Google: Updated Scholar Metrics: Now Grouped by Research Area and new statistical model;

Earlier this year, Google (http://scholar.google.fr/) launched Scholar Metrics which provides an easy way for authors to quickly gauge the visibility and influence of recent articles in scholarly publications. Today, Google is updating Scholar Metrics to make it easier for you to explore publications in research areas that you are interested in.

To get started, you can browse publications in broad areas like Engineering & Computer Science, Health & Medical Sciences, or Social Sciences.
You will see the top 20 publications in the area ordered by their five-year h-index and h-median metrics. To see which articles in a publication were cited the most and who cited them, click on its h-index number.

To explore more specific research areas, select one of the broad areas, click on the "Subcategories" link and then choose one of the options. For example: Databases & Information Systems, Development Economics, Virology or Composite Materials.

Google uses a statistical model based on the articles published in the last five years to compute the set of publications associated with each research area. Recognizing the multi-disciplinary nature of many publications, our model allows a publication to be associated with more than one research area.

Browsing by research area is, as yet, available only for English publications. As previously, you can browse the top 100 publications in several languages. You can, of course, also search for specific publications by words in their titles.

Scholar Metrics currently covers articles published between 2007 and 2011. It only includes journal articles from websites that follow our inclusion guidelines, selected conference articles in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering and preprints from arXiv, SSRN, NBER, and RePEC. Scholar Metrics does not include publications with fewer than 100 articles, nor publications that received no citations in 2007-2011.

The metrics are based on citations from all articles that were indexed in Google Scholar as of November 15, 2012. Since our previous metrics were based on citations from all articles indexed as of April 1, 2012, the new numbers are expected to be a bit higher. Alas, that does not indicate that your favorite journal has become more influential over this short period.

For more details, see the Scholar Metrics help page.
Ref: http://googlescholar.blogspot.fr/2012/11/updated-scholar-metrics-now-grouped-by.html

google accounts and Google Apps accounts

https://www.google.com/dashboard/



Google Accounts Help
 http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/topic.py?topic=28726



Google Accounts Help › Google Apps accounts

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/?hl=en&topic=28662&rd=1

Upload PDFs using Mendeley website interface

When I'm at a computer without Mendeley Desktop installed, I would like to be able to add a reference/document by uploading the PDF to the website. Currently, the 'Add Document' button on the website only allows for manually adding the reference info. Pressing 'Add Document' should also bring up a Browse button that allows you to locate and upload a document from your computer to the web.

One way to do this at the moment is to use the Chrome browser app Metatato, which is in online interface for Mendeley. You can drag and drop pdfs to entries in your library.
www.metatato.com/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/metatato?hl=en-GB

Using Emoticons - Google Chat Help

Using Emoticons - Google Chat Help: "To use emoticons in Gmail, iGoogle and orkut chat, just choose one of these options:

Type a combination of keys (see the options below) and press Enter.
Click the blue smiley-face button at the right of the text-entry field. A pop-up menu appears, where you can choose from different emoticon sets, including circular, rectangular, or standard.
When you select a particular emoticon set, it becomes your default set. All incoming and outgoing emoticons will appear in your default style until you change sets."

upload , embed pdf, word excel in bogger blogspot

Most of bloggers using Google's free blogger platform. Even though it has more features you cannot upload pdf, doc, xls files directly on blogger. So before we used third party websites to embed these files. But now you no need to go to thirt party websites you can embed documents, spreadsheets, PDF files using Google Drive. Google is a Google's recent released cloud storage service it has more useful features . Here below the tutorial to how to embed doc,xls,pdf files on Google Drive.

• Open drive.google.com and login to your account then click the upload button and choose your files need to embed.
• After upload completed click on the uploaded file link. It opens in new tab

• Then go to File - Embed (this PDF file) in menu bar. 

• After you hit the Embed option the embed coding will shows just copy that coding and paste it on Edit HTML mode in blogger post editor section. 

• Then as usual hit the publish Post button your embed files shows in blog posts.

I think this is the very easy way to show these type of files on blogger posts. If you have other ideas please share it on comment section. 

ref: http://www.techshortly.com/2012/05/how-to-show-pdf-doc-xls-files-on.html#

barecode reader;What does a barcode contain? Is a barcode readable? Test and control barcodes!

barcode reader: read barcode from image 

an image (via a webcam for example)-->EAN code ( a number)

http://bytescout.com/?q=/products/developer/barcodereadersdk/bytescoutbarcodereadersdk.html
Reads barcodes from images. Supported symbologies: Code 128, Code 39, EAN-8, EAN-13, UPC-A, UPC-E, Interleaved 2 of 5, Codabar, EAN-2 and EAN-5, DataMatrix and PDF 417.

http://www.bctester.de/en/index.htm
bcTester reads barcodes from images or PDF files. Linear barcodes can be recognized as well as modern 2D-(two dimensional) barcodes
Find out what is encoded in the barcodes you see!
Just create an image file by scanning or taking a picture of the barcode, and bcTester reads it from the file.

Rem:
A barcode is an optical machine-readable representation of data relating to the object to which it is attached.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode
The mapping between messages and barcodes is called a symbology. The specification of a symbology includes the encoding of the single digits/characters of the message as well as the start and stop markers into bars and space, the size of the quiet zone required to be before and after the barcode as well as the computation of a checksum.
A barcode reader or barcode scanner is an electronic device for reading printed barcodes. Like a flatbed scanner, it consists of a light source, a lens and a light sensor translating optical impulses into electrical ones. Additionally, nearly all barcode readers contain decoder circuitry analyzing the barcode's image data provided by the sensor and sending the barcode's content to the scanner's output port.
The Symbology Decoding Algorithm for barcode scanners is the first symbology-based algorithm for decoding. The new technique utilizes information from the entire image to detect transitions in the signal, whereas the traditional algorithm relies on the maxima and minima. Traditional methods are prone to errors because the method relies on a derivative; they are also sensitive to noise and blurring. The Symbology Decoding Algorithm for Bar Code Scanners exhibited high resilience to blur and noise when tested on 1D Universal Product Codes. The algorithm can also be extended for use on 2D Universal Product Codes
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Which product is behind an EAN number ? 

http://www.ean-search.org/

 Meaning of code:

http://www.dcode.fr/code-barres-code-128

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GS1-128

on android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxing.client.android&hl=fr
 Scan barcodes on products then look up prices and reviews. You can also scan Data Matrix and QR Codes containing URLs, contact info, etc.
Also share your contacts, apps, and bookmarks via QR Code. This is why contacts permissions are needed.

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Code QR encodant http://fr.wikipedia.org

Windows Live Writer plug-in: Insert Code (C++, Javascript, HTML...) ; polaroid; picasa; geo microformat:

http://plugins.live.com/writer/detail/insert-code-for-windows-live-writer

Insert Code for Windows Live Writer will format a snippet of text in a number of programming languages such as C#, HTML, MSH, JavaScript, Visual Basic and TSQL.

polaroid:
http://plugins.live.com/writer/detail/polaroid-picture

picasa:
http://plugins.live.com/writer/detail/picasa-image-plugin

geo microformat:
http://plugins.live.com/writer/detail/insert-geo-microformat
Integrates with Virtual Earth to allow an easy method of inserting a geo microformat (latitude and longitude) snippet into a blog post.

