How to Know the MAC Address of an Android Phone or Android Tablet

A media access control address (MAC address) is a unique 12-character identifier assigned to network interfaces for communications on the physical network segment. MAC addresses are used as a network address for most IEEE 802 network technologies, including Ethernet. Logically, MAC addresses are used in the media access control protocol sublayer of the OSI reference model.

MAC addresses are most often assigned by the manufacturer of a network interface controller (NIC) and are stored in its hardware, such as the card's read-only memory or some other firmware mechanism. If assigned by the manufacturer, a MAC address usually encodes the manufacturer's registered identification number and may be referred to as the burned-in address. It may also be known as an Ethernet hardware address (EHA), hardware address or physical address. This can be contrasted to a programmed address, where the host device issues commands to the NIC to use an arbitrary address. An example is a SOHO router, for which the ISP grants access to only one MAC address (used previously to inserting the router) so the router must use that MAC address on its Internet-facing NIC. Therefore the router administrator configures a MAC address to override the burned-in one.

A network node may have multiple NICs and each must have one unique MAC address per NIC.

MAC addresses are formed according to the rules of one of three numbering name spaces managed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): MAC-48, EUI-48, and EUI-64. The IEEE claims trademarks on the names EUI-48 and EUI-64, in which EUI is an abbreviation for Extended Unique Identifier.

If you are using Optimum.net to register a Wi-Fi device, you'll need to know the device's MAC address. Registering a device allows you to access the Optimum WiFi network without having to login.

Finding the MAC Address on Your Android Tablet

To locate the MAC Address of your Android phone or Android tablet, follow these steps:

1. On the Home screen, tap the Menu key and go to Settings.
   
2. Scroll down and tap About Tablet then tap Status and then scroll down to view Wi-Fi Mac address.
   

Finding the MAC Address on Your Android Phone

Depending on your device, attempt to follow one set of instructions listed below:

1. On the Home screen, tap the Menu button and go to Settings.
2. Tap About Phone.
3. Tap Status.
4. Scroll down to see your Wi-Fi MAC address.

Or,

1. On the Home screen, tap the Menu button and go to Settings.
2. Tap About Phone.
3. Tap Hardware information.
4. Scroll down to see your Wi-Fi MAC address.

MAC address Wikipedia

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FREE books and Learning resource for C/C++

FREE books and learning resource for C/C++
Very good C++ and Java examples and an OPENSOURCE book about data structures
Next data structures book of Goodrich
Very FRESH about data structures
Design patterns in C++ and Java examples
Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C++
Wiki C++ idioms
About boost C++ library
http://www.cprogramming.com/algorithms-and-data-structures.html
AVL trees book
C++ famous the first free book
For begginers C++
For begginers an old book

Wiki books:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Optimizing_C%2B%2B
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C++

C++ book lists:
http://datastructureebook.blogspot.com/2008/01/download-free-data-structures-and.html
http://freee-booksdownload.blogspot.com/2008/02/free-data-structures-and-algorithms.html

Free video lectures:
http://videolectures.net/stanfordcs106bw08_schwarz_lec27/
 
Unfinished online interactive tutorial on data structures in C, C++:
http://algoviz.org/OpenDSA/Books/OpenDSA/html/#

The beginning of all C++ ideas:
http://www.stroustrup.com/
ALGORITHMIC INFORMATION THEORY

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5 Best Free PHP Image Gallery Scripts

5 Best Free Image Gallery Scripts

1. Gallery – Gallery is another very popular Free PHP Image Gallery Scripts. It is a web based open source image or photo organizer. Gallery provides an easy and quick solution. It seamlessly integrates photo management in your website. Gallery is equipped to handle a small personal website and as well as a large community website.

2. Coppermine – Coppermine is a free PHP based photo gallery script. It is a fully featured and multipurpose image gallery script which uses ImageMagick or GD as image library and MySQL as backend. Coppermine can be downloaded and installed easily on your webspace. It supports an extensive list of features such as extensive multimedia support, user management, picture management, etc.

