What is the web browser you are using when you are surfing the net? Is it the ever ancient Internet Explorer? Is it the "always-crash" Mozilla Firefox? Is it the Apple's Safari? Or Opera? Or perhaps it is the latest internet revolution Google Chrome that you are using?
Anyway, I'm using Google Chrome and so far it works awesome for me. Recently, Google Chrome has updated its version into v4.0. However, news about its latest upgrade to v5.0 is already on the move; at least that is what been reported, according to this source. With each version of Google Chrome, the using experience becomes better and better. The latest fourth version supports extension, something almost similar to Mozilla Firefox. In fact, the extensions has bringing in some cheer for internet browsing.
If you have not get yourself a Google Chrome browser, get it from here. According to the professionals at NeoBusinessConferences and myself, here are your best extensions available from Google Chrome Extensions:
This is a good Twitter extension used from Google Chrome and it looks like the picture above.
Other extension that has the same functions: >> MonkeyFly
This is how MonkeyFly looks like when it finally managed to incorporate into my web Twitter account - looks like a Tweetdeck. Taken from my Twitter web account.
Over the weekend with the hypes of iPad has been buzzing around the ears of the people who are eager to know what it is has finally materialize. I do not really like the name even because iPad is always sounds like a sanitary napkin or women's towel. I thought Apple should have retained the rumoured names like iTablet or iSlate instead. With that, expect Apple to come out with iTampon soon.
iTampon..Oh lala...
HOW GOOD IS IT?
Here are some of the iPad features:
Operating on iPhone OS 3.2
1GHz Apple A4 CPU
768 x 1024 pixel, 9.7’ LED-backlit IPS LCD screen
Storage capacity choices of 16, 32 and 64GB
Multi-touch screen display
WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, USB 2.0 and soon 3G enabled
iTune Store, App Store, MobileMe, iBookstore
9.56’ x 7.47’ x 0.5’ dimension size
Built-in lithium polymer battery (that claimed can have up to 10 hours usage time, 140 hours of music playback and 1 month standby)
The internet connection is a holy grail when we are talking about how fast the connectivity and surfing experience is. What is the use when you have an internet router service but you find it so frustrating when the speed you pay for is not even match in what you were told. 2Mbps as promised by the provider turned out in real life is only 2kbps. Frustrating? Yes indeed.
The faster the connection is, the more enjoyment in surfing the world wide web is, or the faster files travel across the user and recipients, or even the faster a file is downloaded. Well at least that is the stuffs we ever keep imagining that someday that will happen. In Malaysia however, we rarely enjoy a real "fast" internet connection. Call us the first world country with third world mentality and facilities.
Of course nevertheless, we have so much failed advertisements around us. Heartache but true, a slow internet connection can make a country less attractive. Foreign investors knew how dreadful our internet line is till they made this comment.
First we have the POTONG SAGA (not so related though)
Then we have the POTONG ads by P1
Now, you have the WHY POTONG ads by TMNet to counter the POTONG P1 Wimax ads
Regardless which site you are choosing, the losers are still you and the winners are still them. Why we are still listening to their crap when in the end of the day, they don't give you what they promised?
P1 Wimax has a higher speed than Streamyx but the connection is really unstable, so people said. Test running on P1 (I am writing this post while surfing Facebook, Tweet Deck and watching Zombieland online), I have to say that this is fairly stable. Probably P1 trying to lure me in by giving me a stable line. However according to the owner of the P1 set, things can be pretty ugly as well on time. The red lights on one of the LED indicator can be very annoying. When it is red, it is disconnected. Say I am lucky or what!? As far as I can see, the lights are still blipping blue.
TM Net unveiled their so called fastest ever, most coverage and most stable. Streamyx of course is nothing but a slow-speed yet fairly stable internet connection at least what people said. Test running on TM Net, I have to say it is as bad as you can imagine off. The line is actually fluctuate; in terms of speed or stability. When you download, it can get very frustrating because the ETA timer says 99 hours to go. The worst, the so called fast connection becomes slow due to bandwidth. In the end, you got no value.
