Monday, December 6, 2010

useful websites
google.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28borker.html?pagewanted=all


gmail uses AJAX
AJAX: asynchronous Javascript and XML
stuff going on on the client, and on the server
makes a website more reactive

books.google.com
translate.google.com
docs.google.com

http://www.openoffice.org/

archive.org
has the wayback machine

cache
personal copy of some website
used to speed up web viewing

cache:http://www.joyofhandspinning.com/

http://www.pandora.com/


anatomy of a URL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL

The syntax is
scheme://domain:port/path?query_string#fragment_id

everything from :// to FIRST / is the domain
very VERY useful for catching Phishing schemes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

why seeing numbers should be a clue of something suspicious

IP address
DNS
phone book looking up names and matching to IP addresses
http://www.whois.net/



which will help detect Phishing scam

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