RTPM^TM – Real Time Productivity Monitor^PP is productivity monitoring tool which runs on your resources computer to monitor the productivity. It helps your resources to see their RTPI^TM Real Time Productivity Index^PP so that they can increase their productivity index.It keeps track of the productive work and helps you in estimating cost, average RTPI etc. Below are some features of the application. Read the rest of this entry »

The problem with using more and more social networks is with every social network you join you need to create profile then invite friends. There is no way to carry your data from one network to another network with out a hitch. Few smart people have already started working on this issue of DataPortability in detail. So lets not worry about it.
In the mean time few web apps have given users an opportunity to share the data. Take an example of adding all your Gmail contacts into Orkut. Login to Orkut and then enter your gmail id/password to invite all your contacts. This seems OK since both Gmail and Orkut is owned by the same company. Your id/password *does not* leave Google.

Where as the same model is used by LinkedIn to add your professional contacts. You need to give your userid/pw details of gmail/hotmail to add the contacts. This doesn’t seem OK even with their promise of privacy and purpose.

Now how would you achieve this with out sharing the credentials?
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Here is very good presentation by Simon about OpenId. It explains everything about OpenId a common user should know. Its big but very simple and direct.

If you want to delete files permanently from your computer. What do you do ? Do you use shift + del? Well shift delete does not erase the file from your hard disk. It just removes the file from file table hence your OS can’t find it. But the data is still there on the disk. The best method to remove sensitive data is to erase using eraser.

What is eraser?
Eraser is an advanced security tool (for Windows), which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns. Works with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Windows 2003 Server and DOS.Eraser is Free software and its source code is released under GNU General Public License.
The patterns used for overwriting are based on Peter Gutmann’s paper “Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory” and they are selected to effectively remove magnetic remnants from the hard drive.
Other methods include the one defined in the National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual of the US Department of Defence and overwriting with pseudorandom data. You can also define your own overwriting methods.

Download Eraser | FAQ on Eraser

I have openid from myopenid.com . The open id url is thejeshgn.myopenid.com. I use delegation and use thejeshgn.com as the open id url. But something going wrong today. I am not able to login to few of my regular services like
http://www.dopplr.com/openid
http://ma.gnolia.com/signin
http://jyte.com/auth/login

But I am able to login to some other services like
livejournal.com
productwiki, and few self hosted wordpress blogs.

When I try to login to first set of sites. It does not even take me to myopenid.com login page. The error usually I get is timeout or open idserver does not exist. Which means the consumer is failing to read the delegation info. Is anybody facing the same problem?

Example error from Jyte ” Connection timed out attempting to contact your OpenID server”
There are more updates below:
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