Just completed the relaunch of www.dimakhconsultants.com . Our earlier website was good but it was high time that we had a new design with the more web 2.0 approach The interesting component of the new website is the website portfolio feature. It highlights all the work done by us in different sectors and showcases the best websites done so far. Dimakh Consultants are the best website design company in pune and have done numerous websites since 1998.

One number for all your calls and SMS

• Call screening – Announce and screen callers
• Listen in – Listen before taking a call
• Block calls – Keep unwanted callers at bay
• SMS – Send, receive, and store SMS
• Place calls – Call US numbers for free
• Taking calls – Answer on any of your phones
• Phone routing – Phones ring based on who calls
• Forwarding phones – Add phones and decide which ring

Will we get this feature in India ? will we get google voice in India.  It would be worth the wait and I am sure telecom players like reliance, airtel, tata indicom would be gearing up for this.

But this would be a good solution for Indian software companies and entrepreneurs in Indian cities like pune, bangalore, delhi etc to use this service to virtually stay in USA and get a mobile identity. SO for those who are doing international business and are looking for setting up office in USA, this would be a great help. But you many not be able to eliminate phone services providers like vonage, skype etc as you would still need a US number to use this google service.

The Google voice is set to launch in the month of July in USA.

They offer 3 types of rbls viz.

1) RATS-Dyna (accessed via. ‘dyna.spamrats.com’) – This lists IPs which are known to make too many SMTP connections or trying too many invalid users and also IPs having rDNS entry which looks like it is a dynamic or home connection. Some IPs it blocked at my server were having rDNS as,
187-35-24-158.dsl.telesp.net.br
ppp-124-121-80-22.revip2.asianet.co.th
host84-240-dynamic.6-79-r.retail.telecomitalia.it

RATS-Dyna was listed as last rbl in my mail server after checking connections against having no rDNS, dnsbl-1.uceprotect.net and zen.spamhaus.org and it blocked surprisingly 10% more connections. In a way, it blocked 10% of probable spam which could have passed through other filters.

2) RATS-NoPtr (accessed via. ‘noptr.spamrats.com’) – This lists IPs which are known to make too many SMTP connections or trying too many invalid users and also IPs having no rDNS entry

What is use of RATS-NoPtr when most mail servers have inherent capability to reject IP with no rDNS entry. Michael Peddemors imply says “Performance actually, hard to believe ” and he might be right.

3) RATS-Spam (accessed via. ’spam.spamrats.com’) – This is an aggressive list and should be used with caution. This lists compromised servers, hosts, or open relays. Make sure you exempt your own customers from this list before using.
They say on their website – “RAT-Spam is better used in a scoring environment (like with spam assassin), rather than a blocking environment”.

For more spam stats see,
http://www.shantanukulkarni.org/rbl-compare.html
http://www.shantanukulkarni.org/spam_analysis.html

Just after a few days from the time I had done a post about comparing BJP website and Congress website, Congress launched its new site to cope up with online social media marketing and bringing a face to the web campaign. The new look of the website for congress features the prime minister Manamohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi on the homepage.

Aam Aadmi Ke Badhte Kadam
Har Kadam Par Bharat Buland

This is the message that congress wants to give as election slogan. The website is not that attractive and not upto the mark of BJP which has lot of interesting features and seems to be updated more often. The site also seems to be done in frames technology which is very outdated and non search engine friendly. A very few ways to allow people interaction or no use of blogs and videos. 

The our prime minister link takes us to http://pmindia.nic.in/ the official website of the prime minister.

A very nice picture of Rajiv Gandhi on the website gives it a different charm

Just do a google search for congress website and the first two links that you will see take you to the INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS website and second result shows Welcome to Our Website which is also a Indian Congress website. Shockingly Congress is still busy in congratulating Smt Sonia Gandhi for the elections won in 2004.

Here’s the full text of the homepage :-

Congratulations to Smt Sonia Gandhi for Leading The Congress Party to Victory in the Lok Sabha Elections 2004.This is not only a Victory for Secular India but also a resounding defeat for the Forces of Communalism. 

The second step is to select language of your choice and if you do not select english then you are asked to download font which is a very old technology way and not as per latest trends. 

On the other hand if you do a google search for BJP WEBSITE , it will show you good google search engine optimized results for BJP. and the first link takes you to the BJP website. The site is designed with a good interface and atleast allows you to get to the point and find the information that you are looking for.

Interestingly it allows an interaction option by inviting you to give your email ID to regularly get press releases into your email box. A effective search powered by google allows you to get maximum information from the website and show cases the vast information present in the website which otherwise would have been difficult to find.

So overall a much professional output as compared to congress website but both websites really need to gear up for the elections and allow maximum people to interact from the web front. This is the status of the websites of political parties in India.

This is what google chrome has to say about incognito window

Pages you view in this window won’t appear in your browser history or search history, and they won’t leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved.

And one of the most surprising aspect for google chrome is that it does not have a version for linux and Mac when it was launched.

give me your feedback at dimakh@dimakhconsultants.com and visit www.dimakhconsultants.com 

Who is this book for – This is a very good book for newbies to qmail
making them graduate from newbie to intermidiate level. This might not
be informative reading for people already good in qmail but still worth
a read.

Chapter 1 gives a good mention of basic qmail components in a easy
language with a good mention of tcpserver and some mention of
daemontools, packages which are recommended by the author of qmail, Dan
Bernstein, for use with qmail.
Chapter 2 and 3 talks about qmail’s queue with some nice discussion
about aliases and dot-qmail files. The best part of these chapters for
me was an small shell script for POP-before-SMTP sessions. I had a lot
of trouble making my students understand the concept after showing them
Bruce Guetner’s relay-ctrl package and I was too lazy to churn up my own
in shell or python, so this example is very much appreciated.
But the bad part for these chapters is that Kyle
does not explain the much needed /var/qmail/queue structure in detail.
Chapter 4 is a somewhat theoritical chapter which gives details on
different type of mailbox formats and how they deal with emails, POP3,
IMAP4 servers and webmail. A very nice read especially if you are new to
qmail. The part on webmail though lacks depth and could have been
written to explain common webmail clients like sqwebmail, horde,
squirrelmail etc.
Chapter 5 is an excellent HOWTO on qmail virtual domains. It is one of
the best sections in the book.
Chapter 6 talks about filtering but it lacks depth and I was expecting
something real nice from Kyle, especially about recommendations of RBLs,
greet-delay programs, mailfront and some sample QMAILQUEUE wrappers.
Chapter 7 just gives basic intro to maillist managers, encryption which
again could have been expanded a bit more.
Chapter 8 talks nicely about the excellent logging system by Dan and
qmailanalog is explained nicely.

Overall as a trainer I give this book 7.5/10. I wanted Kyle to be
partial to some packages having clean code like mailfront, vmailmgr so
to impress upon newbies the need of clean code. I will certainly recommend
this book for people who are not clear with “Life with qmail” or John
Levine’s qmail. Also, Kyle has a way of explaining concepts well.

Shantanu Kulkarni
www.shantanukulkarni.org