India as such and its people do not need any occasion to celebrate and have fun with family and friends. Come festivals and they go absolutely hysterical about it. From buying new clothes to passing on sweets to friends and family to renovating the entire house, festivals in India has its own flavor. At LetsNurture too we go hysterical but on a mini level.

Our team believes in leaving no good moment that calls for a celebration. Be it festivals or birthdays or anniversary, we celebrate it all with equal enthusiasm and zeal. This year our celebrations for Holi were no different. Holi as such is the festival of colors. You see all the colors around, Red, Green, Yellow, Blue, purple and what not. We made sure that we added two more colors to it, those of happiness and team spirit.

Our day started as usual with weekly work tensions. Everybody busy starring their PCs and hitting off the keyboard frantically. But when the clock struck 6, everybody, including our bosses came out and got themselves covered, from head to toe, in colors. We had been warned the previous week, not to wear new clothes on the day of Holi, least it should get spoilt.

Chatter and hails ran down our entire corridor as we ran here and there to color our team mates. No one was spared. Not even the ones who were afraid of colors. My team mates made sure that every color had a different color on it. Every face was smiling and looking their horrible best. But one thing is for sure; everybody laughed their hearts out and had a gala time.

Our clothes were dripping with colored water, faces covered with color, floors washed with colored waters. Even the walls became evident of our celebrations. Colors splashed on to them, the walls will have a happy story to tell till we leave evidences of our next celebration.

]]> http://www.letsnurture.com/blog/our-little-holi-bash/feed/ 0 http://www.letsnurture.com/blog/googles-chrome-finally-hacked/ http://www.letsnurture.com/blog/googles-chrome-finally-hacked/#comments Sat, 10 Mar 2012 05:21:28 +0000 khyati vyas http://www.letsnurture.com/blog/?p=80 Continue reading →]]> Google chrome was going strong on its security. It had survived the repeated attacks of hackers since past three years and the entire credit goes to its sandbox model which does not allow outside code to execute within its environment. It locks down all the executable code to prevent damage. But a team of French hackers and a Russian student managed to bypass the Chrome sandbox in fully patched windows 7 and exploit the system

Both the hackers had participated in the Pwnium, an annual security contest that declared to give away $ 1 million to whosoever hacked Google Chrome successfully and $60,000 to those who reported a bug. The Pwnium is an alternative of the annual competition Pwn2own, was held in Vancouver,Canada.

VUPEN, a controversial French company that sells zero-days vulnerabilities hacked the browser within five minutes of the contest using a pair of zero-day flaws, one targeting windows and other targeting Chrome’s sandbox. Vupen was developing the attack against Chrome since six week and the attack took just five minutes. Chaouki Bekrar, the firms’ research head said,

 “We wanted to show that Chrome was not unbreakable. Last year, we saw a lot of headlines that no one could hack Chrome. We wanted to make sure it was the first to fall this year,”

He further added that his team made a web page that could be open in a fully updated Windows and a fully updated Chrome browser. The page contained code capable of bypassing chrome’s sandbox model and execute code on the user’s computer.

In the second account a Russian student, Sergey Glazunov, hacked into windows 7 using remote code exploits to bypass chrome’s sandbox model. Glazunov received $60,000 for the exploit, which targeted two distinct zero-day vulnerabilities in the Chrome extension sub-system. Glazunov is a regular contributor to Google’s bug bounty where he regularly pointed out bugs in the chrome’s security system.

Schuh who is part of Google’s Chrome security said that the attack was very impressive and also added that Glazunov executed the code with full permission of logged in user and that the attack could have done anything. Schuh added.

 ”This is not a trivial thing to do. It required a deep understanding of how Chrome works. it is very difficult and that’s why we’re paying $60,000”.

Google announced that the bugs have been reported and will soon come out with a fix for them.

Finally Google realized that its secure system is not that secured after all.

Designing a website is lot more than just attractive little moving animations and colorful fonts. Your heavy flash sites aren’t going to work anymore. Your website is a representation of your business. It is an internet version of what and how you speak of your business. Website designing involves more than just good- looking website.

The Technical know hows

Technology is changing at a pace faster than you can catch. Today website design is not about plain HTML with a little CSS added to taste. Today you have content management systems that make your lives a lot easier in terms of managing the website once it has been deployed. Without then editing content on your website can turn into a nightmare. And then there is AJAX and JavaScript that makes your website do things. These are just to name a few. Take a close look at the sites around you and you will know that you still have a long way to go. Are your favorite DIY sites providing that?

