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TweetAdder - Is It Still the Best Twitter Marketing Software Today?
TweetAdder has always been quite simply the best Twitter marketing software for getting targeted results fast, whether you are a veteran Twitter marketer looking at selling their affiliate products, or are a small, medium or even large sized business looking to stir some interest in your company. But there is increasing competition for some of the other popular marketing software, so is TweetAdder still the daddy?I've been in the realm of Twitter marketing for around 5 years now, basically since Twitter started and I've never encountered a better piece of software than TweetAdder. TweetAdder offers you the ability to find targeted users by their interests, location and even what they have been tweeting about in the hope that they will follow you and your tweets which should show them something they've been wanting to hear about. It also offers the ability to automatically send messages and tweets to users once they follow you or if a particular user mentions specific keywords. For example, if they write 'hair transplants' and you have programmed TweetAdder to respond with a particular phrase / phrases, it will do that automatically. This is very good for advertising your products / affiliate offers.
However if there's one thing that TweetAdder has never offered it's the ability to interact. Software such as MarketMeSuite and even a big competitor to TweetAdder, Tweet Whistle, offer this ability by providing you with tweet timelines, provate message areas and the ability to add columns with basically anything you want, including what people are tweeting about you and tweets about specific keywords. MarketMeSuite also offers the automatic tweeting which is very useful, but doesn't have the capabilities of TweetAdder when it comes to following on a large scale. It can do it, just not in the way that TweetAdder does. TweetAdder finds users for you based on your specification, adds them to a database and follows them in a lower frequency, to avoid Twitter becoming suspicious of what you are doing. Here's a tip; follow a maximum of 150 people per day. There's nothing wrong with following a lot of people at once, but in some cases Twitter themselves see this as abuse, so stick with around 150.
In the end, it's all about what you want and need. If you're a small business looking to interact with your followers and find a few more gradually, MarketMeSuite may be the way to go, however if you're looking at finding people on a much larger scale, then TweetAdder is definitely the way to go. There are no other major competitors out there these days and both pieces of software work on PC, Mac and Linux so have fun!
What is Photoshop to you?
Over the past 21 years, Photoshop has meant many different things to many different people. Whether it is used to tell a story, put ideas into motion, imagine something new, visualize science or any of its other many uses – we are proud that Photoshop has touched popular culture, business and artistry around the world. On Photoshop.com, we’ve recently been thinking about what Photoshop is and what it means to our customers and their lives.Last year around this time, we asked you what Photoshop means to you and the response was impressive and heartening to the team. As we celebrate 2 million Fans on Facebook, we’d like to ask, “what is Photoshop to you?” How would you define its mission? What is its purpose in your life? How do you use it?
As a special treat, we’re giving away three copies of Photoshop CS5 and one iPad to random individuals who tell us in the comments below what Photoshop is to them. We’ll announce the winners tomorrow in the comments section on the blog.
Thanks for celebrating with us this week and the team looks forward to hearing your thoughts.
Best,
Maria Yap
Product Management Director, Digital Imaging
Download Photoscape 3.5 Free Download
Photoscape is a fun and easy photo editing software that enables you to fix and enhance photos.
This software is Microsoft Windows compatible. (Microsoft Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7) If you are a user of Windows 98 or Me, please use Photoscape 3.4
There is one minor bug in Photoscape Ver 3.5 It is our first priority to fix it in the next version and here is a temporary solution. Save As: You cannot select your file extension in 'Save As' now. Only saved as original file extension. But if you write the file extension directly in 'File Name', then you can change it. For example, if you want to change test.jpg to test.png, just write ‘test.png’ directly at ‘file name’ and save it.
To install Photoscape 3.5 on your computer, click one of the Free Download buttons below.
