Setup Google Apps In Your Custom Web Domain

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 05:20 AM PDT

Now a day, Google is providing more and more services to increase their personality. One of the good services of Google is Google Apps. It provide user to use Google Doc, calendar, mail, etc to your website. This is the free version of Google. Just you have to signup up with your domain.

You’re ready to use this service? Let’s start from beginning,

1. First, Go to the Google Apps, http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new

Choose the option where you are standing upon and insert the URL in the blank field.

1. In step 2, fill all the information and option of your domain and yours as well.

3. Now, you have to choose you username for your domain. Give a mail to your domain. For example: Support@yourdomain.com

You can change the text support with your name. Then, click I accept, continue to next step.

1. Choose the option which is appropriate for you. Choose CNAME record option for easy.

1. Now, you have to manage your DNS. Sign in to your domain hosting service and locate the DNS management page. The location varies by service, but can typically be found under Domain Management or Advanced Settings. And add these 5 MX records. See the below:

Priority Destination

10 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

20 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

20 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

30 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM

30 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM

Ensure that the record must be MX not CNAME or other. Finally, MX records will looks like this:

1. After that click on I’ve completed the above step

1. Again, Go to the Dashboard in Google Apps and click Active email (see below)

We’ve already done the steps provided by Google apps in step 4. So, directly click I have completed these steps.

7. Now, It takes generally 48 hours to active your custom email. You can access your email at http://mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com

Hope this tutorial was helpful.

Setup Google Apps In Your Custom Web Domain

Posted: 08 Apr 2010 05:20 AM PDT

Now a day, Google is providing more and more services to increase their personality. One of the good services of Google is Google Apps. It provide user to use Google Doc, calendar, mail, etc to your website. This is the free version of Google. Just you have to signup up with your domain.

You’re ready to use this service? Let’s start from beginning,

1. First, Go to the Google Apps, http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new

Choose the option where you are standing upon and insert the URL in the blank field.

1. In step 2, fill all the information and option of your domain and yours as well.

3. Now, you have to choose you username for your domain. Give a mail to your domain. For example: Support@yourdomain.com

You can change the text support with your name. Then, click I accept, continue to next step.

1. Choose the option which is appropriate for you. Choose CNAME record option for easy.

1. Now, you have to manage your DNS. Sign in to your domain hosting service and locate the DNS management page. The location varies by service, but can typically be found under Domain Management or Advanced Settings. And add these 5 MX records. See the below:

Priority Destination

10 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

20 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

20 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM

30 ASPMX2.GOOGLEMAIL.COM

30 ASPMX3.GOOGLEMAIL.COM

Ensure that the record must be MX not CNAME or other. Finally, MX records will looks like this:

1. After that click on I’ve completed the above step

1. Again, Go to the Dashboard in Google Apps and click Active email (see below)

We’ve already done the steps provided by Google apps in step 4. So, directly click I have completed these steps.

7. Now, It takes generally 48 hours to active your custom email. You can access your email at http://mail.google.com/a/yourdomain.com

Hope this tutorial was helpful.

Creating Page Curl Effect in Photoshop

Posted: 06 Apr 2010 02:54 PM PDT

In this tutorial, I am going to teach you simple effect which enables you to make page curl effect easily.

First of create a new photoshop file with default size and Transparent Background. Import the image that you want to apply page curl effect.

Once the image is loaded select the area where you want to apply page curl effect using marquee selection tool.

After selecting with marquee tool, go to Edit > Free transform (Ctrl+T).

Right click on your selection box and choose Warp.

After selection you’ll see the following change (Grid with six boxes).

Tweak and move vertices until you are satisfied.

Once you get your desired result, press enter.

And you are done with this simple page curl effect using Warp tool.

Hope this tutorial was helpful.

