India Nowhere in the ‘Broad’Band

Today came across a web tool to test the speed of Broadband Internet service Provider , SpeedTest.net. The site provides a flash based tool, with neat animation and counters to measure the speed of the upload / download limit of the broadband provided by your ISP.

It provides facility to measure the speed using various servers around the world. I’ve measured my ISP’s speed using servers located at Mumbai, Sweden, Texas and I could see a variable difference in my ISP’s speed.

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See how Yahoo OpenID works

It was a buzz in online world for few days when Yahoo announced it’s open ID support. And today I was logging into the Plaxo and noticed the Yahoo’s OpenID sign in.

So thought of giving a try. Here is a sequence of screenshots for you if you haven’t tried Yahoo OpenID. Previously I was using my WordPress user id for the OpenID. But now I’m using my Yahoo ID.

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Trackbacks – Know about it

Today read a good post on Trackbacks. Andy Wibbels had written in a elegant and way to know about Trackbacks in blog and how to make use of that efficiently. Have a look at his post.

 

One sample is, OpenGiga had written an article linking to one of my article on Adobe Share on it’s blog.

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You you would see Trackbacks link in your WordPress admin area.

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