As my default browser, I’m just about to switch from Opera to the beta version of Safari 4 on Mac.
It’s fast. (smaller is faster)
The main thing this graph shows is that Internet Explorer is for idiots. It’s horribly slow.
Opera is good. But has some annoying features that cannot be modified.
In future, I will keep Firefox and Safari open at the same time, switching back and forth. Safari now offers full screen zoom like Firefox. That’s the main feature I need, aside from speed.
Friendfeed is better and different than Facebook. But it’s not nearly so engaging.
Twitter seems a useless waste of time to almost everyone who tries it. Yet many experts feel that Twitter is the future. That it could supersede Facebook one day.
Why? Why? Why?
Twitter is cryptic and random. I cannot even respond to a message sent me on Twitter. Frustrating!
Here’s why:
What if you could peer into the thoughts of millions of people as they were thinking those thoughts or shortly thereafter? And what if all of these thoughts were immediately available in a database that could be mined easily to tell you what people both individually and in aggregate are thinking right nowabout any imaginable subject or event? Well, then you’d have a different kind of search engine altogether. A real-time search engine. A what’s-happening-right-now search engine.
In fact, the crude beginnings of this “now” search engine already exists. It is called Twitter, and it is a big reason why new investors poured another $35 million into the two-year-old startup on Friday. Twitter is not the only company trying to solve this problem. Facebook, FriendFeed, and even Google are trying to crack it, but Twitter has a decided advantage in that it is capturing the vast majority of the real-time thought stream on the Web (because more people enter their thoughts directly into Twitter’s database than any other, and are doing so at an increasing rate).
What makes Google and other search engines so valuable is that they capture people’s intent—what they are looking for, what they desire, what they want to learn about. But they don’t do a great job at capturing what people are doing or what they are thinking about. For thoughts and events that are happening right now, searching Twitter increasingly brings up better results than searching Google. …
… After testing out the NiMH rechargeable batteries on an LED flashlight, Gizmodo found that the Duracell batteries lasted far longer – ranging from about 5 to 6.5 hours in life compared to the 3.5 hours of Energizer. …
… The Duracell family of rechargeable batteries also come precharged out of the package, so that’s very convenient. They’ve also got USB ports for charging USB gadgets. …
The bad Facebook press of the past week was overblown. Mostly by journalists that don’t use it.
TechCrunch posted the best reality check:
Facebook just turned 5 years old. But a week that should have been filled with reflection and good times was instead marred by a series of breaking news reports detailing sex scandals, phishing, and other malicious activity on the world’s largest social network. …
Never have I heard better buzz for a Microsoft product than I’m hearing for their NEXT operating system, called … Windows 7.
Even Apple Fan Boys like it:
Windows 7 is shaping up to be an awesome OS. It’s everything people wanted Vista to be and more. Which is exactly why Microsoft should give it away—or offer it dirt cheap—to Vista users.
Windows 7 is the solution to Microsoft’s Vista problem, which is really a nasty hydra of a problem. Let’s not pretend that this isn’t the case. There are three major heads to the beast: Consumer perception of Vista as an abysmal failure and a crappy OS (hence, Mojave); the use of XP instead of Vista in increasingly popular netbooks; and the critical lack of Vista interest from the business community.
Windows 7 neatly resolves them: Word-of-mouth sentiment for Windows 7 has been overwhelmingly positive, …. Windows 7 is slimmed down when it needs to be, running fantastically on netbooks. And the IT buyers and consumers who skipped Vista have been waiting, cash in hand, for whatever came after, so Windows 7 will have a much more enthusiastic customer base.
The stars are aligned for Windows 7. It could wash the bad aftertaste from Vista out of everybody’s mouth. But that’s only if Microsoft sells it right. …
Twilight is a series of four vampire-based fantasy/romance novels by the American author Stephenie Meyer. It follows the adventures of Isabella “Bella” Swan, a teenager who moves to Forks, Washington, and finds her life turned upside-down when she falls in love with a vampire named Edward Cullen. …
It was one of the highlights when I lived in New Zealand.
In Canada the imported stuff is far too expensive. Except for one locally made brand, President’s Choice.
Legend has it, Down Under at least, that soft-eating licorice came to be quite by accident. – the fortuitous creation of a careless Australian candymaker. Fact or fiction, make no mistake about it, this is the way licorice was meant to taste.
Rick McCharles 