If you develop software/website with Scrum method, please read Scrum In Testing by Bob Galen.

For testing purposes, I frequently need to download many ISO images. Recently I had to download Microsoft Visio from MSDN Academic Alliance. And I also download Linux ISO images as well frequently.

With CD emulation software, I can create a virtual CD drive and avoid using a blank CD.

There are several free CD emulation software programs that you can download from download.com. They are not open source program, just free programs.

I tried to use virtual CD program in the past but found it is not user friendly. Recently I downloaded and installed WinCDemu program and found it useful for my work.

It is quite easy to use this software program. You can download the software program at download.com. Once the program is installed, one can right click at the ISO image to see the shortcut menu. Then, choose “Select drive letter & mount”.

Once you click OK, you will see a CD drive of V: in your My Computer.

Below is a demo video clip.

The following image is the PNG image of the diagram created by the demo.

flowchart demo

Links

• Graphics for your web pages: free clip art images on openclipart.org

Useful links:

• About Open Clip Art Library on wikipedia.com
• Openclipart.org
• How to create a favicon

One of the reasons that QR codes became more popular lately is due to the growing number of smartphones. Smartphone users can downloaded free QR code scanner apps for their phones. These scanner apps make browsing a web page very convenient. Smartphone users can scan the QR code of a URL and avoid typing the URL of that web page. Typing a long URL on a smart phone can be an unpleasant experience.

The image above is an example of the QR code of our corporate website, it21inc.com.

There are several tools you can use to create QR code image. My favorite one is Google Chart Tools: Infographics. You can get the image of a QR code generated on the fly by this Google API.

Here is the URL of the QR code image of it21inc.com, to get Google Chart to generate the image:

https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=qr&chs=150×150&chl=http://www.it21inc.com

There are three parts in this image’s URL

• First part: ask Google chart to draw QR code image https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?cht=qr
• Second part:  specify the size of the image, (150×150 in this example)
  &chs=150×150
• Third part: specify the content to be store in this image; (in this example, it is http://www.it21inc.com ) &chl=http://www.it21inc.com
• These three parts are required. Other parts can be added relate to error correction and output encoding

Please read more about the syntax at http://code.google.com/apis/chart/infographics/docs/qr_codes.html#overview

Suggested links to read about QR code

• Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code
• Denso-Wave: the trademark holder of QR code: http://www.denso-wave.com/qrcode/index-e.html
• Google search about QR code generator: http://www.google.com/search?q=qu+code+generator&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t
• QR code readers for smartphones: http://www.708media.com/qrcode/qr-code-readers-iphone-android-blackberry-windows-phone-7/

Step 1: Locate the URL of the photo image

• Place the mouse at the photo image and
• click the right button of the mouse to access the short-cut menu.
• Select View Image option to see the image and URL of the image.

Step 2: login and go to Edit Post screen.

Step 3- Add the external photo:

• Place the cursor to the location in the blog that we want to insert and then
• click Add an Image.
• Click “From URL” menu.
• Now, we can add the URL of the external photo, a title and the correct alignment.
• Click Insert to Post to complete the adding.

Step 4 – View the post to verify that the photo is displayed.

Here is the video of how to add an external photo to a blog

There are 4 simple steps

• Step 1: Login as an admin
• Step 2: Install WP Google Fonts through plugins menu
• Step 3: Select font(s) and tag(s) using settings
• Step 4: verify the font on the web pages

The below video will show these 4 steps. One caution is that you should use only 1 or 2 web fonts. Using too many web fonts may hurt your website speed.

Links:

• Google font API: http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/
• Google Web Fonts Libary: http://www.google.com/webfonts#ChoosePlace:select
• Use Google Web Fonts on a Joomla website

a project to ensure webmaster, designers and developers have free and easy access to a choice of rich, free, quality typography for their websites.

There are more than 200 open source fonts that you can choose for your website. Below image shows some of the Google web fonts. You can use these high quality web fonts through Google font API.
There are no coding necessary when Google font API is used. You only have to add a special stylesheet link to your HTML document and then refer to the font in a CSS style.

Instruction for Google Font API can be found at http://code.google.com/apis/webfonts/

If you have a Joomla website, there are a few extensions that you can choose to use Google web fonts. We use HD-Gfonts plugin for our site. Here is a video about how to install and configure the plugin to use Google web fonts.

Basically there are 4 steps:

• Step 1: download HD-Gfonts at http://www.hyde-design.co.uk/free-joomla-extensions/gfonts
• Step 2: Install the plugin using Extension Manager
• Step 3: Use Plugin Manager to configure and enable the HD-Gfonts plugin
• Step 4: Verify the fonts working on web pages

One caution is that you should use one web font or two. Using too many web fonts can hurt the performance of your pages. Click to read how to use Google web fonts on WordPress site

The to do steps are as follows:

• Register at http://www.google.com/recaptcha and get a public key and a private key
• Install  WP-reCAPTCHA plugin for your WordPress website
• Add the public key and the private key to the reCAPTCHA Options
• Verify the CAPTCHA on the comment area, (you need to logout as an admin).

Please watch this video to see these steps: