How to turn off iPhone, iPod Touch Auto-Correct feature

If you one of those iPhone users who is not that geeky, it might be pretty bugging at times when iPhone's auto-correct feature keeps correcting your slang and hinglish typos' while emailing or sms'ing. There is an easy way you. You can turn off this auto-correct feature, here is how:

1. Tap Settings icon
2. Go to General > Keyboard menu
3. Turn off Auto-Correction

You can now type anything without getting bugged. 

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Free Web Hosting Services without Ads.!

Often, people like to host their web pages on a Free Web Hosting server.. It may be because they want to host a personal web page or either they do not want to pay for web hosting.. Whatever the reason may be, people prefer using Free Web Hosting.. 

But one of the main disadvantages of Free Web Hosting Services is that they always come with ads..! It is very difficult to find premium web hosting services without ads. Even if you do, they limit your disk space or some of the services (like PHP, MySQL support etc.).. 

I used to search for free web hosting services but never used to find any.. I know how difficult it is to find one, so to help ya'll I list a few good ones I know..

1.    1.X10 Web Hosting - This is one of my favorites and one among the best free web hostingservices.. There are absolutely NO ADS (except for the 404 error page).. You get about 500 MB of free disk space and a free sub domain.. It supports HTML,PHP, ASP.NET, CGI, Perl,MySQLetc.. You also get FTP support and also Webmail with POP3 support.. 

2.    2.HeliosHost - This is supposed to be one among the best, but the problem is it offers only alimited no of registrations per day.. This too doesn't have any ads.. It offers you about 250 MB free disk space and also a free subdomain.. Compared to x10 web hosting this gives support Ruby and Ruby on rails too.. You also get FTP support and also Webmail with support for unlimited email accounts and also POP3 and IMAP support.

3.   3. HostHelpers - Compared to the others this provides you with 1GB-5GB of free disk space..You have an option to select the free subdomain or the free .WS domain.. This supports PHP, MySQL, CGI/Perl.. You also get POP3 email accounts as well as SMTP support..

4.    4. FreeBeeHosting - FreeBeeHosting is another good free web hosting service but has some limitations.. You get about 600 MB of disk space and free co.cc domain.. This supports only CGI, SSI and PHP.. You can also have a maximum of 2 email accounts.. 

5.    5. FreeHostin - This web hosting provides almost similar services as HostHelpers.. From disk spaceto support for scripts, almost everything is similar..The only difference is that you get a free CO.CC domain..

These are a few best free web hosting services without ads.. Select the one which bests suits your needs and make the most out of your free web hosting service.. 

KP's Opinion - If you really want a professional hosting service without ads then x10 hosting and HeliosHost are the best.. The services they offer are really nice.. They also support a wide variety of scripts compared to the others.. You gotta try your luck daily if you want to get a HeliosHost account, as they give away only limited no of accounts daily.. X10hosting doesn't have any such conditions.. I myself have tried X10 hosting.. It's really awesome.. Worth trying..! :)..

 

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Customize Your Google Background

Google has a feature that brings the personalization of Google a notch higher. Now, Google lets you add your favorite photo or image as the background of the Google homepage, replacing the plain white default of Google. Photos can be chosen from your computer, your own Picasa Web Album or a public gallery hosted by Picasa which includes a selection of beautiful photos.

Customizing Google.com with a background image will not slow the search engine's load time.

For those  who want to enjoy the clean, simple look of Google as well as the personalized view, Google made it  easy to switch between the customized search page and classic Google.

Customization is done by clicking the a link in the lower left-hand corner of Google.com that says "Add background image".

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The anatomy of a WordPress theme

With all the WordPress theme frameworks that arose over the past few years, you'd almost forget what a normal WordPress theme looks like. Almost, because Yoast has got your back and we're about to remind you! Check out our anatomy of a WordPress theme infographic:

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Android Mobile Application Development

Android's upcoming release is named as Ice Cream Sandwich. A name that continues the previous alphabetic series. Google's upcoming Android OS promises to be a very important update for both Android users and Android application developers. Now when you next time think to hire Android application development services from any developer or a company – don't forget to ask if they have worked or at least have knowledge of Ice Cream Sandwich. 

At the Samsung's Google Nexus Prime handset presentation it was due to be officially released, but the launch was postponed due to Steve Jobs's death. Ice Cream Sandwich is numbered as Android 4.0. This new versions of the OS is said to be fit for both Android Mobile app development and Android Tablet application development. 

Now you as being an Android application developer don't need to worry for the two different versions of the Android app to run on Smartphone and tablet. Ice Cream Sandwich mobile application development will help you tackle the fragmentation issues that have been plaguing Android. It is the first version that finally helps you develop applications that work on both smartphones and tablets.

With Honeycomb-style interface, it won't be sort-of-very-different in look and feel. You will be working with the same holographic UI, resizable widgets, multitasking panel and app launcher things and the same will look on your users' Android smartphones and tablets. But be ready to take advantage of multiple additional features of this latest version that will help you offer your expert Android application development services to clients whose customers' use latest and next generation Android smartphones with multiple capabilities. 

One other feature that users and app developers both will love is the ability to use your Android device as a USB hub. After its launch it won't remain tough for you to attach external peripherals such as a keyboard or mouse without hassle. Clicks an idea in your mind? Yes you can develop multiple apps that are related to peripheral devices' usage with your Android phones. for this you need top rated company for android application development services.

Face-recognition and head-tracking will help you develop the next generation video-conferencing apps. By using the enhanced feature of voice and video recognition anybody who is speaking during a video chat can be focused from the front camera. It will also be able to track the movements of your own head and adjust the picture accordingly when viewing a 3D image. Simply it will open the doors of an era where facial and voice recognition Android apps will be on boom. 

Last but not the least Google Music and Google+ support in this latest OS, you'll be able to develop next generation social media and entertainment apps. As Google started this OS and continuous updates are also supported by Google, there is huge potential if you develop such social media apps that revolve around Google. Because there will be huge potential in such applications. And don't forget Google+ will soon be updated to version 2.0 with a complete new and attractive look. So be ready to develop apps that will use it. 

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Google Sitemaps

Google Sitemaps are XML files that list the URLs available on a site. The aim is to help site owners notify search engines about the URLs on a website that are available for indexing.

Webmasters can include information about each URL, such as when it was last updated and its importance in the context of the site.

A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.

While some developers argue that site index is a more appropriately used term to relay page function, web visitors are used to seeing each term and generally associate both as one and the same. However, a site index is often used to mean an A-Z index that provides access to particular content, while a site map provides a general top-down view of the overall site contents.

XML is a document structure and encoding standard used, amongst many other things, as the standard for WebCrawler's to find and parse sitemaps. The instructions to the sitemap are given to the crawler bot by a Robots Text file. Site maps can improve search engine optimization of a site by making sure that all the pages can be found. This is especially important if a site uses a dynamic access to content such as Adobe Flash or JavaScript menus that do not include HTML links.

Google Sitemaps Benefits:

1. Alert Google to Changes and Additions to your Website Anytime You Want.
2. Your Website is crawled more efficiently and effectively.
3. Web Pages are categorized and prioritized exactly How You Want.
4. Speed up the process of New Website and New Web Page Discovery.
5. No Waiting and guessing to see when Spiders crawl your web pages.
6. Google Sitemaps is likely to set the standard for Webpage Submission and Update.

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