Smartphones will soon be able to share power by touching other devices

Technology exists that allows phones and other mobile devices that are touching or nearly touching to share files. Now that concept could rise to a whole new level, allowing nearby devices to also share power, reports TechXplore.

The new technology, developed by researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K., will work via an app called PowerShake, and it will function using many of the same principles at play with wireless power transmission. Basically, coils inside each device will allow for the sending and receiving of energy through a generated, localized electromagnetic field.

Currently, the biggest drawback to the technology is power transfer between devices has proven to be fairly inefficient; around half of the power gets lost in transmission.

The prototype transfers about a minute's worth of operating power in just 12 seconds, or if both users concur, one device can give another enough power to run for four minutes with a two-minute charge. It's not ideal but it's also promising, for a prototype.

Obviously, simply plugging in your smartphone or tablet will remain the best and most efficient way to power a device, but in a pinch, the technology could be a lifesaver.

For instance, it could be useful when traveling outdoors or backpacking, or perhaps even when there's an emergency and the power goes out.

The next step for researchers is to conduct real-world tests so efficiency might be increased in future models. Marketing groups will need to be assembled to test how often the technology might be used by actual consumers. It's all just one step closer to a fully immersed wireless world.

SOURCE :http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/gadgets-electronics/stories/smartphones-will-soon-be-able-share-power-touching-other-devices 

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How to Find Anything Online: Become an Internet Research Expert

By learning how to research, you can quickly and fairly easily become knowledgeable about just about anything. And with the Internet, almost anything you could ever want to know is at your fingertips. You just have to learn how to access it.

It’s all there, online, for free.
Here are the techniques I’ve used to find pretty much anything online.
Start with Wikipedia
Whenever you try to learn something new on the Internet, start with Wikipedia. A wealth of information is there, covering practically every subject in an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand format.

The main reason to start with Wikipedia is that it gives a good overview of most topics.Sure, any given page is bound to have some inaccuracies (as is the case on most user-generated websites), but most of the content is generally reliable. And when the accuracy of certain information is questionable, it’s usually tagged as such.


First of all, read the introduction to the page. This is where you’ll usually find a quick description of the topic, along with alternate and related terms.
Skim the content to find the parts of the article that you need to know about most. Some articles are short and don’t have a list of contents. Others are several thousand words long. Reading the entire thing is usually unnecessary.
 

Next, check the references and related resources. The references is a great place to get in-depth information on your topic. These links often include scholarly journals and articles and other respected sources.
The related sources section includes external links to in-depth information. These websites often include professional associations and organizations devoted to the topic as well as general websites with good topical information.

Move on to Google


When researching something, I always open a new window in Firefox. For each link I visit in a Google search, I open a new tab so that I can keep my original search results page open.
And if I click on additional links on pages that I have opened, I don’t have to go back through 10 or more pages to return to my original search.

Go Multimedia

Text isn’t the only educational content on the web. Video, podcasts and slideshows are out there to explain pretty much anything you can imagine.

The advantage of so much multimedia content being available is that it caters to people with different learning styles.


 

While many of the videos focus on broad concepts rather than the nitty-gritty, they’re still a great resource to expand your horizon. And the lectures are given by leaders in their fields, so the information is generally reliable.

Check Out Free Educational Resources
A ton of colleges are now putting their course materials online, accessible for free.

 
You’ll also find purely web-based open education initiatives that cover subjects you might not find at a traditional college. These free courses offer a ton of organized information on any given subject.
Some colleges offer their lectures in audio and video format. Princeton, for example, offers some of its lectures through iTunes, as does the University of Virginia, Duke, Emory, Yale and Stanford.






Look for Tutorials
 
Good-Tutorials offers up tech-related tutorials, covering CSS, Flash, HTML, Photoshop, PHP and more. Tutorials are categorized and searchable.

Use Tools Available to You

Google Notebook is a free online note-taking app that lets you create an unlimited number of notebooks and save notes, web pages and other information in a single place, accessible from anywhere. You can organize your notes by adding tags to them, as you would with Google Bookmarks.

