Author: Rahul Bansal

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Online C, Java, Javascript, JSON, PHP, Perl, SQL & other Source Code beautifier (formatter)

Many times you see source code which is very hard to read due to lack of proper formatting. Many of my friends who are working on various third-party programs on orkut from time-to-time needed to swim through highly unformatted javascript codes! 1000 lines of code written without any line brakes, forget about whitespaces & indentations. While reasons to do this may include security and causing obsfucation for professional sites even careless programming makes code written by on programmer hard to understand by other. If you ever encountered codes like these then you might have tried to clean them manually with much of fatigue, waste of time and in the end poor results.

Now Here comes list of online beautifiers classified according to programming languages. Some item may be repeated if it works for more than one language!

Javascript:

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C++, C#, Java:

 

PHP, Perl, CSS

SQL:

JSON:

 

Personally I use http://elfz.laacz.lv/beautify/? for javascript formatting and PrettyPrinter for rest (PHP, Java, C++, C, Perl, CSS).

If you have anything to contribute to this list please use comment to post it! 🙂

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IE7Pro – The Best Add-On for Worst Browser!

image IE7Pro is an add-on for Internet Explorer which(IE) adds a lot of extra features to IE. It claims to make your browsing faster, more responsive and sleek.

First let me clear two misleading things, which may confuse you, from its 6 letters name…

  • Number 7 in the name does not mean this requires IE7. I successfully installed it on IE6.
  • Pro doesn’t mean you have to pay some bucks for it. Its completely free! No trail, No Demo!

Now comes its massive list of features… yeah its really something appreciable!

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  • Tabbed Browsing with Tab History Browser
  • AD Blocker
  • Flash Block
  • Super Drag Drop
  • Crash Recovery
  • Save Page to Image
  • Proxy Switcher
  • Mouse Gesture
  • Inline Search
  • User Agent Switcher
  • Webpage Capture
  • GreaseMonkey like User Scripts platform
  • Spell Checker
  • Need more? Request it!

Beyond add-on it acts like a platform on which user can run there own scripts (like GreaseMonkey), styles like UserStyles) and plugins (like firefox extensions)

It also have a separate sister site named IE7Scripts which have maintains repository of IE scripts, styles & plugins!

Download Links:

It requires IE 6.0 & above. Works with Windows NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

IE7Pro Useful Links: Homepage | Forum | IE7Scripts

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News

Orkut is coming out of sandbox! Submit your Orkut Apps!

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If you are new to OpenSocial and Sandbox, then you may start with Beginners Guide To OpenSocial & Orkut Sandbox! It covers all FAQ!

Orkut is enabling developers to make their social applications available to orkut users. OpenSocial developers can submit their completed applications till Feb. 15

Later this month,  if your app passes Orkut testes and score enough it will be added to the application directory.

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Arne Roomann-Kurrik at Official OpenSocial blog quoted,

In order to be accepted into the directory, submitted applications must:

  • Function correctly. No 404s or broken links.
  • Be social OR self-expressive.
  • Not reveal personal data, like email (which is not delivered by the API).
  • Follow the Orkut terms of service. No violent or illegal content, nudity, or hate speech.

Also an event is scheduled to help & support opensocial developers at Googleplex – Googles Headquarter in Mountain View, CA and via video conferencing in New York. The event which is named orkut hackathons is on Feb. 14-15 from 10 am-6 pm. For  more information or to RSVP, please email hackathon.rsvp@gmail.com.

Some Useful Links:

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Analysis

Strange Facts About Linus Torvalds – Creator of Linux Kernel!

image Linus Torvalds – The man who created Linux Kernel is extremely simple and not at all gizmo freak in his day-2day life. Unlike many open source icons, Torvalds maintains a low profile. He is still remains the ultimate authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel.

Below are some facts about his daily routine that may surprise you…. (Source: Linus Torvalds interview with LifeHacker Australia)

  • He has only one 24′ monitor with resolution 1920×1200. Many hackers prefer atleast two monitors!
  • He is still shell guy. Although he uses multiple windows, most of them are text-based!
  • His favorite email app.. No Gmail… Outlook is out! Linus doesn’t use HTML enabled mails and he uses Alpine – a text based mail client!
  • This guy is not social at all so do not waste time finding him on social networks. Even if you catch him you will never get a chance to chat with him on messenger. He prefers email as they are asynchronous in nature!
  • The only to-do manager program he uses is KAlarm – a reminder program for the KDE desktop.
  • What about cellphone? No he doesn’t have iphone… In fact he doesn’t have any mobile phone!

In personal life, Linus is married to Tove – a six-time Finnish national Karate champion! Nice pair… a computer geek & karate champ! If you are interested in knowing how these two met read this portion of Linus wikipedia page!

Finally what I liked most… Linus hates GNOME and strongly promote KDE! He said in a reply to a mail on gnome.org! You can also read Linus vs GNOME for more info about this!

If something is missing and its really cool… let us know! 🙂

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News

Orkuts New Bulk Photo Uploader Feature!

