Burak Özdemir 's Blog » Social 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 What’s the world is getting busy with since last week ? http://www.buraak.com/2011/04/14/whats-the-world-is-getting-busy-with-since-last-week/ http://www.buraak.com/2011/04/14/whats-the-world-is-getting-busy-with-since-last-week/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 08:56:02 +0000 Burak Ozdemir http://www.buraak.com/?p=531 pie chart

Have you ever wanted to know, what’s the earth’s people are getting busy lately? Hmm, according to a report from Google Inc, in the past 7 days, the following terms are increasingly searched in Google.

Top ten
1. masters leaderboard 
2. yuri gagarin
3. grand national 2011
4. grand national
5. government shutdown 2011
6. government shutdown
7. masters
8. ipl
9. onpe
10. 地震

As you see, most of the world is wasting time on sport, while some others interested in the past and the space history (Yuri Gagarin), and the remaining part is interested in government businesses. Lastly, I’m too lazy to use Google translate to learn the meaning of the 10th search and comment on it. so if you give a damn, just use google translate.

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Does EFX Bracelet really work ?

It has been 2 days since I bought it. If you ask me Do I feel any different? Like I’m charged with super powers, super flexible, like one of the fantastic four, or I am in perfect balance as Kung Fu Panda ? Unfortunately, not. I don’t feel any different apart from I feel like I paid through the nose. I paid nearly 40 bucks for a silicon piece.

EFX Chronicles

Day 1;

Slept at 1:00 am and woke up at 6:00 am in the morning, I felt a bit tired which is contrast to what seller told me, “you’ll wake up completely refreshed”. Throughout the day I felt normal, not much energetic. At the end of the day I slept at 11:30 pm.

Day 2;

Today I woke up at 9:00 am in the morning, so I was late to work. Couldn’t wake up at 6:00 am. I feel totally worn out, exhausted, man! I feel like a hammered sh*t. This thing is like draining my life energy since I’ve worn it. It gathered lots of dust around itself and sticked to my wrist, can’t take it out, I am doomed like the scorpion king but without the super powers. In the gym workout I lifted half of the normal weight I usually lift, It’s like I’m weakening. I started to worry, seriously. The thing was suppose to increase physical abilities, in contrast it’s turning me into a bag of potato. Fortunately I was able to take it off before the end of the day. Believe me, I feel much more better, the thing didn’t even cause to a placebo effect, I’m not mentioning that it’s not working, in contrary It is working but in the reverse direction, it had some serious negative effects on me, and I barely found the strength to remove it from my wrist before it completely fused itself to my arm. Lucky me.

 

Don’t expect a silicon piece to turn you into a super human, if it would really works, why do they sell it to you for a cost of a dinner ? Or Why do you buy it, even if you know it’s not going to work for you? (just like me).

The answer is blowing in the wind : curiosity.

]]> http://www.buraak.com/2011/04/12/does-efx-bracelet-really-work/feed/ 2 The threat behind the Facebook Sponspored Stories http://www.buraak.com/2011/03/24/the-threat-behind-the-facebook-sponspored-stories/ http://www.buraak.com/2011/03/24/the-threat-behind-the-facebook-sponspored-stories/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:22:17 +0000 Burak Ozdemir http://www.buraak.com/?p=456 facebook sponsored story

So recently did you notice something new in Facebook? In January 2011, Facebook announced the  “Sponsored Stories”. Apparently it is now being running. If one of your friend likes some product, Facebook will show the advertisement along with your friend’s name. Do you see the danger ? If your answer is NO, let me explain.

If you liked some product that has been shown in your Facebook page, this means that Facebook may use YOUR NAME to advertise that product. Is it ethical ? I don’t know, but it seems a bit worrying and uncomfortable. If you feel so, you should double check your account settings, and apart from Facebook, third party advertisers may use your name and information to advertise, this is a threat and now that’s annoying.

I don’t have an ethics or privacy obsession but I believe that many of you will object to this idea, having your name displayed along with absurd or inappropriate ads. This is not the first time that we had our goodwill abused, many of the companies collect our personal information from cell phone numbers to email addresses to sell them to third party advertisers or to send their advertisements.

So, if want to prevent this, Go to Account Setting > Facebook Ads tab then choose the followings:

facebook sponsored story 1

facebook sponsored story 2

Now maybe your name is safe now, maybe not! But also you may want to know that what data you have put to Facebook, now again go to Account Settings, scroll down to the bottom of the page, You will see “Download Your Information”, next to it ,click the link “learn more”, and in the next page, you can proceed to download, note that it will take some time, Facebook will gather all the information that belongs to you. Note that all the data you have shared belongs to Facebook, read the terms of conditions. Being aware of your rights, can prevent headaches in the future. We all deserve respect for our privacy.

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1- One heaping tea spoon Nescafé.
2- 6 oz of water (177 ml) at 90-95 celcius.
3- Stir and enjoy.

Water quality is crucial, %99 of its is water. Water Temperature should be slightly less than boiling. Optionally you may add hot milk or creme. Please share your tips :)

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http://wave.google.com

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“music of ireland”

By the way how peaceful is the song from Ireland. You can search for your own country. If you are Johnie Walker, then search for bagpipes :)

“music of scotland”

Long live wiki, you little Mozart …

]]> http://www.buraak.com/2009/10/01/music-of/feed/ 0 Long Break http://www.buraak.com/2009/09/30/long-break/ http://www.buraak.com/2009/09/30/long-break/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:12:04 +0000 Burak Ozdemir http://www.buraak.com/2009/09/30/long-break/ After a long break (unplanned), I’m starting to write again, during this break, I did have chance to finish many things, like my first publication, which is being prepared to be published by Springer Lecture Notes, and it is titled as “A Local Behavior Identification Algorithm for Generative Network Automata Configurations”. Previously I have attended to ECAL 2009 10th European Conference on Artificial Life which was held in Budapest (I’m planning to share some more photos from my visit). Currently I’m struggling with my master thesis. From now on I’ll be posting new stuff more frequently, (I have started to use iPhone WordPress application). So stay alive :)

]]> http://www.buraak.com/2009/09/30/long-break/feed/ 1 Eye Floaters & Treatment http://www.buraak.com/2008/11/01/eye-floaters-treatment/ http://www.buraak.com/2008/11/01/eye-floaters-treatment/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2008 09:51:54 +0000 Burak Ozdemir http://www.buraak.com/2008/11/01/eye-floaters-treatment/ What are Eye floaters?
-Cellular Debris which were detached from retina to vitreous gel.

Are they harmful?
-No they are not, in some cases, floater numbers are increased in a short time, and this may be a sign of a retinal problem. (Tears and etc…)

Are there any pills/medicine/eye drops to cure/diminish the floaters?
-No, there isn’t any medicine yet

What are the causes?
-There are many causes for eye floaters,

  • Diseases
  • Stress
  • Bright Lights (for ex: laser pointers, any light that damages retina)
  • Hard Activities (Weight lifting etc…)
  • Cigarette
  • Laser Surgery

Do they diminish over time?
-There is no answer for this, because sometimes they disappear, sometimes not.

Are there any treatments for eye floaters?
-Yes, vitrectomy is the answer. But doctors do not prefer vitrectomy except the cases that patient has lots of them. They tell you to ignore and how to live with them. Also vitrectomy has many complications and risks. In most cases a cataract operation needed after vitrectomy surgery. Also there is a laser treatment for floaters, but they just divide the floaters into very small pieces, they don’t diminish totally, many people had complained about that those small pieces are worse and more irritating than the big ones.

At Which ages eye floaters begin to appear?
-In generally, eye floaters are part of aging, but there are many people have them from very early ages. (Childhood/teenage)

I am 24 years old, and have lots of eye floaters. I’m trying to live with them and sometimes it is so difficult to ignore them.

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Whether we like or dislike emergence of such networking sites, fact is we cannot wish it away. There is money to be made from such data mined, and this would not stop. Instead of being paranoid about the cyber crime in any form, we need to develop strengths to deal with it and tap huge possibilities of networked world.