Specialized Websites
 
These collections can speed up your research, and they sometimes include only reliable websites. Here are some to get you started.
Arts

If you’re looking for information on art, whether museums, individual artists or art movements, Art Cyclopedia is the place to go. It lists 9,200 artists and has 140,000 links from 2,600 different art websites.
IMDb is a database of movies and television programs, dating as far back as film itself.



BioMed Central publishes 200 open-access peer-reviewed medical and scientific journals. And you can search all 200 of them on the website.

History and Humanities  
You can learn just about anything with the resources and techniques mentioned here. As you research more topics and become accustomed to learning in this manner, learning new things will become easier.
Pretty soon, you’ll be able to gain a working knowledge of practically any subject after just a couple of hours of research.A

The key to using Wikipedia as a source, though, is in how you make use of the information. You have to pay attention to a number of things on a Wikipedia page aside from the main content.

Just skip to the sections that are relevant to you.

Once you’ve built a good foundation through Wikipedia, move on to a Google search (or whatever search engine you prefer).

Having read a bit on Wikipedia, you should know the main terms and keywords associated with the subject you’re researching. Start your general search with these terms.

Some people learn well by reading. Others learn better by hearing an explanation or seeing a demonstration. And still others learn by doing (which is where step-by-step tutorials—either video, audio or text—come in handy).

If you learn best by watching demonstrations, then head on over to YouTube, Odeo, Vimeo or any of the many other video websites and start typing the keywords that you found on Wikipedia.

Make sure, though, whenever you deal with user-generated content to verify the information against reputable sources.

One often-overlooked resource for videos is the archive from the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conferences.

TED videos are available for free on the official website and cover (as you might expect) technology, entertainment and design.

MIT offers its entire catalog as open courseware, with lecture notes, resources and syllabi. Other two- and four-year colleges are following suit.

In fact, iTunes has an entire section devoted to educational podcasts called iTunes U. Non-educational organizations are also represented, including the Library of Congress and Wall Street Journal.

The educational podcast market isn’t monopolized by iTunes, though. Odeo has an education category with 466 channels and more than 67,000 episodes. Participating colleges and universities include Oxford University, the University of Melbourne and MIT.

Depending on your topic, you may be able to find tutorials. For pretty much any practical skill (and a whole lot of unpractical ones), you can find an online tutorial that teaches you how to do it.

You can find tutorials through search engines (just add “tutorial” or “instructions” to the end of your keyword search). You can also find them on these websites:

Instructables is a general tutorial website that offers step-by-step instructions on projects in categories such as arts, crafts, food, kids, music, outdoors and pets. Every tutorial has photos and/or diagrams to illustrate the process.

eHow offers categorized instructions and tutorials created by users. They include both text and video tutorials on a variety of topics, including law, health, food and drink, electronics and computers.

WikiHow is a user-editable how-to manual that covers a ton of different topics. Because of its wiki format, tutorials and instructions are constantly being improved.

The Tuts+ Network offers tutorials on a variety of tech topics, including Photoshop, web design, Flash and photography. Its tutorials are split into separate blogs based on topic and are written by experts.

Tutorialized offers tech tutorials for a variety of software programs, including Photoshop, GIMP, Flash, Blender and Illustrator.

A ton of tools are out there to make online research a bit (or a lot) easier.

Some help by organizing your sources, others let you save snippets of pages for later reference, and others do pretty much everything you could ask for from a research app. They make tracking your research and organizing it for later reference a much easier process.

Zotero is a Firefox add-on that acts like a research assistant. It lets you collect links and whole pages, organize them into folders and tag them. It even generates a “Works cited” list from them. You can jot down notes on anything you save, which makes it much easier to remember why you included it in the first place or to remind yourself later how you ended up using it.

Zotero has a ton of features. It automatically captures citations; it cites from within MS Word and OpenOffice; it accesses your library from anywhere; it searches PDFs and notes instantly; and it lets you create group libraries.

It’s also compatible with thousands of bibliographic styles, so when it comes time to create a “Works cited” list, you don’t have to spend hours reformatting the whole thing. The best part is that Zotero is free and open source, so you can extend and modify it to meet your needs (or find others who have already done the work).

