Multiple Login Options for Google Friend Connect

Now Google Friend Connect introduced Multiple Login Options. You can choose Google Account, AIM, Yahoo, Netlog or OpenID ids to log in to Google Friend Connect. This will attract more people to use Google Friend Connect.

Which id do you prefer to log in to Google Friend Connect? Do you use Google Friend Connect in your site/blog?

Sell Remote Computer Help

[ Help Me From Myself .. ~
Originally uploaded by The Falle'n ™ ~

Are you good in solving problems of computer? But unfortunately don't have any job (recession may be a cause)? Then why don't you sell your service online, by helping people, solving their problems online. CrossLoop is such a service, where you can sell your service to other people and get paid. You need to use their software for remote connect. You can use their software to help any of your friends for free too. However I don't like the speed and quality of the images (as compared to logmein.com), but if it can pay you for your help, then good to try.

Theft on the web and Brand awareness

Recently I found The Markup Dude changed his portfolio design. Then I came to know that someone (a front-end developer from 2006) stolen the design and put it on his portfolio. This worried Deb (the dude) and he changes his portfolio design. See this image for the original and copycat.



Deb tried to put that design off from that site. So he emailed that guy and some of his clients about this theft. And it worked! That guy changed his portfolio design. So it became a winning story for Deb.

Now come to the second part - the brand awareness. Your design is popular, this means you have the potential for a brand. A in case of Deb, his design is already featured in many css and design showsites (I coin showsites = showcases + websites). That guy who copied it must have got this from any of those showsites. This implies that the design is good and popular. When I think about markupdue.com, that particular design comes into my mind and when I think about The Mobile Store, that red color poly-bag comes into my mind.

There are few blogs who provide their theme for free download, so that admirers of that blog design can use this on their blogs (wordpress or blogger). This helps them to build their brand. Anyways, the design of your website affects your brand in a big way. So what do you think about the "Worry of Deb on design theft"? Does anyone can share the brand value or add more importance to the it by coping the design? Anywhere on the web you will see any bird, do you think about twitter? And what comes to your mind, when you see a whale (of course failed!)?

Copyright and HTML

Now I am going to explain how copyright is related with HTML.

If you write the following code in html:
Code:

<a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/3362464113_c8a721e308.jpg">Copyrighted photo</a>

Preview
Copyrighted photo

The above code is not infringement of copyright of the owner.

Just make a little modification to the above html code. Replace a by img, replace href, also remove the text in between the html tags. For XHTML validation, you can remove the img inside the closing tag and replace the code &rt;< by a blank space or white space. (You can even just delete it). Now the code becomes:
Code:

<img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3475/3362464113_c8a721e308.jpg"/>

Preview
Please excuse me; I can't show you the preview here, it may infringement of copyright of the owner. However you can try it yourself :P

Well, now using the above code can be a infringement of copyright of the owner.

Don't spend time on the bug someone already fixed

Bug, a integrate part of development. If you have developed some application, then there may be some bug. If you are unable to find a bug, that does not mean that the code is 100% perfect. And we learn many things from the bug. In my case, if I unable to find at least two bugs from my code, then I think there is something seriously wrong (Still I am a good coder ;) ). Some bugs easily fixed and some take more time to fix. If you have a good experience, then there may be a chance that you can fix the bug easily, you may be come across it before. Think, if you seeing the bug for the first time and you have no clue about the reason and the solution? You may end with wasting a lot of your valuable time.

Their goal:

No human should work on an error that has already been solved.

I am talking about an interesting platform, bug.gd. It's am Error Search and Collaboration tool, which helps you search for errors that other people have encountered. And the logic is quite simple, but great: why should you spend time on the error, if someone already fixed it? Using this is also quite simple. Just type something about your error and you will find a list of errors matching with your keywords. And you can get the solution there. They will you your email id (optional), so that you can create a profile for you and track all your error, fixes etc. In 48 hours, they will ask you, how you solved this problem.

It not only searches in its own database, but also searches in Microsoft, Apple, RedHat support sites and Linux forums. With addition to searching for your error, you can also download some tools for your browser,

• bug.gd Firefox Extension
• bug.gd Firefox Search Bar
• bug.gd IE7 Search Bar
• Python Library

Also you can create a free error database for your company at ErrorHelp.com.

