Dreaming to be an Internet Super Hero

GOOGLE vs BING vs YAHOO: 2 is not yet better than the other?

2011-01-09T23:38:00.000+08:00

While it appears that the Internet search argument was won decisively by Google, rivals Yahoo and Microsoft haven't given up yet. The two companies formed an alliance in 2009 that will result in Microsoft's Bing search engine powering Yahoo's portal by the end of 2010.

Google embraces the elegant simplicity of a white background and the Google Search text field. Blue links to key Google features in the upper left corner make checking e-mail a snap. The Yahoo home page is considerably busier. This reflects the company's desire to be not just a search engine, but a starting point for Internet surfing. Its scatter shot approach features search, news, communications tools, and such specifics as a horoscope. While Bing's front page is distinctly flashy. Nevertheless, navigation for specialized search is easy to find. Bing’s front door also includes plenty of shortcuts to other Microsoft-owned Web destinations such as MSN, Windows Live, and Bing Travel. It would be nice to see a shortcut to my Microsoft-managed inbox.

Search results for Bing have two main components: a left-hand navigation panel of Quick Tabs that allow you to focus your search fast; and a center row of Categorized Search results, which simply group results in logical categories. Search results include instant answers, deep links, and multimedia. Google and Yahoo search results are delivered no-frills-style with blue links descending from most to least relevant. Both of these search engines deliver results that may include instant answers, deep links, and multimedia.

But for me, Google is the best, probably because of all the other bits and pieces it has (GMail, Google Reader etc.), but Bing image search is nice, in that it doesn't need you to go to next page EVER, it just keeps adding pictures at bottom of page. Also, images get bigger on mouse over, and if you click an image, image results stay at side while the page is loaded, so you can click on next image without having to go back to search results. Still Google is better.

Let's Welcome the Internet Phenomena

2011-01-09T23:11:00.000+08:00

Today, many of these internet phenomena are also spread via popular, user-based or social networking Web sites, including (but not limited to) 4chan, Reddit, Facebook, Fark, Flickr, Myspace, Slashdot, Something Awful, or YouTube. Search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, or Bing may also amplify the propagation of these phenomena.

Being specific here are some list of internet phenomena by its categories;

ANIMATION

Dancing baby – A 3D-rendered dancing baby that first appeared in 1996 by the creators of Character Studio for 3D Studio MAX, and became something of a late 1990s cultural icon in part due to its exposure on world wide commercials, editorials about Character Studio, and the popular television series Ally McBeal
Happy Tree Friends – A series of flash cartoons featuring cute cartoon animals experiencing violent and gruesome accidents.
Weebl and Bob (UK: Wobble and Bob) - A series of flash cartoons created by Jonti Picking featuring two egg-shaped characters that like pie and speak in a virtually incoherent manner.

ADVERTISING

Cooks Source infringement controversy — advertising-supported publication's dismissive response to copyright infringement complaint causes online backlash.
FreeCreditReport.com — series of TV commercials that were posted on the Internet; many spoofs of the commercials were made and posted on YouTube.
Lowermybills.com — Banner ads from this mortgage company feature endless loops of cowboys, women, aliens, and office workers dancing.
Embrace Life — a public service announcement for seatbelt advocacy made for a local area of the UK which achieved a million hits on its first two weeks on YouTube in 2010.
Shake Weight - Infomercial clips of the modified dumbbell have gone viral as a result of the product's comically sexual suggestive nature.
The Man Your Man Could Smell Like — A television commercial starring Isaiah Mustafa reciting a quick, deadpan monologue while shirtless about how "anything is possible" if men use Old Spice. It eventually led to a popular viral marketing campaign which had Mustafa responding to various Internet comments via short YouTube videos on Old Spice's YouTube channel.