:: Free Download from brothersoft.com (16.5MB)
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Version: 3.5
Customize the New Tab Feature in Google Chrome
With all the browsers out there now, it’s difficult to figure out which one to pick and use; what’s worse, is once you pick one, you have to figure out all of its features. This is where we can help. One of the cool new features in Google Chrome is the ability to customize the New Tab feature. Here’s how you do it:
First, bring up Chrome if it isn’t running already; go to any web page you choose; it doesn’t matter, then click on the New Tab icon:
Clicking on it brings up the default New Tab page which is divided into three sections.
First, is the Apps section:
This section is for displaying Google Chrome apps that you’ve downloaded from the Google Apps Store. It works pretty much the same way as Gadgets for Windows 7, i.e. when you click on Web Store, the Google Chrome Web Store page loads, where you can browse through apps and download the ones you like:
The next section is the Most visited Section:
Google keeps track of which sites you visit most often and keeps them here so that you can just click on the one you want when you open a new tab.
The third section is called the Recently closed section:
Google lists the sites you’ve recently visited and then closed and keeps them here so that you can get right back to them if you want.
Notice how the first two sections have a little diamond next to their name; this is for showing the section in minimized or blown up view. Initially the diamond is pointing towards the section name. If you expand the Apps section, it looks like this:
Note how the diamond is now pointing down; if you click on it again, the Apps section will collapse back to what it was.
The Most visited section can be expanded or collapsed as well, it looks like this when expanded:
Next notice if you hover over either of the two mini-preview graphics above, how a menu appears above it:
The little icon on the left is a push-pin; clicking on it tells Google to keep that page on the most visited list no matter how how often you visit that page. Then, if you change your mind, you can just click on it again at some future date to let it go if you don’t visit very often any more.
The other icon, the little “X” tells Google to never show that page on your most visited list.
Note: Google also always shows the name of the web site below the mini-preview graphic.
One final thing you can change is the look of the New Tab page itself by changing the theme you use for your background. To change to a different theme, click on the little wrench on the upper right hand side of the Chrome screen:
You should get this drop-down menu:
Click on Options to get the Options Pop-up menu, then click on the Personal Stuff tab:
Next, click on the Get themes link to launch the Google Chrome Themes Gallery:
Browse around till you find one you like, click on it, and the theme for your Chrome browser will upload and install itself.
Google has gone to great lengths to make using its Chrome browser fast and easy to use, customizing the New Tabs feature is no exception.
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For those who are in need of a good marketing plan, instead of doing it manually, the purchase of software marketing plan recognition can be a godsend. Software for high quality marketing plan can show a person how they can prepare and execute a proper marketing plan. Software quality marketing plan also provides resources and tools to help a person write a marketing plan, from the synthesis to the end. Software marketing plan is a multi utility tool more appropriate for small businesses. This type of software marketing plan has two jobs, it acts as a planner and an analyst close to critical. Without the service of these factors, a marketing plan could end up without success. Contrary to do manually, the software allows the businessman to identify gaps between the plan and results, thus facilitating to a software marketing plan plan.Marketing most comprehensive is an easy to use and you saves time and disorders that may occur in the future. It is like a one-stop shop for anyone marketing needs of the participant. The software helps in planning and grueling and extremely crucial steps in the analysis implicit in a marketing strategy with minimal software marketing plan effort.A not generally some common tasks.
These can be stated as; help define the goals of marketing, forecasting techniques, which offer a good financial planner can help you with the budget, and helps keep track of past performance and also helps future planning. Apart from these, some software marketing plan, AOS make the whole process of making marketing less annoying plane by providing economic and financial tools, sample reports, interactive tools, software etc.Different marketing plan , agents have their own set of attributes. Nevertheless, it is advisable to compare the following characteristics before buying one; flexibility can be said that the most important in this type of software. If the software does not suit the customer needs or can not AOS, AOT be modified to adapt them, what good would that do? A good marketing plan software must always allow a person to set some functions to show the uniqueness of the business proposal. Another feature would be the use of financial tools and planning. These tools are generally used to create the income statement, statement of cash flows, etc. A marketing software worthy plan should be able to help provide appropriate tools that would achieve the desired results. Software marketing plan should also come with help features and a set of resources. Some software, SOA provide context sensitive help or the help functions built. A marketing plan guide, sample marketing plans, and industry data could be stated as part of the resources that are available in the software good marketing plan, Äôs.Almost daily, the author of this article takes a little time to write an article. Now, there are many articles have been written on various subjects. If you are interested in reading other articles, please visit the last site on wireless security cameras home where you can get in camera review of computer security there.
