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Reliance Broadband is an ISP in India and they use a web browser based authentication system to log the user onto their network. One of their most popular plans the – Night Booster 4X offers 4 times more speed than day for unlimited  downloads from 10PM to 8AM. Now if there was a way to turn on your system at 10PM, automatically login to Asianet and turn your download manager on and then shutdown at 8AM it would have been perfect. The only problem is that the http based authentication system makes it a bit unwieldy to automate. Well not really . I found a bash script to automate this login process. Read the rest of this entry →

Hey ! Just what we needed. In its endless efforts to make the life easier for webmasters, Google has now understood that indexing RSS feeds and Atoms could be yet another value addition to their arsenal of indexing tools.

Google generally would use incoming links, sitemaps, etc to index new files and websites, and with  this new addition newer websites won’t find it hard to get indexed on Google. All you need to do is set up your RSS/Atom feed and as an added measure make sure your Robots.txt file doesn’t block it.

In my opinion this feature had been in practice for quite some time, but its only now that Google announced it officially.

Anyways, all good for webmasters.

Via : Google Webmaster Central Blog