Setting a preferred domain for your blog

December 27th, 2008 Ajith Posted in Web No Comments »

The preferred domain means the address you want your visitors to see when they come to your site. That is http://exnol.com or http://www.exnol.com in my case. you can do this easily if you are on Apache. edit the .htaccess file as follows :

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^YOURDOMAIN.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.YOURDOMAIN.com/$1 [R=301,L]

If an htaccess file doesn’t exist, add the above code to a text file, name it .htaccess and save it at your root directory.If ReWriteEngine On is already in your htaccess file the ignore the first line.  Replace YOURDOMAIN with your sites domain name. There can be problems if you use this along with

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

If you use them together some problems may occur during file access.

RewriteEngine on
This line starts the mod_rewrite module
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
If the request is for a real directory (one that exists on the server), index.php isn’t served.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
If the request is for a file that exists already on the server, index.php isn’t served.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php

So there can be errors. I faced them while rewriting my .htaccess file but doesn’t remember the error correctly.

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Download files from esnips.com without flash player

August 22nd, 2008 Ajith Posted in Web No Comments »

eSnips logo eSnips is a social content-sharing site, where you can publish and share any media type. You will get 5Gb of storage space on the servers when you signup for eSnips.

You can find lots and lots of books, music files, photos etc on eSnips. But if you want to download them you will need flash player. Here is the workaround if you do not have flash player installed but still want to download a file from eSnips.

This is the screen shown if you do not have flash installed.

Flash install

View the source of the web page by pressing CTRL+U - firefox, opera, IE ; Find the section with the text “var scribd_doc = scribd.Document.getDocFromUrl” (do a search). Now select the URL of the file you need from inside the brackets. More details can be found in the image below.

Source of the webpage and finding the URL of file.

Paste this URL to the address bar and you will get the file you searched for.

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Beware of Ebay feed back exchange

August 18th, 2008 Ajith Posted in Uncategorized, Web 2 Comments »

The post was a mistake from my part in understanding the context of the statement. I apologize for the error.

Thanks goes to Nirmal for pointing it out.

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Yahoo search suggest, a step ahead of Google

May 2nd, 2008 Ajith Posted in Web No Comments »

Google had added a Search suggest feature in their Google Labs some time ago. It will show autocomplete terms as you typed in your search term. But the feature was never added to the standard google interface. Here is a screen shot of Google Suggest feature in Google labs.

Google suggests search terms

But this time Yahoo has added autocomplete feature (as they call it) to their standard Search page. You may turn this off if you find it irritating though.

Yahoo search autocomplete

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Send free SMS or call any mobile phone across the world

April 25th, 2008 Ajith Posted in Web 4 Comments »

Remember Mobik the free SMS service that shutdown some time ago? After mobik was closed the site was changed to some bed.travel titled one. Any ways here is a new Service that allows you to send SMS to any Mobile phone in any country for free.

Send free SMS from Jaxtr to any mobile phoneJaxtr is a Web based free messaging service that will let you send Short Messages to any mobile phone in the world. Jaxtr will also allow you to recieve calls from friends or recieve text messages if you link you mobile phone with the Jaxtr account.

To make calls or send messages you need Jax. If you are an active member you will be given 100 free Jax a month. I do not know how much Jax it takes to send messages. I used Jax to send two messages and it didn’t consume any Jax.

Both of the messages I send was to phones inside India and it took almost 15 minutes to arrive. May be it is operator depended also.

Jaxtr will let you call your friends from an online link. o you phone number is not revealed to strangers. Also you can control from whom you receive messages and calls.

Now the second one (I think you all know) Yahoo Messenger’s SMS, you can click on send text message and enter the number including country code..But there are limitations. Yahoo! doesn’t support most of the service providers, then you cannot send more than 3 messages without a single reply.

ISD codes for countries starting with A, B and C | ISD codes for countries starting with D, E and F | ISD codes for countries starting with G, H and I | ISD codes for countries starting with J, K and L | ISD codes for countries starting with M, N and O | ISD codes for countries starting with P, Q and R | ISD codes for countries starting with S, T and U | ISD codes for countries starting with V, W, Y and Z

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Online archives for file types, extensions, application used

February 28th, 2008 Ajith Posted in Web 1 Comment »

Filext.com is an online encyclopedia of file extensions, MIME types, programs that use specific file extensions etc.

For example :
msc - is a microsoft management console file.
ogg - is an ogg vorbis music file
car - CAR Archive Compressed Archive

But with the numerous applications and corresponding files it is impossible to remember all of these files. Also there are tons of file extensions which we have not yet heard about.

Filext - the file extension source is a one stop source for all the information you ever need about a specific file extension. It is actually a magnificent site with discussions on file types, MIMe types, file signatures, and possible and detected vulnerabilities in files.

So if you got any file type that you haven’t heard just head to Filext they have it all. They have got a tool which will send you to their web site from the windows open with dialog if you choose select from Web option.

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