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Blogging
For the first half of this year, my blogging frequency was pretty constant. But as soon as UOM resumed, the post count started dwindling down & this blog was almost threatened with extinction... I had to make a choice between Twitter studies & blogging. Instead, I came up with a compromise - at least 1 post per month, & I'm barely clinging to that resolution.
This state of blogging lethargy is expected to persist for the next 2 years. :(
Total posts: 313
Total comments: 2207
Most commented – 110 comments: Orange ADSL & My.T prices decrease on 1st March 2009!
Only 1 post did not have a comment – Nokia N86 8MP ;)
According to Google Analytics:
Total visits: 411,300
Total pageviews: 628,800
OS – Windows: 92.45%, Mac: 4.38%, Linux: 1.49%
Browsers – Firefox: 51.99%, IE: 31.87%, Chrome: 7.24%
Orange Mauritius
On the 1st of March 2009, Orange doubled the internet connection speed while maintaining the same price… & the same slowness - unusable between 6pm & 11pm. My 512kbps connection drops to 100kbps. It gets worst during holidays when speed drops during the day.
The only positive thing is that existing My.T users were given the choice not to pay for the additional TV channels.
A new fibre cable, LION landed in Mauritius, interconnecting Reunion & Madagascar for the time being, before extending to Mombasa in the future.
The good news is that the network of fibre-connected DSLAMs is already being laid by both Orange & Emtel. But there is no backbone to exploit its full potential - Eassy & SEACOM cables are expected to be connected to Mauritius next year.
28th September 2009 - Disaster. @OrangeMauritius joins Twitter & becomes massively unpopular. Check out some of the kind tweets that mention @OrangeMauritius.
In the wake of @OrangeMauritius's arrival on Twitter, a new Twitter meme was born. Following @OrangeMauritius is like ... manz mine bouille dans dipain. & so on...
& a hashtag as well, which has been used by almost all Mauritian tweeps - #orangemauritiusfail
Freebies
In 2009, I received tons of freebies.
On the 1st of January, I won several Rapidshare accounts & gave away one of them. (No, I won’t be organising any contest next year. Sorry.)
My good fortune vanished on Friday the 13th of March, & I had my PC power supply fried by a lightning bolt.
In April, I received a USB-powered plasma ball from Rapidshare. A really stupid choice because that thing is utterly useless to me. :|
In May, I got the chance to participate to the Microsoft’s Qui Veut Gagner Un PC competition. I managed to clear the first round & was among the 10 finalists. I did pretty well in the semi-final until the last question. A simple binary to decimal conversion stood between me & a laptop. & my brain failed me. :(
All I got was a Microsoft wireless keyboard & mouse. (& Sun got a PC!)
On Twitter, I won a domain from @NameCheap & a T-shirt from @District_Lines.
I thought 2009 would be very lucky for me, but my personal record of loserness remains untarnished - I still haven't won any major contest, competition or giveaway. o_O
Movies
My top 10 movies of 2009:
0. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
1. District 9
2. Gran Torino
3. Star Trek
4. Up
5. 2012
6. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
7. Public Enemies
8. Fanboys
9. Watchmen
10. X-men Origins: Wolverine
I had a mind-blowing experience watching Transformers 2 at the cinema - awesome CGI, massive explosions & Megan Fox gargantuan robots. But I have to admit that it had huge plot holes. That's why District 9 is the no. 1 film of 2009 for me. Star Trek fans will obviously disagree but D9 was the better sci-fi movie.
