If Websites were People...

Orkut Toolbar - Simple Text Formatting with deviantART Emoticons

This script provide an easy interface for formatting scrapbook and community messages. You can format text with Bold, Italic, Underline with different colors and smileys. Along with that, it has 500 really amazing emoticons present in deviantART. Go ahead, install it and amaze your friends with this. :)

Why people that work with computers seem to have a lot of spare time?

Isn't that true? :)

When I was a Child...

I love to sit and look at my childhood photos. It's fun to see how we have changed over time and see how ridiculous we looked back then. Here are some of photos. :)

(click on the photo to see it in fullsize)

Singh is King!

deviantART - Simple Text Formatting with Easy Selection of Emoticons

This script provide an easy interface for formatting comments, journals, signature etc in deviantART. You can format your text with Bold, Italic, Underline, Sub and Sup. Along with that, it has a easy "one-click" drop-down selection from all 500 emoticons present in deviantART.

Screenshots

Comment on Deviation

Hack Protest Against Racism in Australia on RAAF Website

Today, I came across this news that RAAF Website was hacked by an Indian Hacker. And the reason why hacker hack the site was to protest against the Australian government on not taking any major steps to stop the increasing Racism on the Indian Student in Australia. On July 16, 2009 a message was shown on the home page of the website as a warning to the Australian President.

Photography & Digital Art - Beginning of New Age

Last couple of months, I'm so much obsessed with Flickr and deviantART. I just love the simplicity of the Flickr, and there are lots of really great photographers to get inspiration. deviantART is a very large online community of great digital artists.

Well title of the post sounds so cool, right?, I know you will figure out later. So, I try myself on photography, just for the sake I take some photos of my college which can be seen on my photos page or on flickr. After that, I take some macro of flowers etc. But something which really catch my attention is Photomanipulation. I just love to make photo a creative look. Well, honestly saying I don't really know Photoshop that much before. Now I am letting you know my secret, so don't reveal this to anyone else.

Reading Excel Spreadsheets with PHP

PHP is yet most powerful language when it comes to deal with different data formats like SQL Results, XML Files etc. To improve the functionality of PHP, we use extensions. There are many extensions/packages which let us to read more different types of data formats. Today, we will be using one of them, i.e. phpexcelreader.

PHPExcelReader comes with two files oleread.inc and reader.php. We will need to include reader.php in order to use the package. For the sake of "simplicity", I have made some changes in example file and data. Grab it here:

Yahoo! Status Checker

Update: Sorry, doesn't work any more.

Yahoo! Status Checker is a mini web tool used to check status (online, offline) of a yahoo user. You need to enter Yahoo! ID or Email which you wish to check, into the textbox and press Go!. It'll shows status and also avatar of that user. To save the avatar right click on avatar image and choose "Save Image As" in Firefox. Under the avatar, there are few links like View Profile, Send a Message etc. which are used to interact with user or to know more information about the user.

If it shows that user is online, but in your messenger list it is still offline, that means user has set to appear invisible to you through stealth settings. Currently, I am working on it, to add more features to it. Hope you guys find it useful.

Payar Kinu Kehnde Ne - Jag Jeondeyan De Mele

Fortunate are those who are able to live the rest of their lives with whom they first fall in love with.

Few days back, I saw "Jag Jeondeyan De Mele" movie and came across a beautiful song "Payar Kinu Kehnde Ne" by Harbhajan Mann and Shreya Ghoshal. Currently, I'm totally addicted to it. Even I'm listening, while writing this post. :)

As the title says, the movie defines

CurrentStatus Wordpress Plugin

As you may have noticed a little box on the left sidebar of my blog home page(currently not available), which displays my current status and mood. While creating this blog, I came to know that it is good to have your current status on blog, so if you not going to post any new stuff, you can tell to your reader that to you are going to have a break now. ;)

So, I searched for related plugin, but didn't quite get the exact thing I want. Then decide to make one new on my own. This is my first try on wordpress plugin, so I want to share it here, hope folks found it usefull.

Firstly, Download the CurrentStatus plugin. Unpack it and upload the directory currentstatus to your wordpress plugin directory (wp-contents/plugin/).

Track Geolocation of visitors: PHP and IP-to-Country Database

Geolocation is a geographical location of peer computer connected with some network i.e. local, or internet. That location can be anywhere in the world. When a computer gets connected to any network, a unique IP address is allocated and assigned to it, which uniquely identifies its identity on that network. IP address is a 32-bit number which is divided into 4 sections, each section is separated with a dot, and contain any number from 0-255. An IP address is very sensitive and complex to grab it all. It contains all the required information like network, location, host of the computer.

Webmasters and Bloggers are always interested to see whom visiting there site, where they came from, etc. There are some free tools on web to track your visitors. Google Analytics and Statcounter are two most popular and accurate tools for visitor tracking. They extract information like region, city, country, referral, ISP, etc from an IP address and provide us processed information in form of graphical components like chart, graphs and pie.

If you are interested to make such tool or you want to use it in your own way, here is the procedure to do it.

My First Blog

Hi! I always thinking of setting up my Personal site for a long time, where I will share my "stuff" with friends and world, at that time I wasn't aware of "blogging", now I found it quite nice way to keep your site updated and also to show all things at one place.

I will update this blog with my personal life, thoughts, work, geek stuff etc.

Always feel free to post any comments, and don't ever be afraid in contact me through other sources like email or chat.

Now, I am really excited about it. :)

Keep visiting!