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Sunday, 16 December 2012

Bing Maps Vs Google Maps Comparison

Introduction:
When it comes to maps over internet, we go to google.com and then click on ‘Maps’ tab. Google maps are common and popular among people due to brand name of ‘Google Inc.’. Most of non-US people prefer Google maps as it is by default installed on their mobile phones but there is better alternative for Google mapping project. Microsoft, most trustworthy software company in the world has recently updated their mapping service ‘Bing Maps’ with improved clarity and accuracy.

Types of Map views:
If you are wishing to view same place or route with different views, I will suggest Bing Maps. You can check a place (provided not all places are available with all views). Both services facilitate Satellite, Hybrid, Street, Traffic, 3D views but Bing maps additionally provide Road, Bird's Eye, London Street Map, Ordnance Survey Map, Venue Maps view. I like Birds Eye view in most cases.

User Friendliness:
Google is more user-friendly as it is popular in recent time and people know how to use it. Bing maps are getting better now and I am sure that one day they will beat Google Maps. Microsoft has added 165 TeraByte images to Bing Maps center. It has considerably improved their performance.

Functionality and Integration:
Today, Google provides more functionality as they have tie-ups with most of leading social networking companies. If you are Facebook lover, then Bing is best for you because Facebook prefers Bing to locate places and people interests.

Web browser compatibility:
Google leads Bing in web browser compatibility as it has more tie-ups with browsers and most of browsers have accepted Google as their standard search engine. Google maps are able to run on popular web browsers namely Internet Explorer 7+, Apple Safari3+, Firefox 2.0.0.8, Opera 8.02+, Google Chrome1+ where as Bing officially supports only 3 web browsers which includes Internet explorer 6+, Apple Safari 3+ and Firefox 2.0+.

Technological advantages:
Nowadays, Bing is introducing advanced technological packages to improve their mapping service but Google has gone too far in this scenario with integration of Javascript, XMLHttprequest (Ajax), Hidden iframe, XMLTProcessor, JSON, XML and WebGL. In comparison, Bing goes with only Javascript, Ajax and .NET 

Bottom Line:
Choosing correct map service depend on your internet connection speed. You need fair speed to run any map website but bing requires little bit more bandwidth for smooth navigation.

Pratik Joshi
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Tuesday, 2 October 2012

5 Ways to Bypass Cyberoam

Does your College or Office has Cyberoam Network Security? and you don't have access to some of the blocked sites? There are 5 different ways to access the blocked sites from your so as to access internet without getting "Access Denied".
Ways to Bypass Cyberoam

1. IP Address Trick:

Most of the time it happens that your college blocks some particular site only for its domain name and not for the IP address associated with it. Now you have to type the IP Address of the site into address bar to get access to the site. I've already written more about using IP Address Trick.

2.  Use of https Trick:

Using "https" before web address is the most easiest trick to bypass cyberoam. I have already written a post for it. Read more about Using https trick.

3.  Use of Google Catched Pageviews:

Google bot has already done this work for you. All you have to do is search for that site into google. for example, TricksPage.com is blocked by your college then go to google and Search for "Facebook Tricks site:trickspage.com" without quotes then go for the result you want and click "Catched".

5. Use TOR browser: 

TOR Project is a free software that helps you to browse internet without any short-comings. All you have to do is Download Tor Browser and Configure it and Browse to the uncensored internet.

5.  Use of Wayback Machine:

Wayback machine is the internet archive created by some non-profit organisations. After entering the web url the machine machine will search for its archives and asks you to select one of the date and it will display you how that website looked for that date.

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Monday, 17 September 2012

Google Glasses First Look

Hey Guys, What do you do to book your tickets for a movie? or to check weather? or to check maps? All you have to do is open your smartphone go to related application and check for it. Can you do it by Just wearing Glasses?? Yes, you can Get live maps, book online tickets, take pictures and share with your G+ circles, etc. by just wearing glasses called Google Glasses.

Just Watch outside the window to check weather

The project is called Project Glass by Google. The Google Glass is nothing but a tiny computer or a smartphone which shows you real time information hands-free. It allows communication with internet through natural language commands. Google glasses technology uses the Android as its Operating System.

