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If you into web development you must know about the favicon which is known as website icon. Below in the image you can understand what is website icon and where it is useful.

When you own a website and if you need to get this icon you need to create a “favicon.ico” file and put in your root folder. Do remember to clear you temp file in IE and Chrome (not required in Opera, Firefox, and safari). To create .ico files Photoshop is not sufficient. You need a icon editing software. IconFx is a free icon editing software which I thought I should share.

Read more about How to Display Your Website Logo on the Address Bar?

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It has been almost an year I wanted google Adsense in my website but last year around this time my site had very little traffic. So I was facing a deadlock problem which few or many might have faced. I understood that Google does not activate ad sense account that easily. There is always a concern for fraud. In April 2009 my site has decent traffic but it all started only a month or two back so when I applied to Google AdSense they could have given proper reasons rather I was facing the deadlock problem. It will be useful if Google AdSense team gives proper reason why they are not approving an account. It was a very frustrating experience back then. Now in May 2010 it just took hardly a day to get an account.

But I am wondering how this happens since in 2009 I was pretty active blogging but it has been almost a year I stopped blogging. Great Thanks “Little Master Sachin Tendulkar” who’s keywords brought lot of impression and click to my site.  Apart from Sachin Tendulkar there have be very few key words that has brought in traffic to my site. It was not an intended effort but I am happy.

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Finally a good complete solution

The malware script usually attacks web pages and sometimes even databases. You need to figure out which got attacked. If the attack was on your webpage follow these steps

1. Download the current content of the site and perform a security audit on every file of your site. Check through the code for IFRAME injections.
2. Clean any such injection by deleting the unwanted code.
3. Change your FTP passwords and in future make this a practice to frequently change your passwords to ensure high security.t
4. Scan your local system with a good Antivirus and Malware remover, to make sure that your system is infection free.
5. Upload the new files to the web server.
6. In your web server Avoid 777 permissions on any file or folder.

In case your database server was attacked delete the old contents and restore with a clean data dump.

Once you complete these steps your site will be clean and free from the infection.  It usually takes 2-3 days for search engines to mark your site as clean.

It will take 2-3 days sometimes a weeks time for search engines to index your infection free files.

If you are using Google Webmaster tools you will need to submit your site for verification. Doing this will reduce the time taken to fix the error displayed by your browsers.

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I recently came across this wonderful tool to convert MS Access database To MySQL with a simple wizard. Adding to this the software is a freeware. BullZip.com seems to hold a good amount of freewares.

Just a six step wizards. You have options to take a sql dump or directly load table structure and data to mysql.  It is easy and cool. Kudos to bullzip.com. Great application.

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One of my old projct was done with good old classic ASP. I’m used to having basic ASP error messages on IIS5 and 6 which usually help me to track down problems. In IIS7 I only got the following though:
“An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator”.

After investigating a bit I figured out that we changed the default for the “scriptErrorSentToBrowser” flag in IIS7. It’s now false and you always get the error above. Click Here to know how to change it.

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Recently Iframe and obfuscated javascript exploits have become a serious threat.

It looks like the attack usually has two stages.

1. Account passwords harvesting. On the first state they collect passwords for the accounts. We will call this stage “account passwords harvesting”. Details on how they do that are fuzzy. The truth is that on a typical Linux server it might enough to get just one user account password to be in a reasonably good position to get the root via some king of little known or unpatched exploit. Zones and jails are better in this respect as they protect other users from easily compromised “suckers” who happily use passwords like 123456 or use infected with spyware PCs at home. Actually the complexity of the password should be beefed up to at least 8 characters. But this does not help if the user computer is infected with a keylogger. ISPs need to handle vastly difference classes of users and security is always as good as the weakest link.

2. Mass modification of index files. On the second stage the pool of passwords harvested is used to modify certain files. We will call this stage “mass modification of index files”. It looks like this stage was automated and they use a special tool, called MPACK, to install malicious IFrames. Usually only main site index documents were targeted (i.e. index.php, index.html, index.shtml, etc.). Malicious IFrames are usually installed at the beginning or at the end of the document. This attack stresses the fact that Web browsers should now be installed on VM and used with a special disposable image of Windows. Please consider using Microsoft Virtual PC or VMware and opening a separate instance of OS for browsing if you did not do it already.  Read the rest of this entry »

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There are various RTE’s but I prefer any of these.

niceEdit

Features : Lightweight, Cross Platform, Inline Content Editor, It can convert any element/div editable or convert standard textareas for rich text editing. nicUpload will allow users to upload images (hosted by ImageShack)

Licence : freely distributed under the terms of the MIT License

Additionals – nicCode – Adds button to edit the HTML in a editor.

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tinyMCE

Features : Easy to integrate, Customizable, Browserfriendly, Lightweight, AJAX Compatible.

Licence : Open Source

Who uses it :  Wordpress.

Additionals – MCFileManager and  MCImageManager are not free.

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FCKeditor

Features :  lightweight, WebSpellChecker integration, complete integration pack for ASP.Net, ASP, ColdFusion, PHP, Java, Active-FoxPro, Lasso, Perl, Python

Licence : There are two types of licences Open Source Licenses, Commercial License.

Who uses it : Oracle, Adobe, Data Illusion, DeskPRO, MailChimp, UpTake and many more

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When one requires free smilies pack Kolobok is the best. The author of this website has different packs for wide variety of applications. Packs for Internet pagers, Packs for CMS, forums and chats and Packs for mail clients are available on this site.

I wanted smilies pack for phpbb3 Forum. I got it from Kolobok and installed it on my forum http://forum.raptor.in . Kolobok forum offers good support.

One drawback in this website is their web page language. Default is Russian and English version is also available but is it working too well on all the pages. Use google translator when there is a trouble.

http://www.kolobok.us/index.php

Learn How to install Kolobok smilies on phpBB Forum Smileys @ raptor.in Forum

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There are 2 things that needs to be done.

1. Creating Icons in the Correct Size and Format
2. Associating the Shortcut Icon with Your Web Page

1. Creating Icons in the Correct Size and Format

An icon be square in size, and at least 16 x 16 pixels. Consider creating both a 16 x 16-pixel icon as well as a 32 x 32-pixel icon (and larger, bandwidth permitting), since on high-DPI displays, Browser may stretch the icon to fit the available space.

To create the icon, use an icon editor, I used IcoFX which is a freeware. Visit http://www.icofx.ro to download. One of the main feature of this software is that it can Convert Macintosh icons to Windows icons. Try spending time and get used to basic stuffs. Once done open the jpg format of you logo and save it as icon [ .ico file format (convert - jpg2ico)].

The filename should be “favicon.ico”

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