The top 10 ways to embed Google Earth content (trails, footpaths, interactive guide to fishing, walking, biking) on your site blog (special mention to blogger) with or without earth plugin and with/without earth API

A) without coding (no javascript)
3 categories of methods: without the need of plugin install (Google Earth plugin, for browsers) and without the google earth API or with this API (in this case, the client must install the  Google Earth plugin)

A-a) without the need of Google Earth plugin

A-b) without the google earth API 

A-c) with the google earth API 

B) with coding (javascript)

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-----intro (not necessary if you just want a one-click service to directly embed in your site)

The Google Earth plug-in allows you to navigate and explore geographic data on a 3D globe using a web browser: http://www.google.com/earth/explore/products/plugin.html

If you want to embed the Google Earth plug-in on your website, visit the Google Earth API site to learn more: http://code.google.com/apis/earth/

Check out the recently revamped (2011) Earth API Developer's Guide: http://code.google.com/apis/earth/documentation/

This plugin and this API may work correctly on all browsers (Internet Explorer 7.0+, mac and PC: Firefox 3.0+; Google Chrome 5.0+; Safari 3.1+, etc...) that support NPAPI with npruntime extensions (https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Gecko_Plugin_API_Reference:Scripting_plugins).

Plugins (or plug-ins) are shared libraries that users can install to display content that the application itself can't display natively. For example, Adobe Reader plugin (or Google earth plugin) lets the user open PDF files directly inside the browser. Plugins are written using NPAPI, the cross-browser API for plugins: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Plugins

To install the Google Earth Plugin, browse to any page in which the plugin is included or at http://www.google.com/earth/explore/products/plugin.html (at this URL, you can see the version of your plugin).

This plugin and this API offer many services, see these 2 "ex-amples" (trail):

http://earth-api-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/demos/drive-simulator/index.html

(google maps and google earth and a path from one start address and one end address)

http://www.themountainpulse.com/trail-maps-plus/grand-teton-national-park/ (The Mountain Pulse is an online resource for Jackson Hole’s outdoor community: mountain biking, hiking, pathways cycling, fishing, kayaking, lodging and more)

---after this intro, let's start!
from http://code.google.com/apis/earth/documentation/

To load the Google Earth Plugin in your web page, you need to:

1. Load the Google Earth API.
2. Create a DIV element to hold the plugin.
3. Create functions to initialize the plugin.
4. Call the initialization functions once the page has loaded.

try the hello: http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?exp=earth#hello,_earth



A) without coding (no javascript)

A-a) without the need of Google Earth plugin

A-b) without the google earth API 

A-c) with the google earth API 

B) with coding (javascript)

http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?exp=earth#hello,_earth

test skimlinks

http://test.skimlinks.com

windows seven and Apple's Boot Camp, Parallels Desktop for Mac, rEFIt, VMware Fusion, VirtualBox;Mac OS X Lion

Apple's Boot Camp  4.0 (July 20, 2011) lists the following requirements for Mac OS X Lion:

• An optical drive or/and Blank CD/USB media for installation of Windows drivers for Mac hardware
• 16 GB free hard disk space for 32-bit versions of Windows, 20 GB for 64-bit versions of Windows
• A full version of Windows 7 Home Premium, Professional, or Ultimate (32-bit and 64-bit editions)

Rem: Windows XP and Windows Vista are not supported with Boot Camp 4.0.

Rem: Boot Camp does not work on Mac OS X Lion if more than three primary OS X partition exists on the target hard drive. Since on Mac OS X Lion, the Mac operating system itself consumes 3 partitions (EFI, Mac OS X, and Recovery), effectively there can only be one partition other than Boot Camp. Thus, for example, it is not possible to create a data partition. 
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What do I need to install Windows 7?

Windows 7 requires Mac OS X v10.7 Lion (or Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard and the Boot Camp 3.1 Update). For complete system requirements information, see Boot Camp System requirements for Microsoft Windows: http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
http://manuals.info.apple.com/fr_FR/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7_f.pdf

What types of Windows 7 installations are supported?

Both new installs and upgrade installs are supported.

How do I install Windows 7?

If you are installing Windows 7 using Boot Camp with Mac OS X v10.7 Lion, see http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf

What is new in Boot Camp 4.0 for OS X Lion?