Wired-Marker is a permanent highlighting tool for Firefox. You can highlight sections of a web page to refer to later on. It’s a great app if you want to be able to easily refer to a specific section of a website that you’ve bookmarked. Wired-Marker is itself also a bookmark organizer.

iCyte is a note-taking and bookmarking app that works with Firefox and Internet Explorer 7 and 8. It saves any pages that you highlight or bookmark, so that even if the page changes or is deleted, you still have the original version. You can save sections of a website or the whole thing. You can also invite others to join your projects, share information and access information that others have shared.

Similar Web is a great Firefox extension for finding websites related to the one you’re on. There’s also a web-based version for people who don’t use Firefox. The add-on is particularly useful if you’re on, say, Odeo and want to see other websites that offer podcasts.

Notefish is an online note-taking app that lets you custom-save content from any pages on the web. You can organize and share pages based on a specific subject. The app has many customizable features, including ones that let you annotate and color your notes. The downloadable Firefox add-on helps you use Notefish more efficiently.

Diigo lets you highlight and share pages all over the web. You can add sticky notes to pages for later reference and can access notes from your computer or iPhone. Saved pages can be organized with tags or lists. You can create groups to share resources for a project, and you can even enforce tagging rules among group members to keep things organized. Free and premium accounts are available (educators get a free premium account).

Concierge is a Safari plug-in that replaces the browser’s bookmark management scheme with an easier-to-use bookmark and information management tool. You can bookmark links and save links from email, Address Book cards, and folder and file links from Finder. It puts all of your relevant information in one place.

Information overload is a common problem when researching a new subject online. Great Summary helps combat the problem by summarizing the content of a web page, document or section of text for you. It identifies key topics on a page and presents relevant information without duplicating content.

EagleFiler is an information management app for Mac OS X that lets you archive and search PDF files, word-processing documents, images, web pages, mail and more. It has a three-pane interface similar to that of most email programs. Files are stored in a universal format, so they’re accessible from any application. Files can be encrypted, and you can add notes, tags, labels and meta data to them.

When you download something in Safari, no record is kept of where it came from. This can be a problem if you need to refer to it in a “Works cited” list or just want to know where to get similar content.

DownloadComment adds a note in the file’s Spotlight Comments field with the URL of the original file.

HistoryHound lets you search the content of every web page and RSS feed that you’ve visited recently in Safari, as well as any bookmarked page. It ranks results by relevance. It’s a great way to track down information in resources that you’ve already discovered.

Reference Tracker is an app for Mac OS X that lets you store documents in one place for later reference and citation. It automatically creates a “Works cited” list in Harvard, APA, MLA or Chicago/Turabian format. It has built-in search and one-click referencing of web pages (in Safari or Firefox) and email (from Apple Mail).

Selenium is a research application for Mac OS X that combines a browser, PDF manager, word processor, bibliography manager and outliner in a single window. Research is much simpler because you don’t have to switch back and forth between different applications.

Evernote is an online note-taking application that lets you save just about anything, from notes to images to web pages. And it stores everything online, so you can access your notes from anywhere. There’s even an iPhone app.

Springnote is a free wiki-based online notepad. You can create personal or group notebooks and access them either online or through the iPhone app.

Specialized online libraries exist for a ton of different subjects. Anything from language to science to technology to history has its own dedicated resource library somewhere on the Internet.

You can search by cast member or title. Individual listings include all previous and upcoming roles. Movie results include cast and production crew, plot synopsis and other production information (often photos).

Medical and Scientific

The Internet History Sourcebooks Project collects public domain and copy-permitted historical texts in one place. The collection includes ancient, medieval and modern texts, as well as ones of specific groups, regions and religions.

Digital History offers historical texts and resources from American history. It is run through a partnership with a variety of educational and historical organizations, including the University of Houston, the Chicago Historical Society and the National Park Service. It has resources for researchers and teachers, including multimedia resources.

The Perseus Digital Library is a resource of mostly historical texts from Tufts University. The digital collection includes material from Greek and Roman, Renaissance and 19th-century American history.