And the registration is very easy, just give an email id and your profile is created. Everything is good, but only thing I am thinking about, why it's not asking me any password while log in!

Rs 700 investment worths Rs 1.5 Lacs

I got one online tool Stimator some days back, which estimates the value of your website. In curiosity I checked Love Orkut value there. Then it showed me some value just above to $3000 (approximately 1.5 lacs in INR) [now it shows $411 - market crashed down :( ].

Well let me tell you about Love Orkut, I started it in the early 2008. Registered domain name for Rs 295 and opted for a free hosting at xtreemhost. Selected a free template for the design from Open Source Web Design and started coding (in PHP and MySQL) for the website. Collected scraps, testimonials from my old collection and searched some good photos from Flickr, Loving Hugs, Photo Bucket etc. to add the most popular section, Photo Scraps. I have not counted the time spent on it. If I could have a track of this, then I could tell you better, if I am in profit or in loss. I added many things to this, which does not cost anyone: love, passion, knowledge, experience etc. It took time for me to earn money from this site, but I got increase in it's visibility. The number of page loads, unique visitors, direct visitors and returning visitors increasing day by day (Still I can manage this in free hosting).

In last one year the money I able to make is just above INR 10,000. I spend another 400 rupees for renewing the domain name. In this way I invested Rs 700. Let me justify its value for INR 1.5 Lac. If you deposit INR 1.5 Lac in Post Office Monthly Income Scheme (8% interest rate per yer, calculated and credited each month and goes for 6 years, after maturity pays 15% bonus with the face deposit), you can earn INR 1000 each month. I am earning more than that (not for doing anything, what I do for this site is not for today, for future) each month! In this way it worth INR 1.5 lac.

Till when I can run and earn from it:

• When Orkut will be shut down or banned (in India, I got most of the visitors from India)
• When people stop using Orkut
• When people will be get bored with the old contents
• When I will not renew the domain name
• And some unknown reason

And then I will lost all of 1.5 lac or more, which never happens when you invest money in other places. So this is my 700 Bucks story. If you have any idea to execute (don't worry, if it's a small one), please execute and you will be happy and successful in future. Let me know, if you need any kind of help.

IE 7 Renders Image Badly

I got surprised when I saw IE 7 is rendering some image so badly, whereas Firefox is rendering it perfectly. No more to say, this picture will tell you all.

Updated
Deb read this post and came with the solution. He asked to use

img { -ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic; }

in CSS. I used this and now IE 7 renders the images properly. He treats this as non standard MS proprietary CSS. About the problem he explains: if the image is being stretched a bit, or is bigger than it is supposed to be IE does not scale it properly. Many thanks to him for sharing this bit of knowledge. If you are searching for any image rendering problem in IE can use this bit of CSS. Many thanks to Deb.

Deb is a freelancer who designs XHTML/CSS. You can see his portfolio and hire him for all your markup related jobs.

Google Said Sorry

Before an hour the world saw Google saying the WWW is infected and can harm your computer. At that time, I was browsing Google Webmasters Tool and I redirected to a page, in the domain name sorry.google.com and it said me query looks like from a virus or a spyware. Here is the image. I think this error message is somehow related to the Google Search Issue.

HTML and CSS Reference in Mozilla Firefox - FireScope

Suppose you are designing a web page and stuck some where and then you need to refer a good resource: it may be a good book or any good reference on the web. Think, if you can get it in your browser (Mozilla Firefox - Browser boleto Firefox). It is possible now by FireScope. FireScope is a Firefox addon which works together with FireBug and provides reference material for HTML and CSS. This tool FireScope is developed by SitePoint, which provides high quality books and reference materials on web development. SitePoint also provides good reference materials for free at SitePoint Reference
Thanks Shayne Tilley.

Get FireFox here:

High Quality Free Web Reference - New SitePoint Reference

SitePoint, the popular resource for web related knowledge and skill has release their newly designed Reference site. Their you can get high quality reference for HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Now web development and learning will be more easier.
Thanks Shayne Tilley

Where are my Tweets - Bug of Twitter

Sometimes twitter shows 0 updates in the home page. And again clicking on home link, it shows actual number of updates. I noticed it twice in these days.

