Could it be true? Is Live Search (Kumo) really getting better than the great Goog?
Posted by merill | Filed under Technology
So I wanted to find a tool that would do fast folder comparisons. Searching on Google gave me a lot of useless stuff most of them related to fast folder access or folder comparison but not ‘fast folder comparison’.
On a whim I switched live.com and lo and behold I was presented with UltraCompare in the [...]
A Personal Blog: Spaces vs Blogger
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I’ve been wanting to start a personal blog for sometime and finally went ahead with it.
This post though is not about my personal blog but rather about which platform I chose. I’ve been blogging for nearly five years now and went the geek way and hosted my platform. But I’m now fed up with [...]
Bill Gates was right about spam
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In 2004 BillG made a statement that spam will be solved in two years. In 2008 I can prove that it is.
Here’s how my Inbox looks today.
That’s 19,326 spam message caught in the last 30 days. Not a single spam slipped through and nothing was falsely flagged.
What he wouldn’t be happy about [...]
Find out who’s linking to you
Posted by merill | Filed under Technology
Find out which web pages are linking to you by using the linkdomain: operator like this.
While the Live search caters to end users, Yahoo’s search is geared towards webmasters and gives much more detail and lets you switch between various views.
Hmm.. the other search engine?
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Google Reader – Design Simplicity
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Joe Wilcox of Microsoft Monitor joins the ever growing group that keeps raving about Google Reader.
He touches on one of the key aspects in product design where many software products falter.
Little details matter, when evaluating the simplicity and complexity attributes. Unlike other readers that generally require users to mark or set preferences to mark feeds [...]
Bye, bye SmartClient, hello WebApp
Posted by merill | Filed under Technology
Well I never thought I would say this but I’ve just bid goodbye to RssBandit my feedreader for the last three years and completely switched over to Google Reader.
The deciding factor was that I could read all my feeds from home. Google Reader is way fast over dial-up than RssBandit simply because the heavy lifting is [...]
Multi-Tasking makes you stupid
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If your currently working on more than one project take a couple of minutes to read Jeff Atwoord’s post on multi-tasking. He concludes with:
I’ve often pushed back on demands to work on multiple projects at the same time. It can be difficult to say no, because software developers are notoriously prone to the occupational hazard [...]
Turnabout – Greasemonkey for Internet Explorer (Yep, It’s Another One)
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For those of you who installed Trixie after reading my earlier post, you should now really look into Turnabout, one of the key reasons being that the developer of Trixie has stopped work on it. See Dare’s post for the low down.
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Ten Reasons Why Blogging is Good For Your Career
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Tim Bray from Sun Microsystems posts ten reasons why blogging is good for your career.
You have to get noticed to get promoted.
You have to get noticed to get hired.
It really impresses people when you say “Oh, I’ve written about that, just google for XXX and I’m on the top page” or “Oh, just google my name.”
No matter [...]
Singapore
Posted by merill | Filed under Technology
This is the last leg of my long trip back to Colombo. It’s really cool that the Changi Airport at Singapore has free internet access.
What have I been doing the past 48hrs of travelling, well I’ve been reading Code Complete by Steven McCowell. Unfortunately I made a mistake when I ordered the book and ended [...]
