Amritaayanam » The Web http://www.amritaayanam.com Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Amritapuri Campus Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:23:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Making good use of browser cache http://www.amritaayanam.com/2010/09/21/making-good-use-of-browser-cache/ http://www.amritaayanam.com/2010/09/21/making-good-use-of-browser-cache/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:35:54 +0000 vinit.cv http://www.amritaayanam.com/?p=412 Guys have you ever waited for a video from youtube to load and after watching it wanted to download it?

Most of us may have and must have used external links to download them, waiting to download the whole video again.

But why downloading the same video twice?

Ya its true, You can have the video if you know where to look.

The answer is the cache folder itself.

I will show you how to get it from Mozilla Firefox and opera.( I’m Not good with IE, but You can always check at Temp dir )

  • First you got to have the location of  cache, which u can get by typing “about:cache” in mozilla or just “about” in opera
  • copy the cache location and open  it.
  • [in opera its in "sesn" folder]
  • By checking the details of the file like time and size you can easily identify the file. don’t mind the file name though
  • chose the file and rename it ( change extension ) and you are done
  • Enjoy

It can check the type of a single file now. I’m planning to make a better version.

Hope this Tip/Trick be useful to you.

And remember it works well with images and flash also .

if you are not sure which file is which, here is a simple tool that helps to find the original type of the file. (its not complete yet, but works for flv,mp4, pdf ,images and  flash )

FileIdentifier

]]> http://www.amritaayanam.com/2010/09/21/making-good-use-of-browser-cache/feed/ 3 How should a student use Google? http://www.amritaayanam.com/2010/09/17/use-google-the-student-way/ http://www.amritaayanam.com/2010/09/17/use-google-the-student-way/#comments Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:59:56 +0000 jakes http://www.amritaayanam.com/?p=380 Don’t just be stunned seeing the post title. Please read on ;) . I just want to share some tips on how to use Google search more efficiently. I bet most of you rely on Google when you get an assignment, when you are asked to do a prestentation or even when you are asked to code a program. Of-course in all these scenarios, the first answer would be ‘Google it’.  Don’t just type the phrase in Google search bar and wander through the results. Instead learn the tips given below.

1. Searching for a file

  • For powerpoint presentations on some topic, type ‘Topic_Name filetype:ppt’.
  • For pdf files on a topic, type ‘Topic_Name filetype:pdf’.
  • For doc files on some topic, type ‘Topic_Name filetype:doc’.
  • Well you can even search for some C programs. For example try typing ‘Binary Search filetype:C’.

2. Searching within a site

Not all sites have a search bar. But still you want to search the every site. No probz.. Just search ‘Search_keyword site:url’ in Google. Example: Try searching ‘Orkut Hack site:ethicalhacking1.com’.

3. Searching for some definitions

Need a quick definition on something. Just add ‘define:’ to the keyword you want to search.

4. Search for an exact word

You might have had times when you got frustrated on seeing irrevelant page results shown by Google, most probably just beacuse those pages had your word here and there. If you require an exact pattern matching, use quotes[eg: Try Googling "amritaayanam"].

Well there goes my first post here… That’s for now.. Wait till my next one!!!!!!! ;)

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Internet Explorer 9

 

Internet Explorer 9 Launching on September 15th

It’s finally happening. IE team has just announced the launch of Internet Explorer 9 Beta that will take place in San Francisco on September 15th.

This appears to be one of the most anticipated product launches this year.

Furthermore, this could mark the new era of IE breed with faster and more frequent updates. Who knows, maybe by the time Windows 8 is released, we will already have Internet Explorer 10.

]]> http://www.amritaayanam.com/2010/09/15/internet-explorer-9-launching-on-september-15th/feed/ 8 BarCamp Kerala 9 (BCK 9) To Be Conducted in Amritapuri Campus. http://www.amritaayanam.com/2010/09/07/barcamp-kerala-9-bck-9-to-be-conducted-in-amritapuri-campus/ http://www.amritaayanam.com/2010/09/07/barcamp-kerala-9-bck-9-to-be-conducted-in-amritapuri-campus/#comments Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:08:30 +0000 Saranjith S http://www.amritaayanam.com/?p=164 Have any interesting topic to share with others? Do you have the desire to learn something new? BarCamp is the perfect venue.

BCK 9

BarCamp Kerala is back with a bang! BarCamp is an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join. There are no registration fees or any charges for a barcamp as this is a user-generated conference. You are invited to volunteer for various activities for putting up a successful camp.

We are fortunate to conduct BarCamp Kerala 9 at Amritapuri Campus on November 14th, 2010.

BarCamps are unconferences, which mean

NO SPECTATORS, ONLY PARTICIPANTS.

BarCamp is an ad-hoc unconference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from attendees. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join. There are no registration fees or any charges for a Barcamp as this is a user-generated conference. You are invited to volunteer for variousactivities for putting up a successful camp.

This is not exclusively for techies. This is a meet up of Expert techies, beginners and  those who are interested in these subjects but not really into the technology.

Registration: For more information and Registration go to Barcampkerala.

Twitter Hashtag: #bck9 (please include this while you tweet about this event.)

Follow BarCamp Kerala on Twitter: http://twitter.com/barcampkerala

For those who are not familiar with the venue, here are the venue details.

Date: November 14th, 2010

For attendees from Trivandrum Side

For attendees from Alappey, Eranakulam Side


Address

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham,  Amritapuri Campus
Amritapuri.
Clappana P O
Kollam – 690525

Phone: +91 476 2801280

Contact Numbers

Saranjith. S.

email: saran.cybergost@gmail.com

phone: 980 944 0269

P. K. Binu

email: binu@amritapuri.amrita.edu

phone: 964 567 6453

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The graphic below was created for Mashable by Lisa Waananen.

Infographic on 6 year long controversy regarding privacy issues in Facebook

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