Rubik's Cube: Google celebrates fortieth anniversary of puzzle that has become a retro favourite

Google has celebrated the 40th birthday of the Rubik's Cube with an animated doodle that allows you to try to solves the puzzle online.

The Rubik's Cube was invented in 1974 by Erno Rubik, a Hungarian architect, who wanted a working model to help explain three-dimensional geometry. He fashioned the first cube himself, hand-carving the 'cubelets'. It took him one month before he was able to solve the Cube for himself.

It was licensed to the Ideal Toy Corp in 1980, and since then it has sold more than 350,000 units, making it the biggest-selling toy of all time, and a retro favourite for anyone who was young in the 80s.

The cube's six faces are each made up of nine stickered squares, with each row and column being independently manipulable around a central pivot, meaning that squares can be moved to different positions on the 3D cube, with the aim of the puzzle being to return the cube to its original configuration, with each face one colour: red, blue, white, green, yellow and orange.

It is very hard.

'Speedcubers' race each other to complete cubes in speeds as fast as six seconds, while every legally muddled cube is solvable in just 20 moves. There are in fact over 43 quintillion permutations of the cube - that is, unique distributions of the 54 coloured squares over the six faces. (A quintillion is a 1 with 18 zeros after it, or just under a fifth of a Googol!)

Source

How far will you go for your dream to be an impressive web developer?

How far will you go for your dream to be an impressive web developer?

Or is it possible to design and learn a PHP, HTML & CSS based websites without paying any fees?

You don’t need to pay a single penny if all you want to do is to develop a static websites. To develop a dynamic and effective websites which attract the user on PHP, HTML & CSS you have two choices either you go for a big computer institutes or acquire more advanced approach that is INFOSURFERS.

Infosurfers, an interactive computer based training website in which our expert faculty adjure and burnish you in making websites. With infosurfers you all will get a chance to enhance and discover your skills as a web developer in no-risk environment.

Once we determine that your needs are best suited to our custom solutions ,we can then decide with you what will be included in your control of it.

#TOI

What Are the Different Types of HTML Menus?

There are several types of HyperText Markup Language (HTML) menus, although implementing most of them requires the use of cascading style sheets (CSS), a scripting language or some external modules. The most basic type is a list of static links. A horizontal or vertical strip of options can be made to look much like a menu bar from a desktop application. Multilevel menus allow each menu option to contain another menu and can be used for complex navigation through a large website. Special effects such as floating HTML menus or menus that animate when opened also are possible on a website.

The most basic type of HTML menus is a list of static links. This also is one of the only ways to implement a menu in pure, basic HTML. The menu in this case basically is just a list of links, with each being a hypertext link to a destination. Although very simple, this type of menu will render on all devices and does not rely on any special browser features to operate.

Drop-down HTML menus resemble a menu bar in a standard desktop application. When a word or icon in this type of menu is clicked, a box containing selectable options opens under the word or icon that was clicked. A drop-down menu is familiar to most computer users but can complicate navigation on a website if too many options or headers are used.

Multilevel HTML menus are a way to implement a nested menu tree. This can appear as a drop-down menu or more like a properties tree, with each option having a way to expand any sub-options in the tree. With the use of dynamic HTML (DHTML) or a scripting language, a multilevel menu can be dynamically generated from a series of web pages and updated during navigation. A possible complication is that, if the depth of the option tree is very deep, the formatting on a web page might be affected.

Floating HTML menus use less standardized techniques than other types of HTML menus but can create a convenient navigational element for a page. By using CSS and scripting, a single frame can be positioned at a static location on the page so that, despite scrolling, the menu always appears in the same place. Some browsers do not necessarily support the positioning code required for a floating menu, however. Without careful page design, the menu actually might cover important information on the page.

Google Doodle for the big day in Indian Politics : Election 2014 counting

Google is showing its presence in Indian politics by marking the occasion with a doodle on its home page. The Google doodle shows a finger with ink signifying "I am a voter" .

The Election Commission is all set to count on Friday nearly 550 million votes cast in the Lok Sabha polls.
Around 66 percent of the 814 million electorates voted between April 7 and May 12 across the country to pick a new 543-member Lok Sabha.

Counting at 989 centres across the country will begin at 8 a.m. Friday.A total of 8,251 candidates, including 668 women and five transgenders, contested the Lok Sabha battle. The contestants included 3,234 independents.

Friday’s results will determine the political fortunes of India’s virtual who is who, including BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi (Vadodara, Varanasi), Congress leaders including Sonia Gandhi (Rae Bareli), Rahul Gandhi (Amethi), SP leader Mulayam Singh (Mainpuri, Azamgarh), JD—U leader Sharad Yadav (Madhepura), BJP leaders Arun Jaitley (Amritsar), Rajnath Singh (Lucknow), and AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal (Varanasi).

Tens of thousands of police and paramilitary personnel are to oversee the counting process Friday.

Well you can find rest of the doodles here google.com/doodles/

#news hindu