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Image courtesy: directorymaximizer.com Articles from guest bloggers can help blog owners like you and me get some much needed break from blogging so that we can involve ourselves in other leisure activities like golf, swimming (my personal favorite) or take a short trip to some place and get back to writing with renewed energy. Guest bloggers also will get you more visitors as they will share the post written by them for your blog with people whom they know. You also make a lot of blogger buddies with whom you can share your ideas and build a network. I too accept articles from guest bloggers. Here some of the amazing articles which I received - 1.  Gifts For the Traveling Gamer 2.  Vine jealous of Instagram? 3.  Nvidea Shield released and reviewed. As you can see, there are advantages in accepting guest posts. The guest author gets a backlink to his/her site in return so that his/her site will get a boost in the Search Engine Results Page (SERPs) and you...

In the recent years, we have seen a rapid progress in the field of software testing and quality assurance. We can say that world has experienced an evolution in the field of software testing as many software testing companies have mushroomed in the various parts of the globe. Testing was first defined by Myers in 1979 in his book “ the art of software testing ” as a way of executing the application and looking for the errors. However, the recent developments have totally changed the previous concepts of testing and it has emerged as a new field in the software engineering. The modern day studies have stated testing as an indispensible activity to ensure software quality. With the advent of the automation testing, achieving high quality standards through continuous improvement have become possible. Therefore, to confirm the quality of an application and to meet the expectations of the highly demanding user, applications are tested on the latest automated tools and toys avail...

The HTC One Mini does justice to its name by offering most of the features of the flagship One handset in a smaller and cheaper package. To HTC's credit, the phone offers the same user experience and functionality of its big brother with some concessions being made on the internal hardware. It brings along the award-winning design of the HTC One , Android 4.2.2 Jelly, UltraPixel camera and a host of other features, which make it a fantastic choice in the mid-range smartphone market. Design: Staying true to its name, the HTC One Mini retains the excellent build quality and design of its big brother. It is built using the same zero-gap construction of the HTC One, where the aluminum casing of the phone doubles up as the antenna. In terms of measurements, it stands 5.2 inches tall by 2.5 inches wide by 0.36 inch thick and weighs 4.5 ounces, which makes it a bit easier to operate with a single hand compared to the HTC One. In spite of th...

While Apple 's lines of desktops, laptops and music players have traditionally been available in a wide range of colours, its premium products have rarely gotten that distinction - most notably its premium line of iPhone smartphones . According to a rumour that keeps growing in strength, Apple is set to buck that trend by releasing their next flagship phone with two additional colour options: gold and graphite. The gold colour was reported first - initially by Chinese suppliers and then later confirmed by bigger names like Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal and The Verge. The gold colour itself also went through a period of transition as it was reported, at first appearing to be a rather gaudy and bright colour and then later seeming to settle on a more dignified champagne note . With the scale and quantity of leaks showing the new colour option, it seems inevitable that Apple will indeed show off such a phone. It's possible of course that it will be a special edition, pot...

News is surfacing that Apple’s biggest rival Samsung are soon to launch a new watch that will allow you to browse the Internet and make phone calls. Apple and Samsung will battle each other out on a whole new level. The Samsung watch is set to be called the Galaxy Gear and will be released on September 4th at the IFA, the annual technology trade fair in Europe. The watch will run on Google Android, this will allow you to download apps , browse the Internet and use email. Samsung are set to launch a whole range of wearable technology, great news for gadget geeks! It is speculated that health orientated gadgets will soon be released from Samsung also. Samsung Galaxy Gear Apple have also been engineering their own iWatch . However, it is not expected to be revealed until later in the year. Rumors are circulating that Apple have encountered challenges with usability, screen size and battery life. It aims to have the same sort of function as the Galaxy Gear. The first reports of ...

Animation is one of the most revolutionary movements the world had come across almost ninety years back. The production had moved through many ups and downs in these years. The animation production was never easy in these days. In the initial days there was no technology and machinery that could muscle the production and make the process easier. The invention of the computer brought a massive change in this trade. The process became easier. It is not completely right that the process of animation became easier because of computer but manual workload minimized. Madagascar by Dreamworks Animation Initially the animation production was completely dependent on the hand drawing. The artist had to be very strong with his art work to generate the character as it is all the time. The motion of the characters was also created by the hand drawing. Later with the introduction of the computer the production work became easier. The computer also gave the birth of 3d animation. The advan...

With the increase of tablet users and smart-phone users especially In Singapore, it has become important for website designers to keep in mind that a website will not only be viewed in a laptop, but also in screens of various sizes owing to the varieties of smart-phones available . Marketers now need to know that to promote their brand as much as possible they need to get the traffic coming from such devices too. And hence, for the same, additional designing has to be done. Responsive Web Design (RWD) comes to the rescue here as it lets the website designer to present a self-resizing website which fits itself in any screen size. Thus it eliminates the need to make separate mobile websites and thus works for all devices, let these be a smart-phone, a tablet, a laptop or a desktop. For a fool proof responsive design, the points a web designer has to keep in mind are - Designers and developers must keep in mind that a user will of course not like to be deprived of all the c...