Tool to Check If a Site is Down for Everyone or Just You!

Sometimes, it happens that you try to open a webpage but an error appears. The page doesn't loads or loads partially. These times are very frustrating since you aren't getting what you want.

There could be several reasons for that. For example, there could a problem in your internet connection line, your PC (like you firewall could be blocking any webpage), your ISP's DNS, or that site could be blocked in your country.

And last but not least, the site may actually be down for some reason like server overloading, maintenance etc.

Now of all those problems, you actually want to know whether the problem is at your end or the site is down and everyone is facing the same problem. Once you figure out, you are all set for troubleshooting or watch for an alternative (in case the site is down).  

For all such moments, here is nice tool, to figure out if site is down for everyone or just you. This tool collects responses from people worldwide and then along with localized pinging responses, decides the actual state of any website. 

The tool is handy though. So I thought I should share it with you people. It has been developed by a friend of mine. Please, do express if you have something to say, in comments below.

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Rubik's Cube Google Doodle - Fun to solve or headache?

Google has just released its new Google Doodle in commemoration of 40th anniversary of Rubik's Cube puzzle. Although it is fun to solve but after few minutes it feels very boring because it is very hard to do that for most of us. Although I have seen many people who do that within minutes, even I watched a video where a guy solved the puzzle but enclosing his eyes with cloth. But people like me don't find any charm in solving it.

Reason?

It is "irritatingly" difficult - it because I feel like that. It is similar to an android app game flappy bird when it comes to difficulty level.

What do you people think?

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How to get the previous or the next value from a table in MySQL

This data set will be used as sample for the following examples.

How to get the previous value from a table in MySQL

This will select the previous value of the attribute.
SELECT *
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name < @VALUE
ORDER BY column_name DESC
LIMIT 1

Example

SELECT *
FROM categories
WHERE category_id < 5
ORDER BY category_id DESC
LIMIT 1

How to get the next value from a table in MySQL

This will select the next value of the attribute.
SELECT *
FROM table_name
WHERE column_name > @VALUE
ORDER BY column_name ASC
LIMIT 1

Example

SELECT *
FROM categories
WHERE category_id > 5
ORDER BY category_id ASC
LIMIT 1

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Awesome inspirational quotes

Quotenor is a website about awesome inspirational quotes regarding every category of life. You can search quotes by categories, authors and tags. Do like and share this awesomeness.
Link: http://www.quotenor.com

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CDBurnerXP USB (Pen Drive) Stand Alone Version Free Download

CDBurnerXP is a very useful software used to burn CDs, DVD,s and BluRay discs and now with USB version you can utilize this same software in USB stand alone mode. You can run it on any computer without installing it any where, while remaining at your USB  Disc. With CDBurnerXP USB, you can create and burn the ISOs, can create unlimited Discs for Data storing etc. The tool can run from any USB (Pen drive) without sticking itself to any system folder or installing itself. You can download the CDBurnerXP below.

Link for CDBurnerXP | Download

Author's Website | cdburnerxp.se

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