This list is quite constrained because I haven't had time to watch movies such as HP6, GI Joe, The Hangover, etc. & Avatar has neither been released in Mauritius, nor is there any decent rip on the web.
My track record with Hindi films is getting worst each year. I watched only 3 films this year!!
Music
The king of Pop, Michael Jackson died from an overdose of prescription drugs. A reminder of how not to live your life.
Linkin Park released a great song, New Divide, as Transformers 2 theme track & Atif Aslam sung his way yet again to the top of the charts with Tu Jaane Na & Tera Hone Laga Hoon from Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani.
Lance Armstrong & Michael Schumacher
The great Lance Armstrong was back in the Tour de France after a 3-year absence. Nevertheless, he still managed to finish 3rd, which means that next year's Grande Boucle will be a showdown between Armstrong & Alberto Contador.
The big news of 2009 - The Stig will be back in 2010! While he was unsuccessful in making a comeback for Ferrari as a replacement for injure Felipe Massa, Michael Schumacher will be racing under Ross Brawn for Mercedes. I can't wait for the 2010 F1 season to start! :D
Manchester United
2009 was definitely not a great year for Man Utd. While the team defended the Champions League title up to the final, the better team, Barcelona won it.
We lost Ronaldo to Real Madrid (bastardos!), Tevez to City (losers!) & bought Antonio Valencia & Gabriel Obertan. & the biggest surprise - of all strikers United could have bought, it was Michael Owen who joined on a free transfer.
The 2009-2010 EPL season hasn't been good so far. Only 1 defender, Patrice Evra (our best player this season), was not injured. With key midfielders turning into central-backs, United's performance has been mediocre. Hopefully, the January transfer window will bring in some much needed reinforcements. But given the inflationary prices, I doubt we'll be able to purchase the crucial creative midfielder.
The only consolation of 2009 - we won an 18th EPL title! (Which means that other club can no longer pretend to have won the most EPL titles, back in 1728.)
My top 3 goals of 2009:
Macheda vs Aston Villa
Ronaldo vs Porto
Michael Owen vs Manchester City
Climate Change
At the start of 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in as the US president. Big promises were made, some have already been fulfilled. In October, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, for reasons that are oblivious to most of us.
& at the Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference, he demonstrated his sheer incompetence at convincing world leaders for a united stand towards tackling global warming with drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. You could say that he had his hands tied by powerful lobbies & senators back in the US. But if Obama cannot lead the world by example, who can? For me, the epic fail of the year is Barack Obama. No, he couldn't.
In Mauritius, we have our PM happily proclaiming how he got more money at COP15 from the rich countries. Will that money save Mauritius from sinking? Fighting global warming seems to be a lost cause...
Supercars
There were several supercars announced this year – the Aston Martin One-77, the Ferrari 458 Italia, the McLaren MP4-12C, the Lexus LF-A & the already available Lamborghini Murciélago LP-670-4 SuperVeloce & the Lamborghini Gallardo LP-550-2 Valentino Balboni. Best of the lot? No doubt the Ferrari 458 Italia. :P
Top Gear
Series 13 of Top Gear was pretty under-par compared to previous series, despite the unveiling of The Stig, Luckily S14 was much better & it was topped off by the best Top Gear episode ever, better than even Vietnam, Botswana & the Polar special.
The Bolivia Special was truly epic. An incredible journey throughout the Amazon jungle, the Death Road, one of the highest roads in the world at 5000m & one of the driest place on Earth, the Atacama desert (where the smallest living thing was Richard Hammond).
I did not even miss The Stig's South American cousin. Just one word - Wow! 10/10.
Windows 7
The best Windows OS of all time launched in 2009. Speed, reliability & usability were the main focus areas, not to mention the little tweaks & add-ons like DirectX 11, Virtual WiFi, XP mode, etc. that paves the way for future improvements.
