Adnan Siddiqi

Prototyping with ForeUI

2010-02-19T15:56:00Z

Prototyping an application or an idea is always considered a best way to visualize how your application will behave. It also helps you to save your time by showing initial screens to your clients so that they can figure out whether the things are going fine or not. Many people still believe in Paper Prototyping while it sounds a bit weird in current age of computers when efforts are being made to save the trees by using less papers. Beside that, you just can't erase things again and again on a paper....(read more)

Hey What's up?

2010-01-10T15:13:00Z

This is the question which was recently asked by few guys who happen to follow me here. All of them asked, why my blog is so dead now? no updates, nothing! I just thought to write something about current activities. It might surprise you that it's not my new marital status which keeps me busy here and there. Neither I have become bloggingly infertile that I don't find new things in pocket to discuss. It's all about change in priorities. I have been trying get back to same world which I belong to,...(read more)

Blind faith on Blind Search? Never!!

2009-08-09T11:27:00Z

As I shared here that I really liked the concept of Blind Search tool as it's quite helpful to compare three well-known and big search engines; Google,Bing and Yahoo. This tool could be quite helpful to find out hidden features of other search engines which usually I don't pay attention because of Google. I really liked the concept of showing comparison of different data sets(Search Engine results here) and let the user pick which 1 is good. It's quite a Web 2.0/3.0 idea to find the better results...(read more)

WHATWG twitter account has been hijacked!!

2009-08-04T16:36:00Z

Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group(WHATWG) 's twitter account seems taken over by some spammer. Few mins back when I was going thru new tweets, I found some weird(read vulgar) entries in WHATWG account. It was surprising. I checked few more messages and found out that someone has been spamming the account. As you can see in the following pic, you will find some abusive tweets posted by the spammer....(read more)

Google to launch Chrome OS

2009-07-08T16:52:00Z

Everyone knows Google heavily relies browser based front end and has given us some classic web applications which pretty much behave like Desktop apps. Google had reasons to launch a separate browser and today we all read the reason behind it. Google was not happy with current browsers who opens different web pages in a single process, that's why they came up with a browser which opens every page in a separate process space which makes efficient usage of browser. Google is addicted to browser and...(read more)

Backup your Mozilla Products with MozBackup

2009-06-28T10:11:00Z

I recently re-installed Windows XP. I had a long list of bookmarks and history which I never erased for sake of easiness. Before going to format my partition, I was worried enough to backup my Firefox settings so that I could restore them upon fresh installation. Fortunately I came across a tool called MozBackup which makes your life happier. I made a copy of my Firefox profile which is stored in SQLite Database shipped with Firefox > 2 and recovered it back in new firefox copy. It saved my time...(read more)

Finding CD key of windows products

2009-06-26T18:12:00Z

I just found a helpful utility to retrieve the existing CD key of the windows product already installed on a pc.IT could be helpful if you dont have cd key stored and you need it again. Download it from here: http://www.magicaljellybean.com/keyfinder/...(read more)

Blind Search

2009-06-21T13:10:00Z

You will be aware of terms like Blind Love or Blind Faith but did you ever hear thing like Blind Search ? Yes there it is and it's a utility made by a Microsoft Employee which let you pick the best search result based on your choice. It's interesting fun game. I am not so familiar with Microsoft's Bing but surprisingly few results return from query were better than results by Google. Not sure it's due to usability (Most of the Bing results appear in the middle column) or something else. Anyway it's...(read more)

Opera claims to reinventthe Web

2009-06-12T19:01:00Z

As OPERA say itself. Further from The Register ....(read more)

Google got squared:Search in a Matrix

2009-06-06T07:13:00Z

Google provides another feature to customize your search results in Tabular form. Google Square does it. For instance the square of Larry Page or of Bill gates . For details visit:...(read more)

Google waves

2009-05-29T16:09:00Z

Google now has come up with a P2P type tool which provides online collaboration and spelling suggestion tool by using NLP techniques . I don't know how it's gonna make difference in the presence of facebook and LinkedIn but it does sound interesting. Read further about it on Wave's blog ....(read more)

Google supports microformats and RDFa

2009-05-13T03:22:00Z

Google is now going to support RDFa and microformat to represent structured data. You can learn further about their implementation here ....(read more)

CSS Sprite Generator

2009-04-09T17:47:00Z

Amazing effort which makes things a lot easier via AJAXIAN ....(read more)

IE 8.1 supports Firefox extensions

2009-04-01T04:03:00Z

If you can figure it out :-)...(read more)

PTCL doubles broadband Speed

2009-03-29T08:05:00Z

I read in papers that PTCL has doubled the speed for broadband users. Now you can have a 2MB line @Rs.2000. Currently I am paying Rs.2000 for 1MB line. It sounds interesting. Naturally I tried to verify but current Speed test which shows the following result:...(read more)