Rohit Dhand

Microsoft finally released its first public beta of its much anticipated browser IE9. The browser is touted to be more faster as compare to others because of its new javascript engine code named: "Chakra".   The UI is also changed a lot and reflects more of Chrome kind of look. Other features are: 1. Full support of HTML 5 2. W3C complaint. 3. New and Fast Javascript rendering engine. 4. Uses GPU for full hardware acceleration. 5. One bar for url and search. 6. Tabs can be directly pinned to the windows task bar and it uses full utilization of jumplist. 7. Favorites icons being displayed for the most visited web sites. Download link: http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/ http://www.microsoft.com Thumbs up for making such a nice and stable public beta. Hope fully Microsoft may be launching the browser by Jan, 2011. Highly recommended.

Users will encounter a problem of 'HTTPS 413: The page was not displayed because the request entity is too large' . If we implement https (secured socket layer) in our website, this will cause the error to occur mainly because of two reasons: 1. Data is transmitted every time whenever the re-negotiation occurs between client and server. 2. Files uploaded by the users are of large size. The problem is because of the SSL. Whenever we implement SSL on the web site, every time the client re-negotiates with the server, data is sent again and again, which exceeds the limit of the uploadreadaheadSize, a variable to handle the data sent in the post back or reloading of the pages. In order to avoid the problem, the following command can be given at the command prompt: cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/3/uploadreadaheadsize 204800 (where the last 204800 is the size in bytes which we want. The default size is 48 KB. Also 3 is the index of the website to which we want to apply. We can

IIS provides method of redirecting from http to https in case you want shifting from http to https automatically (secured socket layer). To implement it, one of the methods named: URLRewrite Module can be used. The following steps are to be followed: 1. Download the rewrite module for IIS 7. The link for downloading is: http://www.iis.net/download/URLRewrite 2. Now install the rewrite module and restart the server. 3. Copy the following code in the root directory (web.config file under system.Webserver) Please note that if we want to automatically do for all the virtual directories like: http://mywebsite/india then, we have to do the following changes: url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{RESOURCE_URI}"

Free email website Hotmail.com has improved a lot over a previous years. Stiff competition from other free email services have made them to improve according to the latest trends and standards. The latest avtaar has been excellent providing a seamless integration with cloud computing services like 'Free Office WebApps' from Microsoft. So the user is infact not only able to work with emails in a better way but rather create, edit documents, spreadsheets, presentations online through Office WebApps. If you want to use it, you need to have a hotmail, live or msn account. Few screenshots of new Hotmail version: 1. The new Folder Structure 2. New Hotmail UI. 3. Threaded Emails. 4. Online Chatting (MSN Messaging) within Hotmail UI 5. Active View to view Images like a slideshow (A cool new feature) A screenshot of creating a live document with Office Web Apps through internet explorer. I hope every one likes it and Microsoft improves more quickly their products..