Ajatus Software

Leave Your Key Board Behind

janmejay — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:37:59 +0000

Typing is sooo yesterday. Google Gesture Search, a freshman out of Google Labs, lets you find stuff on your Android phone by drawing letters on the touchscreen as if you were jotting on a notepad. In addition to Android’s existing search by voice, image, and barcode, Gesture Search is yet another keyboardless input method for [...]

What’s your Latitude?

janmejay — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:39:36 +0000

Fibbing to your boss or partner about where you are just got tougher, thanks to Google Latitude, which maps your geo-coordinates and informs people on your friends list about your location. Ever dug your own grave? Pranav Mehra, a sales executive for a company in Mumbai, claims he recently did. It started when Mehra introduced his [...]

Google’s Latest Buzz – I

janmejay — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:53:07 +0000

Google is having another go at a social media offering, and this time it looks like the company may be on the right track. Google Buzz was rolled out en masse this week, to largely positive reviews. The service has a few rough edges, but has quite a bit of potential. If at first you don’t [...]

The Battle For Mobility

janmejay — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:37:36 +0000

Which is better for those who work on the move — a netbook or a smartphone? We take a closer look at what is slowly but surely developing into a mobile computing war It is one of the most engrossing face-offs in the world of tech. And it has been slowly building up. Just about [...]

Understand Your Logo

janmejay — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:03:28 +0000

We come across customers who want to design a logo to give their company or brand n impetus. But the truth is something different.Despite businesses awaking up to the necessity of having a professional design for their brands & companies, there are various misunderstandings about the logo design. While it’s nice to be able to [...]

NoSQL – The revelation that is gaining momentum

janmejay — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:33:09 +0000

The world of data storage is up for a massive shift. A whole new breed of scalable data stores is gaining popularity & that too the pace is too fast for traditional databases to recoil & grapple with. I am afraid to say, but they are starting to look like a thing of past. The [...]

SQL injection and its prevention

girish — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 05:33:54 +0000

SQL injection a technique by which some code is injected to exploit the security vulnerability found in the application layer of the database. This is a common attack in login based website. This mostly occurs when the user input is incorrectly filtered or due to incorrect type handling. » Incorrectly filtered user input This attack is possible [...]

Networking Ubuntu PCs with SSHFS

janmejay — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:06:40 +0000

Two PCs that are both running on Ubuntu can share files in a number of ways. We use USB devices & swap them to synchronize files between two PCs in what was called a ‘sneaker network‘. One better way is to use an SSHFS or ‘Secure Shell File System’ network. SSHFS uses OpenSSH to provide secure [...]

Goodbye Shared Hosting, Welcome to the Cloud

GeekTantra — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:27:18 +0000

Back in 2007 I got a shared hosting account from Hostmonster which claimed to offer me “300GB of space” which was later upgraded to “Unlimited“, “3000GB monthly bandwidth” which was later upgraded to “Unlimited“, “Unlimited MySQL databases“, “Unlimited mails“, etc. all for a meager amount of 5.95 USD/month. I felt as if I had all [...]

Weave Your World With Mozilla

janmejay — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:33:10 +0000

Password as well as bookmark Synchronization is a thing of past. Welcome to Mozilla Weave, a Mozilla Labs project which is a tool designed to let you keep in synchronization with absolute ease & more importantly keep it secure. If you’re one of the many “road warriors” depending on Mozilla browsers, Weave is your ticket [...]