Mozilla’s Seamonkey

Most people really love firefox, but if they’ve heard SeaMonkey, they are wondering ” What’s the heck? “.

Well, SeaMonkey is from Mozilla foundation too, they use same engine as Firefox and Thunderbird all combined. The aim of SeaMonkey is

…..to ensure that you can have “everything but the kitchen sink” — and have it stable enough for corporate use.

SeaMonkey is formely known as “Mozilla Application Suite”.

If you are a great fun of Firefox and Thunderbird, you should really give it a try.

Domain Names : Fundamental of success ?

Well as some of you might notice I have been bloggin with the blogspot.com for quite a long time and then I decided to go with my own domain name.

Why? Because I feel that a good domain name can help an online business become more visible, credible and accessible. And it can also help a person make a fortune. While finding one was very prohibitive, we can be a part of the gold rush, too.

Let’s do the math! Over 23 million “.com” names have been registered, and over 22 thousand are being purchased every day. It means that you’re more likely to win the lottery than find a good domain name.

Here is a list of record selling domain name:

- business.com sold for $7.5 million
- asseenontv.com sold for $5 million
- altavista.com sold for $3.3 million
- loans.com sold for $3 million
- CreditCards.com sold for $2.75 million
- autos.com sold for $2.2 million
- Men.com sold for $1.3 million
- wallstreet.com sold for $1.03 million
- forsalebyowner.com sold for $835,000
- drugs.com sold for $825,000
- cinema.com sold for $700,000
- Me.com sold for $460,000
- art.com sold for $450,000
- engineering.org sold for $199,000
- fruits.com sold for $160,000
- perfect.com sold for $94,000

Not only that big list, some other domain are trading everyday on eBay from somewhere between $100 to $1000.

Why? Why do these people pay that much just for a domain name? This is because domain is the thing upon which you will build your online business. And like real estate, the location is just as important — being accessible.

Yahoo! Unlimited mail storage vs Gmail!

We all know that Yahoo! mail become unlimited, but still there is 10 MB attachment limit.

How genius and innovative Google responds to this? Well, 20 MB attachment size. As most email providers limit message size by 10 MB, if you want to send 20 MB message, you don’t have much choice left. The way Google respond left Yahoo! really looks bad. Unless Yahoo! or any other company can come up with innovations, Google will surely rule for a long long time.

What a nice respond GOOGLE!

When Gmail will reach 3 GB?

I just found this article very interesting. This blogger point out that Google is just playing number game.

The current rate of increase is at an average of 4 bytes per second

Now, we’re ready to do some basic math:

4 bytes / sec => 240 bytes / min => 14400 bytes / hr => 345600 bytes / day

If our goal is 3 GB and we’re going at a rate of 345600 bytes / day, it would take:
X days = 3,221,225,472 / 345,600 bytes
~ 9320 days => 25 years to go from 1 byte to 3 gigabytes

Ok, now we’re already at 2,693,144,200 bytes as of 4:30 PST, Feb 9, 2006. We’re now 528,081,272 bytes (503 MB) away from our 3 GB goal. So, let’s count how many days are left for GMail to become 3 GB.
X days = 528,081,272 / 345,600 bytes = 1528 days => 4 years

Because of counter running at Gmail website, we all think that we will get 3 GB soon, but in reality, it would take 4 years to come. Yes, that’s true 4 years.

Domain Name Playing the Traffic Game

This is a good big list of domain name sold for big prices:

- business.com sold for $7.5 million
- asseenontv.com sold for $5 million
- altavista.com sold for $3.3 million
- loans.com sold for $3 million
- CreditCards.com sold for $2.75 million
- autos.com sold for $2.2 million
- Men.com sold for $1.3 million
- wallstreet.com sold for $1.03 million
- forsalebyowner.com sold for $835,000
- drugs.com sold for $825,000
- cinema.com sold for $700,000
- Me.com sold for $460,000
- art.com sold for $450,000
- engineering.org sold for $199,000
- fruits.com sold for $160,000
- perfect.com sold for $94,000

Not only that big list, some other domain are selling too. eBay.com recently featured actual bids for as little as $400 for “netmotors.com” and $500 for “golegs.com” to as much as $20,000 for “arlington.com” and $25,000 for “drpepper.net” — and thousands more hovering anywhere in between.

Why? Why do these people pay that much just for a domain name? This is because more and more people would love to skip search engines and their plethora of irrelevant, misleading links to find exactly what they want. People try to guess where they want to go on the web when they no longer have the time for searching the Internet.

For example, let’s say you own a children book store on the Internet. On which of the following URLs would you click :

1. http://www.freehostexample.com/yourname/~childrens_books,
2. http://www.your-books-store-for-children-online.com,
3. http://www.YourChildrensBookStoreCompanyName.com
4. Or simply http://Childrenbook.com

Just think which one would you choose?

Over 23 million “.com” names have been registered, and over 22 thousand are being purchased every day. It means that you’re more likely to win the lottery than find a good domain name.

Nevertheless, a good domain name can help an online business become more visible, credible and accessible. And it can also help a person make a fortune. While finding one was very prohibitive, you can be a part of the gold rush, too.

In the final analysis, remember that your domain is the thing upon which you will build your online business. And like real estate, the location is just as important — being accessible.

Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years

Walk into any bookstore, and you’ll see how to Teach Yourself Java in 7 Days alongside endless variations offering to teach Visual Basic, Windows, the Internet, and so on in a few days or hours.

People are in a big rush to learn about computers, or that computers are somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. There are no books on how to learn Beethoven, or Quantum Physics, or even Dog Grooming in a few days.

Let’s analyze what a title like Learn Pascal in Three Days could mean:

Learn: In 3 days you won’t have time to write several significant programs, and learn from your successes and failures with them. You won’t have time to work with an experienced programmer and understand what it is like to live in that environment. In short, you won’t have time to learn much. So they can only be talking about a superficial familiarity, not a deep understanding. As Alexander Pope said, a little learning is a dangerous thing.

Pascal: In 3 days you might be able to learn the syntax of Pascal (if you already knew a similar language), but you couldn’t learn much about how to use the syntax. In short, if you were, say, a Basic programmer, you could learn to write programs in the style of Basic using Pascal syntax, but you couldn’t learn what Pascal is actually good (and bad) for. So what’s the point? Alan Perlis once said: “A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing”. One possible point is that you have to learn a tiny bit of Pascal (or more likely, something like Visual Basic or JavaScript) because you need to interface with an existing tool to accomplish a specific task. But then you’re not learning how to program; you’re learning to accomplish that task.

So go ahead and buy that book; you’ll probably get some use out of it. But you won’t change your life, or your real overall expertise as a programmer in 24 hours, days, or even months.

Original Article : norvig.com