EMAIL

Bill Gates E-mail Beta Test – An e-mail chain-letter that first appeared in 1997 and was still circulating as recently as 2007. The message claims that America Online and Microsoft are conducting a beta test and for each person you forward the e-mail to, you will receive a payment from Bill Gates of more than $200. Realistic contact information for a lawyer appears in the message.
Mouse Ball Replacement Memo – A memorandum circulated to IBM field service technicians detailing the proper procedures for replacing mouse balls, yet filled with a number of sexual innuendos. The memo actually was written by someone at IBM and distributed to technicians, but it was distributed as a corporate in-joke, and not as an actual policy or procedure. On the Internet, the memo can be traced as far back as 1989
Goodtimes virus – An infamous, fraudulent virus warning that first appeared in 1994. The e-mail claimed that an e-mail virus with the subject line "Good Times" was spreading, which would "send your CPU into an nth-complexity infinite binary loop", among other dire predictions.
ILOVEYOU, also known as LoveLetter, is a computer worm that successfully attacked tens of millions of Windows computers in 2000 when it was sent as an attachment to an email message with the text "ILOVEYOU" in the subject line. The worm arrived in email inboxes on and after May 4, 2000 with the simple subject of "ILOVEYOU" and an attachment "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs". The final 'vbs' extension was hidden by default, leading unsuspecting users to think it was a mere text file. Upon opening the attachment, the worm sent a copy of itself to everyone in the Windows Address Book and with the user's sender address. It also made a number of malicious changes to the user's system.

TRADING

Freecycling – The exchange of unwanted goods via the Internet.

Instead of Counter Strike, It must be a Browser Strike; A Browser Death Match

2011-01-09T22:14:00.001+08:00

As we all know that Netscape is the second company to attempt to capitalize over the World Wide Web. It was once dominant in terms of usage share, but lost most of that share to Internet Explorer during the first browser war. By the end of 2006, the usage share of Netscape browsers had fallen, from over 90% in the mid 1990s, to less than 1%. Netscape developed the Secure Sockets Layer Protocol (SSL) for securing online communication, which is still widely used, as well as JavaScript, the most widely-used language for client-side scripting of web pages.

We all think that the death of the Netscape on its war against the Microsoft's web browser, "Internet Explorer" was the end of the world wide web browser's war. But it's not, the lost of Netscape was the gateway for a big war against the newly existing internet browsers at this time.

There are many web browsers attempting to destroy the camp of Microsoft on its Internet Explorer. There are Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and many more. They have stable releases that became popular on internet via computer or even in cellular phones.

The question is, what are their edge against their competitors? Is it their add-ons applications? Is it their speed capacity? We must compare them to each other so that we can distinguish how useful are they?

Let's first see Microsoft's Internet Explorer

Microsoft took five years sacrifices to bury Netscape under the ground. During their domination, The IE team went back to the drawing board and totally reworked the browser's rendering engine, also adding tabbed browsing and add-ons to the mix, and then finished it off with a facelift. That is their stable release the Internet Explorer 7.

After 7, it should be 8 of course! So Microsoft released the Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 that's because Microsoft is putting a much greater focus on becoming web standards-compliant.

The Firefox

Enough so that when Mozilla announced it would be releasing Firefox 3, end users lined up to download the new version that time, promptly setting a Guinness World Record for most number of software downloads in 24 hours. And rightly so. Better memory management, improved security, an aptly named AwesomeBar, and several other improvements made the best browser on the market even better.

In line with the war, they released Mozilla Firefox 3.1 beta 2.Initially intended as a 'fast-track' update to Firefox 3.0, lingering bugs in 3.1's new JavaScript engine, called TraceMonkey, likely means IE8 will ship first. And that's okay with Mozilla, who contends that its much more concerned with getting the new browser right than it is with beating Microsoft to the punch.

Opera

Diehard Opera fans might take exception to referring to Opera as an alternative browser, and with the release of 9.6, they have a point. Several speed enhancements made the already fast browser even snappier, but our favorite feature is the new magazine-style RSS feeds on its Opera 9.6 version.

