Abhi’s Weblog

How to make faster websites and enhance your site user experience - Part 1

In all my posts till now I concentrated over how to get started with web development and related introductory stuffs. In next few posts (series of 3 posts), I will write some of my learning in the field of “How to make your website faster and enhance your site user experience”.
So lets assume I made […]

Tags: Apache, CSS, ETag, gzip Encoding, javascript, Minification, Optimization, Web2.0, YSlow

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Cuil : New search engine from former Googlers.

Just came across this search engine http://www.cuil.com , which is supposedly from former Googlers or I must say rebellious googler. Cuil Inc (which is pronounced as Cool) claims that it can index faster and more cheaper, a far larger portion of the web than google.
The would-be Google rival says its service goes beyond […]

Tags: Cuil, Google, Search Engine

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How to get started with web development?

Many of my friends have asked me on how to start with web development. I am not expert but here in this post I would like to describe a few steps that might help one climb the ladder of web development fast. Kindly feel free to add to this blog post if you think some […]

Tags: Altertunes, Apache, CPanel, Dedicated Server, LAMP, MySQL, OpenLaszlo, Perl, PHP, Shared Hosting, Ubuntu, VPS, WAMP, Web Hosting

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Calendar with Auto-Notification : API and demo.

I was quite impressed with the Google Calendar, Yahoo Calendar and Outlook implementation of the same and wondered how exactly is it done? What are the challenges? So I thought of making a clone of one of them and see if I am able to achieve the same level of perfection.
I must say my 1 […]

Tags: API, calendar, Cron Job, CSS, Demo, javascript

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Its too much to handle for YouTube now : Finally its down

Hi,
Well I was just doing the daily maintenance of one of the sites I own where I have several youtube videos embedded. I noticed that I wasn’t able to embed some videos successfully which were there before yesterday. I tried changing my script 2-3 times, tried different method. Finally I thought of opening the video […]

Tags: Google, YouTube

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YAHOO! Announces Settlement with Carl Icahn

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July
21, 2008
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn to settle their pending proxy contest related to the Company’s 2008 annual meeting of stockholders.

Under the terms of the settlement agreement, eight members of Yahoo!’s current Board of Directors will stand for re-election […]

Tags: Carl Icahn, Microsoft, Yahoo

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iPhone Flick Photo SlideShow API

Apple Inc has been the pioneers in the field of innovation and excellent User Interfaces. After iPod they have come up with much hyped iPhone which runs on touch screen technology. I was just looking at this particular feature in iPhone where user can flick the photos in the slide show, and depending upon his […]

Tags: API, Demo, Flick, iPhone, Photo, Slideshow

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Link to new facebook design: See it building everyday

Hello Everyone, I don’t exactly remember from where I came across this link. The link shows you the latest development on new look and feel of facebook. Click the link below which will take you to the new facebook’s development page.
New Facebook Design Development Link
What’s new in the new design?

Well Facebook was always Ajax dominated […]

Tags: Facebook

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Photo Cropper API: How is it achieved?

Photo Cropper was something which was introduced or I must say became popular after various social networking sites started applying it. This allows users to choose a section from a photo which he wants to upload and show to the world around.
I initially tried to investigate how Orkut do this for their users. Further I […]

Tags: API, Cropper, CSS, Demo, javascript, Photo, PHP

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Gain admin access on windows system using your guest account

Hello All,
Ever thought of how to get into your friend’s system and see the access denied files and folders? Or ever wanted to hack into someone’s admin account? Well here is a method which exploits yet another windows bug.

Have you ever noticed that if you press your system’s SHIFT key >= 5 times continuously a […]

Tags: Hack, Security, Windows

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Fake Email from PayPal Cloned Sites

Do you enter your paypal emailid and passwords without looking at the URL in your browser? If you are kindly stop doing the same. Here is a very strong reason why I say this:
1. Today I received an email which you can very well see below.

2. It says that your pay pal account has been […]

Tags: Fake, PayPal, Phishing

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Windows Text to Speech Convertor: Try at Home

Ever wondered about one great thing in windows which can amaze you? Well here is one for you
Try to do the following steps, and you will see a perfect example of text to speech convertor:

Open notepad and put the following code into it:
Dim msg, sapi
msg=InputBox(”Enter your text”,”Talk it”)
Set sapi=CreateObject(”sapi.spvoice”)
sapi.Speak msg

Save the file as […]

Tags: Hack, Text to Speech, Windows

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Critical Bug in Gmail integrated Chat

Well chat is a part of our day to day life (I use Gtalk). While chatting with my friends today who were using gmail integrated chat, I noticed that they were going offline every 2-3 minutes. Finally thanks to Sowmya Sudha, who came up with this critical bug in Gmail integrated chat. Here is what […]

Tags: Bug, Gmail, Google, Gtalk

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iGoogle Portal Implementation: How to do it?

After developing the draggable div application the other day, I was itched to implement the whole iGoogle portal. Probably the drive came when a few of you asked me “These draggable divs are just like iGoogle”, so I thought why not to give a shot at it.
Here is what I was able to come […]

Tags: API, CSS, Demo, Draggable DIV, Google, iGoogle, javascript, Portal

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The shocking reality about reservation.

Hi,
I just don’t want to hurt anyone’s feeling out here. But I just went through a post at our IIT Guwahati orkut community which provided two astonishing links.
Go to http://www.jee.iitk.ac.in/result.htm
Enter Roll No: 1132131
The guy is some BRAJMOHAN MEENA
All India Rank : 4929
Rank in ST category : ST9
Now go to: http://www.jee.iitk.ac.in/counsel.htm
Enter […]

Tags: IIT, Reservation

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Draggable DIVs : How to make one?

You all must have seen a similar thing on your iGoogle home page. Further for years this application is an integral part of Yahoo User Interface Library i.e. YUI. I tried to tweak into the iGoogle and YUI implementation of the draggable div implementation, but somehow I found them rather too complex to understand. Hence […]

Tags: API, CSS, Demo, Draggable DIV, javascript

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2nd Year @ IIT Guwahati

Attendence of abt 10% in class, CPI of 6.75, a girlfriend, an electric guitar, a rock band, few sucking performance on stage, beer rum whisky vodka and lots of friend : In short this was my first year at IIT Guwahati. But then college life is not just about fun, and my […]

Tags: Guwahati, IIT, IITG

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My stay @ IIT Guwahati (1st year)

I was never a bookworm and didnt liked studies from my school days. Infact I didnt knew about IIT’s even when I was in 12th standard. My father always used to hate my frnds, and the reason was quite obvious…none of them looked like a ’seedha saadha padhai waala bacchaa’…..Infact none of my close frnd […]

Tags: Guwahati, IIT, IITG

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Will google be a new Library of Alexandria.

What if all the world’s information would be available and easy to find? What if all the news, all books, all texts, photographs and videos would be collected in one place, and made available, always and everywhere? This is the goal of Google, and the company seems to be realising its core mission at an […]

Tags: Google

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Photo Tagging API : Easy plugin for your websites and blogs

Flickr, Facebook and now Orkut. One by One everyone has implemented the photo tagging feature into their social network. Initially introduced by Flickr, extended by Facebook and finally Orkut was forced to implement it too.
Last night I tried to look into it to found out what does it take to make one and I […]

Tags: API, CSS, Demo, javascript, Photo, PHP, Tagging

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