Recap of this week’s best posts

This post contains five articles which got the most user attention this week. Click on the links below to check out the entire post.

1.) Gmail Launches Voice and Video Chat: This post includes interesting news about the launch of Video chat over Gmail.

2.) [How-To] Detect memory leaks in Javascript : This post introduces readers to the concept of circular referencing in Javascript and how it causes Memory leaks. It then introduces an extremely useful debugging tool JavaScript Memory Leak Detector  which can be used to detect memory leaks in Javascript. 

3.) What is OpenID and how to use your Gmail account as OpenID: This post introduces the concept of OpenID and how your Gmail account id can be used as an OpenID.

4.) Default Password List for various Routers: If you are one of those who seems to be looking for the default password of a router, this post should be of help. This post contains listing of default password of various routers. Particularly useful if you often find yourself helping others with their setups.

5.) Searching for Source Code? Try these 6 websites: Are you a developer or a programmer looking out for Source code examples? If yes, this post is of great help. It lists 6 Websites which can help you search for a source code sample in any language based on various filters. Worth checking out.

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Vaibhav Pandey

What is OpenID and how to use your Gmail account as OpenID.

This post introduces you to the concept of OpenID and also explains how you can use your Gmail account as an OpenID.

OpenID

OpenID

To begin with, lets start with the basics. So what exactly is an OpenID?

OpenID is a free framework that eliminates the need for multiple usernames across different websites. If you have a Microsoft Live Mail account, a Yahoo account, or a Google account, you can log in with those same credentials on other websites like AOLMySpacePlaxo,Zoho or Buxfer, without having to create a new account on any of these sites.

Where all can you use OpenID?

You can use your OpenID on any one of a growing number of sites (nearly ten-thousand) which support OpenID. Here are some places you can visit to see where you can use your OpenID to log in today:

How can you get an OpenID for yourself?

A lot of popular services like Yahoo, Gmail, Technorati, WordPress etc are already OpenID providers. You can check out a comprehensive list of OpenID providers here.

How to use your Gmail account as an OpenID?

In order to use your Gmail account as an OpenID, all you need to do is visit the website with the support for OpenID. While on this website, If the user enters a Gmail address and indicates that he or she does not have a password for this site, then the site can redirect him or her to Google. Lets assume the website being surfed is Kidmallpics.com.

Sign in with Gmail OpenID

Sign in with Gmail OpenID

The user would then be taken to the Google website and asked to confirm whether he or she wants to sign in to KidMallPics. 

Confirm using OpenID login

Confirm using OpenID login

Finally, the user would be redirected back to KidMallPics, where he or she would be immediately signed in.

User logged in using OpenID

User logged in using OpenID

However, this was for those websites which allow you to enter a user id. There do exist quite a lot of websites which require you to enter a URL when logging in using OpenID. In such scenario, check out openid-provider.appspot.com. This site, built on Google App Engine, allows you to create a OpenID URL from your Google Account Credentials. Login with your Gmail username and password and the site will provide you a URL likehttp://openid-provider.appspot.com/<username>, which you can use on regular OpenID accepting sites.

Source: Google Code Blog

Daily Gyan

 

Also read: [How-To] Create Group Mailing Lists in Gmail

[How-To] Change your display language in Gmail

Logging into Gmail using HTTPS

 

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Cheers

Vaibhav Pandey