Although I have yet to install Windows 7 RTM, I've been using many such apps/hacks that make Windows 7 a powerhouse. The best one is Microsoft Security Essentials, a lightweight & free antivirus solution. I'll surely write a post on that next year. For the time being, there’s my review of the Beta 1:
- Windows 7 Beta 1 Review: Part I – The Performance
- Windows 7 Beta 1 Review: Part II – The UI
- Windows 7 Beta 1 Review: Part III – The Bugs
H1N1
After the H5N1 bird flu virus, we had the H1N1 swine flu in 2009. Fortunately, the effects of this virus was no worse than seasonal flu. But the most worrying fact is that once a virus reaches pandemic levels, it becomes unstoppable. Even if you’re on an island in the middle of the ocean, you still can be affected. Now imagine if we have a deadly virus spread… :S
Mauritius - C'est un plaisir
Hey, Mauritius is the World's Leading Island Destination, & this is what they came up with!? Whether we like it or not, it's done now. We'll have to live with it. :|
What can I say? 2009 was the year when I transformed from a mild-mannered helpful tweep into a Jeremy Clarkson-inspired noob-&-twoob-bashing vicious Twilight-hating @orangemauritius-thrashing ruthless twat. Wow!
The Mauritian Pyramids
Arguably one of the most entertaining posts I’ve ever written. Quoting:
- This is a freemansory invention to bring mauritian people to a false religion and these pyramid are use for satanic ritual...
- Some spheres in Mauritius is now comparing the Great "Sphinx" of Egypt with the "LION Mountain" of Mauritius.
There is also the Amazing/famous Spiritual Park in Mauritius, which is near Pte Lascar.
The unbeileuvable "Energy Vortex" at Surinam.( which is now internationally recognised.)- Let me also point out that Mauritius has high energetic spots. It has been clearly pointed out of the Energy Vortex at Riambel, pt lascar spiritual park, we got the grand bassin, pieter both mountain as well as corps de garde, among other points.
- I can't miss to add concerning the 2012 phenomena. Its the date for a global ascension and i could see that Mauritius contains lot of these spots to help us for Ascension.
- we do have a phoenician past. just because we dont have documents does this imply that the phoenicians were never here..
- ..and let me add that the existence of portals/stargates are reported to exist round the planet...so y not one here?? mauritius is a mythical and mystical place, this is what i believe..
Read more on these 2 posts:
- The Mauritian Pyramids
- The Mauritian Pyramids II: More Than Meets The Eye
I’ll end this post with this EPIC Xkcd comic & a Happy New Year to all readers, bloggers, twitter followers, well… everyone! xD
Google Chrome OS
Google dropped a bombshell on the tech world yesterday. Google services like GMail, GDocs & GTalk went out of beta & Google Chrome OS was announced for release next year.
Why take the most popular Google services out of beta & reveal Google Chrome OS out of the blue? That's because it's almost certain that this Monday, in addition to Windows 7 RTM & Office 2010 beta, the Office Web Apps will be released (as so conveniently hinted by @scobleizer).
Getting back to Google Chrome OS, here's the blog post with the announcement - but I'll be quoting only the most important parts.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks.
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.
The software architecture is simple - Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.
Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems.
We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear - computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don't want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates.
Amidst all the over-hype, mostly by TechCrunch & Mashable, let me clear this misconception once & for all - Google Chrome OS is not your everyday Windows or Linux or Mac OS.
It's just a BROWSER!!!
Installing apps, watching movies, playing music files, heavy gaming, sync devices, encoding, photoshoping etc. you won't be able to do any of that!
Chrome OS is based on a Linux kernel & will be running a single app - Chrome. All the "apps" that'll run on Chrome OS will only be the web-apps - GDocs, GMail, Zoho, Aviary, Buzzword, Picknik, Photoshop Express, etc.
Yep, no Firefox, GIMP, VLC or OpenOffice. Not even your favourite Twitter client!
Why?
Because Google Chrome OS is aimed towards netbooks, mostly used for web browsing & light app usage.
