Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.
A short form for weblog, a frequent and chronological publication of comments and thoughts on the web. They usually include philosophical reflections, opinions on the Internet and social or political issues.
Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal (or newsletter) that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the Web site.
These are the few of the many definitions available on Google.
How do we start a new Blog?
Its a very simple process. There are many sites that provide free space to write and post your blogs. Blogger is one of them, which is a Google product. Then there is Word Press (recomended for new bloggers) which has a large variety of templates and features. Blogster is another free blogging site, LiveJournal is another one, there are 100's of them waiting for people who can write.
No restrictions, you can take up any topic, purely upto you and start writing, let it be about u, or your hobbies, your passion, your sport, your favourite personality, your religion, your past your future and whaterver comes to your mind.
So wat are u waiting for? Grab a blogging site and start posting.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Now Google Themes !
Now Google Themes !
Yet another feather in Google's cap. This time they have come up with Thematic personalisation of Google page. If u remember, one of my previous post was customise Google and how to add Google messenger to it, this time its changing themes to your tastes. Though the list is about just 6 odd, like bus stop, Classic, beach, City Scape, Tree House and Seasonal Scape. but to add new themes is not very difficult for Google.
The best part of it is the layout colours change - according to the time zones, night for night and day for day.
This theme will dynamically change to match your time of day, including local sunrise and sunset times. Your location currently is set to: India.
What are u waiting for - Grab it.
http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en
One important thing, if u try it for google.co.in it wont work as it works only on .com, for now so be careful.
Yet another feather in Google's cap. This time they have come up with Thematic personalisation of Google page. If u remember, one of my previous post was customise Google and how to add Google messenger to it, this time its changing themes to your tastes. Though the list is about just 6 odd, like bus stop, Classic, beach, City Scape, Tree House and Seasonal Scape. but to add new themes is not very difficult for Google.
The best part of it is the layout colours change - according to the time zones, night for night and day for day.
This theme will dynamically change to match your time of day, including local sunrise and sunset times. Your location currently is set to: India.
What are u waiting for - Grab it.
http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en
One important thing, if u try it for google.co.in it wont work as it works only on .com, for now so be careful.
Monday, March 19, 2007
What is RSS ?
What is RSS !
Have you seen these images on any site and you are not aware of what is it ???
Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
RSS (Really Simple Syndication also known as Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. You can subscribe an rss feed. On similar lines is an Atom, its also the same thing, with a different name you can say.
How do i open RSS feeds?
You need a reader or aggregators that will do it for you. A variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers include Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac), FeedReader (Windows), and NewsGator (Windows - integrates with Outlook).
Google is not behind in this war too. try www.reader.google.com and you can use the RSS reader provided by Google.
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A small story about Goolge News.
Google is not a News channel, they were technologists and they are technologists. No where linked to news agencies but are famous for making news.
Ever wondered why is google news so famous. Ha Ha - this is what technology can do.
RSS is what is behind their technology. Almost every news channel has an RSS feed. What google does is, they pick the latest RSS feeds intelligently from websites around the world and incorporate it in their www.news.google.com
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Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding sites that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available.
Want more traffic? An easy way to distribute your news? Then you need an RSS news feed. To start all you need is content you want broadcast, and one RSS text file.
Have you seen these images on any site and you are not aware of what is it ???
Really Simple Syndication (RSS 2.0)
Rich Site Summary (RSS 0.91, RSS 1.0)
RSS (Really Simple Syndication also known as Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. You can subscribe an rss feed. On similar lines is an Atom, its also the same thing, with a different name you can say.
How do i open RSS feeds?
You need a reader or aggregators that will do it for you. A variety of RSS Readers are available for different platforms. Some popular feed readers include Amphetadesk (Windows, Linux, Mac), FeedReader (Windows), and NewsGator (Windows - integrates with Outlook).
Google is not behind in this war too. try www.reader.google.com and you can use the RSS reader provided by Google.
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A small story about Goolge News.
Google is not a News channel, they were technologists and they are technologists. No where linked to news agencies but are famous for making news.
Ever wondered why is google news so famous. Ha Ha - this is what technology can do.
RSS is what is behind their technology. Almost every news channel has an RSS feed. What google does is, they pick the latest RSS feeds intelligently from websites around the world and incorporate it in their www.news.google.com
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Once you have your Feed Reader, it is a matter of finding sites that syndicate content and adding their RSS feed to the list of feeds your Feed Reader checks. Many sites display a small icon with the acronyms RSS, XML, or RDF to let you know a feed is available.
