Monthly Archives: August 2009

Coincidence
I start learning Perl and Randal Schwartz comments on my blog

As I was starting to read this online book about Perl (seriously, don’t know what got into me), Media Temple posted a link to an SEO article on ThemeForest.net that struck me as idiot, so I thought I’d write about … Continue reading

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Google Caffeine is Amazing

If you thought Google was fast, think again, they just made themselves twice faster (what I get from the results). What’s more, their indexing is better and providers more detailed and up to date results. But it’s not public yet, … Continue reading

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QuickTime vs MPlayer OS X Extended vs VLC

Today I stumbled upon something quite surprising to me. That’s in relation to video playing on the Mac, more specifically, Anime fan-subs in MKV. Let’s observe the statistics. Sub Support All three players, with the Perian plugin for QuickTime, support … Continue reading

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Forum Performance Evaluation – phpBB vs PunBB vs Vanilla vs bbPress

As we are going through setting up community software for OSTARC, one of the biggest effort is re-evaluating our software. While we saw success with phpBB and believe it’s the easiest and most complete forum application, phpBB is one hell … Continue reading

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How to Bookmark the Right Bing

This is an in depth look at how Google and Bing recognize your country and language, and how to set it up in your bookmarks. Google’s Old Behavior * * This is just for historical reason. Google no longer redirects … Continue reading

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It’s a sad day for the Internet… IE 6 is more used than IE 7

Flip over to http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/04/report-firefox-35-jumps-to-45-market-share-in-a-month-ie-hemorrhaging-slows/ While older versions of IE are thankfully dying, IE 7 is dying faster than IE 6. In fact, since June 2009, there’s more IE 6 users than IE 7 users. Man, what a bummer. It makes … Continue reading

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