What’s With the Firefox 3.5 Hype?

Posted by Sravan | July 2, 2009 .

I am testing Firefox 3.5. The hype surrounding this version, the expectations that Firefox automatically gets in users’ minds, and my poor perception are possibly the major reasons why I am not yet impressed.
Decline: Slower startup time
Saw this before: Tab Tearing in Google Chrome, Private Browsing in Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8, Smarter session [...]

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Colabolo For Team Task Management

Posted by Sravan | June 30, 2009 .

Back in February, I used to waste a lot of time on time management. I took a couple of courses and tried a couple of tools, until I returned back to the good old text document. Reasons could be that I don’t plan a very long time ahead and my life is not complicated enough.
Anyway, [...]

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Photobucket Visual Search With Silverlight

Posted by Sravan | June 23, 2009 .

A week ago Microsoft made a press release about Photobucket’s Visual Search, a new way to search, which is powered by Silverlight and Live.
Though my first attempt to Visual Search abruptly ended with my Opera browser crashing, Visual Search itself provided easily one of my best image search experiences so far.
First of all, Photobucket has [...]

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RIAs at the Enterprise Level

Posted by Sravan | June 18, 2009 .

The penetration of RIAs into the consumer world is beyond doubt. We have numbers supporting that time and again. To that extent, RIAs are here to stay. However, I sometimes wonder the scenario when it comes to enterprise apps.
Let us exclude AJAX for the sake of discussion because most GUIs these days are being built [...]

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Why not a Flash App Store

Posted by Charles | June 4, 2009 .

There are lot of app stores germinating lately, all following the foot steps of Apple App Store. There are:

Android Market - All the apps feeding the Google Android phone, well, two of them so far G1 and G2 (should have gone to Google I/O!)
Windows Market Place for Mobile - A long plain name doesn’t change [...]

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Updates About Flash SEO

Posted by Sravan | June 4, 2009 .

One of our readers recently had the following doubts:
Have there been any advances in search engines recognising flash sites?
Been a couple of years since I did an entire site in flash and wondered if anything had moved on in that direction.
I wondered if submitting an XML site map to google with relevant descriptions and titles [...]

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Twitter is done and locks up our site

Posted by Charles | May 30, 2009 .

At this moment the twitter site still can’t be accessed. Too bad we use a twitter badge on our site. The script from twitter hangs our site so that the rest of page(scripts) won’t work.
When Twitter is getting hotter and much widely used, the question raising is, can we count on such startup, which hasn’t [...]

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Bing with no Bang

Posted by Charles | May 30, 2009 .

Google is under attack lately. Wolfram’s WolframAlpha was cheered as Google search killer, after years of selling not so hot but big book, A New Kind of Science. And then, Microsoft came out to spoil Google I/O with the Bing announcement. But do you see the difference between WolframAlpha and Bing?
I do, the Bing is [...]

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Adobe AIR Games

Posted by Sravan | May 26, 2009 .

Until I read Rob Christensen’s blog post early this month about Now Boarding, not a single thought about Adobe AIR games passed my mind.
Since then, the only AIR games I could trace have been those listed in the Adobe Marketplace, and it also had applications like alarms and stop clocks listed under the Games category. [...]

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