Yes, a browser with very simple layout. The features i like in this new browser is its full screee view. The only thing in the top area is the location bar. No other menus or buttons or panels are there. It gives a comfort feeling. (All other browsers are very congested )

Another feature i like to see was that task manager. I was searching for such a plugin in mozilla. Which tabs takes more memory , more internet resources etc. And we can even end the process . Good approach google. Hats off.

The next feature i like is downloading files. It never ask for location for saving. After download you can save as you wish (You can drag the downloaded file anywhere in your computer ). So when you want to download , just download it !!!

On the very first day, i got a crashed warning message from chrome while i browsing !!!

But there was option to restart, so saved  all the tabs.

Another feature i liked is it error display mechanism. It shows proper error and proper solution just like google style

One feature i expect was the warning before closing tabs. When i closed the browser, all the tab get closed without any warning.. I think firefox made me to think like this .

And in option , you can see the saved passwords (without any masking !!!) .  That is a bad feature i think.Lets expect more features in the coming update .

And about wordpress editor; some of the functions of WYSWUG wordpress editor is not working with chrome. I think this is because of the javascript compatibility  .

From a developer angle , i got one more browser to test a webpage  (How it appears after changing the html, javascript and css )

I was finding that my visitor count is increasing and alexa ranking of www.sajithmr.com is now well below 100,000

So I decided to change my old Cpanel hosting to a professional content delivery network who can provide me the scalability that www.sajithmr.com may demand in the future . After much research i ended up with PiCDN who provide affordable CDN service
The following are the changes that the new hosting offers me:

They use a different web server than apache . I found that it was nginx and it seems its the rising star in web servers

I dumped my old cpanel mail to  Google Mail for domains - Picdn integrates it with fully and it got only minutes to get me running

I have ssh access to my account !. Occassionally i can do cleanup jobs and have more flexibility than a FTP account. Besides picdn people claim it more secure

These are their features (copied from http://www.picdn.com)

• Highly scalable hosting infrastructure
• Asynchronous web server
  
• Geo-distributed fault tolerant nameservers
• PHP ready
  
• Dedicated fine tuned MySQL database server
• Geo-aware redirection of users to the nearest cache/node
• SFTP /SSH/RSYNC publishing access
• Allows plugging in of other Application servers and content processing servers
• Google Mail for Domains Ready

I am fully satisfied with my new host and plan to move over http://www.amvizone.com to them soon

So Sajithmr.com is now in new server with new design (home page only ), have a look at: http://www.sajithmr.com

You all are familiar with RSS feeds, and you know it’s importance in the current web world.

It has a structure like

<rss version=”2.0″ >

<channel>
<title>Your Title</title>
<link>http://www.yourdomain.com/</link>
<description>Your website details</description>
<item>

<title>First Item</title>
<link>http://www.url.com</link>
<description>Detaisl of that item</description>
<pubDate>Thursday 1st of January 1970 06:03:28 AM</pubDate>
</item>

</channel>

</rss>

But yahoo introduced new rss which includes media content and its details including video, audio, medium, bitrate, channel, duration, frame, adult, rating, keywords, category, thumbnails, url , width, height, credit , role etc

Its format sample is:

<media:content duration=“180″ medium=“video” isDefault=“true”><media:title>Art of Survival</media:title>

<media:description>Very interesting funny video</media:description>

<media:player url=“http://www.amvizone.com/e/121980757950516″ />

<media:thumbnail url=“http://dolphinthumb.s3.amazonaws.com/121980757950516.jpg”

height=“240″ width=“320″/>

</media:content>

We can insert this tag inside the item tag.

Using media rss you can insert embedded videos , audios, images inside an rss feed.

In normal rss we used  RSS enclosure for inserting media content. But it has a lot of limitations.  It is not sufficient for these much of informations.

<enclosure url="http://example.com/media.mp3" 

length="123456789" type="audio/mpeg" />

For more about media rss visit: http://search.yahoo.com/mrss

I implemented this media rss in http://amvizone.com/feed

For wordpress version less than 2.3 , Go to Options  >  writing, and  for greater than 2.3, Go to settings > writing

What you have to do is create an email account with pop3 support

You can see the heading “Post via e-mail” there.

Enter your email server (by replacing mail.example.com)

Enter your pop3 port. (110 by default)

Enter your email login and password.

Choose a category to for the email entry posts

Finally Press update option Button

What you have done above is only the settings. For grabbing or pulling the content from email, you need to call/trigger an url.

