MavenTricks Technologies Official Blog

MavenTricks Technologies – 1st year anniversary celebration

admin — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:32:16 +0000

MavenTricks Technologies has been completed its 1st year successfully and stepping into the 2nd year. April 14,2012 is the day the Maventricks has officially started its journey and we have celebrated the 1st anniversary at our office with employees, friends and stake holders.

Bootstrap framework for responsive websites development

admin — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 07:49:42 +0000

Bootstrap is a powerful front end framework for creating responsive and faster websites. its developed by the popular social networking company “Twitter”. It includes basic CSS and HTML for creating Grids, Layouts, Typography, Tables, Forms, Navigation, Alerts, Popovers etc

Twitter Bootstrap is created with modern browsers in mind. So, you will find it working perfectly with all the modern versions of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera and Internet Explorer.

Bootstrap is not only for desktop browsers including IE, but in tablet and smartphone browsers via responsive CSS as well.

Since Twitter Bootstrap supports LESS (CSS preprocessor for faster and easier web development), you can include the less css file and less JS file in your HTML page as

You can download Bootstrap framework here http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/index.html

Maventricks launches the next version Bidonn 1.1 – a free reverse auction script

admin — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:24:59 +0000

Maventricks Technologies has launched Bidonn 1.1 an improved version of its free reverse auction script with few new features added and some bugs are fixed. The main change is the new theme & logo in this new version. Please go to this page to avail the new version of Bidonn http://www.maventricks.com/products/bidonn

New features added :

Supports various currencies
Password salting and hashing at list in sha384.
Integration with google maps

Bug fixes :

Please check this document for the fixes of the bugs which are present in the old version Bidonn 1.0 http://product.maventricks.com/bidonn/Bidonn1.0-Bug%20fixes.doc

If you want more information, please email me at sathick@maventricks.com or contact us fromhttp://www.maventricks.com/contactus

About MavenTricks Technologies

MavenTricks Technologies is an offshore custom software development, php web development and mobile application development company based in Madurai, India offers web application development, web and graphic design, mobile application development such as iPhone app development, android application development, SEO services and web marketing, PSD to XHTML conversion, etc. to the clients across the globe

First look of the new version of Bidonn – a free reverse auction script from MavenTricks

admin — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:27:11 +0000

MavenTricks Technologies is taking this opportunity to thank it’s customers worldwide for the support given thus far. it’s been a fantastic year 2012 for the company and it’s maiden product Bidonn was a huge success. So we are planning to launch the new version of Bidonn which is 1.1 and it has some new features & bug fixes from the first version. The main changes are new theme and logo.

Please watch this space for the official launch of Bidonn 1.1 with patch files for bug fixes of Bidonn 1.0

New Features :

1. Online maps integration for the job locations

2. Multiple currency support

3. New encryption method for security

4. Elegant web 2.0 theme

5. Bug fixes of the old version 1.0

First look of latest theme :

Bidonn

36 keyboard shortcuts (Microsoft Windows)

admin — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:12:26 +0000

1. CTRL+C (Copy)
2. CTRL+X (Cut)
3. CTRL+V (Paste)
4. CTRL+Z (Undo)
5. DELETE (Delete)
6. SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)
7. CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)
8. CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item)
9. F2 key (Rename the selected item)
10. CTRL+RIGHT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next word)
11. CTRL+LEFT ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous word)
12. CTRL+DOWN ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the next paragraph)
13. CTRL+UP ARROW (Move the insertion point to the beginning of the previous paragraph)
14. CTRL+SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Highlight a block of text)
SHIFT with any of the arrow keys (Select more than one item in a window or on the desktop, or select text in a document)
15. CTRL+A (Select all)
16. F3 key (Search for a file or a folder)
17. ALT+ENTER (View the properties for the selected item)
18. ALT+F4 (Close the active item, or quit the active program)
19. ALT+ENTER (Display the properties of the selected object)
20. ALT+SPACEBAR (Open the shortcut menu for the active window)
21. CTRL+F4 (Close the active document in programs that enable you to have multiple documents open simultaneously)
22. ALT+TAB (Switch between the open items)
23. ALT+ESC (Cycle through items in the order that they had been opened)
24. F6 key (Cycle through the screen elements in a window or on the desktop)
25. F4 key (Display the Address bar list in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
26. SHIFT+F10 (Display the shortcut menu for the selected item)
27. ALT+SPACEBAR (Display the System menu for the active window)
28. CTRL+ESC (Display the Start menu)
29. ALT+Underlined letter in a menu name (Display the corresponding menu) Underlined letter in a command name on an open menu (Perform the corresponding command)
30. F10 key (Activate the menu bar in the active program)
31. RIGHT ARROW (Open the next menu to the right, or open a submenu)
32. LEFT ARROW (Open the next menu to the left, or close a submenu)
33. F5 key (Update the active window)
34. BACKSPACE (View the folder one level up in My Computer or Windows Explorer)
35. ESC (Cancel the current task)
36. SHIFT when you insert a CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive (Prevent the CD-ROM from automatically playing)