Project Gutenberg offers public domain books and written material for free. The collection includes fiction, non-fiction and poetry and is both searchable and browsable. Most of the content dates to the 19th century and earlier.

General and Scholarly

Intute helps individuals find the best websites on which to conduct their research. You can search or browse by category. It even offers free training on using the web for research and education.

Infomine is a search engine for scholarly resources. The categories, which are browsable, include the following: bio, agricultural and medical sciences; business and economics; cultural diversity; e-journals; government info; maps and GIS; physical sciences, engineering, computer science and math; social sciences and humanities; and visual and performing arts. It also includes general reference and advanced search functionality.

The Librarians’ Internet Index is a searchable directory of content from all over the Internet, broken down by category. It includes only reputable websites, making it easier to trust the information you find.

The IPL is another collection of resources from all over the web, broken down by category. The collections are targeted at children, teens, adults and educators. The collection covers art and the humanities, social science, law and government, computers and much more.

Find Articles from BNET lets you search articles from a wide range of consumer and trade magazines and newspapers. The articles are searchable and browsable by category.

The Library of Congress offers a ton of information, including digital collections. Its online collection includes history, performing arts, legislative information and international resources. It’s a particularly good source of government information, because its THOMAS system lets you search the full text of congressional records, bills and more.

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What is Web Hosting?

Web Hosting

What is Web Hosting?

Web hosting allows a website to be seen by others on the internet. It allows you to create a website without the need to invest in your own web servers. There are many options to choose including free options with very limited services to the more expensive server providers that offer a complete service and a high level of freedom to run your website.

Internet Service Providers

This is a cheap and simple option allowing for a basic website with a limited amount of space for you to design and build your own website. ISP packages will include a range of tools to help create your website ideal for anyone looking to build a small simple site. Not suitable for those who want an advanced site looking to utilise a high volume of traffic.

Free Hosting

There are options that will provide you with server space to set up a website with a variety of features. It does provide more freedom than internet service providers, however, there are limitations. Also, server space is usually funded through advertising and leave you little choice as to which adverts are displayed among your pages.

Paid Hosting

Will cost you a monthly fee and in exchange you gain access to server space wherever you want and supports an abundance of features to give you more flexibility and functionality to your site.

Domain Hosting

This involves buying a domain name and having the provider communicate all the requests from your site back to you. You can use an ISP, free or paid hosting services to create your website. It is usually a cheaper option, great for smaller businesses and you can customise your domain name to match up with your branding and business function.

Collocation

If you want to run your own server but do not have the IT staff for maintenance needs, this is the best option. It allows you to take complete control of your server without the need for specialised staff. You install your server and store it in an ISP facility and pay a monthly fee for them to take care of your server like one of their own. Collocation provides maintenance, protection and security without relinquishing control.

Direct Internet Access

This option requires you to completely host your own site, including security, storage and maintenance. This is ideal for businesses who store large amounts of sensitive or confidential information or have too much information where storing through a third party is not economical. This  type of web hosting gives you complete control over your own service.

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CAPITALIZE ON CONTENT SEO TIPS FOR CONTENT WRITERS

Without SEO your content may be lost somewhere on page 50 of the search results; and we all know traffic on those pages is less than satisfactory. Likewise, your first page ranking can only do so much if your content post-click is crummy. That's why a good relationship between SEO and great content is essential! Here are 10 tips to make your content go further and enhance your SEO efforts at the same time.

SEO Tips to Make Your Content Go Further

1. Write for your audience first

This tip is number one for a reason. It seems easy enough, yet so many companies make content for all the wrong reasons. Write content that appeals to the interests of your target market or answers their questions. Not all posts need to be about your product or service, but they allshould be industry related. Assert yourself and your company as an expert in your industry by writing content that is interesting and informative, and do it better than your competition.

2. Keep it all under the same roof 

Get the credit and traffic your website deserves by keeping your original content under your own domain name. That means, if you have a blog opt out of hosting with Wordpress or Blogger and host the blog in a subfolder on your own domain (ie: www.example.com/blog ). Any time you have an opportunity to showcase other forms of original content like videos, infographics or whitepapers, make sure to also embed them onto your website as well and share from there. 

