Muslims generally use the term “Halal” to designate food items that they are 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, employs a double-layered filter.
When you type a search query (e.g. sex) that can potentially retrieve “haram” search results, the search engine would require you to confirm whether you really want to see those search results. When you say yes, it will fetch the relevant pages but will still filter out content that is not deemed as family-safe.
The search results page will also contain thumbnail images of web pages alongside the site links and description. And in addition to websites, you may also use IAmHalal.com to search for images and news stories on the web.
I am actually quite impressed with “I Am Halal” and, other than the religious side of things, this is something good for your kids as well. For instance, if they type a query that is bound to return explicit results, the search engine would simply refuse to work for that query.
Hope it is a good service.
When all you want to do is write, a distraction-free writing tool can come really handy as it will automatically hide all the distractions on the desktop and you can therefore concentrate on your writing.
Dark Room (Windows), Microsoft Word, Write Room (Mac), Internet Writer (Web-based), JDarkRoom (Java), PyRoom (Linux) and Q10 (Portable) are some of the popular distraction-free writing tools for various platforms.
There’s an app as well to help you create that perfect writing environment on an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Distraction-free Writing with Google Docs
If you have Google Docs, you really don’t need to download another text editor as Google Docs offers everything (and even more) that you may need in a perfect distraction free writing tool.
To get started, open this page and click the “Use this Template” button. Now press Ctrl + Shift + F followed by F11 and you are all set to do some creative writing.
If you are interested in the details, here’s how you can quickly turn Google Docs into a online distraction-free writing tool:Step
1: Create a new document in Google Docs and choose “Edit CSS” from the edit menu.
Step 2: Paste the following code into the CSS Box and save.
body {
font: 16px "Courier New";
color: #00ff00 !important;
background: #000 !important;
width: 800px;
margin: 10px auto;
}
Step 3: Now hit Ctrl + Shift + F to remove the menu bar in Google Docs and then hit F11 to turn your browser into full-screen mode. That’s it.
The above example uses green text on a black background. If you like to change the color of text or that of your screen, just edit the color and background property in the CSS to a different hexadecimal value. You may also modify the font-family, size, or the line-height property to adjust the text spacing and other formatting.
The latest data from Google Ad Planner suggests that female users form a majority on all popular social networking sites except Digg where 64% of the traffic is from male users. The male to female ratio on LinkedIn and YouTube stands at 1.
I think this is interesting....Why does this happen? Who knows!
Special Thanks: David McCandless, Brian Solis and Labnol.
Hi,
Google celebrates its 11th anniversary today. On this occassion Blog4info wish google to live long. MAy God bless google.
Bon Voyage,
Mohammed
Hi friends,
Google books is an online library service offered by google. It is a very useful service for people who like to read a lot. This service is absolutely free. Many readers around the world utilize this service.
Search
Book Search works just like web search. Try a search on Google Books or on Google.com. When search finds a book with content that contains a match for your search terms, they'll link to it in your search results.
Browse books online
If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given us permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.
Learn more -- fast
They have created reference pages for every book so you can quickly find all kinds of relevant information: book reviews, web references, maps and more.
Buy the book ... or borrow it from the library
If you find a book you like, click on the "Buy this book" and "Borrow this book" links to see where you can buy or borrow it.
If you love to read...Its a golden opportunity for you..
Did You Know?
The domain horse.ae was bought by a company for AED 6,100,001 (1.655m USD). The price increased a lot and still increasing. Now the price for the domain is AED 8,000,000 (2.177m USD).
The company got an offer of AED 7,235,000 (1.97m USD) from a horse lover. They gained all this profit because of their hard work and marketing. They had spent a lot for the marketing of this domain. Not only that as you all know .ae is for U.A.E. All the people in the gulf especially UAE nationals are very fond of horses. Horse race is a royal game in gulf region. It is played by the members of royal families. So the domain horse.ae has a great value.
Their luck!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi friends,
I am very happy to know that Microsoft Office 2010 is on the way to us. After a long period of time Microsoft is releasing the new version of Office.
I think that the last version released was in 2007. As we all know after Micrsoft Office 2007 there is no new version of it released until 2009. So I believe that Microsoft Office 2010 will create a ripple in the market.
