Sunday, September 30, 2007

GeoURL - Mapping physical location of web URLs

Want to submit your website or blogURL to GeoURL??????

GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. GeoURL is listing 1,735,180 sites.


Coordinates are in the form of a latitude and longitude, separated by a comma, for example: 47.98481,-71.42124. Western hemisphere longitudes and Southern hemisphere latitudes are negative.

For More info for adding Visit GeoURL

Worlds smallest HD Camera Sanyo


Sanyo today launched the world's smallest and lightest compact-sized Full HD recording (1920 horizontal resolution and 1080 vertical resolution) digital movie camera DMX-HD1000. The new Sanyo Full HD Xacti DMX-HD 1000 has also adopted the increasingly popular MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 compression format for recording video, enabling up to approximately 43 minutes of Full HD (1920 x 1080) recording onto a 4GB SDHC Memory Card.

Sony’s Micro Speakers For Home Theater Sound System


Sony presents micro sized high-performance speakers, measuring 43 x 43mm in front panel size at the company’s exhibition in Tokyo.

The tiny speakers are being designed and developed to complement the home theater sound system comprising of four tiny speakers and a super woofer. The speaker is expected to hit the Tokyo market on 20 October.

India v Australia, 1st ODI, Bangalore


India v Australia, 1st ODI, Bangalore

Rain trumps Clarke fireworks

Michael Clarke returned to the scene of his triumphant debut and finessed another magnificent century as Australia recovered from a Sreesanth-induced wobbly spell to post a competitive total of 307 for 7 in the first match of the Future Cup.

Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Monitoring your site links for PageRank

I have been reading lot of articles all over the internet regarding increasing your page rank in the google listing. It is very essential to monitor your site links to monitor your movements in the google search engine.Infact linking is very important as this is a major parameter for increasing your page rank. Infact it is suggested that once create your website, be sure to go and create links to your site on frequently acceses websites and those sites which are ranking in the top ten of google search. An interesting webtool offered by Wholinkstome.com will help you in monitoring this and also provide the users coming to your portal or blog. It gives a small html code, which you insert it into your main page of your website.This link , when clicked will take the user to Wholinkstome.com website, where it displays all the links to your website.

How this works: Once you install this code into your page, thereafter anyone clicking on this link, will send a http request to this site, which inturn picks up the originating url of the request and then fires a query to various search engines and brings you a summarised list.

Entrepreneurism by BarCamp

http://barcamp.org
BarCamp (Barcamp.org) enables online and onsite networking of folks who want to become entrepreneurs.The first barcamp was held in 2005 in California, wherein around 200 attendees got together in a week. The contribution to manage the event came from all the participants. One of them, gives space, the other gives projector, a third gives stationery ... and so on

The Basic concept is that all interested folks get together online on the website . Anyone who takes an initiative to become the overall coordinator of the Barcamp takes an initiative and makes a post online on the Barcamp site. thereafter the interested guys, submit their willingness and also commit any resources for organising the same. This has been a great sucess in India and some of the big business leaders do take out time and attend this conference whenever it is organised in India. I do not know about other countries

This gives all the young turks who wants to float their business ideas or technological feats to a public gathering, I must tell you , you should attend this conference which is held all over the world in various places from America to Asia to Australia

Recently Barcamp celebrated its One year Anniversary Barcamp Earth in last year October 2006

so what are you waiting for ? wanna share ideas and become rich? Then go ,participate and get lucky

Friday, April 6, 2007

Geotagging, Geocoding and Geopegging


Are you coming across these words for the first time?? All related to inserting geographical information into different types of digital content on the internet using maps such as yahoo maps,google maps and google earth applications.


Geotagging: A process to insert tags related to geographic information such as
latitude,longitude and altitude into various types of files These tags are plain XML metadata tags which are inserted in HTML files,RSS feeds,photos and images.This feature of tagging is already available in Flickr website (under the organiser option). A very handy tool to pin all your photos using a map(yahoo map).These photos can be shared over the yahoo maps for everyones viewing or it can be restricted for your use. Please take a look at this video on how to geotag on flickr. Flickr only allows you to geotag and link with Yahoo Maps but for those of you who are interested in tagging your photos using google earth , you may visit Geobloogers,trippermap and GMif websites.

References : Flickrmap | Makezine tutorial | Flickrmap Video tutorial

Geocoding : This is a similar process but includes additional tags such as postal address , location name etc in addition to the latitute ,longitute and altitude

Geopegging : This is method to insert geotags into the jpeg /other photo files using software apis and similar techniques. An interesting article on geopegging by Joshua Trupin,editor of the MSDN magazine in Apr 2007 edition. Here he talks of geotagging using a piece of software (geopegger 1.0)which he has developed.a very interesting article for those who wants to know, how this information is tagged to the photo graphs


References: MSDN Magazine article

Monday, April 2, 2007

Control your computer using Eyes (Gaze Eye)

Today I came across an interesting topic during a discussion with one of my colleague. He was mentioning a technology called Gaze Eye ( I actually mistook it for Gays Eyes) which is about to be launched into the commercial markets very soon.The technology enables you to control the mouse on your computer with the help of your eye ball movements. It also enables you to even type the text .Amazing right !!!! Iam just waiting for this day .The discussion was quite interesting and he was also mentioning that many big boys are fighting to get this technology for commercial production in the US market. After I came back , i was really keen to know about this technology and started a search on "Gays eyes" ( seriously) :-). Finally came across some articles and then homed onto the right key words "Gaze eyes" . The research into this field had started around 17 years back with a objective to enable handicaps to operate computers and other electronic devices. Many universities and institutions are involved into this research since then. There are many different technologies using this concept."EyePoint" is one them developed by a Computer science doctoral student Manu Kumar (Indian) at Stanford University under the guidance of his Professor Terry Winograd.Checkout this video

References: Stanford University | Stanford Daily News | Technology Review

Related Articles : Copenhagen University | LC Technologies | Short News

Tracing back an email graphically

Did you ever trace an email?? Or you must have been suspicious about the sender but may not have traced it to the originator.