The SEO Conundrum

Putting your website up there is not enough. You also need traffic and a lot of it to come up to your site. This is where SEO comes into play. A SEO provider not only makes your design look professional but also makes sure that the content of your website is such that it places you in the top position of the search engine. It strategically places every element of your website so as to aid to the entire seo process. Making customers reach your website is not enough, you need to make them linger on for longer on your website. Are your DIY sites ready for this?

Template Trouble

You need your templates to be slick and attractive. It needs state of the art UI that makes it easy for customers to navigate through your website. Imagine that you have got that ready for yourself. And next imagine that your competitor has the same template as yours or somebody just copied that free template of yours. Readymade template from the DIY site leaves no room for customizability and creativity that your web designer has got to provide you. You lose your unique branding with it.

Security Glitch

These DIY sites leave a lot to be done on the security grounds. They put a lot of efforts in flexibility in lieu of security and security is an issue where you just can’t compromise. Web designers are supposed to know all the security issues and are capable of coping up with them. Besides there is lot more code that is just not usable by your site. Why make your site unnecessarily heavy when you can’t even get required security.

If you are an amateur then you should not take up the headache of designing your site. Leave that issue on professional designers. A bit of investment in the initial stage can help you reap a lot of profits in the long run.

You probably dint think twice before searching your favorite topic on Google, or may be checking your popularity across the online web. Not anymore. From today you would think a hundred times before punching in any keywords to search on. Google’s new privacy policy that claims to collect data from across all the major Google products comes into force from today.

The idea of Google knowing it all about me was so nerve wrecking that I finally decided to look into it just to know what the hype is really about and to know if there is actually any way to circumvent it.

So why did Google think about coming up with such a policy?

Google had over 70 different policies across its all products. It has decided to consolidate around 60 of these policies into one and across its major products such as Gmail, YouTube and Google+. Google earns over $38 billion annually from advertisement. With this new policy Google will be able to dig deeper into the lives of its over 1 billion users. The information that it gathers from its various platforms will be shared across all its products and can be used to provide tailor made advertisements to its users. This policy helps Google to target the ads to the relevant customers. This is particularly important considering Google gets paid every time we just click on an ad.

What Google’s new policy is capable of doing?

Google can collect all the data and search history of its various logged-in users. It doesn’t matter if you are logged- in on Gmail or YouTube. The searches you make or the videos you watch, all the information can be consolidated and identified to be of a single user that is you. Google can use this information to, say suggest you videos you must watch the next time you enter YouTube, or provide suggestion next time you make a search. It also gathers information from Google docs and calendar. Pretty intuitive eh? It can so much so give suggestions when you enter wrong spelling for your friend’s name.

So the next time when you intend to search about hanuman chalisa, don’t be surprised to see suggestion of hangover cures.

European government has filed cases against Google and has written letter to Google CEO Larry Page saying that it violates its data protection legislation.The letter from the French privacy agency, known as CNIL, said.

“Rather than promoting transparency, the terms of the new policy and the fact that Google claims publicly that it will combine data across services raises fears about Google’s actual practices.Our preliminary investigation shows that it is extremely difficult to know exactly which data is combined between which services for which purposes, even for trained privacy professionals.”

But Google maintains that it is strong as ever on its fairness and legality issues of the privacy policy.

“We are confident that our new simple, clear and transparent privacy policy respects all European data protection laws and principles,”

What is worse is that Google does not give options to user to reject the privacy policy.

So is there really a way to circumvent this policy?

No, not really. If you have registered accounts on Google’s product such as Gmail or YouTube, the least you can do is to accept the fact that Google does and will know everything about you.
But there is a way to minimize this

• Don’t use Google: there are other search engines too who’s privacy policies are not as stringent as Google’s but also none are as good as Google
• Sign out: Every-time you make a search, make sure you are not signed in on any of the products. This is will prevent Google from associating your search history to your account. But it can still keep track of your searches by associating a unique string id to your web browser.
• Change settings: you can periodically delete the search history manually or change the settings of your Gmail account so that it does not follow your searches.
• Use Private browsing: You browse in the private browsing mode of your browser or say the incognito mode of Google Chrome. Although your computer does not collect the cookies but your server will keep of track of places you have been.

