Posts made in August, 2007

• Wine-doors

  Linux
  If you’re looking at streamlining the usage of wine on your Linux box, checkout Wine-doors. It’s a cool software which makes installation of Windows software easy – just click and it’ll download and install, especially the usual stuff like IE, DirectX and some games. They have a deb installer which works great on Ubuntu. The [...]

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• mod_top – PHP Application Monitoring

  PHP
  

  mod_top allows you to check the current PHP processes running on the server in the format which the unix top command uses. It’s a useful tool to check out what’s running on the server, check CPU and memory utilization of the PHP scripts running on the machine.The mod_top team are providing prebuilt binaries for download [...]

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• PHPIDS – PHP-Intrusion Detection System

  PHP
  If you want to detect and act on  XSS probes and attacks on your PHP web application without too much of coding, here’s a project which delivers. It’s called PHPIDS. It’s an IDS for your PHP application which scans your inputs (without sanitizing it) and checks for XSS attacks based on a rule set. You [...]

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• Transliteration to Hindi from Google Labs

  Sites
  Here’s a cool app from Google India Labs called Google Indic Transliteration. Here’s what Google says about the app: Google Indic Transliteration offers an option for converting Roman characters to the DevanÄ?garÄ« characters used in Hindi. This lets you type Hindi words phonetically in English script and still have them appear in their correct alphabet. [...]

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• Few irritating captcha’s – Image verification
  “Oh God! Its irritating. Am trying to finish this form, but this image-verification is killing my time and patience. “ This is not from my mouth. This is what I have seen some user say while filling forms in few websites. The worst part is they don’t understand the characters in image. Some time its [...]

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• Quercus – PHP5 in 100% Java

  PHP
  Looking for a way to run PHP5 code to run under a native Java server and interact with Java code? Quercus is Caucho Technology’s 100% Java implementation of PHP 5 released under the Open Source GPL license. Quercus comes with many PHP modules and extensions like PDF, PDO, MySQL, and JSON. Quercus allows for tight [...]

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