3. ZenPhoto: ZenPhoto is a powerful and free to use CMS for building multimedia websites. ZenPhoto Free PHP Image Gallery Script supports images, audio and video files. You can include custom pages, and even set up a blog section in ZenPhoto. It is an ideal resource for creating and managing image gallery websites. Thus, ZenPhoto serves as an ideal platform for building portfolio websites of artists, musicians, designers, photographers, film makers, illustrators, etc.

4. Piwigo: Piwigo is free and powerful open source image gallery software. It is easily customizable. It comes with themes and plugins so that you can easily change its appearance and also can enhance its features. Thus with Piwigo you can give a personal touch to your online photo gallery website. You can organize the photos easily using Piwigo image gallery script and provides many other features too.

5. TinyWebGallery – TinyWebGallery is another very powerful php based photo gallery script. Moreover, TinyWebGallery is available absolutely free. It is easy to install, easy to use and does not even require a database (employs xml files). It is loaded with features that can be enabled, disabled and can be even be configured. It has an advanced administrative panel which manages users, images and configuration settings.

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20 Must-Have WordPress Plugins

Best and Must-Have WordPress Plugins

1. WordPress SEO by Yoast

2. Akismet

It’s important to recognize spam comments in your WordPress blog and exclude them from showing up in the comments section. Akismet WordPress Plugin uses the Akismet web service to check your comments for spam and further review them in the “Comments” Admin screen. It also generates Spam and Unspam reports besides performing many other functions too.

3. Google XML Sitemaps

Inclusion of Sitemaps enables the search engines to have a complete overview of your site’s structure and thus retrieve it easily for the users. With the Google XML Sitemaps Plugin, you can create XML sitemap and hence facilitate better indexing of your blog by the various search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc.

4. Jetpack

Though WordPress is a powerful platform for blogging, still you need to enhance its features so as to have an edge over your competitors. With Jetpack WordPress Plugin, you can supercharge your site with many useful and powerful features. It lets you utilize WordPress.com’s amazing cloud power. You can include E-mail subscriptions for your posts, have WP.me URL shortener, have simple and concise stats, comment system with the social networking functionality and many others too.

5. Fast Secure Contact Form

By default, WordPress does not include the feature of having Contact Form for your site. But with Fast Secure Contact Form Plugin you can easily create and have contact forms in your WordPress site. It comes with multiple form options, form edit feature, provides Admin panel to create and preview contact forms, spam checking support and the facility to add fields such as checkbox, textarea, radio, text, etc.

6. Better WP Security

Addressing security issues is one of the most primary concerns for any webmaster or blogger using WordPress Platform. Login and admin area are the most sensitive places which need to be guarded against attack from hackers. With Better WP Security, you can patch many security holes in your WordPress site. It comes with one-click activation for features and provides many advanced security features, as well.

7. W3 Total Cache

Site performance is critical for user experience and so you need to optimize the web performance of your WordPress site. W3 Total Cache Plugin provides one of the most comprehensive performance framework and enhances the user experience of your website by improving on the server performance through caching. It works to reduce the download time and provides transparent CDN integration too.

8. BackWPup

Backing up data protects the content of your WordPress site. Using BackWPup Plugin you can easily do a backup of your database for your WordPress blog or site. Besides backup, BackWPup optimizes database, checks and repairs database, and also does file backup. You can have the backups in tar, tar.bz2, zip, tar.gz formats and store the backup at various places such as folder, Google Storage, Amazon S3, FTP Server, etc.

9. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin

One of the effective methods to engage your visitors is to have your related posts in your site. Using Yet Another Related Posts Plugin you can have a list of posts related to the current entry. This way you can make the reader explore more of the relevant content easily and thus retain their interest in your WordPress blog or website.

10. Broken Link Checker

Links which when clicked show up error pages is referred as broken links. Occurrence of broken links frustrates the user and also hampers the ranking of your website or blog in the search results page of search engines. Broken Link Checker Plugin monitors your blog for broken links and notifies you if any broken link exists on your blog posts. You can then delete the broken links or can even edit the URL of such links.


