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If you want to remove metadata from JPEG files, you should keep in mind that these data can provide useful information (such as focal length, shutter speed, etc.). Therefore, you should never remove them from your original pictures. Instead, you should make a copy of the picture you want to publish and then remove the metadata from this copy. Several software tools support the removal of metadata. A recommendable one is jhead . It is a free open source program that runs on a variety of operating systems (Windows/Linux/BSD/Mac). Because jhead is a command line tool, it is particularly suitable to be used with batch files. Less experienced users should adhere to this step-by-step guide (Windows): 1- Create the directory C:\jpeg. 2- Copy all pictures whose metadata you want to remove to C:\jpeg. 3- Download the program file jhead.exe to C:\jpeg. 4- Click on "Start" and then "Execute...". 5- Windows 95/98/Me: Type command.com and click on "OK". Windows NT/200...

  Hidden data to JPEG files. For different reasons, one might want to remove these data before publishing the files on the Internet.  Digital cameras and image manipulation programs add hidde Metadata in JPEG Files. The JPEG file format is the format most used for storing and transmitting photographs on the Internet. In addition, a large number of digital cameras store pictures as JPEG files. However, many users are likely to be unfamiliar with the fact that a JPEG file can contain other data besides the actual photograph. The JPEG file format allows it to embed additional information called "metadata" in the file header. (Other image file formats can contain metadata, too.) The purpose of these metadata is to provide additional and useful information along with the picture. Image manipulation programs and especially digital cameras take advantage of this feature. Metadata can be embedded in different ways. A common way is to store them according to the Exif specification , w...

The First Desktop Application to have AdSense Ads is Google Earth Google Earth is probably the first and only desktop application to have AdSense Ads. These ads are is now showing in at least two different places inside the application: Figure A: When you search for a location or business, the ads are displayed in the search results itself. Figure B: When you click a placemark (any red pin on the map), the ads are displayed next to the review /address of that location. Google makes an exception I find this interesting because Google policies strictly don’t allow software developers to integrate AdSense ads in their desktop applications. If that policy changes, we could see more and more of Office 2010 Starter or FeedDemo like applications that are completely free to the end-user but supported by web advertising.

The holiday season is near and you want to send personalized email greetings to all your friends, family members and customers using the standard Gmail (or Google Apps with Gmail) service. How to Send Bulk Emails using Gmail Since the web interface of Gmail doesn’t support personalized emails, you should connect your Gmail account with Microsoft Outlook (via POP3 or IMAP) and also import the Gmail address book into your Outlook Contacts. Now you can use the mail merge feature of Outlook to send personalized messages to every single Gmail contact from the desktop. This may sound like an easy plan but there’re strict sending limits and, if you aren’t careful, Google may even block your Gmail account temporarily for up to 24 hours and you’ll neither be able to send nor receive any emails during that lock-out period. Email Sending Limits in Google Apps If you are using Gmail with Google Apps, you cannot send messages to more than 500 unique email addresses per day. For instance, if you s...

You’ve seen all the new features of Office 2010 and now its time to try them on your own computer. The first public beta of Microsoft Office 2010 is now available as a free download on microsoft.com/office . And other then Office, you can also download Visio 2010 beta and Project 2010 beta for your Windows computer. This is the Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010 edition so you get to experience Publisher and Infopath 2010 as well in addition to the regular Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook applications. The Office installer weighs around 700 MB in size but you need around 3 GB of free space on your hard drive for the installation. You can either upgrade your current version of Microsoft Office to Office 2010 Beta or select the Customize option during installation and set your current version of Microsoft Office to coexist with Office 2010 Beta. All products require online activation after installation. In case of Office 2010, you can enter the serial number inside Wo...

What's New Inside Microsoft Office 2010? The first public beta of Microsoft Office 2010 (v. 14.0.4536.1000) is now available for download on both MSDN and Technet. If you are not a subscriber, don’t hit the torrents yet because Microsoft may announce the general availability of Office 2010 beta sometime today itself. Update: You can download Office 2010 now. Microsoft Office 2010 – What’s New Here’s a quick visual guide to some of the new features of Microsoft Office 2010 that you’re likely to find useful once you get access to the software. #1. Save Office Documents to the Cloud With Microsoft Office 2010, you can directly upload documents to your Windows Live SkyDrive account and access them from any other computer. SkyDrive provides 25 GB of free online storage and, since the service is integrated with Office Web Apps, you can view and edit these documents anywhere in the web browser without requiring Microsoft Office (even on a Mac). #2. Embed Web Videos in your Presentations W...

Would you like to know how may people are visiting your site via RSS feeds? If you are using FeedBurner to syndicate the RSS feeds of your blog, you can now easily track all the incoming traffic from feed clicks through Google Analytics. Just open your FeedBurner dashboard , click the title of your RSS feed and choose "Configure Stats" under the Analyze Tab. Tick the options that say "Item views", "Item click" and "Track clicks as a traffic source in Google Analytics" and save. In addition to click counts, you’ll also know the exact source from where that click may originated. This is useful data because, for instance, it will help you understand if people who subscribe to your feed inside Google Reader are more engaged than your "My Yahoo!" subscribers (or vice-versa). Traffic from clicks inside your RSS feed will be included under "All Traffic Sources" and "Campaigns." in your Google Analytics reports. Select ...

