Google Chrome

Google Chrome was released this week. Another browser in the fray, just when I needed one. Firefox (yes, 3.0) was acting up lately and since I use it everywhere I needed a good solution to my bookmarks (Del.icio.us is neat, I use it a ) , extensions and other functionality and something that didn’t [...]

“Press This Bookmarklet”

Press This Bookmarklet « WordPress.com
This is a pretty neat feature in WordPress.com that got released recently. Here’s a convenient way to hit a button on the toolbar and put up a post quickly. Check out the link above.

Google, Microsoft, Small World Networks and Futurology

Microsoft and Google’s business methods seem to use pioneering methods, or at least, best practices whose inner workings have been revealed by new found knowledge in the realm of small world networks, and network science. Network science is one of the hottest growing areas on the planet. It is the science of all the connections between various people, phenomena, processes, structures and pretty much any phenomenon whose states are determined by the interaction of multiple phenomena or influences.

“The Great Ubuntu Girlfriend Experiment”

http://contentconsumer.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/is-ubuntu-useable-enough-for-my-girlfriend/
A pretty interesting post about what makes Ubuntu’s latest avatar (Hardy Heron) usable (or unusable) for people with average computer skills. It hit me that whatever we geeks assume as being self-evident is in reality quite disconnected with what is presented to us in the system. This post, to me, was more illustrative of how [...]

Everyone Installs Ubuntu!

I read a post on The Reg yesterday called “The missing five minute linux manual for morons” and was struck by one observation on it, which I found to be quite true of Open source converts.
The conscientious would-be Linux user should take time to mull over the pros and cons of the Red Hat versus [...]