blog search by google

finally, google unveiled its blog search. it's basically based site feeds i.e. RSS and Atom etc.
one question that i have is how it will handle posts that are not in the feed? for example, there are too many posts during google's crawler's indexing interval. so some post will not appear in the feed.
another situation is after being indexed, the post gets updated or deleted. how does it know when to update the page?
let's see how it goes. at least it's better then none.

Keyhole and Google Earth

Downloaded Google Earth yesterday. It's amazing. It makes learning Geography such a pleasure that I've been browsing the earth all the time just like Keyhole says.
What make this a success is:

• High definition digital images captured from sattelite
• KML, or Keyhole Markup Language, is an XML grammar and file format for modeling and storing geographic features such as points, lines, images and polygons for display in the Google Earth Client.

The high definition imagery enables us to clearly see mother earth. There're so many views that are so splendid and not possible to be seen by any means on earth. And KML enables easy communications between Google Earth users. I have to say that this is such a good way of sharing information that real estate companies are adopting it so quick. The Keyhole community provides a lot of information as well as news on the development of this area.

Useful Software Tips

some tips on Microsoft office are very good such as "alt+enter" to insert new line character within a cell (Excel).

Firefox Browser

I switched to use firefox browser sometime ago because:

1. I'm tired of using I.E.. I wanna try something new.
2. Firefox's tab browsing is really a cool feature. I'm tired of switching among many I.E. windows.
3. Firefox's DOM inspector is really good for developers. It will always reveal the source of the page.

Here are some tweaks to make firefox faster:

1.Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:

network.http.pipelining network.http.proxy.pipelining
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests

Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.

2. Alter the entries as follows:

Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true"

Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once.

3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.

Media - ASX format

ASX (Advanced Stream Redirector) files are not media files, but metafiles.
Metafiles provides information about files. ASX files are plain text files used to describe multimedia content:
Use ASX metafile to stream media files together achieving CD player effect where user can select previou or next.
examples:
<ASX VERSION="3.0">
<Title>Songs</Title>
<Entry>
<ref href="h01.mp3"/>
</Entry>
<Entry>
<ref href="h01.mp3"/>
</Entry>
<Entry>
<ref href="h01.mp3"/>
</Entry>
</ASX>

<ASX VERSION="3.0">
<Title>Holiday 2001</Title>
<Entry>
<ref href="holiday-1.avi"/>
</Entry>
<Entry>
<ref href="holiday-2.avi"/>
</Entry>
<Entry>
<ref href="holiday-2.avi"/>
</Entry>
</ASX>