Tech Update

I restarted using Delicious (Delicious/mgthantzin) again as it looks/works much better. Still, I see ‘You’ve been blocked…‘ message now and then. (Reload just works most of the time.) Launchy 2.1.1 seems more responsive in Vista then previous versions. I’m reusing that also. I uninstalled 7-Zip and replaced it with jZip Only one reason: I can ‘Extract to <foldername>…’ right from context-menu.

TeraCopy was installed a few weeks back just to move some *big* files. It works. I’ve also installed Vista SP1 after I installed TeraCopy. So, I don’t know whether native move/copy function is really enough or TeraCopy is a better alternative? I haven’t tried.

I received DropBox invite a month+ ago (finally!). It works like a charm. You may wanna check out Syncplicity as well. In XP, PowerToy Image Resizer does its work from context-menu. In Vista, my choice is VSO Image Resizer. They said faster Engine Version 2 was used in this release. But, the interface is kinda more complex than previous versions. I suggest they should keep it simple. All we need is to resize an image/images.

2 Adobe AIR applications I find quite useful are twhirl and Doomi.

Browsers

IE7 is pre-installed with my Vista. But, I never used it and I won’t. (I would agree that it is quite light on resource). If I am forced to use IE (let say, for web development), I will use Maxthon (previously, myIE2). I would like you to give it a try.

Firefox 3 is much better than its previous version 2. It does perform better. People love Firefox primarily due to its add-ons. my guess. (Some of my favourite add-ons: ImageZoom, FireBug, DownThemAll, and FastDial).

But, hmm, Opera 7.5 began to support Burmese unicode font. Lack of that support was the only reason I did not use Opera before. More, I feel that Opera font rendering seems nicer than Firefox’s. I like Opera’s SpeedDial but Firefox’s FastDial works similar way, too.

I use Safari just to access my Google Reader. Google Reader looks so good in Safari. But, Safari Still crashes now and then. But, web page rendering speed is really satisfactory. But, Firefox 3 and Opera 7.5 still can compete with Safari 3 for page rendering. They all are generally getting better.

I don’t use Flock.

10 Essential Sites by TIME magazine

1. Wikipedia.org
2. Yahoo! Finance
3. Craigslist
4. ESPN
5. Yelp
6. Facebook
7. Digg
8. Google
9. TMZ
10. Flickr

I use Wikipedia, Facebook, Google and Flickr. I don’t even use Digg much. =]

Source: TIME Magazine

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- Yahoo! 60 minutes