No commercilization of YouTube video

As Google updates the TOS of YouTube, I removed all the ad blocks from Oriya Video Songs. So now there is no commercialization of YouTube videos, but Oriya video lovers can watch those videos. However there is a search box (uses Adsense for Search) and it displays ad on a separate page, where there is no YouTube videos embedded. This is legal and becomes only source of revenue from this.

Thanks Amit for this info.

I miss Full Screen Option in Google Chrome - Post One Month Review

It's around one month, since Google Chrome released. Soon after release it had taken 2% of browser market. I also like most of the features in it. I have switched some special site visiting to Google Chrome. I found difficulty while downloading some files in Mozilla Firefox 3. Every time it used to get corrupted. I used Google Chrome for downloading those files and found the downloaded files are OK. So some of my http downloads are now managed by Google Chrome.

Now I prefer to watch sites with rich flash contents in Google Chrome. YouTube, thecinema.in (a movie booking website created in flash, it takes much time to load on a slow connection) and official movie websites, etc. fall under this category. One week back I visited the official movie website of Kidnap. There I found the website needs vertical scroll. To view it better, I thought to make it full screen. But I did not find the option to make Google Chrome full screen. I could not believe it easily, so I searched it for a long time, still did not find (If I am wrong, then please inform me).

I use Mozilla Firefox for most of the websites need authentication. It's now difficult for me to remember all my passwords and fill the login form every time. Thanks to the password manager, to save my time by managing my login information. However this password manager is also available in Google Chrome, but I miss master password option. This master password make it more secure.

Google Chrome as Stress Buster
You may not believe, but it's true. Sometimes I use Google Chrome as stress buster, by playing with the tabs. Making a new window from tabs by dragging and merging many windows to a single window is worth of fun!

Once I found Google Chrome stopped responding. But the problem was not with the application. I guess it's is due to excess heat of my hard disk. All other applications also joined Google Chrome to stop responding! It forced me to shutdown my system forcefully and give it some rest.

Please share your experience with Google Chrome and other browsers.

Connected Indians : A Movement to Connect all Indians

Intel launched a fresh campaign, better to say a movement to connect all Indians, called Connected Indians.

Can a billion Indians get connected?

The Connected Indians movement aims to be the catalyst for delivering the power of the Internet into the hands of a billion Indians. Intel is privileged to facilitate this effort, but its success will hinge on spirited public and private participation. Over the next few months we will mobilize people, resources & infrastructure to facilitate Internet adoption. Overtime, this collaboration will help build partnerships between people, Industries and stakeholders via a complete and connected ecosystem to accelerate the growth of internet and its benefits to the society.

There are so many companies partnered with Intel for this campaign.

If you want to be a part of this campaign, then please visit: Connected Indians.

I became Top 250 affiliates of Spread Firefox (SFX)

Today is a great day for me, as I became Top 250 affiliates of Spread Firefox (SFX). Today my rank is 233 with 30 downloads in last 7 days and 32 downloads in total.



And a request as well as an advice, if you are using Internet Explorer, then please download Mozilla Firefox and enjoy best browsing ever.

Use Conditional Comments for Internet Explorer Specific Code

If you want to display some content in any web page, specific for internet explorer or other than it, you can do it at least 3 ways.

1. Using your server sided script
2. Using JavaScript or any other browser sided script
3. Conditional Comments

Now I am going to discuss about Conditional Comments. Conditional comment is some simple html code, if the condition satisfies, then the code between the start point and end point of the conditionals comments displays in the browser else treated as comment.

The following example shows the contents inside the conditional comments if the browser is Internet Explorer. For other browsers it will be treated as comment only.


If you want to run some code in the browsers other than Internet Explorer, the follow the following syntax.


Note: Here there is no -- before ! symbol at start of the tag and -- in end tag. This is called as Conditional comments revealed, which will be parsed by other browsers, but will be evaluated by the IE. If the condition satisfies, then IE will treat it as comments, else parse the code in between.

