The future of Internet browsers

The internet as we know it is ever growing and there is a bazillion of information scattered all around the internet. However, not all websites are credible and even if they are visually entertaining, they're not worth the time. Nonetheless, most websites are informative on their own purposes. A website that talks about different topics would contain millions of gigabytes of data. Narrowing it down would help a lot not just for the website owners but for the internet users. We are people of different preferences. We have different tastes and while many stick to one preference, others have a plenitude of preferences. The internet is an active library of information where changes happen in real time. However, this does need the interference of human beings to regulate the flow of information that are somehow critical to the daily lives of humankind. The internet to be understood as a machine is the negative way of explaining what internet really is; rather, to understand it as an extension of human consciousness is somehow closer to the reality. One day the human consciousness could be preserved in a subtle form of a living thing capable of retaining information, propagating wise decisions and interaction with any life form.

Why the need to compare the above statements to mere browsers? I believe that internet browsers would play a greater role in maximizing the potential of the internet to serve the best interest of humankind. Internet browsers act not only as tools to access information but as a ground for active interactions.

Google chrome proves to be amassing vast amounts of information and this alone entails that a bigger collective consciousness is capable of improving the lives of humankind.

A Perspective of Google Chrome from a Mozilla Firefox former user

Google Chrome is by far the most awesome browser there is. It is not fully functional like Mozilla Firefox yet but it surely beats other browsers with its ability to browse faster and with lots of free space for browsing. You might require a neat browser interface without annoying pop-ups—chrome does this job excellently. Google chrome's omnibar which is coined awesome bar in firefox works pretty well but it's missing some options like changing the default search engine with just a mouse click. However, in order to do so, you have to right click in the omnibar and navigate to manage search engines. These are just a few good addictive stuff present in chrome including the option to change themes and add as many extensions as they like. If you are using firefox you must be annoyed by now with slow and freezing start-ups. In my part, I am still using firefox because IDM (Internet Download Manager) works with it seamlessly and also since google toolbar does not install or is built-in in google chrome as of now. Nonetheless, the good side about using firefox is its stability and almost all website display their contents perfectly in firefox not to mention that firefox keeps competing in the browser wars with its recent upcoming update that will make it almost as good looking and as fast as chrome—well, that's what firefox people said. Chrome pioneers in new technology and there's no doubt that chrome browser is not just a browser. It can act like an OS within a browser. If you are spending so much time in the web, you can agree with me on this one. Chrome does not eat a lot of memory and if one tab crashes, you will never lose the others because chrome isolates tab processes to protect other tabs. This is very useful if you have more than one very important tabs open like you're doing banking on one account, and you're uploading contents to your website on the other while playing an online radio on the other, and so forth. With firefox, if one tab crashes the others will be affected as well, but recently this was addressed—but still in my analysis, chrome does it better. For the developers, chrome may not be as functional yet as firefox but lately, chrome keeps up on this field. Chrome has a growing library of extensions and at a young age, this is a great leap for chrome already since firefox has been present in a long time. Some people say switching to chrome is only a waste of time. Microsoft people will back you up if you're thinking the same way. People do their businesses with internet explorer in hand and Mozilla firefox. Google chrome for them is only an amusing stuff. I cannot agree with this one because chrome is a lot better against popular browsers like firefox and internet explorer. If you want you can test chrome and disprove me.

Art can change everything these days…

I have been writing a lot lately in my offline notebook of course and I can somehow say that writing with incorporated art makes writing a lot better. Writing in itself is an art of conveying information in a subtle way. No one spends so much time writing nonsense jungle of words without appearing to be subtle. Most wonderful written articles are the ones incorporating art in delivering their message to the readers. Sometimes the meanings of articles written by serious writers are often hidden in metaphors and the only way to unlock them is to appreciate the hidden art in the article itself.

