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  • October 10, 2009 / In Updates / One comment /

After a long sleep…

… it’s time for me to get up and get involved in blogging once again. So, I’ll go ahead and say hello to all the people who have ever read this blog (& found something interesting/useful here).

How have you been? It was a long break for me (from blogging). I spent all this time away from the Internet trying new things, getting real and you know, ‘having a life’. :-) Although I haven’t returned back with a plan to do serious blogging, you may still expect 1-2 posts every week.

Now you’ll mostly find new articles of technical nature (programming, etc.) because I’ve done a lot of coding while being away from Blogosphere. I discovered that the backend side of the Web is much more fun to write about than just posting random lists & such stuffs. I’ll be writing about 4-5 things that I’m currently interested into: WordPress, Mobile Development, Google App Engine & Semantic Web.

That’s all for now. Hope to see you guys soon in the upcoming posts.

– Avinash

Olicana — A Wonderful Script Font by Nick Cooke

typophile_OlicanaImage credit: Typographica

Looking for a beautiful handwriting font for your design projects? Look what I’ve found! :) Olicana is a beautiful font designed by Nick Cooke.

VIA Typographica

Bitfall — A Waterfall of Words and Images [Video]

This video made me go WOW:


Bitfall by Julius Popp

  • March 6, 2008 / In News / No comments yet /

Internet News Update

I’ve started a new post series: Internet News Update. Now I’ll be posting latest Internet news updates on this blog as many times as possible. These posts will try to keep my readers up-to-date about design, InfoSec, marketing and Web development industry.

Construct — A Brilliant Online Visual Layout Editor

Developed by Christian Montoya, Construct 0.4 (BETA) is a cool visual layout editor based on Blueprint CSS Framework.

construct_christian_montoya

You can use Construct to:

  • Create a layout with containers and columns.
  • Expand/contract those columns and toggle “class=’last’”.
  • Give an ID to any container or column.
  • Generate the clean, final markup for your layout.
  • Generate corresponding CSS for that layout which is compact, only has the classes you used, and also generates perfect, clean rulesets for the ID’s you created.

For more info, head over to Christian’s blog and read the post titled: Construct 0.4 BETA is something I am seriously proud of.

Image credit@Christian

SEO Plugin For Opera

OperaThere are so many cool SEO extensions for Firefox but it’s the first time when I’ve come across an SEO plugin for Opera. SEObar is a powerful SEO tool for Opera users. It can do a few neat things:

  • Highlight nofollow, noindex or external links (with different colors).
  • Display the Alexa rank and Google PR
  • Display DMOZ and Yahoo! Directory data
  • Show the number of pages indexed in Google, Yahoo! and MSN. It also displays Yandex (Russian SE) data.
  • Display the number of backlinks (by search engine).

The information is displayed in the SEObar’s panel and the browser’s status bar. Visit the SEObar site to find out more info about this handy JavaScript file.

Myoats – An Addictive Drawing Tool

First of all, Happy New Year, dear readers! May the year 2008 bring lots of happiness and success for you and your close ones!

I’ve recently been taking rest from blogging but still active on a few social bookmarking sites, including StumbleUpon. Yesterday I stumbled upon Myoats, a website that allows you to create simple or complex designs, shapes and patterns. Here is an example of what you can draw in 2-3 minutes:

myoat

See? I was just testing the tool and it took me less than 3 minutes to draw this. This tool is pretty addictive and can be pretty useful for your next design projects. Me? I’m gonna use this tool mainly to create complex patterns and futuristic designs. The designs that you create using Myoats can be:

  • Downloaded as an image.
  • Downloaded as a transparent png.
  • Saved to your personal account, which allows for editing and re-saving.
  • Made into a wallpaper

The re-saving feature allows you to edit an existing drawing and save it as a new file. The site also allows you to rate designs drawn by other designers. Oh, the site is free to use so feel free to join and draw as much as you like.

Google’s Orkut Hit By An XSS Worm

A blogger reports that Orkut, the Google-owned social network, has been hit by an XSS worm that seems to have infected over 400K Orkut users.

From the blog:

Right at this very moment, a cross-site script has been spreading like wildfire in Orkut communities due to a flaw in Google’s Orkut.

If you’ve read the following scrapbook entry in Orkut

“2008 vem ai… que ele comece mto bem para vc”

from one of your friends, you’re infected. Simply viewing the message alone is sufficient for your Orkut account to be added a new community named “Infectados pelo Vírus do Orkut” and be an unwilling new host for the worm. At the time of this writing, the number of Orkut members in Infectados pelo Vírus do Orkut is already at the 400K mark.

But fret not ’cause according to the author of the worm, Rodrigo Lacerda, this script is not malicious in any way, well except for making you an unwitting participant of his experiment.

Internet Explorer 8 Passes The Acid2 Test

Acid2_referenceJust a few days ago, I was pissed off @ Microsoft ’cause of their Internet Explorer and today I read this good news:

As a team, we’ve spent the last year heads down working hard on IE8. Last week, we achieved an important milestone that should interest web developers. IE8 now renders the “Acid2 Face” correctly in IE8 standards mode.

Looks like the future is bright for Web designers.

[WordPress] Filter Adult SPAM

If you use WordPress as your blogging platform and tired of receiving tons of viagra and related SPAM, bot generated comments, make use of the WordPress Comment Blacklist feature. You can find this feature in Admin CP >> Options >> Discussion.

You can use this feature to stop almost 95% SPAM messages. I’ve been using this option for past couple of months and find it pretty helpful. Just add ‘viagra’ and similar words in the Comment Blacklist box and see the magic!

  • December 12, 2007 / In Sports / No comments yet /

Human Wings!!

jetman wings

What else can I show you? Oh, almost forgot that I just watched an incredible video that shows how a human can fly like a flying squirrel, without using a parachute. Whatever it is, the landing process sounds like a call to death. Visit this New York Times page to read the full news article: Flying Humans, Hoping to Land With no Chute

Back in January, I wrote about Jet Wings that was Jet powered but this latest news about Mr. Jeb Corliss and his wish to fly without a parachute is creepy.

pic credit: New York Times

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