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Internationalization, Localization & Globalization

Internationalization (i18n)
Internationalization is the process of generalizing a product so that it can handle multiple languages and cultural conventions without the need for re-design. Internationalization takes place at the level of program design.
In other words, Internationalization is the process of planning, designing and implementing a “culturally and technically” neutral product, which can easily be localized … Read full story »

Google Talk – Google’s Instant Messenger

Yesterday Google released beta version of Google Talk, the Instant Messaging solution. It enables you to talk with (voice chat) and send instant messages to your friends. It has a simple interface, as simple as the Google search homepage. Download Google Talk.
Google Talk is simple and intuitive to use. There’s no clutter, no pop-ups and … Read full story »

What is Phishing, Pharming and Social Engineering?

Phishing attacks steal consumers’ personal identity data and financial account credentials. Phishers use ’spoofed’ e-mails to lead consumers to counterfeit websites designed to trick recipients into divulging financial data such as credit card numbers, account usernames, passwords and social security numbers.
Hijacking brand names of banks, e-retailers and credit card companies, phishers often convince recipients to … Read full story »

STRIDE Model of Threat Categories

Microsoft uses a specific model to categorize software security threats. It is called STRIDE. The six letters in STRIDE each represent a particular risk. These are used in security bulletins to describe the nature of a security vulnerability.

Spoofing Identity means illegally obtaining access and use of another person’s authentication information, such as a user name … Read full story »

What is new in XHTML 2.0?

On 2005-05-27 (ISO Date), a working draft of XHTML 2.0 is published (not yet authorized).
XHTML 2.0 draft breaks backwards compatibility with previous versions. This is, in effect, a new markup language created to overcome HTML/XHTML limitations. XHTML 2.0 suggests to use XHTML strictly for structure and style sheet for presentation, supports more internationalization features, and … Read full story »

why is XHTML better than HTML 4.0?

I am sure, you all know about XHTML – The Extensible HyperText Markup Language. Then why I am writing about XHTML now? hm… good question!
I want to know, why XHTML is better than HTML 4.0? What is in XHTML that helps us going forward? How to convert HTML 4 documents to XHTML documents?
XHTML is an … Read full story »

XFN – XHTML Friends Network

XFN (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks.
Human relationships are mentioned in the links (<a> – anchor tag) using the HTML 4.0 attribute REL. The REL attribute describes the relationship from the current document to the anchor specified by the HREF attribute. The value of this attribute is a … Read full story »

Friend Of A Friend (FOAF) – Describe Yourself in RDF

Friend-of-a-Friend (FOAF) is an XML and RDF application. FOAF allows the expression of personal information and relationships, and is a useful building block for creating information systems that support online communities in computer readable format.
By describing yourself using FOAF, you are providing information, in a machine-processable format, about yourself, your interests, your location, and your … Read full story »

Google Sitemap

What is New with Google Search Spider?
Google’s Googlebot and other search engine spiders crawl websites frequently and add webpages to search index. You need to submit only the homepage of a website and the spider will index all pages by following the links provided in homepage.
Frequency of crawling a website depends on search engine and … Read full story »

What are Blog, RSS, Atom, OPML and Podcasting?

I am pretty sure that you know about Blogs, RSS & Atom feeds, etc..
Anyway, here is the summary, in case you want to forward to your friends.
Blog (Weblog)
A Web site that contains dated entries in reverse chronological order (most recent first) about a particular topic. Functioning as an online journal, blogs can be written … Read full story »

Google’s April Fool’s Day Hoaxes

You think that folks at Google are very tech-savvy people, right? OK, I agree with you. But Google proves that they are not just techy, but really funny too! Keep reading.
It seems Google prefers April 1 (yes, fools’s day) to annouce their plans and new services. Sometimes the announcement will be April fool’s day joke … Read full story »

Indian Standard Time and GMT from Local Time Using JavaScript

If you are looking for current accurate Indian Standard Time or time in any country or timezone, check out the World Time page in ananthapuri.com.
I wanted to display Indian Standard Time in Ananthapuri.com irrespective of where the visitor is browsing from. The visitor could be from any timezone in the US, or India or UAE … Read full story »

GMail Mailbox Size Display – Algorithm Used

Have you ever wondered how the GMail login screen displays the running count of Gmail mailbox size? Like this:
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The above GMail size display is dynamic using JavaScript. It will be the same as it displays in GMail … Read full story »

Gmail Doesn’t Recognize Dots (.) Within a Username

hm… This is something new to me, may be for you too.
Gmail doesn’t recognize dots (.) within a username. This way, you can add and remove dots to your username for desired address variations.
That means, emails sent to MrJoe@gmail.com, Mr.Joe@gmail.com and M.r.J.o.e@gmail.com are delivered to the same mailbox!
Note that, you have to use the exact … Read full story »

Google-like Logo of Ananthapuri.com

Try this Ananthapuri.com logo
Does this logo look familiar?!
See your name in Google colors! Read full story »