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1. The Who : “My Generation”
2. The Beach Boys : “Good Vibrations”
3. Pink Floyd : “Dark Side of the Moon”
4. The Doors : “Light My Fire”
5. Chuck Berry : “Johnny B. Goode”
6. Jimi Hendrix : “All Along the Watchtower”
7. The Kinks : “You Really Got Me”
8. Prince : “Purple Rain”
9. Pink Floyd : “Comfortably Numb”
10. Johnny Cash : “Folsom Prison Blues”
11. Janis Joplin : “Me and Bobby McGee”
12. Pearl Jam : “Jeremy”
13. Crosby,Stills,Nash and Young : “Ohio”
14. Steppenwolf : “Born To Be Wild”
15. Oasis : “Live Forever”
16. The Band : “The Weight”
17. Creedence Clearwater Revival : “Fortunate Son”
18. Grand Master Flash : “The Message”
19. AC/DC : “Highway to Hell”
20. Little Richard : “Good Golly Miss Molly”
21. Black Sabbath : “Paranoid”
22. Neil Young : “Rockin’ In The Free World”
23. The Police : “Every Breath You Take”
24. R.E.M. : “Losing My Religion”
25. Aretha Franklin : “Respect”
26. Bruce Springsteen : “Born in the USA”
27. Beastie Boys : “Sabotage”
28. Eric Clapton : “Layla”
29. Jerry Lee Lewis : “Great Balls of Fire”
30. (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love and Understanding? : “Elvis Costello”
31. Simon & Garfunkel : “Mrs. Robinson”
32. Buddy Holly : “Peggy Sue”
33. Bob Marley : “Buffalo Soldier”
34. Sly & the Family Stone : “Everyday People”
35. The Who : “Pinball Wizard”
36. The Mamas & The Papas : “California Dreamin’”
37. Van Morrison : “Moondance”
38. Radiohead : “Airbag”
39. Nine Inch Nails : “Closer”
40. Willie Nelson : “On The Road Again”

According to the Rolling Stones, http://www.rollingstoneextras.com/patron40songs/

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Finally I returned to blogging after a long while, during this holiday I havefound time to do many things.In the following days you will find manydifferent articles on variety of topics.Thanks to all for your the patience.See you soon,Burak.

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Many of the newbies (once I was a newbie too) are suffering from weird file extensions and what are they for? They are just tired of Google hopelessly to find some thing about .xyz .abc. But what is this FileStuff for? It is easy and pratic, just bookmark this url http://www.filestuff.co.uk and use the search box on the left upper side for searching a file extension, so do not waste on time for searching on search engines.The site has some great features besides searching extensions, you can also search for softwares to find out their file extensions.You may be a software developer and you want to publish your software’s file extension, so you can do it simply by filling the form on this page http://www.filestuff.co.uk/add-file-ext.html. Just try !

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It is said that WGA servers are out since last friday. XP and Vista users are having problems with their installations during verifying their original copies.Microsoft WGA forums are full of problem reports. I think microsoft got a irresponsibility, because such important servers have to be controlled and checked hourly basis, otherwise millions of windows users encounter these unnecessary problems.

News Source : http://www.techblogger.org/2007/08/25/windows-genuine-advantage-servers-out/

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I am counting down for my first google adsense check, currently I have $92 in my adsense account. It wasn’t easy for me to establish blogs and get loyal visitors. It all started 6 months ago when I decided to make a blog. Then I registered buraak.com and start blogging. My first reason for blogging is just to share some unique knowledge and communicate with many people. First weeks were painful, I was getting very small number of visitors, and they were just friends of mine. Then I continued to write about various things and got my original content. Still I am not receiving millions of visitors but at least enough for me to earn some penny. While I was continuing with buraak.com, I also decided to open few more blogs and then established an iPhone blog and a Techblog. They are all doing good, especially the iphone blog.Techblog has a little content till I found a way to create a huge content for it and it is doing much more better.This month is just the sixth month that I started blogging and it is important to me.Always my first aim is to get as many readers as I can.In my opinion blogging is just hard and needs patience. You have to write, you have to have something to write, it is not working if you are writing for just to write. I hope I will always have something to write and to share. By the way I have decided what to do with the money. I am going to buy a jeans, and a shirt. Because they will be good memories for me to remember, my first money from blogging.I will try to share some photos with you. I think I made many mistakes during these 6 months, rushing to posts, to many advertisements, irregular posting frequency.But everyone learns something from mistakes. I learnt mines. When did you start blogging, and Why? Please leave your answers as comments, I would like to hear !

