To a man who is averse to cold as much as I am, passing of summer and the start of autumn is not something to look forward to. But one thing I defenitely look forward to this autumn is the colours it will bring. I hope the predictions that a hot (??) summer would eventually lead to better autumn colours are true.
After a wonderful trip to Box hill & Richmond park with Murali & Family, I was googling to find a good place to visit for the autumn foliage.Sometimes, you have the luck to find the exact thing you are looking for, and that's how I felt when I found the Forestry Commisions Autumn Tracker.
With places to visit in autumn marked on the UK map and tracking the colour change in each place through a legend of 5 colours, this looks like the comprehensive guide to autumn colours in UK. They also have the top 10 places to visit and promises to change it as the autumn progresses and colours unleash.
They say satisfaction is a hard thing to achieve and it really is. After 15 minutes with the site, I wish I had a post code search which shows us our nearest autumn spots.
anyway, a nice site if you are planning for an autumn colours trip in UK.
Thursday 18 September 2008
Tuesday 16 September 2008
Ad Block Plus.
This post is with the assumption that you are using Mozilla's Firefox browser. If not, probably, it's already time to change over.
This short post is to let you know the most useful add-on I have come across in Firefox. The Ad Block Plus Saves us a lot of time and unease by blocking out the banner ads & the sounds announcing that you have won an Ipod for free. Try it out.
Ad Block Plus
Once you select the filter from your region, it will block out most of the banner ads. You can also add the remaining banner ads by right clicking on it and selecting Adblock.
Obviously, there are 1000's of add on's and you'll find quite a few to your taste and choce, but this one had an immediate impact on our browsing experience. specially on sites like Rediff.com
While a lot of us are happy to have a better browsing experience, theere are worrying sounds from the industry that If it becomes a standard browser feature, (which a lot of add ons do in later releases) it has the capability of kinlling the internet revenue of sites and in turn make internet less profitable. articles like below, highlights the same. And who is at the wrong end of innovation this time, Google !
Ad Block Plus Threat
The microsoft reaction looks interesting. We will have to wait and see how the game develops.
This short post is to let you know the most useful add-on I have come across in Firefox. The Ad Block Plus Saves us a lot of time and unease by blocking out the banner ads & the sounds announcing that you have won an Ipod for free. Try it out.
Ad Block Plus
Once you select the filter from your region, it will block out most of the banner ads. You can also add the remaining banner ads by right clicking on it and selecting Adblock.
Obviously, there are 1000's of add on's and you'll find quite a few to your taste and choce, but this one had an immediate impact on our browsing experience. specially on sites like Rediff.com
While a lot of us are happy to have a better browsing experience, theere are worrying sounds from the industry that If it becomes a standard browser feature, (which a lot of add ons do in later releases) it has the capability of kinlling the internet revenue of sites and in turn make internet less profitable. articles like below, highlights the same. And who is at the wrong end of innovation this time, Google !
Ad Block Plus Threat
The microsoft reaction looks interesting. We will have to wait and see how the game develops.
Wednesday 3 September 2008
My experiment with counters
There is no higher pleasure, for me, as a blogger to know that my blog is being visited by people known and unknown. As much as I enjoy writing these entries, it's always nice to know that people read them.
So,curiosity got the better of me on last weekend and i knew it was time for a hit counter on my blog. So I Search on Google. As it so often does, Google comes up with links full of information. In short, this is what I understood.
1. The good news first. Hey, getting a counter on your site is easy !
2. In the old version of blogspot, you had to go to one the "counter" sites, create a login id, chose a counter and then point it to your Blog address. What's more, the site will give you a piece of HTML code and you need to paste it in the HTML source of your blog.
3. You an in for an easy ride if you are writing blogs now. All you need to do is to sign in to blogger, go to the layout section, click on "Add New Gadget", select a hit counter and Bingo!, you have a counter on your site.
Easy for the new age Blogger, right?. oh, How I wish all these fancy stories they tell us were true. Sadly, they are not. Blogger has some gadgets which appear to be counters, but on adding them either I get an empty white box or a box with a random number. The gadget section is filled with count of people in Malaysia to global counters to count down to Doom's day but not a single decent hit counter.
Okay, So much for the great gadgets, it's back to basics. So, I went to Netbb.com a website which has a clean interface and offers a good counter as well. 10 minutes and one HTML copying-and-pasting later, I have a counter at the bottom of the site. Job done !. It may not the best solution. Sites like Google Analytics offer lot more, but all I want is a counter, so it's just fine.
This short experiment took place on last Saturday. Looking at the counter today makes me a happy man. 82 Hits in 7 days. Even if I assume that I visit my site 4 times a day on an average, that leaves nearly 50 hits on my site in 7 days. So, If you are planning to have a blog, having a counter might be a good idea. Each hit clearly inspires you to write more.
So,curiosity got the better of me on last weekend and i knew it was time for a hit counter on my blog. So I Search on Google. As it so often does, Google comes up with links full of information. In short, this is what I understood.
1. The good news first. Hey, getting a counter on your site is easy !
2. In the old version of blogspot, you had to go to one the "counter" sites, create a login id, chose a counter and then point it to your Blog address. What's more, the site will give you a piece of HTML code and you need to paste it in the HTML source of your blog.
3. You an in for an easy ride if you are writing blogs now. All you need to do is to sign in to blogger, go to the layout section, click on "Add New Gadget", select a hit counter and Bingo!, you have a counter on your site.
Easy for the new age Blogger, right?. oh, How I wish all these fancy stories they tell us were true. Sadly, they are not. Blogger has some gadgets which appear to be counters, but on adding them either I get an empty white box or a box with a random number. The gadget section is filled with count of people in Malaysia to global counters to count down to Doom's day but not a single decent hit counter.
Okay, So much for the great gadgets, it's back to basics. So, I went to Netbb.com a website which has a clean interface and offers a good counter as well. 10 minutes and one HTML copying-and-pasting later, I have a counter at the bottom of the site. Job done !. It may not the best solution. Sites like Google Analytics offer lot more, but all I want is a counter, so it's just fine.
This short experiment took place on last Saturday. Looking at the counter today makes me a happy man. 82 Hits in 7 days. Even if I assume that I visit my site 4 times a day on an average, that leaves nearly 50 hits on my site in 7 days. So, If you are planning to have a blog, having a counter might be a good idea. Each hit clearly inspires you to write more.
Tuesday 2 September 2008
Google Chrome.
Google Entering the Browser Market. Before I write my thoughts, I thought you should read this. An excellent way to present their new browser,named Chrome.
Google Chrome Cartoon
The Chrome has made us happy already by running our application much faster than FireFox or IE. With Google getting into the browser act, I wonder what would happen to FireFox?
Google seems to be paying a handy amount of money to Mozilla for keeping Google as the default homepage and search option. Google seems to have paid nearly 80 % of Mozilla corporations revenues in 2006 (56 million out of the 65 million).
With Google starting to pursue it's own browser, Mozilla would be feeling the heat already.
Google Chrome Cartoon
The Chrome has made us happy already by running our application much faster than FireFox or IE. With Google getting into the browser act, I wonder what would happen to FireFox?
Google seems to be paying a handy amount of money to Mozilla for keeping Google as the default homepage and search option. Google seems to have paid nearly 80 % of Mozilla corporations revenues in 2006 (56 million out of the 65 million).
With Google starting to pursue it's own browser, Mozilla would be feeling the heat already.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
