Archive for May, 2009

Best Firefox Add-on- Part I

May 30th, 2009 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in Browsing

Firefox is the best browser out there right now, one of the great bonus of Firefox is that there are lots of extensions that enhance the functionality of the browser. With over thousands of extensions in existence there are many add-on that can be used to improve your efficiency and productivity. The following is my take on some of the extensions that will keep you focused, reduce interruption, and streamline your daily work flow;

firefox

IP Address GeoLocation Lookup -Great add-on which auto-detect your current IP address, you can get lot of information regarding target IP and location of a website. Since all communication on the Internet (or any TCP/IP based network) is from an IP address to an IP address, every website that you visit knows the public IP address of your router. This plugin will allow you to show your Browsing IP address, Proxy IP address and proxy IP location and will greatly help you in geo-location.

DownThemAll 1.1.3 manages your downloads and lets you download without the Firefox Download Manager popping up and disrupting you all the way. DownThemAll! 1.1.3 Features an advanced accelerator that boost up the speed up to 400% and allowing you to pause and resume downloads at any time.

Gspace is a content management extension that lets you twirl your Gmail account into an online mass storage device. Gspace incorporate smoothly into your browser and lets you drag and drop files into Gmail for backup or storage purposes without interrupting your continuous work flow.

The del.icio.us extension for Firefox allows you to easily bookmark pages in delicious, from within the Firefox browser. It integrates with the Firefox toolbar easily and provides extra features such as right-click menu and highlight text to add notes

TwitterFox is a Firefox extension that notify you about the status of your friends in Twitter. This extension adds a tiny icon on the status bar which alerts you when your friends update their tweets. Also it has a mini text input field to update your tweets whenever you wish to connect with your friends through the text message.

Tags:

Why Reverse DNS is Important

May 28th, 2009 by admin | 3 Comments | Filed in Reverse DNS

Reverse DNS is a process of resolving an IP address into a domain name, it’s just as DNS resolves domain names into associated IP addresses. Reverse DNS ensure you that you will not encounter any problems with most of the Enterprise Management Systems, IRC,  r-commands,  network backup system or your SMTP server.  In addition, one of the applications is being used for reverse DNS that work as a spam filter which determine whether the IP address of the incoming message matches an authenticated domain name or not and if in case it doesn’t match,  the spam filter  block the message.  Normally, when a spammer try to use an invalid IP address, and when that IP doesn’t match the domain name, a reverse DNS lookup program inputs IP addresses of incoming messages to a DNS database. If no valid name is found to match the IP address, the server blocks that message.
rev-dns
New Firefox Add-on from MyIpTest

Some Subordinate DNS Admin usually configures “forward DNS” and fail to remember to configure reverse DNS so they should make sure  to configure reverse DNS which hardly take a few minutes of time. Troubleshooting problems caused by faulty or non-existent reverse DNS can take substantial time and effort but it would be much better if you make sure that reverse DNS is configured correctly from the very beginning.

Google News Timeline

May 27th, 2009 by admin | 1 Comment | Filed in Timeline

Google labs launched “Google News Timeline”, this will organize all your search criteria for Google News and other information in exact sequence presenting results from different source just by adding a time period in your query. You can get the information through navigation by just adjusting the timeline by time scale, weeks, months, years, or decades.

Google News Timeline can present results from many different sources, including both current and news from archive, blog posts, magazine, scanned newspapers and different relevant source like from sports, music and movies. You can view multiple sources concurrently, allowing each source-providing context to the others.

I just selected “TV Shows” from dropdown menu and entered “1982″ in Date box and clicked on “Add Query”. It displayed below screen.

google-news-timeline4

This is very easy to follow news and gather information related to relevant source,

Tags:

Firefox- Location Based Browsing Feature

May 26th, 2009 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Browsing, IP Address Lookup

This Firefox 3.5 version now enables the users to keep track on the geographical location such as city, region, country, latitude, longitude, ZIP code, time zone, connection speed, ISP and domain name through the IP Address. MYIPTest add-on estimate the user’s position using a number of sources, in addition it will allow you to show your Proxy IP address, proxy IP location, Reverse DNS check and blacklisted ip check. This extended feature in Firefox Add-ons can enable you to personalize your browsing experience.

myiptest-ip-address-lookup-firefox-add-ons
IP Address Lookup

Firefox 3.5 now can tell the websites where you’re located and it will let you find the information which are more relevant and more valuable to you. It’s the way about making the Web smarter – and is done in a way that it completely respects your privacy. When you visit a location-aware website, Firefox will ask you if you want to share your location and with your consent, Firefox will accumulate information about nearby wireless access points and your computer’s IP address. Then Firefox sends this information to the default geolocation service provider- Google Location Services, to get an estimate of your location. That location estimate is then shared with the requested website. If you show no permission, Firefox will not do anything.

I hope it will benefit from a far greater accuracy and thus it will provide a better service to the users and will let the Location-Aware Browsing to become Mainstream.

Geolocation Through IP Address

May 25th, 2009 by admin | 2 Comments | Filed in Geolocation

The geographic locations based on Internet IP are becoming more popular in our daily life. It brings together user communities without the need for going to GPS (Global Positioning System) receivers and any other complex technology.

hr-google-map1

Internet is becoming the collection of all the informative resources, which are meant to appeal large viewers & readers around the globe. The geographically localized information becoming integral part of our lifestyle which offers the ability to the users to gather round information related to specific geographic location. The local positioning enables you to minimize the search times and enhances the visibility of local establishments. In the same way, you can incorporate with user communities and chat-rooms targeting specific locations and you can easily get the information about the local times, weather conditions and news events of the exact location.

Geolocation by IP address is the system of determining user’s geographic latitude by implication through longitude, city, region and nation. It also enable you to compare the user’s public Internet IP address with known locations of other electronically neighboring servers and routers. The benefits of IP geolocation may sound complex, but a simple example may help you to understand the possibilities. Consider a traveling businessman currently on the road to New York, After checking into his hotel he start using his laptop through the wifi, he opens his chat program as well as a Web browser. His friends and family can see from his chat profile that he is currently near 3333 California Stunstarred, San Francisco, CA. Accordingly they can determine his local time and weather condition. By using his Web browser, the businessman can do a localized search to find nearby restaurants, pub and theaters.

Tags: