Test Website Load Time with One Click

Posted by Shailendra Doke | Jul 30, 2008

To rank well on the top search engines like Google, content rich website is not enough, the website should be a fast loading website also. Webmasters can decrease their website’s load time by analyzing which elements are taking too much time to load.

 

How to Test Website Load Time

PINGDOM is one of the best website monitoring services. In addition to the monitoring, it offers a free online tool to test your website's load time. This tool will show you all information about a website like, the total time it takes to load the page, the total number of objects loaded, time taken by every element of the page. The loadtime will be shown visually with time bars.

google-loadtime-screenshot

The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScript's, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser.

Recently, one of their users gave a smart suggestion to them to make a bookmarklet for this tool. They created the following bookmark for webmasters who want to test and analyze the load time of any web page they are visiting.

Analyze load time

Simply drag the above link to your browser's favourites/bookmarks toolbar, so you will have a button and then you can test any web page load time instantly.

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Chinese Lessons For Computer Geeks (pic)

Posted by Shailendra Doke | Jul 20, 2008

compuer geek china


Source: Flickr  [via makeuseof]

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Researcher to Unveil Universal Attack Code for Intel Chips

Posted by Shailendra Doke | Jul 17, 2008 1 Comment

Security Researcher and Author Kris Kaspersky claims to have found a flaw in Intel's processors that may allow hacker to gain full control on the kernel level remotly or just crash the system using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of what operating system the computer is running.

He is going to demonstrate how such an attack can be made in a presentation at the upcoming Hack In The Box (HITB) Security Conference in Kuala Lampur, Malasia, during October. The proof-of-concept attacks will show how processor bugs, called errata, can be exploited using certain instruction sequences and a knowledge of how Java compilers work, allowing an attacker to take control of the compiler. Further he said, He is going to show real working of code and make it publicly available.

The attack takes advantage of known errata in chips, which most vendors have a workaround for in BIOS, but not all. XP, Vista, Linux, BSD and Mac operating systems are all vulnerable. [InfoWorld via engadget]

Related: Hackers Can Turn Your PC into a Bomb

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New Feature: Embedded Comment Form in Blogger Blog

Posted by Shailendra Doke | Jul 13, 2008

blogger comment form

Finally Blogger.com added the most most awaited feature in their blogging platform that is "Embedded Comment Form" like WordPress blogs. In the old comment system, the comment form was on a separate page so the commenter have to click the Post a Comment link to get to the form, causing for low comments. Most Blogspot Blogger's were complaining about this. Now with the new feature of “Embedded Comment Form” you can put the form at bottom of the post.

 

How to Embedded Comment Form

1) First you have to login to your Blogger.com account through http://draft.blogger.com/. To Enable this Comment Form you must have to login through http://draft.blogger.com/.

2) Choose your blog and Goto Settings >> Comments. Search for the "Comment Form Placement" setting and set the option to "Embedded Below Post" and Save Your Settings.

comment-form-placement

3) Now you should see a comment form below your post. If you don't see the comment form then read the information below very carefully.

 

Do you use Customized Template?

If you use customized or modified template then you need to replace some HTML code lines in your blog template to display this Comment Form on your blog. Just go through the following steps and you will find a new Comment Form below your post.

1) Go to your blogs Dashboard then go to Layout >> Edit HTML. Before editing the HTML just Backup your template so if you do any mistake, you won't loose anything.

2) Tick the Expand Widget Template option.

Expand Widget

3) Find the Following code in the Template Editor. If you have difficulty finding the code, just search for postCommentMsg from your browsers search option.

<p class='comment-footer'> <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'> <a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:postCommentMsg/></a> </b:if> </p>

4) If you found the above code then Replace it with the following code and Save Your Template.

<p class='comment-footer'> <b:if cond='data:post.embedCommentForm'> <b:include data='post' name='comment-form'/> <b:else/> <b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'> <a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'><data:postCommentMsg/></a> </b:if> </b:if> </p>

Just go and check your blog’s post page, You will find a New Comment Form Embedded in the blog. You can see the form in action below this post and comment if you like this post or have question or difficulties implementing it in your blog.

With the comment form you can comment with Google Account, LiveJournal, WordPress, TypePad, OpenID, AIM, Name/URL, Anonymous. Though the form doesn’t look like professional one, but it is very useful feature for Blogger's.

What other blogger's say about this feature, Amanda from bloggerbuster.com and Jacky from jackbook.com.

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Magnetic Fields Made Visible

Posted by Shailendra Doke | Jul 11, 2008

We are all surrounded by a special power that is Magnetic Field, even our earth is stable because of this Magnetic Field. Human eyes can't see this Magnetic Field but British filmmakers Ruth Jarman, Joe Gerhardt and their film group called semiconductor created a "Magnetic Movie" to visualise you the Magnetic Field. In this Movie they have turned audio recordings of Magnetic Fields into arty animation. This innovative work won them honours as Best Film at Cutting Edge at the British Animation Awards 2008.

 

Magnetic Field Video


Magnetic Movie from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

Their next innovative work will be a movie with animation of the (dangerous) waves swirling around all of us 24/7. Waves of the Sun, Radio, Microwaves even your Cell Phone waves. [via DVICE]

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A to Z of Best New Age Technology

Posted by Shailendra Doke | Jul 8, 2008 Leave a Comment

A to Z New Age Technology

[Florencio via Pratham]

Related: I SEE SOMETHING CALLED “INTERNET” (Pic)

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Macbook Air Keyboard on the iPhone

Posted by Shailendra Doke | Jul 4, 2008

Apple iPhone MacBook keyboard

Bored with the default keyboard layout of your iPhone, try this MacBook Air's keyboard mod. It is very simple to install, the package install directly from Installer.app. It will change your iPhone’s (boring) default keyboard layout to MacBook Air keyboard layout.

It will not affect your typing performance in any way-unless of course you type faster when you see black plastic. Want it? You might have to add this repository ( http://planet-iphones.com/repository/ ) first. [via Gizmodo]

Related: Apple like interface for Google Image Search

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Create Disposable Web Notes That Disappear After Being Read

Posted by Shailendra Doke | Jul 1, 2008 Leave a Comment

Want to share any secret message with someone? Here comes privnote to help!

privnote (Private Note)

Privnote is a web service that can be used to send Private Notes over the Internet. This is very useful for sending secret messages that self-destruct or becomes unavailable as soon as they are read.

How to use privnote?

Simple, head over to privnote and type your secret message in the space provided and you will be given a link, you can send this link via e-mail, IM to whom you want to show the secret message, once the link is clicked the message is destroyed so it can only be seen once.

This service has a read receipt option also, if you check the notify option then you will be notified as soon as your message gets read by the recipient. If you send a note and suddenly regret having done so, you can click the link yourself which will destroy the note and prevent the receiver to read it. [Thanks to Digital Inspiration]

privnote.com

Related: E-mail Encryption using Gmail, Firefox and Windows

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