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The Perfect Home Page
2008-04-26 14:44:00
Through ajaxian.com, I found about this project “TPHP “. “command based way to start your web journey” An simple designed HTML page with javascripts to provide various functionality like search from google, yahoo etc and others like whois, dns lookup. It provides all these functionality with a simple command like interface. For example you can do ...
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Dilbert in new flavor
2008-04-22 08:31:00
New design and features @ www.dilbert.com Read more about it: Dilbert .com relaunches with Web 2.0 flavor. They have added comic strips as flash content. But I liked the old format..more simple. And now all comics are colored too. An IITian’s super power strikes again in new comic strip. Super powers of Asok (Used till now): Guided reincarnation Advance shape shifting Telekinetic ...
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Creating Error 404 page
2008-04-16 22:54:00
Helping lost visitors? Sometimes a link provided by you may end up as 404 page or viewer might have typed wrong URL that doesn’t lead correct page on your site. To help your visitors you can actually use .htaccess file (for Apache servers) to redirect all such links to a special page which will be ...
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View page source trick in firefox, flock
2008-04-15 20:07:00
You may have read about firefox’s special about: pages like about:config, about:cache etc. Or you can go through Firefox about: pages to have an idea about them. There is one similar functionality in firefox which allows you to view page source of a page. You can type view-source:http://www.google.com/ this in location bar to view ...
More About: Page , Source , Trick , View

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)
2008-04-15 19:58:00
Two days back, my shoutbox was hacked :). I was not aware that people are actually visiting this, which I made long back to have similar thing for Ethos in june, 2005. After that i haven’t updated the code and many things were left in between. What actually happened: Cross Site Scripting , when we want ...

My Del.icio.us Toolbar 2.0
2008-04-15 19:55:00
Yesterday I was working late night till 3AM, to update my extension ‘My Del.icio.us Toolbar ’ which I made long back in October 2006. Reason was to make it work for newer versions of firefox. But then I added some new features too : I added a Explore feature which is similar to Stumble. Checking Del.icio.us cookies to ...

Firefox shortcuts
2008-02-26 16:07:00
Today I learnt 2 new firefox shortcuts/tricks through this article 20 Amazing Firefox Shortcuts to Save You Time and Money. Deleting Address: Highlight them and use SHIFT + DELETE to remove from drop down menu in address bar. Get Instant Downloads : Just drag the link to download icon in toolbar which you ca get by customizing ...

Google movie search tricks
2008-02-25 18:04:00
I found this interesting article about search tricks for movie lovers. Try some sample searches: Movie Reviews: movie:American Gangster Discover movies: http://www.google.com/movies http://www.google.co.in/movies (for India) director: The Incredibles Interesting thing is country specific google movie domains are also tracking movie theaters, multiplexes in each city for listing of movies and their timings. And you can sort them according to ...
More About: Google , Tricks , Search

Adobe AIR: Web to Desktop
2008-02-19 22:28:00
Past few days, I have came across Adobe AIR through digg, techmeme, delicious and so today i thought i should try this. Adobe AIR lets us their existing web development skills in HTML, AJAX, Flash and Flex to build and deploy rich Internet applications to the desktop. For Application development you will need two things: Adobe ...
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Trying hands on Google gadgets
2008-02-17 01:16:00
Tonight i tried creating some google gadgets (actually its quite easy using Google Gadget Creator). You can check out them here: Google gadgets . You can use html / javascript (as in any other webapage) to create gadgets. So i converted my Rubiks Cube Timer to a gadget. Other one is a ...
More About: Gadgets , Hands , Google Gadgets , Hands On

New Webpage :)
2008-02-15 05:57:00
Hi everybody…. As I have graduated from IIT bombay completing my B.tech in computer science, so my webpage there wont be available for long. So I have taken a new web domain : http://www.aburad.com with hostmonster till now services are good for what I paid. Right now i have just shifted my iitb page there, but ...
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Elephanta Caves
2008-02-10 20:29:00
Yesterday I visited Elephanta Caves which are beautifully carved shiv temples out of solid rock mountain. These caves dates back to 5-7 century A.D. You can reach there by a ferry from Gate Way of India, Bombay. The ferry ride was awesome with beautiful view of sea, Gate way of India, Taj hotel and ...

Inovation in India/IITs
2008-01-02 06:27:00
I read this interesting article by Bernard on State of Inovation in India . I agree with him that lot have changed (improved) but still we have yet to see Google/Microsoft from here(IITs). As he mentioned one of the main reason is playing things safe. The fundamental issue in India is the risk/reward equation. It is simply ...

Chart API for webpages
2007-12-07 10:45:00
Cool….Great yet Simple.. Embed charts in webpages with one of our simplest APIs yet We actually built this originally to use internally - we use it on Google Video and Google Finance for example. It seemed like it would be a good thing to open up to other users too. You can find out all about ...
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dot com bubble?Again ?
2007-12-06 12:40:00
Richter Scale : Here Comes Another Bubble