Technical Blogging

                                                      

Blogs are used to express our thoughts and gives us a place to share our opinions and helps others to make use of it. Blog is a wonderful tool to establish you as an expert in a field or a topic. For example, if you try to get a job in a particular field or if you hope to publish a book on a particular topic of your expertise, with the help of blogging, we can create a platform that can expand your online presence.

Blogging also helps to expand your professional career by using networking opportunities. Through blogs, you are able to establish and achieve your online reach with a wider audience. There are blogs about business and employment opportunities that can help companies expose their content to a broader audience. For example, a business consultant can start a blog to get more exposure by which his/her work and skills can be showcased to get new customers. Likewise, a middle management employee of a large company is able to demonstrate his knowledge and expertise by starting a blog by which executives, hiring managers, and other peers at work will be able to know more about his skills. His efforts at social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Twitter and his blogging efforts, in particular, could lead to exciting new opportunities.

Technical blogs are helpful in sharing your knowledge and skills on a specific topic. Some examples include, a how-to blog focused particularly on educating people on topics such as how to start a successful career and how to use search engine optimization to increase web traffic. It doesn't matter what topic a  blogger is writing about as long as the purpose of the blog is to share some information so that someone else can benefit from that information.

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QR Code

QR code for my LinkedIn profile 

The QR Code is a great tool to share information with the use of a simple graphic. Using the QR code, you can direct an employer to your resume or LinkedIn profile. In addition, this can also be used offer discount in a direct mail piece, business card or postcard.

QR codes come to us from Japan where they are very common. QR code is short for Quick Response (they can be read quickly by a cell phone). You can take a piece of information from a transitory media and put it to use for your cell phone. You will soon be on a billboard , a web page or one of the sleeves. QR codes can be found in newspaper ads also . Once it is in our mobile device, it may give us the details about that business  by allowing users to search for nearby locations. For example it can be used as coupons from restaurants, which can be used other location of that restaurants.

One of the fastest ways to get QR code is at QR Stuff (QRStuff.com). They offer it as free service or for a price, you can get scan analytics as well. If you are looking for something more stylish or custom QR codes, you can design codes in the same way as you do for designs of a logo.

Some of the potential issues of QR Codes are:

Before you get into this new trend, be aware of some of potential issues with QR codes.  For example, spammers are now using QR codes as a way to flood smartphones with spams. Hackers and scammers uses them to disguise malware downloads and force your phone to send premium text messages.  As some QR code scanners use shortened URLs, there’s currently no way of knowing  where those URLs could direct us. So, like you use your computer, it’s important to know how your QR codes work and what content is being downloaders and it is  coming from a trusted source.

Reference: http://searchengineland.com/

Poses the biggest risk for the Automatic App installation from Google Play

Android users often download and install apps from the Google Play Store for many activities , including requests for permission to use the app to watch. The confirmation of our malicious and potentially unwanted system helps avoid installing applications.

However, McAfee recently found a suspicious app on Google Play that almost automatically downloads,installs, and launches other apps from Google Play without these interactions. This automatic installation occurs with the Google account’s authorization tokens, provided by the user only once, which communicates with Google Play URLs in an unofficial way.

The automatic installation thanks to app users are allowed to provide GET_ACCOUNTS and USE_CREDENTIALS permission requests. This permits the application to provide users accounts ( perhaps more than other services Google accounts ) provides a powerful position, said. A device to run applications such as Google Account to access the benefits of these requests during the installation of an unfamiliar application, and users should be very careful. Privacy cause terrible damage to devices and applications allows malicious benefits.

Sources:McAfee

Top 3 Things You Need To Know About Bitcoins

1. What Are Bitcoins?

The Bitcoins are not in the form of banknotes or coins, it is a digital currency.

2. Who Developed The Idea Of Bitcoins?

The concept of Bitcoins was developed by Satoshi Nakamoto, who resides in total anonymity. He is said to be from Japan but his mail ID was from Germany, plus the bitcoin software was not available in Japanese. He developed the system and the Bitcoin software (that is used to run the system) in 2009 but disappeared into thin air in 2010.

3. How Do You Use Bitcoins Then?

Bitcoins are kept in a digital wallet which you can keep in your website online, or on a computer, which will manage and secure your digital wallet for you. You can have many number of digital wallets and bitcoin addresses (helps you to receive money from others) as you like.

The only problem is that many places the currency will not be accepted, but nevertheless, it's great open source project, that I'm sure that many of you can make use of it.

Source:- wiki/Bitcoin

LinkedIn Summary

Summary 

Test Engineer with over 26 months of professional experience in automation testing for mobile environment.

I am a graduate student in computer science at San Jose State University.

When I was working in India, I enjoyed being challenged in my professional roles and take pride in setting up and managing systems and tweaking them to maximum efficiency. I am passionate about configuring and managing systems.

I am a very creative problem solver known for consistently coming up with original ideas. I also possess strong interpersonal and communication skills thus I am able to clearly communicate my ideas to others. 

I have a Master’s degree in Computer Technology from Madras University, India. In addition, I have acquired training in a private institute (NIIT) on various topics such as programming languages, databases and networking. I am a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) and Microsoft Certified  Professional (MCP) in .NET.

I am a hard worker with a thirst for knowledge. 

My goal for the next two years is to educate myself and learn something new every day.

In the long run, I visualize creating a company, product, or service that will revolutionize something(s) commonly done or used today.

You can reach me at  saravana.29g@gmail.com to know more.