Now if you want to run some code in version specific Internet Explorer, then follow the syntax bellow.



Why to use conditional comments to detect browser?
It has two benefits. First one is it doesn't require server sided scripting, static websites can use it effectively. Second one is, you also don't need any client sided scripting.

Reference:
MSDN - Detecting Internet Explorer More Effectively

To learn more about conditional comments please read: MSDN - About Conditional Comments

And if you are using Internet Explorer, please download Mozilla Firefox 3 to experience the best browsing ever.

Why not to forward Spam mails?

You must have got some mails like, someone is suffering from a disease, or someone lost her/his hand or something similar and if you do so, Yahoo or Orkut or someone will pay money if you forward this mail. And sometimes people send some mail if you will forward this mail to 20 friends, Microsoft will gift you $500, like so many offers. And this is from Thirupathy Balaji, if you forward to 21 friends, then you will be lucky. What do people do generally, just forward to their contacts.

The question comes, where do these emails originates? And why people send these spams? How they got benefited? And the simple answer from me is: some sweets spams for bitter spams. When you forward your email to someone or more, you type their email addresses at To, or CC, and very rarely BCC. When your friend forwards this mail, this contains all the email addresses to whom you have sent the same email. In this way the email will reach at the originator or creator of the sweet spam as world is round, so as World Wide End (more complex connections, not simply round as world), will so many email addresses. In this way they will get so many email addresses and spam to them. This is the reason, whenever you surprise to see one spam in your mail box and thinking how do these spammers get my email id?

So my friend, never forward such nonsense sweet spams.

New YouTube Player Beta

I found that there is one New YouTube Player Beta available, and said "Let's try it". Well this flash YouTube player is looking great as compared to the old one and it is obvious. Have a look to this snap shot.


And the volume control is also improved in style and functionality.


While downloading the movie to the flash frame, the control paused automatically when the slider pointer is at the end of loaded bar. And there is no control to take it back to start as the old one. So at that point if you need to pause, then you need to slide back the pointer little back and click on the pause button, if you need to pause.


And see how it looks in full screen mode.


Well now I have finished with watching the video and see how it is listing the related videos. I miss the timer for next set here as in old one.


Oops how bad it looks when you are watching this in full screen mode and the video finishes. It is displaying only 2 related videos as normal mode.


Well this video is also very nice. Watch it : The Legend Madhubala- A Tribute

Firefox Quick Browse Sortcuts

Here are some shortcuts of Mozilla Firefox (my favorite and worlds best browser) for quick browsing.

Ctrl + Enter = Appends .com/ and prepend http://www.

(Example: Type google and press Ctrl + Enter, it will open http://www.google.com/)

Shift + Enter = Appends .net/ and prepend http://www.

(Example: Type google and press Shift + Enter, it will open http://www.google.net/)

Ctrl + Shift + Enter = Appends .org/ and prepend http://www.

(Example: Type google and press Ctrl + Shift + Enter, it will open http://www.google.org/)

Alt + Enter = Opens that address in a new tab/window

Ctrl + Alt + Enter = Appends .com/ and prepend http://www. and opens in a new tab/window

(Example: Type google and press Ctrl + Alt + Enter, it will open http://www.google.com/ in a new tab/window)

Shift + Alt + Enter = Appends .net/ and prepend http://www. and opens in a new tab/window

(Example: Type google and press Shift + Alt + Enter, it will open http://www.google.net/ in a new tab/window)

Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Enter = Appends .org/ and prepend http://www. and opens in a new tab/window

(Example: Type google and press Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Enter, it will open http://www.google.org/ in a new tab/window)

Got phishing email

Recently I got one email from one phisherman (inspired by fisherman). I mean I got one phishing email. Please check the snapshot of that email.

You can see another web site's address in the tool tip. I followed the link and found a page which ask everything about me and account, credit/debit cards. Even I don't have any account. What I did, I just filled all the bad words in the fields of form and it accepted all without any validation. The email id from which I got the email is also not valid. It is not accepting any reply.
I was known to phishing and I don't have any citibank account. That's why I escaped. It may happen to any other, who is not techie and unaware to this. So if you get any mail like this in future, just delete this and be safe.