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Saturday, October 4, 2008

SiteTalkZone Webmaster Forum Community

Sitetalkzone (STL) is forum community which discuss about many thing especially webmaster-related. You can find, posting, or asking about SEO, 

SE, and many thing, it's very usefull.

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Wednesday, July 9, 2008

NTFS or FAT

What are those?? Do you familiar with them? yups, they are kind of file system in Windows OS. Some people said if you Win 2000 or higher OS user, better to apply NTFS in your system because more stable than FAT or FAT32. Do you really considered about that?, o c'mon.. so do I. Now don't too hard to understand my posting, it's just tell you what are NTFS and FAT. Here is this..
NTFS: New Technology File System
FAT: File Allocation Table

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Firefox 3 beta 2 officially released

Mozilla has announced the official release of Firefox 3 beta 2, the tenth major developer milestone in the Firefox 3 development timeline. The new beta, which is available for download from Mozilla's web site, includes interface improvements and a lot of extra polish.

Mozilla's quality standards for betas require that all of the planned features be fully implemented and robust enough for daily browsing by a large number of people. That standard was fulfilled last month by the Milestone 9 release, which was the first to bear the beta designation. Additional betas will be released on a consistent basis until all of the implemented features are finalized and performance matches or exceeds that of Firefox. At that point, Mozilla will transition to release candidates to resolve last-minute regressions before the official release.


The download manager was completely rewritten for Firefox 3 to include support for searching through previous downloads and resuming downloads between sessions. All of those features were included in the previous beta, but the download manager continues to gain subtle usability improvements. In this release, the domain of the site from which the file originated is displayed next with each entry in the download manager.

The new Firefox visual styles for Windows and Mac OS X haven't landed yet, but this beta is the first release to include the new Linux visual refresh. On Linux, Firefox will now adopt stock icons from the user's GNOME icon theme and use additional icons from Tango in cases where stock icons aren't available. The new default Firefox theme for Linux also closely conforms to the user's default GTK theme. The improvement is so profound that one can hardly distinguish Firefox from conventional GNOME applications. For the first time ever, Firefox truly looks like a part of the GNOME desktop. I've written extensively about many aspects of the Linux visual refresh and plan to do a followup in the near future.

The location bar auto-complete feature has gotten even smarter in the latest beta. Auto-completion will work on page titles, addresses, or tags. The auto-complete user interface, which has also been improved, will now underline the matching part of the address. The Places system got some improvements too. History and tags are now directly accessible through the Places Organizer, which can be accessed by selecting Show All Bookmarks from the Bookmarks menu.

n addition to usability enhancements, Firefox 3 beta 2 also delivers better performance and a reduction in memory overhead. During the Firefox 3 development cycle, over 300 individual memory leaks have been plugged and many more are eliminated by the new XPCOM cycle collector. In beta 2, more than 30 additional memory leaks have been fixed, and there have been 11 improvements to the Firefox memory footprint. Mozilla also says that performance is better in beta 2 as a result of performance tuning that was made possible by architectural changes.

Overall, it's another very impressive release that reflects the rapidly-growing robustness of Firefox 3. I've been using the nightly builds as my primary browser for some time, and I've been very happy with many of the new features. The quality of beta 1 was so high that it even managed to convert a few skeptics. The second beta further refines the experience and brings us closer to the release candidates.

source: http://url.fullcirclemagazine.org/a81c71



Next IE8 is coming soon...!!!

In an about-face it credited to a renewed companywide emphasis on interoperability, Microsoft Corp. said Monday it will make its upcoming Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) browser default to a new, standards-compliant method of displaying Web pages, rather than the existing, more Microsoft-centric one.
The move should make it easier for developers to create Web pages that render properly on multiple browsers, including IE8, Firefox, Apple's Safari and others, without breaking the pages or requiring extensive recoding. "Thinking about IE8's behavior with these principles in mind, interpreting Web content in the most standards-compliant way possible is a better thing to do," an unnamed Microsoft employee wrote on Microsoft's IEBlog.
The move, on the eve of Microsoft's MIX developer conference in Las Vegas that runs tomorrow through Friday, won plaudits from those who have long complained that Microsoft has used its market dominance to avoid making IE compatible with other Web browsers in an attempt to force time-pressed developers to choose to support only the most popular Web browser -- IE. About three-fourths of Internet users used one version or another of IE last month, according to data from Net Applications. "I fully understood and had come to accept Microsoft's earlier decision to break with convention and not automatically opt sites into the new engine, but I have to say I'm glad they've reversed that decision," wrote Aaron Gustafson of The Web Standards Project. "Personally, I feel their product (and the Web at large) is better for it." "Now they have made the change, it is up to us as Web developers to fix our sites when IE8 comes along. In the long run though, we get a better Web," wrote Dion Almaer, co-founder of Web development community, Ajaxian.com. "Celebrate! C'mon!" wrote Molly Holzschlag, a Web developer and author.
All Web browsers render Web pages in several ways that vary in their degree of compliance with what are considered to be accepted Web standards. IE8 can render Web pages in one of three ways, according to a PressPass article posted Monday on Microsoft's site. One "reflects Microsoft's implementation of current Web standards," according to Microsoft. It passes the popular Web standards test Acid2, and thus "is forward-looking and preferred by Web designers," according to Microsoft. Another is based on "Microsoft's implementation of Web standards at the time of the release of Internet Explorer 7 in 2006." The third is "based on rendering methods dating back to the early Web." Microsoft had previously said it would make IE 8 default to the IE7 rendering mode to better maintain compatibility with existing Web pages developed for IE 7. But it finally decided to make its new super-standards mode the default.
"While we do not believe there are currently any legal requirements that would dictate which rendering mode must be chosen as the default for a given browser, this step clearly removes this question as a potential legal and regulatory issue," said Brad Smith, Microsoft senior vice president and general counsel, in the PressPass.


source: computerworld.com



Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Why Users Hate Vista

You rarely hear about a new OS causing people to panic. But IT consultant Scott Pam says that's exactly what his small-business clients are doing when they install Windows Vista on new PCs and run smack into compatibility or usability roadblocks.