Muslims generally use the term "Halal" to designate food items that theyare allowed to eat under the Islamic law (like fish). The opposite of halal" is ‘haraam’, another Arabic term which is used for food products that Muslims are forbidden from eating (like pork). This page describes in detail how stuff is classified as Halal or Haram according to Islam. And its not just about food, the term Halal can refer to any action that is permitted under the Quran while prohibited actions are known as "Haram". A Search Engine for Muslims (and your Kids) Extending the Halal and Haram concept to the Internet, Ramadan Kareem has created a search engine called I am Halal that might just prevent you (Muslims and Non-Muslims alike) from "accidentally" bumping into any explicit (or "Haram") content on the Internet. Unlike Safe Search in Google which simply removes all adult sites from search results, I-Am-Halal, which uses search results from Yahoo, emplo...

ISLAMABAD: In a rare show concern for women without a dissent, the National Assembly unanimously passed a bill on Wednesday to provide for a higher punishment for their sexual harassment, expanding the definition of the crime to facilitate prosecution. The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, which must be passed by the Senate as well to become law, amends both the Pakistan Penal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, increasing the punishment for the crime to up to three years in prison and a fine of up to Rs500,000 from up to one year and unspecified fine already provided in the PPC for a vague ‘insult (to) the modesty of a woman’. The draft, fruit of a campaign by women activists, was introduced in the house early this year by then information minister Sherry Rehman, who won special plaudits from both sides of the house during speeches after the bill -- already approved by a 16-member standing committee on law with Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani cited as its minister-in-charge -- was...

ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed a landmark bill to regulate transplants of human organs in the country, making their sale and unauthorised transplant punishable with up to 10 years in prison. The house suspended some rules to take up the Transplantation of Human Organs and Tissues Bill immediately after the standing committee on health presented its report on the draft based on a Musharraf-era ordinance and adopted it without a debate to honour Pakistan’s iconic kidney transplant surgeon Dr Adeeb Rizvi, who had campaigned for framing such a law and was present in a visitors’ gallery to witness the proceedings. Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Speaker Fehmida Mirza and members from all parliamentary groups made brief remarks after the vote to congratulate the house for adopting the important bill, which will become permanent law after its passage by the Senate, and to praise Dr Adeeb’s services in the field. An identical bill introduced in the previous ...

Unless you are living in a dark cave inside the dense jungles of Amazon, you must have heard the term ‘Blogs.’ Most blogs start as a hobby or like a personal diary or for staying connected with friends and family. But there are people who have quit their regular 9-to-5 jobs to take up blogging as a full-time profession and they are called pro-bloggers. In this first part, we discuss topics like getting started with blogs, choosing niche topics and the general rules of blogging. In Part II, you’ll learn about various methods to make money from blogs, using advertising and affiliate programmes. The concluding part III will feature advanced techniques for tracking readers, optimizing your blog for getting more traffic and how to convert those “staring eyeballs” into “serious money.” A blog is an online website, in which posts are arranged in reverse chronological order. The activity of posting contents on a blog is called blogging, while the person who writes content is called a blogger. ...

You can make money either directly from your blog or make money because of your blog. In the former method, you show advertisements to your visitors or sell affiliate products while in the latter style, you make money indirectly as blogging can help you find a new job or get freelancing work (after all, your blog is a portfolio of your thoughts, ideas and skills.) To display advertisements on your blog, you can either partner with existing advertising programmes (like Google Adsense, Chitika, etc) or contact prospective advertisers directly (say you have a popular blog about Shoes, then Nike or Reebok could be interested in showcasing their products to your visitors). We will first discuss the popular advertising programmes and then suggest a few other approaches to generate income from your blog. BlogAds are the pioneer in blog advertising. BlogAds generally pay well and also provide you the liberty to choose which ads are displayed on your blog. The other big advantage is that BlogAd...

Google Latitude is a free application that brings location tracking to your mobile phone even without GPS. That means if you are travelling with a mobile phone that has Google Latitude installed, your family members and friends can track your exact location on Google Maps through any Internet connected computer. The software is currently available for most BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 phones though an iPhone version of Latitude is still in the works – you can visit google.com/latitude from your mobile browser to know if Latitude is supported on your phone on not. I was in Karachi last month for a conference and my family members were able to track my journey using the computer that’s in our living room. Latitude probably helped in reducing my mobile "roaming" bill as well because earlier, if I were to drive to another city, my mom would call me every few hours just to know where I was – now she can just locate me through the Internet. Google Latitude Tips & T...

If there are multiple Google AdSense ad units on a web page, it is generally assumed that the top ad unit (the one which appears first in the HTML source code) will serve the highest paying CPC ads. Well, that may be true most of the times but not always. Let’s understand why. The Google AdWords system assigns a " Quality Score " to every advertiser who is participating in the ad auction and this score is determined by the quality of the advertiser’s website, the historical CTR of his ads on Google and a couple of other factors. For instance, the Google ad system is likely to assign higher Quality Scores to Sony.com or Amazon.com for the keyword "digital cameras" than an advertiser xyz.com who is trying to promote his eBay auction on the AdSense network. Google than computes the final rank (or ad position) of each advertiser using their respective quality scores and the maximum amount they are willing to pay for a single click (CPC). Ad Rank of an advertiser = Quali...

One day a man said to God: I love you the most, God took all his wealth and asked: ” do you love me now?” The man said: more than before! God made all his family against him so they all left him God asked: do you still love me? He said: yes God made him so poor that he had nothing to wear and eat God asked once more do u love me now? The man said I love you the most now because There is nothing between us now .