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Google launches a new internet browser

Marvin Wagijo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:37:07 +0000

On googles official blog they announced a new browser “a fresh take on a browser”. But whats new and better in this browser?

Well they say it’s more stable and it will work better with google applications. That’s a good thing right? As u can read in their article that every tab got its own sandbox, so if a site crashes with the browser u don’t have to restart your whole browser. They also have a better javascript engine with “V8″ power.

Sundar Pichai wrote; Google is in great dept in a lot of opensource projects like Mozilla FireFox and Apple’s Webkit. So there code is also open source. Will this be the end of FireFox? I am a thankful FireFox fan but can it compete with googles new browser? I use Google apps and if the functions in the new Google Chrome browser is much better I will use it, and I think I am not the only one.

The question is, will it be as stable as they say? Think we have to find out and try.
Here is a comic of the new Chrome browser. Unfortunatly I couldnt find a link to download it yet.

Here is the link where u can download it!

Update:
The browser is very fast. This update is posted with Google Chrome ;-D. Looks simple and easy like allmost all things of Google. Will test some more and update later.

Mac Donald’s secret menu

Joeke van der Meer — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:01:54 +0000

I am a vegetarian and a huge MacDonalds fan. But being a vegetarian makes it hard to order from the regular menu, mostly I would and up with fries and a milkshake. But since a while I am trying different things of the secret menu, like the Sundae charamel.

It started by ordering the vegetarian burger, a limited edition burger, which was long gone from the menu. They have had it for about half a year, when the vegetarian wrap came instead. I forgot completely about it and ordered, at my surprise they made it for me without any problems. Since then I like to try different things. Like the MacBruschetta, a bun with toasted tomatoes and onions, together with a Charamel Sundae, ice cream with caramel and chocolate sauce, so delicious! My boyfriend always orders the BigmacChicken, a Bigmac Bun, with two chicken burgers. Sometimes he even asks for bacon aswell.

At Digg there is an article about these secret menu’s at fast food restaurants. Like the Napolitean milkshake, which means all flavours in one cup and an in-and-out burger, a burger wrapped in salad instead off the bun.

Cool Coffee Facts

Joeke van der Meer — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 09:34:56 +0000

In the whole world we drink 1.4 billion cups every day!
But what do we know about coffee?
If we look at the type of coffee’s existing, there are many types, like espresso, café au lait, café latte(similar as au lait, but made with espresso), cappuchino, frappe (espresso with sugar, water and ice), iced coffee(regular coffee with ice), americano (espresso with hot water), café breva, café macchiato, espresso con panna (espresso with whipped cream), instant coffee, rish coffee(with wiskey), coffee tubruk (Indonesian), lungo, melya(with cacao and honey), mocha and Greek coffee.

Probably the most extraordinary and for sure the most expensive coffee is
Kopi Luwak, coffee made of the digested beans of the palm civet, an Indonesian animal. This is not the only animal who has something to do with coffee, animals discovered coffee. A shepherd noticed his goats getting more active after eating these beans. And goats are not the only animals who like coffee, also monkeys eat these beans to stay more awake and focused.
But coffee is not really made of beans, actually it are the seeds of a cherry like fruit. The trees (Genus Coffea) grow best on vulcanic mountain sides and it takes five years for these seeds to be fully grown. To produce one pound of roasted coffee, you will need seven pounds of these cherrys. After oil coffee is the largerst export product and the part of the world they drink it the most is Scandinavia. In Brasil coffee is so popular, they even made a coffee scented stamp.
After reading this article you probably long for a great coffee and if there is no Starbucks around, here is a recipe for a home made Frappe.

You will need:
20 crushed ice cubes
7 oz of strong coffee
2 tb of sugar
2 tb of syrup in the flavor you like
To make your frappe even better, you can add a couple of spoons of caramel flavored ice cream. Enjoy!

Amazing Lyre bird can mimic sounds perfectly

Marvin Wagijo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:02:46 +0000

A couple of years ago I have seen a bird on telly and a couple of times I have searched for it but didn’t had any succes finding it. But now I found it yeey!
This bird is really amazing. Just watch this Youtube movie.

Buy massive website traffic?

Marvin Wagijo — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:41:02 +0000

Currently we need traffic for our website so we had the great idea to buy traffic. This for better search engine rankings.

What attract my attention was that almost all the websites with “buy traffic” services had a cheap(scammie) appirance.

We tried two different websites. trafficemporium.net and blazingtraffic.com

Trafficemporium.net was farely simple we paid with paypal and we didn’t hear a thing from them so this is probably scam.

From Blazingtraffic.com we had retrieved login information… yeeeey. However the counter is currently showing 3000 visitors server. And statcounter is showing that only one visitor has visit 490 times or so.
On the website they promise unique visitors. There time isn’t done yet so I will do an update when we have some more information. If anyone had some kind of experience with buy traffic services let us know what your experience was.

Malware removers, Smitrem, Smitfraudfix and Trojan remover

Marvin Wagijo — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:31:36 +0000

As I talked earlier about Vista and told u how solid it was against malware. A lot of Windows XP systems that I repair got alot of spyware, virusses, etc.

I often have a tough job removing some malwares. A common one is XP antivirus or Antivirus 2008. When this is installed u know for sure your system is infected with more. There are some tools who are very handy. One of them is Smitrem. Smitrem is a great free tool that deletes malware that virusscanners can’t remove. Smitfraudfix does the same as Smitrem but is a little bit different. So sometimes one is better then the other, in any way it is better to run them both ;-).

