Google has unveiled yet another interesting tool from their labs, its called Google co-op (also known as custom search engine or CSE). The tool finally caters to the needs of those who waited long enough to offer search facility on their websites. I gave it a try on my website PHPCatalyst, and it works like charm. Very easy to setup and full of features. I haven’t fully explored it yet but I loved the ease with which I could build
Continue ReadingRecently, I was searching for ‘basic unix commands’ and ‘tar -I option’ on Internet, and came across some websites which were totally messed up in terms of layout, design and content. The content was, of course, available in the site but then I had to do a ‘ctrl + F’ to search for those words on the page. This compelled me to write down some of the best practices that should and must be kept in mind while designing a
Continue ReadingHere is a list of my favorite Firefox add-ons that I use very often and just can’t imagine doing so many things on Internet that I do everyday without their assistance. AD-Blocker Adblock Plus – Very helpful to prevent most of the annoying ads from loading up in the browser. Backed up by an automatically updated Filter list of Ads, am sure you will find it useful. I strongly recommend this to people with very slow Internet connections (are there
Continue ReadingI am sure, you must be aware about the latest releases of both the browsers by now. Here is my take on both the browsers… I use both IE and Firefox for surfing. Using IE is a mandate (kind of) in the office as every intranet site is designed and tested with IE in mind. There is no room for Firefox in the company yet and I don’t imagine it making a place on my company systems any sooner. For
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