Skype Article

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Skype banishes outlandish fees for calls from foreign lands
Calling the USA from foreign soil can be a hassle. Not all mobile phones work abroad. Rates are often prohibitively expensive. Prepaid calling cards can be confusing.

Besides, it can't be much of a vacation if you have to call the office.
Of course, there are times when folks who travel abroad for business or pleasure must check in with bosses, clients, customers and family.
My wife and I were in that position a week ago while on a Caribbean vacation to the Turks and Caicos Islands. Before leaving the USA, we learned that her Verizon phone would not work at our destination, and though my Sprint phone would, the per-minute "roaming" charge was $1.50. Cingular's roaming rate on compatible phones was $1.99 a minute.
Having brought along laptops, we eventually settled on a far cheaper, if somewhat less convenient, calling alternative, through the global Internet phone company known as Skype.
But not before investigating several other options.
For example, an international customer service rep at Verizon said the cost to rent a usable satellite phone was $99, plus shipping. That's on top of $2.99 per-minute rates. Ouch
The various alternatives provided by the Beaches Turks & Caicos Resort & Spa, where we stayed, were equally unappealing:
• The cost to call home from our room was $4.89 a minute. It also costs $4 to complete a collect call. Not that I had much confidence in the room phone. When I pressed the message button on the unit, I was connected to another room, not the front desk or my voice mail.
• The resort said we could rent workable mobile phones for $10 a day, plus per-minute charges.
• AT&T says Turks and Caicos rates on a prepaid calling card purchased in the USA are 75 cents a minute. Local hotels and phone operators may tack on connection fees. Beaches told us there's a $6 fee for each call to a U.S. operator.
We turned to Skype, which despite a few snags, worked like a charm. Through the service, which was acquired in September by eBay, you can make free PC-to-PC calls.
That function was not particularly helpful last week, because most of the people my wife and I needed to reach don't have Skype accounts. Instead, we exploited a service called SkypeOut, which lets you use a computer to dial regular phone numbers in the USA and elsewhere, from the country you are in.
Skype's rate to the USA is just around 2 cents a minute.
Prices to other outposts are also excellent: for example, about 2 cents a minute each to make calls to France and Italy, about 37 cents a minute to phone Iraq. Incidentally, calls made on Skype to Turks and Caicos phones cost 17 cents a minute.
Granted, you may also have to factor in the cost of a high-speed Internet connection. I had to pay $50 for the week to access a broadband connection in the Beaches lobby. At least I could also check e-mail and browse the Web.
I use Vonage Internet phone service at home. On some trips I might schlep the gear that makes it work. That wasn't viable at Beaches with no broadband in the room.
Signing up for Skype is simple. You download software onto a computer and use a headset/microphone or the machine's speakers. (With a webcam you can also make video calls.)
Getting going on SkypeOut took awhile. Because I hadn't previously signed up for the feature, I had to wait overnight for a "verification" e-mail to arrive before I could dial a regular number. I prefunded my account through PayPal.
To make an international SkypeOut call from the computer, you enter 011, plus the country code and number. A virtual phone keypad shows up on your screen.
The quality of most of the Skype calls we made to the States was roughly equivalent to the fidelity of typical cellphone calls. Occasionally, a call was dropped. We had trouble at times using the keypad to punch in the codes to remotely check office voice mail.
It was more difficult for someone to call us. That's because I didn't try SkypeIn, a service still in "beta," or test mode, that lets people call your own dedicated Skype phone number, using a country and available area code of your choosing. SkypeIn costs $12 for a three-month subscription, $38 for a year, and includes voice mail.
If you prefer using a regular cell for foreign travel, check with your wireless carrier before leaving the country. Most so-called GSM-type phones (for Global System for Mobile Communications) work abroad. But not all do everywhere. Ask your carrier to turn on international roaming ahead of time.
And ask about those (sometimes) nasty rates. Best not to be shocked when you and the bill arrive home at the same time.

