webwanderings

Hey, thanks for your comment. You are the author of both of these extensions. Nice.

You certainly appear to have a winner of a service. However, it already appears to be complicated to go through the list of options in uBlock (what is checked and not checked by default - I will need time to understand).

I like how uBlock is running and your efforts, but it can possibly use some help in simplifying for typical average users, who should also use this (Ghostery is a winner in this regard with their wizard and simplified setup).

Edit: The two things I like in Ghostery: ability to selectively enable the individual blocked item; and be able to see the list of items being blocked.

Has anyone here replaced Adblock+ and Ghostery with only uBlock? I'd prefer least minimum extensions when possible. Does uBlock provides what Ghostery does? Or do I have to get SwitchBoard to have the Ghostery alternative?

Giving ublock a try. Going to turn off Adblock Plus while I run it. Will see how it goes.

Yup, ndiswrapper was one of the support routine. But even when things work, they don't work optimally, as the author is correctly claiming. But on the flip side, I should also mention that on another newer laptop with embedded wifi chip, I never had any wifi problems. Ultimately, I believe, Linux is probably suffering reputation - in comparison with Win/Mac - due to its multiple flavors and plethora of developmental end points. The lack of manufacturer support is just one of the issue.

My regular laptop with Win7 gave up the other day and I have been attempting to rebuild an old laptop with Linux as a temporary solution. I bought a cheap usb wifi dongle ... and lo and behold, support nightmare ensued.

Eventually, I realized that I didn't make a right choice in buying that tiny dongle. So now I am on phase two of rebuilding old laptop with Linux, with a different brand of usb wifi (double the price of the first cheap one).

I am not a Windows fan anymore, but everything in Windows world just works out of the box. And what's with Linux on daily basis looking to install upgrade for its OS?

Google Spreadsheet to store bookmarks, using a bookmarklet.

All the more power to competition and diversity of choices. But I see these reinventions and makeover campaigns and I really wonder if things are going well or not.

I use search engines for a niche blog, and I have a need to keyword search certain specific terms which are not common words. I have consistently tested all the available search engines (there aren't many). And I have always arrived at the same conclusion: there is no better search engine out there then what Google maintains.

I am no blind Google lover, but when it comes to practicality of effective and useful products, you have to have the best, in order to make your case.

Cheap or expensive, it is one-time cost. The recurring cost of cellphones are ridiculously expensive.

Change is always good, whenever it happens. Success or failure is a relative thing in this world anyway.

I am just a user, somewhat technically savvy. Back in the days when new services were coming up frequently, all free for anyone to use; I had a feeling that this service is not going to go anywhere. Here you are few years later.

The business of letting people save bookmarks, tag, share, are long gone, and so are the services with them.

Exit strategy?

This review comes very close to my experience. However, I would add one more point.

I used the new browser on two slightly older PCs (relatively old). On a 4GB machine, I almost fell off my chair because I wasn't expecting such a fine speed from FF. Like the author above, I got pretty excited thinking that FF is finally back.

I then tried it on 3GB machine, and I didn't get the same enthusiasm.

It boils down to what you're used to of already. Notwithstanding the other debates (Google, anti-Google etc - which is not my concern for this discussion).

As long as it is faster than Chrome (in every possible way), I'll switch back to it. Every second counts when people are on not-so-fast wires.

I add to this "concern". The reason I would not use G+ Hangout (although it may be a fine product, based on the feedback I have seen) is because I do not trust Google for all kinds of deep integration in multiple products.

I am fine using Skype with one particular ID because I am not using that ID on any other system. And that is how I prefer to use Internet everywhere, which I am sure many do as well.

I stopped using YouTube for commenting because of this reason exactly.

Strange, on their website, they "recommend" group talking with 5 people. On above YouTube video, they said, you "can" talk with 10 people.

It is not just a conspiracy theory, it is unethical business.

I was once sent one of those free promotional Gillette razor by mail. It lasted me for such a long time that I got fooled into believing that they are worth the extra cost. I went and bought the same kind and those ran out of their sharpness rather quickly. Obviously, the promotional ones were made to last long.

This razor business is one big conspiracy.

Yeah, it's time we go back to the basics. The html version is lot faster.

So we now want to wear Ads on our wrists? Just checking!

You know you are comparing apples to oranges? Google's archive is free and open.

It is exactly because of these reasons that they are dropping the cost. They clearly know that they don't have a market share. I stopped using GD exactly due to the reasons you mentioned above, and I am not going back at any cost!

Very nicely done. Just finished reading the whole. Hope you'd write the sequel.

Agree, noticed the same. The clouds are very quickly repeating. Hoping they'd innovate here further.

The fact that I was immediately thinking about the cost (and so do many others here) corrupts the experience right away. But anyways, very nice find for today. Hope it stays as is in the distant future.

Not exactly sure about the service you're looking to discuss anonymity on social media. But the issue is ultimately not of anonymity, rather a context.

Social sites like Facebook are fine for social interaction, but they are missing a boat when they don't give individual contexts to different situations, all pertaining to a single person. I'd rather be anonymous in one context and not anonymous in another, but Facebook doesn't provide such feature. Sites like Reddit on the other hand are at the opposite spectrum. You are technically anonymous across the board.

The balance between the two is that of context. Give people the ability to set their own context and that would be the ultimately best social Internet.

I thought they integrated Picknik into Google Plus.

Pixlr is very popular among young crowd. This one pales in comparison in the same category (free). I don't know about open-sourced though.

Facebook won't be going anywhere, just like Yahoo never did. Facebook Groups has way too many people locked in on daily basis. These are same people who are hooked on email and email lists.

The analogy Branch used in the earlier days of its launch (which isn't too long ago) was, in my words: consider Branch as a high school cafeteria, where each table has people of different taste and stripe discussing things.

So I guess the school was private after all and it got bought out by another private school.

You know, those students are eventually going to grow up and they're going to realize that private corporations are using (abusing?) their time and conversations to their own advantage.

Well of course your brain is keeping a certain state, even while in complete meditation. So what is the point? It is not like reaching a certain meditative state would make you superior among others, or a super-human even. Many have suggested that people reaching such states eventually do return back, and for some, such states even dissipate eventually if they don't keep up with the practice.

Ultimately, the idea is that the state of 'here-now' (whether arrived through practice, observation or heck even induced through means of substance - though there are differences) is the state when You are not your mind anymore. So in that sense, looking at above suggestion about memory, I would simply ask: what is the need of a memory?

By hallucinate you mean, not knowing what/where you are or doing, in that particular moment? Then yes, one can use that word. The simplest analogy of here-now is when you are watching an exceptional movie (as per your taste) and you get lost in those moments of watching. The same phenomenon is apparent in observing other forms of arts (songs, paintings etc).

So, are such states hallucination? Every person (human being) knows for sure that they are real.

The ultimate of meditation is to stay in here-now, be present in a present. So technically and logically speaking, you don't need a memory in such state.