In the nutshell, P1 Wimax may still have the edge over TM Net Streamyx. Claimed the fastest or what ever to poison our mind. The facts will remain the facts. When you have both, you do not actually have much choices to choose for.
According to the international web server testing site, SpeedTest.net placed Malaysia pathetically at number 87 for its download speed and disastrous number 79 in upload speed.
South Korea has the highest download speed in the world with 22.59 Mbps (average value of course), while Malaysia only has 1/11 of their speed. If downloading a movie file with 120 kbps is consider fast for us, try times 11 of that - 1.32 Mbps.
So, when they announced that the lucky Malaysian will get a "true" high speed broadband connection in the next 7 years, which will be monopoly by TM Net, you know they are just a bunch of cuckoos and greedy people.
Too bad that we as the Malaysian consumer can't have their complaint getting fixed. The reason when you dialed 100 and no one really cares about your complaints is relatively understandable. Who cares about you when they have already monopoly everything.
Google has previewed its latest invention that will redefine the operating system for your PCs. Introducing Google Chrome OS after months of hypes and previews. This operating system caters a different purpose and soul than the rival Windows 7, not similar in one bit.
Google Chrome OS runs entirely on a OS version based on Linux and the Chrome browser. It looks stylish and it is not previewed in a beta version or what so ever. However, the revelation may not bring smiles in many eager fans. Google Chrome OS is web-based and runs in the Chrome browser - from its USB drive content to the Google Docs document.
The upper-left corner has an applications menu with links to a variety of Web applications. Those applications can be permanently lodged as narrow tabs between that menu and ordinary browser tabs.
VIDEO ON WHAT IS GOOGLE CHROME?
One in Google side even went as far to say, "If you're a lawyer, editing contracts back and forth, this will not be the right machine for you." Simply it means that this OS will only be cool for those who primarily use the Web. The down side is been it needs you to hook up to the line so that the entire applications in it can be run.
However, the experience of using these applications when you are wired is truly similar like when you are surfing the web on Google Chrome. Web apps can be launched from its apps panel and hooks you up to Facebook, Gmail, Twitter, Google Wave and Youtube in an instant. Background apps like Google Talk is kept minimal to the docking panel.
VIDEO ON GOOGLE CHROME USER INTERFACE CONCEPT
Local storage is used as a reservoir to speed the system up when accessing these apps. Google is very keen to have Flash incorporated, thus the Adobe Flash will enhance the browsing experience on Google Chrome OS.
The problem is still this - do not expect Google Chrome to be functioning on every CPUs. For the moment, it won't work with your standard hard drives, just (Solid-State drives) SSDs. Google is trying to work the wire on for x86 and ARM CPUs. Companies developing hardware for the operating system include Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Adobe, Asus, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Freescale and Intel. Therefore, Google Chrome OS works ideally with lower end PCs called Netbook.
Until today, Google Chrome OS is still an open source OS designed to work exclusively with web applications. If you are interested to get one, you have to wait till the second half of the year 2010 before a stable version will be available.
Chrome OS, like Chrome, devotes almost all its real estate to the contents of the browser window. That leaves maximum room for Web applications such as Google's search site.
Chrome OS communicates with a variety of panels. This shows a number of instant-messenger communication threads, the left one minimized. Google also showed a notepad panel.
Chrome OS doesn't store data permanently on its local machine, but instead relies on central servers--in this case Google's Gmail system--to store data. That means address books are accessible from any Chrome OS machine, from any Web browser, and from higher-end mobile phones.
GLOSSARY: Solid-State Drives (SSD) = data storage devices that use solid-state ( circuits or devices built entirely from solid materials and in which the electrons, or other charge carriers, are confined entirely within the solid material) memory. x86 = processor that derived from architectures of the Intel 8086, for example Intel Core 2, Intel Atom and AMD Phenom. ARM CPUs = Processors developed by ARM Limited that runs on 32-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC), used in support of Unix-like OS; Linux, iPhone OS and Solaris.
