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OpenID

Fed up with creating new accounts for multiple websites, here comes OpenID for the rescue. It allows you to use an existing account to sign in to multiple websites without ’sign up’. OpenID replaces the common login process that uses a login name and password for every website.

An OpenID is in the form of a unique URL (e.g., http:\\me.yahoo.com\testid), which is authenticated by the user’s OpenID provider. Some of the websites who supports, allows and provides OpenID are Yahoo, Google, ZOHO, Microsoft, AOL, PayPal, Verisign. The OpenID doesn’t rely on a central authority to authenticate the user. The OpenID protocol leaves the type of authentication to the provider, the authentication forms may include passwords and biometrics.

Let us create a OpenID with Yahoo!

1. Go to Yahoo OpenID website Yahoo! OpenID
2. Get Started, login with your Yahoo ID
   

   Yahoo! OpenID

3. Now Yahoo will display the OpenID URL (identifier) generated for you
   

   OpenID generated

4. To create custom identifier click on ‘Show customization Options‘. Check for available identifiers, Yahoo recomends not to use mail id as part of the openID as it may expose our mail id. click on ‘Save My Customization‘.
   

   Custom OpenID

Let us check how to use the OpenID.

1. Go to Live Journal, click on ‘Login with OpenID‘ in the login page to open the OpenID login page.
2. Enter your OpenID and click Login (I don’t have account in Live Journal)
3. This will forward it to Yahoo, where you need to login with Yahoo ID
4. Now you have logged into Live Journal using OpenID.

The major advantage of an OpenID is you need not create a new account for every website you visit, instead create an OpenID and use the same account to log into all websites you visit.

Popularity: 5% [?]

COLOR PALETTE
To create a clean website, color plays a major role.  Selecting the color scheme for your site is made simple by introduction of many tools; you can use the color blender online tool to select your color scheme.
To select the color scheme go to www.colorblender.com and click on the first color box. Change its color by using the RGB sliders below. It will generate 6 color matching palette for the selected color. It also allows you to change all 6 color palette manually by selecting the ‘Direct Edit’ radio button.

CSS GENERATOR
Cascading style sheets forms an integral part of the web designing. Use the web tool available in csscreator.com [ link to : http://csscreator.com/tools/cssgenerate] to create style sheets for the HTML elements. Set the properties and click on ‘Generate CSS’.

LOADING IMAGE GENERATOR
Generating “loading” gif images made easy with the web tool www.ajaxload.info.
To generate specify the “loading” image type, background color, foreground color and transparency and click “Generate It!”

ICON FINDER
It’s (www.iconfinder.net )an icon directory, where you can search for icons just as you google, filter it by its sizes and background color.

FAVICON GENERATOR
Use the web tool www.favicon.cc you can generate the favicon. Either import an image or design your own favicon by using tools available.

WEB 2.0 BUTTON GENERATOR
Go to www.mycoolbutton.com to create free buttons. Generate free icons of your style and need.

Popularity: 12% [?]

It is a advanced process management utility from Sysinternals. It shows you detailed information about a running process like its icon, Image path, command line, current directory, memory statistics, performance graph, network connections, security, environment and more. You can have a closer look of a running process to see the list of DLLs it has loaded or the operating system resource handles it has open.

This utility can be used as a replacement of the standard Task manager of Windows operating system. Like the task manager, you can kill a process or its tree, see the CPU cycles and memory a process takes.

Download the Process Explorer from Sysinternals.

Open the process explorer to see the list of all running processes, its id…

Process Explorer

Right click on any running process and select ‘Properties’ to see its properties.

In the properties window you can see the process’s icon, image path, command line, current directory.

Process Properies

The TCP/IP tab shows you the network connection status the selected process has made.

Process Network connection lookup

Process explorer display consists of two sub windows, the default top window shows you the list of all active processes, while the lower pane is shown by selecting View -> Show Lower Pane or CTRL + L or by clicking on icon.

There is two mode of viewing details of a selected process in the lower pane, they are ‘DLL’ mode and ‘Handle’ mode. You can toggle between these modes by clicking on toggle button or View->Lower pane view-> DLLs (CTRL + D) ; View->Lower pane view->Handles (CTRL + H).

If the process explorer in ‘DLL’ mode, the lower pane will show the list of DLLs and memory mapped files the selected process has loaded. If it is in ‘Handle’ mode, the lower pane will show the list of handles the selected process has opened.

The Process Explorer also has a search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular DLLs loaded or handles opened. The process explorer is useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks,and provide deep perception of the way Windows and applications work.

Process Explorer does not require administrative privileges to run.

Popularity: 1% [?]

Shiretoko the codename for Mozilla firefox version 3.5, named after Japan’s famous World Heritage site “Shiretoko”. The name “Shiretoko” is actually derived from the word “Shiretok” meaning “the end of the land”.

It is a peninsula in eastern Hokkaido, where one can experience diverse natural environments all in a single peninsula. It has many lakes and waterfalls, such as the Shiretoko Goko Lakes and the Kamuiwakka falls, a cascading natural hot spring, as well as nearly 70 rivers and streams.

Discover Shiretoko

“Discover Shiretoko” campaign was born as a collaborative project between Japan’s Shiretoko Foundation and Mozilla Japan. Discover Shiretoko campaign also has a link to interFORest.

Mozilla Firefox codenamed latest 3.5 version as Shiretoko to support the protection of nature of Shiretoko.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a XML based language for describing 2D (two dimension) graphics, both static and dynamic.

SVG is an open standard developed by W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). Since the SVG images are defined in XML, they can be searched, indexed, compressed. SVG images can be edited using any text editors.

All major web browsers except Internet Explorer supports and renders the SVG images. Internet Explorer needs a plugin for rendering SVG images.

SVG allows 3 types of graphics:

1. Vector Graphics

2. Raster Graphics

3. Text

A typical SVG image’s xml look like

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
         "http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
     xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
  <polygon fill="red" stroke-width="10" fill-opacity="0.4"
           points="350, 75 379,161 469,161 397,215
                   423,301 350,250 277,301 303,215
                   231,161 321,161"
           transform="translate(-350,-200) scale(2) rotate(10)" />
</svg>

and its Image output

Popularity: 1% [?]