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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: 13% [?]

Icon Finder is  a place where there are huge collections of icons for web designing.

Features :-

• Collections of  107,536 icons
• Browse 186 icons sets
• Icons can be downloaded in “png” or “ico”  format.
• We can search for icons with different sizes and background colors

Popularity: 3% [?]

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% [?]

Problem : Internal Server Error 500

Yesterday(Jun-26-2009) our blog was down and got the internal server error 500.So we immediately mailed Dreamhost(our host) support to see the issue and got a support ticket.

We Checked the  error log  which was stating “Premature end of script headers: index.php” error for every hit made.We came to know many had this problem previously in their sites mostly due to some script error in the plugin installed in wordpress.

While waiting for support reply we started to search the web for some solution about internal server error 500 and 503.

We followed some suggestion to solve error 500 like : -

1. Rename wp-cache-config.php

2. Disable the plugins.This we cant do because wordpress was installed in the root folder which made impossible to login and disable the plugins through web interface.

3. Just click Change fully hosted settings actually without making any changes in dreamhost panel

Unfortunately these didn’t work for us.

Today(Jun-27-2009) morning we got the reply mail from dremhost as

I was looking through your error logs and I found one issue that definitely could contribute to the 500 errors that you’re experiencing:

[Fri Jun 26 12:40:29 2009] [notice] mod_fcgid: too much  /home/fordevs/fordevs.com/index.php process(current:4, max:4), skip the spawn request

These errors can be contributed to several things:

1.) Plugins or extensions that are causing the site to load ineffectively, this is common with 3rd party scripts as they are   generally poorly coded.

2.) Your over all site is maxing out the allocated amount of RAM for your user. Unfortunately for security reasons we can’t reveal the amount available to each user, but this could be a contribution to the error.

How we solved the issue?

As the support mail also says it may be due to plugin we decided to solve it ourselves taking the suggestion from a forum discussion .We backed up the plugin folder from webftp and deleted all the plugin there.

After deleting the plugins the site was working fine.We could not exactly say which pulgin made the mess.

If you get the same error just try this but cant assure this method will work for you.

Popularity: 14% [?]

We find the relevant stuffs from the web using the search engines like Google,yahoo.There are also search engines dedicated only to search pdf files around web.Here are 5 good places where you can make your search for pdf files.

PDFGENI

PDFGeni is a dedicated pdf search engine for PDF e books, sheets, forms and documents.PDFGeni provides preview of the file and download link.
PDFGeni also provides Firefox pulgin and iphone edition which works on mac,windows,Linux.

PDF-SEARCH-ENGINE

PDF Search Engine is a book search engine search on sites, forums, message boards for pdf files.PDF Search Engine provides preview of the file, download link and also HTML format of the pdf.It supports different languages such as Spanish,Italian,Russian.

DATASHEET

Datasheet is pdf ebook datasheet manual search engine where we can search any ebook datasheet pdf files and download them. datasheet gives the link of most popular searchs and also shows the most relavent images of the search.

PDFDATABASE

PdfDatabase is another pdf search engine where we can search for pdf files and word documents.pdfdatabase provides preview of the file.

PDFBOOKS

PDF Books is prefect place to search for pdf ebooks,manuals.PDF Books provides preview of the file and download link.

Popularity: 1% [?]

“Morro” a new word buzzing from Microsoft about their new FREE anti virus for personal computers which could protect pc’s from malware including viruses, spyware, rootkits and trojans would be available by the end of 2009.

Microsoft quotes,

“Morro” will be available as a stand-alone download and offer malware protection for the Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. When used in conjunction with the ongoing security and privacy enhancements of Windows and Internet Explorer, this new solution will offer consumers a robust, no-cost security solution to help protect against the majority of online threats.

Microsoft assures “Morro” will be able to provide the essential protections that consumers need without overusing system resources, and will help more consumers have better protection against online threats.

Microsoft’s Windows Live OneCare a commercial failure will be overtaken by morro in the coming days.Morro would be a great challenge for the leading anti virus companies in the market.

Source : Microsoft Press

Popularity: 1% [?]

While designing a website we would need to compare fonts which suits us.Typetester as made the work simple.

Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen.we can compare three fonts at a time with different font style,font size,color etc.We can aslo get the css coding of the font setting given.

Popularity: 1% [?]

I was looking for a tool to search a blog since it did not have a search box.
So i Searched google but did’nt find any but surprisingly while searching i
came across a article in yourshortestpath which gave the answer and was
very simple.

Use Google To Search A Website or Blog Without A Search Box.

Steps to search a website or blog without search box:

* Go to Google search
* type the word you want to search space site:+”url of the site”

Example : dotnet site:http://fordevs.com

This returns the result with the pages having the word dotnet.

And to note the search returns only the pages indexed by google for that website/blog.

Popularity: 2% [?]

Norton Anti Virus 2009:

Norton Anti Virus 2009 is a new Virus today which already had many attacks of the System.Virus enters when one is Downloading Norton Anti Virus 2009.It cause in hanging of the System.It Keeps alert messages popping up every 5-10 minutes.If you connect system to the internet,it will automatically ask whether to download Norton antivirus 2009 or not.

Popularity: 1% [?]