Press shift + ? and look at shortcuts on web

Today many web applications support hotkey/shortcuts to access particular funcitonality over the web application, you can read my previous post if you want to develop keyboard support for your web application.

Microsoft announced ASP.NET MVC,web API and Razor as Open Source

I have read today scottgu's blog entry about announcement of release the source code of ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Razor under an open source license (Apache 2.0).
Now you can download source code from codeplex and if you want contribute in that then you can do it there.
Hope that making it open source will improve ASP.NET MVC, Web API, and Razor to better level because now it is open to every people. (Power of Open Source!)

Read more about this

• ScottHanselman : ASP.NET MVC 4, ASP.NET Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages v2 (Razor) now all open source with contributions 
• http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com
• http://asp.net/open-source
  

Have you checked Meta Tags of your website or blog?

If you are running your blog or website then it is important to know about Meta Tags.

Meta Tags provide information of your website/blog to search engine like google, bing, yahoo for how to display your website or blog to their search engine.

look at this link what is Meta tags? by W3schools.

Let's take case study of my blog, before putting meta data my blog display in google search result as per below.



then i came across google webmaster link about meta data they are using for crawling and add some of Meta tags for my blog and after one day google has change descrption as per my meta data as per below. (you can type my name "arun rana" to google to see in live)



You can also control of your web pages from displaying in google search by below meta tag.
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="noindex,nofollow">

After putting Meta data if you want to test your site/blog for meta data then there is very good tool available online  called Meta Tag Analyzer which will give you very deep research and review of meta data.

Useful Reading about Meta Tags

• Wikipedia - Meta tag
• How To Use HTML Meta Tags

Google can tell you that what the world want? Really!

I was so boring in night yesterday and playing with Google and found some interesting queries you want to google it! it can really tell you what is people requirement all over the world (you can make profit if you are businessman!)

Just open Google try to type following queries

Microsoft has released Visual-Studio 2011 beta and Window 8 Consumer preview

Microsoft has released 2 great new version of it's products which includes visual stuido 2011 beta which is development environment (IDE) for .net programmer and new version of OS Window8-consumer preview.

Visual Studio 2011 Beta

Jason Zander has first announced regarding release of Visual Studio 11 Beta & .NET 4.5 Beta on his blog post.
Download it from here + Download Visual Studio 2011 Beta 

This time Visual Studio lunched with totally new look combine with many new feathers as below.

•     Project Compatibility
•     IDE Productivity Improvements
•     Search Everywhere
•     Toolbar Improvements
•     Additional Tooling
•     Multiple-Monitor Support
•     Performance Enhancements
•     New Project Types
•     Extensibility    

You can read each & every fether on Visual studio magazine's post about "Inside Visual Studio 11: A Guided Tour".

Scott Hanselman has also written about overview of features available with Visual Studio 2011 beta in his blog post.

Window-8 Consumer Preview

Steven Sinofsky has first made announcement on his blog post of  "Windows 8 – The Consumer Preview" availability for download.if you are in hurry to look inside it then visit this and starting now at http://preview.windows.com.

Read this guidelines before installation

• How To Guide to Installing and Booting Windows 8 Consumer Preview off a VHD by Scott Hanselman
• Windows 8 Installation Guides by Amit Agrawal.

There are lots of post (i think many people rushed out to write about that to be a first blogger to write on this topic!) available on internet about Window 8 features so i don't want to talk about it here.
just google it - Window 8 features :)

Look at Cloud Storage available on internet

Toady every IT industry taking benefit of cloud technology to reduce their infrastructure cost to company.cloud technology is very vast topic not possible describe in this post, however here I would like to talk about different cloud storage providers available on Internet where you can store your data,files,video, photo etc and access that data from anywhere without any software, it only requires browser with Internet connection!

Amazon Cloud Drive
Free storage            : 5 GB
Max File Upload size  : 2 GB
Sync to desktop       : No
Pricing details           : https://www.amazon.com/clouddrive/learnmore

Google Docs
Free storage            : 1 GB
Max File Upload size  : 1 GB
Sync to desktop       : Yes (Windows only)
Pricing details           :http://support.google.com/docs/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37371

Microsoft SkyDrive

Free storage            : 25 GB
Max File Upload size  : 50 MB
Sync to desktop       : Yes (Windows and Mac)
Pricing details           : http://explore.live.com/skydrive

DropBox
Free storage             : 2 GB
Max File Upload size   : 300mb via web, unlimited using client:www.dropbox.com/install
Sync to desktop        : Yes http://www.dropbox.com/help/4

Pricing details            : http://www.dropbox.com/pricing

Box.net
Free storage             : 50 GB
Max File Upload size   : 25 MB to 1 GB
Sync to desktop        : http://www.box.com/business/features/box-sync/
Pricing details            : http://www.box.com/pricing/

My blog reached to 1000 unique visitors

I have started this blog before 1 year to just share my knowledge among people who are new in programing or geek person, and step by step i have improve this blog to make more useful to help people.

