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The Difference between Firefox (3.5.1) and Safari (4.0.2) on a Macbook Pro
In: Personal Rants
26 Jul 2009Is exactly 11 degrees Celsius.
That’s by how much my temps go up starting and running Firefox, which apparently needs ~38.5% of my cores for doing absolutely nothing.
I love Firefox but not if it means burning my forearms – everybody knows how hot MBPs run, even if you’re using smcFanControl or something similar.
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- Tags: Apple, celsius, firefox, macbook pro, safari, temperature, temps
The Failure of Free
In: Personal Rants
22 Jul 2009The other day I saw this post on the Google Books Blog advertising Chris Anderson’s book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price. Figured I might as well go ahead and read it. I mean… it is free, right? What does one have to lose?
So I clicked on the Google Books link…
Am I missing something?… Oh yeah… is it the Read link I can see when I’m visiting via a US proxy? Aha… I think that’s it.
The Scribd link says it better:
Buying it for Kindle on the iPhone craps out without any clear errors… I don’t get the book.
I was only able to get the audiobook from iTunes and I’m pretty sure that’s cause I used my US account.
Anyways, I don’t like nor trust free. Free is like saying: Look… we really want you to try this stuff out but somehow… we will eff with you down the road ’cause we really do want your money and that’s all we’re thinking about, no kidding.
PS: Is it just me or should dearest Google Books include some sort of friggin mention that “You can’t read this ’cause you ain’t in the US right now, that’s why!”?…
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- Tags: Chris Anderson, fail, Free, Google, Google Books, itunes, scribd
Google overlocalization…
In: Google
20 Jul 2009Back in the day Google used to spit out the same types of results whether you searched for something on Google.com or on your country’s version.
Nowadays, however, I have to artificially raise Google’s search numbers because while I may be searching more (and not causing them revenue on account of ad blocking software I use) because whenever googling on google.com for something that’s not in English will not optimize in any way for my country (although I’m logged in to my Google.com account and Google knows who I am, where I’m from, my credit card number and shorts size) and I’ll get crappy useless results from somewhere far-far away (and not even in English, mind you).
This is some sort of domain name based over-localization (not to mention their friggin cookies) and I can’t quite get the universal search box I want.
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- Tags: Google, localization, search
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