Google is very sensitive towards web sites containing malicious code that may harm visitors' computer. Crawlers from Google regularly scan web sites for any malware so that appropriate warning can be shown to visitors coming from search engine result pages. This helps in keeping the web clean and preventing bad neighborhoods from flourishing.
Fortunately, you can easily obtain an extensive report about malware presence on any domain. Simply visit Google safe browsing diagnostic page and replace 'yourdomain' with your domain name.
It gives a detailed report about any malware presence for any domain in last 90 days. It also gives the site details and any intermediaries sites or networks that may be injecting malicious code on the systems of traffic visiting the domain. It also presents a link to submit a review request for excluding your web site from malware infected domains database.
Friday, September 30, 2011
How To Diagnose For Malware And Malicious Scripts On Your Website
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Google Plus User Base Explodes Amid Release of New Features
Since Google+ was introduced in the last week of June 2011, its user-base has increased in leaps and bounds. Initially, it was released as a private beta service that was only accessible through invites. Still, it was able to attract more than 25 million users within a month. This growth has continued and now it's breaking all the records.
Recently Google has opened Google Plus service for public without any need of invites. Within three days it has acquired around 15 million users. This brings the tally around 40-45 million users, which is an impressive figure that Google+ has managed to grab within 100 days of service launch.
In these 3 months, several new features have also been rolled out to further strengthen the user experience. Some of these features are introduced after getting feedback from actual users. Here are the latest features and enhancements rolled out by Google+ team.
Infinite scrolling for streams - Now you'll not find the 'More' link to further navigate the stream in reverse chronological order. As you scroll downwards, it automatically fetches the content and expands the stream downwards.
Photo download - A handy download link within the posts has been introduced to easily grab pictures posted in the stream.
Real-time scrolling comments - This is an awesome feature that collapses large comment threads and scroll through latest 4 updates in real-time.
Circle sharing - This excellent feature lets you share your entire circles with your network as well as extended circles. For privacy reasons, the name of the circle is not revealed.
Cityville - New addition to Google games - One of the most popular games of Zynga network 'Cityville' has been finally added to Google+ games. This will attract good number of users.
Google+ search - This much needed feature is going to be used by large number of users. Now you can search for users, posts and topics through entire Google+ ecosystem. You can think of it as a personal search engine for Google+.
Hangouts enhancements and API - Several new hangout features has been rolled out to increase user participation with better user experience. This includes a new Google hangouts API for developers.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
5 Android Applications For Health And Fitness Freaks
If you're health conscious and care about your daily routine, few handy applications can assist you in keeping check of your vital health statistics. These applications run on Android platform and are completely free of cost. Make sure you're running at least 2.2+ OS on your Android smartphone. Here's a list of these excellent apps that are considered 'must-have' for every fitness freak.
Calorie Counter by FatSecret - Large number of users use this application to keep check on their calorie intake. Simply provide details of food you're consuming, and it keeps record of your entire calorie intake. You can scan through history and can get suggestions to increase or decrease calories.
Instant Heart Rate - As the name implies, this handy application lets you measure your heart rate after vigorous exercise without any need of external hardware. All you need is good light and tapping your finger tip on the screen. Make sure you stand still while measuring your heart rate through this application.
Recipe Search - As the name implies, this tool is perfect for searching great recipes. With a database of over 70 thousand recipes in different categories, you have ample options to find and experiment with various dishes. Simply provide the ingredients details to this app, and get the matching recipes containing all the mentioned ingredients in your list.
Libra Weight Manager - This excellent application is popular among thousands of Android users. It presents your weight history on a timeline chart with a facility to share it with your contacts on Facebook and Twitter. You can also export your data in csv or excel format. It also includes BMI calculator to give you accurate suggestions for attaining the right weight.
WomanLog Calendar - This application is made for the fairer sex, and is used by large number of female Android users. It maintains your menstrual cycle period and also forecasts ovulation and fertility period. Since this app maintains personal and sensitive data, it has a password locking facility with strong encryption. You can also track your weight through this application.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
How To Create Restaurant Employee Schedules With Ease
If you're running a restaurant with dozens of employees, at times you may struggle to allot, track and monitor their office schedules. Things become more difficult if you have multi-cuisine departments running on 24x7x365 basis. Often restaurant owners purchase custom-made software solutions to properly maintain employee schedules. But, there's an excellent web-based free application that easily handles such situations.
checkAschedule is a must-have application for every restaurant owner. It's simple, free and very effective office scheduling system for hotels and restaurants. Simply sign up and get started instantly.
