For all those who are new to the concept of Google+, allow me to explain that Google+ is Google's new social networking tool. However, currently they seem to be trying it with a small number of people to check the reviews and its working, but they are pretty confident that it won't be long before it is ready for everyone. One of the unique features of this tool is to create a group of friends via circles. Circles enable us to follow the people existing in that particular circle, just like in twitter. These are specially created to help you organize everyone, according to the real-life social connections. For example, you have a family circle for family members exclusively, and likewise for work friends, close friends, acquaintances and so on. All this just makes it easier to share relevant content with the right kind of people. For example, if you are throwing a party for your office colleagues; show it only to office friends circle. This is not it, you can also customize your personal information for every circle. So, if you do not want a certain set of friends to know about your relationship status, location, or any other details, you might as well exclude those details from that particular circle. Having talked so much about these circles you must be wondering, "how to create a new circle in Google+ and add a new person". I have listed down one of the most easiest and preferred way to create circles in Google+. Scroll down...
Creating a New Circle in Google+
• Step #1
To begin with, login to your Google plus account with your user id and password. You will have your Google+ account open in front of you. Now, go to the tool bar at the top of your page and click on the circles icon. This will open the circles page in a new tab.
• Step #2
By default there are 4 circles created by Google+, which include Friends, Family, Acquaintances, and Following. Apart from these default circles, if you wish to create some new ones, here is what you have to do. Select the people you want to add to the group. You can either select one person by clicking on the name title or multiple titles using your cursor. You can put the same person into as many circles as you like. For example, if you want your cousin to be in your family as well as your friends circle you are welcome to do so.
• Step #3
Once you are ready with a friend or list of friends, drag and drop them in a blank circle, which would read "drop here to create new circle." You will find this icon at the bottom of your screen. When you are done with the above, the circle will display the number of people you've added in the circle. If in case you happen to add a person twice or if you have added someone to the circle already, they wouldn't get added twice. So, you don't worry.
• Step #4
When you finish with adding all the friends, the text on the circle will change to "create circle." Click it. You will have an empty box pop up, asking you to name the circle. Type in the name of your circle and click "create circle with x people." you can always add more fiends to this actual circle, which appears in your profile now. You can also rename your circle, whenever you want. For that you need to click on "rename" next to the name of the circle, edit it and click save.
• Step #5
If you have done everything properly, the newly created circle should appear near the four default circles in your profile. In case you want to get a person out of your circle; click on that particular circle to which the person belongs, select the one you would like to remove and click remove. Done! To delete an entire circle, you select that specific circle, click "delete this circle" at the end of the pop up box and you are done. Remember, once you delete a circle, you cannot recover it back in any case.
Top 10 Gadgets for College Students
Gadgets are what make life 'cool'. Gadgets are different from electronic devices in that they need not always be about being 'useful' per se. Sometimes gadgets just make life easy, and make using certain appliances and devices a lot simpler than it would have been without the gadget. When I think about the people who invent these über-cool things, I can picture some dude wearing loose beige-colored baggy pants and a cool blue T-shirt with a hooded shirt thrown over it; hair messy like he just got out of bed; sneakers on his feet; Nike sack over his shoulders. And what is in that sack? An assortment of all the gadgets mentioned below, and a lot more I guess! LOL.Gadgets sure are indispensable in today's world, a must to survive, and a prerequisite for college! Find below a list of cool gadgets for college students. The list does not end here though, so feel free to add your own 'WANTED' gadgets to the list!
Top 10 Gadgets for College Students
1. Laptop
This one hardly needs an explanation. A laptop is a must - even if you have a phone with Wi-Fi, a watch that allows you to browse mail (yeah they actually make those nowadays) or whatever. You do not want to be sitting with your phone to type out your thesis or to complete an assignment. Besides, everything is electronic these days. Gone are the days when students would carry notebooks and stationery to college. It's an e-world; and an e-world begins with computers and laptops.
2. Portable Hard Drive
Even if you have a laptop, not everything you want or need is going to fit in the limited storage space that a laptop offers. Portable hard drives are what you need in such cases. You can have different hard drives to store different kinds of data - music on one, movies on another, etc. Even if you do not have so much data to store, it is always a good idea to back up whatever data you have on the laptop, and a hard drive is a much simpler option to back it up rather than CDs, DVDs and all that.