If you are new on orkut then you might have reserved coming Sunday to fill up your orkut album as uploading 100 pics takes some time! Well you can save your Sunday by using orkuts new bulk photo uploader which let you upload multiple pics at once. Strangely orkut implemented this feature using ActiveX control which means this will work with Internet Explorer(IE) only. So no donut for firefox & non-IE users including me! 🙁

Anyway IE user can read on…

When you will go to your album to upload pics, you will see a new link as shown in following screenshot…

Orkut Bulk Photo Uploader

 

Click on it will lead you to ActiveX Installation page. This is one-time procedure only!

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After installation you will see a new add photos button in albums. Clicking on will open windows standard open file box. You can select multiple files at once. You need to click save button (not shown in following screenshot). Do not try drag-n-drop! It won’t work…

Orkut Add Photos

 

Once you done with adding photos, click upload photo button!

 Orkut Uploading Pics Progress

 

Thats it… All pics will be uploaded at once!

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The feature is nice but orkut could have done this using Java applets instead of ActiveX. Its strange to see orkuts parent company Google actively endorses firefox but a nice feature like this disappoints firefox user community big time!

Links: Orkuts Official Post

[Disclaimer: For the purpose of this post I had to use Internet Explorer. I logged in using a test account created on Orkut. I DONT use Internet Explorer. So please do not assume falsely that I use IE or encourage its usage in any way! I am firefox addict! 🙂 ]

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Tips

Orkuts New Friends Finder – Find Friends From Any Email Account!

Few months back Orkut added a facebook like friends finder. Using that friend finder you could find & invite all your Gmail friends on orkut without much work. We and many other at that time wished orkut should have done that facebook way and made friend finder to work with any email account. Looks like orkut team listened our calls and came up with new improved friends finder.

Orkut New Friends Finder

As shown in screenshot now you can also add friends from Hotmail, Yahoo & AOL!

"find friends" box can be seen in left sidebar on your orkuts home page. If you never used this feature in past then be sure to read orkut friend finder guide!

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One more thing, some of my friends haven’t seen this new friend finder on their account yet. I guess like many other feature in past, orkut is rolling this slowly. So it make take a day or two for this feature to get activated on your account! 🙂

 

Authors Note: This is my 100th post on Orkut. Its always a pleasure to write for you. Thanks for your love and support. Hope to receive same in future too! 🙂

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News

Orkut Confirming Clicks on Outgoing Links!

Orkut Confirm Click on Outgoing Links

One more security or rather say annoying feature added by orkut is confirming clicks on outgoing links. As shown in above screenshot, if you now click on any link that leads takes you away from orkut, you need to go through confirmation procedure!

With bug in Orkut own Click Tracker program, features like these will end up just annoying Orkut users. Worst user may take this for granted and end up being more vulnerable.

What will happen if a malicious link is sent using a bug like in Orkut very own Click Tracker program? The link will not be categorized as outbound one, so no confirmation box will pop up!

This is where a user will be at risk as she may falsely assume that no confirmation box means no threat! :O

So to orkut team, please stop patch-working like this and do things like more sensibly.

Related: Bug in Orkuts Click Tracker Program

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Orkut Showing Last Login Info to Secure Users!

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Orkut started showing information about last login on users orkuts home page!

This is particularly good to save yourself from attackers who steals your login information but instead of deleting or making any changes to your account just monitors your private information. This is more serious threat with email accounts as everything in your mailbox is personal. On orkut still a attacker who have access to your accounts can do following things without getting noticed…

  • Download your contact book
  • Reading orkuts messages
  • Checking private albums/videos
  • Reading profile information (like cell phone numbers) which you may limit to your friends
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I do not think many people use orkuts messaging feature. Also last two can be exposed to attackers who if not yours, managed to crack your friends account!

Still this is really good move considering an attacker who is monitoring your account today may get pissed off by you and delete your account. Worse changing your accounts login info and worst spamming your friends with malicious scraps thus causing damage to your social image!

So my advise is to you keep checking this last login info and whenever in doubt about last login time without wasting any more time change your orkut account password!

Related: Orkut Security Tips

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Orkut Added Community Privacy Feature!

After orkuts privacy features for profile content, now comes turn of orkut communities.

Yes now you can have private communities on orkut where all discussion, polls, events will be secret from non-community members.

The feature can be used by all community owners by going to edit profile community link. Now Edit community page have a new setting – content privacy … (as shown below)

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If you choose hidden option content from your community will no longer shown to non-members. I guess better approach would have been to hide  entire community itself from directory listings as well as orkut search engine.

Finally a note for all dark-minded people… Wait before jumping out of your chair. as orkut can and will monitor content of these secret community! In fact secret communities should be monitored more… 😉

Related: Hide Orkut Scrapbook from Strangers

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Facebook AutoPoke Script – Poke Back All at Once!

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One of Devils Workshop reader mailed me this screenshot (at the right) of her facebook account! Being user of our Facebooks anti-apps Ignore ALL & Block ALL scripts she requests a way so that she can "poke back" all pokers at once. 

Thanks to GreaseMonkey, we can use a auto poke script!

When installed this script will automatically check if somebody had poked you whenever you go to your facebooks homepage. If it sees any pending pokes, it will automatically poke back the poker. (Check following screenshot!)

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Installation:

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Credits: Mike Soh – Author of this script!

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