Thursday, November 24, 2005

Microsoft's Anti Spyware results

A picture is worth a thousand words. This one is worth many more.


Speaks (Shouts?) of the level of desperation of Microsoft to see Firefox out of the market.
God save Microsoft (I don't really mean that, but then I think of MS employees).

Linux and Open Source rock!
So does Firefox!
(I love to repeat this)

Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Google rocks!

I have become a huge fan of Google now. After all, because of their research and dedicated hard work I can show the world where my home is!! I mean, there has to be a limit to everything but Google is above all those limits.
I wonder how much storage space they have. Let us count:
  1. Google Search: It is said that Google maintains a copy of (almost) the entire internet on its fileservers. Can you imagine how much storage that would require? I don't think you can. I can't. But these guys are doing it.
  2. Google Groups: Usenet like newsgroups for people to discuss and solve their problems and issues. Amongst all the services Google offers, I like this one most.
  3. Gmail: Forget Yahoo!, forget Hotmail. IMHO, Gmail is much better than them because it offers 2GB(!) of inbox size and also because it doesn't append those stupid footers at the end of the mails.
  4. Google Earth: Oh this is where they take the lead. Infact, in this category, in my knowledge, there is no competition to what Google has done. C'mon, they showed me my home (yes I could see it very clearly) on my PC with a only few mouse clicks. They are GODS in this!
    I have attached a screenshot (see the oval there in the image?), but a clearer image can be seen here and the exact thing can be seen here (requires Google Earth to be installed on your machine).
    This is my house!

    Infact, they are so advanced in this that they can show the 3-D imagery of the buildings in 38 US cities! Can anyone match this?
  5. Google Maps: This seems less useful now with Google Earth out. Still a very useful service for PCs connected to not-so-high bandwidth networks.
  6. Orkut: Needs any introduction?
  7. ...and there's so much more that they are doing I will run out of space on this blog of mine.

For some more screenshots I took from Google Earth, click here.