They will not let others win the war, so they released the Opera 10 Alpha. The only browser of the bunch to be in a pre-beta state, we include it here because it's one of the first browsers to fully comply with the Acid3 test with a 100 percent pass rate (Safari 4 being the other). If the new build can live up to its promise of a 30 percent performance boost, Opera may finally find its way onto more mainstream machines.

Safari

Apple's DNA is evident in its Safari browser right from the get-go. Hardly surprising given that it began life on the Mac OS X operating system in early 2003. In the summer of 2007, Safari shed its Mac-only shackles and surfed over to Windows with claims of performing up to twice as fast as the competition. Soon to be old news, Apple is gearing up to replace Safari 3 with a significantly faster fourth version.

Safari must looked high with its recently released version, new Safari 4 browser is up to 4 times faster than the previous version, and according to its own testing, it destroys the competition when it comes to JavaScript performance. A redesigned UI and a smorgasbord of added features makes Safari 4 Apple's most ambitious browser to date.

Google Chrome 1.0

This is the new character on the war. When Google surprised everyone when its Chrome browser showed up on the web unannounced, and while there's clearly much work to be done, it's hard not to get excited over better tab management. Chrome treats each tab as its own process, so if there's a bug in a website's code that causes a crash, you only lose a single tab and not the entire browser.

Can you tell me what's new on the Internet, PLEASE?

2011-01-09T21:42:00.001+08:00

Since that most of us are being into the world of internet, we must know what are the latest thing that can get into the internet aside from the popular sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google, Youtube, Amazon and many more. In 2011, these are the so called "new" on internet.

Netsurfer Digest
It is a free e-mail delivered e-zine bringing new contributions directly to your mailbox. Every week you'll receive a hot-linked HTML gateway to a selection of new sites.

New Jour
This is a listing of new journals and newsletters available on the internet. Editor: Paul Schaffner.

Scout Report
A selection of new and newly discovered internet resources of interest to researchers and educators.

TracerLock
A web agent that asks you to type in keywords about your areas of interest, and then send you regular emails with URL's that contain those words. These URL's rely on automated searches and do not always yield quality sites. But it's a great service. In the days of "The Informant" it used to be free. Now you have to pay for tis personal early warning system and assistant.

WhatsNu
A searchable database of the newest sites. Continuously updated links plus descriptions of new web sites. Users who subscribe to "WhatsNU" get notified of sites that interest them.

Internet Resources Newsletter
For academics, students, engineers, scientists & social scientists.

Intute
Worldwide latest additions to the Social Science Information Gateway.

Simon Says: Give me the best RDBMS on the world!

2011-01-09T13:53:00.001+08:00

What do you mean by RDBMS? RDBMS means Relational Database Management System. And the simpliest definition of RDBMS is DBMS in which data is stored in the form of tables and the relationship among the data is also stored in the form of tables.

