Thursday, 30 May 2013

Cloud Computing Basics For Fresher And Non-Experts

Joon Hospital | 9:28:00 am | Be the first to comment!

Cloud computing is a term we hear quite often, but there are very few people who understand what it’s all about.

You would argue that whatever technology this is, it is probably out of your world or too complex. In reality, cloud computing is a simple technology that has been around for a while, and almost all of us have used it, without even knowing. In simple terms, cloud computing entails running computer/network applications that are on other people’s servers using a simple user interface or application format. It’s that simple.

If this language still sounds strange, going back to basics will tell you something about what cloud computing is all about. In the olden days of networking, way before Google or Yahoo was born, companies ran e-mail as an application whose data was stored in-house. As such, all the files, documents, messages, and other things you currently use in e-mail were stored in a safe, dark room on the company’s premises. These sounds familiar because you were probably banned from visiting that room due to security reasons.
Moving forward into the 20^th century, when companies like Google started showing up, the way e-mail was treated and utilized was revolutionized. It would have been a commercial bid to get more subscribers, but these companies chose to open their servers to store e-mail information for you, free of charge. However, to access that data, you have to use their applications like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, and so many others. Practically, this is what cloud computing is all about – using other people’s servers to run applications for your organization, remotely.
Into the 21^st century, the concept of the cloud is the same, but more than ever before, cloud computing is bigger. It’s now becoming possible to use bigger applications that will leverage your business goals and functions easily in the cloud. For example, with cloud computing, you can run all your computer networks and programs as a whole without ever buying an extra piece of hardware or software.
The cloud technology has many benefits and that would explain its popularity. First, companies can save a lot of money; second, they are able to avoid the mishaps of the regular server protocols. For instance, when a company decides to have a new piece of software, whose license can only be used once and it’s pretty expensive, they wouldn’t have to buy software for each new computer that is added to the network. Instead, they could use the application installed on a virtual server somewhere and share, in the ‘cloud’.
These capabilities are becoming even more personalized today, and there are even a few solutions that allow you to use mobile in the cloud. Of course, there are very few people who aren’t willing to lose control of the little physical tools they are used to (like the dark server room); however, largely, any business that considers cutting costs and wants to move forward in this dynamic age needs to embrace cloud computing, or at least give it a shot to survive.

Sunday, 14 April 2013

How To Build An Android Application

Joon Hospital | 9:42:00 pm | 1 Comment so far

Every platform technology uses different terminology to describe its application components. The three most important classes on the Android platform are Context, Activity and Intent.

While there are other, more advanced, components developers can implement, these three components form the building blocks for each and every Android application. In this article, we focus on understanding how Android applications are put together. We also take a look at some handy utility classes that can help developers debug applications.

An Android application is a collection of tasks, each of which is called an activity. Each activity within an application has a unique purpose and user interface. To understand this more fully, imagine a theoretical game application called Chippy's Revenge.

Designing application features

The design of the Chippy's Revenge game is simple. It has five screens:

Splash - This screen acts as a startup screen, with the game logo and version. It might also play some music.
Menu - On this screen, a user can choose from among several options, including playing the game, viewing the scores, and reading the help text.
Play - This screen is where game play actually takes place.
Scores - This screen displays the highest scores for the game (including high scores from other players), providing players with a challenge to do better.
Help - This screen displays instructions for how to play the game, including controls, goals, scoring methods, tips, and tricks.

Starting to sound familiar? This is the prototypical design of just about any mobile application, game or otherwise, on any platform.
Certainly, you are free to implement any kind of user interface you desire. There are no real user interface requirements on the Android platform, other than that the application must be stable, responsive and play nice with the rest of the Android system. That said, the best and most popular applications leverage the users' existing experience with user interfaces. It's best to improve upon those features, when necessary, rather than reinvent them, so you don't force the user to exert time and effort to learn your application in order to use it properly.

