Google Map Street View Offroad

Google map! we all are fan of it right ? especially its street view. All you need to do is drag & drop the little yellow fella on map and you are in street view.
Have you ever imagined how it is done ? well, some of you might know that it is done with Google Street view cars. Like this one

Well, please ignore the lady and look at the technology. This street view car is though recording 360° views of streets with a High Quality camera on top of it. Most of the people would say "Meh.. I already know this".
But what about places like jungle, volcano side etc. Can google map able to provide us a street view there ? Answer is YES.

Meet Mr.Chris Fiock who is a Street View Operations Lead at Google (Right) teaching Mr.Jaci Matsuo  (middle)Trekker of Hawaii Forest.

Now with this cool backpack Street view recorder, Google now able to record some of the wildest areas. When I say "wildest" then it means, you can simply walk in mordor with this one.

And there is more of it...Examples are below.

1) Street View Snowmobile

Explore Street View Snowmobile in Google Map click here





2) Street View Trike

Explore Street View Trike in Google map click here





3) Street View Trolley

 Explore Street View Trolley in Google map click here

Coolest part of Google map street view is, it is now open to all. If you are a tourism board, non-profit, government agency, university, research organization or other entity interested in borrowing a Street View Trekker to capture and share imagery from a place you know and care about, please Apply Today.

Thanks for reading! I hope you liked it.
Amit Naik

Google Chrome's Data Compression Proxy

Hey Guys,

I was just checking the New Google Chrome for Android. It is really a faster android browser.
Infact Google is now comeup with Data Compression Proxy settings.

Now you might think what is Data Compression Proxy?

As per Google this latest Chrome Beta for Android includes an experimental feature to reduce cellular data usage and speed up mobile web browsing,
using proxy servers hosted at Google to optimize website content.

In Google's internal testing, this feature has been shown to reduce data usage by 50% and speed up page load times on cellular networks!

You can also enable this awesome feature.
To enable Data Compression Proxy settings do the following steps in your new Beta Chrome browser.
1) Visit chrome://flags in your browser
2) Select “Enable Data Compression Proxy”
Plain and simple. You are done.

Now after enabling this feature you would be able to reduce overall data usage and speed up the page load times. This feature is performed by Google's massive powerful servers.
Chrome mobile opens a dedicated SPDY connection between your phone and one of the optimization servers running in Google’s datacenters and relays all HTTP requests over this connection.

SPDY for speed

The connection from the mobile device to the proxy runs over SPDY, an optimized protocol for the Web that is supported by Chrome, Firefox and Opera, and is also the basis for the forthcoming HTTP/2.0 standard being developed in the IETF. For more info on SPDY go to open source Chromium Projects SPDY page >> http://www.chromium.org/spdy

Thanks for reading,

Enjoy and Be Open.

PHP BACKDOOR / C99 SHELL

PHP BACKDOOR SCRIPT

Today we will talk about php backdoor ;)

Its nothing but cool php script that we can use in order to

1)      Travel across directories

2)      View files

3)      Edit files

4)      Download files

5)      Delete files

6)      Edit files

7)      Upload files

8)      Execute MySql queries / commands

9)      Bypass mod_security

10)   Permissions to directory/folders

11)   Execute shell commands

In short this is a script which everyone must have. But always remember it’s a hack don’t upload it on your server. If you upload it on any apache server anyone can  play GOD. So don’t forget to remove from server when you are done.
I have uploaded it on my github.

LINK: My GITHUB backdoor script




Thanks for reading.

Enjoy & Be Open

Flush drupal cache from code

Hey everyone,

Today I would like to share how to recover a blank drupal website using cache clear. Most of the times we change our websites from one server to another. In drupal when we do that our database tables and files messes the cache settings. But while this is happening in database your websites goes blank or it goes unreachable so in that case you have to run one drupal function which will help you to rebuild the registry, rebuild the menu, rebuild the path.

All you need to do is put the code either on page--front.tpl.php or on page.tpl.php.