	Maintainer	First public release date	Latest stable version	Latest release date	Software license
4D (4th Dimension)	4D s.a.s	1984	v11.5 SQL		Proprietary
Altibase	Altibase Corp.	July 2000	5.1.1		Proprietary
Apache Derby	Apache	2004	10.6.1.0	2010-05-19	Apache License
Drizzle	Brian Aker	Mid-2008	Build 1126		BSD, GPL v2
Datacom	CA, Inc.	?	11.2		Proprietary
Paradox	Corel Corporation	1985	11	200801??2003	Proprietary
SQLite	D. Richard Hipp	2000-8-17	3.6.22	2010-1-6	Public domain
InterBase	Embarcadero	1984	InterBase SMP 2009	2009-08-10	Proprietary
Empress Embedded Database	Empress Software Inc	1979	10.20	2010-3	Proprietary
Polyhedra DBMS	ENEA AB	1993	8.3	20090630March 2010	Proprietary
FileMaker	FileMaker	1984	11.0	200901??Mar 2010	Proprietary
Firebird	Firebird project^[5]	2000-7-25	2.5	20090908October 4, 2010	IPL^[6] and IDPL^[7]
FrontBase	FrontBase, Inc^[8]	1996	5.1.2	2010-1	Proprietary
H2	H2 Software	2005	1.2.139	2010-07-25	EPL and modified MPL
HP NonStop SQL	Hewlett-Packard	1987	SQL/MX 2.3		Proprietary
HSQLDB	HSQL Development Group	2001	2.0.0	2010-6	BSD
mSQL	Hughes Technologies	1994	3.8	2006-06-09	Proprietary
DB2	IBM	1983	9.7	22 Apr 2009	Proprietary
Informix Dynamic Server	IBM	1981????1980	11.70.xC1	2010-10	Proprietary
Ingres	Ingres Corp.	1974	Ingres Database 9.2	2008-12-09	GPL and Proprietary
Microsoft Visual Foxpro	Microsoft	?	9 (2005)		Proprietary
Microsoft SQL Server Compact (Embedded Database)	Microsoft	2000	2010 (v3.5 SP2)		Proprietary
Microsoft SQL Server	Microsoft	1989	2008 R2 (v10.5)		Proprietary
Microsoft Access	Microsoft	1992	14 (2010)		Proprietary
Nexusdb	Nexus Database Systems Pty Ltd	2003-9	3.04	2010-05-08	Proprietary
CUBRID	NHN Corporation	2008-11	CUBRID 3.0	October 4, 2010	GPL v2
OpenBase SQL	OpenBase International	1991	11.0.0		Proprietary
OpenLink Virtuoso	OpenLink Software	1998	6.2	2010-9	GPL or Proprietary
Oracle Rdb	Oracle Corporation	1984	7.2		Proprietary
Oracle	Oracle Corporation	1979-11	11g Release 2	2009-9	Proprietary
Pervasive PSQL	Pervasive Software	1982	11	2010-9	Proprietary
PostgreSQL	PostgreSQL Global Development Group	1989-6	9.0.2	2010-12-16	PostgreSQL licence (Free and Open Source)
OpenEdge	Progress Software Corporation	1984	10.2B		Proprietary
R:Base	R:BASE Technologies	1982	7.6		Proprietary
RDM Embedded	Raima Inc.	1984	10		Proprietary
RDM Server	Raima Inc.	1990	8.3		Proprietary
Linter SQL RDBMS	RELEX Group	1990	6.1		Proprietary
UniVerse	Rocket Software	1992	10.3.6	2010-1	Proprietary
MaxDB	SAP AG	?	7.6	2008-1	Proprietary
ScimoreDB	Scimore	2005	3.0	201007??March 2008	Proprietary
SmallSQL	SmallSQL	2005-4-16	0.20	2008-12	LGPL
ADABAS	Software AG	1970	8.1		Proprietary
MySQL	Sun Microsystems (now Oracle Corporation)	1995-11	5.5.8	2010-12-15	GPL or Proprietary
Superbase	Superbase	1984	Scientific (2004)		Proprietary
Adaptive Server Enterprise	Sybase	1987	15.0		Proprietary
SQL Anywhere	Sybase	1992	12.0	July 9, 2010	Proprietary
Advantage Database Server (ADS)	Sybase	1992	10.1	June 2010December 2010	Proprietary
Teradata	Teradata	1984	V12		Proprietary
LucidDB	The Eigenbase Project	2007-1	0.9.3		GPL v2
MonetDB	The MonetDB Developer Team	2004	5.22	200806??October 2010	MonetDB Public License v1.1^[10]
Omnis Studio	TigerLogic Inc	1982-7	4.3.1 Release 1no	2008-5	Proprietary
SQLBase	Unify Corp.	1982	11.5	2008-11	Proprietary

Programming Languages

2011-01-09T12:55:00.007+08:00

As we all know, programming language is a vocabulary and set of grammatical rules for instructing a computer to perform specific tasks. Let us be familiarize with some computer programming languages aside from those programming languages that are familiar.

