Decided to try Firefox 3.5 Beta
Posted by: Marat on: June 11, 2009
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So today I decided to install the new Beta of Firefox 3.5, Beta 99.
The new Firefox 3.5 Beta 99 has dramatic speed improvements of around 250% according to Betanews. For me in the first couple of minutes I noticed the speed increase in loading Facebook. Facebook is a very JavaScript intensive website and with the new Firefox 3.5, Mozilla has upgraded Firefox’s TraceMonkey engine which is Firefox’s JavaScript engine.
More and more websites are utilising JavaScript to create a better user experience especially Web 2.0 websites like Facebook, MySpace and pretty much all Google products 
This is why it has become critically important for browsers to create/tweak their JavaScript rendering engines to load these scripts as fast as possible.
In the current browser war, Google Chrome 3.* and Safari 4 are the leaders of speed as can be seen in the diagram below.
Courtesy Betanews.com
For me personally there’s no going past Firefox. There’s just no competition. Yes it’s a bit slower than Chrome and Safari but the add-ons that Firefox provides makes life that much easier. I mean really any feature you can find on any browser will be made into an add-on for Firefox in a couple of days to a week max. You just can’t beat that.
The add-ons help make everyday tasks that much easier to manager and make Firefox that much better.
I’ll be running the new Beta at work to see how the new Firefox is coming along. If you’re a fan of Firefox and don’t mind running a Beta I suggest you try out the new Beta here.
Thanks,
Marat
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The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
Posted by: Marat on: April 1, 2009
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For those of you who don’t know or have never heard of The Onion News you should quickly head to their website and check them out.
The Onion is an American “fake news” organization. It features satirical articles reporting on international, national, and local news as well as an entertainment newspaper and website known as The A.V. Club. It claims a national print circulation of 690,000[2] and says 61 percent of its web site readers are between 18 and 44 years old.[2]
The Onion’s articles comment on current events, both real and imagined. It parodies traditional newspaper features, such as editorials, man-on-the-street interviews, and stock quotes, as well as traditional newspaper layout and AP-style editorial voice. Much of its humor depends on presenting everyday events as newsworthy items, and by playing on commonly used phrases, as in the headline “Drugs Win Drug War.” ~ The Onion Wikipedia
I personally don’t read many of their news articles but absolutely adore their videos. Their production quality is outstanding making them look sometimes even better than real news networks.
The stories they come up with and report on are as original as you can get. Below I’ve included some videos from their YouTube Channel that had me in tears. Read the rest of this entry »
Family Guy – Have they lost their touch?
Posted by: Marat on: March 31, 2009
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After watching yesterdays episode (Season 7, episode 11 – Not All Dogs Go to Heaven) I was again for the third week running incredibly disappointed by the quality of the episode the makers of Family Guy are churning out.
Family Guy, a cartoon that for so many years was one of the funniest, most random and most enjoyable to watch looks like it has run out of ideas. The characters don’t seem like themselves anymore. In the latest episode Peter tells the audience something along the lines of “this is going to be a Meg episode, here’s the clicker, no one will blame you”. I mean seriously? A colleague told me something last week that I believe is 100% true, Family Guy these past couple of episodes seems to be written by someone who is bagging Family Guy.
Even reading the posts TV.com’s Family Guy forum you can see that Family Guy isn’t what it use to be.
- episode sucks so far
- So far it’s not going too well. only laughed at doggy Brian. Let’s wait and see if something exciting happens
- yes it was pretty good but really, they gotta get rid of that “Cool Hwip” joke, they’ve recycled it like 5 times and it wasn’t even a great joke to begin with.
- I thought this episode was great. It was the first episode in a long time that i actually laughed at for an elongated period of time.
Even though the episode was pretty bad, people still thought it was the best this season. How bad do the other episodes have to be for this to be the best of the season?
As mentioned above, Family Guy is reusing old jokes, but over using them and ruining their original charm.
I don’t totally agree with most of the people, I think some of the first episodes this season were pretty good, but the last three (The Juice Is Loose, FOX-y Lady & Not All Dogs Go to Heaven) are just not up to par with their older episodes.
For Family Guy’s sake, I hope their pick up their game or I suspect they are going to lose a lot of dedicated fans, myself included.
Thanks,
Marat
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Packing day
Posted by: Marat on: January 10, 2009
Today is the day I start packing for my month of training up in Sydney. I know there are still three days left and all but since I’m going to be living there for a whole month I need to make sure I pack everything I would ever need… I guess.
Packing is never an easy job, you have to think about every situation you may be in. Since this isn’t a holiday and I’m going to be living there I can’t just wear the same t-shirt and shorts for 3 days at a time like you would on a holiday.
The business clothing is easy to pack. Three pairs of business pants, one jacket, seven shirts and some cuff links, two or three pairs of shoes and we’re done. The casual clothing gets a bit harder. I need casual bumming around clothing for the hotel, smart casual for the weekends, clubbing and nice dinner clothing for the nights and then there’s gym clothing which is basically a bonds t-shirt, a pair of shorts and some Asics cross-trainers
Then I think there is the matter of how much to pack. How man t-shirts, shorts, pants, shoes. And lets not forget the toiletries. Aww man I’m going to have a pain in the ass time getting ready for this trip.
