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Posted on February 27, 2010 with No Comments

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Google not to support old browsers

Posted on February 2, 2010 with No Comments

Google is taking bold step towards ending usage of old browsers by supporting only latest browsers for their web sites.

Good move as it will make users using old browsers upgrade to latest, will make web sites displayed more consistently and make job of web designers easier.

Dear Google Apps admin,

In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.

We plan to begin phasing out support of these older browsers on the Google Docs suite and the Google Sites editor on March 1, 2010. After that point, certain functionality within these applications may have higher latency and may not work correctly in these older browsers. Later in 2010, we will start to phase out support for these browsers for Google Mail and Google Calendar.

Google Apps will continue to support Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Firefox 3.0 and above, Google Chrome 4.0 and above, and Safari 3.0 and above.

Starting this week, users on these older browsers will see a message in Google Docs and the Google Sites editor explaining this change and asking them to upgrade their browser. We will also alert you again closer to March 1 to remind you of this change.

In 2009, the Google Apps team delivered more than 100 improvements to enhance your product experience. We are aiming to beat that in 2010 and continue to deliver the best and most innovative collaboration products for businesses.

Thank you for your continued support!

Sincerely,

The Google Apps team

What Facebook Is For

Posted on January 15, 2010 with No Comments

Funny video explains use of facebook

PROFMediaPlayer

Posted on January 14, 2010 with 1 Comment

Found Open Source Flash player using adobe osmf at

http://blog.nicolasprof.com/profmediaplayer

Making FLV players with osmf is easy with video tutorial by R Blank

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_osmf.html

But making a UI is difficult task for many flash newbies. I was thinking that adobe should make a basic FLV player made available, so others can start from the player.

PROFMediaPlayer user interface is not much professional looking, still a good starting point, the player provide PSD skin, that can be modified.

Google Public DNS

Posted on December 24, 2009 with No Comments

Google started Public DNS service like OpenDNS.

Google Public DNS server IP address are

8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4

You can use google dns for resolving name servers by editing resolv.conf

vi /etc/resolv.conf

add

nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

For more information on Google Public DNS visit

http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using.html

See other Public DNS Servers at

http://blog.hostonnet.com/tag/opendns-server

Making MeidaWiki urls seo friendly

Posted on November 8, 2009 with No Comments

Open LocalSettings.php

Find

$wgArticlePath      = "$wgScript/$1";

Replace with

$wgArticlePath = "/$1";

Now create .htaccess file with following content

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?title=$1 [L,QSA]

Thats all. Now your media wiki installation have seo friendly url.

Force saving passwords on firefox.

Posted on October 2, 2009 with No Comments

For some sites, when you login, forefox won’t prompt you to save passwords. This is because in the html form, input tag have autocomplete=”off”

I used to login to softlayer private network everyday. To get password saved by firefox, i go to the login page, then with firebug edited the page, removed

autocomplete="off"

Now on login, firefox prompted to save password. If password is saved, frefox won’t respect autocomplete.