Want more traffic? An easy way to distribute your news? Then you need an RSS news feed. To start all you need is content you want broadcast, and one RSS text file.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Customise your google !
Here is how you can customise your Google page !
Y do i do that???
Yes thats a very obvious question, but when you see the seamless options available at personal google page you are bound to atleast give it a try,
You can have a google page, with all your widgets placed according to your will and wish.
Now wats a widget :~
A Widget is a tool created by google or by some third party and can be added on your personal page. (this is not the official definition, mind you :P)
Many programmers at google and throughout the world keep making their own widget which can be easily added. One of the latest widget from google is the google messenger, and see how it looks. So wat are u waiting for !
start today, heres how my google personal page looks
Y do i do that???
Yes thats a very obvious question, but when you see the seamless options available at personal google page you are bound to atleast give it a try,
You can have a google page, with all your widgets placed according to your will and wish.
Now wats a widget :~
A Widget is a tool created by google or by some third party and can be added on your personal page. (this is not the official definition, mind you :P)
Many programmers at google and throughout the world keep making their own widget which can be easily added. One of the latest widget from google is the google messenger, and see how it looks. So wat are u waiting for !
start today, heres how my google personal page looks
Friday, March 9, 2007
Accessing localhost through the network...
Have you ever tried accessing your localhost through other machines in the network???
Localhost :~ Now wats that???
In computing, in the context of a TCP/IP (Transmission control protocol/Internet Protocol) network such as the Internet, localhost is a reserved name meaning this computer, which means your local computer.
Still not clear ???
I will try and explain in a simpler manner. Suppose we open Internet Explorer, we open google and then search for some thing. Wat happens as soon as we click Search ? Actually what happens is the request from you is sent to the server (Google in this case), which inturn queries its database and then returns the response back to you in the form of result page. So here Google has some server(s) in the backend. There are different types of servers, Web Servers, Application Servers, Map Servers etc etc.... that take requests through different mediums and prcoess them, return the output and wait for the other request.
Where the hell does localhost come into picture in all this ?
Coming to Localhost, Its a Web/App server installed on your machine to make it look and function like the one in reality, As soon as we install a web server like Apache Tomcat or many other servers available, a server starts running on our system, Microsoft XP comes with a default web server called the IIS server, which stands for Internet Information Server. It has to be explicitely installed from the windows disk, Once we have installed the default address we get is
http://localhost or
http://127.0.0.1 or
http://your computername
and the port is 8080
Can we have multiple servers running on one system ?
Suppose we have many servers running on the system, like Apache Web Server, Apache Map Server, Zope1, Zope2, Zope3, Oracle Application Server, etc .... (These many servers run on my system at a time)
What happens is that we can have multiple ports assigned to these services, They have unique port addresses from 8080 to some value (I dont remember exactly) but i have like 8025, 8045, 8055, 8855, 8080, ports assigned for the different services running in my system.
And how do we access these services (localhosts) through the different machines in the network?
Its simple,
say your IP is 10.10.125.3 and you want to access this machines localhost from some other machine with another IP say : 10.23.52.4
So what you do is, on the other machine type the machines ip address which is to be accessed, in this case its your localhost (machine) i.e. http://10.10.125.3 and specify the port which is to be accessed
i.e.
http://10.10.125.3:8025/aa.jsp
thats it !
If you have firewalls enabled in your windows xp system you will need to configure it to open the ports that are to be accessed in the network. That is done as follows:
Go to control panel > Windows Firewall > Exceptions
(see illustrations below)
in that add the port number and the service name and you are through, now your local host website can be accessed through the network.
Theres an alternate to this setting as well,
Go to Network Connections > Properties > Advanced > Internet Connection Firewall (Check it if Unchecked) and down ther is a settings tab in that
Settting > Services > Add a service port and service name,
Done....
Localhost :~ Now wats that???
In computing, in the context of a TCP/IP (Transmission control protocol/Internet Protocol) network such as the Internet, localhost is a reserved name meaning this computer, which means your local computer.
Still not clear ???
