A Simple, Fast and Easy, Online Weather Source

I am a real fan of weather applications and it is amazing how the development of these applications have evolved over the years to where there are numerous sources to go to for the weather.

Recently, I came across a lesser known online source called HAMWeather that has really become my daily go to source for the weather.

What I like about HAMWeather is that the page is a fast loader; and is laid out very nicely to give you your current conditions, the outlook, the extended forcast and some adjoining radar maps (with no ads).  The site also loads nicely on the tablet PC’s and smartphones, as well.

HAMWeather does not stop there…  If you dig further and follow the top menu bar links you will see numerous other options you can load to get further specifics.

From what I could tell, HAMWeather can provide weather conditions for any location in the world; however, the weather details are lessened depending on the location you are looking for.

You Can Check A Suspicious Website for Malware In Your Browser

If you open up your web browser and type the following in the address bar;

http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=

AND, after the “equals sign” type the web address of any site, that site will be checked against Google’s updated lists of suspected phishing and malware pages. It is a handy and quick way to help verify your suspicions of a potentially bad site.

This is all part of Google’s Safe Browsing Service.  The goal of this service is to:

• Warn users before clicking on links that appear in your site when they lead to malware-infected pages.
• Prevent users from posting links to known phishing pages from your site.
• Check a list of pages againest Google’s lists of suspected phishing and malware pages.

For example if you wanted to get a report on For our pc, you would type the following in your browser’s address bar and hit enter.

 http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=4ourpc.blogspot.com

You will then get the following diagnostic report from Google:

Safe Browsing

Diagnostic page for whatsonmypc.wordpress.com

What is the current listing status for 4ourpc.blogspot.com?

This site is not currently listed as suspicious.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 3 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2011-09-09, and suspicious content was never found on this site within the past 90 days.This site was hosted on 3 network(s) including AS13768 (PEER1), AS16805 (LAYER3), AS22576 (LAYER3).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, 4ourpc.blogspot.com did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

Pingdom

If your page loads seem slow and you are looking for a way to analyze and ultimately optimize the performance of your website then take a look at the online application called Pingdom Tools. One of the tools that is available is called Full Page Test that will give you a full scale analysis of where your site stands.

Feature Overview:

Examine all parts of a web page – View file sizes, load times, and other details about every single element of a web page (HTML, JavaScript and CSS files, images, etc.). You can sort and filter this list in different ways to identify performance bottlenecks.

Performance overview – We automatically put together plenty of performance-related statistics for you based on the test result.

Performance grade and tips – See how your website conforms to performance best practices from Google Page Speed (similar to Yahoo’s Yslow). You can get some great tips on how to speed up your website this way.
Trace your performance history – We save each test for you so you can review it later and also see how things change over time (with pretty charts!).
Test from multiple locations – See how fast a website loads in Europe, the United States, etc.
Share your results – We’ve made it easy for you to perform a test and share it with your friends, work colleagues or web host.