Remember whatever you do, never search your personal information such as your name, or address or credit card number. You never know how this information will be used and where.

check what Google has to say here: Google privacy policy update

These project code names are given to the projects being developed by companies, academicians or government. Code names are used to refer to the projects before they are released, and the commercial names for these projects, yet to be finalized. This way it also helps to differentiate the software in its development phase and release or pre-release phase. These are also used because they are easy to remember and a lot of fun.

Sometimes they are also used to maintain secrecy of the projects developed from their competitors and their codenames are also changed from time to time.

Some of the companies like Microsoft use and publicize their code names openly while companies like apple use them as internal name with their products. Some other never let their internal names out. It highly depends on individual company policy.

Some of the many code names that got popular are:

1) Microsoft:

2) Apple:

3) Android:

4) Mozilla:

5) Google:

Similarly Google also comes up with real funny names for its search engine project. Like the projects for selecting top results were name panda and caffeine. And the project for Google’s feature of answering the questions was first named DAFFIE and then Porky Pig.  “Leaf”, “Foby”, “SweatNovember” and “Old Possum” are some among the others.

Now that you have a bit of extra knowledge about the internal code names of projects, you can go ahead and confuse your friends by using them instead of the commercial names.

A tag soup essentially refer to mistakes such as:

• Incomplete tags
• Mismatched tags
• Improper styling(files lacking proper indentation)
• Incorrect use of escape characters
• Use of proprietary HTML extensions

Here is a small example of a very unhealthy and painful tag soup:

<html>

    <head>

<title>Lets nurture</title

<body>

        <h1> This is the case of mismatched tags</h2>

<img src=”letsnurture.jpg”, border=”5>

    </body>

        </html>

As a general practice, on receiving unexpected output from a file like that, one would go back to HTML file, manually scan the document and find the invalid or missing tags, correct them and try of run again. But in case of long html files containing multiple web pages (which is usually the case), this is a rather long and tiring process.

HTML5 comes to rescue at this point. Web browsers that are HTML5 compatible are able to handle tag soups. HTML5 has both forward as well as backward compatibility in the sense that in addition to supporting HTML4 it also houses many of the new features.HTML5 has laid down rules for parsing the HTML parsing which were not present before.

Apart from HTML5 there are a couple of tools that help fix the tag soup. Lets look at each one of them briefly:

1)HTML Tidy:  Developed by Dave Raggett  of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a library which has its source code written in ANSI C. It is a tool for a number of platforms.  Fixes provided by HTML tidy includes:

• Correcting missing or mismatched tags
• Add missing items such as quotations, escape character
• Provide proper styling and indentation to HTML files
• Reporting use of propriety HTML extensions

2)Tag soup: Tag soup is a java library that parses HTML file.Although it is not as efficient as HTML tidy, it corrects the HTML file on the go. It does guarantee well-structured results: tags will wind up properly nested, default attributes will appear appropriately, and so on. It is free and open source.

3)Beautiful soup: It is a python library that turns the invalid HTML file into a parse tree. A Beautiful Soup constructor takes an XML or HTML document in the form of a string (or an open file-like object). It parses the document and creates a corresponding data structure in memory. If you give Beautiful Soup a perfectly-formed document, the parsed data structure looks just like the original document. But if there’s something wrong with the document, Beautiful Soup uses heuristics to figure out a reasonable structure for the data structure.

After a proper use of any of the above solutions one should have a properly structured file as follows:

<html>

    <head>

        <title>Lets nurture</title>

    <head>

    <body>

        <h1> This is the case of mismatched tags</h1>

        <img src=”letsnurture.jpg”, border=”5></img>

    </body>

</html>

So go ahead and drink a healthy tag soup.

signature day celebration

it was hell of a fun today at letsnurture..  we have just celebrated signature day so more picture will come later on today or tomorrow. It went craze when we decided to pull everyone even who did not have white tee & ended with face painting .

`Pundits are saying 2012 will be year of Social Networking & Social Sharing. Our Intern has made a good cartoon regarding current Facebook fever…

It was kind of night out then nightshift we can say music, snacks, cracking jokes and remembering few same kind of days. All in all we all felt it’s good to have one night stand sometime..

Its very unfortunate that we did not take any picture.. but it was fun though…

Our Blog was in “coming soon” state at least 6 months,so, now I am posting first blog post  .. We promise our blog posts will keep “lets nurture” meaning intact…

Thanks