10 most annoying programs on your computer

June 6, 2008 · Filed Under Techno-Bab, internet · 4 Comments 

Techrepublic has listed 10 most annoying programs to a computer user, both on the system and on the internet.

I have slightly changed the list and put them in the ascending order of the degree of annoyance. Though the intensity of pain in the ass that these bugs produce is purely subjective, there is no gainsaying that there exist some specimens of terror in digital form which inflict universally on the hapless users.

10. Flash

Flash is a good program. There is nothing to replace Flash movies - SWF or FLV. In fact the Youtube revolution has been made possible only by Flash. And Flash embedded players have ushered in the phenomenon of podcasting. In fact your cyber life would be thrown light years backwards with out Flash.

But having said that, there is no forgiving truckloads of Flash movies in intro pages of web sites. They trickle like molasses in December!

9. Yahoo and Google Toolbars
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What the heck is Web 2.0

September 21, 2007 · Filed Under Techno-Bab · Comment 

The most used (or, abused?) buzzword of the day in geekosphere is undoubtedly “Web 2.0″!

Blogger Ramon Padilla googled for this exotic term and received 76,200,000 hits. After perusing about 100 links, she realized that either everyone knows what Web 2.0 is (and has an opinion on it) or no one really knows what the heck it is (but has an opinion anyway.)!

She tries to evolve an understanding of this exotic term as follows:-

  • just a buzz word that means nothing at all,
  • a term that means whatever the user thinks it means,
  • the Web as it exists today,
  • the technology of the future

Her definition of Web 2.0 as voiced in her blog on Techrepublic is as follows:-

Stable and reliable high-speed bandwidth and the tools and applications that spring from it that allow the “network to be the computer” rather than being bound by your local PCs capabilities.

But it is only her definition! You and me are not bound by that. We can usher in our own version of it, because Web 2.0 is “everything for everybody”!

But right now it still remains an enigma to me, though it is bandied about by me everywhere, given a half chance!

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