>> Loading txt File In To Table Using PHP >> Free Video Editing Software

Loading txt File In To Table Using PHP Posted: 05 Apr 2010 08:35 AM PDT Let’s say that you have a text file of your customer’s name and some of the information which you want to be published dynamically into your customer website. Opening notepad and copying and typing it in to your database might be most tedious job. If you have systematically entered your customers’ name similar to the format below, then it will be a lot easier to you to enter the data with a help of simple PHP code. For example, # Rihcard Potter,”New york, USA”,Brownies,5.30 # Harry Gere,”Minisotta, USA”,Cookies,3.80 # Angelina wilson,”Virgina, USA”,Chocolates,6.50 The above example contains customer’s name, their place, things they purchased and price differentiated by comma (,), quotation and line breaks. The above file is saved in customers.txt You can load the above text file using PHP. It can be done with load data local infile, which has flexibility to handle different field and line delimiters, and can even handle fields that might or might not be encased in quotes. To do so, I created a new table named customer and loaded customer.txt in to the table customers. /* This will create a table named customers with columns, name, Place, product, price. */ create table customers ( name text, place text, product text, price int, tid int primary key auto_increment not null); /*This will load customer.txt in to the table created above */ load data local infile “.. /customer.txt ” into table customers fields terminated by “,” optionally enclosed by ‘”‘ (customer, place, product, price); tid will create a new column which contains unique table ID. To interact PHP with MySQL and understand the basic of using MySQL refer to my previous article about, How to create a MySQL database using PHP script.

Free Video Editing Software Posted: 04 Apr 2010 05:48 PM PDT There are plenty of good free video editing software that offer useful features as adding scrolling texts, subtitles, custom animations and similar.To help you out, I decided to provide you the list of top 8 free video editing software. Let’s begin with it. 1) Microsoft Movie Maker Microsoft Movie Maker is one of most popular video editing software that offers enough basic features to get the job done but stops short of the abundant options and effects found in other programs. For example, although Movie Maker includes many text motion effects for rolling credits and similar animations, there are no canned text styles to aid in the design. You can’t adjust volume levels at specific locations in the timeline but only a track at a time. And Movie Maker 2 has no built-in DVD– or Video CD–authoring capabilities.Other weaknesses include awkward trimming controls that make performing precise edits difficult, and a general lack of configurability. For example, you can’t set levels on filters like blur, pixelate, and other special effects. Windows Movie Maker has been in every version of Windows since Me… XP and Vista… but it’s not in Windows 7. So for those who use windows 7 , below is download link Download Microsoft Movie Maker 2.6 for Windows 7 and Vista Windows Movie Maker 2.6. specifications: Publisher web site : http://www.microsoft.com/ Operating systems : Windows Vista , Windows 7 File size: 7.02MB 2)Avidemux 2.4 Avidemux is an open source video editing software that can handle many file types, fom avi and mpeg to flv. You can edit .FLV directly, and tons of other formats too, even Windows Media Center recordings (DVRMS files). You can slice and dice video, change the audio, change the delay of audio in a video, and append video to video. Very easy and intuitive to use. Download Avidemux 2.4 Avidemux 2.4 specifications: Publisher web site : http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/download.html Operating systems : Windows XP, 2000, Me, Linux, Mac OS X The Best review chosen by hackspc.com : Avidemux 2.4 – Free Video Editing Program 3)RichFLV 4.0 Beta RichFLV is free video editing software that allows you to edit Flash Video Files and then export them as FLV, MP3, SWF or even Jpeg and PNG. Downlaod RichFLV 4.0 Beta The best review chosen by hackspc.com : RichFLV 4.0 Beta 4)VirtualDub VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit Windows platforms (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters.VirtualDub is a software that allows you to capture and process video files. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images. Downlaod VirtualDub VirtualDub specifications: Operating System: Windows All Size : 1.3 MB 5)ZS4 video editing software ZS4 Video Editor 0.957 is a Video Editing Software product from zs4.net, get 4 Stars SoftSea Rating, ZS4 Video Editor for win32 is a multi-track video compositing/editing system with more than 90 built-in video effects including outstanding color and chroma keying tools, distortion effects, color adjusters, pattern generating effects and many others. Effect containers can be used to restrict the processing of contained video effects by shape or blending logic. Other features include custom video export size, number of tracks and sub-composites limited only by available memory, custom speed and direction change for video and audio, optional super-sampled compositing during export for better quality rotation and zoom, and the capability to slave effect and compositing controls to audio wave forms. Download ZS4 ZS4 specifications: Publisher web site : http://www.zs4.net Operating systems : Linux ,Windows All, Mac OSX 6)Cinefx Cinefx is an offline playback, editing, encoding, animation and visual effects tool based on the Jahshaka technology that allows you to create professional digital media on your desktop. Use the tools that hollywood uses to create blockbuster films and special effects Download Cinefx Cinefx specifications: Publisher web site : http://www.cinefx.org Operating systems : Linux ,Windows All, Mac OSX 7)AutoGK AutoGK is probably the most popular Divx/Xvid conversion tool around, maybe because the whole process is automated. That makes the software easy to use. Program features support of: - DVD/VOBs(unencrypted from hdd), MPEG2, MPEG1, transport streams (including multi-program ones) and AVI/DV input sources - XviD or DivX(5/6) output formats - AC3, DTS, PCM, MPA input audio tracks - AC3, DTS, MPA, CBR/VBR MP3 output audio tracks - two audio tracks in AVI - external (vobsub) or internal (burnt-in) subtitles (with support of forced subs) - HDTV input/output resolutions(upto 1920x***) and frame rates (50/60fps) - automatic crop and resize based on compressibility of the source to achieve best results - automatic detection of input source: PAL, NTSC, FILM, HYBRID - automatic deinterlacer and IVTC - automatic split into CD-sized chunks for main video and external subs Download AutoGk AutoGk specifications: Operating systems : Windows 98/2000/XP/2003/NT File size: 27.75K 8)DebugMode Wax 2.0e Wax is a high performance and flexible video composition and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general purpose and flexible in video composition and effects, so that you can compose your dream video sequence with ease every time. Wax can create 2D & 3D special effects and can work in two modes – as a standalone application and as a “plug-in” to video editors/NLEs. Download DebugMode Wax 2.0e DebugMode Wax 2.0e specifications: Operating systems : Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT File size: 2.59MB If you know of some that’s not here on the list, post a reply and i’ll add it.

