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crossdomain.xml workflow

What is Crossdomain.xml file ? Crossdomain.xml file is an example of policy file which sets rules for apps using “same origin” security model and accessing data from different location.  Let us begin into the post Today when I am checking my Emails I saw one  HTTP 404 Error email where the user is trying to request for crossdomain.xml file.  So I thought that I can make a post on this file as a topic as many bloggers who are not programmers do not know about this particular request. Crossdomain.xml File Work Flow : A crossdomain.xml file is located at root of your domain. It is a policy file which uses “same origin” security model which is implemented in most of the browsers. In HTML you can access any image directly using the link of the image from any domain but for others like Javascript and Flash this policy prevents from getting or setting the property of file. But for many applications Read more


There might be at least one situation in our lives where we experience the loss of valuable data stored in our PC. I remember I have lost 400 GB of my personal data by unfortunately formatting other hard disk drive during Windows XP installation. Similarly you might have come across such situations in some or the other way so this post talks about what you can do when you are in such situations and presents you with best photo recovery software programs. Before proceeding please read the article I have written on Data Recovery Tools some time long back , which gives you an insight on how data is stored on disks or drives and how this data recovery tools work to recover the data. I have been asked many times by my friends about the ways to recover the photos that got corrupted on their memory card by somehow which they don’t know. There are many reasons for data Read more


photos app

You might have seen libraries directory many times if you are using windows for quite some time, Windows assumes that you place all your digital data in the folders available in the libraries directory but in reality it is different scenario. There are many reasons for not to put your files in windows installation drive as you don’t know when you wanted to format your PC. So as of now this libraries directories were not so useful but in windows8 you have an app called “Photos”, which is one place access to all your photos from different places like Facebook,Flickr, Sky Drive, photos stored locally and from different devices. If you are using this app you might be interested to add photos to this particular folder but however windows has option to add pictures from different locations to this directory and it is almost same as adding pics to this directory. So you can add photos to pictures library without Read more


With the over whelming response from the internet world to cloud storage technology many of the big giants of internet are into the market list for providers of this technology. As the number of service providers offering cloud storage services increasing this post aims to bring the best cloud storage service providers helping you to chose best suitable for you. For personal use,  relatively storing less data or for backing up your own data we actually don’t need to buy the services from providers and can get it for free. List of Best and Free cloud storage providers of internet 1. Drop Box : Drop box is one of the finest service for personal use and is one of the well known service for any freelance worker or web designers over intenet. The striking aspect of dropbox is you are just one click away to access or retrieve your files back. The only limitation I can think of as a Read more


If you would like to know as soon as a mail is received to your gmail account or if you don’t have internet at your home but want to know if any important mails received to your account, then SMS Alert to your mobile phone is one of the possible ways to get notified. I personally used Way2SMS Gateway to receive SMS alerts to my mobile, Please go ahead and create an account in Way2sms, Since this is SMS based service it asks you to verify your mobile by entering the code that it have sent to you by an SMS. Once you are done with creating your account. Click on MAIL ALERTS as shown in the highlighted image below.   There will be an email address in this page to which you have to forward a copy of your email from your gmail ,If you wonder how to forward a copy of email there is already an explanation provided Read more


Hi, If you’ve been looking for customizing your wordpress theme using Dream Weaver then this article should hopefully should address your requirement. This article assumes that you already have installed dream weaver and know how to use dream weaver . When we are customizing a theme we should be careful about what changes we are doing as it is reflected on the original design of the blog, Generally I prefer to set a local wordpress blog and customize the theme locally and If satisfied I use this theme and Upload it on to the server. The main points include for customizing a wordpress theme include Setting up the Server and Installing WordPress Locally & Configuring Dreamweaver Code Specific Hints and PHP Test Server to Use Once you are done with these two steps you are ready to customize your theme and I discussed about how you can install wordpress locally@ How to Install WordPress on Your Local System. If you Read more


If you are searching for how you can install wordpress on your local windows operating system then this post might address your requirement. Here in this post I am going to discuss about how you can install wordpress on your windows operating system and going on you can understand how useful it will be if you maintain a local copy of your blog in your system and going on we will integrate our local wordpress installation with Adobe Dream weaver so that we can customize with the help of advanced tools in dream weaver. To use wordpress in your PC you need One server to carry out requests and responses, One database server and PHP engine to process your PHP pages. Each of these individual softwares are packed and provided in a single package by the name XAMPP ( Windows and Linux ) WAMP ( Windows ) LAMP ( Linux ) You can install either of these software’s to proceed Read more


After 3 days of Windows8 Conumer Preview Release , There are millions of people downloading windows8 It has been reportedly tweeted by windows8 official team saying that it has been downloaded million times after one day which means 11 copies are being downloaded for every second. That’s enough of the info , Now Let us proceed to download your own copy of windows8 consumer preview. Goto Official Post by Microsoft on release of Windows8 Consumer preview  by following this link  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/consumer-preview and click on get it now.  If you wish to receive any emails from windows team then you can opt in by providing email details else proceed by clicking on download option. When you click on “Download Windows 8 Consumer Preview” then an executable file with same name gets downloaded on to your disk. Execute that application as administrator. Initial Page displays the compatibility report of window8 with your PC. Next Step is getting a product key of windows8 Read more