Non-free and free software applications

Lately I have been reading about free software and I found a good read at http://www.gnu.org/. I don't have to explain again what free software applications are since GNU did the explaining greatly. Nevertheless, to my surprise not all Linux distributions are supported by the GNU. My favorites, Fedora and Ubuntu are excluded because of some expectations from the GNU that aren't met. Sadly, the said distros are very popular, stable and powerful and used mostly by developers and Linux newbies. Why does it really matter to make all software applications free? How come Microsoft pisses a lot of serious developers? I may not provide answers to these questions in this blog entry right now but as an average computer user, having exposed in non-free and free software applications, all I can say is that the dichotomy between the non-free and free software applications have created serious groups amongst the developers and computer users in general. Nonetheless, not all individuals who support free software are using absolutely free software applications because of several factors involved. Let's admit it that Microsoft does a lot of jobs easier and faster than Linux. Most state of the art technologies have been developed by Microsoft and supported by hundreds of commercial companies and developers in general. I think the best idea that captures this phenomenon is that Microsoft has been the habit of so many people. It is almost impossible to get away from Microsoft since they pioneered almost all the easy stuff in the cyber world. It is true however that the statement, "give a man a fish today and you have fed him for one day, teach him how to fish and you feed him his entire life," is very significant amongst developers. Since the internet has been a self-supporting world on its own, the control of it should not be governed by one entity or else it would fall into the pitfalls of tyranny. I believe that the internet is an intelligent community and as such, it should also have laws to protect everyone using it. Going back to the use of free and non-free software, I think all that matters is that the job gets done. For those who are using free software applications, they have the advantage of improving their tools and mastering their craft the best way they could. On the other side, those who are using non-free software applications rely greatly on a few individuals but it doesn't mean they couldn't do anything because they can freely interact with the developers and point out bugs and offer possible improvements in the form of suggestions.

Friendship

What does a friend stand for? Back in the time of Christ, a friend stands for someone who would want to give one's life for the other. What does it imply? Considering the broad expansions of the moral aspects of this friendship thing, defining friendship and its implications can only be answered in the phenomenal level. It's easy to put words for this matter but knowing in the very fundamental way requires a certain kind of phenomenal validation. It is quite of human standards to feel and feeling can be done on several standards. Collective human experiences are often the easiest sources of this phenomenal validation. Human feels the density of something on the basic level thus the closest to the fundamental level. This friendship thing is embedded deeply into the fundamental aspects of humanity. This is like the thread that binds all kinds of relationships from family to casual encounters amongst strangers. This friendship grows deeper and deeper until the bind becomes so strong that it wouldn't break against several circumstances. That is why the common statement—"to give one's life for a friend" is the closest definition of friendship. Everyone needs a friend not to serve one's purposes or like a means to an end but for that thread that makes life more meaningful and stronger. One strand of thread is not enough to fill the entire the universe, so there are an indefinite number of threads that bring colors to the entire universe giving it awesome and dazzling looks.
Nowadays finding a friend is very easy. Just go online and viola in an instant you can add a friend to your online social life. The social aspect of humanity is like solidified with the help of technology bridging the gap between distance and presence. Of course friendship is like planting a tree; you have to nurture it until it bears fruits. Nurturing it can take years just like the normal growth rate of a real tree. The older it gets the better it becomes. It is easy to add friends in your virtual friends' list but bringing that list to the phenomenal level is somehow the other way around. Would you give your life to a virtual friend? This question is ambiguous and I cannot presume an answer but a good thing to ponder. Friendship brings colors to the human life and considering the short span of human life; why not take advantage of adding more color to life through technology? If the world cannot be changed because of hard traditions and clichés laden generations why not change it through an infinite possibility of a total new generation where everybody can contribute. First, start with the virtual world then bring it to the phenomenal world merging online presence with reality. Change can be really slow but it always becomes better in time. The best thing to do is to enjoy every second of one's life. Feel the color a friend brings to your life and hold on to it because life is short but enough for you to see what a wonderful world this is. Seeing a beautiful world is like going out in the open and not being afraid to get caught in the rain or in the middle of a storm. Life force is a spontaneous matter and considering it to be that way living life the sedentary way is like living centuries-old lifestyles.
As for me, I will hold on to the people closest to my heart and enjoy every second with them. I may not find all the answers I am looking for but I am not obliged to learn everything. There are billions to learn from and the life that I have is not designed that way. I will live knowing that the greatest thing to learn is not found in the famous schools but in living one's life like the way it is supposed to be lived.