Can I get 5 hours battery Laptop...

"It is MAC" - those were my words when I first saw Vista. Guys, don't take me wrong I am not of those anti Microsoft guys...and for full disclosure we develop everything on Microsoft platforms. But what I miss more than anything in my day to day work isn't anything that Vista can give me. I was using MAC few times for QA purposes, and the most impressive things I found were the stability (no need for restarts, no processes were stuck...) and the...BATTERY. The laptop battery last for 5 hours (no need to replace in a middle of a meeting or more important during a flight).
So if someone has something to copy from our MAC neighbor he should start with the important ones...

Not just a link preview

One of the coolest tools I have seen lately is Snap. I also use it in my blog (and it took 5 seconds to add..) but what people don't know is that on www.snap.com you can also perform web search. True, you dont get the 500M results of Google (and I will write another post on this issue seperately since the numbers of reslts you see on Google should be questioned...) however, how many times you were on Google's list and wanted to see what stands behind particular result without leaving the list. Snap's solution is so simple but so user friendly too, a preview which is pretty similar to reading pane in most of the common email applications.
Another nice solution for the same problem you can find in Walla Search where you can see the preview inline.

End of a Monarchy

I like Alexa, I use it so often to better understand the web, user behaviour in different countries but I so often asked myself couldnt we get some absolute numbers regarding unique users.
In such a competitive world it is an absurd that the everybody just use the same tool to measure websites. I very often found myself explaining to others that those numbers we see in Alexa are somewhat unreliable. The reason was very simple. When you ask yourself - what does Alexa measure , the answer is : "Alexa measures what Alexa measure", it is all about their toolbar distribution.
Therefore when I saw Compete the first time - I was thrilled. Then came Quantqast...
When there is a competion we will all benefit from it.
Those new sites have still long way in their coverage especially when it come to non US websites. The peception that there is no world out of the US is completely wrong and might be a benchmark for those new sites success/fail. Still, getting real numbers instead or relative ones is a huge progress.

Travel Widget

I added today a Travel Widget to my blog. From now on , anybody who visits my blog can travel too. Isn't it great?
If you wonder, I do get referal fees ,but who cares if you are directed to an amazing travel site (www.lastminutetravel.com) and get results in a speed of light.