Archive for January, 2009

Offline Gmail on the way – Thanks to Google Gears

Gmail Offline on the way

Gmail goes Offline

One of Gmail’s most requested features – offline support – is now available in testing. In other words, you can now use Gmail without an Internet connection, just like you can with desktop mail clients like Outlook.

The offline support is made possible by Google Gears, which you’ll need to download in order to utilize the feature. Here’s how it works, according to Google’s Andy Palay: Read the rest of this entry »

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Free/Open source tools for Web Masters and Web-Conferencing

I have been using many open source or free utilities/software which can beat their commercial contenders for sure, and I would like to share them here with you on this blog post. Read the rest of this entry »

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PHP Text Encoding – Challenge..!

Before sometime I had a project where I am required to create a message digest to authenticate web-service call. Initially it looked simple but while trying on staging server it never authenticated properly. Basically it was a Surescripts web-service implementation where we have to strictly follow their protocols. Read the rest of this entry »

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Zimbra open-source works great..!

Zimbra Open Source Edition

Open Source Edition

At Meditab we are using Zimbra - open source as our mailing suite. We almost never felt 99% up-time unless there is a Internet down due to any ISP trouble. Last week I have been asked to install Zimbra on one of our machine for test as we wanted to perform some r&d out but can't perform that on live server. Read the rest of this entry »

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A Mind Teaser – good one..!

To improve our programming skills and as a part of self-improvement exercise we are supposed to spend sometime every week as a part of Company Policy. Last fortnight my team has put their mind on test with one puzzle (passed on to us by other programming department) and it went quite well for everyone.

It was more about basic math rather than programming and it was good to see everyone refreshing their mind with roots of math/programming. I am sharing this puzzle/question on my blog and want my reader to put their mind and some of their time to crack this and put down their results as comments on this post.

Here we go: Read the rest of this entry »

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HeidiSQL 4.0 RC1 released

I am not sure how many MySQL developers are using HeidiSQL for development but I am sure those who are using it will be fan of some of it's features.!

I have been using HeidiSQL tool for my php/mySQL development for a while now. (more than a year and half..!). Before few months I have upgraded to newer version of HeidiSQL which is 4.1 RC1. It has got quite new and exciting features, looks and skins are improved. Read the rest of this entry »

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