Google Aquires Slide
August 7th, 2010No Comments | Filed Under: Tech News
On Friday, Google announced that it has acquired Slide Inc., an online entertainment company focused on virtual communities.
In official Google blog post, Google said that “Slide has already created compelling social experiences for tens of millions of people across many platforms, and we’ve already built strong social elements into products like Gmail, Docs, Blogger, Picasa and YouTube. As the Slide team joins Google, we’ll be investing even more to make Google services socially aware and expand these capabilities for our users across the web.”
Slide Inc. develops virtual community applications used on social networking sites like Facebook, Hi5, Bebo, Myspace, Orkut and many more.
How to send a copy of every email to a given email address in postfix
July 17th, 2010No Comments | Filed Under: Tutorials
Recently, I wanted to send a copy of every email of particular person to a given email address using postfix. I was looking for solution in Postfix documents and i found simple way to do this using – Automatic BCC recipients.
To achieve this Postfix provides three mechanisms:
1. always_bcc = address
Deliver a copy of all mail to the specified address. If you want to deliver a copy of all emails to the specified email address then just you can add below config in main.cf and reload the postfix config. always_bcc=xyz@domain.com2. sender_bcc_maps = type:table
Search the specified “type:table” lookup table with the envelope sender address for an automatic BCC address.
3. recipient_bcc_maps = type:table
Search the specified “type:table” lookup table with the envelope recipient address for an automatic BCC address.
1. create recipient_bcc mapping hash tables
# vi /etc/postfix/recipient_bcc
2. Add emails you want to apply this to:
#recipient_bcc mapping
abc@domain.com xyz@domain.com
3. Now you create the hash mapping database
# /usr/sbin/postmap /etc/postfix/recipient_bcc
4. Add this configuration in main.cf
# vi /etc/postfix/main.cf
recipient_bcc_maps = hash:/etc/postfix/recipient_bcc
5. Reload the postfix configuration
#/etc/init.d/postfix reload
Linkpatch – monitor your website for errors
July 16th, 2010One Comment | Filed Under: Software & Tools
Linkpatch is a tool for website owners and developers that reports broken links and provides all the information you need to fix them.

LinkPatch is purely for tracking 404 errors – you just have to add a line of code to your custom error pages or 404 template and it will send you instant emails as soon as it discovers any error page on your site. It works for any kind of broken link, providing all the details you need to fix the problem.. fast and for good!

You can monitor one site absolutely free, and add more starting at only $10/month!.
Features
- 10-second install, no clutter
- Helpful Dashboard
- Smart Notifications
- Pretty Emails
- Ignore Stuff
JpGraph – Most powerful PHP-driven charts
July 16th, 2010No Comments | Filed Under: Software & Tools
JpGraph is an Object-Oriented Graph creating library for PHP >= 5.1 The library is completely written in PHP and ready to be used in any PHP scripts (both CGI/APXS/CLI versions of PHP are supported).

Its available in two versions commercial Professional Version and Free version. You can see the comparision between the two versions here.

Features of JpGraph
The following is a shortlist of available features within the library.
- Web-friendly, average image size for a 300*200 image is around 2K and images are seldomly bigger than 4-5K
- Automatic generation of client side image maps to make it possible to generate drill-down graphs.
- Advanced interpolation with cubic splines to get smooth curves from just a few data points.
- Supports several plot types,spider-plots, pie-charts (both 2d and 3d) , scatter-plots, line-plots, filled line-plots, accumulated line-plots, bar plots, accumulated bar plots, grouped bar plots, error plots, line error plots, box plots, stock plots
- Support for alpha blending
- Has over 200+ built in Country flags
- Supports advanced Gantt-charts
- Flexible scales, supports integer, linear, logarithmic, text (counting) scales and any combinatino thereof on x/y axis
- Supports multiple Y-axes
- Support various layout with a background image behind the plot
- More than 400 named colors
- Extensive documentation with both a > 750 pages tutorial and an extensive class reference.
- Supports internal caching (with timeout) of generated graphs to lessen burden of a HTTP server.
Demo: http://jpgraph.net/features/gallery.php
Download: JpGraph 3.0.7
License: QPL 1.0 (Qt Free License), JpGraph Professional License
