Saturday, August 9, 2008

angular view....

hi,
first of all thanks to prasoon joshi(PJ) for putting me as author of the prestigious blog called angular view..
its our sastra coll's blog and its really great to be a part of that blogging team.. i will do best to update it.u can find a link to that in the right side section of my blog which says blog of my friends n is given as angular view..
thanks once again..

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

WebCams Hacks!!!!

This one straight from the news centres. Though people say it is old news, well I came to know about this only a few days ago. Seriously! And experimenting with this has been real interesting.

So what is this all about?

The news entirely is that ”you can access any webcam connected to the internet using a random “google” search. Ya, google search and ‘any’ webcam except that it shouldn’t be password protected and is not being accessed by many viewers. This news has spread like wild fire and many, many people are accessing the webcams using these google search queries.

The search query used is ”inurl“

Try this out yourself:

Get to the google search engine and type in inurl:view/view.shtml

You get a list of webcams accessible online, a random list of both password protected and non-protected webcams. Yeah, both kinds. Click on them and if you are lucky, you will get access to some online webcam. Lucky because, it shouldn’t be password protected and there shouldn’t be too many viewers. :D

Now that’s not the only search query that gives you random camera links. Infact there are loads of them. How do you find them out? What does inurl do?

First let’s look at what this inurl is. Using inurl you can return urls which contains the string that follows. In the example above the string is view/view.shtml. Well that was a pretty simple way to tell you what it does. (For more Google Queries, do read this pdf file named Demystifying Google Hacks by Debasis Mohanty).

Now more of those strings which gives random camera lists. (There are so many of them that listing all of them will cause lose in interest of using them, an entire list shall be provided in these pages soon. These strings have been both found by me and compiled from various websites, forums and blogs. Thanks to all those people for their effort.)

inurl:”axis-cgi/mjpg”
inurl:”ViewerFrame?Mode=Motion”
inurl:”view/index.shtml”
inurl:”MultiCameraFrame?Mode=”
inurl:indexFrame.shtml Axis

inurl:sample/LiAppl/

inurl:/control/userimage.html

inurl:”MultiCameraFrame?Mode=Motion”

Try them out using Google and see how you can make the cams turn and zoom to your clicks!

Try this one also! “TOSHIBA Network Camera - User Login” in google.

Now let me introduce you to a website where the creator has done lots of homework, making network camera access easy. Live Cameras at Griffid

And another website where the creator has classified the network cams based on the Manufacturer, the Country, the City etc. Pretty wonderful work here. Online-Cameras.de

Sunday, August 3, 2008

Help me save the turtles!!!

Hi ,

I've just written to Ratan Tata asking him to not to go ahead with building a port in Dhamra, Orissa, dangerously close to one of the world's largest sea turtle nesting grounds for the Olive Ridley Sea Turtle. I think its a good idea for Mr. Tata to move the port to another location rather than endanger the turtles.

By living up to the Tatas' environmental legacy, Ratan won't just save the highly-endangered Olive Ridley Turtles, he will also end up making Tata a better company.

The only problem is that I can't bring about that change alone. I need help from lots of people, especially you.

Please do what I've done. Write directly to Ratan by clicking here
http://www.greenpeace.org/india/turtles/write-to-tata

Thanks a million

Saturday, August 2, 2008

XML Sitemaps => More Traffic?

WordPress has introduced, XML sitemaps for all it’s blogs as an initiative to increase the number of visitors to wordpress blogs, via search engines. It is indeed difficult for search engines to search thousands of pages, but with a map about the various links in the website, the pages and posts can be properly indexed and crawled, so that quality posts are more easily identified and they come up when searched for. That’s a good initiative and thank you wordpress team, for taking up the effort to automate the necessary steps in this concern.

Read what they have to say, here if you haven’t read about it yet.

That’s when something struck me. For the past few days, I have noticed that my visitor counts went on a low, a drop from about 120 to 50.

I don’t remember to have made any major changes that could have resulted in this drop. But now I get to co-relate events.

Investigating Possibilities
1. The sitemaps are indeed doing a great job, but for my blog it’s the other way round i suppose. When many other posts from other wordpress blogs became prominent or of more importance on the search pages, my posts lost position and were pushed down.
2. It could also be thought that the XML sitemaps has not been submitted to the search engines for all the wordpress blogs, as of now. The search engines are being informed in batches. So my blog’s sitemap has not yet been submitted to search engines and hence it’s posts are not making up to the front page of search engines, as it used to.

I shall wait for a few more days, and if I find a rise in the blog stats, then I can confirm #2, else #1. Do you think there could be any other possibilities? Do comment if you think something else could also have happened.

Orkut’s Spam Folder!!!!

Noticed this just now. Yet another intelligent inclusion from orkut. Now no need to worry about the spam messages that is sent to you via scraps and messages. They end up in your spam folder at http://www.orkut.co.in/UserSpamFolder.aspx

Find something that shouldn’t be there in your spam folder? Found something that was not a spam? You can always send it back by flagging it as NOT SPAM.

 

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