Kokul’s World

Recently I decided as a side project, to get a gallery up and running for my blog. I would use it to display anime screenshots to help with my reviews of anime, when I do them.

So eager as I was I ran out into the world to find myself a little gallery script that could integrate nicely with Wordpress. Well I’ve been failing ever since. I have found many nice gallery scripts. However none combine the power, functionality, flexibility I need with nice integration into Wordpress.

Right now I’m playing with Gallery2, and while the WPG2 plugin allows you to integrate… Continue reading

Over the past few months, I have gotten active in web site design, particularly for the websites about my home village of Idaikkadu in Sri Lanka. After several emails being sent without a response, and a lack of motivation from the admins to even change their sites, I’ve decided to write a little guide that hopefully they will read, and hopefully others will read, so people don’t make mistakes in their web designs.

1. Do not use frames!!!!
   Frames were all good and fine back when the World Wide Web was still young. However now, it is the worst thing you can do

API stands for Application Programming Interface. Program developers often supply it with their programs so that other developers can access the functions and code of their programs without seeing the actual source. In essence, APIs allow third-party developers to use other software’s code to do things without ever having to see the first-party software’s code.

This becomes especially useful for developers who want to expand the functionality of their program without writing a lot of extra code themselves.

In today’s World Wide Web, there are tons of online services offering APIs so that developers can use them in their programs. Of course… Continue reading

Everyone has at-least once picked up a computer game or a console game. But it can get pretty lonely, when all you do is play single player mode. In today’s age, where everyone is connected through the Internet, it is sometimes nice to play games where you can interact with others at all stages. For those who want such games, MMORPGs and MMOGs are for you!

Where do you find them? Well I have created a list of sites that have reviews, screenshots, user ratings and many other things to help you choose one, or to point you in the right… Continue reading

One of the things I like about Google is that unlike most other big corporate companies, Google still has a sense of humour. Well shows one anyways. Anyone heard of the trick of typing into the Google search engine “the answer to life, the universe, and everything else” bringing up 42 from Google calculator? Google pulled that from the book a “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”

However best of all is Google’s April Fools pranks. They love creating fake products for April Fools and they take it seriously too. They fabricate whole pages, FAQs, press releases, and images just to make the… Continue reading

Youtube, a user-powered revolution. We’ve all heard about it in the news. CNN has done countless stories about it. Even TIME magazine featured it in their person of the year issue. The site makes antipiracy advocates uneasy because any user can get easy access to movies, TV shows, anime, etc.

It’s amazing how much of an influence Youtube is on people’s lives. It’s become a household name. Everyone I know has heard of it, and many have been on it. Many of my cousins and friends spend our free time on Youtube, watching user-created spoofs and parodies, or some… Continue reading

Today I decided to try out the 3D feature of Windows Live Local which is powered by Microsoft Virtual Earth. I was using everyone’s favourite and Linux friendly browser Firefox. However, when I click on the 3D button, a little bubble pops up telling me to go to Windows Live Local in Internet Explorer 6 or 7! I definetly wasn’t happy. Firefox has about 15% of the internet market share right now. Yes I do realize that Internet Explorer still dominates, but Firefox’s share is slowly growing.

So I am wondering what runs through Microsoft’s head when they decide to only… Continue reading

If you are going to build any website, sure you can use some builder like Frontpage or Dreamweaver that writes the HTML code for you while you just have to design the web page with a few clicks of your mouse. But to build a good looking website, you have to get serious and start to get your feet into the code itself.

A program may be able to write the HTML code for you, but since it’s only a program, it will lack the human touch. There might be conflicts, and other inefficient pieces of code. 

Of course you can’t just… Continue reading

The first thing I have to say before I give you a few ways to get more traffic is: This article does not give you quick ways into getting web traffic. All of these methods have been collected from other guides and put into one that I feel is the best combination.

So now that we have that down, I will be talking about a few ways to get more traffic. These steps may seem long, and pointless, but if you do it right and with enough patience, you can see your readership climb. This week I will talking about things… Continue reading

That’s right folks. Some coders have used Wikipedia’s open editing policy to attempt to embed links into an article that points users to a site where the malware is downloaded onto the machine. Wikipedia has since deleted that article, but it was stored on the archives. Mass emails pointed users to that link in the archive, however Wikipedia has since deleted any record of that article and the article itself from the archives. More information at Techworld.com

This just makes me sick to the bone! Some people will even go to full lengths to twist and use an innocent project… Continue reading