In its Events That Shaped The Wired World section, Wired magazine credits Scott Fahlman with first using the Smiley :-) & "Frowny" :-( emoticons in electronic messages.On Sept. 19th, 1982, he had proposed on the computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University that the smiley be used as a joke marker & "frowny" to mark things that are NOT jokes.Scott came up with the idea after reading “lengthy diatribes” from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular po...
Monday, 19 September 2011
Saturday, 17 September 2011
Firefox 3.x used to have an option to block pesky images that were not part of the context of page that you were viewing - like image ads. You just had to right click on the image, & select "Block images from {domain serving the image}" to never see any images from that domain again. That context menu option is missing from Firefox 4 & above.It turns out that it is still there but there are some additional steps to reach it. Right click...
Wednesday, 14 September 2011
A web developer's education is never finished. Here is a list of trends & reference tables that, in my opinion, every web developer should track -HTTP Archive - Trends in web technology, interesting stats, repository of web performance informationBrowser Security Handbook - Key security properties of contemporary web browsers HTML 5 Reference TableHTML 4/ XHTML Reference TableCSS 3 Reference TableCSS 2 Reference TablePPK's Browser Event Compatibility Tables - Desktop, MobileHTML5 compatibility on mobile and tablet browserswork...
Saturday, 10 September 2011
If you need to find hardware details of your Windows PC, like any of the following -Version including Service Pack usedWindow Experience IndexProcessorRAMSystem type (32-bit or 64-bit OS)Computer name, domain & workgroup settingsWindows Product Id & whether Windows is activated... there is a easy keyboard shortcut to reach for this info rather than going for it through Control Panel - Windows key + Pause/BreakI discovered this shortcut...
I follow the Personal Technology page of "Economic Times" with interest for their India-centric coverage of gadgets & IT topics.This week ET listed 10 useful USB accessories. Among them, although a USB-based Hub & Mug Warmer, Cooler, paper shredder, Vaccum Cleaner have some novelty, they didn't appeal to me as much as these -Jabra Speak 410 - USB powered speakerphone ... with integrated cable managment system. Weighing a mere 250g, this speakerphone also has a headset port where you can plug-in any 3.5mm headphones in case you want the...
Friday, 2 September 2011
Weather isn't a hot topic in India (as it is in the US) & forecasts aren't taken seriously.Possibly to promote awareness, the Indian Meteorological Department has put out an ad in today's Times of India (with a glaring typo -Meteorological is misspelt as Meteorogical right at the beginning) to publicize the features if its site - IMD.GOV.IN click image to enlarge Besides a host of services & forecasts, the site publishes 3-day city...
Thursday, 1 September 2011
Microsoft's Web Hosting Gallery has a neat tool to let you search for hosting providers based on parameters like type of server (shared, dedicated, virtual server) cost, technologies supported (Frameworks, Databases, Publishing protocols), storage, number of SQL Databases, number of e-mail accounts, bandwidth per month, support, uptime.Also see:Tips on ASP.NET Hosting & Deploym...
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