The CrunchPad is the perfect device to illustrate this - a multi-touch tablet whose only feature is to get you on the web.
How do you keep an "OS" secure?
Cut off the weakest link, the apps, & lock down the OS, leaving only a single app - Chrome which runs everything sandboxed.
It also means that the OS is maintenance-free, efficient, quick to boot & shut-down.
Hence Google can direct its resources towards improving the OS & Chrome instead of solving compatibility problems. If the web-apps don't work, Google won't be blamed!
How to ensure driver compatibility?
That's were the OSS community comes in play. I suppose Google will be providing Chrome OS with generic drivers which should work straight out of the box like Puppy Linux or Damn Small Linux. & once Chrome OS connects to the Internet, it downloads the rest of the drivers.
& how to make sure your printer or device X works? (supposing Chrome OS supports devices)
Google will probably be leaving this to the OSS community to compile their own drivers.
I suppose by now Google Chrome OS doesn't seen that much attractive. But Google have a few more tricks up their sleeve.
Google Wave
Do I even need to explain that? Best collaboration tool ever.
Gdrive
How do you keep all your data up to date, accessible from anywhere. That's where Gdrive comes in - it should have the same features as DropBox.
Google Gears + HTML5
Offline mode for all your web-apps.
Extensions
Chrome 3.0 supports extensions, albeit a horrible implementation. Once things straighten up, almost all extensions from Firefox will be ported over to Chrome.
Native Client
The best bit for the last. Native Client will allow x86 code to be executed directly on web-apps! At last some real apps. In my opinion, this will be the killer feature of Chrome.
But...
Privacy & Security
Yep, more than ever, you'll be handing your entire web existence over to Google. Obviously, they'll be monitoring to serve you relevant ads, but to what extent? Illegal file-sharing? Pr0n? Who said it can't be hacked?
Imagine for a while how easy it will be for China to implement its Great Firewall if all the computers ran Chrome OS, a single browser!
Internet Connectivity
If you do not have access to Internet, no Chrome OS for you. Google Chrome OS is targeted towards netbook users, not Third World countries with crappy connections. I suppose the minimum speed for running the web-apps would be 512k/1M.
& suppose one day your Internet is down, even those offline apps won't help you get rid of your web addiction.
Apps
In spite of all those web-apps & Native Clients, when you'll still need to go back to your real OS for the heavy work. Take for example AutoCAD, there's no way you con replicate that on the web. That's why it's meant for netbooks.
Chrome
This one is pretty obvious. Why would even want to install Chrome OS on your desktop if you can install Chrome on any OS! Getting the best of both world!
Will it kill Windows?
ROFLMAO :P How ridiculous! Google Chrome OS is for a niche - portable devices with quick access to the web.
For everything else, you'll still need Windows. & don't forget Microsoft already have Gazelle, the browser OS in the works.
It's instead Mozilla that should be concerned. Chrome with its extensions & Native Client will inevitably entice away Firefox users.
The Linux community should also be concerned that instead of using an existing distro, Google are promoting their own OS, thus undermining their efforts.
The Bottom Line
Unlike what Mike Arrington would like you to believe, the web/cloud is not everything. The biggest hurdle to cloud computing is indeed connectivity. In the real world, not everyone has 8Mbps connections & neither are free Wifi spots available everywhere. Web-apps are good for doing the basics. But if you need to harness the real power of computing, it’s still your good old desktop apps. Yes, Google Chrome OS is a great thing – more competition is always better for users, but it’s just a browser!
Great read - 10 Things We're Dying to Know About Chrome OS
Firefox 3.5 Review
According to Mozilla, Firefox 3.5 was such a major update that they decided to leap the version number from 3.1 to 3.5 to reflect this.
Let's take a look at the list of new features:
- Faster Tracemonkey Javascript engine.
- Private Browsing mode & Forget About This Site history option.
- Restore closed tabs.
- Some support for HTML5 including audio/video tags.
- New CSS features.