Have you ever find yourself in need to urgently get your photos edited, cropped and shaded in time while you are not with your personal computer?
Many of our personal computers are equipped with the readily-installed like Paint or Windows Photo Gallery. For more highly specific editing experience with an up-to-date photo editing software formats, some will choose programs such as Google Picasa or maybe to ever famous Adobe Photoshop.
But do consider this, what if you have an internet connection but find yourself without these important tools and softwares? Easy, you can do editing pictures online. While this is not any fresh news on the sound tubes, www.lifehacker.com has enlisted the Top 5 Best Online Photo Editing Websites (not in any sequence order)
TOP TEN SEARCH PROVIDER IN UNITED STATES (March 2009)
What search engine do you use when you are searching for stuffs in the internet? Google? Yahoo? MSN?
Following are the top ten search engine provider from the US for the month of March 2009 based on a survey done by Nielson Rating:
1) Google Search6,113,906,000 hits(64.2%) Google,Inc.
2) Yahoo! Search1,505,426,000(15.8%) Yahoo,Inc. 3) MSN/Live Search982,661,000(10.3%)Microsoft 4) AOL Search356,569,000(3.7%) Time Warner 5) Ask.com Search197,957,000(2.1%)InterActiveCorp. 6) My Web Search59,605,000(0.6%) Yahoo,Inc.
Talking about innovation and creativity, it comes in many forms and situations. Now we have one, try upgrade the aesthetic and appearance features for your web browser now. The process of "beautifying' it is a fun process and the outcome can be enjoyable one. Firefox surfers accounted to almost 22% of global web browser market share - thanks to its superiority in functionality and due to the spiraling downward of Internet Explorer (IE).
Recently, those wannabees will sure have come across this little cute fox icon when they open up their Mozilla Firefox (FF). This little fox invites you to experience something new, which is call "Personas".
"Personas are lightweight “skins” that change the look of your Firefox web browser. You can easily switch between Personas with just a few clicks. There are hundreds of Personas to choose from, with more added every day. You can even create your own and share it with others."
Personas for Firefox...
Basically, Personas is a simplified and easy to use skin for the browser itself. Although this not a new gadget around, FF has recently revamped the idea and with further development push from the team in Mozilla Labs. Similarly like those Mozilla themes, it creates a simple layout of skin for both the header and footer of the browser, without even alter any buttons, toolbars and menus.
How to get one? Pretty easy. Follow these steps.
Go to Mozilla home page and look for the cute fox icon with "Try Personas". Optionally go to Personas home page here.
Click on Get Personas for Free to begin downloading your add-on.
A pop-up Mozilla add-on installation will appear. Click "Install Now" to begin.
Wait for the download to complete. Once Personas have been finished installed onto your FF Add-Ons, click "Restart Firefox".
To save all these troubles, two easy ways are:
Go the menu "Tools" >> "Add-ons" >>"Get Add-ons" tab >> Search for Personas.
From the Personas home page, click "Gallery" and now you can see a list of available skins.
Let say, you want to install Viva skin onto your browser, move your mouse over the image and you will get the preview.
Click over the image once and now you will see the skin has been automatically installed into function - Easy, no?
What are you waiting for? Try and browse around to look for your favourite one and the best skin to suit your little Firefox browser. For more inquiries, please leave some questions of doubt at http://www.getpersonas.com
After you have done, do check out on the little fox icon on the footer bar of the browser, down on the far left. Click on it and you can manuever as you wish!!
This is a good Twitter extension used from Google Chrome and it looks like the picture above.
This is how MonkeyFly looks like when it finally managed to incorporate into my web Twitter account - looks like a Tweetdeck. Taken from my Twitter web account.
