If you use Public APIs (like Bing Search, Google Maps APIs) in your applications, it helps to be aware of performance and availability issues that those services may face. Thankfully, there are some free tools that monitor popular APIs & websites -Api-status.com tracks 40+ Public APIs every five minutes from one of its 49 global monitoring stations.Social Down Or Not tracks uptime and performance status of social networks Neustar Webmetics Lab project Crowdsourced Monitoring tracks the health of popular services by monitoring...
Thursday, 30 September 2010
Monday, 27 September 2010
Deepak Shenoy informs that as per Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) data, India has nearly 10 million Broadband connections in India (not just users). As per current TRAI norms, a broadband connection should have a speed of 256 kbps.According to World Bank data, only 4.5% of the total Indian population has access to the Internet (as of 2008) while the world average is 24%India is however, the fourth-largest...
Saturday, 25 September 2010
Wordle is a fun web application for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. It can also be considered a “information visualization” or a text-analytics tool. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the...
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Dave Ward has done an informal study on the top 200,000 sites identified by Alexa to find which of those sites use a public jQuery CDN. His findings:47 of the Alexa top 1,000 include a Google CDN reference. 99 of the Alexa top 2,000 reference jQuery on the Google CDN. 6,953 of the top 200,000 sites include a script reference to some version of jQuery hosted on Google’s CDN.989 of the Alexa top 200,000 sites reference jQuery UI on the Google CDN....
Some "smart" digicams can store location data in the photos you shoot. When you publish these photographs on public websites, this information can get into wrong hands.Computer World explains how -..the Exchangeable Image File format (EXIF) specification adds metadata to common JPG and TIFF image files. Along with a thumbnail image of the photo, EXIF data stores details about aperture, shutter speed, focal length, metering mode, and ISO settings....There's also room for other information, such as the camera's make, model, and registration number,...
Sunday, 19 September 2010
A security vulnerability (dubbed as 'Padding Oracle' Crypto Attack) has been identified in ASP.NET.Scott Guthrie has a detailed blog post that you must read & implement the advice in it to keep your ASP.NET applications safe. Excerpts -This vulnerability exists in all versions of ASP.NET...all versions of ASP.NET are affected, including ASP.NET MVC.An attacker using this vulnerability can request and download files within an ASP.NET Application like the web.config file (which often contains sensitive data).At attacker exploiting this vulnerability...
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
An ever increasing number of web apps are utilizing AJAX to deliver an addictive user experience. Here's a list of apps/mash-ups I like that leverage AJAX -* YouTube Instant Messaging - developed by Stanford University student, Feross Aboukhadijeh, this is a predictive search results feature for YouTube that is inspired from Google Instant. This has in turn inspired Google Maps Instant. * Google Scribe - This Google Labs product provides autocomplete suggestions while you type, like the free desktop tool PhraseExpress After you install &...
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Summary of the advice from the "Rethinking the Mobile Web" presentation on developing for the mobile web -1. mobile first 2. use well structured, meaningful markup 3. the absence of support for @media queries is in fact the first @media query... 4. progressively enhance using JavaScript and @media queries 5. adapt content (especially images) appropriately for each device 6. compress content where possible, and don’t include unnecessary data This very...
Thursday, 9 September 2010
I don't how Google's auto suggest algorithm works exactly but if it shows the most queried results matching the initial keywords without filtering those with negative connotations, its a time to worry, especially for parents & teachers. What impact can it have on teenagers & younger kids? SafeSearch screens only for sites that contain explicit sexual content leaving other sensitive topics. Displaying an auto-suggestion like "how to hack gmail...
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
There can be some sneaky programs that install not just what they explicitly claim to do but also things like toolbars & add-ons within IE. As most people agree to a software publisher's Terms & Conditions without reading them, they may have deviously add a line that says one of your kidney & your PC are their property.These add-ons known as browser helper objects may contain flaws such as buffer...
Monday, 6 September 2010
Last month, Internet Explorer turned 15. Here's a timeline of IE releases based on excerpts from seattlepi's article on the history of IE -IE1 was born when Microsoft got a license from Spyglass Inc. for the source code of Mosaic -- the first graphical Web browser technology. Microsoft launched IE1 in August 1995 as part of the Windows 95 Plus! pack, a $49 add-on for the landmark operating system.IE2 came in November 1995, and by April 1996 it also...
Saturday, 4 September 2010
SharedView lets you connect, share, review, and update documents with up to 15 people in a session in real time. Anyone can share, and the person sharing can give control to anyone else as long as they have downloaded the current release of this program.Audio support is not currently available, so a telelphone call or an instant messaging program that supports Voice over IP (VoIP) can be used.Microsoft SharedView & Dimdim are yet to be listed on Wikipedia's article on comparison of remote desktop softwa...
Friday, 3 September 2010
Computer hardware can go wrong anytime. If your mouse ever conks out, your keyboard can turn a saviour. Mouse Keys is an accessibility feature present in a various Windows versions that can let you control the mouse pointer with the keyboard.You can press left ALT + left SHIFT + NUMLOCK keyboard shortcut to turn on or off this feature. Once activated, the Mouse Keys icon will appear on the taskbar. You can then navigate...
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Way back in 2004, a project I was working on required a web page to be exported as a Word document (.DOC). Without relying on any components, I utilized the Office XML & HTML technique to implement this feature. I posted my sample on CodeProject to seek feedback. Over the years, I've received some generous comments & feature requests. Many wanted to know how to add a header & footer to the dynamically generated Word document. With the...
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