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Google Chrome ...September 3
Yesterday morning I read about Google Chrome (Beta) and thought of trying it out immediately. I downloaded the installer from here. As usual Google's installer size is pretty less ... its only 475 KB! I guess while installing its actual size would be in few MB's.

The installation was pretty fast and no surprises here as that's expected of Google :)
Few things which i found interesting in this new browser from Google are:

1. Every time I open a new tab, there is a visual sampling of the most visited sites, search engines, and recently bookmarked pages.


[If you are using a shared computer at home then going forward need to be very careful while browsing sites. Hope you don't wanna be caught for visiting 'some' sites :) ]

2. You can quickly see how much of memory is being used by each tabs within the browser with the help of SHIFT + ESC key. This will really helpful in situations where we want to close a tab which isn't functioning as expected. This is mu






10 Ways to Save Time While Building a WebsiteAugust 8
Anders Haig talks about 10 ways by which we can save time in building a website (based on his freelancing experience).

Points which he has covered are: [he has given a good description of each topic with reference links]

1. Dropdown menus
2. Image capture
3. Batch image resizing
4. Web forms
5. CSS text boxes
6. Vectorizing Images
7. Selecting color schemes
8. Creating a Patterned Background
9. Building a quick photo gallery
10. Testing your website in multiple browsers

Read the full article here - http://reencoded.com/2008/08/04/10-ways-to-save-time-while-building-a-website/














Deefbox is an useful tool for websites....July 30
Deefbox is a simple but very important tool from CQsight. This tool would help us (site owners) to understand in real time on how useful our site is to others.

In other terms it would help us to understand the search pattern of the users and whether what they came looking for is available in our site or not.



Setting up the tool is pretty simple. Just follow up the instructions given here http://www.cqsight.com/HowWork.aspx

After you signup and setup the script in your site periodically watch out the dashboard which they would provide you in cQsight to understand your visitors usage pattern.


I don't want to write a tutorial for this tool :) instead would like people to try it out themself and see how simple and powerful the tool is.










Cuil Search Engine ...July 29
By this time you would have heard about 'Cuil' - a search engine developed by ex-top engineers of Google. I tried our few searches in that and as of now I am not pleased with the search results.

I came to know from their site that "Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge"


1. Search Result looks like a news site. This is not a complaint :) May be I am used to the search results page template used by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft. But I like this Cuil result template as well.

2. As usual I tried searching for my name ('Vadivel') and found that Cuil wasn't able to find my blog (atleast it was not available within the first two pages) whereas Google was able to show my blogspot in the first page itself. I even tried changing the search string as Vadivel Blogspot still it wasn't able to pickup!

3. If a search string has multiple meanings they provide those options as a menu style. For ex: Find attached the screenshot which I took by searching SQL















Not planning to renew my MVP award!May 18
For some reason I am not interested in renewing my MVP award this year. So I haven't applied for it yet. That said, hopefully i can be called as a MVP till this month or next month end max :)