3. Make headlines that pack a punch

You have a very short amount of text to make a very big impression. So don't underestimate the power of an effective headline! Write headlines that are clear, interesting and make use of rich keywords. In addition to a great headline, also make sure your meta descriptions are interesting and further elaborate on the topic of your article. Keep in mind that your title and meta description are what show up in the search results, so make them count!

4. Use keyword-rich phrases

Use relevant, keyword rich phrases in your headlines as well as throughout your content to let both your readers and the search engines know what your post is about. But beware, too many keywords will not only turn off your readers, but can result in search engine penalties for keyword stuffing. Use keywords thoughtfully and sparingly, sticking to a more natural feel. In addition to using keywords throughout the body of your post, take advantage blog tags by tagging a few relevant keywords for each post; most general blogs have tagging capabilities already built in. 

  

5. Structure your posts

The contents of your post may be great, but can be easily lost in an unorganized, inefficient format. Breaking your content up into smaller paragraphs with headlines makes for an easy read that will keep your readers engaged. For the search engines, back-end organization is key too. Using proper tag  hierarchy when tagging headlines (H1 for titles, H2 for subtitles) is important to maintain a well-structured article.

6. Incorporate imagery

Make your posts pop with images! People are visual. Adding an image along with your blog post can make a big impression. Have a Pinterest account? In addition to promoting your blogs across your other social media channels, posts with images can also be pinned, adding another avenue for traffic to your website.

7. Propel content with social media

Social media is a powerful tool that can help increase the reach of your content and promote sharing. Post each new article on social media sites and in forums, using engaging descriptions and a call-to-action. Since the power of social media lies in sharing, it's also important to have share buttons on each of your blog posts. If you want more control of how your links appear when they're shared, implementing Twitter Cards for Twitter or Open Graph for Facebook (technical) can give your shared links a boost, and may help your click through rates.

8. Implement Google Authorship

Google Authorship is a quick and easy way to tie content to a certain author, all you need is a Google+ account. As a result, your articles come up as rich snippets in the search results featuring the author's photo along with the article title. Google Authorship is great for personal promotion, but can also increase the click through rate to your articles.  If you're an author, learn how to set up Authorship for your website. 

9. Promote natural link building

Link building has come a long way since the days of link buying and link farms, but links are still an important ranking factor for SEO. Linking to your own articles or website in your post ensures a link back to your website if your article is picked up by another site. If you get creative with other types of content like infographics and videos, adding an embed code on your site helps to promote content sharing and also adds a link back to the original source. Creating great content helps increase the sharability and the likelihood that other websites will link to it, so aim for quality!  

10. Monitor your activity

Stay on top of your content by monitoring your efforts. Google Analytics is an easy and free way to track your pageviews and the average time spent on a page. Check things like your bounce rate and time on site to get an idea of how users interact with your website after landing on your content. If you see a high drop off in addition to a low average time spent on the page, that's an indication that your content wasn't relevant to what they were looking for, or worse, wasn't interesting. Also, take a look at the number of social interactions (shares, likes, etc ) to get an idea of the virality of your post. Just  looking at these simple metrics can give you a good idea of which content pieces are well-received and liked, so that you can replicate that type of content down the road. 

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SEO Content Writing Tips

Search engine optimization is a skill used by many people to advertise a certain brand, business, product or website. The primary purpose of search engine optimization is to help your website to be displayed on the first page of the search engine result page. Content writing is also used for SEO because a search engine weighs the credibility of a website on many scales and content is one of them. 

The content should be appealing and cleat, it should describe the services or products clearly so that it is easier for the search engine to pinpoint your website. You need to know some SEO content writing tips to accomplish this task because SEO content is not just a regular article instead is a mixture of various skills.

The Length Of SEO Content

The length of the SEO content should not be too much because no one’s got the time to read 5 to 10 pages of content. Lengthy content can be very devastating for a website because no one can read a lot while sitting in front of a screen. According to research it takes a person only 8 seconds to decide whether the website is good or bad and if the user cannot find something interesting in the first hundred words then the user will simply move on. Make sure that the content is not more than 400 to 1000 words.

