Holy Moly, talking about internets these days you must have heard about how “the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes” well it turns out that the internet perhaps is not really that a truck or a series of tubes or both, I came across some information that might lead you to think that the internet is actually a Bus.
Holy Molly !! Is this for real a just saw on the this little article about The Most Notable Notebooks of 2007, and I noticed that the fastest Windows Vista notebook this guys tested was a Mac, that’s right a Macbook Pro, you can read the full review here. Hmmm now we’ll need to compare that to the fastest notebook running Ubuntu Linux perhaps?
OK so this is freaking cool, I just downloaded the latest version of Winamp, and for some reason this time it worked, I have a computer with an AMD 64 dual core, and it wasn’t working before, but the latest version of Winamp works like a champ, I’ve used it before on my old computer which has Windows XP.
This new version of comes with lots more cool looking skins and color themes that you set and the player is super slick and it is not takes much memory, its runs really fast and has some really cool visualization equalizer that animates in real time as you play your music you can watch the visualization in a separate window, as your desktop background or even full screen for a super awesome screen saver or just to show of at your next get together with friends. if you haven’t used this Winamp, I highly recommend you get your hands on it as soon as possible, It it my favorite music player, you can create playlists really fast and easy and a cool feature that totally dig about its play list editor is that you can just point it to a folder and it will load the all the music in and media files inside that folder then just hit the letter “J” when in the play list window and start typing your favorite song or artist and it will immediately filter it so you can get to it in a snap.
Digg Labs has some cool visualization programs but the one that looks most “interesting” is one called arc and you can see it in the picture. All the visualization tools basically display stories or being dug on the digg.com page nearly real-time, they are flash based and also you can get it as a screen saver. They are not useful unless you like to watch what’s hot at the moment, since the stories get colorized by category when painted in the arc; it definitely has a neat kind-of-look to it; other than looking cool, there is not much you can do with that.
This is a little tip for all you bloggers out there, that will help you better target a larger audience when crating new post in your blog, basically I’ll show you how you can create better post titles to attract more visitors and therefore will help you get more readers to that post, this might not apply to all posts you write but my guess is that for the most part will definitely help you choose you’re a post title that appeals to the broader base of your audience.
For example I wanted to write an article which would contrast and compares some qualities in some item, that means that I would have to talk about 4 different things, in my case it was four computer languages (java, c# visual basic and php) but it could have been any other topics like vegetables, cars, countries, etc. The problem is that most people will find an article by the title, because they used a search engine to find the title or perhaps was listed in an RSS feed, so you need to write a title that would attract your target audience and at the same time write one that will attract at the most users in your audience, and for that Google trends can help you find out which items is the most popular of all of the items you are talking about and include that in the post title
For example instead of saying “Four most popular programming languages compared” I would say, “Java and other languages compared. That way my post title will be index in search engines with searches that are used more often.
Windows Live SkyDrive just got bigger I just found out today. Before I used to have only 500 Megabytes but today they double my capacity, among other things they also included RSS feeds for public folders among other things.
I used SkyDrive to backup important documents that I personally work on, or to share things with friends and families, I also used it as a backup in case my home computer and my external backup drive fail, sounds a little paranoid but I feel good knowing that I have my files backed up on my skydrive.
Source: The Windows Experience Blog
You might already know that Katmai is the next version of Sql Server; if that is the case then you might want to get up to date and be on the cutting edge about what’s going on with Sql Server (code name Katmai) then start reading some of the white papers for this new version of Sql Server. Link to the Katmai whitepapers.
So the other day I started to get this error for my DVD-R drive “Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39)”, I was so confuzed because I didn’t do anything that would had cause such an error, and after trying to let windows automatically detect and re-install the driver, it still gave the same error, even using the driver that came with the DVD Drive and still came with that error, I figure for sure that my DVD drive ROM memory got corrupted somehow, I even try doing a firmware upgrade but didn’t work since my OS could not talk to the DVD Drive, so I figure it is a bad one, so I send it back to the store that I got it from and they send me a new one, same brand and model, I plugged it in an didn’t work either.
I got the same error message, that’s where I figure … it must a OS software issues, after a few minutes of searching and searching I found KB article that had the solution to my problem.
I hope that if you are having the same problem, this would work for you too.
So I’ve been playing around with Facebook and its API, I found a few useful resources and I want to share the kool-aid with you.
Hopefully you will use them or at least look at them if you want to start learning more and more about Facebook and developing a Facebook application
The Wikipedia Facebook page will give you a general overview about Facebook past and present, applications and the basic functionality of Facebook.
Before you even start thinking about developing an application for Facebook it would be a good idea if you get a Facebook account if you don’t already have one, try the features available get a feel for the current features of the site and perhaps adding a few applications here and there and try interacting and finding friends, this is definitely basic but you must need to know these basic stuff in order to more easily understand the Facebook API.
Inside Facebook is a site with latest news and Facebook applications, read some of the content on the site to give you an idea about Facebook development being done and how crazy and hot things are getting for Facebook.
AppRate is a place where you can find out about other Facebook applications and get a sense for what has been done already and things that are similar to the ideas your might have for creating an application, its very useful to see the kinds of application that are out here and see if there are any similar to the one you are thinking about making.
FaceReviews is a very useful site where you can find lots of up to date information regarding Facebook, Facebook Application reviews, Facebook New and Facebook Widgets, definitely a keeper.
If you are going to be developing a Facebook application you must get familiar with the API documentation, get some examples, get an overview of the available functionality in the API and interact with other developers, and you can get all this and more at the Facebook Developer site, If you are used to programming with any of the Microsoft technologies like ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET then you know how useful is to have something like MSDN, well this is what I like to call the MSDN for the Facebook Platform. Take a moment to familiarize yourself with the Facebook platform and also learn about the Anatomy of a Facebook Application
Ok now its time to get your hands on the actual Facebook developer toolkit for .NET , which is basically a very nice way to programmatic call the Facebook API service within your .NET source code, you can download the source code or the binaries, also there is a nice word document available for download that tells you how to setup the toolkit with your application in just a few lines of code.
Note if you are not planning on using .NET to write your Facebook application there also other toolkits available such as:
Adonomics is an open analytics and advertising platform for Facebook that can provide stock-market-style analyses of Facebook features allowing you answer question like: How much is your app worth, in advertising dollars? How does that correlate to your applications growth? etc.
So I’ve been playing around lately with Facebook, just last night I went to sleep around 2 AM .. wow time flies when I realized it was 2AM, it seemed to me that 10 minutes ago was midnight.
I didn’t take that long to start developing with Facebook, just downloaded the Facebook Developer Toolkit, I used the source code because I like to look the code but you can just download the binaries and get going, the Facebook API is pretty simple to understand and the .NET Facebook Developer Toolkit makes it even easier to use the API with in your application.
I truly started developing with Facebook by mistake, really! my friend was developing an application for his uncle’s business and he started telling me about it so I got curious and started to look at the API and reading about it, then downloaded and before I knew it I was talking to the Facebook servers creating functionality for my application.
Today I learned today that Facebook only allows developers to store some information indefinitely and the rest for only 24 hours, I understand this is to provide end users with usually up to date data but on the other hand does not allow developers to plan and cache or persist some data longer in case the Facebook API is not up for whatever reason.
Anyway once I finish my application I’ll be doing a post and giving some updates !!
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