<?php

// This will Change query-strings on css/js files to enforce reload for all users. 

  _drupal_flush_css_js(); 

  registry_rebuild();     //To rebuild module data
  drupal_clear_css_cache(); //This will flushes the cached css
  drupal_clear_js_cache(); //This will flushes the cached js

?> 

Remember that do not put this code in any if else condition just put it either on page.tpl.php or on front page of your drupal site. And then hit the URL in any browser. Then our code will get executed. Our code would then flush the js and css for all users. Then it would rebuild the registry of all modules. Then it would clear the css cache and then js cache.
So now this would defiantly bring the drupal site back on its feet. 

Thanks for reading.

Enjoy & Be Open

copy image using wget PHP

Hello everyone,
I have just written a PHP script to wget any image.
All you need to do is get the full path of your image e.g.
http://www.google.co.in/images/srpr/logo3w.png is path to google logo.
So now lets wget google's logo.


<?php


$mainimage = "http://www.google.co.in/images/srpr/logo3w.png"; //this would be the path of your live image which you want to download

$thebasename =  basename($mainimage); //here we will get logo3w.png i.e. name of file


$filename = explode(".", $thebasename); //explode it with extention
$i=0;
do {
if($i > 0) $filename[0]++;
else $filename[0] = $filename[0].$i;
$i++;
    }while(file_exists("tmp_cover/".$filename[0].".".$filename[1])); //typical do while to check for unique file name
 $image_dir = "tmp_cover/"; //this will be your directory where you want to save your image
 $fresh_file = $filename[0].".".$filename[1]; //this is our renamed file if file already exists
 $image_drs = $image_dir.$fresh_file; //i have concatinated the path so it becomes easier to use in wget function
 system("wget -q \"$mainimage\" -O $image_drs");  //image uploaded with wget -q


 /*
 Notes:
 1)Please check if your wget version is wget v1.12 and php is php v5.3.1 or greater.
 2)Give full permissions to your files (chmod 777 your_dir) or use filezilla client to give full permission to your folder.
 3)I have created tmp_cover folder at /opt/lampp/htdocs with 777 permissions.
/*

?>

see the webpage in 3d with firefox 11.0

Hello guys,
I just saw the brand new firefox which is 11.0 for windows. It is really the performance browser.
If you install the new firebug it will allow you to view any webpage in 3d mode. Just right click on webpage and select Inspect Element. After that you will see the new firebug bar at the bottom of your page then click on the 3d button which is at the right bottom. Now you are in 3d mode.
To zoom in or zoom out just use control + mouse scroll or to view from different angle just press control key + left mouse key + move the mouse pointer.

Here are some of the screenshots in 3d mode of my blog.

I think new firebug is kinda cool and really advance. There are lots of new features in it.


Enjoy & be open.
long live linux.

How to install xampp on ubuntu

Hello Everyone,
Today we will learn how to install xampp in ubuntu.

1) Simply wget it with this command at terminal
wget http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz
I hope you are logged in with root.

2) After downloading the xampp you can cd to desktop with this command
cd Desktop Now you are at the Desktop.

3) Enter this command to install xampp in ubuntu
tar xvfz xampp-linux-1.7.3a.tar.gz -C /opt 

4) Now your xampp is installed in opt folder. Now in order to create files and folders in htdocs you need to resolve the htdocs trouble. to give permession to htdocs enter this command sudo chmod 777 -R /opt/lampp/htdocs/ 

5) Now if everything is fine with no error then it is time to star the xampp in order to start the xampp please enter this command sudo /opt/lampp/lampp start 

6) So here are some important command to operate xampp from terminal
     i) To stop xampp sudo /opt/lampp/lampp stop
    ii) To restart xampp sudo /opt/lampp/lampp restart 


Now your xampp is installed all you need to do is start working. If you are getting any error while migrating the projects you can always check the error logs.

If you have any problem just mail me


Enjoy & be open.
long live linux.