Thursday, April 14, 2011

How To Fix Blurry Fonts Issue In Firefox 4 Easily

Firefox 4 is the most advanced version of Firefox that has been developed by Mozilla and released to the public few days before. Firefox 4 is undoubtedly fast than its previous version with some new great features and totally revamped look. I am sure loyal users have already played with this new version of Firefox and pretty much happy with it.
However, other than fast speed and better looks, it has some quirks which has been reportedly issued by some of its users. I know that anything in this world can’t be perfect but at least we always try to make it better. Mozilla hasn’t come with any official blog solving or even stating these issues yet.
The most common issue and irritable one is Firefox 4 isn’t able to render fonts correctly that leads to the blurry fonts and not easily readable sometimes. Most of the users haven’t noticed this yet but power users of Firefox already known this issue and finding a solution of this problem.
But, you don’t have to research anymore – I came with a solution that will fix the blurry fonts in Firefox 4 quite easily. It’s very easy, you just have to download font called Anti-Aliasing Tuner that allows you to turn ClearType rendering for all fonts and fix the problem of blurry fonts.
There are various tweaks under the Add-on options that you can easily select by checking the box right in front of that tweaks. Some of the major things that you can do with the add-on is Enhance the contrast, treat blue, red and sub-pixels differently, anti-aliasing mode and rendering mode is also available with an option to apply different settings to different fonts.
It does come with a requirement that you should run 32/64 bit Windows 7/Vista platforms and having Direct2D/DirectWrite enabled Firefox 4. Check the screenshot of option windows below :
So, this is the simplest method to fix the rendering fonts issue in Firefox 4 till Mozilla not fixed in the next updates of its latest browser version. Though, this add-on just works fine and don’t need any other tweak to fix the blurry fonts.

Top 5 Best Free Games Apps For Your Apple iPad 2


iPad – one of the coolest gadget developed byApple. There are millions of iPad fans all around the world – some of them already bought and many of planning to buy it as soon as possible. When Apple launched iPad, no one had ever thought that this beautiful product will create history in terms of technology and even sales.
After great success of Apple iPad, lot of other companies also inspired to launch their tablet version such as Samsung, Motorola, HP and many others. Apple iPad gained the phenomenal success and that lead the company to manufacture the next generation of iPad - iPad 2. The day iPad 2 launched it was a major hit, thousands of people were waiting outside the Apple store to buy this new product.
Luckily, I got the Apple iPad 2 very easily because of some known person in the Apple store. As soon as I started iPad 2 for the first time, I was excited seeing the sleek design, crystal clear display and strong hardware. It was great feeling using Apple iPad 2 and as I am a game freak – I started to find some great games for my new shiny toy in iTunes store.
There are many games available and I started to download all those that were free and looking great to me. I ended up with a list of handful iPad 2 games that are just awesome. Some of them are with stunning graphics while others are so addictive that you will forget all your work. I thought to share with all our readers because I know they were finding games for their Apple iPad too.
1. Harbor Master HD : Enjoy the best selling game Harbor Master on the beautiful big screen of the iPad. With completely new content and gorgeous high resolution graphics, Harbor Master HD will blow you away.

2. Labyrinth 2 HD Lite : The sequel to the original labyrinth game is available for your iPad, now with new levels fitted perfectly for the bigger screen.

3. Air Hockey Gold : With the option for 1 or 2 pucks, this 1 and 2-player air hockey favorite is a blast for young & old alike! This is the only air hockey that lets you play with 2 pucks at once!

4. Flick Football : Swipe your finger to curve the ball around the wall. It’s simple to play, but a real challenge to master and you’ll be totally addicted to the numerous game modes. Compete using Game Center with global leaderboards and over 20 achievements.

5. New York 3D Rollercoaster HD Free : Take a thrilling ride through the city that never sleeps with 3D Rollercoaster Rush NY! All new High Definition graphics exclusively for iPad; experience the thrill on the big screen.

10 Powerful Free CMS Solutions For Small Business Owners


Its been quite a long time businesses have realized that website is essential for them to reach out their potential customers. Every businessman is taking online presence seriously and try to build website just after finalization of brand identity. And if someone is not doing that, its not doing justice to the business.
You need to have a strong presence on Internet if you really want to be in race because Internet is the next big thing in the future and there’s already a major decline in print media. The major reason behind is large share of the decision maker spends time on Internet and watch various ads and websites to buy something these days.
There are large number of small business owners too making their websites to reach local customers. But, building a website is really pain in the ass for business owners. When you are owning a small business, you have to really think of the budget and can’t go over a certain amount. That’s make them restricted to build a website.
But, don’t worry my friends, there are Content management system or CMS that are totally free and required no programming skills to work with. CMS are so user-friendly even a person who has basic Internet browsing knowledge can update content and information frequently within no time.
There are many times business owners give the work of website building to web developers but what every single change they have to pay everytime to that person. In this scenario, CMS also comes handy – you can change anything or everything you want in the website. Change is also very necessary because obsolete website affects the business and in turn slow downs your revenue generation.
CMS is wonderful way to work with because it requires no HTML/CSS coding knowledge and you can edit, update and format text, images, contact pages on the fly. The main notion that work behind CMS is – it makes your website design into a template with editable content areas. Therefore, you can anytime edit a particular area without touching the code and site’s layout.
If you too want to have all control of your website in your hand, you must look at Contentw Management System to build and modify your website with ease. To make things easy for you, I have gathered up best free CMS options available in the market right now. Some of you already familiar with and other might be new to you but are very powerful CMS solutions.
So, have a look on our compilation of 10 powerful free CMS solutions for small business owners.
1. Joomla : Joomla is a free, open-source content management system (CMS) and application framework that powers 2.7% of the entire web. With a vibrant volunteer community, user-friendly features and plenty of power, Joomla is perfect for your site!

