Internet the Interesting Media

The internet is the word that is on everyone’s lips. So what is internet? Why internet. We can learn today about internet. What is internet and why it is used. Internet is the huge global network of computers connected together along cables, radio waves and using satellite links.

Internet is used to send the packet of information to one computer to another, anywhere in the world within the second. The internet gives the family to all types of information. Like Railway reservation status, online booking, EB payment, Credit card payment, Netbanking and etc.

In netbanking we can open fixed deposit, recurring deposit, and close the fixed deposit all things done from our own place. No need of go for bank.

WWW

World wide web is the expansion of www. Web is the collection of documents,sounds, videos and digital photographs and information of all sorts, all connected by HTML links. We can see all types of information within a second.

People are really interested in information and no need to know about how all computers connected. All the information is web, connection of computers are net.

Key words in Internet

Web pages are written by using Hypertext Mark Up(HTML) language, a language that uses text and a defined set of commands known as tags to create most of what you see on a web page. Every year the number of people using the internet is increasing a lot. It is changing our way of our life by making our communication so much easier.

Sending an email to any one is so much easy, cheaper and takes less time than sending a letter. Internet is all about communication and information. It allows people companies, governments and charities to communicate with the public. For a company, a website is like a shop window. For advertising about their shop to their clients. It is a very powerful media. Because if you have a shop in tambaram, you could know about the shop to the entire world.

Many companies have ecommerce sites which advertise the goods that they sell and offer facilities to buy a goods online.

Why charities need website. Charities need to communicate with the public in the same way for getting sponsors from public. To access the internet, a user needs a computer with a modem, a telephone line and an Internet Service Provider (ISP). An ISP is the company that provides you with a gateway to the Internet. Once you are online you can send email, chat with your friends and play with others using online games.

For applying jobs also internet used. You can update your resume with their website. They have called you for interview. Several job related websites are their. Earning online also nowadays is possible. For writing articles boddunan is giving money to us. Several PTC(Pay to Click) sites also available. Online surveys are available. You can earn money with online surveys. You can write anything you want to share with the world by using blogs. Some websites are helpful for us to sending and getting the money very smart and secure way. Many people’s like to spend more of their times to the internet. Many parents are talking with the children using internet. Because they are staying in abroad for doing their jobs. Internet is connecting both of them.

Several sites used to send the greetings for their loved one and friends for their special occasion. We can do anything and everything by using internet. Enjoy the benefits of internet. Keep browsing and surfing. You can read the newspaper in internet. All news papers having their own websites.

It takes seconds to find the timings of trains, buses and flights, eliminating the need to spend time queuing on telephone help-lines. Online booking of travel tickets also possible. We should not stand for more hours for getting the tickets.

When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing.  ~Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Writing is all about putting your thoughts on a piece of paper. We read various articles- over the internet, in the newspaper, as a book, etc. All these are thoughts presented in the form of writing of an individual. The art of writing has popularized so much that people have taken it as a serious profession. People who have good writing skills opt writing even as their part time career. One of the most popular part time job is writing over the internet. The internet is a global platform. The audience reading your content is not from any localized place, rather they are spread globally.  If you writing for people across the globe, here comes the questions as what are the most read topics over the internet. Here are few topics which are read more frequently. If you are a writer who is stuck up on choosing the appropriate topic to write on, consider picking up on any one of the following topics:

Earn money Online: This is one of the most popular topics over the web. Almost everyone using the web reads an article about how to get monetary benefits working online. Not only that, there are lot many articles in this topic written by various authors who present it in their own way and from their own experience. Read at least 5 articles on this topic and you will know about many ways to earn money online.

Website/Blog marketing:  This is one of the interested topics to write on.  Website/Blog marketing include topics related to SEO techniques, back linking, page rank, page view, website layout, etc. In fact this topic covers the entire subject that deals with popularizing your online presence. There are lot many sites which have contents written only on the ways in which you could enhance your web presence. Such sites will only work if there are people reading about these topics and the popularity of these sites prove that

Inspirational Writing: People love reading contents that inspires them. Of course reading inspirational things heals the mind in a better way. Be it an article on how to organize your time or the deep thoughts on meditation and yoga, the readers cherishes every bit of information provided to them.

Virus, Security and Troubleshooting: Almost everyone is using computers these days. With so many new software launched in the market, the threat of viruses is one of the main concern for every computer user. There are so many types of viruses, malware, adware, etc that are flooded all over the web and infect the computers every now and then. Merely running an antivirus is not helping now-a-days. The users are now concerned about how to remove such malicious virus completely. Lot many articles are written addressing different kinds of virus threats and their troubleshooting. So, in case if you encounter any typical virus thread and have successfully resolved it, it is a good idea to share it over the net. You would be helping a lot of people facing the same issue and would get appreciation too.

