Burak Özdemir 's Blog » Internet http://www.buraak.com Computer Science & Softwares - Latest Technology Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:56:02 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Google Homepage Fade Effect http://www.buraak.com/2009/10/06/google-homepage-fade-effect/ http://www.buraak.com/2009/10/06/google-homepage-fade-effect/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:28:27 +0000 Burak Ozdemir http://www.buraak.com/2009/10/06/google-homepage-fade-effect/ Google has added a fade in effect to its homepage. But it would better if we can hide links manually and other stuff other than the search box, so it would be a lot cleaner.

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http://wave.google.com

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Query:

inurl:”nph-proxy.cgi” “Start browsing”

You may alternate this query to obtain different results. Critical keyword is “inurl” as you may have noticed. It searches the desired phrase in the urls. Play with it, you will be surprised.

]]> http://www.buraak.com/2009/09/30/google-tip/feed/ 0 Spike the Digg at your own peril http://www.buraak.com/2008/10/07/spike-the-digg-at-your-own-peril/ http://www.buraak.com/2008/10/07/spike-the-digg-at-your-own-peril/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:29:01 +0000 Burak Ozdemir http://www.buraak.com/2008/10/07/spike-the-digg-at-your-own-peril/ Digg, launched in December 1994, is a community based website that allows users to rank the stories they like to the home page or to “bury it to death” the stories they do not like. The more the numbers of diggs that a story receives, the higher it ranks. Its promoters earlier wanted to call the site “Diggnation”, but for choosing a simpler name, they settled for Digg. They could not take the domain “dig” as the same was owned by Walt Disney Internet Group.

Digg bought a site that was engaged in “Spiking the Digg” as it felt that it would be worth to jump at the opportunity to shut down a scheme that attempts to undermine the legitimacy of Digg’s voting system. If you are a member of any such spiking community, tomorrow Digg could have all your activity known and your site could be penalized by Digg.

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The real protest is not against the quality of the product, but rather how it behaves. The problems with monopolistic approach of these companies gets compounded when they are able to rig the laws with impunity.

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According to news on his site:

Phurl version 1.4 released. Fixed some non-critical issues and url creation method has been re-written.
phpThumbnailer 1.6 has been released. It comes with PHP 5 compatibility fixes and some improvements.

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Google suggest is aimed to provide the relevant results instantly as you are typing. It is supported by Google toolbars and Google homepage. In most cases it is very useful, but lately Google explained that Google suggest sends information about your searches. Meaning that Google logs your ip along with your search. But according to Google, only %2 of the searches are logged in a random fashion.

This causes a privacy violation indeed. What could happen if the logs are captured by outside of Google? I don’t want to think. So as this situation made Google uncomfortable, and they decided to anonymize the logs within 24 hours, and this is expected to begin from the end of this month. But there is a more secure way, simply do not log user data :)

They say that this logs are useful to improve service qualities. I really believe in Google’s affords to provide the best possible service, but privacy of millions is more important.

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]]> http://www.buraak.com/2008/09/09/google-suggest-is-watching-you/feed/ 0 Google Chrome Beta is out ! Download it now http://www.buraak.com/2008/09/02/google-chrome-beta-is-out-download-it-now/ http://www.buraak.com/2008/09/02/google-chrome-beta-is-out-download-it-now/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:49:43 +0000 Burak Ozdemir http://www.buraak.com/2008/09/02/google-chrome-beta-is-out-download-it-now/ Browser wars getting hot. Google launched its new weapon “ Chrome ” it is avaible for download as beta !Google says:” Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier. “  Download Now!  Google Chrome 

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The new generation of Firefox is expected to be the best among all browsers.Best memory optimization, fastest page loading and a handy GUI ! Firefox 3 is said to be more memory efficient than Firefox 2 with a %60 percentage and also using less memory than IE7 (400 MB less memory consumption). The latest speed tests shows that Firefox 3 is %53 faster than Opera 9.5 , 2x faster than the Apple’s Safari and 3x faster than the IE7. I haven’t tried it yet, I am still using Opera, but if Firefox 3 has such improvements, definetely I ll migrate to Firefox 3 from Opera. One of my important reason to use Opera is memory optimizations. Anyway in the following days I will download and try it, then I can make a detailed review.

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]]> http://www.buraak.com/2008/03/20/other-browsers-play-firefox-3-kills/feed/ 6 Browser Wars : Firefox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer http://www.buraak.com/2008/03/17/browser-wars-firefox-safari-opera-internet-explorer/ http://www.buraak.com/2008/03/17/browser-wars-firefox-safari-opera-internet-explorer/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:54:20 +0000 Burak Ozdemir http://www.buraak.com/2008/03/17/browser-wars-firefox-safari-opera-internet-explorer/ Internet is a place with full of choices

You may eat the same food with different dishes and of course presentation of food is very important and greatly changes the flavor of the food.  My intention is web. You may use your default browser or you may seek for alternatives. I have tried all browsers that are available and if you wonder which one is right for you, I am willing to give you the details.

Firefox (IE Killer)

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Firefox has many advantages over Internet Explorer. New Windows users are not likely to see a big difference, actually they will like the simple GUI of Internet Explorer. However surfing the Internet is not a simple thing to do in one window, you have to open many IE instances to dirty your taskbar, but thanks to the programmers, they have integrated tabs into Firefox. After this revolution, Microsoft has decided to put tabs to IE with the version 7, but again the look and feel of IE 7 was seem to pretty ugly. Another nice thing about Firefox is the wide range of extensions available for free. You may find extensions for any purpose. Feeds, News, Blogging, Themes, Popup Blockers etc.. Firefox has Google support in the background and all of this made the Firefox the most popular web browser market.

Safari (Much cry and little wool) 

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Not much than a fancy and simple mac GUI. When compared with the other browsers, Safari uses terribly more Memory than any browser and contains many bugs.  You may observe this by yourself. Open a few web pages and press CTRL+alt+DEL. Do not get shocked, it is normal that Safari uses hundred megabytes of ram for few web pages. Completely inefficient for systems with less RAM and slower CPU. However Apple says that Safari is the fastest browser available. I have tried but believe me there is no difference. At least I couldn’t sense it if there is. Even if there is a few nano secs of less load time, I wouldn’t have sacrifice hundred megabytes of memory. I hope that they will try to optimize in the following versions. Safari doesn’t seem to be a revolutionary browser.

Opera (All in one)

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Among these alternatives, maybe the best. 

The best because, it has all advantages of them and plus new things. Firstly, Opera utilizes tabs like Firefox. Also it has a very nice smooth GUI (not too much fancy). Plus it has speed dial property, you may assign your favourite web sites to CTRL 1 , CTRL 2 etc.. Beside these advantages it consumes very little memory. I am sure you will enjoy surfing if you are using Opera. My choice for browsing the web.

Internet Explorer (the Old Boy)

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There is not much thing to discuss with IE. Many of us had started browsing the internet with IE. Yes, IE is not the worst but needs more improvement than any others. Because it is a Microsoft product and it is in the front line.

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