The Logic Behind Digital Certificates

August 19th, 2010 | Posted under The Internet, Web Design Tutorials | No Comments »

The Logic Behind Digital Certificates

A digital certificate is commonly referred to as a public key certificate. It is an electronic document or attachment, which makes use of a digital signature to confirm the identity of a person. It contains information related to the user such as the name of his organization, his address, Personal account number and other relevant details. The signature, either of the user himself or other users bears a testimony to the fact that the concerned documents and the public key belong to the same individual.

A typical digital certificate consists of the following details:

Serial Number

Serial Number is used to uniquely identify the certificate.

Subject

Subject bears the name of the person or entity identified.

Signature

It is an algorithm used to create the signature.

Issuer

Issuer declares the name of the entity that verified the information and issued the certificate.

Valid-From

It contains the date the certificate is first valid from.

Valid-To

It depicts the expiration date.

Key-Usage

This declares the purpose of the public key

With the advent of advanced software it is now very easy to forge printed documents. Therefore it is not enough to place our trust in these documents while dealing with important issues.

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Advantage of Windows Web Hosting

August 4th, 2010 | Posted under Internet Trends, The Internet, Web Hosting | No Comments »

Advantage of Windows Web Hosting

Windows web hosting service has gained recent popularity over linux web hosting in the recent years. It has gained popularity because it was Microsoft who invented ASP and ASP.NET language, which has made the programming relatively easier. Here we don’t even have to worry if the server supports extensions as with an UNIX platform. We can skip the extra effort of learning a new language just to maintain our website as the windows based server makes the process much easier. The major advantages are as follows:

Ease of use of ASP applications

The use of active server pages or ASP for having a dynamically database driven website makes windows hosting much superior as compared to others. ASP makes the web pages much faster and robust than server side scripting.

Ease of use of VBscript

The ASP pages can be written using VBscript which makes them much easier to design and test for errors later on.

Access compatibility

If the website needs to access data from an access database, a windows server will be able to make integration much easier as it is able to integrate this database seamlessly.

Development

If we plan to develop windows based applications on our site then it’s the best and the only choice left for us.

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Mobile Devices that make emailing and browsing easier

August 4th, 2010 | Posted under Internet Trends, Miscellaneous, Software, The Internet | No Comments »

Mobile Devices that make emailing and browsing easier

The mobile market is now considered to be one of the fastest expanding and profitable markets in the world. With virtually everybody above the age of twelve possessing a mobile, there has been a rapid increase in the number and variety of mobile sets and connections available. With a wide array of smart phones hitting the market browsing the net is now just a swipe-of-the-finger away. The World Wide Web no longer rests on your desktop; it now cuddles on your palm.

iPhone

Manufactured by Apple, this multi-touch screen phone is equipped with internet browsing and is multimedia enabled. Being 3G enabled it supports very high speed internet and smooth connectivity in addition to sporting a high resolution camera.

Nexus One

A smart phone manufactured by Taiwan’s HTC Corporation that uses the Google based Android Open Source Mobile Operating System the phone sports a sleek design in addition to supporting high speed internet browsing and fast data transfer.

Nokia/Samsung

Samsung and Nokia manufactures mobiles in a wide range starting from ordinary phones to those having state-of –the art internet browsing and downloading capabilities. Their high end models Samsung Omnia and N-97 has packed in a lot of features within a reasonable price and boasts of a large market share.

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Most popular control panels for web hosting

July 15th, 2010 | Posted under The Internet, Web Hosting | 1 Comment »

Most popular control panels for web hosting

Virtually every aspect of site management is dealt with by the control panel, which makes it just as important as the web server does. To an administrator, what matters most is the simplicity of use and functionality, and these primarily determine the popularity of a control panel. Opinions vary few but are undoubtedly noted for their versatility.

A concise review of the four most popular control panels can help potential webmasters select the one appropriate to their requirement.

CPanel

It is the most renowned control panel in the industry because of its simplicity intuitive user interface and ease of learning.

Plesk

Plesk is comparable to cPanel and noted for its efficiency and stability. It is compatibility with both windows and Linux based servers and with programming tools such as ASP, IIS and MS-SQL.

Virtuozzo Power Panel

This is by far the most capable control panel for VPS hosting. It offers both Windows and Linux solutions and allows server administration from within the browser interface directly.

ServerCP

ServerCP is a Linux-based control panel frequently used for VPS hosting. It is simple, user-friendly yet has an extensive administrative interface.

Although all the above control panels are capable solutions, the ultimate decision should be made after research and based on requirement.

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What Sets CPanel Apart from Other Web Control Panels

July 15th, 2010 | Posted under Software, The Internet, Web Hosting | 2 Comments »

What Sets cPanel Apart from Other Web Control Panels

Web Hosting Control panels are generally a set of tools and interfaces designated for maintaining and monitoring  hosting account on WWW. These are mainly meant for monitoring server logs, quotas usage, web statistics, FTP accounts, databases, domains, add-on etc.

Webhosting cPanel is the most popular and used control panel worldwide due to its attractive features and easy usability. Day by day the no of users is increasing and cPanel is becoming more popular among common public. So if some problem arises while working with cPanel we can easily get a solution to that problem through different posts available on net.

Client Server Interface

CPanel offers a very friendly client server interface that makes it extremely easy for the user to interact with the software.

Add-ons

Various add-ons are available for this software and it’s very easy to attach these add-ons with cPanel. These add-ons are also frequently updated according to the growing requirements of the people.

Cheap cost and easy available updates

CPanel releases updates to their software quite often. CPanel allows us to get low-cost licenses for their dedicated server clients.