- Geolocation 
To sum-up, Firefox 3.5 is what we can define as playing catch-up to the competition.
However, I'm more interested in the performance of Firefox 3.5. To find out, I decided to compare it against the other major browsers on Windows 7 - IE8, Opera 10 Beta 1, Chrome 3.0.190.1 Beta & Safari 4.
Note: It's completely different to what Lifehacker tested, probably because of the huge gap in hardware performance. So the following results are more suited to older machines.
Firefox 3.5
Firefox's numbers are misleading! Because once you enable even the most basic of extensions, it's back to good old bloated Firefox 3.0. Memory usage climbs to an average of 100MB on a single tab. It takes around 10-15s for Firefox to load even on a warm startup.
As I had long suspected, but which very few tech blogs reported, Firefox 3.5 is an unfinished product. Mozilla rushed its release to meet the deadline, leaving along most of bugs from Firefox 3.0. There is still a damn permanent bug, observed in Betas & RCs and now the final version, that pops a tab as a new window! There were no memory optimisations and features were left out. Is this all Mozilla have been doing for over ONE YEAR?!?
It doesn't have Ubiquity built-in, nor the new visual Ctrl+Tab tab switch & neither does it support the next version of Windows!
Verdict: A faster, but equally bloated Firefox 3.0. Firefox 3.5 SUCKS!!!
The Competition
IE8
IE8 renders websites as you'd expect Firefox 2.0 to do & the Compatibility view breaks them even more. & then there's the New Tab lag. Otherwise it's relatively slow, but its great strength is the tab preview on Windows 7.
Safari
Safari tried to copy the features of all the browsers & it failed. Massive memory & CPU hog. Top Sites & History in Cover Flow mode is just a visual gimmick. & it doesn't support extensions. Not to mention that it tries to sneak in iTunes & Quicktime on each update. & btw Safari is certainly not "the world's fastest browser."
Opera
Opera 10 is still in beta & has quite a few design issues - the autofill Wand has a key icon! However in terms of native features, it's probably the best out there, especially with new Turbo Mode & Opera Unite support in future versions.
Chrome
Chrome 3.0 supports extensions! Although, I could get only one to work. With its clean interface & fast browsing speed, Chrome may pose the biggest threat to Firefox (i.e. until they make the Most Visited thumbnails an option).
The best browser?
... doesn't exist! Sorry fanboys, but there is no point sticking to one browser. Each browser has its strength & you try to get the best out of it.
Use Firefox for its extras - AdBlockPlus, Firebug, Greasemonkey & the rest! Use Chrome when you need to do some quick browsing. Use Opera's Turbo mode when your connection is slow (it doesn't work with Twitter). & use IE8 for... downloading the other browsers!
So what's your favourite browser? Let the Browser Wars begin... :P
Microsoft Security Essentials (Morro)
Somalian pirates someone. As usual, I took it out for a test… :)
Microsoft Security Essentials is Microsoft’s free anti-virus solution – an indispensible app which should have been bundled since a long time with Windows like Windows Firewall (but won’t be because of the EU).
MSE will launch around the same date as Windows 7. A public beta of MSE will be available on 23rd June to the first 75,000 downloaders. What I’m testing is a pre-beta build, so a couple more features may be added at launch. Download links are on JCXP.net.
MSE also comes with a built-in antispyware, which automatically turns off Windows Defender to prevent conflicts (actually MSE is supposed to replace Windows Defender).
It took around 2 mins to download all the updates – thanks to Akamai! ;)
Note: I ran the same scan on Eset Nod32, & it took twice more time, much more CPU usage (around 80%+) and it did detect Konboot as a virus.
So?
Overall I’m impressed with Microsoft Security Essentials with especially with no loss in performance. But the ultimate test will be the detection rate of the engine. & if it turns out to be pretty effective… & add the fact that it’s FREE - Norton, McAfee, Eset, Panda, Kaspersky and the rest definitely have a cause for worry. :)