Posted: November 4th, 2009 | Author: Anuradha Uduwage | Filed under: Java Ruled, My MacBook Pro, Technology | Tags: Java, MacBook Pro | No Comments »
I was doing my regular daily doze of technical reading and stumble upon Jeff Bonwick’s blog. Sounds like deduplication is a great concept. I think this might be very helpful reducing the size of the repositories. But more than any thing I was thrilled about his previous post. ZFS is available on Snow Leopard. Wow!!!, as you may know from my previous posts, I switch to mac just about a month ago. And I must say somehow my mac book pro able fascinate me in daily basis. And this was another example.
Posted: October 19th, 2009 | Author: Anuradha Uduwage | Filed under: Information Retrieval, Technology | Tags: Google | 1 Comment »
Chill out, It’s not bad as it sounds. Yes, I freaked out when I first saw the news. I did the search and sure enough I saw plenty of voice messages freely available as search results. Not only that I was able play them and actually listen to a personal conversation. After few seconds I stopped playing messages simply because its wrong. But just confirmed if they were really voice messages. It only shows three pages worth of search results. If Google were to list all the Google voice mail messages it should well be beyond three pages of results. That tells me this sounds like a link of test.
I checked to see any of my voice messages are showing up on results page fortunately it didn’t, and this made me think twice continuing with the Google Voice account.
Google Voice Messages
Posted: September 24th, 2009 | Author: Anuradha Uduwage | Filed under: Technology | Tags: Google | No Comments »
Lately I have been very dependent on my GMail. In addition to send/receive mails, I use it as an information storing location. Example: While I am researching when I find something that might be useful I note it down and save it as a draft. But today I started to experience issues in GMail, I checked the Google App Status Dashboard, yeap its broken.
Google App Status Dashboard
Posted: July 30th, 2009 | Author: Anuradha Uduwage | Filed under: Microsoft, Tech and CS, Technology | Tags: Microsoft | No Comments »
Day after Microsoft release Bing Search Engine or as they call it decision engine I put it bing to test. Search was ok but I didn’t find it smarter than Google, then I checked the Maps option and it was horrible. But its been few weeks and today I went to bing after I saw its travel option on the television addvertisment. And let me tell you its impressive and I think its one step ahead Google. So this is what I did, I just typed
Bing Search Box
on the search box, and following result shows up as the first result among many others.
Bing Travel Prediction
. I would say up to this stage Google and Bing are neck to neck on this but after you click above option Bing kicks to the next gear like Alberto Contador climb mountains by dancing on his saddle. Yeap, as person who is in the field of HCI and Data Mining, I was very impressed on what I saw in bing. It has predictions on ticket prices such as if they were to stay steady or to go up. Yes it says that
Note that deals are compiled on yesterday’s lowest airfares and can change often.
but its still ahead Google at least on this matter.
Not only that it gives nice graphical representation of the price fluctuation along with the prediction of the price with respect the date.
So, its True that this is no ordinary search engine, but Machine Learning at its best. So if I was Google I would be bit worried about bing. Google as new era technology company had the advantage of learning from all the mistakes made my giants like Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. But I guess for the first time, Microsoft using it potential and capability and thinking out of the box. And the best thing is they are simply try to match everything that Google does where they have been doing it for the past decade. I am not a big Microsoft fan but I have to give props for this to Microsoft, Bravo.
Posted: July 8th, 2009 | Author: Anuradha Uduwage | Filed under: Tech and CS, Technology | Tags: Google | No Comments »
Everyday I login to Gmail, everyday I see the beta sign along with the Google Gmail logo. I always wondered, Are they really going to do release this beyond Beta or is it Google’s way of staying out of reliability issue saying that, “Sorry guys we can’t guarantee your emails are safe with us” (As if Google had any down time in their history – respect to Search engine).
Gmail out of Beta
But Today, I saw something different, when I logged in No Beta sign along with the Google Gmail Logo, I thought something wrong. But it was same for my calendar so looks like Google has finally out of its Beta cave.
Posted: April 14th, 2009 | Author: Anuradha Uduwage | Filed under: Facebook, Technology | Tags: Facebook, Facebook Connect, fbConnect, WordPress | No Comments »
For last five years I had a good time with MoveableType blog that I hosted under University of Minnesota UThink blog Server. But now that I have my own domain its time for me to move from UThink to WordPress. Plus I wanted to customize my blog with Facebook Connect, not having access to root level of the UThink was bit hard to get a good customization. So I have decided to install wordpress and also plan to heavily customize it by using fbconnect.
One other thought, I have seen the Google’s approach of open social and so far I have only took peek at it, and first thing I realized is that it has way better documentation that facebook.
In face if you would like to move out from MoveableType here is the link that might help you.
Posted: March 21st, 2009 | Author: Anuradha Uduwage | Filed under: Technology | Tags: Google | No Comments »
I just installed Multiple Inbox option Undo Send, and Chat on Right Side applications for GMail from Google Labs. I love the multiple inbox so fart the coolest part of the multiple inbox is that I can combine two labels and bring it in as inbox. If you are wondering how to do this, After Installing Multiple Inbox, got to settings and combine two label names with “AND operator just like this: is:LabelA AND is:LabelB.
I tried to do a Undo Send by sending an email to my own account but it was I was two late since it gives you only few seconds after clicking the send button.
Chat window on the right is something i was looking for a long time, and Finally it has arrived.
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