Web browser logos recreated
Browser logos as nail art
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/Mamipeko/20100723/1279861355
She has also done Google Chrome and Apple Safari in addition to the Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera web browser logos. All the popular web browsers have been created on nails – geeky art! More »
How many websites are there in the world?
I wanted to know how many web sites are there in the world. I’ve searched Google and have got varied results. Maybe you can help me out. I need to know the number of web sites for a school project.
Brian Doole
This seemingly simple question is not an easy one to answer. The problem is that no single agency controls the Internet (even though we all like to think that the CIA does!). Even so, can we come up with some kind of figure for the total number of web sites in the world?
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Help Wikipedia remain free!
Posted on November 26, 2010 under Other | Leave a comment
For many, the lure of BIG ad dollars would be difficult to resist. Wikipedia being one of the top web sites of the world can get truckloads of Benjamins for it’s founder Jimmy Wales. But he wants the web site to remain free and devoid of advertisements. That’s one great decision and one I respect and applaud. More »
History of Search Engines
Posted on November 22, 2010 under Infographics, Internet Tips, Other, Search Engines | Leave a comment
Tracing a 16 year period from 1994 to 2010, the chart below presents a super-short History of Search; but it still has some gems in it. For instance, I never knew why the domain dmoz.org was used for the open directory project!
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World’s most popular web sites
Posted on November 22, 2010 under Art, Images & photos, Other | Leave a comment
The much derided (?) Alexa web site rankings were put to some innovate use by NMAP.org. Favicons of almost 300,000 of the world’s most popular web sites were combined to create a huge collage. This size of the favicons in this poster sized image is determined by the Alexa rankings; thus, the most used web sites have the largest favicons. More »
Windows 7: blue screen of death
The Windows 7 operating system was launched on the 22nd of October 2009. Just a couple of days after its first anniversary, my Sony Vaio laptop crashed! Windows 7 shows me the dreaded blue screen of death.
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iPhone, iPod, iPad or BlackBerry – what do people prefer for web browsing?
Posted on August 2, 2010 under iPhone, Other | Leave a comment
In the article on mobile web usage, I had mentioned that the iPhone is better than the BlackBerry when it comes to browsing the web. Though I supported this with numbers, over the months I received a lot of flax, especially from BlackBerry users, for the supposed offhand statement (?). And now when Google Analytics has started to properly segregate visitors on mobile devices, I present a fresh analysis on the issue. More »
Captcha definition – Why are you asked to type the two words?
Posted on July 16, 2010 under Blogging, Internet Tips, Other, Web Development | 8 Comments
It is very difficult to figure out the purpose of the mixed-up wavy letters in the two words. I think I have them right, in fact, I know I do in some cases. Please explain the point to me.
Anne Lawson
Why are the two words one is required to type when registering always so fancy in design? It’s hard to read them.
Maja Novak
What is Captcha? Definition and a super quick intro
Anne and Maja are referring to what is known as Captcha, or more correctly, Text CAPTCHA. Nowadays you find them almost everywhere on the net… both popular and the not-so-famous web sites and blogs. And there is one right on this page – scroll down to check it out.
Captcha is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer
(source Wikipedia). In layman’s terms, the aim of the text Captcha is to offer a puzzle which only humans are able to solve. Typically, text Captcha has a set of randomly generated alphanumeric characters that are wavy, battered, crossed with lines and / or close to each other (almost overlapping).
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Updates: May 2010
Posted on May 27, 2010 under Other | Leave a comment
Been very busy the past month. How? Drinking and building campfires in front of our log cabin in Oklahoma every night (check photographs at the bottom of this post), getting tanned on St. Pete beach in Tampa and accompanying my wife to shopping sprees at the Allen outlets in Dallas.
Finally made it home by “going around the volcanic ash” on a BA flight. Here are updates to some pages that should have been done at the beginning of this month.
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Chrome and Firefox in the Google Pack
Posted on May 27, 2010 under Google, Other | Leave a comment
It’s been more than a year since the free Chrome web browser was included in the free Google software pack. What I noticed is that the company is still promoting Firefox alongside their own program.
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