Trojan remover is a paid tool. This one removes the XP antivirus and antivirus 2008. You can use this tool 30 days for free (trail). So its very handy if you have malware like this. When u have spyware like this make sure u run these three tools!

Rats

Joeke van der Meer — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:29:13 +0000

Rats are really nice pets to have, the are social, curious and smart animals. You can teach them all kind of tricks, like sitting on your shoulder and get them potty trained. If you are considering having rats, you’ld best buy two or more, because they are social animals and like to live together. Many people think this will make them less attached to humans, but this isn’t true. If they are happy in their environment, they will even be more affectioned and they might even compete for your attention. Best is to have rats of the same gender, that is, if you don’t want to have a bunch of baby rats. Female rats can already get pregnant at the age of 4-5 weeks! Then also you have to decide if you would like to have males or females. The females are more active and the males become more calm after they get passed puberty. Both of the genders will urinate a little, but with males this is more common, it has to do with marking their territory. This habit is not likely to learn off, but their urine does not really smell, at least not to humans. If you decide to buy female rats you really should look out if their not pregnant. Best is to buy any rat at a passionate breeder and not in a pet shop, the pictures below will show you why …

Also a plus is that breeders pay real attention to their animals, which is necessary to make them affectioned. A rat should at least get one hour attention a day. So also if you’re planning to have rats, make sure that you are able to spent enough time with them. Also cleaning their cage, can take a lot of time, since it has to be done every week. If you are looking for a nice cage, bird’s aviaries and ferret or chinchilla’s cages are often really good. (Pay attention that the distance between bars should not be bigger then 2 cm.) Also you have to look out for gaps, especially with aviaries, every hole their head fits is big enough to escape. A rat cage needs to be quite big and high, because rats love to climb and clamber. Tereziani cages, especially “Moore” and Ferplast cages, like the “Ferret tower”. Instead of saw-dust, you can use for other rodents, it is not at all suitable for rats, they will get air way problems. Also the cage must not stand in a draft and most likely in a place around people. Hopefully this article can help you in your decision of purchasing rats

Search engine that pays for searching.

Subrat Sarkar — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:14:15 +0000

Recently I came across a fairly new search engine which pays you for searching, putting comments and voting on the search result.

I really think that it is a pretty good idea as it searches across google, yahoo and MSN at the same time and you can sort them according to the ranking of these engines. So basically its the same as using google or yahoo or MSN and you are getting the results from all these three and the best part is it pays you also for doing that. Isn’t that amazing. So what are you waiting for, create an account and start searching the usual way you search but this time with 3 times the efficiency as you will be searching on all the three major engines at the same time and getting $$ too.

Why so many people hate Microsoft Vista?

Marvin Wagijo — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:15:17 +0000

I read a lot about IT news. And I think I have seen more then hundred posts that Vista sucks etc. But why?
In my opinion Vista is better then XP but this is exactly an example of not explaining why its good or bad. I will explain myself. For the past 4 years I am working part time in a computer company (technical services). For a while now we are selling Vista PCs and laptops. The thing that strikes me most is that Vista stays so clean. No virus or spyware problems now I don’t say it isn’t possible. But I haven’t seen a PC or laptop with Vista with dangerous spyware. So in my opinion is Safer then XP.

Why is it that people hate it then? Almost all complains I have heard is about its so much slower than xp and driver problems. OK u shouldn’t install Vista on a PC older than 1 year. It will be slow, u also need more ram but all of that is logical. How can u improve something when u still have the same old system specifications? Look at games there getting better and more advanced every day. And people upgrade there system without a doubt. Also the driver problem isn’t so much of a problem as they say it is. Well maybe when u got a old printer or scanner but I cant imagine that people never upgrade. I also think people like to say what there neighbor say and what Billy Bob say. Alot of people don’t have there own opinion and heard Vista sucked so they say and think it sucks. Everyone that says Vista sucks ask why it sucks.

Google adsense

Subrat Sarkar — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:37:13 +0000

When selecting the size of your Google Adsense code the 300×250 is by far the best performer. This square box works best when placed in the middle of the content towards the top. I commonly place the 300×250 ad block under my title and on top of my first paragraph. Sometimes I put the 300×250 ad block under the first paragraph if it is short but never below the second paragraph. Banners and skyscrapers may look better on your page but will perform much worse than the 300×250. Remember why you’re publishing your content; you want to make money not look pretty.

When selecting colors for your Google Adsense ad block you want to blend the ad into your page. The best practice is to make the ads look like content so users will be interested in clicking the ad. I’ve had great success using a basic white background and black color text on my pages. I then use the default blue for my Adsense text and use “White” for the border of the ad block. This causes your square to look like it has no border thus blending it into your content. If done right your Google Adsense block should look like you put links on your page your visitors might be interested in.

Google allows you to assign a “Channel” to your ad block so you can track the success. Be sure to assign each new site or subject a unique channel so you can tell what subjects are popular and pay well. Using channels is also a good way to test various ad colors and sizes but if you use the 300×250 you can generally be assured that you’re using the most successful size.

When starting out with Google Adsense it will be very tempting to click your own ads, some do this because they are interested in the ad but some are cheating. In both cases you will likely get kicked out of the Google Adsense program if you click your own ads.