That url is: http://yourblogdomain/wordpressinstalldir/wp-mail.php

Either you can call it manually. Or you can set up a cron job for that url by call the url using wget or like functions

Another simple mechanism to call this email trigger is use a hidden iframe in your blog template. (anywhere)

<iframe width=”0″ height=”0″  style=”display:none”  src=”http://yourblogdomain/wordpressinstalldir/wp-mail.php“></iframe>

The problem with this email posting is , it strips all the html tags before entering into wordpress database.

The is no way to find the attachments from an email.

So I decided to start a wordpress plugin which does the above missing properties. If there is any ‘working’ plugin available, please let me know, so that  I can avoid the re-inventing of wheel .

Thanks

Sajith M.R

(website screenshot)

Amvizone - The Amateur Video Zone’s Beta Version   released Yesterday.

The website is for uploading amateur videos less than 10 minutes created by short film lovers.

Project Language: PHP

Framework: Symfony

Backend: mysql

Hosted Operating System: Ubuntu Linux

CDN: Amazone s3

Embedded Video from Amvizone:

Technoparkian Trivandrum (Mr Techno)

(amvizone embedded flash player)

New user sign up will be provided soon.

Online Photoshop in PHP Part (5) >>

(image after watermarked with gmail logo)

Those who haven’t seen  the online photoshop tool created by me, just click here: http://www.sajithmr.com/photoshop

Today we will implement the watermarking on images using php gd library. Intelligent watermarking means, apply a logo or a watermark image on another image by measuring the color depth of the applied image. For this water marking, use png images as logo or watermark  for better results.

Live example for watermark implementation: http://sajithmr.com/photoshop-tuts/watermark/addwatermark.php

You can see different watermark location by changing the x1,y1 and x2,y2 parameters of the following url:

http://sajithmr.com/photoshop-tuts/watermark/showresult.php?x1=405&y1=285&x2=520&y2=392&width=115&height=107

See the watermark php source code here: http://sajithmr.com/photoshop-tuts/watermark/watermark.class.txt

Download the full-source code of watermarking implementation using php+gd from here: http://sajithmr.com/photoshop-tuts/watermark.rar

Google Pagerank is updated this week. www.sajithmr.com page rank is still 3. But most of the posts got 3 and 4. Those who are waiting to see the page rank update,  use this website:

http://www.googleneedle.com

If you use google toolbar in your browser , the result may be shown as cached. The Google Needle will give you live/current page rank. Check your each post or website pages there. If you have better page rank for your wordpress blog, use my page rank plugin to show the rank to your readers with a very cute designed page rank bar.

In some cases, if you are in between any work of editing or typing a content, and you wont let the visitor to navigate away from the page without particular condition, say the document is not saved yet, you can block the navigation (even the closing of the browser window) with Javascript.

Here is the javascript code for that:

<script>

window.onbeforeunload = function (evt) {
var message = ‘Are you sure you want to leave?’;
if (typeof evt == ‘undefined’) {
evt = window.event;
}
if (evt) {
evt.returnValue = message;
}
return message;
}

</script>

Just paste this code anywhere in your html page. The condition settings , warning messages are up to you. In the above code, the warning will be displayed when ever a navigation happen (Even closing of browser window happen)

(pic from Binney V.A)

Recently My Friend Rahul (He is the master in flash and action scripts) gave me a solution for this. That is, you have to add cross-domain policy to your server to server the swf file to other domains.

When a Flash document attempts to access data from another domain, Flash Player automatically attempts to load a policy file from that domain. If the domain of the Flash document that is attempting to access the data is included in the policy file, the data is automatically accessible.

You have to create a file, crossdomain.xml and place in the root folder or any other folder where content is placed. The data in the crossdomain.xml file is shown below:

<?xml version="1.0"?><!-- http://www.foo.com/crossdomain.xml -->

<cross-domain-policy>

<allow-access-from domain="www.friendOfFoo.com" />

<allow-access-from domain="*.foo.com" />

<allow-access-from domain="105.216.0.40" />

</cross-domain-policy>

The above configuration allow any subdomains of foo.com or a particular ip 105.216.0.40 or www.friendOfFoo.com

If you need to provide access to all domains , you can use the following xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!-- http://www.foo.com/crossdomain.xml -->

<cross-domain-policy>

  <allow-access-from domain="*" />

</cross-domain-policy>

Courtesy: Adobe.com

And special thanks to Rahul for sharing the information

For details: click here

Regards

Sajith M.R

Whenever a visitor visits your website, he can see what are the posts currently reading by other visitors. It is like youtube’s currently watching videos.

You can see its current working at the top right corner of this website.

Download the plugin for here: http://www.sajithmr.com/downloads/CurrentlyWatching.zip

Go to Admin > Plugins > and activate the plugin.

Paste this code: <?php wp_show_currently_watching() ?> by editing your template / theme . (I placed the code in header.php file)

It is implemented with ajax support.