Sun, 27 Sep 2009
Digital signatures/Id
I learned quite a bit on digital signatures this weekend.I also
generated a free email signing certificate from http://www.cacert.org
.It is community driven non-profit organization running out of
Australia.
After reading a lot and experimenting i finally stumbled upon this article of how to use it in Outlook 2007.Be sure to read about it @ http://wiki.cacert.org/EmailCertificates
Then I finally was able to send my first digitally signed email :-).
Then I thought of using it a lot but came to know that if you send any signed emails to a webmail accounts like Yahoo/Gmail/Hotmail etc the end user gets an attachment(smime.p7m) with a blank body line.Now to open this attachment you will need to download a viewer for it from http://www.cryptigo.com/p7mViewer/
Overall after spending about 12-14 hours reading about it and experimenting about it I feel that it is too difficult for average used to use Digital signatures.
The idea is great and we should use it but i believe the learning curve for people is going to be huge and it will take sometime before people actually start using it.
After reading a lot and experimenting i finally stumbled upon this article of how to use it in Outlook 2007.Be sure to read about it @ http://wiki.cacert.org/EmailCertificates
Then I finally was able to send my first digitally signed email :-).
Then I thought of using it a lot but came to know that if you send any signed emails to a webmail accounts like Yahoo/Gmail/Hotmail etc the end user gets an attachment(smime.p7m) with a blank body line.Now to open this attachment you will need to download a viewer for it from http://www.cryptigo.com/p7mViewer/
Overall after spending about 12-14 hours reading about it and experimenting about it I feel that it is too difficult for average used to use Digital signatures.
The idea is great and we should use it but i believe the learning curve for people is going to be huge and it will take sometime before people actually start using it.
posted at: 22:33 | category: /cuttingedge | permanent link to this entry
Tue, 08 Sep 2009
Finding the cheapest gas prices in your area
Gasbuddy.com
is a website which allows individuals to update the price of gas for
any gas stations.
This helps in knowing where the cheapest gas station in the area you are looking at.
Remember, that the data there is as best as the number of people updating it .So please consider updating the gas prices when you see it :-).Welcometo crowdsourcing.
This helps in knowing where the cheapest gas station in the area you are looking at.
Remember, that the data there is as best as the number of people updating it .So please consider updating the gas prices when you see it :-).Welcometo crowdsourcing.
posted at: 14:09 | category: /worklog | permanent link to this entry
Mon, 07 Sep 2009
gpsd as a gelocation provider for Firefox
As you know with Firefox 3.5 geolocation is in-build into the
browser.However I was extremely uncomfortable with the fact that I have
to use Google as the geolocation provider instead of the GPS which I
have.I felt it was a little silly because GPS is more accurate then
wifi based geolocation.And I was looking out for ways to integrate my
gps with Firefox or for that matter any websites.
Let me give a brief use case of Geolcation .So if you are in a city while driving and you are looking for the nearest hotel of your favorite cuisine.So till now you would have to type in your location etc.But with geolocation , if you allow Firefox to give your location to a website you can get context sensistive searches.You can read more about geolocation in a browser @ http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/
Now coming back to the original post that you want to use your own gps , to provide your location to firefox then recently someone has checked in a fix for it in firefox.So I anticipate for it to show up in 3.6.I will try out the nightly builds as Im extremely excited about this fix.
Let me give a brief use case of Geolcation .So if you are in a city while driving and you are looking for the nearest hotel of your favorite cuisine.So till now you would have to type in your location etc.But with geolocation , if you allow Firefox to give your location to a website you can get context sensistive searches.You can read more about geolocation in a browser @ http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/geolocation/
Now coming back to the original post that you want to use your own gps , to provide your location to firefox then recently someone has checked in a fix for it in firefox.So I anticipate for it to show up in 3.6.I will try out the nightly builds as Im extremely excited about this fix.
posted at: 04:30 | category: /firefox | permanent link to this entry
gpsd on Windows
Finally the port of gpsd is working on Windows.Yuo can read more about
it @ http://home.arcor.de/ulf.lamping/gpsd/gpsd.html#mozTocId282581
This is a pretty important development because quite a few gps's only work on Windows and this allows you to stream nmea data to various Linux GPS software which have been ported on Windows.
This is a pretty important development because quite a few gps's only work on Windows and this allows you to stream nmea data to various Linux GPS software which have been ported on Windows.
posted at: 04:16 | category: /windows | permanent link to this entry