Today i am happy that flag counter display 1000 unique visit to my blog and 59 country visited this blog! 


  

Also Google has approved my blog's authorship so user can see my google+ profile pics in Google search result as per below.



Also till now more successful posts as per below

Paypal Integration in MVC and razor collected great comments
why Mark zukerberg is great IT leader got appreciation from Mark Zukerberg himself

I hope that my blog is contributing in technology field very well and hope that it will be!
Welcome your comments on this! Have a nice day!

Knol will be moving to Annotum on May 1, 2012

Google has lunched knol in 2007 to improve web content by expert's collaboration in that content, and many expert created their account and made efforts to improve web contents.
Now as per Google announcement of shutting down some of it's products, knol is part of that.

What will be the alternative of knol?
As per google's official blog they will replace this service with Annotum (opern source wordpress based product)


"Knol—We launched Knol in 2007 to help improve web content by enabling experts to collaborate on in-depth articles. In order to continue this work, we’ve been working with Solvitor and Crowd Favorite to create Annotum, an open-source scholarly authoring and publishing platform based on WordPress. Knol will work as usual until April 30, 2012, and you can download your knols to a file and/or migrate them to WordPress.com. From May 1 through October 1, 2012, knols will no longer be viewable, but can be downloaded and exported. After that time, Knol content will no longer be accessible."
So transfer our knol content to Annotum today.

• Get staretd with Annotum (knol users ot not Knol users )
• FAQ

Google is in process of shutting number of it's products

The web based giant company google had announced that they will discontinue some of it's product in 2012.

"we’re in the process of shutting a number of products which haven’t had the impact we’d hoped for, integrating others as features into our broader product efforts, and ending several which have shown us a different path forward. Overall, our aim is to build a simpler, more intuitive, truly beautiful Google user experience." said on their blog.

Following are list of product/service which are going to be shutting down.

• Google Bookmarks Lists
• Google Friend Connect
• Google Gears
• Google Search Timeline
• Google Wave
• Knol
• Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE<C)
  

So if you are using any services from above list then please keep in touch with Google's official blog for update.

Add "You may also like" widget to your blogger

I have found many blogs which have some links at bottom side with title "You may also like these" and did some research how can i add this in to my blogs and found some interesting website http://www.linkwithin.com
would like to share here..

This is very simple process with below features

•     No registration or e-mail confirmation required except the first field.
•     You can use this widget on as many of your blogs as you like.
•     You can choose WordPress or Blogger platform.
•     You can choose number of stories the widget will display.
  

    Step-1 Fill Details of your blog
    Step-2 Click Install Widget (you need to login in your blogger account if you are not logged in)
    Step-3 Select blog if your have more then one blog and click "Add widget" you can also drag and drop to
           any area on blog where you want to display it
    Step-4 Click Save and you're done!

A hassle-free tool to schedule events

Now days many people organize different events, it should be public event, group event, technical event or anything you need to first decide about time convenience of participants.

so just go to Doodle

Here I have created one event "party at my home" (not in real!) without any registration. see here step by step..

1)Create Poll  
Create your poll and other information like place, email


2)Set Date & Time
Date and time slots, you can add more date and time slots if you want to give more choice to participants.



3)Select type of poll
I have spiked this because i want basic poll.


4)Share link & Administration link
It will provide 2 link on completion as per below

Share link: you have to share your friends to give their choice
http://www.doodle.com/7z3syy2aa74f7r83

Administration link: administer this poll and arrange your event as per participant's convenient date and time

Happy Scheduling!!!!!!!

Let know the other people about your availability

If you are professional, employee, business person, students, volunteer (or not started anything yet!) you can inform others about your availability with tungle

I have scheduled my availability for next week
just hit this http://www.tungle.me/arunrana

Very easy steps to create this (Really!! Let's see)

1) Create account
you need to create account here, you can use OpenId also like Google, Facebook etc.

2) Pick URL
you need to pick URL which will allow to display your availability to others as per shown in fig.

3) Complete your profile
You have to complete your profile by others details if you wish!


4) Edit your schedule
you can edit your schedule her using interactive calendar interface (very user friendly) and save it.

that's it! remaining step is share your URLs to others and be busy guy! from today..