   Web security is also one of the most crucial topic. People have become aware of the hacking techniques and are reluctant to allow others to use their information. The awareness of the hacking techniques have encouraged the hackers to write informative contents about security concerns. These people are basically information security specialist who has deep knowledge on the ins and outs of how data is being used over the net. Suggestions from them would surely help in securing the personal information of a user. If you are someone, having good command over networking, go ahead and write something beneficial for the users.

Home Decor and Gardening: Everyone dreams of having a beautiful house. Not the trend is such that even a person from the middle class background would want to his/her in the best possible way. People are becoming more and more conscious on decorating their home. In such a case, articles written on home interiors and decoration find an edge. Also gardening has taken a stroll. Whether you own a big house or small one, gardening has become one of the most favorite hobbies among people.

Technology: With time, the thing which has advanced in the most fast pace is technology. Be it a mobile, laptop, ipad or some recent gadgets, people love reading them all. Writing about technology gives a greater span for writing. You could write about the functionality of a particular gadget, your views on its usability, the latest trends of various technology used in a gadget, give you views and reviews, etc. To discuss technology, the topics are never ending. Pick any one if them and start writing.

The various “How to….” And “Why….” : People are always curious to know as why and how are things are done. Go to any forum and would find people flooding their questions with the various “How’s” and “Why’s”. Answering these questions in the form of an article with a detailed discussion is always a welcoming idea.

History and biography of famous personality: People adore reading about the life of famous and remarkable personalities. Writing about their life and presenting it in the most refreshing way would attract the readers.

Tourism and geographical location: When you begin planning about a tourist place, the first thing that most of us follow these days is to search about it over the web readings about the accommodation, fooding, the famous destinations to visit, etc. This is the most common thing followed all over. People appreciate reading about personal experience about a particular place. If you have been to some good tourist spot, share your experience in the form of your writing.

Food and various dishes: Food is one of the most vital part of our lives. With the advent of globalization, people appreciate trying out dishes from all over the world. If you have some idea about the amazing dishes or even if you want to share your local food habits, write an article on them.

 A word of note at the end: Before you opt to write on any of the above topics, make sure that you have done enough research. Your writing speaks all for you over the web.

This article is meant for the very beginners of the Photoshop. This is my first tutorial on the software and I’ll be posting more tutorials. In this article I’ll show you the basics of Photoshop and three simple tasks a beginner can do with Photoshop.

Adobe Photoshop is a powerful software and it can be used to achieve fantastic image effects. In this article I’ll show you three basic steps in Adobe Photoshop – Cropping an image, Adjusting the size (width and height) of an image and adjusting the lightning of the image. These are the very basic steps of Photoshop and no matter which version of Photoshop you use it’ll all have the same process.

Importing an image to Photoshop for editing

First of all, you should import the image you want to edit. This can be done in two ways. Either you can right click the image and from the 

menu select ‘Open with’ and then select ‘Adobe Photoshop’ and the image will directly open in Photoshop.

Otherwise you can open the Photoshop software and go to File (from the menu bar) > Open (Ctrl+O) and then select the image you want.

After opening the image you’re good to go.

Some important basic tools in Photoshop

As this my first tutorial, I’ll just refer some basic tools which will be useful from the very beginning. We’ll be covering other tools in future tutorials.

1. Crop tool : Left side of your screen you’ll have your tools window (if not go to Window > Tools). You’ll see a small button like this  

 and that is the Crop tool. As the name suggests. It is used for Cropping images.

2. Marquee tool : Marquee tool is used for selecting  portions of images for editing. For instance you want to change the brightness of certain parts of an image, you can select those parts using marquee tool and the change the brightness so that it’ll only be applied to the portion you’ve selected.

For now we’ll settle with these two tools. Let’s now get started with editing process.

Cropping images in Photoshop

Once the image is opened in Photoshop, select the Crop tool from the tools palette. Now select the portion you want by holding the left button of your mouse and dragging along the image.

After selecting you can see that the region you haven’t selected will become dim. 

Now press ‘Enter’ or right click the mouse and select ‘Crop’ to get done. You’ll have your cropped image now.