Determining application activity requirements

You need to implement five activity classes, one for each feature of the game:

SplashActivity - This activity serves as the default activity to launch. It simply displays a layout (maybe just a big graphic), plays music for several seconds and then launches MenuActivity.
MenuActivity - This activity is pretty straightforward. Its layout has several buttons, each corresponding to a feature of the application. The onClick() handlers for each button trigger cause the associated activity to launch.
PlayActivity - The real application guts are implemented here. This activity needs to draw stuff onscreen, handle various types of user input, keep score and generally follow whatever game dynamics the developer wants to support.
ScoresActivity - This activity is about as simple as SplashActivity. It does little more than load a bunch of scoring information into a TextView control within its layout.
HelpActivity - This activity is almost identical to ScoresActivity, except that instead of displaying scores, it displays help text. Its TextView control might possibly scroll.

Each activity class should have its own corresponding layout file stored in the application resources. You could use a single layout file for ScoresActivity and HelpActivity, but it's not necessary. If you did, though, you would simply create a single layout for both and set the image in the background and the text in the TextView control at runtime, instead of within the layout file. Next: Implementing application functionality

Design for game Chippy's Revenge Version 0.0.1 for Android.

Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Signs Point To Security Improvements

Joon Hospital | 10:06:00 pm | Be the first to comment!

Signs Point To Security Improvements

IBM is documenting up to 150 vulnerability disclosures a week. Many of them are Web application flaws. Its vulnerability database has 70,000 unique vulnerabilities and has averaged 7,700 vulnerabilities per year over the past five years. But, vulnerability disclosure figures alone don't typically tell the whole picture. There are signs that software security processes at major software vendors are maturing. Product incident response teams are addressing coding errors more quickly than ever before, and their processes are constantly being refined, IBM said in its latest X-Force Trend and Risk Report.

Overall Vulnerability Disclosures Fall
Since 2008 overall vulnerability disclosures by major enterprise software vendors has been steadily increasing, according to IBM. The trend saw a decline in 2012, when the percentage of vulnerabilities disclosed by these companies decreased by 26 percent, the company said. It's unclear if it is a one-time occurrence or if more mature, secure software development practices are contributing to the decline, according to Leslie Horacek, the IBM ISS product manager who authored the report.

Attacks Targeting Office, PDFs Retreating

IBM said a decline in exploits targeting Adobe Acrobat and Reader vulnerabilities could be attributed to the sandbox capabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader X. Sandboxing technology makes it more difficult for cybercriminals to use Adobe software flaws to gain access to systems by preventing malicious code from accessing critical system processes. Microsoft has also been increasingly building in defensive mechanisms, making it more difficult and costly for malware writers to target document vulnerabilities. In addition to exploiting a vulnerability, a malware writer needs to write code to bypass the added defenses, IBM said.

Web Browser Flaws In Decline

The Web browser is consistently one of the paths of least resistance for attackers to gain access to a company's critical systems and files. Both Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox added automated patching features in their browsers and have been applying security updates across their user base much faster than in years past. IBM said the overall number of Web browser vulnerabilities fell 6 percent from 2011. Even with critical browser flaws increasing nearly 60 percent in 2012, attackers find it easier to target browser components frequently plagued with Web application vulnerabilities, IBM said.

Vulnerability Remediation Nearing 100 Percent

A review of the top 10 enterprise-level software vendors found a vulnerability remediation rate of 94 percent, according to IBM. Three of the top 10 had a 100-percent remediation rate, the company said. IBM points to maturing secure development processes and product incident response teams as the sole factor in addressing vulnerabilities quickly and systematically. Now the bad news: unpatched vulnerabilities increased for the first time since 2008. A major factor to the increase could be low-severity coding errors in "small web applications, and obscure software written by individuals or tiny companies," IBM said.

Interest Rises In Software Security, Patching

Software security experts point to businesses' interest in finding ways to improve software security by getting it addressed earlier in the development cycle. A number of frameworks and models exist including the Microsoft Software Development Lifecycle, the Building Security in Maturity Model as well as the NIST software security assurance tool for developers. Better patch management also contributes to reducing the risk of a successful attack.

