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Sunday, February 7, 2010

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Flexamail: Take a snapshot of a website without visiting it

Posted: 07 Feb 2010 07:32 AM PST

In the past I wrote about using Flexamail a service which could be used for using Facebook and Twitter through Email without even the need to visit Twitter or Facebook. Now thanks to a tip by Michael Fleischauer I can share with you new features with Flexamail which allow you to get a pdf file of a webpage by using email client.

Flexamail_pdf

Website in PDF

First I needed to register with Flexamail with my Email Id.
Once you are done with that just log into the Email Id which you have used for registering with Flexamail.
Now I sent an email to the address pdfwww@flexamail.com and with the subject line :www.devilsworkshop.org
Once the email was sent Felxamail takes the webpage indicated in the subject line and converts it into a pdf file and sends it back to your email id as an attachment.
So basically now if your browser is not working or if you cannot access a particular website you can simply use your email to fetch it.

Another handy new feature with Flexamail is that I can send an email to savewww@flexamail.com and with subject line of any website I want to covert to pdf. Once done, Felxamail saves the pdf file on its servers and you can fetch the file by sending an email to getfile@flexamail.com I get a return mail with all the files stored by me on Flexamail. I can also log into Flexamail website and download the saved pdf files. This is ideal for taking snapshots of a website and keep it for later reading. Basically a great way to archive a particular webpage into pdf format.

Here is a video which explains in detail how you can use the new features.

Let me know if you like the new features of Flexamail which in way allows you to browse the internet through your email client and without the need of a browser. Do drop in your comments.

Link: Flexamail

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TCS official website hacked

Posted: 06 Feb 2010 10:12 PM PST

Tata Consultancy Services official website www.tcs.com has been attacked and hacked. The hacker has left a message suggesting the website is up for sale.

At the time of writing of this post if you visited the official url of TCS, www.tcs.com; this is message you are greeted with.

tcs_official_website_hacked

Strangely the hacker has put up a email Id out there in case someone is interested in buying the domain.

It is probably unrelated but there has been a rise in official websites being hacked into with messages. This is known as defacing homepages. Only recently Indian government had admitted that China based hackers had attacked official computers. But those were more sophisticated and meant to attack computer systems rather than deface any websites.