Flash Article

This article is taken fromWikipedia and talk about macromedia flash.

Macromedia Flash, or simply Flash, refers to both the Macromedia Flash Player and to a multimedia authoring program used to create content for it. The Flash Player, developed and distributed by Adobe Systems (formerly by Macromedia), is a client application available in most web browsers. It features support for vector and raster graphics, a native scripting language called ActionScript and bidirectional streaming of audio and video.

Strictly speaking, Macromedia Flash is the integrated development environment (IDE) and Flash Player is the virtual machine used to run the Flash files, but in colloquial language these have become mixed: "Flash" can mean either the authoring environment, the player, or the application files.

Since its introduction in 1996, Flash technology became a popular alternative to add animation and interactivity to web pages and several software products, systems and devices feature Flash content display or creation capabilities. Flash is commonly used to create animations, advertisements, design elements on a web page, add video to web sites and more recently, to develop Rich Internet Applications.

The Flash files, traditionally called "flash movies", usually have a .swf file extension and may appear as an element of a web page or to be "played" in the standalone Flash Player.

XHTML Article

This article is taken from http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#xhtml. It is a official website provided by W3C. It talks about XHTML, the newest version of HTML, where some of the tags in HTML become obsolete here.

What is XHTML?

This section is informative.
XHTML is a family of current and future document types and modules that reproduce, subset, and extend HTML 4. XHTML family document types are XML based, and ultimately are designed to work in conjunction with XML-based user agents. The details of this family and its evolution are discussed in more detail in XHTMLMOD.
XHTML 1.0 (this specification) is the first document type in the XHTML family. It is a reformulation of the three HTML 4 document types as applications of XML 1.0. It is intended to be used as a language for content that is both XML-conforming and, if some simple guidelines are followed, operates in HTML 4 conforming user agents. Developers who migrate their content to XHTML 1.0 will realize the following benefits:
XHTML documents are XML conforming. As such, they are readily viewed, edited, and validated with standard XML tools.
XHTML documents can be written to operate as well or better than they did before in existing HTML 4-conforming user agents as well as in new, XHTML 1.0 conforming user agents.
XHTML documents can utilize applications (e.g. scripts and applets) that rely upon either the HTML Document Object Model or the XML Document Object Model DOM.
As the XHTML family evolves, documents conforming to XHTML 1.0 will be more likely to interoperate within and among various XHTML environments.
The XHTML family is the next step in the evolution of the Internet. By migrating to XHTML today, content developers can enter the XML world with all of its attendant benefits, while still remaining confident in their content's backward and future compatibility.
1.1. What is HTML 4?
HTML 4 is an SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) application conforming to International Standard ISO 8879, and is widely regarded as the standard publishing language of the World Wide Web.
SGML is a language for describing markup languages, particularly those used in electronic document exchange, document management, and document publishing. HTML is an example of a language defined in SGML.
SGML has been around since the middle 1980's and has remained quite stable. Much of this stability stems from the fact that the language is both feature-rich and flexible. This flexibility, however, comes at a price, and that price is a level of complexity that has inhibited its adoption in a diversity of environments, including the World Wide Web.
HTML, as originally conceived, was to be a language for the exchange of scientific and other technical documents, suitable for use by non-document specialists. HTML addressed the problem of SGML complexity by specifying a small set of structural and semantic tags suitable for authoring relatively simple documents. In addition to simplifying the document structure, HTML added support for hypertext. Multimedia capabilities were added later.
In a remarkably short space of time, HTML became wildly popular and rapidly outgrew its original purpose. Since HTML's inception, there has been rapid invention of new elements for use within HTML (as a standard) and for adapting HTML to vertical, highly specialized, markets. This plethora of new elements has led to interoperability problems for documents across different platforms.
1.2. What is XML?
XML™ is the shorthand name for Extensible Markup Language XML.
XML was conceived as a means of regaining the power and flexibility of SGML without most of its complexity. Although a restricted form of SGML, XML nonetheless preserves most of SGML's power and richness, and yet still retains all of SGML's commonly used features.
While retaining these beneficial features, XML removes many of the more complex features of SGML that make the authoring and design of suitable software both difficult and costly.
1.3. Why the need for XHTML?
The benefits of migrating to XHTML 1.0 are described above. Some of the benefits of migrating to XHTML in general are:
Document developers and user agent designers are constantly discovering new ways to express their ideas through new markup. In XML, it is relatively easy to introduce new elements or additional element attributes. The XHTML family is designed to accommodate these extensions through XHTML modules and techniques for developing new XHTML-conforming modules (described in the XHTML Modularization specification). These modules will permit the combination of existing and new feature sets when developing content and when designing new user agents.
Alternate ways of accessing the Internet are constantly being introduced. The XHTML family is designed with general user agent interoperability in mind. Through a new user agent and document profiling mechanism, servers, proxies, and user agents will be able to perform best effort content transformation. Ultimately, it will be possible to develop XHTML-conforming content that is usable by any XHTML-conforming user agent.