Sunday, 31 March 2013

How to get your lost cell phone || Mukesh Joon

Joon Hospital | 3:33:00 am | 4 Comments so far

ill today but was not finding myself comfortable so decided to write this post. This post will reveal the real way of tracing the lost cell phone. If you Google trace lost cell phone you will find lots of blogs having the procedure to get it back but unfortunately , from 100 posts 90% are failed to impress me so I decided to write It by my own in simple words so that will be easy for all of you to understand.

So let’s start as you discovered that your cell phone is missing then following are the steps you should follow to get it back.1.You should have I IMEI number code for the lost mobile. If you didn’t noted down before then no worries just get the cell phone box and look for IMEI number it should be there. Note it down and you are ready for the next step to follow.

2.Now go to your nearest police station and make an FIR for lost phone. FIR is must because it’s not only related to your lost phone , but what if it will be grab by some criminals so its your responsibility to make an FIR no matters you will get the phone or not but you should must report and FIR.

3.Now new question will be knocking on your head, that what will police will do after getting your IMEI number. So let me clear the your doubt, police will forward your IMEI number to all Telecom companies and companies have the automated cell tracing mechanism in which they will enter your IMEI code, now as someone will make a call from your phone automatically it will be highlighted in telecom companies tracking system.

So now let’s understand how they track. Every telecom company has to keep logs of all cell phones and calls according to TRAI, and most of the people do not know that when you place a simple call through your GSM or CDMA Simcard, the company tracker will first will identify and save your cell phone’s IMEI number and then after conformation they will place your respective call. So every time you call your friend or someone else your IMEI number of cell phone will automatically saved by the tracker placed by company. If you remember in India Chinese phone’s are banned this is because all Chinese phones are having same IMEI so if any terrorist using that kind of phone will not be easy to capture and it’s hard for intelligence agencies to track down the exact location from where the cell phone being purchased.

Now let’s get back to the tracing, so as someone make a call from your lost phone companies having automated tracker enabled will show the exact location along with the call record details and if you are lucky they will get your cell as soon as possible. The exact location based on Longitude and latitude positions can be seen in Google Earth.

Note:- Well if your cell phone cost below 10k then I do not think that most of the police people will pay attention to you, the reason behind is that you are not the only one who lost his/her phone , so for police its difficult to satisfied each and every person.

Hope you like my post , do comment if you have any suggestion or idea to make this post more informative.

Tuesday, 26 March 2013

Top 10 Firefox SEO plugin for 2013

Joon Hospital | 7:25:00 am | 5 Comments so far

SEO plugins of Firefox gives you the ability to analyze SEO scores of a webpage at the same time of visiting the website. That’s why they are very popular. There are hundreds of SEO plugin for Firefox.Some are excellent and some are pretty ordinary.All these plugins mentioned in this post works perfectly with Firefox 18 and they will definitely help your SEO analysis process in 2013.

1)RDS Bar-

RDS Bar is one of the most popular & most downloaded Firefox SEO plugin.While visiting a website from this bar you can easily know about number of pages of that website indexed by Google,indexing date,PR,Dmoz,SEOmoz page authority.You can also know number of pages indexed by Bing,back-links according to Google back-links according to Bing,back-links according to Alexa,back-links according to MajesticSeo,back-links according to Ahref, Alexa rank,Compete rank,Quantcast rank,SEMRush traffic rank,Technorati authority rank,Google trend and many more.

You need to log in(sign up is free of cost) to get some information such as domain age,website host, provider.But most of the important information is available without log in.One very cool feature of this bar is you can select every single information that you want to see in the bar.So suppose you don’t want to see Quantcast rank you just have to unchecked it from settings.

2)SeoQuake

SeoQuake is one of the most popular Firefox SEO plugin.The best feature about this plugin is it focuses on both on page and off page SEO factor.Just like the RDS Bar, SeoQuake also has a SEO bar which shows Google PR,Alexa rank,number of pages indexed by Google,number of pages indexed by Bing,back-links according to Google, back-links according to Bing, SEMRush traffic rank, Facebook like,Google+,Twitter tweets etc.This bar also supports one click on page SEO analysis and keyword density analysis.You can also choose which information you want to see in the bar.

