How to integrate Google Friend Connect - In Pictures

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

I am probably one of the luckiest (if this is the case) to have got google friend connect invitation a couple of minutes back. And it really took me a few minutes (< 10) to setup Google Friend connect on Gtalkbots. In Pictures: http://google.com/friendconnect Try out, if it clicks for your and others, ...

Warning for Google Chrome Users : Chrome’s ‘Save As’ Flaw Could Give Attackers Control

Monday, September 8th, 2008

Bach Khoa Internetwork Security, a security-research firm in Vietnam, claims to be the first to discover a critical vulnerability in Google's Chrome browser. "This is the first critical Chrome vulnerability permitting [a] hacker to perform a remote code-execution attack and take complete control of the affected system," the firm wrote in ...

Cuil : New search engine from former Googlers.

Monday, July 28th, 2008

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 ...

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

Friday, July 25th, 2008

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 ...

Critical Bug in Gmail integrated Chat

Friday, July 4th, 2008

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 ...

iGoogle Portal Implementation: How to do it?

Monday, June 30th, 2008

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 ...

Will google be a new Library of Alexandria.

Friday, June 27th, 2008

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 ...

Gmail Type Attachment - How to make one?

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Google and its wide range of web applications have simple changed the way we used to look at internet. Be it the revolutionary fast Google search engine or mail by Google i.e Gmail. You will find enormous amount of threads and forums discussing How do google achieve doing XYZ? or ...

Google, Yahoo, Microsoft toolkit for startups

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Welcome, Well there is some good news for young entrepreneurs out there. Google released Google Apps which can be used by for your websites email, hosting needs. You can use all the google applications (Gmail, Gtalk, Google docs, Calendar, Page Creator etc) for your site and all for free. This really ...

How to write crawlers and parse a page using Perl (Part 1)

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Hello all perl freaks, One of the most powerful thing which we can achieve using perl is, extracting any content from a website you want to. For example, you can use perl to extract information of all the artists from All Music, extract information about all cricket players and matches from ...