Some of the key features of 2010 are (As per microsoft as no trial program relesed):
Introduction to Microsoft Office 2010
Microsoft® Office 2010 gives you rich and powerful new ways to deliver your best work - whether you’re at work, home, or school - on a computer, Web browser, or Smartphone. Grab your audience’s attention and inspire them with your ideas using enhanced tools, customizable templates, and photo editing capabilities. Work with multiple people from different locations at the exact same time using new co-authoring capabilities. By offering more ways to access your files from virtually anywhere, Office 2010 puts you in control.
Microsoft Excel 2010
Microsoft® Excel® 2010 makes it possible to analyze, manage, and share information in more ways than ever before. Track and highlight important data trends with new data analysis and visualization tools. Work more effectively with multiple people by simultaneously editing Excel files over the Web. Access important data on the go using Office Excel Mobile or the Office Excel Web Application. Whether you’re producing financial reports or managing personal expenses, Excel 2010 gives you the proficiency and flexibility to accomplish your goals.
Microsoft PowerPoint 2010
Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2010 delivers more new and exciting ways to create and share dynamic presentations with any audience. Improved audio and visual capabilities help you tell a crisp, cinematic story that’s as easy to create as it is powerful to watch. New, easy-to-use tools help you polish your presentations to help you keep your audience’s attention even longer. Almost-anywhere access to PowerPoint 2010 from your smartphone or the Web allows you to simultaneously work on presentations with other people. Simply put, it’s never been easier to express your ideas with PowerPoint 2010
For more info: http://www.microsoft.com/office/2010/
Hi Friends,
Today I am gonna discuss about blog traffic. Many people start blogging with great ambitions and wills but most of them gets melancholic and many gets succeeded.
Are you one who became successful? or Are you not receiving enough traffic to your blog?
Never get upset!! Many great bloggers did not receive any response for many many years. You will get clicked a day........ As a proverb states "Every Dog Has A Day". We all will have a day.
However let us see how to bring traffic:
1) Make your posts short
2) Make your posts attractive with pics and animations
3) Follow all the blogs you see, so you will be listed in their blogs
4) Comment everywhere in the web with your blog's signature
And many more things to do.....
Successful blogger: Please help the others to get clicked....
Even I am one who does not get much clicks... I am blogging for the last 3 years..
Still waiting for my day..
President Barack Obama warned American teenagers on Tuesday of the dangers of putting too much personal information on internet social networking sites, saying it could come back to haunt them in later life.
The presidential words of advice follow recent studies that suggest US employers are increasingly turning to sites such as Facebook and News Corp's MySpace to conduct background checks on job applicants.
Taking part in a question-and-answer session with a group of 14- and 15-year-old school students, Obama was asked by one pupil for some advice on becoming US president.
"Well, let me give you some very practical tips. First of all, I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook, because in the YouTube age, whatever you do, it will be pulled up again later somewhere in your life," Obama said.
"And when you're young, you make mistakes and you do some stupid stuff. And I've been hearing a lot about young people who - you know, they're posting stuff on Facebook, and then suddenly they go apply for a job and somebody has done a search."
Obama referred several times to "mistakes" he had made when he was at school but offered no specifics. He has previously admitted to drug use when he was younger.
A survey in June by careerbuilder.com found that 45 per cent of employers used social network sites to research job candidates and that Facebook, which says it has 250 million users worldwide, was their site of choice.
Some 35 per cent of the employers surveyed said they had found content on the sites that had influenced them to reject a candidate. Examples included inappropriate photographs, information about the applicants' drinking or drug use, or bad mouthing of previous employers, co-workers or clients.
Google Inc.'s Gmail service has been knocked offline in an outage that the company said affected a "majority" of its millions of e-mail users.
The disruption, which lasted under two hours on Tuesday, was a reminder of the growing dependence on Google's technology.
The disruption led tens of millions of Gmail users to get an "Unable to reach Gmail" error message as their computers tried repeatedly to reconnect to the service.
Google said it had taken some of Gmail's servers offline for routine maintenance, and underestimated the load that would place on other computers responsible for directing traffic to the appropriate Gmail servers.
Google said it was alerted to the failures within seconds. It said it has added capacity and made other changes to prevent similar incidents in the future. A separate outage on Monday had wiped out e-mail to a "small subset" of users.
Google says more than 1.75 million businesses use Gmail as part of Google Apps, which is Google's answer to business software from Microsoft Corp.
