HTML5

HTML5 is a language for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web, a core technology of the Internet. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (originally created in 1990 and most recently standardized as HTML4 in 1997^[1]) and as of August 2011 is still under development. Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices (web browsers, parsers etc.). HTML5 is intended to subsume not only HTML4, but XHTML1 andDOM2HTML (particularly JavaScript) as well.^[1]

Following its immediate predecessors HTML 4.01 and XHTML 1.1, HTML5 is a response to the observation that the HTML and XHTML in common use on the World Wide Web is a mixture of features introduced by various specifications, along with those introduced by software products such as web browsers, those established by common practice, and the many syntax errors in existing web documents. It is also an attempt to define a single markup language that can be written in either HTML or XHTML syntax. It includes detailed processing models to encourage more interoperable implementations; it extends, improves and rationalises the markup available for documents, and introduces markup and APIs for complex web applications.^[2]

SkyDrive vs Google Docs

Recently, Google announced an update to their Google Docs solution which now allows you to upload any type of file, not just office documents. Many are calling this “GDrive” after the long-rumored service which is supposedly a cloud-based storage solution from Google.
Although the news got a lot of coverage from the blogosphere, few sites bothered to compare Google’s latest offering with SkyDrive, Microsoft’s service which has been around for a couple of years now.
SkyDrive wasn’t always the robust service it is today – over time, it has grown in both size and features. And it’s growing still with the upcoming launch of Office Web Applications (currently in beta).
SkyDrive Pluses
As of now, the SkyDrive service provides 25 GB of free online storage space in the cloud. Compare that to Google’s 1 GB. Anything over a GB and you have to pay. While that may be handy for those needing to grow a lot and are limited by the 25 GB from SkyDrive, most users will find 25 GB to be more than sufficient.
In addition, SkyDrive users have long since been able to upload different types of files to the service including things like PDFs, videos, MP3s, you name it. This is nothing new.
Another plus for SkyDrive is that it’s completely integrated with Windows Live Photos. In other words, when you add photos to SkyDrive, they’re in the Live Photos service and vice versa. It’s all the same thing. And it’s all accessible from one portal:home.live.com. Oddly though, with Google’s service, photos can be uploaded to Docs or they can be managed via Picasa, the services are separate but the storage used is not. For example, when I uploaded a photo to Google Docs it didn’t show up at Picasa Web Albums or the other way around. But the storage space Google offers for a fee is shared between Picasa and Docs (and Gmail)! So why wouldn’t the services be integrated through one portal or one centralized dashboard? Personally, I find that confusing.
Google Docs Pluses
Google Docs is largely known as an online office suite with collaboration features and at the moment, it’s one of the best out there. If you also use Google’s other products and services (like Gmail and the Chrome browser, for example), Docs is well-integrated with the company’s many offerings. Although Microsoft’s online office suite (still in beta testing) is extremely promising, Google has the more complete solution when it comes to online office utilities.
The collaboration capabilities of Docs are stellar, too. Plus, you can do things like real-time editing, share files and folders with others, hide files, search documents and templates, sort and filter your list of files and more. You can even import online data into your Google Spreadsheets.
In addition, because Microsoft’s web office suite hasn’t yet launched, Google Docs is the only service of the two that actually lets you go to one portal right now and simply create or upload a file from its easy-to-use interface.

Creative ZEN Displaying White Screen When Switched On

1. Push the power switch to ‘OFF’ position and hold it for 10 seconds. If the player continues to display a white screen, please proceed to the next step. If the player shuts down, please skip the next steps and proceed right away to step 5
2. If the player continues to display a white screen, reset the player and perform a firmware update. If the player shuts down, please skip the next steps and proceed right away to step 5
3. Download the latest firmware for your player ZEN_PCFW_L22_1_21_03.exe. For customers in Europe, please download ZEN_PCFW_L22_1_21_03e.exe.
4. Once the file is downloaded onto your harddisk, connect the player to the PC and double-click on the downloaded file and follow the on-screen instructions
5. Perform the recovery tool if the screen still does not display any contents properly through the following site:
   
   http://www.creative.com/products/mp3/MP3PlayerRecoveryTool/welcome.asp?

If the above steps do not resolve the issue, kindly contact our technical support for further assistance.