Adjusting the size (width and height) of an image

Now, I’ll show you how to change the size of an image in Photoshop. After the image is opened, go to Image > Image size from the menu bar. Now a window will pop up where you can adjust the size of the image

Now, from the window you can change the Width and Height measurements of your image according to your needs from the respective boxes under the ‘Pixel Dimensions’ as shown in the image above. You’ll see that, as you enter the Width the Height automatically changes and vice versa. This is to save the ratio of the image size so that the image doesn’t appear stretched or pinched. Anyway, if you don’t mind, you can uncheck the ‘Constrain Proportions’ box under the same window (refer the image) and put in your own measurements for both width and the height.

Adjusting the lightning of an image

Now comes the last part of this article. One should know that there are many ways of adjusting the lightning of an image. There are many complex ways to create outstanding effects in Photoshop. Anyway, right now we’ll see the basics.

1. Brightness and Contrast

To adjust the brightness and contrast of an image, go to Image > Adjust > Brightness/Contrast

From the pop up window you can adjust the brightness and contrast according to your will.

2. Color Balance

If you want to add a particular color effect to your image, go to Image > Adjustments > Color Balance. From the window move the sliders to achieve the color you want. You can also select a portion of the image using Marquee tool, discussed earlier, to add such color effects to certain parts of the image alone.

Conclusion

This is my first tutorial on Adobe Photoshop and I believe you’ve learned something from this simple article. I’ll try to post some more tutorials here in future. There are so many things one could do with Photoshop and I’ll be sharing few things I know in coming tutorials.

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Do you feel to appreciate a document which is error free? Of course a document without any mistakes creates a good impression on the readers. One of the most crucial part in documentation is reviewing. It involves taking care of all the modifications required in terms of product functionality, its grammar, syntax and the layout of the document.  Reviewing follows through many steps from self review >peer review>expert review. After undergoing through all these phases, if mistakes still persist in a document then the reviewer needs to bring some changes in the pattern of his reviewing. Of course you would say there is Word to check for spellings, spacing error or syntax but do remember that word would give us choices as according to their own automation system but it is we who would decide which word or syntax goes perfect with the writing.

Here are some reviewing tips that can be followed when reviewing a document:

Concentrate and Avoid Distraction: 

Try to review the writings in a place free from distractions. Set a target to review a minimum number of pages without distraction of any kind. Make sure that you are not interrupted in between. That hampers your concentration. When your mind is all at peace, then only you will be able to deliver your maximum output.

Pay more attention towards words that sound similar but may have different meanings:

The most common examples to illustrate such word are “accept” and “except” or “then” and “than”. Also take care of Homonyms (that share the same spelling and the same pronunciation but have different meanings). Example of a simple homonym is “left (past tense)” and “left (opposite of right)”.

Pay attention to capitalization of words, numbering and punctuation:

This is one of the aspects which should be taken care of precisely. Imagine a long sentence without any punctuation. The user will be all confused reading the whole sentence. However, if you break the long sentence with help of punctuation, the presentation would seem to be good.

Emphasis on the proper capitalization of word; its important when you want to stress on a particular word. Also, be careful with numbers; adding an extra zero may create a huge difference.

Importance of Contractions and Apostrophes:

Contractions are the shortened form of two word and an apostrophes is inserted for the missing letter. For e.g. we write “do not” as “don’t”. Apostrophes and contraction go along with each other.

Some of the critical Apostrophes mistakes are as follows:

Make sure that you take care of these small mistakes. Though very rare but these mistakes can be made most frequently. Also remember to maintain consistency in your writing pattern. If you are using contractions and apostrophes together, use it all over the content or else follow the simple writing style.

Break the document into small chunks of document:

When we are given a long document to review, it is our tendency to review it in a hurry to finish it as soon as possible. Reviewing a document all at once is a tedious process. In order to overcome this hurdle, break the document into smaller number of pages for a specific limit of time. Take break in between the reviewing so that you could freshen up your mind. Although this might take a bit more time, but the quality of the document would improve as you would review it with more concentration.

Last but not the least; get it reviewed by someone who would be reading it for the first time:

It happens that a writer who reviews his own document may miss out on some of the mistakes while reviewing because his mind has already been saturated with the writing that he may override a mistake. The best thing for such a situation is to get it reviewed by someone else. In that case, there would be more chances of finding new mistakes.

The Other ways of Reviewing:

The Text to Speech software helps with the proofreading part. Installing this software helps to convert your text into audio form. Thus you would be able to hear whatever you have written.

Some other innovative methods of reviewing are to read it backwards,; read from right towards the left or to read it aloud. It a kind of brain working exercises where your mind becomes more alert.