Hidden feature of Gmail that everyone should know

admin — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:44:18 +0000

Gmail has the feature you must use because copying an entire chain of messages after your reply doesn’t make sense when people scroll down to see all the messages chained one after other. So providing only the snippet that you are actually replying to will make sense. Follow the steps below:

1. Select the text you are replying to in Gmail.

2. Hit the reply button.

3. Only the selected text will be quoted. Reply at will.

This feature would be common in all mail programs, but most people don’t know it exists in Gmail too. So people, please don’t forget to try this feature when you use Gmail.

How to fix SMTP email error in Codeigniter email function ?

admin — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:57:17 +0000

programmers who are developing the web applications using Codeigniter would have got an error when trying to use Codeigniter’s email function. The core email library file which has all the inbuilt functions to initiate emails from the website. By default, the SMTP protocol is set in the port of 25 but all the web servers will not support this.

so if you want to just get rid of the SMTP mail protocol and like to just using the normal PHP email function, just follow the below steps.

1. Go to /system/libraries/ and open the file “Email.php”
2. Find the variable “$_protocols”
3. Replace the array value with “array(‘mail’, ‘sendmail’, ”)”

That’s it. Now the codeigniter will use the normal PHP mail function to send the emails.

Selenium IDE – a great firefox addon for selenium tests

admin — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 11:22:59 +0000

Web Developers,
If you are fed up of doing same sequence of tasks (click -> click -> more click) million times then it is time to learn Selenium. It took very little time to learn and it saves so much time

1. Install Selenium

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/selenium-ide/

2. Get to know XPath (Will not take more 5 – 10) mins

http://blog.infostretch.com/are-you-ready-to-use-css-selectors-with-selenium

3. Open Webpage in Firefox
4. Open Selenium & do the following
Command: refreshAndWait
Target: Webpage URL
5. Click “Play current test case”
That is. It refresh the page.

eg
To click element
Command: click
Target: //div[@id='vm-tab-selector']

To wait for an element to load
Command: waitForElementPresent
Target: //div[@id='vm-tab-selector']

Horizontal parallax website development using Jquery

admin — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:12:46 +0000

This is basically a way in which a website feels like its the one single page, with multiple layers to give it a three dimensional slant. When executed properly it can have a wondrous effect, giving your site a new level of attractiveness and usability.

Sequence is the jQuery slider plugin with infinite style. It provides the complete functionality for a website slider without forcing you to use a set theme. In fact, Sequence has no in-built theme, leaving you complete creative control to build a unique slider using only CSS3.

Following are few websites developed using horizontal parallax method,

http://www.head2heart.us/

http://www.indofolio.com/

@font-face an introduction & How to use

admin — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 10:58:08 +0000

@font-face is a CSS rule which allows you to download a particular font from your server to render a webpage.The @font-face CSS at-rule allows authors to specify online fonts to display text on their web pages.

Create @font-face Kits

Create Your @font-face Kits by uploading the fonts you want to use.

All of the free fonts at FontFace.com are available in both Windows and Mac formats. And, unlike other font sites, you don’t have to waste your time wading through thousands of horrible fonts.

How to Use @font-face

@font-face is without a doubt the best option for web designers to create beautiful web typography. Not only is @font-face flat out amazing, is incredibly simple to use. It only requires a few lines of CSS and then declare the font-family just like you would any other font on the web.

Css:

@font-face {
font-family: ‘web-font-italic’;
src: url(‘web-font-bold.eot?’) format(‘eot’),
url(‘web-font-bold.woff’) format(‘woff’),
url(‘web-font-bold.ttf’) format(‘truetype’),
url(‘web-font-bold.svg’) format(‘svg’);
font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic;
}

For full cross browser compatibility with @font-face, make sure you use each of the web font formats – .eot, .woff, .ttf, and .svg. The file formats required for @font-face can be generated on FontSquirrel.com’s @font-face Generator.