Inspiration of CuttingEdge Technology

FlashGet – a free Download Manager

gayan007 — Sat, 10 May 2008 09:22:56 +0000

I have used so many download accelerators and download managers but this is the first time I have found a good download manager for free (so no need to find the cracks). Currently I am using it for downloads and so far it seems good and here I have listed the features of the FlashGet.

Optimized – will run with low system resources.
Call anti-virus – It will execute the antivirus software after downloading a file.
100% clean – there are no ads were displayed on FlashGet so full strength will be used for download.
Speed – They say it is speed but it depends on your connection
Multi-protocol – supports HTTP and FTP
File management – it does the categorization
Add-ons and Themes are also available

You can download FlashGet by just click here. If you are already using FlashGet and have better experience or if there are any drawbacks please share it with us. Or if there are a better Download Manager please share it also.

Working with forms inside iframes

gayan007 — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:00:00 +0000

I was requested to do some work with forms using the iframes on a web page and it was needed to do a lot of Googling and thought to share those things.

1. Display a form on the main page and when the form is submitted the results should be shown on an iframe on the same page.

a. This task was pretty simple and what I had to do is give the same page as the action page of the form.

b. If the form data is defined on the page I had to show the iframe.When showing the iframe I had to give all the form data as query parameters on the URL of the iframe.

src=”test.cfm?&StartDate=#URLEncodedFormat(form.StartDate)#

&EndDate=#URLEncodedFormat(form.EndDate)#”

width=”730″

height=”600″>

</iframe>

c. Then the resulting page was displayed correctly inside the iframe.

2. Then the resulting page which was inside the iframe was also a web form and it has to be submitted on the event of a button click which was on the main page.

a. For the button click event we have to fire a JavaScript function.
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b. On that JavaScript function we can do the submission as follows.

function updateStatusAction ()

{

var ifrDoc=document.getElementById(‘ifComment’).contentWindow.document;

ifrDoc.forms[0].submit();

}

</script>

c. This will be doing the submission and we have to redirect the resulting page to the same one.

3. When showing the resulting page inside the iframe we have to update the resulting values according to the values on the main page.

a. For that we have to submit the form again when we are showing the resulting page.

b. So we have to send a query parameter and if the query parameter is true then we have to do the main page form submission.

parent.document.getElementById(‘formId’).submit();

</script>

4. If we need o call a JavaScript function on main page on an event of something whch was palced inside the iframe we can call like,

onclick = “return parent.functionName(parameter)”

Hope this may help you when working with iframes and if there are better ways to do this or if something goes wrong (nobody is perfect) please do share it with me.

Future features in Blogger

gayan007 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:01:00 +0000

The draft.blogger.com is seems like the beta version of new features of blogger.com. And we can try the “to be added” gadgets and features of blogger on “draft”. And I think it is a good thing for both of us.

You can visit their blog on bloggerindraft.blogspot.com and try the future features of blogger. I have tried some of them and they are really good.

Blog List – a blogroll to your blog’s sidebar
Scheduled Post Publishing – schedule the post to appear on your blog
Feed Subscription
- Help your readers subscribe
Search Box – Search over your blog and more

The last feature in here the Search box is the best thing I have experienced among the others. It is a AJAX control and works really good and I hope you all (the bloggers) will love to try them up.

I signed up for PPP!

gayan007 — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:11:00 +0000

I signed up for a site called PPP (pay per post) and seem they are really nice for bloggers to earn money. The basic thing in here is we have to write on something (which they say) and they are ready to pay for your post.

It is pretty easy to sign up on them. Please follow the link here.payperpost

And start on earning money for the postings. On PPP you have to have a PayPal account to get the money. The main benefit behind PPP is you can add tools for your blog as follows,

Referral program (redirect more to PPP)
Review my post (put on your post and earn more)
Firefox plug-in (finds more opportunities for you)
Signup forms (it is a referral form that can be put on your blog )
PPP Direct (enables advertisers to hire you directly)

There are some conditions apply on approval of your blog. I have tried with some blogs that I have (but not maintained properly) and they have rejected it. So it seems you have try with a good blog (updates properly) on Pay Per Post.

The good thing is you can start referring and installing PPP tools on your blog even before they approve your blog and seems you can start earning money from the day you are sign-up on PPP.