Top 10 Gadgets for College Students
1. Laptop
This one hardly needs an explanation. A laptop is a must - even if you have a phone with Wi-Fi, a watch that allows you to browse mail (yeah they actually make those nowadays) or whatever. You do not want to be sitting with your phone to type out your thesis or to complete an assignment. Besides, everything is electronic these days. Gone are the days when students would carry notebooks and stationery to college. It's an e-world; and an e-world begins with computers and laptops.
2. Portable Hard Drive
Even if you have a laptop, not everything you want or need is going to fit in the limited storage space that a laptop offers. Portable hard drives are what you need in such cases. You can have different hard drives to store different kinds of data - music on one, movies on another, etc. Even if you do not have so much data to store, it is always a good idea to back up whatever data you have on the laptop, and a hard drive is a much simpler option to back it up rather than CDs, DVDs and all that.
How to Choose a Digital Voice Recorder
When it comes to electronic shopping, you start out with an idea, wade through millions of different options and models and end up with something you don't quite understand why you brought it in the first place. And this scenario happens with most gadgets, let them be tablet PCs and laptops or wireless headphones. What about the simple voice recorder? What started out as a box-like recording machine is now a pen or lighter-sized device, that can record audio and store it in a digital format. But in the sea of brands, prices and tech specs, how to choose a digital voice recorder that best suits your recording needs? Let's find out...
How to Select a Digital Voice Recorder?
To choose the best digital voice recorder, you need to be well-versed with what tech features the best voice recorder should possess. Below are some factors of a voice recorder that you should check out:
Recording Time and Quality
There is a hidden catch with recording quality, the longer you get to record something, the lower the audio quality. So if you record a 15 minute speech, the quality subsequently is very low. On the other hand, a 3 minute dialog can be recorded and played back at a very high quality. So the face-off is quality vs. quantity and the result is based on your needs. If you want long recordings and can do with low quality audio, then opt for longer recording duration. But if your recordings need to be used in meetings, presentations and products, and you cannot use low quality audio, then look for the longest recording duration with sound quality. Even transcribing audio-to-text requires a good recording quality. Some recorders allow you to select the level of recording quality, so you can fluctuate between high and low-level recording ability as needed. To increase the quality of your recordings, buy a recorder with an external microphone jack, so you can connect a microphone to the recorder and pick up high quality audio. For large gatherings and meetings, where a lot of noise is present, a microphone can enhance the recording's quality.
How to Select a Digital Voice Recorder?
To choose the best digital voice recorder, you need to be well-versed with what tech features the best voice recorder should possess. Below are some factors of a voice recorder that you should check out:
Recording Time and Quality
There is a hidden catch with recording quality, the longer you get to record something, the lower the audio quality. So if you record a 15 minute speech, the quality subsequently is very low. On the other hand, a 3 minute dialog can be recorded and played back at a very high quality. So the face-off is quality vs. quantity and the result is based on your needs. If you want long recordings and can do with low quality audio, then opt for longer recording duration. But if your recordings need to be used in meetings, presentations and products, and you cannot use low quality audio, then look for the longest recording duration with sound quality. Even transcribing audio-to-text requires a good recording quality. Some recorders allow you to select the level of recording quality, so you can fluctuate between high and low-level recording ability as needed. To increase the quality of your recordings, buy a recorder with an external microphone jack, so you can connect a microphone to the recorder and pick up high quality audio. For large gatherings and meetings, where a lot of noise is present, a microphone can enhance the recording's quality.
How Does a Water Jet Cutter Work?
Water jet cutters may be still alien to many of us. To me it wasn't known until a few weeks ago, when a telly series on cutting metal and other substances amazed me. Along with high-end cutting machines with razor-sharp cutting technologies, it surprised me when they showed something as liquid as water being used to cut the hardest of substances. Now this is some technology and after this I truly believed in the capacities of engineering and the human mind. Using water pressure to cut substances, was roughly practiced during the mid 1800's. But the concrete concept of using water pressure as a cutting tool was discovered by Dr. Norman Franz, who was an engineer in forestry, in the year 1950. This was founded as an attempt to find new options to cut trees. He studied the technology of 'ultra high water pressure' (UHP) to be used as a cutting tool. Later to cut high-end solid substances, abrasives were added with the stream of water, which would let them cut even metals, with ease. With advancements today, the water jet cutter has been used in many sectors for cutting, drilling and milling. With water jet cutters being a revolutionary tool in the industrial sector, a little insight into its work mechanism will be interesting.