Watch Official Project Glass Video:


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Thursday, 6 September 2012

Counting Sort Algorithm Implemented in C++

Hello Friends, The counting sort algorithm works by counting the number of elements in the given unsorted array, and then arranging them from highest element to the lowest element. In my implementation of the counting sort algorithm, I have used three arrays: One array to store input elements from users, Second array as the output array and third array for counting sort implementation.

Algorithm:
As seen on Wikipedia

''' allocate an array Count[0..k] ; initialize each array cell to zero ; THEN '''
for each input item x:
    Count[key(x)] = Count[key(x)] + 1
total = 0
for i = 0, 1, ... k:
    c = Count[i]
    Count[i] = total
    total = total + c
 
''' allocate an output array Output[0..n-1] ; THEN '''
for each input item x:
    store x in Output[Count[key(x)]]
    Count[key(x)] = Count[key(x)] + 1
return Output

How Counting Sort Algorithm Works? Here is the link

Implementation of Counting Sort Algorithm in C++:

Here I've implemented the Counting Sort algorithm as the pseudo-code is given in above link.


#include "iostream"
using namespace std;
int main()
{
int n,range,i,x=1;

cout<<"Enter no. of elements:\n";
cin>>n;        //Gets number of elements from the user
                   //Create two arrays:

int in[n];      //One as Input array
int out[n];   //Second One as Output Array
cout<<"Enter "<<n<<" elements\n";
for(i=0;i<n;i++) //Gets n elements from user
{
cin>>in[i];
if(in[i]>=x)        //Counts the range of the input elements
x=in[i]+1;         //thats if the highest element inputted by user is 5
}                      //then the counting array of 5+1 i.e. 6 is created  
range=x;          //i.e. the range of the counting array is computed.
cout<<"range= "<<range<<endl;    //Displays the range of counting array
int c[range];               //create the counting array of computed range

for(i=0;i<range;i++)  //initializes all the elements of counting array to zero
c[i]=0;

for(i=0;i<n;i++)
{                      //counts the number of times the each input occurs in the input array
c[in[i]]++;        //and increments i^th place of the counting array
}

cout<<"Counting array is:\n";
for(i=0;i<range;i++)       //Displays counting Array
cout<<c[i]<<"  ";
cout<<"\n\n";

for(i=0;i<range;i++)       //Crates addeded counting array
c[i+1]=c[i]+c[i+1];        //Gets i^th value and adds it with (i+1)th value

cout<<"Added Counting array is:\n";
for(i=0;i<range;i++) //Displays added counting array
cout<<c[i]<<"  ";
cout<<"\n";

for(i=n-1;i>=0;i--)      //Starting from the last positon of the input array
{                                //if 5 occurs in the last position then
out[c[in[i]]-1]=in[i];    //puts it at the position given at counting array[5]
c[in[i]]=c[in[i]]-1;       //and then decrements array[5] by 1
}

cout<<"Output array is:\n";      //Displays the finalized output array
for(i=0;i<n;i++)
cout<<out[i]<<"  ";
cout<<endl;

return 0;
}

Download Counting Sort Program: Counting_sort.cpp
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Saturday, 28 July 2012

Google's Special Doodle for Your Birthday

Hello Friends, As you all know that Google has some specialized doodles for some special personalities or some special event. Today I was searching for Google Doodles and I came to know that Google has A specialized doodle for your birthday. Isn't that feel good? :)
Do you want the doodle on Your Birthday too? Here are few things that you must satisfy in order to get one on your birthday too!


  1. You should be on Google+.
  2. You must have to set proper birth date on your Google+ profile
  3. And the most important thing is that you must be logged into your Google Account!
And what? You will also get one doodle on your birthday too!

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Friday, 13 July 2012

Chat with Facebook Friends Using Opera Mini

Hello Friends, After so many days I'm going to post something here on TricksPage! Do you use any other applications in your phone like "ebuddy" or "facebook chat" to chat on Facebook? Today I will tell you the trick to access facebook chat directly in your mobile phone browser like Opera Mini.
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