Do you want to experience the real mobile safari in your desktop? May be you wanna try sites optimized for iPod or iPhone and if you’ve no apple device to test it, what you will do?

Ok here’s a real scenario. I’ve moved my wordpress blog to self-hosting mode. Most of the default features available in wordpress.com need to be installed as plugin in the self hosted mode.

I’ve installed WPTouch in my blog to support my blog (codereflect.com) load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show my content beautifully, all while not interfering with my regular theme. I’ve an iPod Touch to check my website in mobile mode to see if it works.

But do you know safari can be turned in to mobile safari to see the website same as your iPhone/iPod Touch?

Follow these steps

1. Take Preferences and go “Adavanced” tab

2. Now load your page

3.  Click on page button ()and navigate to “Develop” menu .

Select your Mobile Safari user agent for iPod Touch/iPhone from the “User Agent” menu. (You can also check for Firefox, IE and Opera versions)

This is a per page settings. None of the other tabs are affected!

4. Done! now see your page!

This is a small tip for the newbies of facebook/twitter.

In the age of social networks you might at least owning your identity at facebook/twitter which are the popular social networking websites.

In the earlier time what we do if we need to register in a website? we will register a simple form and give our email address and password to create the account. It was merely tiresome if you need refill everything once again and register with the website. OpenID was one of the solutions for this problem as the single openID can be used across different websites which supports OpenID authertication. Your OpenID profile information will be used by the website for further processing. The advantage of this mechanism is that you don’t have to create any new accounts, no need to share/keep passwords with third party websites.

When the social networks boomed, the social network profiles became our social ID. Realizing the user needs and business advantages, Facebook introduced facebook connectand twitter introduced OAuth authentication to use their account to connect with different web services.

Spams are everywhere and people are fighting against it. If you’ve not used your ID carefully with websites, finally you will end up seeing lot of spam msgs in your inbox. You can connect with any website which supports facebook connect or Twitter OAuth. Once you allow access to your facebook stream or tweet on your behalf with twitter, the web applications can write anything on your behalf. Your friends or followers will be seeing it as the update from yours. For example, one of my twitter friend frequently tweets about “100 followers in a minute… follow this link… *blah* *blah*”. I wondered and asked him why you’re tweeting like this? I think we must have some genuine followers other than bots. He said, I  never knew it. I’ve not posted anything to my twitter. I guess someone posting on my behalf.

The thing is he has connected to some websites using twitter authentication and he allowed them access to writer on his twitter stream. Rest you can think of.

But don’t worry, once you realize that you’re dealing with a wrong website which is not good for you and your networks, you can revoke the access at any time. I’ve explained the steps below.

Revoking Access to facebook apps/connected websites

1. Go application settings.

2. Find the application to block form your list and Select the application from the list.

3. You can do following things.

• Edit application settings to restrict access to your wall and other facebook settings. You can do this by clicking on “Edit settings” link provided next to each application. The features used by the application will be listed in the popup window. e.g is given below. You can check/unchek according to your convenience. Note that by doing this, the app is still active with your facebook account.

• Remove application

Revoking Twitter Authenticated (OAuth) websites/app

• Login to your twitter.com
• Go navigate to “Settings Page”
• Go for “Connections” tab

• Click on Revoke Access link. You can also undo this if you’re wrongly revoked access!

If you’re friends says you’re sending SPAM DMs or tweets?

Immediately change your password. That’s the best thing you can do. You might have wrongly given your username passwords to some bad/phishing websites. Just change your password that’s it and prefer OAuth/facebook connect authentication to sign in websites as you can easily revoke them if you find it unnecessary.

Hope this helps!

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In a recent blog post, Chetan Bhagath shared his updates on his new book “2 States”, new movie “3 Idiots” based on his First and popular novel “Five Point Someone” and few more.

There was nothing quite surprising things as I am following him on twitter (@chetan_bhagat)and getting his frequent updates.  But the end of the post, it was just amazing. Here it is…

I want to end by sharing a small incident. The night before the release of 2 States, I was super tense. I went to the ISKCON temple in Chowpatty and met His Holiness Radhanath Swami, an American gentleman who moved to India several decades ago and devoted his life to serve God. I told him I couldn’t sleep because of the anxiety over the fact that there will be a million judgments on my work, both positive and negative, in the coming days. He told me this:

“Imagine there is a puddle. When it rains, the puddle is filled with water. When it doesn’t, the puddle dries up. Now compare that to the ocean. The ocean is so deep, it doesn’t matter if it rains above or it is dry weather. Your inner depth should be as much as the ocean, so you are not fazed by the external praise or criticism. For that, you must truly do work that is meaningful to you, have love in your heart for others and help people. And when you achieve inner depth, the external world’s rewards won’t matter to you as much.”

I don’t think I am as deep as the ocean yet. But I am trying. Meanwhile, I just felt I will share this with you, so you may apply it in some aspects of your life. Whatever happens outside, it doesn’t matter as much if there is a calm stillness in you.

Excellent! Hi books are always cool and I love to read it and moreover he inspires through this quick blog posts/writing like this! Great man. I respect you!