Use Proper Keywords During SEO Content Writing

Always use proper keywords while doing SEO content writing, keyword spamming makes the content look unprofessional because if the keywords are not properly used, then the user will not be able to find the things which he would hope for. If keywords vary then the reader will have an easier time reading and will enjoy it.

Try To Stay On The Topic

Readers always like to read content where the writer does not deviate from the topic and stay on topic and on track. If the content writer moves away from the main topic every now and then while writing the content, then the reader also loses concentration and ultimately leave the particular page or website.

Uses As Mant Interesting Headlines As Possible

Try to use titles and headlines, this adds a little beauty to the text and helps your content pop out from all the others. It is also a better idea to place keywords or key phrases in the title which helps people finding articles and SEO content. SEO content writing tips are very necessary for content writing because without it no one can succeed in SEO.

Use Appropriate Tags

Search engine optimization is a very difficult task and requires special skills and is a set of many different techniques. Tags are one of the techniques but the person doing SEO must know hot to use them. H1 and H2 tags are the most used and create a remarkable impression in the readers.

These were some of the best SEO content writing tips and if a person utilizes all of these tips during content writing there is a big chance that there will be a lot of internet traffic on that particular website. every website needs search engine optimization and content writing takes a big part in search engine optimization for every website.

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Tips For New Bloggers Before Starting A Blog

Idea of starting a new blog has been implanted in your brain for some reason say fame ,money or passion.Many blogger commit mistakes in their initial stage of blogging which wastes a lot of time and some times money.

Tips For New Bloggers Before Starting A New Blog

1.Which Platform to choose:-

There are many platforms of blogging but the most famous platforms are blogger and WordPress.

Again in wordpress there are two types one is free and other is hosted one.

If you want to earn money from your blog or blog like a pro blogger then  you to go for wordpress with self hosting.

If you don’t want to spend a single penny from your pocket on your blog and want something free then go for blogger.

and buy domain name for your webblog and redirect it.

2.Domain name:

If you are hosting on free blogger or wordpress then you will get a free sub domain as www.example.blogspot.com or www.example.wordpress.com.

But don’t go for those sub domains.If you want to be a pro blogger then go for a good domain.Below are some tips before buying a new domain.

• Try to include some keywords in your domain which matches with your blog niche for good search engine results.
• Your domain should be short and appropriate
• Blog Domain should attract the visitors and it should be easily memorable.
• Avoid (-) in your blog domain to the best possible extent.

3.Blog design:

Your blog design should be simple and user friendly.It should attract your visitors.Go for a premium theme for a professional look

4.Content of your blog:-

Content is always the king.If you don’t have good content then what all you do to decorate your blog goes waste.

5.Frequency of posting:-

Plan yourself how frequently you post and how often you update your blog.It may be 2 posts for 3 days or 4 posts per week plan according to your convenience.Plan posts for future to avoid delay.

6.Blog Promotion

Promote your blog on various forums and social networking sites. Now a days social networking site are playing a major role in success of a blog because now a days every one use social networking sites to connect with friends.So make use of social networking sites like facebook,twitter,google plus etc.

7. Maintain Good relation with your fellow bloggers

Commenting on other blogs and maintaining a good relation with your fellow bloggers always help you in building your blog.

8.Guest posting:-

Guest posting is a good way of building back links and drawing attention towards your blog.

9.Use Share,Follow and good RSS buttons:

Using cool share ,follow and RSS buttons attract your blog and increase the number of followers to your blog.So if there is an update they will come back to your blog once again,you can keep your readers intact with your blog.

10. SEO (Search Engine Optimization):-

Now this is the word which many newbies are afraid when they hear.SEO is nothing but a strategy of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines like google, bing and yahoo.Do a little research on SEO to become a successful blogger.

We hope these tips helped you in starting a successful blog.

Source:https://allbloggingtips.com/10-tips-for-new-bloggers/

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