How to Use a Digital Voice Recorder
The phonograph was the first instrument which was used for sound recording. It was used mainly for studying languages. The voice of the native speakers of a language was recorded and other non-native people learned the language and the pronunciation using the recorded voice. After some years, cassette recorder was used to record voices, though with low sound quality. Later, after the advent of digital voice recorders, voices are being recorded with better sound quality, file sharing and with more convenience in usage.
Digital Voice RecorderA digital voice recorder, functions almost same as that of a tape recorder, except that, it doesn't have a tape. As the recording and listening process is easy and quick, it is widely used by students, interviewers, academicians, journalists, etc., to record their voices and re-record them if they choose to. Digital voice files are incorporated to record the voice data. In a digital voice recorder, the voice data is stored in the form of discrete numbers, and the value depends on the air pressure involved during the voice modulations. But the input is a continuous stream of analog data. The analog signal is converted into digital signal by Analog-to Digital Converter (ADC). The output of the ADC is in the form of stream data consisting of 0s and 1s, which is stored in the memory and later converted to analog data. It is important to convert the digital data into analog data, because, we can hear only analog signals.
How to Use a Digital Voice Recorder
The digital voice recorder is a device which looks like a USB device, that records voice data. The three main components of a digital voice recorder are:
Microphone , to capture the sound waves
Amplifier, to amplify the incoming data
Recording Device, to record the voice data
Components Used in the Digital Voice Recorder
Now, you need to familiarize yourself with the buttons present in the digital voice recorder. Some of the commonly used buttons are play, stop, record, forward and rewind, menu. Some versions of the digital voice recorder, can also have some buttons combined, such as play/pause or record/stop.
Identify some other components such as microphone, USB, headphone jack, speaker, in your device.
The screen of the digital voice recorder will display the recording time left, indicator to show the recording process, location of the data file, battery life, etc.
Process of Recording the Voice
Choose, the location of the file, where you want to save it from the folders in the menu.
After choosing the file location, press the record button and start recording your voice through the microphone.
Ensure that the indicator in the display screen of your recorder, indicates the recording process.
Now you can go back to the file location and listen to the voice recorded, by pressing the play button.
By pressing the forward and rewind keys, you can control the action. You can also increase and decrease the volume by pressing the '+' and '-' buttons, respectively.
Digital Voice RecorderA digital voice recorder, functions almost same as that of a tape recorder, except that, it doesn't have a tape. As the recording and listening process is easy and quick, it is widely used by students, interviewers, academicians, journalists, etc., to record their voices and re-record them if they choose to. Digital voice files are incorporated to record the voice data. In a digital voice recorder, the voice data is stored in the form of discrete numbers, and the value depends on the air pressure involved during the voice modulations. But the input is a continuous stream of analog data. The analog signal is converted into digital signal by Analog-to Digital Converter (ADC). The output of the ADC is in the form of stream data consisting of 0s and 1s, which is stored in the memory and later converted to analog data. It is important to convert the digital data into analog data, because, we can hear only analog signals.
How to Use a Digital Voice Recorder
The digital voice recorder is a device which looks like a USB device, that records voice data. The three main components of a digital voice recorder are:
Microphone , to capture the sound waves
Amplifier, to amplify the incoming data
Recording Device, to record the voice data
Components Used in the Digital Voice Recorder
Now, you need to familiarize yourself with the buttons present in the digital voice recorder. Some of the commonly used buttons are play, stop, record, forward and rewind, menu. Some versions of the digital voice recorder, can also have some buttons combined, such as play/pause or record/stop.
Identify some other components such as microphone, USB, headphone jack, speaker, in your device.
The screen of the digital voice recorder will display the recording time left, indicator to show the recording process, location of the data file, battery life, etc.
Process of Recording the Voice
Choose, the location of the file, where you want to save it from the folders in the menu.
After choosing the file location, press the record button and start recording your voice through the microphone.
Ensure that the indicator in the display screen of your recorder, indicates the recording process.
Now you can go back to the file location and listen to the voice recorded, by pressing the play button.
By pressing the forward and rewind keys, you can control the action. You can also increase and decrease the volume by pressing the '+' and '-' buttons, respectively.
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