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How to create an OpenID and use it ?

December 20th, 2009 Kathir
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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

    Yahoo! OpenID

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

    OpenID generated

    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

    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.livejournal-openid-login
  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: 8% [?]

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6 Useful WebTools For Designers

October 15th, 2009 Kathir

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.

colorblender

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’.

cssgenerator

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!”

ajaxload_info

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.

icon_finder

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.

favicon_generator

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

mycoolbutton

Popularity: 9% [?]

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Search Icons for web designing – Icon Finder

August 16th, 2009 joy

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

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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% [?]

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Easy Trick To Search for Attachments in Gmail – has:attachment

July 17th, 2009 joy

When there are hundreds of mail in our Gmail account and we are in need of mails with attachment and want it to find quickly.Then there is a easy trick in Gmail.

has:attachment

has:attachment

just type has:attachment and the type of the file like pdf,ppt,doc,zip with a space.

Example :-

has:attachment pdf

When we click the search mail button we get the mails with the attachment of the type we specified as the result.Here in this example we get the PDF attachment mails as result.

There are also many easy tricks to find a specified mail in gmail like “has:attachment” keyword.You can find the list here.

Popularity: 4% [?]

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Shiretoko – Codename for Firefox 3.5

June 29th, 2009 Kathir

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

“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: 3% [?]

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Microsoft’s New Search – Bing Coming Soon

May 30th, 2009 joy

Microsoft on May 28 2009 introduced their new search engine named bing,which will be available world wide at www.bing.com from June 3rd.

bing

What’s new in this search engine? question may go through our mind. Microsoft Bing Team as the answer saying ,

We took a new approach to go beyond search to build what we call a decision engine. With a powerful set of intuitive tools on top of a world class search service, Bing will help you make smarter, faster decisions. We included features that deliver the best results, presented in a more organized way to simplify key tasks and help you make important decisions faster.

Let’s wait and see in the coming days the fight between Bing(Decision Engine) Vs King(Google Search Engine).

you can find more information on bing from discoverbing.com and decisionengine.com .

Popularity: 1% [?]

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Know who is sharing with you in a shared hosting

May 28th, 2009 joy

We would be curious to know who is sharing our IP in our shared hosting package.Here is a way to know that,Axandra free seo tool makes the task easy.

Not everybody can go for a dedicated IP which are better.So atleast we will know our neighbour’s which is good for some specific reasons,such as :-

  • To check websites hosted on our server are not spammer.
  • To check if porn websites are hosted on the same server we are sharing.
  • To check with others to clarify if there is a downtime in our shared server.

To look in a postive side we can also make friends with whom we are sharing our IP.

Link :- http://www.axandra.com/free-online-seo-tool/shared-hosting-check.php

Popularity: 1% [?]

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All in one search – Yahoo Glue

November 21st, 2008 admin

Yahoo! Glue is a new beta search engine which was initially launched in india as Yahoo Glue India and tested.Yahoo! Glue gets the best content around the web by a single search term in one page that is it displays web pages,news headlines,images,youtube videos,yahoo answer,blog search,flicker photos,wikipedia ect.. cool is’nt it.

Here i have made a search about barack obama which displays information about obama from various corners of the web.Yahoo! Glue home page diaplays top 10 pages from there system.The search keyword ‘barack obama’ is one of the top 10 pages in glue.

Glue does not give the web search result normally instead it provides the specialized information best on web. By this users will receive more relevant, visually appealing search results from across the Web in one page.

Yahoo! Glue now(Nov 19 2008) comes for US relevance and would be available world across soon.

Popularity: 1% [?]

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Get MicroSoft Free Softwares in India(For College Students)

November 5th, 2008 admin

Hi All get started with MicroSoft designer and developer products through Microsoft DreamSpark™ free Softwares.

Microsoft DreamSpark™ is a program that provides no-cost access to Microsoft designer and development tools,so to get a head start in your career.

Microsoft DreamSpark™ provides two ways to get the softwares.

Through Online

Step 1 : Go to http://www.dreamspark.com/

Step 2 : Sign In with your Windows Live ID.

Step 3 : Get verified as a student.

Step 4 : Download your products.

Through Offline

Step 1 : Visit any of thier partner locations(like NIIT,Aptech training institute)

Step 2 : Show your college identity card to collect your DVD containing the software.

Step 3 : Go to the link ‘Get Verified’ in DreamSpark website and enter the 25 digit verification key mentioned on the DVD.

Step 4 : Sign In with your Windows Live ID.

Step 5 : Download the relevant License Keys from the world wide DreamSpark website.

Microsoft DreamSpark is now available to university students across India. Microsoft DreamSpark is planning to expanded to include high school students by early 2009.

Popularity: 3% [?]

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Norton Anti Virus 2009:

October 31st, 2008 admin

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% [?]

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