Technorati Succumbs To Ringtone SpamsSeptember 25th, 2007 Who tags ringtone or ringtones? ... sploggers, who else? Ringtone and ringtones are two of the most popular tags on technorati and displayed on its front page.
Off-the-Record Messaging for the ParanoidFebruary 15th, 2005 An interesting technology to keep an eye on. Off-the-Record Messaging
Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing:
Encryption
No one else can read your instant messages.
Google Talk & GMail Now on Sony Mylo Handheld CommunicatorAugust 9th, 2006 The Sony mylo (short for "my life online") is a nifty handheld device that will allow you to access a fun set of features from a WiFi network. With 1GB of memory you can store music and photos, browse the web, or use email and IM (with QWERTY keyboard).
How To Hack TinyURL to Store Large Amount of ContentDecember 15th, 2008 You can potentially make tinyurl to host tons of pages of content for you and for free. Hard to believe? Read on for the juicy details and an example.
Salesforce Service Cloud integrates with Twitter - Why and What's New?March 23rd, 2009 Salesforce.com, a notable CRM service provider are integrating Service Cloud customer-service platform with Twitter. Launched in January, the Service Cloud combines concepts like online customer communities, social networking, knowledge base information, and making data from cloud services like Facebook and Twitter available to e-mail, phone and chat-based customer service representatives.
Bug in Google AdSenseAugust 29th, 2008 I had Google AdSense running on Health Care blog for a long time. What I didn't notice was that it wasn't making any revenue despite the traffic, and displaying AdSense ads.
Google Plans To Get Eclipsed Like SalesforceMarch 22nd, 2006 Google is contemplating joining the Eclipse (Java IDE) Foundation in some capacity. Good news for Eclipse and Java all around.
Java Tip: Basic Authentication with HttpURLConnectionJuly 6th, 2007 Java provides a super simple, yet hidden from plain view, way to do basic authentication of HttpURLConnection / URLConnection. Before making a connection add the following lines of code:
final String login ="...";
final String password ="...";
Authenticator.setDefault(new Authenticator() {
protected PasswordAuthentication getPasswordAuthentication() {
return new PasswordAuthentication (login, password.toCharArray());
}
});
This sets your default Authenticator which is called whenever authentication is required for any URLConnection.
5 Ways To Block A Spammer & Splogger By IP Address From WordPress BlogsJune 28th, 2008 For regular spammers and sploggers, banning their IP address is a simple and effective way to get rid of them. I will describe three methods here with the simplest at the very end.
Changes, Changes and More Changes...March 1st, 2008 We are making extensive changes on all our sites, so we expect few links to be broken here and there. Please let us know if you find any broken links or any feature non-functional.
On Dorm Killers and Gun ControlApril 17th, 2007 Killers like Cho Seung-hui aren't made in heaven or hell. They are ordinary people who face ordinary social crisis like abandonment of girlfriends.
How to make millions of dollars by bloggingApril 4th, 2009 It is simple, really. The technique described here is so simple that you won't be able to believe your ears.
World Bank blacklists Satyam for eight yearsDecember 22nd, 2008 NEW DELHI - Satyam Computers' cup of woes seems to be overflowing, with news surfacing Tuesday that the software vendor has been debarred by the World Bank for alleged data theft and bribing bank officials. Fox News, a US-based broadcaster, said the World Bank has admitted to it that it had banned Satyam from all business at the bank for a period of eight years - and that the ban started in September.
Review of Socialtext, an Enterprise TwitterOctober 16th, 2008 Overview
I had the pleasure to see the demo of Socialtext 3.0, an Evidence Management Software for Corporate houses and I am happy to share my experience with all readers. Socialtext Incorporated is a company based in Palo Alto, California that produces enterprise social software, including a wiki-centric software platform.
Help: Hard Disk & MySQL Server Suddenly Read-OnlyAugust 26th, 2006 Suddenly my Hard-disk & MySQL Server had gone read-only, thereby making this blog (because it is cached) and other sites inaccessible, including ssh access. Do you have any idea why this could have happened?
A hard reboot rectified the error for now.
October 13th, 2006 at 3:50 am
How I hate those guys…
October 14th, 2006 at 3:21 pm
There is mostly an “Ignore” button… Press it!
October 16th, 2006 at 3:56 am
I wanted to stop one more splogger from further polluting the blogosphere. I think I may have succeeded.