Electronic Software Distribution
Use the Boot Camp Assistant to create a CD or USB media to install the latest Boot Camp drivers for your computer. You should get the newest drivers available any time you install Boot Camp.
Support for the Windows 7 ISO installer
Install Windows with an installation disc you provide or, on Mac computers that do not have an optical drive, with a USB flash drive that contains a Windows 7 ISO image downloaded from Microsoft. The Boot Camp Assistant will offer to create this image on supported computers.
Upgrade or "clean" install Windows without using the Boot Camp Assistant
If you want only to upgrade the version of Boot Camp or Windows on your Windows partition, you don’t need to use Boot Camp Assistant. Instead, choose Help > Help Center in Finder and search for “upgrade Boot Camp” or “upgrade Windows.”
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Boot Camp Assistant does not erase your existing partition or existing Mac OS X installation when it creates a new partition for Microsoft Windows.

Important: Do not use disk utilities not made by Apple to partition the drive before using Boot Camp Assistant. Doing so may erase the disk.

You can use Boot Camp to install Windows on any internal hard drive, but not on an external hard drive.
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Which drivers are included with the OS X Lion Windows support software (drivers) download?

The Mac OS X Lion Boot Camp Software includes these Mac drivers for Windows:

Apple Bluetooth
Apple Keyboard Support
Apple Remote Driver
Apple Trackpad
Atheros 802.11 Wireless
ATI Graphics
Boot Camp control panel for Microsoft Windows
Boot Camp System Task Notification item (System Tray)
Broadcom Wireless
Intel Chipset Software
Intel Integrated Graphics
iSight Camera
Marvel Yukon Ethernet
nVidia Graphics
Cirrus Logic Audio
Realtek Audio
SigmaTel Audio
Startup Disk control panel for Microsoft Windows
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Are SDXC cards supported by Boot Camp 4.0?

Yes, SDXC cards are supported on Macintosh computers with an SD card slot and Boot Camp 4.0. You'll need to install the Windows support software (drivers) to enable this feature.

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 What can I do if my computer starts up to a black screen with white text that says "No Boot Disk Attached"?

This message means that the Windows partition cannot start up, usually because of an issue with the drive formatting. The Boot Camp Setup Assistant creates the Boot Camp partition, but the Windows installer must format it to make it "bootable".

Start up to Mac OS X and run the Boot Camp Setup Assistant again.
Remove the Boot Camp partition and re-create it.
Install Windows again, this time using Windows to format the partition.


A "code: 0x80070005" alert appears when upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7. How do I fix it?

This happens when the Windows 7 installer is attempting to write to a read-only Macintosh volume.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3172

The Windows 7 installer does not include required graphics or Bluetooth drivers for this computer.  To obtain the necessary drivers and resolve the issue, see http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3173


Are 64-bit versions of Windows supported?

Yes. For a list of supported Macs, see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1846


Ref: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3986
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 Users have also installed Linux using the utility, although Apple has not listed support for Linux operating systems:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=678542

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Réglage du système d’exploitation par défaut
Pour définir le système d’exploitation par défaut, utilisez le volet Disque de démarrage 
des Préférences Système dans Mac OS X ou le Panneau de configuration de Boot Camp 
dans Windows.



Vous pouvez sélectionner le système d’exploitation à utiliser lors du démarrage en 
maintenant enfoncée la touche Option. Cela a pour effet d’afficher les icônes de 
tous les disques de démarrage disponibles pour vous permettre d’ignorer le réglage 
par défaut défini dans les préférences Disque de démarrage (Mac OS X) ou dans le 
panneau de configuration Boot Camp (Windows) sans modifier ce réglage.



http://manuals.info.apple.com/fr_FR/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7_f.pdf
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Boot Camp est un logiciel propriétaire de type boot loader (chargeur d'amorçage), édité par Apple, permettant de lancer le système d'exploitation Microsoft Windows sur les ordinateurs de type Mac (version Intel). 
Les Mac Intel utilisent une interface d'initialisation nommée EFI (Windows XP ne gère pas ce firmware de façon native, mais uniquement son prédécesseur, le BIOS). 
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boot_Camp


------------------------ other products:

• Parallels Desktop for Mac
• rEFIt
• VMware Fusion
• VirtualBox

---------Parallels Desktop for Mac by Parallels, Inc., is software providing hardware virtualization for Macintosh computers with Intel processors.
Parallels Desktop for Mac is a hardware emulation virtualization software, using hypervisor technology that works by mapping the host computer’s hardware resources directly to the virtual machine’s resources. Each virtual machine thus operates identically to a standalone computer, with virtually all the resources of a physical computer. Because all guest virtual machines use the same hardware drivers irrespective of the actual hardware on the host computer, virtual machine instances are highly portable between computers. For example, a running virtual machine can be stopped, copied to another physical computer, and restarted.


