with your computer. This includes the creation of melodies and beats, the synthesis and mixing of sounds, and arranging of samples. You can have fun with your MIDI-keyboard and much more; all in a user-friendly and modern interface.

For more information visit LMMS-(Linux Multimedia Studio)

ADOBE AUDITION

Adobe Audition 3 software is the all-in-one toolset for professional audio production that allows you to record, mix, edit, and master digital audio. Adobe Audition delivers the flexibility you need to produce professional results for all your audio and video projects and gives you pinpoint control in an intuitive, easy-to-use environment. Whether you are composing music, recording and mixing a project, producing a radio spot, cleaning up production audio for a movie, or designing sound for video games, Adobe Audition 3 provides the powerful tools you need to get the job done.

Visit Adobe Audition for more info.

SONY ACID

This is what their site says - " If you're serious about making your own music, ACID Music Studio software is the perfect tool for original song creation, multitrack audio and MIDI recording, and studio-quality mixing, and effects processing. Share your songs any way you want — burn your own CDs, upload to the web, prepare audio for podcasts, or export to your MP3 player."

For more information visit Sony Acid

BAND IN A BOX

Band in box - This is what their site says - "

Band-in-a-Box is an intelligent automatic accompaniment program for your multimedia computer. You can hear and play along to many song ideas, and go from "nothing" to "something" in a very short time with Band-in-a-Box as your on-demand backup band.

There are many more reasons that Band-in-a-Box is a favorite of musicians, students, and songwriters the world over. To see for yourself, you can click on the Band-in-a-Box forum and guestbook links on this page and share the experiences of other users in your own language."

Visit band in a box for more information

SONAR HOME STUDIO

Sona says-"With SONAR Home Studio you can record live instruments, vocals, or any audio source. You can easily edit audio, MIDI, and music notation. The updated Loop Explorer gives you the tools to build backing tracks faster than ever. Add real instrument sounds using the included virtual instruments suite. Bring your mix together with studio-quality audio effects and professional mixing tools. When you are finished, share your music on the web or burn it to CD for fans, friends, and family."

REASON

Reason is a virtual studio rack with all the tools and instruments you need to turn your ideas into music. And it's more than just a set of excellent synths and effects. It's a complete music system. Step into the age of Reason. Reason comes with synthesizers, samplers, drum machine, REX file loop player, professional mastering tools, mixer, vocoder, world

class effects, pattern sequencer and more. As many of each as your computer can handle. Reason is an infinitely expandable all-in-one music production environment, complete with its own realtime sequencer.

For more information visit Reason

FL STUDIO

FL Studio is the most complete virtual studio currently available. It will play any sample file (wav), generator (softsynth), VSTi & DXi) or midi instrument you feed it.

For more info visit FL Studio

Share your thoughts and tell if i have missed any of your favourite software!

Now that you have read, Next is What?
if you like it ,REALLY like it then consider for BOOKMARK n SHARING IT!!!

Free Ebook on Authority in Blogosphere

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:27:00 +0000

Before you Download the Ebook here are few things to know why we need authority?

Blogging is all about traffic.
If you search google for traffic tricks and how to get traffic. I'm sure you will find hell of articles on this hot topic.
Even i have written a blog which is worth to take a look

How to Increase traffic to your blog

So how is authority related to blogging n traffic.?
Well if ask this question ...

do you know?
Problogger.net
Johncow.com
Copyblogger.com

If yes, why do you go and visit these blogs?
Simple they have established their authority over blogging.
Having authority in blogosphere is very important if you want to get noticed and traffic.

How can i establish authority?
Go, now and get technorati account. Its a free service , they check the quality of the blog and assign an authority for you based on the quality of your blog.

AUTHORITY BLACK BOOK is a 64 page ebook on authority written by Jack Humphrey, If you are a new blogger then i would definitely recommend you to read this book. Book explains:

Why we need authority?
How to get authority?
What are the tools you can use? Lot more...

Share Your thoughts when you read the book and how it helped!!!

Now that you have read, Next is What?
if you like it , REALLY like it then consider for BOOKMARK n SHARING IT!!!

All About Permalink

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:38:00 +0000

What are Permalink?
Permalink are the permanent links to your blog post.

Why are they important?
Search engines like Google give more value to the permalink and what its keywords. permalink expresses what your post is all about.

Should i have Human readable or machine optimized permalink?
Well, to optimize and imcrease your rank in google you need to have both.

How can i achieve it?
With a small trick you can achieve machine optimized and human readable permalink.

Whenever you write a blog write the post machine optimized, in blogger once published permalink won't change even after you change the post title.

for eg: check my blog post its
permalink:
http://appstime.blogspot.com/2009/07
/permalinkpermalinkswordpressblogspotwha.html

Human readable title : All about Permalink

When you publish with machine optimized permalink, rewrite the blog title in Human readable format and republish it again.

Few steps to follow before making permalink
1. Put the main keyword in Google insight search and find relevant keywords
Google insight search
2. Use google adwords tool to find high paying keywords
Google adwords tool

Image showing the permalink keyword search in

1. Google Insight Search

2. Google Adwords tool

Should you have a link to your permalink at the bottom of post?
yes, everytime your write a post make a rule to write permalinks to your post at the bottom of every post.

Benefits of having permalink at the bottom of every post :

1. Bloggers who like your post may want to link to your post.
2. Having a permalink can make their work easy.
3. It can get you more backlinks.

Heres my permalink to this blog

http://appstime.blogspot.com/2009/07
/permalinkpermalinkswordpressblogspotwha.html

Firefox 3.5 on LaunchPad

noreply@blogger.com (Fusion) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:24:00 +0000

King of Pop passed away, we will miss you but wait here come King of Browsers. Firefox 3.5 all set to release on Tuesday, according to PCWorld

Mozilla is expected to release its Firefox 3.5 browser on Tuesday morning, a company representative said on Friday afternoon.

What firefox 3.5 Holds

1. Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.

2. Better performance and stability with the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.

3. The ability to provide Location Aware Browsing using web standards for geolocation.

4. Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.

5. Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.

6. Support for new web technologies such as: HTML5 and elements, downloadable fonts and other new CSS properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 offline data storage for applications, and SVG transforms.

Download firefox 3.5 Beta 4

UPDATE 1
Firefox 3.5 Released Download it NOW!!!

The Developers Features of Firefox 3.5

1. HTML 5 support

2. Newly-supported CSS features

3. New DOM features

4. New JavaScript features

5. Networking

6. New Canvas features

7. New SVG features

Click Here to read full developers features.

I hope and feel that firefox 3,5 will close the debate of which is the best Browser? for once and all for good. Whats your opinon???