You may have heard – the reach of Internet in India is increasing rapidly. VoIP has came in, 3G & IPtv is at the doorstep, bandwidth prices are falling down, BSNL’s netPC launched, but I still do not see a great future. I do not see awareness of .in domains, for promoting Hindi, I do [...]
Vineet Gupta (from Directi) touches some practical aspects of scaling web-applications. He talks about scaling app-servers, database-servers, alternatives of RDBMS, handling replication and transactional behavior. Thought the presentation is big, it touches all major aspects of scaling and gives broader insight. Check out yourself…
The following solution just came random to my mind and it worked!
Problem: While surfing around, I came across a website whose content encoding is not being supported with my latest Firefox v3.5.4 showed me unsupported compression error.
Content Encoding Error
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid [...]
Youtube link for video: Larry Ellison – What The Hell Is Cloud Computing
Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, describes all the fuzz around cloud computing in a short introduction. He touches very reasonable concern –
“computing industry is the only industry more fashion driven than woman’s fashion“
Of course, this is true. Think about the last [...]
A quick way to insert music in your site:
Create hyper-links for few MP3 files
Insert following script code to your page
<script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js”></script>
You are done! Yahoo! Media Player will be loaded and it will make all media links clickable
Here are few of my favorite tracks. Use the play button to listen. Thanks to RadioReloaded.com.
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Here is how you can embed a mp3/song on a web page:
<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
src="http://beemp3.com/player/player.swf" style="width: 290px;" id="126954385" name="126954385" bgcolor="#ffffff"
quality="autohigh" wmode="transparent"
flashvars="playerID=1&bg=0xCDDFF3&soundFile=http://www.tdfast.com/mfiles/headroom-Happy_Birthday_.mp3&autostart=yes"
allownetworking="internal" allowscriptaccess="never" width="290" height="24">
You should replace the mp3 file mentioned under soundFile variable. The autostart=yes variable causes the player to play mp3 immediately (it can be removed).
You can follow this to add jingles on your friend’s scrap [...]
The Web would not be so simpler and interactive without Ajax. This technology makes Web applications pleasant, interactive, quick responsive and light weight. Take any of the online map applications, no matter whether it is Yahoo Maps, Google Maps or Windows Live Local, and you will find awesome precession, cutting edge technology (beyond DHTML, XML [...]
Hi,
I’m {PREF=”ID=cfd6bd57439bc4a9:TM=1205732323:LM=1205732323:S=tT1f1NaLxjumQJbv”}. I’m a regular Internet surfer. On an average I’m online for more than 8 hours a day and that makes me to think of a new phrase – ‘my online presence’, and somewhere it may hurt my privacy.
In Web 2.0 big companies are competing to gain as much as information about Internet users [...]
2-3 Years back I have written a script to write Hindi in an effective way. Here is the Online Hindi Writing Tool. And here are few sites who have copied my Hindi writing script .
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~ashishchandra/hindi
http://khattarkaka.tripod.com/
http://hindipatrikaworld.tripod.com/
http://raviratlami.googlepages.com/ Remington-Krutidev-Online-Hindi-Easy-Editor.htm
http://www.hungamamasti.com/hindi.htm
Thankx to those who gave me back link, and a kind request to others
The worst thing here is, [...]
Damn Yahoo! Damn its Toolbar!
What I did?
I just upgraded Yahoo messenger 8.1 as requested by software
What it did?
It installed yahoo toolbar without asking
It set Yahoo.com as homepage without asking, it didn’t honored my existing homepage
It modified my preferences without asking.
Even a lot of people are complaining about the same DAMN toolbar. Here are a few:
http://wildrun.blogspot.com/2006/12/how-do-i-get-this-bleeping-yahoo.html
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