Thursday, June 17, 2010
Chart Compares iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4
This handy chart compares the main features of iPhone 3GS with iPhone 4 that goes on sale later this month.
The only thing they miss out is colors – iPhone 3GS was only available in black while iPhone 4 comes in the both black and white colors.
The chart is from Mahalo but you can also read the official comparison between iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS on apple.com.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Completely Clear the Web History of IE
The more recent versions of Internet Explorer (IE7 and IE8) feature a pretty “smart” address bar. You type some word in the address bar and it will immediately show a list of matching web addresses that are in your browser’s history cache.
The auto-suggest feature in the address bar is a huge time-saver but a a privacy risk as well especially when you share the same computer with other family members.
Since you don’t want mom to know what searches you are performing on Google or what websites you are visiting, Microsoft added a handy “Delete Browsing History” option in Internet Explorer that will completely erase all your tracks with a click.
Why IE won’t delete my browser history
The only problem (see video) is that even if you clear the IE history and your Temporary Internet files folder, some of the previously visited website URLs may still show up in the address bar drop-down.
The address bar in Internet Explorer is integrated with Windows Desktop search by default so even if you clear the IE history, the web entries that are stored in Windows search index will still show-up in the address bar. These entries appear in the same “History” group and hence users (myself included) confuse it with IE’s history.
To prevent web history items Windows Search from completely showing up in the IE address bar, go to Tools –> Internet Options –> Content –> AutoComplete and delete the option that says “Use Windows Search for better results.”
The auto-suggest feature in the address bar is a huge time-saver but a a privacy risk as well especially when you share the same computer with other family members.
Since you don’t want mom to know what searches you are performing on Google or what websites you are visiting, Microsoft added a handy “Delete Browsing History” option in Internet Explorer that will completely erase all your tracks with a click.
Why IE won’t delete my browser history
The only problem (see video) is that even if you clear the IE history and your Temporary Internet files folder, some of the previously visited website URLs may still show up in the address bar drop-down.
The address bar in Internet Explorer is integrated with Windows Desktop search by default so even if you clear the IE history, the web entries that are stored in Windows search index will still show-up in the address bar. These entries appear in the same “History” group and hence users (myself included) confuse it with IE’s history.
To prevent web history items Windows Search from completely showing up in the IE address bar, go to Tools –> Internet Options –> Content –> AutoComplete and delete the option that says “Use Windows Search for better results.”
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Whats in store for the next Windows?
This is Google's cache of http://blogs.msdn.com/sharad/archive/2010/01/31/whats-in-store-for-the-next-windows.aspx. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 31 Jan 2010 15:14:50 GMT. The current page could have changed in the meantime.
One of the great (or maybe not so great) things of being at Microsoft is that every other person wants to ask you why Windows works the way it does. Since I'm part of the Windows update team I get asked even more why does my machnie reboot everytime there is an update and why are there so many updates. So naturally once Windows 7 shipped, my friends, neighbours, relatives, and whoever else you can imagine started asking me So whats next?
Folks started asking me whats in Windows 8 - and the first thing I have to say is that I resonate Steven Sinofsky's interview on who said we're calling it Windows 8? I agree with Steven that till things are baked there is no point floating ideas since it leaves people frustrated when things don't turn out the way they expected. The Windows team promised to deliver a smarter, faster and more user friendly OS with Windows 7 and they delivered just that - the latest quaterly results of Microsoft are a clear indication that Windows 7 has been a success and customers got what Microsoft had promised them! The plan is to use a similar approach for the next version of Windows and till things are finalized you're not going to get a "marketing" name from us:)
So how am I referring to the next version of Windows without saying that many words - well simple - Windows.next:) This is definitely not the official version but a version that is becoming common along my circle. So what are our plans for this next version...
The minimum that folks can take for granted is that the next version will be something completly different from what folks usually expect of Windows - I am simply impressed with the process that Steven has setup to listen to our customers needs and wants and get a team together than can make it happen. To actually bring together dozens and dozens of teams across Microsoft to come up with a vision for Windows.next is a process that is surreal! The themes that have been floated truly reflect what people have been looking for years and it will change the way people think about PCs and the way they use them. It is the future of PCs...
Thats about it for this post for the time being - I know I'm not sharing much at this point but right now I can't as we work towards finalizing that vision. Feel free to post your comments on what you think Windows.net should be like!
One of the great (or maybe not so great) things of being at Microsoft is that every other person wants to ask you why Windows works the way it does. Since I'm part of the Windows update team I get asked even more why does my machnie reboot everytime there is an update and why are there so many updates. So naturally once Windows 7 shipped, my friends, neighbours, relatives, and whoever else you can imagine started asking me So whats next?
Folks started asking me whats in Windows 8 - and the first thing I have to say is that I resonate Steven Sinofsky's interview on who said we're calling it Windows 8? I agree with Steven that till things are baked there is no point floating ideas since it leaves people frustrated when things don't turn out the way they expected. The Windows team promised to deliver a smarter, faster and more user friendly OS with Windows 7 and they delivered just that - the latest quaterly results of Microsoft are a clear indication that Windows 7 has been a success and customers got what Microsoft had promised them! The plan is to use a similar approach for the next version of Windows and till things are finalized you're not going to get a "marketing" name from us:)
So how am I referring to the next version of Windows without saying that many words - well simple - Windows.next:) This is definitely not the official version but a version that is becoming common along my circle. So what are our plans for this next version...
