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Google Chrome – Best Browser So Far
It has been almost six months since I last wrote about Google Chrome. In the meantime Google has launched two new products Wave and Buzz about which I will write in future posts. So what has changed in the last six months? Chrome managed to convince me and is now my web browser of choice. …
Windows 7 Rocks
I have been using Windows 7 daily for the last 6 months now, and I can say this is the best OS Microsoft has ever developed. I installed Windows 7 on the same laptop on which I had Vista, so as to make for a fair comparison. You might say it is easy to be …
Part of the Reason Why Chrome Share Is Growing Slowly
Following my “Chrome market share and Matt Cutts” post yesterday I received a tweet from Matt Cutts himself asking me which browser I do use. I replied FF 3.5 and what compelling reason he could give me to use Chrome, since moving from IE to FF was an easy decision since there was a huge …
Changing StumbleUpon Password
So you, just like me, want to change your StumbleUpon account password and are experiencing frustration. You logged into your StumbleUpon account and spent a few minutes going through the available options without finding the simple option to change your password. The simple answer is you cannot find an option if it is not there. …
Good password policy… not!
Following good security practice I recently went through the process of changing my passwords. I started off this exercise by changing my ISP account password. So I went through the process, entered my strong password, and logged out to try out the new password. Next, I tried to log on with my new password but …
Google's simplicity vs Yahoo's complexity
I continued to think about what I wrote in last Wednesday’s post, The Minimalist March to Success, and did some more research on the internet. While doing so, I came across two interesting posts one by Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror fame, and the other one by Prof. John Maeda, associate director of MIT’s Media …
The Minimalist March to Success
In this post I want to focus on what I feel is a recurring pattern adopted by all of today’s successful technology companies, minimalism. Let me take the following companies as an example to support this argument: Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo. You’ve all heard about them and most probably you either hate them or love them. With all probability you …
iPad and books
I am an avid reader both of traditional books and online content. So anything which would make it possible to read books in electronic format as comfortable as the dead tree version has my attention. Thus, when Amazon launched Kindle I became a fan instantly. One of the main reasons being e-ink technology, which makes …