The most unique feature of this plugin is that it is integrable on your search result page.So when you search for something on Google or Bing or in any search engine in the results page you will see this bar after every result(as shown in the figure below).So you can easily do competition analysis for your targeted keywords using this plugin.

3)WebRank Toolbar-

WebRank toolbar is also very popular Firefox SEO plugin.When you visit any website this toolbar will show you number of pages of that site indexed by Google , number of pages indexed by Bing,back-links according to Google back-links according to Bing,back-links according to Alexa,Google,PR,Alexa rank,Compete rank,Quantcast rank, Facebook like,Google+,Twitter tweets,Stumbleupon share,Delicious share,domain whois etc.One very unique feature of this Firefox SEO plugin is that it shows Norton safeweb and Mcafee site advisor suggestion of the website you are currently visiting.This toolbar is also fully customizable.

4)Seo & Sem-

Another cool SEO bar which shows number of pages indexed by Yahoo,number of domain reference in Yahoo, Google PR,Dmoz,Yandex TYC,presence of site in Yahoo directory,presence of site in Yandex directory, Alexa rank,IP address,W3C site validation,site age,robots txt.This toolbar is also totally customizable.

5)SERPTrends SEO Extension-

Most of the website’s position moves up or down in all search engines.Now this plugin gives you the ability to track this change in SERP.When you search some term for the first time it records SERP of the websites.Now when you again search for the same term in the results page it shows the changes(You have to search at least after 24 hours to notice any change).It uses different color and number to point the change (as shown in the figure).

6)KGen-

KGen shows strongest keywords of the webpage you are currently visiting.You can get keyword cloud,keyword statics by easily clicking on the scan it button.You can also export the result.

7)SEO Doctor-

This fantastic Firefox SEO plugin calculates link statistics of the website you are currently visiting.SEO Doctor shows on page SEO problems and its recommendation on it.Besides this plugin provides one click access to some popular SEO tools.

8)SEO Professional-

SEO Professional toolbar shows Google PR,S rank,Seznam index,back-links according to MajesticSEO,page indexed by Google.History of these information is saved on a database.So that you can easily change performance change over a period of time.

9)WebStatData Organizer Report-

This plugin displays total keywords the website has in the top 20 organic results,estimated visitors from that number of keywords and total advertise cost for buying those keywords.The only problem with this website is if the website is relatively new then does not show any data for that.

10)MozBar-

This popular Firefox SEO plugin shows mozRank,page authority and domain authority of every website you visit.It fetches these information from the Linkscape Matrics.

Some more Firefox SEO plugin-

There are also some other SEO plugins but they does not provide as much feature as above tools.Some tools only shows Google PR and Alexa rank.But if you want to explore other Firefox SEO plugins you may try these two plugins.

Domain Hammer SEO Analysis-

Domain Hammer SEO Analysis tool shows Yahoo back-links, Google PR,Dmoz, Alexa rank,mozRank,domain age.You can choose which information you want to see on the toolbar.

Foxy SEO Tool-

This Firefox SEO plugins lets you one click access to many popular tools like Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, Google Site, Yahoo! Site Explorer etc.

My favorite Firefox SEO plugin is RDS bar.What is your favorite SEO plugin?Let us know if we have missed any cool plugin.Share your thoughts in the comments portion.

5 free website audit tools to boost your SEO audit || Mukesh Joon

Joon Hospital | 3:48:00 am | 11 Comments so far

Why you need website audit tools?

Free website audit tools are extremely popular among webmasters & SEO geeks.Because these SEO audit tools make an in depth analysis of your website and generate detailed report of various factors which is stopping your website from getting better SERP.Besides these website audit tools also shows various on page SEO errors of your Website & shows suggestion on removing them.
Now when your site grows it becomes almost impossible for you to manually check these small on page SEO errors.These tools will help you to find these errors & remove them.

1)HubSpot’s Marketing Grader-

Hubspot’s Marketing Grader is one of the most trusted website audit tool.As the name says it generates site audit report from marketing point of view.This tool gives huge importance on social signal.It shows social signal(Facebook like,Facebook share,Twitter Tweet)for your last 5 posts.Besides it also shows post frequency of your blog.This tool divides various SEO factors in 3 funnels and gives score on percentage for each funnel.