Replace new line with
tag

gayan007 — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:27:00 +0000

Most of the multi line text areas we are using the user can input text by using line breaks. If that text used for internal purpose saving it as a single string may not be a problem.

But what’s if we have to show that on a web page (forums, user comments, etc). We have to replace the new line character with the
tag. The famous way is to replace chr(13) with the
tag by using the Java Script. But the problem is this method is not working fine with every platform. But I have found a way to come up with and thought to share it with you.

function escapeVal(textarea,replaceWith)

{

textarea.value =
escape(textarea.value)

for(i=0; i<textarea.value.length; i++)

{

if(textarea.value.indexOf(“%0D%0A”) >
-1)

{

textarea.value=textarea.value.replace(“%0D%0A”,replaceWith)

}

else
if(textarea.value.indexOf(“%0A”) >
-1)

{

textarea.value=textarea.value.replace(“%0A”,replaceWith)

}

else
if(textarea.value.indexOf(“%0D”) >
-1)

{

textarea.value=textarea.value.replace(“%0D”,replaceWith)

}

textarea.value = unescape(textarea.value)

}

I have tested this on the Linux and windows with both Firefox and IE 7; and it worked fine.

Then the next step, sometimes we may need to convert
tags back to new line characters (e.g.: user tries to edit the content). On that occasion we cannot show the
tags. But for this we do not have to use the javascript, we can do this on the server side.

Replace(Comment.CommentValue,”
”,chr(13),”all”)

I have done this by the ColdFusion and replacing it with chr(13) works fine.

Good bye Netscape Navigator!!!

gayan007 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:03:00 +0000

I have seen “Official support for all Netscape client products ended on March 1st, 2008. Please see the announcement for more details.” on top of the Netscape browser website. On their announcement they say to download the Mozilla Firefox web browser and seem they support on it.

I think the main reason behind this is huge drop of popularity on their browser. But anyway if you are interested on the Netscape Communications Corporation (now under AOL) and their activities and the history just click on the links below.

browser.netscape.com

netscape.aol.com

wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape (web browser)

wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape Communications Corporation

Blog readability level

gayan007 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 09:30:00 +0000

TV Reviews

My blog got a “Genius” level on readability. I think this is not a problem since the visitors are also on genius level and also I believe my blog is just simple and anybody can understand the content on it.

Anyway I think to write my future postings in a simple way. Hope you will help me to do a better job on that.

What is Flock?

gayan007 — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 07:21:00 +0000

Flock is a web browser that makes easy to use community activities on the internet like facebook, flickr and also it supports on viewing emails (on Gmail and yahoo) an many more. It is true that now the internet users are using more functionality on internet 2; so it supports most of them.

Flock itself says it as a “social web browser” so I downloaded it and used for a couple of days. The main thing on Flock web browser is you can download to for free. It seems very easy to use facebook through Flock and also it is pretty easy to use flickr (image share on yahoo).

To view official Flock site click here.

If there is anything that you think to share with us regarding Flock web browser you are welcome.

Nokia Morph Concept

gayan007 — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:43:00 +0000

This is a new concept of Nokia and seems very innovative. I think you must see the video to get an idea about their new research level concept.
To view more details about their new concept click here.

To view more clear video just click here.

(RED) – helping to eliminate AIDS in Africa

gayan007 — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:28:00 +0000

What is called (RED)^TM? Sounds like an emergency but it is a brand created to raise the awareness and money for a Global Fund to treat the people who suffer AIDS in Africa. How actually this happens? You can find more details on it from http://www.joinred.com .

Basically what happens is RED establishes partnership with private companies to promote their products under RED and partners send a portion of their profit to that Global fund. Normally the products under RED are also colored in red (I think it reminds the user about what he has done to the society). Here are some of the partners on RED,

American Express (UK only)
Gap
Motorola
Emporio Armani
Apple
Converse
Hallmark
Dell
Microsoft

The products under RED are not cost more to the customer. I think this is what needs to do for help people in Africa (who suffer AIDS). And also I think it is like a red light on our lives when thinking about AIDS.

Anyway I do not have an experience with an (product)^RED so I hope you will share your thought with me regarding this.