There is a few ways to do this. The easiest way to do this is in fact really simple, you just need to add a keyword “selected” to the option that you want selected.
For example, if You have something like this:

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<select>
   <option value="1">Apple</option>
   <option value="2">Samsung</option>
   <option value="3">HTC</option>
</select>

If we want to have “Samsung” selected:

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<select>
   <option value="1">Apple</option>
   <option selected value="2">Samsung</option>
   <option value="3">HTC</option>
</select>

Pretty easy, don’t you thing so

Now next thing that we need to do is to make our <select> submit so we could arrange the page accordingly.
To do that, we need to put it inside a <form>, like this:

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<form>
   <select id="company" name="company"> 
      <option value="1">Apple</option> 
      <option value="2">Samsung</option> 
      <option value="3">HTC</option> 
   </select> 
</form>

Depending on your needs and requirements you may need some extra parameters set to the <form> tag, but for our example this is just fine
You can notice I added “id” and a “name” to the <select> tag, we will you these names to access the value at the backend.

Now for the fun part, let’s add some basic PHP code and bring our example to life.

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<?php
 
(isset($_POST["company"])) ? $company = $_POST["company"] : $company=1;
 
?>
 
<form>
<select id="company" name="company">
<option <?php if ($company == 1 ) echo 'selected'; ?> value="1">Apple</option>
<option <?php if ($company == 1 ) echo 'selected'; ?> value="2">Samsung</option>
<option <?php if ($company == 1 ) echo 'selected'; ?> value="3">HTC</option>
</select>
</form>

And that’s it. It has no real use, but it is good to get a grip of how the things work.

Hope someone finds this useful, and also that someone can contribute and make the examples better.

Googles 13th Birthday

A click on the doodle takes visitors to a search result page on Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin started Google Inc in September 1998 with four computers and an investor’s $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine can change the world.

The company though filed for incorporation on September 4, 1998, and Google.com domain was registered on September 15, it officially celebrates its birthday on September 27.

As Google enters its 13th year, the company faces increasing legislative scrutiny and increasing competition from social networking giant Facebook. Google Inc has evolved to become a dominant and potentially anti-competitive force on the Internet, US senators remarked at a recent congressional hearing.

“Google is in a position to determine who will succeed and who will fail on the Internet,” said Republican Senator Mike Lee, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust panel. “In the words of the head of the Goggle’s search ranking team, Google is the biggest kingmaker on Earth.”

Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com

The new Google Android 3.2 SDK also known as Android Honeycomb 3.2 is specially designed for tablets with a very good adjustment with the different size of screens.

For developers, the Android 3.2 platform is available as a downloadable component for the Android SDK. The downloadable platform includes an Android library and system image, as well as a set of emulator skins and more.

New user features

• Optimizations for a wider range of tabletsAndroid 3.2 includes a variety of optimizations across the system to ensure a great user experience on a wider range of tablet devices.
• Compatibility zoom for fixed-sized appsAndroid 3.2 introduces a new compatibility zoom mode that gives users a new way to view fixed-sized apps on larger devices. The new mode provides a pixel-scaled alternative to the standard UI stretching for apps that are not designed to run on larger screen sizes, such as on tablets. The new mode is accessible to users from a menu icon in the system bar, for apps that need compatibility support.
• Media sync from SD cardOn devices that support an SD card, users can now load media files directly from the SD card to apps that use them. A system facility makes the files accessible to apps from the system media store.

New developer features

• Extended API for managing screens supportAndroid 3.2 introduces extensions to the platform’s screen support API to give developers additional ways to manage application UI across the range of Android-powered devices. The API includes new resource qualifiers and new manifest attributes that give you more precise control over how your apps are displayed on different sizes, rather than relying on generalized size categories.To ensure the best possible display for fixed-sized apps and apps with limited support for various screen sizes, the platform also provides a new zoom compatibility mode that renders the UI on a smaller screen area, then scales it up to fill the space available on the display. For more information about the screen support API and the controls it provides, see the sections below.

Source: Android Developers, latesttechworld.com

This is a common problem for people with 1920×1080 resolution monitors. Quick Launch icon are just too small. You can fix this by right click on an empty space in Taskbar and uncheck “Lock the Taskbar”.

Note: If it is already unchecked skip this step

Now go to the Quick Launch drag handle and right click exactly on it.

Just select “Large Icons” and icons in Quick Launch bar will be increased. After that you can check “Lock the Taskbar” option if it was checked prior.
Easy, isn’t it And it’s very helpfull to have large icons in Quick Launch bar.

Google bought Android from Android Inc. in 2005, and that was the begging  of Android history. Today Android OS is the best-selling mobile platform, dethroning Nokia’s Symbina from top position. Major advantage of Android OS is the wide variety of apps  (applications) that extend the functionality of device running on Android OS. Latest version Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) bring the following improvements :

• UI refinements for simplicity and speed

• One-touch word selection and copy/paste

• Faster, more intuitive text input

• Improved power management

• New ways of communicating, organizing

Also there are new features for developers, like enhances for gaming, new form of communications, and much more.

So the question remains, will Android remain only a mobile-based OS, we will just have to wait and see.

I found great function to remove file extension from filename in PHP.  Anton Zamov created this function and I’m just reporting it to show my appreciation.

Function:

function RemoveExtension($strName) {    $ext = strrchr($strName, '.');    if($ext !== false) {       $strName = substr($strName, 0, -strlen($ext));    }    return $strName; }

Usage:

$filename = "myfile.jpeg"; echo RemoveExtension($filename);

Output:

myfile

Short, easy and understandable. If someone has a better solution let me know.

Google Translate is a great online translation tool, that in time becomes better and better. Using Google Translate you can translate a text even if you don’t know in which language it is written. It automatically detects a language and translates it into selected language.Great new improvement to Google Translate is the way you can select the language. They removed usual and very inconvenient combo-box, into a drop down menu from which you can see all the available languages and select the one you wish. Also in the top of the drop down menu you have a history of resent actions(translations) you performed.

We all know that 100% correct automatic translation is impossible, for now, but Google Translate, with each day, becomes closer to that goal.

Although Google Translate has all this great features, and can translate word, text and the whole websites, you should keep in mind that you can use it only as a helping tool when you translate something. It can give you an idea of what the sentence is about and help you translate it. I didn’t test all the languages, because I don’t know them all and I couldn’t give the real review. But for mu native language, Serbian, it does a pretty good job.

Google Translate team, good job and keep it up, this is the best online translation tool I have seen so far.

Here is a great article on how to remove #more tag in WordPress.

How to remove #more tag in WordPress by  Techie Corner

There are many solutions that involve  editing the Joomla Core files. This is bad idea, because you will have to do this every time you upgrade Joomla to a new version.  In general changing Joomla core files is not recommended, and you should avoid it as much as possible.

Solution that I find to be much better and cleaner is just to add :

<?php
$this->setGenerator(‘Text you want to display in generator tag’);
?>

before <head> tag in your template index.php file.

This way you can define your own generator, or you could leave the text empty.

Note: Don’t remove or edit this tag if you don’t have the strong reason to do so.  We should all support Joomla, that is the only way Joomla will keep being great CMS as it is now