Hat-tricks in ODI (One Day Internationals) Cricket

Hat-tricks

Player	Match	Venue	Date	Victims
Jalal-ud-Din	Pakistan v Australia	Hyderabad (P)	20/09/1982	RW Marsh bowled; B Yardley c Wasim Bari; GF Lawson bowled
BA Reid	Australia v New Zealand	Sydney	29/01/1986	BR Blair c GRJ Matthews; EB McSweeney c AR Border; SR Gillespie bowled
C Sharma	India v New Zealand	Nagpur	31/10/1987	KR Rutherford bowled; IDS Smith bowled; EJ Chatfield bowled
Wasim Akram	Pakistan v West Indies	Sharjah	14/10/1989	PJL Dujon bowled; MD Marshall bowled; CEL Ambrose bowled
Wasim Akram	Pakistan v Australia	Sharjah	04/05/1990	MG Hughes bowled; CG Rackemann bowled; TM Alderman bowled
Kapil Dev	India v Sri Lanka	Calcutta	04/01/1991	RS Mahanama c KS More; RJ Ratnayake lbw; ST Jayasuirya c SV Manjrekar
Aaqib Javed	Pakistan v India	Sharjah	25/10/1991	RJ Shastri lbw; M Azharuddin lbw; SR Tendulkar lbw
DK Morrison	New Zealand v India	Napier	25/03/1994	Kapil Dev bowled; SA Ankola bowled; NR Mongia bowled
Waqar Younis	Pakistan v New Zealand	East London	19/12/1994	CZ Harris bowled; C Pringle bowled; RP de Groen bowled
Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan v Zimbabwe	Peshawar	03/11/1996	GW Flower c Moin Khan; JA Rennie c Moin Khan; AR Whittall c Salim Malik
EA Brandes	Zimbabwe v England	Harare	03/01/1997	NV Knight c A Flower; JP Crawley lbw; N Hussain c A Flower
AM Stuart	Australia v Pakistan	Melbourne	16/01/1997	Ijaz Ahmed c IA Healy; Mohammad Wasim c IA Healy; Moin Khan c MA Taylor
Saqlain Mushtaq	Pakistan v Zimbabwe	The Oval	11/06/1999	HK Olonga st Moin Khan; AG Huckle st Moin Khan; M Mbangwa lbw
WPUJC Vaas	Sri Lanka v Zimbabwe	Colombo (SSC)	08/12/2001	SV Carlisle c ASA Perera; CB Wishart lbw; T Taibu lbw
Mohammad Sami	Pakistan v West Indies	Sharjah	15/02/2002	RD Jacobs lbw; CD Collymore bowled; CE Cuffy bowled
WPUJC Vaas	Sri Lanka v Bangladesh	Pietermaritzburg	14/02/2003	Hannan Sarkar bowled; Mohammad Ashraful caught & bowled; Ehsanul Haque c DPMD Jayawardene
B Lee	Australia v Kenya	Durban	15/03/2003	KO Otieno bowled; BJ Patel c RT Ponting; DO Obuya bowled
JM Anderson	England v Pakistan	The Oval	20/06/2003	Abdul Razzaq c ME Trescothick; Shoaib Akhtar c CMW Read; Mohammad Sami bowled
SJ Harmison	England v India	Nottingham	01/09/2004	M Kaif c GO Jones; L Balaji c A Flintoff; A Nehra caught & bowled
CK Langeveldt	South Africa v West Indies	Barbados	11/05/2005	IDR Bradshaw bowled; DB Powell bowled; CD Collymore lbw
Shahadat Hossain	Bangladesh v Zimbabwe	Harare	02/08/2006	TV Mufambisi c Khaled Mashud; E Chigumbura lbw; P Utseya c Khaled Mashud
JE Taylor	West Indies v Australia	Mumbai (BS)	18/10/2006	MEK Hussey bowled; B Lee lbw; GB Hogg bowled
SE Bond	New Zealand v Australia	Hobart	14/01/2007	CL White caught; A Symonds caught; NW Bracken bowled
*SL Malinga	Sri Lanka v South Africa	Guyana	28/03/2007	SM Pollock bowled; AJ Hall c Tharanga; JH Kallis c Sangakkara,M Ntini bowled
A Flintoff	England v West Indies	St Lucia	03/04/2009	D Ramdin bowled; R Rampaul lbw; SJ Benn bowled
MF Maharoof	Sri Lanka v India	Dambulla	22/06/2010	RA Jadeja lbw; P Kumar bowled; Z Khan caught
Abdur Razzak	Bangladesh v Zimbabwe	Dhaka	03/12/2010	P Utseya caught; RW Price lbw; CB Mpofu lbw
KAJ Roach	West Indies v Netherlands	Delhi	28/02/2011	PM Seelaar lbw; BP Loots lbw; BA Westdijk bowled
SL Malinga	Sri Lanka v Kenya	Colombo (RPS)	01/03/2011	T Mishra lbw; PJ Ongondo bowled; SO Ngoche bowled
SL Malinga	Sri Lanka v Australia	Colombo (RPS)	22/08/2011	MG Johnson bowled; JW Hastings lbw; XJ Doherty bowled