The last major outage at Google happened in May, when millions of people were cut off from Google's search engine, e-mail and other online services after too much traffic was routed through computers in Asia.
Dear friends,
This post has many specialities. This is the independence day special post and also the 100th post of our blog.
Some good news:
Q. Who is the GM of Hewlett Packard (hp)?
A. Rajiv Gupta
Q. Who is the creator of Pentium chip(needs no introduction as 90% of the today’s computers run on it)?
A. Vinod Dahm
Q. Who is the founder and creator of Hotmail(Hotmail is world’s No.1 web based email program)?
A. Sabeer Bhatia
Q. Who is the third richest man on the world?
A. According to the latest report on Fortune Magazine, it is Azim Premji, who is the CEO of Wipro Industries. The Sultan of Brunei is at 6 th position now.
Q. Who is the president of AT & T-Bell Labs(AT & T-Bell Labs is the creator of program languages such as C, C++, Unix to name a few)?
A. Arun Netravalli
Q. Who is the new MTD(Microsoft Testing Director) of Windows 2000, responsible to iron out all initial problems?
A. Sanjay Tejwrika
Q. Who are the Chief Executives of CitiBank, Mckensey & Stanchart?
A. Victor Menezes, Rajat Gupta, and Rana Talwar.
We Indians are the wealthiest among all ethnic groups in America, even faring better than the whites and the natives.
There are 3.22 millions of Indians in USA (1.5% of population). YET,
38% of doctors in USA are Indians.12% scientists in USA are Indians.36% of NASA scientists are Indians.34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.28% of IBM employees are Indians.17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.13% of XEROX employees are! Indians.
Some of the following facts may be known to you. These facts were recently published in a German magazine, which deals with WORLD HISTORY FACTS ABOUT INDIA .
1. India never invaded any country in her last 1000 years of history.
2. India invented the Number system. Zero was invented by Aryabhatta.
3. The world’s first University was established in Takshila in 700BC. More than 10,500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects. The University of Nalanda built in the 4th century BC was one of the greatest achievements of ancient India in the field of education.
4. According to the Forbes magazine, Sanskrit is the most suitable language for computer software.
5. Ayurveda is the earliest school of medicine known to humans.
6. Although western media portray modern images of India as poverty stricken and underdeveloped through political corruption, India was once the richest empire on earth.
7. The art of navigation was born in the river Sindh 5000 years ago. The very word “Navigation” is derived from the Sanskrit word NAVGATIH.
8. The value of pi was first calculated by Budhayana, and he explained the concept of what is now known as the Pythagorean Theorem. British scholars have last year (1999) officially published that Budhayan’s works dates to the 6th Century which is long before the European mathematicians.
9. Algebra, trigonometry and calculus came from India . Quadratic equations were by Sridharacharya in the 11th Century; the largest numbers the Greeks and the Romans used were 10. 6 whereas Indians used numbers as big as 1053.
10. According to the Gemological Institute of America, up until 1896, India was the only source of diamonds to the world.
11. USA based IEEE has proved what has been a century-old suspicion amongst academics that the pioneer of wireless communication was Professor Jagdeesh Bose and not Marconi.
12. The earliest reservoir and dam for irrigation was built in Saurashtra.
13. Chess was invented in India .
14. Sushruta is the father of surgery. 2600 years ago he and health scientists of his time conducted surgeries like cesareans, cataract, fractures and urinary stones. Usage of anesthesia was well known in ancient India .
15. When many cultures in the world were only nomadic forest dwellers over 5000 years ago, Indians established Harappan culture in Sindhu Valley ( Indus Valley Civilisation).
16. The place value system, the decimal system was developed in India in 100 BC.
Hi friends,
I would like to inform you that Blog4info is on the way to score century. There is only one post, just a single post left to cover 100 posts. That means the century! Thank You all my friends for supporting me! I cannot change the look of our blog on this great occasion as I am in vacation that means in my home country,
Mohammed
Blog4info admin
Hi dudes,
Blog4info steps forward into a new branch.
You can study photoshop online through Blog4info! The course will be of 20 days. Each week contains three posts! You may clear all your doubts through comments and you will be answered to your question within a time period of maximum 48hrs. The first post will be on 15th of August. Hope you all support me as always you do!