5 free website audit tools with tool name hubspot's marketing grader

2)Crawler FX-

Crawler Fx does not create audit report for your entire website.It takes a single page URL and your targeted keyword for that page.Then generates SEO report & gives a score out of 100 for that particular page.It considers both on page and off page SEO factors for calculating SEO score.For each factor it shows recommendation for improving that factor.Another good feature of this tool is that you can get the website audit report in the PDF format in your mailbox.

5 free website audit tools with tool name crawler fx

3)Nibbler-

Nibbler is another popular SEO audit tool.The audit report made by Nibbler has 10 marks for each of the various SEO factor such as social(Facebook sharing,Twitter sharing) sharing,code quality,meta tag etc.One drawback of this tool is that it only crawls 5 pages of your website.Another shortcoming is it does not consider Google+ shares.

5 free website audit tools with tool name nibbler

4)Woorank-

Woorank is a very popular free website audit tool.It gives your website a score out of 100 and shows 5 top priorities for your website.One good feature of this tool is that it consider mobile optimization & mobile load time for calculating SEO score. Although one problem that we noticed with this tool is that it failed to detect our twitter address properly.Besides it also failed to detect our robots.txt file.

5 free website audit tools with tool name woorank

5)SEOPTIMER-

This tool considers both on page and off page SEO factors while preparing SEO audit..SEOptimer considers Twitter,Google,Facebook share for social signal.One good feature of this tool is that you can export the report in PDF format.One drawback of this tool is that it says nothing about the back-links.

5 free website audit tools with tool name SEOptimier

10 Free domain name research tool for 2013

Joon Hospital | 2:38:00 am | 2 Comments so far

Your domain name represents your brand identity.So choosing a proper domain name is very essential.There are several factors you need to remember before choosing your domain name.Another issue that you might face is the availability of the domain name that you want to take.But you can easily solve this problem by using domain name research tool.There are several free domain name research tools which will not only informs you about the availability of the domain name with your chosen domain extension but also it informs you about what other extensions are available for that domain name.Besides these tools also show you some other suggestion related to your chosen domain name.In this article we will review advantage and disadvantage of 10 free domain name research tools.
DOM!ZE-
Domize is one of the most popular ajax based domain name availability checker tool.As you start tying its Ajax based autosuggestion starts showing availability of 5 most popular domain extension(.com & .net & .org & .co & .io)for that domain name.If the domain name is available it shows it using blue color.If you hover over it you can see price of that domain name from Go-daddy 1 & 1, Dotster and Network solution.Green color means that domain name is a premium domain name.You can hover over the extension to check its price.It uses red color to show that domain name is already taken.Hovering over the red color shows registration date and registration expire date for that domain.The only downside of this tool is that it does not show you Facebook & Twitter availability of your chosen domain name.

10 free domain name research tool with tool name domize

DomainTyper-

Domain Typer is another famous domain name checker tool.This tool has Ajax based autosuggestion feature.So as you start typing, it starts showing availability of some popular domain extension(such as .com .net .org .mobi .co .info) for that domain name.You can also add other domain extensions manually to search their availability.You can also see different site stats(Google PR ,Alexa rank ,Quantcast rank etc) for a already registered domain.So if you are planning to back-order a domain name these stats will definitely help you to make a proper choice.

DomainTools-

Domain Tools is one of the most trusted domain availability checker tool.This tool has whois Lookup, Whois History, Reverse Whois, DNS & IP checking features.Besides this tool is completely customisable.You can choose price range,domain extensions to search for,domain name length etc.

DomainsBot-

DomainsBot is another free domain availability checker tool.The best feature of this tool is that it shows Facebook & Twitter name availability of that domain name.Another good feature of this tool is that it gives you several customization options for domain search.You can choose which domain extensions you want to search.You can also choose price range and language.

GoDaddy-

Go Daddy is one of the most popular internet domain registrar and web hosting company.It has a very efficient domain name availability checker tool.On the basis of your searched domain name it shows you which extensions are already taken and which are available.It also shows you the price for the available domain extensions.

Domainr-

This free domain name availability checker tool does not tell much about domains.It only informs you whether the domain name(for some popular extensions ) is taken or available.You can back-order an already registered domain using this tool.Besides if the domain name is available it gives you the option to buy it from different popular domain sellers.

Who is my project-

The best feature of this tool is that you can save your domain name research results in excel file for further use.It shows domain name availability for 3 most popular extensions.You can manually add some other extensions to check for.Besides you can check site stats for some already registered domain.

Bust a name-

Bust a name shows you the availability of the 3 popular domain extension(.com .net .org)for your searched domain name.You can also back-order already taken domain name using this tool.

Dot-o-mator-

Dot-o-mator can generate domain name.For example if you specify beginning and ending name type(color/games/tech etc) then it generates several possible domain name options for you.You can also check the availability of that domain name using this tool.

10 free domain name research tool with tool name dot-o-meter

DnScoop-

DnScoop is not actually a domain name availability checker tool but a domain and site value tool.If you want to buy a site then you may try this tool.It calculates an approximate value of a domain/site based on different factors such as number of baclinks,Google PR,Alexa rank etc.

Top 7 free long tail keyword idea tool || Mukesh Joon

Joon Hospital | 1:28:00 am | 1 Comment so far

Top 7 free long tail keyword idea tool

Google Adwords Keyword Tool is the most popular long tail keyword idea tool and it is a pretty good tool to discover keywords.But there are several other free tools to boost your long tail keyword research.In this list we will review about pros and cons of these long tail keyword idea tools.

1) Wordpot-

This is currently the best long tail keyword idea tool.It’s search interface is pretty simple and easy to use.
Pros-
1)exact match and total match report
2)ability to choose between different search engine
3)keyword trends
Cons-
I have not found any.

top 7 free long tail keyword idea tools list with tool name wordpot

2) SEO Book Keyword Tool

This tool is also gaining popularity among bloggers for getting long tail keyword idea.But the problem is to use the tool you need to register for a free account.
Pros-
1)Detailed report including Google daily search ,Yahoo daily search etc.
2)Google insight for search
3)Report can be downloaded to cvs.
Cons-
1)Can not be used without creating an account.
2)Interface can be more simplified.

top 7 free long tail keyword idea tool list with seo-book keyword tool

3) The Wordtracker Keyword Tool

Keyword questions are one of the best ways to discover long tail keyword ideas.
Pros-
The only available free keyword question tool. Again to use this tool,you have to register for a free account.
Cons-
1)Can not be used without creating an account.
2)Free account is limited to 20 query per day.

4) Ubersuggest

This tool is also gaining popularity among bloggers for getting long tail keyword idea.But the problem is to use the tool you need to register for a free account.
Pros-
1)Very descriptive list of long term keyword idea list.
2)Choose from different options such as web ,image news,video.
Cons-
1)Result can not be saved.
2)search volume is not shown.

5)Soovle-

The tool is the best of its kind.It uses auto-suggest feature of Google,Bing,Youtube,Yahoo,Amazon,Wikipedia and answer.com.When you start typing in the search box,auto-suggest from these websites starts appearing instantly.

6)Keyword Tool Dominator-

Another tool which predicts long tail keyword idea based on auto suggest.It fetches its data from Google,Amazon,eBay,Bing.

7)Wordstream-

The last tool in this list is wordstream.The reason for this is free users can only see the long tail keyword terms.Other details are hidden.Besides free users can only search ten query per day.

top 7 free long tail keyword idea tools with tool name wordstream

Monday, 25 March 2013

Get All-In-One Solution To Improve Your Site,s Performence || Mukesh Joon

Joon Hospital | 11:17:00 pm | 1 Comment so far

WebCEO Professional Suite is ready-made SEO software for search engine marketing novices, site owners and webmasters who occasionally practice SEM and SEO as well as for seasoned professionals.
Our SEO software is a unified workspace with twelve programs that help you attain real results in search engine marketing, perform intelligent web traffic analysis, effectively manage your online estate and easily maintain it. Download it
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