BEYBLADE – amazing addiction among Kids

Beleive it or not, when I was young I love to play with the Top, Just like the beyblade, But that top was just INR 1 (Indian rupee) or so at that time, but the pricing of Beyblade is INR 299. I am not complaining about the pricing because of the user-Experience. My son had a local version of the Beyblade which was INR 35. It worked the same way as the Original BeyBlade.

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Now What was I talking about

The Whole 1 hour was real fun for both of Us (my Wife and myself) Whether he became a winner or not, we were the real winners for the price of INR 299.

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Today morning as he woke up the first thing he asked me was, Shall we go to the competition today. I asked him Why, you had been just there yesterday.
Junior say "I need to Win" Huh….

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Inspite of all of these I just forgot to mention a bitter experience which I experienced yesterday. There were exactly 90 entries allowed for a day I guess, I saw a kid aged 8-10 with his dad came to the mall. By the time, the competition had timeout to take any more entries. I felt bad, I felt WESTSIDE and FUNSKOOL guys should have made a point that they were later and inspite being late they still entertain them. That would have been a better experience I guess, and BTW he will not have lost that customer for a life time. Because most of US know What Junior LOVES and Enjoys makes you happy.

Must need feature for – Zoho Writer

I am using Penfriend – ” Word prediction Software” to write this post I should say this is one of the best features I feel any word editior should possess”

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A online form should have this word prediction software to help people fill the form. After hours of searching on the Internet I still haven’t found an online version of ” word prediction software”. Just google for the word prediction software and you will end up with a list. But the price of these software are not affordable by common man.

Here is pick which I choose ” penfriend ” I wish WordPress too Implements this feature.

RUN IE7 without install

I just downloaded the IE7 beta took a test drive with out installing IE7 on my machine, Thanks to the hacks provided by Google Operating System

Indeed a wonderful hack, The only restriction was that every time I open a new tab my old tab was getting hidden. Anyways IE seems to rock the same way as it did when they released IE6.

Microsoft guys you too Rock Just like google. 

Find Blood Donors – Online

Bloodbank

I am talking about an Indian site, you will find all Indian States- Cities listed.
The next time you receive a SMS asking you to help, Please forward them this online Link – http://www.bharatbloodbank.com

They will have one more option of finding people fast.

You can also register there to be a donor and save a life.

Google SketchUp

Google Sketchup

Latest Killer App from Google. If you want to show how you dream home should be to your builder, This is the right tool.

Google Sketchup

It took just 5 mins for me to work on the above image.

I remember when you work on the 3D softwares like 3dStudio Max and Lightwave 3D, it takes little time to create these bevels and offset, With Sketchup it was with ease. Their tutorial is neat and precise and Product user experience is great.

and finally the URL: http://sketchup.google.com/

Refer Firefox, when IE

A site which is been promoting Firefox has been encouraging site owners to refer Firefox instead of IE to earn USD 1$ from Google. More read from here
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Yeah Yeah Google is paying you, all you need is Google Adsense Account and your visto downloads Firefox you make money. You have 3 Stealth option  to choose to promote firefox. get Ready…

2 ways, Uninstall flash Plugin

There are 2 ways to uninstall Flash Plugin.

  1. from Kewbee free software which is called as Flash Plugin Switcher
    • Advantage all versions of flash plugin can be uninstalled and install a selected version with ease.
  2. from Macromedia after the release of Flash 8 they have provided a uninstaller
    • Disadvantage, Plugin's version need to installed manually, you can find all plugin versions (flash 2,3,4,5,6,7) right here from Macromedia
    • Advantage, Clean uninstall/install right from the makers flash IDE.

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 My vote is for Flash Plugin Switcher as it allows me to uninstall/install flash plugin with ease.

Flash sendandload – XML

I am using Flash 8. this is the only thing you need if you need to follow this example 

 On the flash IDE – stage need to have a Button Component (button name – submit_button)  and Dynamic text with (result_ta)
If you want to send xml data from flash to your dynamic page,

you know the syntax – send("url","POST/GET")

if you want to load an XML data from a url you still know the syntax load("URL"); 

well how about sending an XML data to a server page and receiving the same as XML. Yes you are right it is sendAndLoad("URL", receiving Object, "GET/POST");

All of the above you can find in flash HELP, but there is a tricky part which has been left out.  

Let me place the Actionscript first and then the PHP serverside script and explain in detail.

ActionScript:

var submitListener:Object = new Object();
submitListener.click = function(evt:Object) {
    var result_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
    result_lv.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
        if (success) {
            result_ta.text = result_lv.welcomeMessage;

        } else {
            result_ta.text = "Error connecting to server.";
        }
    };

    var result_xml:XML = new XML();
    result_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
    result_xml.onLoad = function(s){
        if(s){
            result_ta.text = this.firstChild;
        }else{
            result_ta.text = "Error connecting to server.";
        }
    }

    var send_lv:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
    var xm:XML = new XML("<root><name>vinod</name></root>");
    xm.ignoreWhite = true;
    xm.contentType = "text/xml";
    send_lv.xm = xm;
    send_lv.sendAndLoad("http://vinodvv/test/sendandloadxml.php&quot;, result_lv, "GET");
    send_lv.sendAndLoad("http://vinodvv/test/sendandloadxml.php&quot;, result_xml, "GET");
};
submit_button.addEventListener("click", submitListener);

PHP Script:

 <?PHP
$xml = $_GET['xm'];
echo $xml;
?>

Ok let us discuss the flash help, type the keyword "sendAndLoad" and select the same in your flash IDE and press F1, well you will read the above pasted Actionscript with few lines of code which I have added extra. 

point 1 to remember if your server page doesn't recognise the data what you are sending

xm.contentType = "text/xml";

This is the reason, the data what you send is of string type you need to specify as xml type.

Point 2 to remember server side page just responds to your command and sends you the XML data, but the XML data on the flash side becomes irrelevant as it needs a parameter to accept data as string in the flash example. 

result_lv.welcomeMessage; 

 welcomeMessage=XML should be the way you serverpage need to write data, but this is absurd, and this is nothing but string type and not XML, you will have create a new XML object to embrace this string to an XML typ, so Avoid this and try this one.

I am using the same way you load the normal XML data from a URL, all you have to do is define a new XML variable and declare most of the commands

var result_xml:XML = new XML();
    result_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
    result_xml.onLoad = function(s){
        if(s){
            result_ta.text = this.firstChild;
        }else{
            result_ta.text = "Error connecting to server.";
        }
    }

and don't specify the command result_xml.load("url") instead specify it over here

send_lv.sendAndLoad("http://vinodvv/test/sendandloadxml.php&quot;,

This should do the job. try it yourself, if you find any other better approach do make a comment. 

Lego Toys

Mathematical Lego Sculptures

I had talked about lego in my company blog the one I am going to talk about is “Mathematical Lego Sculptures” Andrew Lipson has done few logo of different companies using lego structures. You can even find more links from his site to the Gurus of LEGO, If you a LEGO fan don’t miss this site.

Mathematical Lego Sculptures

More resource on LEGO can be found here at pogotv fan club

Update: A new post on LEGO can be found here