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Youtube.com Down with 500 Internal Server Error
Gmail has new security feature to avoid accounts from being hijacked
10 Online Tools for Cross Browser Testing

Youtube.com Down with 500 Internal Server Error

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 04:32 AM PDT

YouTube one of the best and popular video sharing site is down today with giving 500 Internal server error. The reason for downtime is not officially known and we will keep you updated with the latest development on this downtime.

You can check if YouTube is down using DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com. If this service itself goes down, you can use alternative!

Update 1: YouTube is now giving error : Http/1.1 Service Unavailable

Update 2 (added by rahul): YouTube is now giving 502 server error. (What does this error code means?)

Update 3 (added by rahul): YouTube must be down everywhere in the world.

We just checked HTTP headers and found that YouTube is returning 503 server error and server in this case was NS_6.1, i.e. netspace on amazon s3 cloud server. In first screenshot, server signature was Apache.

This may mean that as Apache severs went down, our last request was redirected to backup or another mirror. unfortunately which is also down.

Update 4: DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com says YouTube is down everywhere. (See screenshot below)

Update 5: Finally, YouTube is back. Hurry!

Enjoy IPL matches live on YouTube.

Link: List of HTTP status codes

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Gmail has new security feature to avoid accounts from being hijacked

Posted: 25 Mar 2010 04:17 AM PDT

Gmail as added a new feature from a security angle. As explained in the Gmail blog that many people receive emails from known addresses asking for help in the form of money. This is obviously a scam but as if someone is a good friend you might some might end up falling prey to such scams. I love Gmail and all kinds of great features that make it great and hence I think you might enjoy reading about a new security feature in Gmail.

How the scam works?

First the email of a person is compromised and email for help in form of money is asked to all contacts of the email account. This makes the email legitimate sometimes as it is sent from a known contact. This might not be a big deal in the money scam but anyone amongst us might fall prey to lets say a attachment sent out like that to spread a virus.

How Gmail plans to fight it?

Gmail plans to fight this problem by giving us a new feature which alarms us if our acocunt has shown suspicious log in activity.
As you can see in the image above, there will be a warning like if my account was accessed form some foreign country and with a link to show details and preferences.
The details included are recent access point information which includes IP addresses. This will be useful as if you some has hacked into your account you can immediately locate it and then change the password. (see image below for what details are included)

The information highlighted in red is the suspicious information. This can be ignored or acted upon as you see fit. The locations is a broad one like country wise locations so do not expect this message if you use different computers to access Gmail from home and office.

I like this new security tip and makes a lot of sense to have some sort of inbuilt for us to know someone unknown is accessing our account. Do drop in your comments with any more new ideas you have to keep the Gmail account safe.

Link: Gmail Blog

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10 Online Tools for Cross Browser Testing

Posted: 24 Mar 2010 11:50 PM PDT

Web designers and developers need to test their products before launch. Testing is the main phase before launching. So, testing their web products only on single browser or Single operating system leads to downfall, because once after launching people will be using the product from different parts of the world. So, testing it on different conditions will make the product success.

Before launching a website or while designing a website, web designers need to test their project on different operating system with different browsers. So, this is called testing browser compatibility or cross browser testing. Here are some useful online tools which will of great use to web designers and developers.

10 Online Tools for Cross Browser Testing

Spoon –

This tool allows you to check your website in different browsers such as IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Google Chrome and Opera directly from the web.

Crossbrowsertesting –

This tool helps us both in cross platform and cross browser testing. Just pick an OS, Select a browser and test your website.

Browsrcamp –

This tool allows you to test with MacOS X browsers and all you need to do is, enter the URL and get full length screen shots at different screen widths.

Adobe Browserlab –

Adobe Browserlab makes browser compatibility testing easier for you and it is the best and fastest tool for testing webpages across different environments like windows OS, Mac OSX, Linux and browsers like Firefox, IE, Safari etc.

Litmus –

Litmus shows you exactly how your designs look on every platform, across every popular web browser. Litmus is lightning-fast, reliable and affordable.

IE NetRenderer –

IE NetRenderer allows you to check how a website is rendered by Internet Explorer 7, 6 or 5.5. Just type in a URL in the field above and try it out – it’s free!

Browsershots –

Browsershots is a free open-source online service which creates screenshots of your web design in different browsers.

Browsercam –

Browsercam is a cross browser testing tool which has more than 90+ browsers, Linux, Win, Mac and even the presentation in different versions of browsers on mobile devices (BlackBerry, Win Mobile) can be tested.

Browser Photo –

Check Your Pages With Browser Photo! View actual photos of your Web pages on major browsers and computers.

IETester –

IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

If you find any similar tools for checking browser compatibility, do share it with us

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