Pam's clients are not alone : Since InfoWorld launched its petition drive on Jan. 14 to ask Microsoft to continue selling new XP licenses indefinitely alongside its Vista licenses, more than 75,000 people have signed on. And hundreds of people have commented -- many with ferocious, sometimes unprintable passion. "Right now I have a laptop with crap Vista and I'm going to downgrade to XP because Vista sucks," reads one such comment.

Where does all the vitriol come from?

IT managers and analysts suggest a range of reasons, some based on irrational fears and others based on rational reactions to disruptive changes.

Emotional Effects

"When we first deployed Vista, people told us it sucks, that it's not as good as XP," recalled Sumeeth Evans, IT director at Collegiate Housing Services, an 80-person college facilities management firm.

A month later, he surveyed the staff to see if their views had changed, and they had: "They said it was very good, that they were getting used to it. We asked what was different, and they said they originally didn't like Vista because it was a change. That's human nature."

Microsoft's overzealous schedule in replacing XP with Vista has exacerbated resistance to change, said Michael Silver , a research vice president at Gartner. The company had originally planned to discontinue XP sales on Dec. 31, 2007, just 11 months after Vista was made available to consumers and 14 months after it was made available to enterprises. The date for new license sales to end is now June 30.

In practice, XP's consumer availability ended for many users even sooner -- just six months after Vista's release -- since storefront retailers Best Buy and Circuit City and most computer manufacturers' Web sites stopped selling XP-equipped computers in July 2007. Typically, Microsoft has given customers two years to make such a transition, Silver noted.

Burton Group executive strategist Ken Anderson suggested that the strong emotional identification with XP represented a fundamental shift in how people, including IT staff, now think of operating systems. They have become a familiar extension of what we do and how we work, thus not something want to change often. "When technology becomes part of you, you don't want people to mess with it," he said.

Anderson likened the reaction to XP's impending demise to what happened in the 1980s when Coca-Cola replaced its classic Coke formula with New Coke, causing massive protests by customers who had no reason to change what they drank. The protests forced the company to bring back what we now call Coke Classic. "XP has come to the point of being Coke Classic," he said, with Vista playing the role of New Coke.

The Further the Better

The Englewood (N.J.) Hospital Medical Center switched to Vista shortly after its enterprise release, since it had been in Microsoft's early adopter program. Most users -- mainly nurses and other medical staff -- didn't really notice the upgrade and had few complaints, noted Gary Wilhelm, the business and systems financial manager (a combination of CTO and CFO) at the 2,500-employee facility. That's because they don't really use the OS, but instead work directly in familiar applications that load when they sign in using their ID.

Capacitor manufacturer Kemet saw a similar ho-hum reaction from most of its staff, says Jeff Padgett, the global infrastructure manager. And for the same reason: Users have little direct interaction with the OS. But the staff did push back on Office 2007, whose ribbon interface is a departure from the previous versions. They rebelled to the degree that Padgett has delayed Office 2007 deployment and may not install it at all.

Back at the Englewood hospital, Wilhelm did hear anti-Vista grumbling from people in the administration department, who work more closely with the OS itself for file management and so on. And at Kemet, another group of hands-on users complained about the switch to Vista, noted Padgett: "The people who suffered the most were engineers and IT people."

The phenomenon of hands-on users being the most resistant explains why so many small-business users and consultants have reacted so strongly against Vista, noted Gartner's Silver.

Conversely, those enamored of the latest technology tend to be Vista enthusiasts, said David Fritzke, IT director at the YMCA Milwaukee, which has been adding Vista to its workforce as it buys new computers. "Some users bought Vista for home and then wanted it more quickly at work than we had initially planned to deploy it," he said. Fritzke also found that younger users adapted to Vista more easily.


source: PCworld.com

Surprised? Men Like Video Games More Than Women

Although both males and females posses an equal level of motor skills when interacting with video games, males were quicker to understand the object of the tested games, and thus performed better initially, the study found.

"The part of the brain that generates rewarding feelings is more active in men than women during video game play," said Dr. Fumiko Hayft, professor at Stanford. As a result, the added stimulus encourages males to take greater interest in video games.

Hayft asserts that reward regions in the brain overlap with regions related to addiction, thus men are more likely to form a dependency on video games than women.

Monday, February 4, 2008

Newest form Acer: The Extensa 4620 Laptop

Manila, Philippines -- Acer empowers with the Extensa 4620. Loaded with productivity-enhancing benefits, including an *Empowering Key* and three productivity keys for one-touch manageability, the Acer Extensa 4620 is truly a reliable notebook. It features serious security and reliability features, such as its magnesium alloy cover, Acer Bio-Protection fingerprint solution and enhanced Acer DASP hard drive protection.

Powered by the latest-generation Intel Core 2 Duo mobile processor technology with the most up-to-date wireless communication capabilities and high-quality face-to-face communication anytime, anywhere via the Acer Video Conference solution, the Acer Extensa 4620 delivers superb work efficiency and versatile productivity.

Acer notebooks are distributed in the Philippines by MSI-ECS. For more product information and other inquiries, contact Chel Padilla at 688-3706, email cpadilla@msi-ecs.com.ph, or visit www.msi-ecs.com.ph. *SRP: P54,900.*

source: http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?id=9878&cid=9