In this article I will demonstrate online investigation skills...This is commonly used also by the computer forensic guys. However i will only explain very basic steps of tracing back an email. This article assumes the following

(1) That the email has not been sent using a open proxy servers which are hosted world wide unofficially to cover up the traces of the originator
(2) Your own e-mail server is accidentally or intentionally in an open relay mode which does not authenticate the senders details

These two methods generally cover up the senders traced ip address and its very difficult to trace back unless the admins of those proxy servers are logging all the NATTED ips in their servers. This is a very unusal situation as it is very difficult to find these bad guys operating their servers in countries where the IT Acts/Law is not yet mature.

There are many ways to trace back an email by analyzing its headers. There is already an online tool "Email Tracker Pro" .Other than this there are many other useful tools for tracking but iam not covering in the scope. Step wise explanantion

  1. You should know about the Email headers present in your email which is generally hidden. I will not explain you in detail as there is already an online tutorial to teach you about the email headers of the various mail applications like Yahoo,Hotmail,Gmail,Outlook etc.
  1. After locating you email headers, paste it into the box provided and click start
3. It takes a minute for the java applet to process the mail headers and pin point you with the information about the network from which the mail originated. You can contact this network administrator with your abuse complaint as he is legally responsible for such issues.


4. There is another interesting video which i have found at metacafe site.Please Click Here

Sunday, April 1, 2007

Web Site Analysis/SEO using a freeware tool "Site Inspector"

Did you ever check how your website is performing on the internet or monitored its health report?. It is very important to monitor the health on a periodic interval of 2 weeks to ensure that it is rightly optimised for the Search Engines.This ensures that as many people visit your site. There are issues like meta tags,script sizes,image size,key words , Title ,description tags etc. Other that the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation Issues) you should also ensure that it meets the various WWW standards like X HTML,CSS Validation ,Markup Validation.

There are a variety of online tools which do this job for you. Even if you are amateur in this field and trying to know how to do this , do not worry .The list of online tools for web page analysis goes on and on. But I have found a useful software which bundles all online tools into one single software "Site Inspector" by Paessler.

This is a free ware edition and I have found it very useful personally for SEO analysis.Some of the useful features of this software is listed below


1. Provides a facility to see your page how it is rendered in Firefox and Internet ,time taken and any specific issues while rendering the page

2.It does an extensive Page analysis of the URLs which you provide and give you a detailed report .This information is very important as it gives u an idea of the sizes of the various objects used in the web page.(A similar report also provided by online tool websiteoptimisation.com and is more elaborate.A link to this tool and similar useful tools is already provided within this software)

3.There is a third option which provides HTTP Analysis.This is useful for those who are
hosting their own website.It gives you statistics about HTTP headers ,DNS information etc

4. Finally it provides links of useful online tools for amateur bloggers,users who reall
y are interested in monitoring their site statistics like Page Ranking, Page Speed,Broken links,HTML evaluator,Script analysis,down times etc.These are really powerful tools when used.

Personally I rate this software 9/10 out of the existing such freeware available online. And do give it a try

Download link : Site Inspector


A firefox addon/extension is also available for those who want this tool to be embedded into their browser for frequent use


Saturday, March 31, 2007

Thanx giving - My blog site and few words about it

Those of you , who have just started blogging or very keen to start must google through the internet and youll be amazed to find very many interesting sites which would motivate you to get started right now!!!.Blogging not only provides you to broadcast your own personal online commentary but also provides you with an oppurtunity for earning money for what you write.Blogs help others who are looking for the specific information which may not be available through commercial or the offical websites.Some of the bloggers take this as full time profession because of the huge monetary benefits as a result of blogging though various online marketing programs like Google Adsense, Amazon Affiliate etc.There is a big industry which have invested heavily into blogging. Blogging through Videos (Youtube.com) has recently started. Based on my initial experiences in developing this site, i would like to thank all these people who have indirectly guided me in this task


  1. Motivation and Ideas : : www.labnol.blogspot.com by Amit Agarwal
  2. Blog Service Provider: www.blogger.com
  3. Blog templates : www.thrbrtemplates.blogspot.com by Thur Broeders
  4. Tips for Money making : problogger.net by Darren Rowse
  5. Financial management blog : Neville's Financial blog
  6. Label Cloud script for Blog : phydeaux3
  7. Books : Make Easy money with Google by Eric Giguère
  8. Search Engine Optimisation : seobook.com
  9. Storage Space for files: Googlepages
Iam sure in the near future, many more bloggers and nettizens will definetly help me to take this blog further .Thankyou all once again