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Adobe Fairy Tale
Once upon a time there was a lovely PDF reader called Adobe. It was used every where to read PDF documents. It loaded fast, and was wonderfully doing everything it was supposed to do for years. But then the reader felt there is more he can do to this world than just open,read, and close. [...]
Yahoo Mail now Talks to Live Users
Even though I mostly use Gmail embedded Google Talk most often as it’s faster, more transient, and I have more friends on Gmail, Yahoo embedded mail chat is also cool if you are into serious chat and want some friendly interface. Today logging into my Yahoo Mail account I could see several changes coming: Yahoo [...]
The NoFollow Effect
“nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index” (Wikipedia) So much explains it self. The attribute is part of Google’s efforts to fight blog comment spam which was implemented back in 2005. Ever since then many blog [...]
Google Suggest Still in Labs…
I first saw Google Suggest no later than 2005 I’m sure. I was stunned just couldn’t believe my eyes. Google is able to auto-complete my query suggesting from the top results, and that was all happening on the fly. No other search engine could do it at that time. At least not to my knowledge. [...]
My Yahoo Size Goes To ∞
I was hoping to see such a thing from Gmail as they promised I never have to delete an email again. Either that or I will be sending all emails from Gmail to here. Yahoo Mail Beta is really nice I like it, and their web chat is (let’s be honest) way more advanced than [...]
Yahoo Photo Off, Tough But Wise Decision
This is the kind of tough decisions you have to make when you acquire a technology that conflicts not complements your own. After acquiring Flickr, Yahoo photos can only stand less of a chance, and it makes no sense to push for two different competing channels. Despite the co-founder of Flickr statement that Yahoo photo [...]
Einstein Theory Holds No More!
“Only two things are infinite, Einstein said, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” Now, the theory is no longer correct for sure. Yahoo Mail is giving their users infinite storage space. Well, that’s what they are promising at least. But could someone really commit to that amount of storage? [...]