22 Jun

RockMelt – Social browsing for all!

With so many browsers available today, it seems a bit overwhelming with the amount of choices. Well I am here to tell you that you don’t need to keep picking anymore. The definitive social browser experience is here. RockMelt is a chromium based browser which melds Facebook, social networking with Google searching and a webkit based browser experience all into one awesome package. Oh, and it’s for your Iphone too! Grab it on the App Store.

Just released a new version of RockMelt (v0.9.58.471) that lets you customize your Facebook.com experience to display Friend Requests, Messages, Notifications, and chat lists.

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24 Jun

Linux IS NOT Microsoft Windows!Problem #1: Linux isn’t exactly the same as Windows.

You’d be amazed how many people make this complaint. They come to Linux, expecting to find essentially a free, open-source version of Windows. Quite often, this is what they’ve been told to expect by over-zealous Linux users. However, it’s a paradoxical hope.

The specific reasons why people try Linux vary wildly, but the overall reason boils down to one thing: They hope Linux will be better than Windows. Common yardsticks for measuring success are cost, choice, performance, and security. There are many others. But every Windows user who tries Linux, does so because they hope it will be better than what they’ve got.

Therein lies the problem.

It is logically impossible for any thing to be better than any other thing whilst remaining completely identical to it. A perfect copy may be equal, but it can never surpass. So when you gave Linux a try in hopes that it would be better, you were inescapably hoping that it would be different. Too many people ignore this fact, …

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