1 April, 2007, 05:06
I usually don’t use WordPress’ “write post” page to write blog entries unless I am using linux. Although there are some web clients as well, it is not better than wordpress’ post screen. I was using Windows Live Writer but nowadays I have switched to Word 2007 to post blogs. First of all, Word 2007 offers a reach interface comparing to Windows Live Writer. On the other hand Live Writer’s plugin support is better than Word’s; however I don’t use any plugin for the user interface. Second, Windows Live Writer is so slow to start and work. Windows Live Writer is not as good at formatting html as Word 2007 does. With Word 2007 you have the benefits of the rich platform, especially if you have a document written in word, it is easy to post it.
I am surprised with the support of many blog platforms, including wordpress of course.
You are able to use existing documents to format your post and the interface is nice to use for formatting the post.
16 February, 2007, 22:19
Yahoo! Pipes is a great idea implemented by Yahoo! with an incredibly amazing user interface. When I first played with I just shocked and suspected about flashy stuff. However it is based on only Javascript with the help of Yahoo’s great Yahoo! User Interface Library on the back-end.
The idea is simple to explain if you know the pipes from the operating systems. Basically linking the output of something to the input of something else or vice versa. Something in this case is the RSS feeds or web services provided from different sources.
Pipes are one of the main concepts in parallel computing for pipelining the process. Since web is enormously distributed, what you can do is infinite. There are some operators available like for each, count, sort, filter that you can do various operations to the feeds. So with this tool, you can parallellise web and get the processed result.
The create pipe user interface is very similar to the IDE interface even it has a debugger as we used to do. On the left you have the toolbox and you have the design surface where you drag and drop the components. Beside creating your own pipes, you can also use people’s pipes as well.
10 December, 2006, 05:31
My windows became unbootable, I was receiving and I logged to my linux partition. I was looking for the bootdisks for my flash drive because I don’t have an XP cd (Laptop gave only the ghost image of Windows CD), I needed to have chkdsk command at least, so I googled for “windows boot disk usb chkdsk” then clicked the 2nd result which is “Bootdisk.Com Top Ten TuneUp Tips” the link goes to http://www.google.co.uk/interstitial?url=http://www.bootdisk.com/topten.htm site and the Malware Warning page.
I wouldn’t know, It is nice to know that, although I am totaly in an another platform (I am in linux and can’t boot windows) it is nice to have that.
I found BartPE bootable cd for the solution of my problem. It is uses Windows XP files and can be used for the bootable cd or bootable flash disk.
Here are links that you can find more information :
6 October, 2006, 19:35
Google announced and released their code search engine in Google Code blog. It crawls and indexes for the program file types and also some compressed file types. Unlike the succesful results in the web query I just couldn’t find the things I want. So apparently their page rank algorithm won’t work there. Anyway it is just a start and it still in the labs..
21 September, 2006, 02:54
I am surprised when looking at the Google Desktop Search’s folder (mine -> C:\Program Files\Google\Google Desktop Search). The search company found an interesting way to make the users read. 12 files are used to describe the action that you shouldn’t be done on this folder. One more interesting thing is that this is readable in any sort order since the size and the date of the files are the same, explorer cares for the name of the file only.
Each files contains the same content and they are basically text file. The contents of those files are the same text you read.
Warning – Do not move or delete these files – your system may stop working. To uninstall use Add-Remove programs in the control panel or run GoogleDesktop.exe -uninstall
27 June, 2006, 03:55
I was surfing, and found that brilliant search engine. Hakia
According to its features It has a new algorithm for the searching called MAQ. The results looks relevant served with a simple user interface. It is worth a try. Below is the quotes..
MAQ versus Indexing
hakia’s designers broke from decades-old indexing method and built a much better system (called MAQ) to enable semantic analysis of Web pages, and “meaning-based” search. The information density in the MAQ system is significantly higher than that of a typical index table. The MAQ data resides on a distributed network of fast servers using a mosaic-like structure.
