iE9 - unleash a more beautiful web

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.

Sun Tzu 

I'm beginning to love Internet Explorer 9 as my days of usage is counting up. Sometimes less is more, ie9's minimalist appearance is wayyyyyy attractive than to Google chrome's minimalist theme. Microsoft has made a true revamp from what has been the trademark of ie since its advent on the version 6, where clutter is always the x-factor, most especially to those branded PCs where toolbars for antivirus and search engines are always incorporated to internet explorer.

internet explorer 9's fresh cut

google chrome's late night theme

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Cheer up ie aficionados! Although ie9 is still on its beta version, it seldom crashes (based on my experience usage of 2 weeks now). A Plus on this newest version was 

the power of the browser's address bar to serve as search box redirecting to whichever is your default search engine(just like Chrome). If Bing is your default search engine or Google; this browser flawlessly return search results upon typing keywords (or searches) on the address bar itself. Not to intensify the fire that Bing is advancing as a search engine, trying to compete closely now with the big G.

The tools menu has been simplified as well, and yes the Internet Options tab is still there. Big bonus though is the addition of Safety Browsing (aka incognito mode in Chrome) and not say the least, a download manager has been imparted too. (yey!). Another cool about iE9 is its focus on HTML5 - the ever growing mark up language for the web.

When it comes to speed as a browser, i'd still choose Chrome for it's super savvy speedo delivery in loading up a website (could it be probable that since  i mostly use google services such as reader, mail, blogger, buzz, etc; the loading of pages is much faster? yep! i can feel the difference when i load up my blog from Chrome and from iE9, leaving the latter a lil bit late yet the obviousness is simply felt. I think it has something to do with caching.

You have nothing to lose when you try this iE9's beta. It's definitely worth a try to put some spice on your routinary browsing experience with chrome or firefox.  The tag line for iE9 is - "unleash a more beautiful web". so if you fancy clicking a beautiful and impressive browser. Go ahead and click the link below.

DOWNLOAD Internet Explorer 9 Beta.

~mAc

Reflections on the Social Network

"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." 

Muhammad Ali 

My first social network site that i truly have nursed and love from the beginning is Friendster. I was hooked to it during its highest peak of fame. Time flies when i'm logged into it, clicking pictures and profiles, checking out who has viewed my profile, updating my shout out, uploading pics and incessantly staring at the screen with countless finding and inviting acquaintances, friends and human beings that seem attractive and tugging in my perspective just by looking at their photos staring back at me in return. The law of diminishing returns has its say, proving once again that as you use a service over and over again, the tendency of its effectiveness will decline after you achieve a certain level of result. Thus, tending me to deactivate and totally abandon Friendster. 

Then came Twitter, it was a flop at first use on my part. It wasn't a click on the starting stage of my usage until just recently that i came to realize and appreciate the beauty and significance of having a twitter account. Ironically, i only have 34 followers and i'm only following 30. I really don't care about the numbers. I became cautious of who i follow now since i don't want to get pissed off and dis-entertained by such annoying tweets. Really! it's so unnerving and unpleasant to see on my timeline of  those unnecessary tweets from people. No offense meant but receiving a 10-30 tweets a day from one person is just so unacceptable, not to mention that some are just being well-off or worse being bland and tasteless on what they are tweeting. Now imagine if you are following 20 persons with that same kind of tweetitude ethics, they are now flooding your timeline with garbage with unintelligible it's none of business shout outs from their profiles. So, without any guilty feelings, i had to drop some of my followers. It was kinda hard of course, it's like having no heart at all. But doing so means freeing some space on my bucket, filtering the flow of data into a much sensible one especially in the case of information overload.

The unavoidable Facebook, i couldn't count now on my fingers how many times i have deactivated and reactivated my fb account, this i perceived at times as a waste of time, but it's like a metaphor of plunging myself into licking my favorite ice cream flavor during the summer. I recently liked Mark Zuckerburg's fb page (of course im talking about here the like button from facebook). With the advent of the movie The Social Network (which i'm so eager to see), it defines more of my intense grip in spreading and nurturing my social network presence, thus i created a page for my macdosage blog. Which i'm requesting you to Like it just in case you're reading this post. (ehem!)