You can create office schedules for server, manager, cook, bartender, assistant manager, dishwasher, chef and busser. A flexible dashboard lets you point and click to assign timings and lunch breaks on weekly and monthly basis. You can also set various reminders via email or text message so that none of the employees miss their schedule.
Create a master schedule with this application, so that it can be easily copied to different active schedules running for each group (employee type) or department. This makes schedule creation & tracking process much easier.
Monday, September 26, 2011
How To Manage Your Finances On The Go
Sometimes, it is very difficult to manage and track all the financial transactions at home. Whether it's a policy premium, electricity bill or an online shopping payment, unless you don't complete these transactions in time, you may find your daily routine disrupted to a great extent. To get rid of this problem, you can avail an intelligent mobile assistant to help you in managing your finances.
Manilla provides an excellent iPhone and Android application to process, organize and manage all your financial transactions. It provides integration with popular finance and payment services. Best of all, this application is absolutely free with no limitations.
Simply, connect all your accounts with Manilla application and it will automatically fetch your bills and financial statements on monthly basis. Its smart technology automatically sends reminders to you before due dates of important outstanding payments.
You can even create custom alerts (emails & texts) so that you never miss a payment. Manilla also provides secure and free online storage to archive your financial transactions. You can either store you documents for indefinite period or can permanently delete (unrecoverable) them once they're not needed anymore.
Friday, September 23, 2011
How To Share Voice Messages Across Social Media Platforms
Text is the most common content-type shared across different social media services. Photos and videos comes the next. But what about personalized voice messages to your friends on Facebook? None of the popular social media services currently support such type of personalized voice messages. However, there's an easy way to send voice messages to your online social contacts.
Utellit gives you an excellent iPhone application to share voice messages on Facebook, Twitter, IM and on email. The application includes a handy Facebook friends' search facility with automated birthday reminders. This ensures you can send your birthday voice messages in time.
You can also connect with people by sending shout outs on Twitter or email. Spreading voice message through this app is dead simple. Tap the record button and select the accounts where you want to disperse your voice. Press the send button and Boom! Your contacts will love this new way of expressing yourself.
Utellit is still in private beta stage and you have to request an invite before you can start using it.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
How To Redirect Users While Login And Logout on WordPress
If you're running a multi-author blog or a subscription based membership blog, you may want specific users to land on different landing pages whenever they login or logout. This selection can be based on their account types, or the type of role they're associated with. There are two ways to achieve these redirection rules. Either you hard code the logic directly in theme files or use a handy plugin.
The latter approach is much better and can be easily achieved through Peter's Login Redirect plugin. You can assign custom landing pages, dashboards or an external web page to any account. You can even apply a specific redirection rules generically to specific type of roles.
If can also trigger redirection at different levels or events. This makes this plugin very useful for multi-author or subscription-based blog. Advanced users can apply four filters available with this plugin. With some innovation you can include various other parameters apart from the user id to decide the redirection. For example, you can check IP address, user-agent (browser) before deciding the redirection page.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
How To Stream Live Video on Twitter
Tweeps regularly share text and images on daily basis to their followers. Majority of these tweets comprises of text and links. A good number of these tweets are geo-tagged as well, and some of them include images. But, how about streaming your live video to your Twitter followers? You can do it easily through TwitCam.
The whole process is quite simple and easy to configure. Simply, switch on your webcam and connect your Twitter account with TwiCam through OAuth authentication system. It will create a dedicated page streaming your live video. Tweeps can directly interact with you using tweets on that page. You can reply instantly through tweets on your streaming page. TwitCam can handle staggering 100,000+ followers in one streaming session.
Interestingly, you can also share your live stream on other popular social networks at the same time. Once your streaming session is over, TwitCam automatically archives your video on that dedicated page with transcripts of all the chat taken place during the entire session.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
How To Instantly Share Content From Apps And Online Services
If you're an avid web surfer, sometimes you may feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information coming through different sources. These sources can be a desktop application or an online service. The more information you get, the more you're inclined to embed/integrate/share it with different applications and services. Sometimes, it's a cumbersome process that eats up your precious time. 
But, there's an excellent little application called Click.to that lets you share (text, links, videos, images or just about anything that can be copied to your clipboard) easily across different desktop applications as well as on popular online services.
Simply, install this free app and see how it tightly integrates with your Windows shell. Whenever you copy a piece of information, an array of activated services icon popup to instantly disseminate copied information on your desired destination. This destination can be a notepad application on your desktop or a tweet. Your selected information can be sent for Google search or you can push it as your Facebook update. Sounds cool?
This application supports dozens of desktop applications and popular social media and productivity applications. Simply choose the applications you want to activate and let the magic begin. It's ideal for people who heavily share and exchange information across different applications and services.
Monday, September 19, 2011
How To Visualize Vital Data About Your Facebook Friends
Although Facebook is a social networking giant, still it doesn't provide enough data visualization features to better analyze our friends' list. Generally we tend to group our friends in various lists according to our preferences. But we lack demographic information about them. Similarly, there are many vital statistics hidden in our friends' list that may prove helpful in categorizing them in appropriate categories.
Facebook Spectrum is a unique service that provides very useful and interesting data visualizations about our friends using the Facebook API. Here are some excellent charts and visualization provided by this service.
Location on world map - This option lets you visualize all your friends on a Google map with pinned locations across the globe.
Timeline - Quite similar to plurk, this handy option lets you view a timeline of your friends update with thumbnail view.
Max albums - Want to know which friends have the maximum number of albums? Yes, this option lets you know exactly that.
Max photos - Maximum albums doesn't necessary means large number of photos. To get clearer picture, this option scans all your friends having the maximum number of photos.
Max active - Facebook Spectrum uses its intelligent scanning feature and lets you know the most active (updates/likes/comments/uploads) friends in your list.
Mutual share and likes - This option filters out your friends having same friends and interests that match with you.
Birthdays with calendar view - It is one of my favorite options that visualizes all your Facebook friends' birthdays in a calendar.
Gender and education distribution - You can also segregate your friends on the basis of their gender and education. This important feature present easy-to-understand charts to visualize the findings.
Facebook global search - I'm addicted to this option. It lets you search for a keyword in public updates on entire Facebook platform. The search is updated in real-time with latest updates in your hand.
All these reports and charts can be exported in PDF format, so that you can study them later. This export facility is useful for accounts having large number of friends.
Friday, September 16, 2011
A Great Twitter Visualizer With Awesome Interface
If you're a hardcore Twitter addict, you're going to love this. Regular Twitter clients provide you with default streams or a custom search on the basis of keyword, hashtag or url. Generally, these custom panes are filled by tweets matching the search term in reverse chronological order. There's no automated context-sensitive search that may filter out junk from these custom search panes.
But here's an excellent solution to this problem. MetroTwit Show is advanced Twitter visualizer that intelligently selects the most relevant tweets and presents them in a nice deck format. MetroTwit Show runs on Microsoft Silverlight technology that enables it to arrange tweets in a stunning interface.
To experience its awesome topic-based tweet visualization, simply provide your keywords separated by commas, and let the magic begin. Once you've supplied your keywords, it starts with filtering out non-English tweets. Its smart algorithm weeds out spammy tweets and displays the most relevant tweets. These tweets are selected in real-time presenting the latest conversations happening for a given keyword.
Each keyword is taken one-by-one, and the entire deck is filled by the tweets in an animated form, which are continuously updated with enough delay to visualize them easily. I'm loving this new Twitter tool and highly recommend it for social media enthusiasts.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Ubuntu One : Get Your Own Free 5 GB Cloud Storage
Cloud storage is quite popular these days. Storage syncing through different platforms (desktop, mobile) is the norm today, and several services are supporting these features. These services differ on the basis of two features. First, the amount of storage they offer, and secondly, the number of ways there cloud storage can be accessed. Generally most cloud services offer a maximum of 2GB storage for free accounts.
Ubuntu One is an excellent cloud storage service that provides 5GB of cloud storage for free accounts. Its backbone is built on Ubuntu Linux powered servers. Apart from regular web site interface, you can use it through your Ubuntu desktop, iPhone or iPad and also through your Android device.
Windows client for accessing Unbuntu One cloud is coming soon. It also provides Files, Data, Music and Accounts admin API for developers to create power 3rd party applications. Through all of the supported platforms you can easily create files and folders including syncing and restrictive sharing over the web.
You can also sync your mail contacts and Firefox bookmarks through Ubuntu One service. I prefer the web site version due to its minimalistic and fast interface.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
How To Manage SMS of Your Android Phone Through Desktop
If you own an Android smartphone, you can now manage its SMS right from your desktop. Even if you left your phone in office, you can still send and receive SMS from your PC with ease using your Android phone. This is just like remote controlling the SMS module of your Android device. I've tested it with Samsung Galaxy S2 and it worked like charm.
Now to get this done, you need to install two software modules. One on your Android smartphone, and the other one is a plugin for your web browser. MightyText makes all this possible at no cost. The installation is very simple. Make sure you have Android 2.2+ OS and you're using Google Chrome browser.
The order of installation also matters. First install the MightyText Android app, and then install the web browser add-on to manage sms module from desktop. After the installation procedure, simply activate the application in your mobile device and connect it with your browser plugin using your phone number.
After the set up is complete, you'll receive real-time SMS and incoming call alerts. You can also receive and send all your SMS directly from the browser. These SMS are not sent directly to the recipient's mobile. In other words, your browser plugin simply syncs your SMS inbox and exchange data and control commands. The actual activity takes place in your mobile phone no matter if it is left in your office.
Large numbers of users are using this application and they've given good user ratings for both modules.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Gravity : Best Twitter Client For Symbian Platform
There are millions of Symbian users across the world, and good numbers of them are social media savvy. Twitter and Facebook are literally dominating the social media domain and large number of users are using these two services through mobile. There are dozens of Symbian mobile applications that allow you to update Facebook and Twitter. I've tried many of them, but didn't found anyone of them giving me a memorable experience.
Fortunately, I found an application called Gravity, which is an awesome social media dashboard for Symbian users. It not only supports Twitter, but also include support for Facebook, Foursquare, Google Reader and much more. While using Gravity, the first thing you'll notice is its stunning interface. That's what makes it stand apart from the rest.
Secondly, this application does not consume much system resources (no hang ups) and is quite fast. It comes with it's own virtual keyboard and url-shortner making the tweeting process a cakewalk. It supports kinetic scrolling on several touch smartphones taking the user experience to the next level. Gravity is actively supported by its developer and new versions are released every quarter or so.
Since I've started using Gravity, I've never looked back. I highly recommend this application if you're a serious social media user on Symbian platform.
Monday, September 12, 2011
Google Launches iPhone App For Blogger Platform
If you're using Google's 'Blogger' service to power your blogs, there's one more reason to be happy. Finally, there's an iPhone application for blogger platform. Recently, blogger users got a new revamped ajax-powered web-interface, and now it's turn of mobile blogging.
Blogger's iPhone app is lightweight and why not so, after all it's the first version with impressive interface. Apart from regular blog post editing (no rich-text editing support), you can add tags to the post. You can publish, delete and view your blog posts with ease through this awesome app.
Apart from regular editing, you can also add location information to your blog posts. It's like geo-tagging your post. Blog posts without images are dull and boring. Fortunately, Blogger's iPhone app lets you embed images in your blog posts from the gallery or you can take a photo from within the app itself.
Since it's the first version, there's lot of space for improvement. The most important feature that will be demanded is support for rich-text editing. I'm pretty much impressed with the first version. I think you must give it a try.
Friday, September 9, 2011
How To Visualize Piwik Reports More Effectively
Although Google Analytics rules the web analytics domain, still there are some open source alternatives that are used by web publishers. One of them is Piwik, an open source self-hosted web analytics software. The native interface of Piwik provides enough data visualization charts and tables that are good enough for an average user. But what about an advanced user, who's addicted to stunning interface with complex and customized data visualizations.
Here's where DWA Desktop Web Analytics for Piwik comes handy. It's a free Adobe-AIR powered desktop and mobile client for visualizing Piwik data. It's available for Windows, Mac, Linux, BlackBerry, iPad and iPhone.
The interface makes a big difference when it comes to visualizing complex data, and that's where DWA excels. It's stunning interface makes the visualization process a memorable experience. It's not just the interface, but the presentation of data in easy & readable format makes it easy to understand the data set.
You can customize various reports and can align the charts and tables as per your needs to get a better insight. You can also pick flexible date ranges to get your desired data set. Currently, DWA supports 44 languages from across the globe.
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Zen Coding : A Faster Way To Code HTML and CSS
Whether you are a newbie or a seasoned web developer, at times you may feel overwhelmed by the amount of time spent in writing, debugging and maintaining the code. HTML and CSS code can grow very fast even for a medium-sized project. How about writing short-hand code for these two languages? Yes, you read it right - 'Short-hand for HTML and CSS'.
Zen-Coding is an excellent collection of plugins that converts the short expression written in pre-defined syntax into an expanded form. Zend-Coding can be used to write short-code for CSS, HTML, XML/XSL and HAML. This not only speeds up the coding, but also saves time and bandwidth for very large projects.
It is currently available for large number of popular HTML/CSS editors, integrated development environments and web browsers. This ensures that you can test and build your web application in almost every environment, without any need to switch back to normal expanded HTM/CSS code.
Zen-Coding is intended for intermediate and advanced users that enables high-speed coding for medium to large scale projects.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
How To Keep Track of Your Favorite Blogs
If you're an avid internet user, you must be following some blog feeds. Although there are several feed readers, but they are not so user friendly. Some of them have confusing interface and newbies struggle to get accustomed to their workings. Fortunately, there's a minimalistic and user-friendly free service that lets you follow and monitor your favorite blogs very easily.
BlogLovin comes with a minimalistic yet powerful dashboard to keep track of your favorite blog. You don't need to fetch feed urls to get started. Simple type the home page url and you're presented with the suggested list (if available), that makes the whole 'Blog follow' process extremely easy.
As I said before, the lightning fast interface gives you all the options to read, like (vote), mark read/unread and other activities so that you don't miss an update. There are several Bloglovin widgets that you can showcase on your blog, which lists your favorite blogs you're following through BlogLovin.
You also get a daily digest of blog updates directly in your inbox so that you don't forget to access your dashboard. If you love minimalism and absence of useless clutter, then you'll love this blog tracking service.
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
Top 5 Games on Google+
If you're using Google+, you may have already tried its intuitive friends management system. Recently, Google+ has launched Google games that give you another reason to stay longer on this budding social networking platform. Google has included a good collection of interesting games to feed the gamers community. Here are the best 5 games on Google+.
Angry Birds - This popular game started on Android platform and is now played by a large community around the globe. It is one of the most popular games on Google+ as well.
Crime City - Its yet another popular game that includes action and adventure. You can make and grow mafia groups, fight with rivals and can rule entire cities.
City of Wonder - As the names implies, this interesting game lets you create your very own city with the help of your allies. You can administer, build and expand your city land depending on your skills and experience.
Edge World - This is a Sci-Fi game that includes alien planets, warships and hi-tech command centers. You can take on enemies initiating galactic wars and conquering planets and galaxies.
Monster World - Unlike its name, this game has nothing to do with ugly fearful monsters. On the contrary, its quite similar to much popular game Farmville. You can grow your own crops, and plants on barren unclaimed lands and can partner with neighbors to create a big farmland.
So what are you waiting for? Dive into these awesome Google+ games and see how they'll give you a reason to come back again and again.
Monday, September 5, 2011
Facebook Adds New Privacy Controls
Since the launch of Google+, Facebook is releasing new updates to counter the rising rival. Although, Facebook has no immediate threat, still it's taking the rise of Google+ very seriously. Recently, Facebook has introduced new privacy controls that more or less mimic Google+ post privacy controls.
Now with every Facebook update, you get the liberty to fine-tune the visibility with much user-friendly pop-down menu giving you ample options to exercise the control. These privacy controls are quite similar to Google+.
Similarly, Facebook pages have also got new privacy controls that enable page administrators to exercise more control on who can see the content. The privacy settings page has also been revamped; grouping each set of similar controls under one group. This makes the whole privacy control process much easier than before.
Who would have thought 6 months back that a social networking giant will mimic a budding rival!
Friday, September 2, 2011
Google App Engine Comes Out of Preview Status With Renewed Policies
Google App Engine has seen wide adoption in recent months. It is widely used by individuals as well as businesses to power their complex applications. Google has recently revamped and added more capabilities to make it more stable.
Finally, it is coming out of preview status and will be incorporated as a full-blown Google product. Some changes in pricing structure have also been introduced. Google is also introducing new premier accounts having support of dedicated staff and complete invoice billing. It will also let account holders create unlimited applications with an additional fixed monthly charges.
Google will also discontinue some of the deprecated experimental APIs. But they'll do it with advanced notice including decent time duration to let the developers migrate to new standard APIs.
You can find the entire draft of updated policies here.