Cleaning the Sony Handycam head using a cleaning cassette

1. If the video heads are dirty, video or sound distortion may be apparent.
2. Please clean the video heads for 10 seconds with the Sony DVM-12LCD cleaning cassette (optional) if any of the following problems occurs:
   
   - Mosaic-pattern noise appears on the playback picture:
    
   - Screen is displayed in blue:
   
   - Playback pictures do not move.
   - Playback pictures do not appear or the sound breaks off.
   - [   Dirty video head. Use a cleaning cassette.] appears on the screen during recording/playback.
3. The video heads will wear out after using it for a long time. If you cannot obtain a clear image even after using a cleaning cassette (optional), the video heads might be worn. Please contact your Sony dealer or a local authorized Sony service facility to have the video heads replaced.

Fasting during Shawwal

Shawwāl (شوّال) is the tenth month of the lunar Islamic calendar. Shawwāl means to ‘lift or carry’; so named because she-camels normally would be carrying a fetus at this time of year.

Fasting during Shawwāl

The first day of Shawwāl is Eid ul-Fitr. Some Muslims observe six days of fasting during Shawwāl beginning the day after Eid ul-Fitr since fasting is prohibited on this day. These six days of fasting together with theRamadan fasts, are equivalent to fasting "perpetually", according to Sahih Muslim. The reasoning behind this tradition is that a good deed in Islam is rewarded 10 times, hence fasting 30 days during Ramadan and 6 days during Shawwāl is equivalent to fasting the whole year in terms of reward.^[1] It is a common misconception that the six days of fasting must be undertaken on consecutive days, but there is no hadith that support or stipulate this.

[]Timing

The Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, and months begin when the first crescent of a new moon is sighted. Since the Islamic lunar calendar year is 11 to 12 days shorter than the solar year, Shawwāl migrates throughout the seasons. The actual and estimated start and end dates for Shawwāl are as follows:

CE / AD	AH	First day	Last day
2005	1426	3 November	2 December
2006	1427	24 October	21 November
2007	1428	13 October	10 November
2008	1429	1 October	29 October
2009	1430[2]	21 September	19 October
2010	1431[2]	10 September	8 October
2011	1432[2]	30 August	28 September
2012	1433[2]	19 August	16 September
2013	1434[2]	8 August	6 September
2014	1435[2]	28 July	26 August
2015	1436[2]	17 July	15 August
Shawwāl dates between 2005 and 2015

Eid ul-Fitr

Eid ul-Fitr, Eid al-Fitr, Id-ul-Fitr, or Id al-Fitr (Arabic: ‎عيد الفطر ‘Īdu l-Fiṭr), often abbreviated to Eid, is a three-day Muslim holiday that marks the end of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting(sawm). Eid is an Arabic word meaning "festivity," while Fiṭr means "original nature," implying the restoration of one's best human composition. The holiday celebrates the conclusion of the thirty days of dawn-to-sunset fasting during the entire month of Ramadan. The first day of Eid, therefore, falls on the first day of the month Shawwal.

Eid-ul-Fitr Salat (Namaz in Persian) is a Sunnah muak'kad (strongly recommended, just short of obligatory) or mandoob (preferable) – depending on which juristic opinion is followed – Islamic prayer consisting of two raka'ah (units)^[1] which is generally offered in an open field or large hall called an Eed-gah. This salaat or prayer, can only be performed with Jama’at (i.e., in congregation) and has an additional extra six Takbirs (raising of the hands to the ears while saying Allahu Akbar (God is Great), three of them in the beginning of the first raka'ah and three of them just before ruku' in the second raka'ah in the Hanafi school.^[2] Muslims are commanded by God in the Qur'an to complete their fast until the last day of Ramadan.^[3]

History

Before the advent of Islam in Arabia, we find mention of ‘id festivals as yawm al-sab‘ and yawm al-sabasab as well as some others among the idolaters of Arabia. The shari‘ah of the Israelites had ‘id festivals as well but as is evident from the Old Testament and other scriptures, these festivals related more to commemorating certain days of their history. The ‘id al-fitr was originated by Prophet Muhammad and is observed on the first of the month of Shawwal right after the end of the holy month of Ramadan in which the believers undergo a period of fasting. ^[4]