Thanks,
Marat
Work in just four days
Posted by: Marat on: January 9, 2009
Well it’s nearly here. Four more days and I start work at IBM.
I received the job in May 2008 and have been waiting for this the whole year. On Tuesday 13th January I will be leaving Melbourne for Sydney. IBM is sending me to Sydney for four weeks of training after which I will be placed into one of three sections (Web Portals, Enterprise Integration, Enterprise Application Development).
I’m excited to be starting work at IBM, but I must admit I’m very excited about traveling to Sydney and living there by myself for the next four weeks. It should be a great experience and one that I will remember for the rest of my life.
I’ll try to update my blog while I’m up there to share my thoughts and daily activities.
Wish me luck.
Thanks,
Marat
Two new small changes to the new Facebook
Posted by: Marat on: July 26, 2008
Image via WikipediaAs the new Facebook has been launched (not pushed out to everyone yet) only a couple of weeks ago, many suggestions are hitting Facebook and many things are getting added and updated daily.
Today I have found two new features that have been implented. The first is the addition of the Current City information for your profile. Facebook has always had Hometown, which I think confused people because people didn’t know if that was where you were born or where you live now. So now we have Current City and Hometown as can be seen in the screenshot below.
New addition, Current City
The second addition to the Facebook’s profile page has been the Settings link which now sits beside the All Posts, Posts by <your name> and Posts by Others links. This new Settings link has the same features as the old Import link (which allows you to import things like your shared Google Reader posts, YouTube videos and Flickr photos) which use be on the old Facebook but now has some extra added features like allowing you to chose whether you want friends to comment on your stories and friends to post on your wall.
New settings link
Check out the new Facebook if you haven’t already and keep an eye out for the new features being added daily.
Thanks,
Marat
Something Good – Utah Saints
Posted by: Marat on: July 4, 2008
A great song and a fantastic music video. Enjoy
Thanks,
Marat
Facebook’s small Mini-Feed feature
Posted by: Marat on: July 3, 2008
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On Facebook each profile has a Mini-Feed which displays usefull information about that particular person, including their latests wall posts, added applications, shared blog posts from Google Reader and favourite YouTube videos.
You can view the entire Mini-Feed by clicking the See All link in the top right hand corner of the Mini-Feed, but from there you cannot filter the Mini-Feed by Google Reader, YouTube or WordPress from the right hand View menu.
However a simple way to do this is to click the the icons for each Mini-Feed post (the highlighted icons in the picture on the right). Clicking these icons will take you to the same page as clicking the See All link but this time will filter the Mini-Feed posts by that particular post category, whether that may be WordPress blogs, Google Reader’s shared blog posts or even favourite YouTube videos.
This allows anyone visiting your Facebook profile page to view all Mini-Feed posts related to that category.
Thanks,
Marat
Weave by Mozilla Labs: Synchronise Firefox on multiple computers
Posted by: Marat on: July 3, 2008
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Recently Mozilla the makers of Firefox have released a new add-on which allows you to synchronise Firefox on multiple computers.
Weave as it’s called runs in the background of Firefox and will upload your data (encrypted) to Mozilla’s secure servers where it can be accessed, retrieved and synchronised again with your other computers. So far Weave is capable of synchronising Bookmarks, Browsing History, Cookies, Saved Passwords, Tabs and Saved Form Data. In future releases you’ll be able to synchronise Extensions, Themes, Search Plugins and Microformats too.
Currently there is a fantastic extension which I use called Foxmarks Bookmarks Synchronizer which will upload your bookmarks to their server for synchronisation with your multiple computers, but that’s about as far as it goes.
Weave is currently in beta testing so don’t expect a problem free service. Personally I’ve been waiting for an extension like this for years and Mozilla has finally delivered one. If you’ve ever wanted to synchronise multiple computers running Firefox then look no further than Weave.
Thanks,
Marat
Captains of Crush No. 2: Closed
Posted by: Marat on: June 30, 2008
The day had finally arrived. On Saturday the 28th of June 2008 I had closed Captains of Crush (COC) No2 hand gripper. I had been training with No. 1 & 2 for over a month now and have finally managed to close it.
COC hand grippers are world renowned for being the best and hardest hand grippers. The table below lists all the COC hand grippers with the strengths needed to close them.
I had started my COC journey with the Trainer and the No. 1 hand gripper. It had taken me some time to close No. 1 and then after being able to close No. 1 around 3 – 5 times in a row I had purchased No. 2.
IronMind actually offers 5 levels of grippers – the Trainer, the #1, #2, #3, and #4. It’s also not a given that “just any strong guy” can close a #3 gripper as evidenced a couple years ago when a gripster decided to test some well known bodybuilders and powerlifters at the Arnold Classic. Everyone who tried the #2 failed, with the exception of Manfred Hoeberl (who is a COC), failed to close a #2. ~ Cyberpump
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