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Link-shortening services like TinyURL have become nearly ubiquitous in space-restricted places like email, Twitter, and mobile sites—which is why it's odd it's taken so long for a similar...

I earlier wrote about OpenDns and how it can help you stay ahead while making a dns query. But interestingly, i met someone recently who quite didn’t understand the whole DNS and the resolution thing, for him and for all those of you who might be interested, this is the post. Have you ever thought about how the website address you type in the browser address bar gets resolved to the IP address. This post describes the way Domain Name Servers resolve the web address to IP Address. When you enter the address of a website into your web browser, the browser tries to identify the IP address of the server hosting this website. Follow the steps below to identify what happens behind the scenes. 1.) The user enters the web address for Technofriends (www.technofriends.in) ( URL –> Universal resource locater) in the browser’s address bar.

It can take awhile to figure out all the shortcuts and features in the ever-growing list of Google web applications. The Google Operating System blog unearths a quick URL hack to display a Google...

Most of the applications written these days require some or the other network feature. Stand-alone Java applications are rare occurence these days. In order to write a Java program which reads a Webpage, follow the steps mentioned below. 1.) Instantiate a URL object by passing the URL string to its constructor. [Line 16 in the code below] 2.) Retrieve a URLConnection object . [ Line 17 in the code below] 3.) Get an input stream from the connection. [Line 18-20 in the code below] 4.) Create a BufferedReader on the input stream and read from it. [Line 23-25 in the code below] In the code mentioned below, i have tried reading http://technofriends.in