Guest
In Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac, support for guest operating systems includes a variety of 32-bit and 64-bit x86 operating systems, including:

• multiple versions of Microsoft Windows, including Windows 7, as well as MS-DOS,
• Mac OS X Leopard Server, Snow Leopard Server, and Mac OS X Lion (only with OS X Lion as host OS),
• various Linux distributions, FreeBSD,
• eComStation, OS/2, Solaris,

-------------rEFIt is a boot menu and maintenance toolkit for EFI-based machines like the Intel Macs. It can be used to boot multiple operating systems, including triple-boot setups with Boot Camp. It also provides a way to enter and explore the EFI pre-boot environment
http://refit.sourceforge.net/
2010-03-07: Version 0.14 was released.

-------------VMware Fusion is a virtual machine software product developed by VMware for Macintosh computers with Intel processors.
Unity view creates a seamless desktop environment between Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X applications. It optionally hides Windows' start menu and taskbar and runs the Windows applications directly from the dock in OS X. Further, users can drag and drop files between Windows and the Mac, and use familiar Mac keyboard shortcuts to copy and paste between Windows and Mac applications. It is (almost) fully compatible with Exposé. Fusion windows that are covered by other Fusion windows don't redraw when switching to Exposé, causing visual anomalies. This feature is later made available in VMware Workstation 6.5 Beta, which is designed to be run on Windows/Linux platforms.

------------Oracle VM VirtualBox (formerly Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and innotek VirtualBox) is an x86 virtualization software package
Oracle VM VirtualBox is installed on an existing host operating system as an application; this host application allows additional guest operating systems, each known as a Guest OS, to be loaded and run, each with its own virtual environment.
Supported host operating systems include Linux, Mac OS X, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Solaris, and OpenSolaris; there is also a port to FreeBSD.

Although VirtualBox has experimental support for Mac OS X guests, the end user license agreement of Mac OS X does not permit the operating system to run on non-Apple hardware, enforced within the operating system by calls to the Apple System Management Controller (SMC) in all Apple machines, which verifies the authenticity of the hardware.
The host OS and guest OSs and applications can communicate with each other through a number of mechanisms including a common clipboard and a virtualized network facility provided. Guest VMs can also directly communicate with each other if configured to do so.

VirtualBox can achieve a performance that is comparable to that of VMware.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_VMware_Fusion_and_Parallels_Desktop

Represented by their respective products, VMware and Parallels are the two major commercial competitors in the Mac consumer virtualization market. Both products are based on hypervisor technology and allow users to run an additional 32- or 64-bit x86 operating system in a virtual machine alongside Mac OS X on an Intel-powered Mac.

Copy/Paste Text between Windows / Mac
VMware fusion: Yes, Plain and Rich (RTF) Text up to 4 MB
Parallel desktop: Yes, Plain and Rich (RTF) Text

Disk space for product: VMware: 750 MB Parallel desktop:500 MB
VMware or Parallel desktop: RAM 2 GB (4 GB Recommended)

Windows on a VM will never be as fast as when it's running directly on the hardware via Boot Camp. For the fastest possible Windows applications performance, you'll always have to reboot and use Boot Camp. We expected that Parallels and Fusion would perform similarly in our Windows benchmarks, but there was a noticeable difference in a couple of our tests.


Parallel desktop is near of 10% faster than VMware fusion.


http://www.itpro.co.uk/628492/head-to-head-parallels-desktop-6-vs-vmware-fusion-3/4