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How to make a presentation with LaTeX / TeX / Beamer

Here we will see how we can create a presentation using LaTeX / TeX / Beamer. LaTeX is a newer version of TeX. Beamer is a special class of LaTeX used to create presentations. The options available with beamer and Latex make it a very powerful combination for making professional presentations. We start with a simple example. Here is the code for a simple presentation \documentclass{beamer} \usetheme{Frankfurt} \title{How to make a presentation using Beamer/ \LaTeX2e ?} \author{Gappu} \institute{http://tech-gupshup.blogspot.co.uk/} \date{July, 2012} \begin{document} \begin{frame} \titlepage \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Introduction} Beamer class is used to make presentations using \LaTeX. Like any \LaTeX document you can create it with any text editor. \end{frame} \begin{frame}{Features of \textbf{Beamer}} \begin{itemize} \item \textbf{Beamer} is used to make presentations \item It allows to add animations \item you can embed images, videos , sounds and other media \item...

Microsoft Office 2013 announced

Microsoft has announced its new touch ready Microsoft Office 2013. Now users will be able to tap, pinch , swipe and drag using touch screens while editing or presenting. New office will be completely integrated with  SkyDrive which will sync all documents automatically. Skype and yammer will also be integrated to collaboratively create documents in meetings Refrence :  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18855136 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2012/Jul12/07-16OfficePR.aspx

How to transliterate/ type Arabic, Bengali, Farsi (Persian), Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu in Microsoft Word or any other windows application

Transliterate transliterate means that you type using English alphabets like "Duniya gol hai" and transliterate will convert it too دنیا گول ہے . Easy :) To use  transliterate   on your computer you need to download and install Google IME plugin for specific language from here  http://www.google.com/ime/transliteration/ After you install language toobar will apear in your taskbar or it might be a floating bar on your desktop. On windows 7 it looks like this. Whenever you want to write in urdu just choose urdu from this toolbar and start typing. When you type using English alphabet it will automatically convert it to urdu alphabets. It will also give you other possible words which match your input . Here is an example If you have any questions please leave a comment. Thanks

Building Android Applications

With the introduction of more power and capabilities, now mobile devices can do tasks that were considered impossible in past. Market for mobile applications is hot at the moment. There are different platforms used in different mobile devices, and each requires different ways and tools to develop applications. But once you have got a useful application you should be able to port it to different platforms. Most important thing you need is a useful idea and some programming skills.  Android is a  popular operating systems for mobile devices. Android is a software stack for mobile devices that includes an operating system, middleware and key applications.  Android provides an SDK  to develop applications for  Android  using Java Programming Language. There are many options available for development environments. You can use  The Android Development Tools (ADT) plugin for Eclipse to add powerful extensions to the Eclips...

Spec # -formal language for API contracts

Spec # is an extension of c# with constructs which permits specification and reasoning about object invariants. It has non-null types and provides constructs for pre and post conditions and object invariants. The Spec# is used to test formal specifications and static/dynamic provers that use them.