Today my friend was writing a small application to post updates to twitter. We found that the API is not secure (does not use SSL). I installed network packet capture programs and was able to capture the request headers what the twitter client was sending. It was basic authorization which is encoded using base64. Is [...]
Archive of posts tagged Web
Google web monopoly next milestone Chrome
Google has released its new browser “Chrome” today. It is released as beta (I really don’t understand what is the meaning of beta in Google. Can you believe Gmail) for windows alone. This browser is based on webkit rendering engine. which gives web developers a big relief in rendering issues and web standards. The good [...]
Will Mozilla Firefox 3 set a new download world record ?
Will Mozilla Firefox 3 set a new download world record ? In less than 45 minutes the download day is starting for Firefox 3 to start the count for breaking a new world record in most download software in 24 hours. I wish them luck and I will download my copy as soon as it [...]
i2blog.com working again
Long long ago I had this crazy Idea of building a bloggers directory. Then I started project i2blog.com with my brother Ravoof and friend Yogi. The idea of the project was to unite all bloggers by thier country, interest and zodiac. Which you might think really funny now since blogging and web has changed a [...]
Does Google knows me better than myself ????
I have a strong feeling that Google knows me better than what I know about myself. I am saying strongly because I live my life on Internet. I use internet a lot and I have been using lot of service what is offered by Google. All of the service is so interlinked and they record [...]
du Started blocking websites
du is the new integrated telecommunications service provider with a fresh approach for UAE started blocking website from yesterday. This is how the website will look when you access a blocked website. This how etisalat blocked page looks like From the above two templates we have to accept that du is really fresh in their [...]