I will try and explain in a simpler manner. Suppose we open Internet Explorer, we open google and then search for some thing. Wat happens as soon as we click Search ? Actually what happens is the request from you is sent to the server (Google in this case), which inturn queries its database and then returns the response back to you in the form of result page. So here Google has some server(s) in the backend. There are different types of servers, Web Servers, Application Servers, Map Servers etc etc.... that take requests through different mediums and prcoess them, return the output and wait for the other request.
Where the hell does localhost come into picture in all this ?
Coming to Localhost, Its a Web/App server installed on your machine to make it look and function like the one in reality, As soon as we install a web server like Apache Tomcat or many other servers available, a server starts running on our system, Microsoft XP comes with a default web server called the IIS server, which stands for Internet Information Server. It has to be explicitely installed from the windows disk, Once we have installed the default address we get is
http://localhost or
http://127.0.0.1 or
http://your computername
and the port is 8080
Can we have multiple servers running on one system ?
Suppose we have many servers running on the system, like Apache Web Server, Apache Map Server, Zope1, Zope2, Zope3, Oracle Application Server, etc .... (These many servers run on my system at a time)
What happens is that we can have multiple ports assigned to these services, They have unique port addresses from 8080 to some value (I dont remember exactly) but i have like 8025, 8045, 8055, 8855, 8080, ports assigned for the different services running in my system.
And how do we access these services (localhosts) through the different machines in the network?
Its simple,
say your IP is 10.10.125.3 and you want to access this machines localhost from some other machine with another IP say : 10.23.52.4
So what you do is, on the other machine type the machines ip address which is to be accessed, in this case its your localhost (machine) i.e. http://10.10.125.3 and specify the port which is to be accessed
i.e.
http://10.10.125.3:8025/aa.jsp
thats it !
If you have firewalls enabled in your windows xp system you will need to configure it to open the ports that are to be accessed in the network. That is done as follows:
Go to control panel > Windows Firewall > Exceptions
(see illustrations below)
in that add the port number and the service name and you are through, now your local host website can be accessed through the network.
Theres an alternate to this setting as well,
Go to Network Connections > Properties > Advanced > Internet Connection Firewall (Check it if Unchecked) and down ther is a settings tab in that
Settting > Services > Add a service port and service name,
Done....
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
How to add placemarks in Google Earth ?
Its very simple to post a placemark on gooogle earth and to share it with the world,
Just open google earth if you don't have it you can download it from the right pane (Google PACK)
For that you need a google account!
To mark a placemark in google earth
just click on placemark icon,
write the heading and description (we can't post empty placemarks) ,
right click on the placemark,
and then select the option of Share/Post.
A browser window will open showing that u are willing to post a placemark. say continue, again it will say that check if there exist a similar post or not, mark those two check boxes, and say continue, if u are not logged in, login and say remember password (it sometimes gives problems), Follow the procedures and then, You are through.
You can send these published placemarks to any one in this world. These placemarks need to be approved by Google, so it takes around a couple of weeks or more to get approval, and once approved you can see them on your google earth or google maps.
If your palcemarks are fresh still people can search for them and download them
and then finally the page opens saying enter the details about the point, wat kind of point is it? choose from a list of it. and then finally enter the title and description and it is done.
You have sucessfully posted the placemark,
To view my placemarks visit this page
I have posted around 150 placemarks from Bombay to pune to mumbra to dubai to US and many more places. Enjoy
Just open google earth if you don't have it you can download it from the right pane (Google PACK)
For that you need a google account!
To mark a placemark in google earth
just click on placemark icon,
write the heading and description (we can't post empty placemarks) ,
right click on the placemark,
and then select the option of Share/Post.
A browser window will open showing that u are willing to post a placemark. say continue, again it will say that check if there exist a similar post or not, mark those two check boxes, and say continue, if u are not logged in, login and say remember password (it sometimes gives problems), Follow the procedures and then, You are through.
You can send these published placemarks to any one in this world. These placemarks need to be approved by Google, so it takes around a couple of weeks or more to get approval, and once approved you can see them on your google earth or google maps.
If your palcemarks are fresh still people can search for them and download them
and then finally the page opens saying enter the details about the point, wat kind of point is it? choose from a list of it. and then finally enter the title and description and it is done.
You have sucessfully posted the placemark,
To view my placemarks visit this page
I have posted around 150 placemarks from Bombay to pune to mumbra to dubai to US and many more places. Enjoy
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