Hope you liked this Must-Have WordPress Plugins list. Please share your views and don’t forget to share this post on Twitter and Facebook.

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The Smiley and Emoticon Dictionary

:-)    - basic smiley

:)     - midget smiley

,-)    - winking happy smiley

(-:    - left hand smiley

(:-)   - smiley big face

(:-(   - very unhappy smiley

,-}    - wry and winking smiley

8-O  - Omigod

'-)     - winking smiley

:-#    - my lips are scaled

:-*    - kiss

:-/     - skeptical smiley

:->    - sarcastic smiley

:-@   - screaming smiley

:-d     - said with a smile

:-V    - shouting smiley

:-X    - a big wet kiss

:-\      - undecided smiley

:-]      - smiley blockhead

;-(      - crying smiley

>;->   - a very lewd remark was just made

;^)     - smirking smiley

%-)   - smiley after staring at a screen for 15 hours straight

):-(     - nordic smiley

3:]     - Lucy my pet dog smiley

:-&    - tongue tied

8:-)    - little girl smiley

:-)8<    - big girl smiley

:-O     - talkaktive smiley

:-6     - smiley after eating something spicy

+:-)   - priest smiley

O:-)  - angel smiley

:-<    - walrus smiley

:-?     - smiley smokes a pipe

:-E   - bucktoothed vampire

:-Q    - smoking smiley

:-}X    - bow tie-wearing smiley

:-[      - vampire smiley

:-a    - smiley touching her tongue to her nose

:-{    - mustache

:-{}    - smiley wears lipstick

:^)    - smiley with a personality

<:-l    - dunce smiley

:=)     - orangutan smiley

>:->    - devilish smiley

>:-l    - klingon smiley

@:-)   - smiley wearing a turban

@:-}    - smiley just back from the hairdresser

C=:-)   - chef smiley

X:-)    - little kid with a propeller beanie

[:-)     - smiley wearing a walkman

[:]     - robot smiley

{:-)    - smiley wears a toupee

l^o    - hepcat smiley

}:^#) - pointy nosed smiley

(:-(    - the saddest smiley

:-(=) - bucktooth smiley

O-)   - message from cyclops

:-3    - handlebar mustache smiley

: =    - beaver smiley

:-"    - whistling smiley

P-(    - pirate smiley

?-(     - black eye

d:-)    - baseball smiley

:8)     - pigish smiley

:-7 - smirking smiley

):-) - impish smiley

:/\) - extremely bignosed smiley

8(:-) - Mickey Mouse

([( - Robocop

:-(*) - that comment made me sick

&-l - that made me cry

:-e - disappointed smiley

:( - sad-turtle smiley

:,( - crying smiley

:-( - boo hoo

:-P - Nyahhhh!

:-S - what you say makes no sense

:-[ - un-smiley blockhead

:-C - real unhappy smiley

:-r - smiley raspberry

:-t - pouting smiley

:-W - speak with forked tongue

X-( - you are brain dead

l-O - smiley is yawning

l:-O - flattop loudmouth smiley

$-) - yuppie smiley

:-! - foot in mouth

:----} - you lie like pinnochio

O-) - smiley after smoking a banana

=:-) - smiley is a punk

=:-( - real punks never smile

3:[ - pit bull smiley

8<:-) - smiley is a wizard

:#) - drunk smiley

8-# - dead smiley

B-) - smiley wears glasses

8-) - smiley with big eyes...perhaps wearing contact lenses...

|-( - smiley lost his contact lenses

H-) - cross-eyed smiley

]-I - smiley wearing sunglasses (cool...therefore no smile, only a smirk)

V^J - smiley with glasses, seen from the left side (portrait, talking)

+-( - smiley, shot between the eyes

~:-P - smiley, thinking and steaming or: having only one single hair

`' - cat's eyes in the night

L-P - totally scrambled smiley (thats why L-P Mud exists... B)

BI - a frog

O | - Big Smiley Is Watching You 

 

 

The Smiley and Emoticon Dictionary

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