2. concrete 5 : CMS made for Marketing but built for Geeks. concrete5 is a content management system that is free and open source.

3. Contao : Previously known as TYPOLight changed its name and everything remains the same.
Contao is an open source content management system (CMS) for people who want a professional internet presence that is easy to maintain. The state-of-the-art structure of the system offers a high security standard and allows you to develop search engine friendly websites that are also accessible for people with disabilities. Furthermore, the system can be expanded flexibly and inexpensively.

4. TextPattern : THE MANY REASONS TO USE TEXTPATTERN - With a browser-based interface in over 40 languages, excellent support and full range of features, it’s no wonder that publishers, designers and developers everywhere choose Textpattern.

5. Drupal : Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world.
Use Drupal to build everything from personal blogs to enterprise applications. Thousands of add-on modules and designs let you build any site you can imagine.
Drupal is free, flexible, robust and constantly being improved by hundreds of thousands of passionate people from all over the world.


6. WordPress : WordPress is web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog. We like to say that WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
The core software is built by hundreds of community volunteers, and when you’re ready for more there are thousands of plugins and themes available to transform your site into almost anything you can imagine. Over 25 million people have chosen WordPress to power the place on the web they call “home”.

7. CMS Made Simple : CMS Made Simple, an open source content management system, allows for faster and easier management of website content. This CMS is scalable for small businesses to large corporations.

8. CushyCMS : CushyCMS is a fast, simple and free content management system that aims to make life easier for web designers by simplifying content management.


9. Radiant CMS : Radiant is a no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams. Radiant CMS was created by John W. Long, extended by Sean Cribbs, and has been continuously improved by a team of core committers with dozens of additional contributions from the Radiant community.

10. GetSimple CMS : GetSimple is an XML based lite Content Management System. To go along with it’s best-in-class user interface, its loaded with features that every website needs, but with nothing it doesn’t. GetSimple is truly the simplest way to manage a small-business website.



Wednesday, April 13, 2011

How To Listen Thousands Of Radio Stations Online For Free

If you are tired of Winamp, Spotify, iTunes,Window Media Player, or any other software you use to listen music, why don’t you try listening online radio for a change. Ya I know, you must be thinking that finding radio stations online is a pain.
But don’t worry my friends, in this article, I am sharing a Adobe Air based application calledAntenna that solves the problem by combining vast list of radio stations with a map interface. This software is really very easy to use. You can discover thousands of radio stations from all around the globe based on country and genre.
Beyond that you have a history of recently browsed stations and even rate the ones you like most and return to them later easily later. The best part of the software is it takes only a minute to install and works seamlessly without any advertisements.

The application also have built-in search tool and option to record online music into your PC. Let’s see it in action to understand Antenna application better.
After installing and starting the application you will see the Antenna home screen like the image below. The left side will show you the browsing panel where you search for the radio stations and based on the radio stations you choose, the background map will navigate you to the station’s location.

To start listening, browse stations based on category ranging from ‘flags’, ‘country’, and ‘Genre’.

Recording Audio
You can also record the song which you are listening to. To start recording click on “Round white button” which will turn into red color when you click it. It means recording is in the progress.

When you done recording the song, click on “red button”, a pop-up window will appear which shows the information where the file is being saved.

Advantages of Antenna
  • Thousands of Radio Stations to choose from
  • No registration or Sign-up required
  • Crystal clear sound
  • Chat option is also available with other Antenna users
  • Nice interface design
Disadvantages of Antenna
  • Not all radio stations work
  • Quirkiness in Recording function
Verdict
With only one disadvantage in recording function, I still think that Antenna is the best way to listen thousands of radio stations online for free in crystal clear sound.




Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Free Online Tool For Text Formatting


Formatting your text is what always required when you want to copy-paste from one document to other. CleanText is an essential tool for webmasters, graphic designers and magazine editors to effectively reduce text formatting time, and it’s a great tool for any user that needs to cleanup an email, document, or other material.
CleanText is needed when you have to paste some text from one document or application into another, and you want the text to have samecharacteristics (like color, fonts, dimension and style) for the new document. The common problem of making emails with proper formatting is now few clicks away.


We don’t require CleanText every time but, its sometime necessary and with CleanText you won’t have any more excuses for fudging this work. The tool takes a large batch of ASCII text and pretties it up. It checks for misused quotation marks, hyphens, dashes and other punctuation marks and replaces them with the appropriate UTF-8 marks. You can trust this quick, smart and efficient tool to make your plain text easier to read.
Cleantext has a parsing log and is released under a GPL (General Public License). So, you can give feedback, fiddle with the code and contribute to the project. Automatic correction of other typos, such as replacement of three periods with an ellipsis, is currently being worked on.
Keep an eye on this tool because it might well become one of your little time-savers. The best part is its free online text formatting for enhancing the text to its original value.