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Google Analytics – Graph annotations

25 Dec

Google Analytics now permits one to annotate the points on the traffic gaphs and thus allows them to become more meaningful and useful. This means that people in the organization can add their part to the annotations and thus these graphs can mean more to the Read the rest of this entry »

 
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Posted in Internet, Search Engine Optimization

 

An easy way to determine the best URL shortener

08 Nov

I had been wondering which of the URL shortening services to stick to/ I specially found Bit.ly to be very useful in terms of the stats provided on the hits received etc. Today I came accross an interesting quiz that interactively asks a few questions to intelligently suggest the best URL shorterning service for a specific set of requirements. The choices include things like the need for a custom short URL and whether an API is preffered. There was another question regarding the need for click stats for short URLs that I particularly find very useful.

Give it a try and see if you find it useful enough.

http://www.hunch.com/url-shortening-services/

 
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Apache Lucene – PHP Implementation VS Java version

10 May

I was excited to know about Lucene’s inclusion into Zend’s Framework, but a bit of Googling brought up some serious performance issues with the PHP implementation. The Java implementation works faster and I would consider using it instead.

Click here for a comprehensive comparison…

By the way, the Xapian project offers much superior performance as shown by my Recoll personal search system. I have indexed more than 7GB of data which consists of large PDF files, IMAP mailboxes, Text files, DOC files, etc.

The search results are quick, considering the size of the data indexed and the resources on my machine.

Good work Xapian team !!

 
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Posted in Fulltext Search, Information Retrieval, Internet

 

MidpSSH – Java Client for mobile devices

21 Dec


I have been using a Sony Ericsson S500i Cellphone since July 2007. The device is MIDP 2.0 compliant powered by an ARM 7 microprocessor. It offers pretty nice performance on applications like GMail and Opera Mini. I never wanted to use it for doing an SSH to official servers but the recent breakage of the SMW3 and SMW4 marine Internet cables forced me to look around for something that would allow me to do an SSH from my S500i as putty was simply unusable from my home PC.

I was happy to see four different solutions following my Google search. I would like to share the one which stood out with a very strong recommendation. The client is called MidpSSH and it is available in various versions that support telnet,ssh1 and ssh2. A full version that contains all the three versions is also available and it is only 119kBytes in size. This was the choice I made. I was able to establish an ssh2 connection with a remote server in no time. The MidpSSH client allows the screen to be rotated in order to provide a nice, easy to read display on my S500i. This could suite any Linux Admin on the move with any MIDP 2.0 compliant mobile device.

 
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IPv6 around the corner – APNIC 26

27 Aug

Whether you’re just beginning to think about IPv6 or have been rolling it out for a couple of years, there’s IPv6 content at APNIC 26 to suit you. APNIC is holding their 26th open standards summit that starts today at Christchurch in New Zealand. The details of the event can be found here.

Yes, the buzz is getting stronger every day… I still remember buying my first book on IPv6 around 8 years ago. It did discuss the theoretical aspects of the successor of the prevalent IPv4 protocol. I kept wondering what happened to IPv5 though :)

I have started planning my move to IPv6 already,I would suggest we all take it seriously.

 
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Posted in Internet, Internet Protocols, IPv6