There are thousands of programming languages and new ones are created every year. Few languages ever become sufficiently popular that they are used by more than a few people, but professional programmers can easily use dozens of different languages during their career.

The following table compares general and technical information for a selection of commonly used programming languages. See the individual languages' articles for further information. Please note that the following table may be missing some information.

Language	Intended use	Paradigm(s)	Standardized?
ActionScript 3.0	Application, Web, Client-side	imperative, object-oriented, event-driven	1996, ECMA
Ada	Application, Embedded, System and Realtime	imperative, procedural^[2], concurrent^[3], distributed^[4], generic^[5], object-oriented^[6]	1983, ANSI, ISO, GOST 27831-88^[7]
ALGOL 58	Application	imperative	No
ALGOL 60	Application	imperative	1960, IFIP WG 2.1, ISO^[8]
ALGOL 68	Application	imperative, concurrent	1968, IFIP WG 2.1, GOST 27974-88,^[9]
Ateji PX	Parallel Application	object-oriented, pi calculus	No
Gr8it	Application	imperative	No
APL	Application, Data processing	array-oriented, tacit	1989, ISO
Assembly language	General	imperative, any	No
AutoHotkey	Highly domain-specific, GUI automation(macros)	imperative	No
AutoIt	Highly domain-specific, GUI automation(macros)	event-driven, imperative, procedural	No
BASIC	Application, Education	imperative, procedural	1983, ANSI, ISO
BeanShell	Application, Scripting	imperative, object-oriented, functional, reflective	In progress, JCP
BLISS	System	procedural	No
BlitzMax	Application, Game	imperative, procedural, object-oriented	No
Boo	Application		No
C	System	imperative, procedural	1989, ANSI C89, ISO C90/C99
C++	Application; System	imperative, procedural, object-oriented, generic	1998, ISO
C#	Application, Web	imperative, object-oriented, functional,^[12] generic, reflective	2000, ECMA, ISO
Clarion	General, Web, Business	imperative, object-oriented, functional ^[14]	Unknown
Clean	General	functional, generic	No
Clojure	General	functional, concurrent	No
CLU	General	imperative, procedural, object-oriented, generic	No
COBOL	Application, Business	imperative, object-oriented	1960
Cobra	General, Application, Business, Web	imperative, object-oriented, functional, generic, reflective	No
ColdFusion (CFML)	Web Development	procedural, object-oriented	No
Common Lisp	General	imperative, functional, object-oriented, reflective, generic	1994, ANSI
Comal 80	Education	imperative, procedural	No
Curl		imperative, event-driven, functional, object-oriented, generic, reflective	No
Cython	General, Application, Numerical Computing	imperative, object-oriented, functional, aspect-oriented, reflective	No
D	Application; System	imperative, object-oriented, generic	No
Dylan	Application	functional, object-oriented	No
Eiffel	Application	imperative, object-oriented, generic	2005, ECMA, ISO
Erlang	Application, Distributed, Telecom	functional, concurrent, distributed	No
Euphoria	Application	procedural	No
Factor		stack-oriented	No
FP		functional	No
F#	Application	imperative, functional, object-oriented, generic	No
Forth	General	imperative, stack-oriented	1994, ANSI
Fortran	Application, Numerical Computing	imperative, procedural, object-oriented, generic	1966, ANSI 66, ANSI 77, MIL-STD-1753, ISO 90, ISO 95, ISO 2003
Gambas	Application	imperative, object-oriented, event-driven	No
Game Maker Language	Application, Games	imperative, object-oriented, event-driven	No
Go	Application; System	concurrent, imperative	No
GraphTalk	Application	logic-oriented, object-oriented	No
Groovy	Application, Web	imperative, object-oriented, aspect-oriented	In progress, JCP
Harbour	General, Application, Business, Web, Data processing	imperative, procedural, functional, object-oriented, declarative, generic, reflective	No
Haskell	Application	functional, generic, lazy evaluation	1998, Haskell 98^[17]
HyperNext	Application, Education	procedural, weakly typed, event-driven	No
Io	Application, Host-driven Scripting	imperative, object-oriented	No