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What do you think when you are looking into such photos? I see humanity do not know value of nature, what they are rewarded with, more of this awesome nature is beeing destroyed every moment of life. It is a shame that our children won’t have a nice world to live. So they will probably search for the nature in just these photos, so save the nature while we can.

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I’m sure the only issue about these kinds of services is reliability, TRIPLE has started its activities in 2003 and it is pretty reliable. They are offering the most optimal prices in the market.The company has its own quality services that keeps itself standing! Believe me, they have quality in their products and solutions. There are many great hosting plans for both Windows and Linux starting from only $4.99 / month, this is a major reason that you can choose TRIPLE, low price & quality. Also they are offering a Dedicated Hosting. Domain name registration is just $9.99, I think the price is fairly normal when compared with market. Also TRIPLE offers SSL certificates for only $10 / year, great price. Customers are quite happy with the services, especially easy to use control panels, useful tools. So you have to check it yourself TRIPLE.COM ,I am sure you will not be disappointed !!

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Did you notice that Gadget blogs, sites are around? But I bet that you did not see any Gadget Site, that is directly related with security stuff. This blog is an advanced approach to security industry, and catches the latest news for your taste. A self professional and experienced person Daniel HARRISON putting all efforts to get you have detailed information about security products. The site has very neat and clean design so I’m sure you will not get lost while surfing. Among 28 catagories, you will find many thing. Many people impressed by those little spy cameras that fits nearly every where even to your ears. So if you wonder them please visit now Spy Review .

]]> http://www.buraak.com/2007/08/16/spy-review/feed/ 1 3 Easy Steps To Transform Your Old XP Desktop to a Fresh Vista Looking Desktop! http://www.buraak.com/2007/08/09/3-easy-steps-to-transform-your-old-xp-desktop-to-a-fresh-vista-look/ http://www.buraak.com/2007/08/09/3-easy-steps-to-transform-your-old-xp-desktop-to-a-fresh-vista-look/#comments Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:40:42 +0000 Burak Ozdemir http://www.buraak.com/2007/08/09/3-easy-steps-to-transform-your-old-xp-desktop-to-a-fresh-vista-look/ Welcome to Pimp My XP :)

First of all, this tutorial is prepared for those that does not want to install Vista to their pc for some reason.
Maybe you can not afford Vista , maybe your pc is not enough powerful to run vista or anything.Chances are good that you can have a fresh Vista (Of course Aero Glass Transparent!) look without installing.The best thing is that this tranformation will not consume so much system resource, it will needs a little bit of ram. How great isn’t it? So before we begin pimping our XP, we need 3 things:

  • WindowBlinds 5 (Enhanced) -> This is for a transparent look (AERO) & themes
  • Vista Transformation Pack 7
  • Aero Starry-Eyed Theme

You can find WindowBlinds 5 (Enhanced) from torrents, Vista Transformation Pack & Aero Starry Eyed Theme is easy to find just google them!

Step -1) We first start installing WindowBlinds 5 (Enhanced), it will install it very quickly. After installing do no touch anything !

Step-2) Then we extract Vista Transformation Pack 7 and run setup, *Don’t Forget to Make a FULL install*, select everything ! Do not worry it will take a while to install, it will attempt to change some system files of xp, do not worry just ignore the messages by canceling them.When installing finishes we advance to step 3.

Step-3) In this part we will just install our theme to WindowBlinds, unpack our zipped theme to any directory, then click the theme file, it is automatically loaded by WindowBlinds, there will be a balloon tip after clicking the theme file, then click the balloon tip your theme will be loaded, and the final tune is that click on the “Vista Transformation Pack – Welcome Center”
icon on your desktop then click “Configure user account” then Select all under the Desktop Theme Enhancements and 3rd-party applications.

Done you are finished after a system restart your desktop will be loaded with gadgets and will have a fresh transparent Vista-Aero look.

Here is the results :)

Take a look at the before and after photos !

Before                               After
xp-old.jpg          vista-look.jpg

Thank you all !!! Any Comments Will Be Appreciated !

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Firefox 3 alpha 5 is now ready to download, you can download it from Mozilla’s homepage. Briefly this new version of Firefox will be more stable and prevent data losses on crashes. A new error reporting service is added ‘Breakpad’.Also Mozilla added a nice bookmarking feature, from now on users will be able to share their bookmarks. Take a look at the new Firefox!

News Source : www.slashdot.org

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