On the lighter side of things, dull moments are killed when i'm into facebook, reality check that is. Please negate me thru the comments below if you disagree. While this thing is so immense now into the daily activities whenever we are surfing the net, we must not forget that privacy still matters. The trend, if not the majority now i'm seeing on facebook is that, their personal identities are so much into the open. I learnt this by clicking people's profile that aren't even my friends, (prolly only Friends of Friends), and yet i can see their personal phone number with matching specified addresses and locations, those glaring photos geotagged and those pics that must have been for the eyes of their loved ones only, are now being exposed to whoever the user is (that's quite alarming, you don't want a stranger snooping at your personal stuff, don't you?).  Of course, each of us has its own prerogative. 

But come to think about it. Privacy still does matter. And it's a big deal.

~mAc

Brave heart

Beware the barrenness of a busy life. 

Socrates 

One of the most stunning, death defying stints i've seen on the tube so far. This adventurer cum director has one hell of a courage. Letting not only his countenance but whole being almost piped in to the crater of a volcano is purely one heck of pushing thru the limits. 

I'm trying to put myself in his shoes, yet it weakens my endurance when it comes to close contact heat. I could easily be burnt. (weh! literally and figuratively hehehe).

Take a look at this vid...

After my eyes being glued on that reality adventure, i can't help thinking beyond his courage, what if a mistake was made, out of a sudden his grip got loose on the rope and he spiraled downward into the fire... the magma eating him, chomping his wholeness in an instant, could it be like hell in this earth? Scary!

~mAc

Cure for the Itch

(this isn't Linkin Park's lyrics)

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. "

William Shakespeare 

Many times i longed for our bodies entwined
In the deepest passion the brain can mime
to hold and touch you so eagerly
that my body aches for thee

Many times i visioned a steamed action
So wanton that coals could melt
That neither water could suppress
Nor dampness could try to recess

And so this time has come
The glorious sparks of thunderous fireworks
of mixed scents to lead a core
where flames of love has to bore

Insanely i indulged further
reaching, arching and fearlessly enjoyed
the ecstasy it brought
the bliss it showered and sought

Alas! i felt numbed and oozed into nothingness
For the tiresome delicacy i tasted
That left my breath almost unchased
That left my mouth dried and unquenched

And then i slowly turned
i could hear the creaking on my bed
and the mattress got into disarray
And so i drew myself up, instantly!

Thinking that somebody must be watching us
I rummaged my face with disbelief
I pinched my arms to reality...
In my dismay... i woke up,
it was only just a dream...













~mAc

Mama Noorah

"All styles are good except the tiresome kind. "

Voltaire 

It was a Sunday, 3rd of October, my friends and i went to check in at Mama Noorah. Our guts are crying to be filled with grub. Although our neighboring eating houses were KFC (nah! nakakasawa na), Hardees (we dont feel like eating hamburgers at that moment), Friday's (di kaya ng budget) and Applebees (quite expensive) which were all a walking distance from our villa, those four above were ruled out and Mama Noorah had our choice, simply because it's affordable.

As per my buddy Roger, this is just one of their many branches in the Kingdom, it was my first time to dine here, and so my always scrutinizing eyes went popping out by the fruit displays almost  everywhere, artistically designed and passionately decorated amongst the racks and stands with mirrors. (i didn't take shots of it though) but reality wise, the house is almost filled with fruits ranging from oranges, bananas, etc. I couldnt take my eyes off the shakes being made real time - pomegranate, orange, banana, kiwi, strawberry and mixed fruit shakes that left my tastebuds aching. ( i learnt later, that Mama Noorah is best known for its fresh juices)

We settled for a broasted chicken. I'm not really sure why it was called broasted instead of roasted. 

If Jollibee has it's inevitable gravy to match the chicken joy, i realized here that garlic gravy is the partner of chicken. I admit, this garlic thingee is more addicting in complementing the chicken's tender-juicy flesh and cripsy skin.

I think, (i'm not really sure), this one below is a variety of Dhal - topped with olive oil. I learnt that dhal is quite healthy as a source of protein.

Not to say the least, Kuboos (arabic bread) is everywhere here in the Kingdom. Most of the time, a sub for rice. Best eaten when it's hot!!!

We went out from the resto burping. And with smiles. (Next week ulit daw)







~mAc