Creating Curls Graphic Effect In Illustrator

Posted: 03 Apr 2010 04:31 AM PDT

In this tutorial I will teach you how to create the pleasing graphics like the image below using adobe illustrator.

Open up the Adobe illustrator. Create a new document with RGB color settings and in Landscape mode.

Take a pen tool (P) and draw a curve making it look like curls of plant branch.

Create some another curves to beautify it according to your need.

Now let’s create a brush to apply it on the curve that we’ve just created.

Take a rectangle box tool and draw a horizontal rectangle.

Like in the image below select it’s top right vertex and drag it downwards so that it will look tapering at the end. Also drag the top left vertex near to the lower one to make it little thinner. Your final result will be like this:

Now this is the format of brush that we’ve just created. Only the thing that left is to define it as a brush.
Select the shape you just created with selection tool and click on new brush icon in the brush palette.

In the New brush window, choose art brush and click OK.

In the Art Brush Options window, choose Tints in Colorization Tab and define the flow of brush direction as in figure then click OK.

Now the brush might have been loaded in the brush palette. Select all the curves that you created before and click on the brush that you’ve just created. If everything went ok you’ll get the following result:

Now to beautify it we need to add some colors.

Load the Beach color palette from windows>Swatch Libraries> Beach

To apply color fill the stroke with the colors in the swatch palette.

Apply different colors to make it pleasing to eyes. I choose blue, you can choose your own desired color.

Duplicate all the curves and place it in different place as in figure below:

Either apply same brush or create your new brush to the copied curves.

Put some text or add some other graphics to give some meaning to it.

Your curly design is ready. You can apply different background colors and keep it as your desktop wall paper.
Hope you liked this tutorial.