Outlook Conversation Cleanup

Earlier there used to be a tool which will retain only the last thread of the email chain hence saving disk space for MS Outlook.
Just got to know that this feature is now available natively in Outlook. Just go through : https://support.office.com/en-US/Article/Use-Conversation-Clean-Up-to-eliminate-redundant-messages-4a0aa10b-8342-4f75-b78c-2b8ca23eca8d

Commandline to change firewal rules in Windows 7/8

I was looking for a commandline based approach to add new rules on Windows Firewall and it was simple to do:

• First check if there are already some rules set:
  netsh advfirewall firewall show rule name=**App**
• Then you add a separate rule for allowing input traffic (as required)
  netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=**App** dir=in action=allow profile=public program=**App_Location** enable=yes
• And a separate rule for allowing output traffic (as required)
  netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=**App** dir=out action=allow profile=public program=**App_Location** enable=yes
• Finally if required, the rule can be deleted
  netsh advfirewall firewall delete rule name=**App**

Automotic logon in to company intranet zone using Firefox

In AD based domain in company intranet, IE is the default browser and it does login automatically in to the intranet sites (in .NET it was Windows Authentication).

To do the same in firefox, do a "about:config" and the look for "network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris". Add you company domains in there where you want automatic login like "bt.com"

Mozilla documentation : https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Integrated_Authentication

Video Encoding Bitrates

Name	Resolution	Link (Mbps)	Bitrate (Mbps)	Video (kbps)	Audio (kbps)
240p	424x240	1.0	0.64	576	64
360p	640x360	1.5	0.96	896	64
432p	768x432	1.8	1.15	1088	64
480p	848x480	2.0	1.28	1216	64
480p HQ	848x480	2.5	1.60	1536	64
576p	1024x576	3.0	1.92	1856	64
576p HQ	1024x576	3.5	2.24	2176	64
720p	1280x720	4.0	2.56	2496	64
720p HQ	1280x720	5.0	3.20	3072	128
1080p	1920x1080	8.0	5.12	4992	128
1080p HQ	1920x1080	12.0	7.68	7552	128
1080p Superbit	1920x1080	N/A	20.32	20000	320

and for older, non-widescreen content (with only 75% as many pixels)...

Name	Resolution	Link (Mbps)	Bitrate (Mbps)	Video (kbps)	Audio (kbps)
240p	320x240	1.0	0.64	576	64
360p	480x360	1.2	0.77	704	64
480p	640x480	1.5	0.96	896	64
480p HQ	640x480	2.0	1.28	1216	64
576p	768x576	2.3	1.47	1408	64
576p HQ	768x576	2.5	1.60	1536	64
720p	960x720	3.0	1.92	1856	64
720p HQ	960x720	4.0	2.56	2432	128
1080p	1440x1080	6.0	3.84	3712	128
1080p HQ	1440x1080	9.0	5.76	5632	128
1080p Superbit	1440x1080	N/A	20.32	20000	320

Source : http://www.lighterra.com/papers/videoencodingh264/

REST Standards

Just wanted to save these 2 links which very well explains the naming standards for REST services:

1. The short one - https://github.com/WhiteHouse/api-standards 
2. The long one (Martin Fowler) - http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.html