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Best Modules of Drupal

July 15th, 2010 | Posted under Content Management Systems, The Internet | 1 Comment »

Best Modules of Drupal

Drupal provides some extremely functional modules in its core package. But often, the web designer needs to use more modules for providing the right content in his website. There are three kinds of modules in Drupal – core modules, community written modules (which are written by developers under open source license for public use), and custom modules. Some of the best Drupal modules are

Forum

This is a core module that comes with Drupal. A forum is most often needed in a website, and adds to its interactive nature. The forum module allows users to create threads and categories. Replies to the thread or other replies are shown in a graphically intuitive manner.

Web form

This module is very useful in taking flexible input from the user. The user can fill forms and submit them. This is very useful for contact sheets and registration. It features text area, radio buttons, combo box, etc.

Tiny MCE WYSIWIG Editor

The mistake web developers often commit is to think that the end-user is like them and can write html. But most users can’t insert images, links or format text using plain HTML. So this WYSIWIG editor comes in handy for the common layman user.

These tools make the work of both a user and a designer easier, and increase the website’s appeal!
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Best Social Networking Sites of today

July 8th, 2010 | Posted under Internet Trends, Miscellaneous, The Internet, Web Design Tutorials | 1 Comment »

Best Social Networking Sites

In today’s world, when everything has experienced the intrusion of computers and the internet, why should it be different for relationships as well? Taking the concept of social networking to a whole new level are the social networking websites. Ask the average teenager about friends and he will give you a list of cyber-relations conjured up with the help of these increasingly popular websites. Here is a look at a few of them:

Orkut

This website has been found to be most popular in Brazil and India, boasting of more than a hundred million active users worldwide. Users can add videos, integrate Gtalk , upload photos and also apply themes to make their profile page attractive.

Facebook

Facebook currently boasts of more than four hundred million active users worldwide. One can not only poke his friends with a message or two, but also remain engaged by addictive games and other free applications.

Myspace

Myspace has more than 200 million users worldwide with unique features like the use of HTML tags to customize one’s profile page, apart from having the common applications.

Twitter

With around fifty million monthly visits Twitter is fast gaining popularity , more because of it being used by celebrities to voice their thoughts.

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Libraries based on Java and JavaScript

July 8th, 2010 | Posted under Computer Advice, Internet Trends, Software, The Internet | 1 Comment »

Libraries based on Java and JavaScript

With every passing day, automation is becoming increasingly popular; a well-programmed machine is replacing many men in almost every job. Even the horizons of programming language have broadened with time. Programming languages such as Java, C, C++ and scripts such as JavaScript, etc are being put to more use than ever before. Java and JavaScript with its wide range of libraries have proved to be a boon. Let us discuss some of the most useful libraries based on Java and JavaScript.

Ajax

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a group of technologies that uses a combination of HTML and CSS to create interactive web applications. It uses dynamic display and enhances the interaction between the information and the user.

JQuery

It is free, lightweight, open source software designed to simplify scripting on the part of the client. It can be used to create animations, handle events, create plug-ins and develop Ajax applications, thus enabling the creation of powerful and dynamic web pages.

JScript

This is another scripting language library that is used in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Jscript is nothing but the same as JavaScript but under the purview of Microsoft. However, it comes with the additional feature of supporting conditional compilation.

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Top four viruses that shook the internet

July 2nd, 2010 | Posted under Internet Trends, The Internet | 1 Comment »

Top four viruses that shook the internet

While computer viruses have been causing mayhem in the cyber world for quite some time, some of them have certainly stood out for their ingenuity in making, spectacular methods and scale of damage in the virtual as well as the real world. Here are four of the most deadly viruses that literally shook the world wide web-

I love u

This multipurpose virus hit users through emails, IRC chats, files transfers and affected the registry. It was supposed to have originated in Philippines and caused an estimated damage of 8-10 billion USD.

Melissa

Developed by David L. Smith in New Jersey, who was later convicted, the virus operated through Microsoft Outlook and harvested the victims address book to forward itself to more victims which killed a lot of email servers.

My Doom Internet Worm

It originated in 2004 and worked in two stages. In the first stage, it infected Operating Systems and made them vulnerable and in the second stage, a few months later, it crashed and congested search engines like Google, thereby slowing them down.

Nimda

Nimda spelt backwards it reveals its prime targets: ‘admin’ and servers. It holds the record for the fastest spreading virus and used up to 5 different methods to infect computers, servers and websites.

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Web Security by VeriSign

June 28th, 2010 | Posted under Computer Advice, Internet Trends, Software, The Internet | 1 Comment »

Web Security by VeriSign

VeriSign one of the most popular and well known SSL brands, provides a high quality of security for e-commerce as well as communications over intranets, extranets as well as the Internet. Given the brand’s reputation for online security, several organizations choose its services just to provide their customers with the confidence of conducting online business without any apprehensions. VeriSign customer organizations have reported a considerable increase in their transactions after deploying the VeriSign Secured Seal to inform potential customers that they could carry out their online transactions under the protection of the VeriSign SSL.

Some characteristics of the VeriSign SSL security system are-

Authentication

The SSL certification is the proof that the site is not a “spoof” or a fake site, it is authentic. VeriSign’s authentication procedures are recognized throughout the industry, and a VeriSign certificate gives confidence that the site can be trusted.

Encryption

A VeriSign Digital Certificate, when correctly installed, provides a secure encrypted HTTPS connection, all data using this connection will be secured against interception or eavesdropping. Using a secured link will surely boost the confidence of the customers.

High Grade Security

A VeriSign Global Certificate provides the website with a 128bit SSL encryption, which is the strongest grade of encryption available.

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