J	Data processing	array-oriented, function-level, tacit	No
JADE	Application, Distributed	imperative, object-oriented	No
Java	Application, Web	imperative, object-oriented, generic, reflective	No, Java Language Specification
JavaScript	Web, Client-side	imperative, object-oriented, functional, reflective	1997, ECMA
Joy	Research	functional, stack-oriented	No
LabVIEW ("G")	Application, Industrial instrumentation and automation	dataflow, visual	No
Lisp	Text processing	functional	Unknown
Logtalk	Application, Artificial intelligence	logic, object-oriented, event-driven, reflective	No
Lua	Embedded scripting, Application	imperative, object-oriented, functional, aspect-oriented, reflective	No
Mathematica	Highly domain-specific, Symbolic Computing	procedural, functional	No
MATLAB	Highly domain-specific, Numerical Computing	imperative, procedural, object-oriented	No
Modula-2	Application; System	imperative, generic	1996, ISO
Modula-3	Application	imperative, object-oriented, generic	No
Mythryl	Application, Scripting	imperative, generic, functional	No
Oberon	Application; System	imperative, object-oriented	No
Objective-C	Application	imperative, object-oriented, reflective	No
Objective Caml	Application	imperative, object-oriented, functional, generic	No
Object Pascal (Delphi)	Application	imperative, object-oriented, generic, event-driven, reflective, aspect-oriented^[21]	No
Occam	General	imperative, procedural, concurrent, process-oriented	No
Oxygene	Application	imperative, object-oriented, generic	No
Oz	Application, Education, Distribution	imperative, logic, functional, object-oriented, concurrent	No
Pascal	Application, Education	imperative, procedural	1983, ISO
Pawn	Embedded, Host-driven Scripting	imperative	No
Perl	Application, Text processing, Scripting, Web	imperative, procedural, reflective, functional, object-oriented, generic	No
PHP	Web, Server-side	imperative, procedural, object-oriented, reflective	No
PL/I	Application	imperative, procedural, object-oriented	1969
Plus	System development, Application	imperative, procedural	No
Prolog	Application, Artificial intelligence	logic	1995, ISO
Python	General, Application, Scripting, Web	imperative, object-oriented, functional, aspect-oriented, reflective	No
REALbasic	Application		Unknown
REBOL	Distributed	imperative, object-oriented, functional, dialected	No
RPG	Application		Unknown
Ruby	Application, Scripting, Web	imperative, object-oriented, aspect-oriented, reflective, functional	No
S	Application, Statistics	imperative, procedural, functional, object-oriented	No
S-Lang	Application, Scripting, Numerical	imperative, procedural	No
Scala	Application, Distributed	object-oriented, functional, generic, lazy evaluation, imperative	No
Scheme	General, Education	functional	1998, R⁶RS
Simula	General, Education	imperative, object-oriented, event-driven, discrete event simulation, multi-threaded (quasi-parallel) program execution	1968
Smalltalk	Application, Education	object-oriented, concurrent, event-driven, declarative, reflective	1998, ANSI
SNOBOL	Text processing		Unknown
Standard ML	Application	imperative, functional, generic	1997, SML '97
Tcl	Application, Scripting, Web	imperative, procedural, event-driven	No
Visual Basic	Application, Education	imperative, component-oriented, event-driven	No
Visual Basic .NET	Application, Education, Web	imperative, object-oriented, event-driven	No
Visual Prolog	Application	imperative, declarative, logical, object-oriented, functional, event-driven	No
Windows PowerShell	Administration	imperative, object-oriented, functional, pipeline, reflective	No
XL		imperative, concept programming, object-oriented	No

There are more programming languages that are not shown here in the table. Some of the stated programming languages are already obsolete. Being an information technology student, we must be familiarize with some programming language so that we can learn more, it is not good that we stick to one programming language only. Our ability to solve problems will not be enhanced.