The minimum that folks can take for granted is that the next version will be something completly different from what folks usually expect of Windows - I am simply impressed with the process that Steven has setup to listen to our customers needs and wants and get a team together than can make it happen. To actually bring together dozens and dozens of teams across Microsoft to come up with a vision for Windows.next is a process that is surreal! The themes that have been floated truly reflect what people have been looking for years and it will change the way people think about PCs and the way they use them. It is the future of PCs...
Thats about it for this post for the time being - I know I'm not sharing much at this point but right now I can't as we work towards finalizing that vision. Feel free to post your comments on what you think Windows.net should be like!
Is Google moving too far (from search) too fast?
Between the Chrome OS, Wave development tool, Nexus One mobile phone, and Buzz social networking tool, the company risks losing its focus.
Google is stuck between something of a rock and a hard place.
The company, which rose to prominence and fortune on the basis of its highly popular search service, has been expanding out from its core business at an increasingly swift rate -- and in a growing number of directions.
[ Take a look at the 10 coolest experiments from Google Lab. | Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: First Look newsletter. ]
That expansion has some analysts wondering whether Google is in danger of losing focus on what made it such a profitable company, even as those same analysts say it can't rely on search as its only avenue for making money. Right now, Google relies on search for 95 percent of its revenue, according to Karsten Weide, an analyst with IDC.
"Google has the problem of too much money and not enough control over what to do with it," said Rob Enderle, an analyst with the Enderle Group. "As a result, they are building complexity at an alarming rate and that complexity should eventually choke them, much as it did Microsoft .... It isn't that each project isn't important. It's that they often don't dovetail well and should eventually result in a company that is unmanageable."
"I think they are a little scattered," said Weide. "They are doing a whole lot of things and I think a little more focus could not hurt.... But this is a market where you can't afford to sit on your hands. You have to look at what's going on and what is new and what is coming up. Basically, you're betting money."
Last summer, Google announced that it is developing the Chrome OS . Then in September, it released its Google Wave collaboration tool , pushing the company away from its phenomenally successful search roots.
Earlier this year, it unveiled the Google-branded and designed Nexus One mobile phone .
And this week, Google picked up the expansion pace quite a bit. On Tuesday, it took a major swing at such social networking sites as Twitter and Facebook by unveiling upgrades to Gmail that make it more of a social networking hub than just an e-mail service. Google Buzz is aimed at helping users better find the most important information contained in their flood of social posts, pictures and video.
The company followed that with announced plans to build what it calls "ultra high-speed" broadband networks in some parts of the U.S. Finally, yesterday, Google announced it is buying Aardvark, a social search company.
Weide agreed with Enderle that Google has so much money in its coffers that it can try new projects and reach out into new areas.
Google is stuck between something of a rock and a hard place.
The company, which rose to prominence and fortune on the basis of its highly popular search service, has been expanding out from its core business at an increasingly swift rate -- and in a growing number of directions.
[ Take a look at the 10 coolest experiments from Google Lab. | Keep up on the day's tech news headlines with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: First Look newsletter. ]
That expansion has some analysts wondering whether Google is in danger of losing focus on what made it such a profitable company, even as those same analysts say it can't rely on search as its only avenue for making money. Right now, Google relies on search for 95 percent of its revenue, according to Karsten Weide, an analyst with IDC.
"Google has the problem of too much money and not enough control over what to do with it," said Rob Enderle, an analyst with the Enderle Group. "As a result, they are building complexity at an alarming rate and that complexity should eventually choke them, much as it did Microsoft .... It isn't that each project isn't important. It's that they often don't dovetail well and should eventually result in a company that is unmanageable."
"I think they are a little scattered," said Weide. "They are doing a whole lot of things and I think a little more focus could not hurt.... But this is a market where you can't afford to sit on your hands. You have to look at what's going on and what is new and what is coming up. Basically, you're betting money."
Last summer, Google announced that it is developing the Chrome OS . Then in September, it released its Google Wave collaboration tool , pushing the company away from its phenomenally successful search roots.
Earlier this year, it unveiled the Google-branded and designed Nexus One mobile phone .
And this week, Google picked up the expansion pace quite a bit. On Tuesday, it took a major swing at such social networking sites as Twitter and Facebook by unveiling upgrades to Gmail that make it more of a social networking hub than just an e-mail service. Google Buzz is aimed at helping users better find the most important information contained in their flood of social posts, pictures and video.
The company followed that with announced plans to build what it calls "ultra high-speed" broadband networks in some parts of the U.S. Finally, yesterday, Google announced it is buying Aardvark, a social search company.
Weide agreed with Enderle that Google has so much money in its coffers that it can try new projects and reach out into new areas.
Google Buzz Spoof
I don’t know what it is with Google products, but as soon as the company releases something new, it always takes less than 24 hours before people start releasing spoofs about said products on the web. The following one makes fun of Google Buzz, which we quite like by the way!
Google Buzz Spoof
I don’t know what it is with Google products, but as soon as the company releases something new, it always takes less than 24 hours before people start releasing spoofs about said products on the web. The following one makes fun of Google Buzz, which we quite like by the way!
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