Fun

Fun is something that can make me feel happy, something that i always like. the situation that makes me feel free, no burden at all. fun can come anywhere and anytime. sometimes we don't need to spend any money to feel fun. just meeting an old friend, high school friend, talking about the past, the precious high school time, can be a fun time for me. or when the school holiday is coming, i feel really free for the next one month. it's fun for me. i like that feeling. sometimes we spend some money to have fun. for example when we go to a nice restaurant to have a delicious lunch. at that point of time, we use money to have fun. or when we buy ticket to watch movie in a theatre.
maybe it will be clearer if we contrast with the opposite of fun. the feeling of not fun is something that i do not like at all. the time when i feel sad. the time when i feel i have a lot of burden that i can not cope up with. or the time when i feel alone. that's not fun at all. and i do not like that feeling.
so, in a way, fun is the feeling that i like and not fun is the feeling that i do not like at all.

My Schedule

Time :Day	Information Required / Used	My Location	Source	Cost Of Obtaining The Information	Cost Of Using The Information	Value
07.00 : Monday	Time	Bed in my room	My alarm clock	0	0	Low
07.10	Location of soap etc.	Shower	My roommate	Low	0	Medium
07.50	Location of comb etc	My room	Myself	Low	0	Medium
08.00	My schedule	My room	My laptop	Medium	0	High
08.10	Direction to go to lt2A	On the road	Sign along the road	Low	0	High
08.30	Tutorial Solution for CPE205	TR11	Tutor	High	0	High
09.30	Tutorial Solution forCPE206	TR11	Tutor	High	0	High
10.30	Lecture Material for CPE207	LT2A	Lecturer	High	0	High
11.30	Lecture Material for CPE206	LT2A	Lecturer	High	0	High
12.30	Where To Eat	On The Road	Friend, Natalia	Low	0	Low
12.45	What To Eat	Canteen 4	Menu	0	$ 3	Low
13.15	Which Shuttle Bus to take	Hall 4 Busstop	Map on the busstop	0	0	High
13.30	Time	My Room,going to sleep	Alarm Clock	0	0	High
15.30	Time	My Room just wake up	Alarm Clock	0	0	Low
15.45	Tommorrow's schedule	My desk in my room	My laptop	Low	0	High
15.50	How to do tutorial	My desk in my room	Lecture Note	High	Low	High
18.00	What To Eat	Canteen 14	Asking friend	0	$2	High
18.30	Location of soap etc	Shower	Myself	0	0	Low
19.00	What film to watch	My desk	Friend	0	0	Medium
00.00	Time	My room	Alarm clock	0	0	Low

The information is not always consistent with the cost of obtaining it or the cost of using it. There are some information that is easy to get but the value is very high of there are some information that is hard to get but the value is low.