Google Chrome

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: April 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Over the past few weeks i have started to use Google Chrome as my main internet browser, i decided to start using it more because it is really fast to open. Although i really like Firefox i will be using Chrome for the next while for the bulk of my browsing. 

I will however still be using Firefox because i use it a lot when editing websites because of all the great plugins that i have that make problem solving with websites a breeze. I will never go back and use Microsoft's Internet Explorer and have not used it in about 2 years now. 

I found that when watching some of the high definition videos in firefox it made the video jump when you try to play it when the video is still finishing off downloading. In chrome however i found that it plays seamlessly, i would assume this has to do with the fact that because Firefox uses so much memory compared to other applications, when you try to run a HD video it just becomes a little too much and since Chrome uses less memory it dosent find it as such a struggle to play the HD videos.

There are a few other reasons i switched to chrome, i like how much screen space i now have with this browser, i can see a lot more of the page which is great :D

There is one other time when i use all of my internet browsers, (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer), i use them when i want to check to make sure that my website is displaying right in all the different browsers, because chances are when you are designing and using the one browser to check if it is looking ok, by time you come to finally check it when you are finished you will most likely find something that has broken in one of the different browsers because the code differs slightly from browser to browser.

Spam

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: April 4th, 2009 | 2 Comments

I have never had much trouble with spam before, sure i get loads of spam to my e-mail account but it never reaches my inbox. Over the past month i have noticed a rapid increase in the amount of spam that i have been getting to this blog. I have gotton over 500 spam comments in the last month alone!

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Luckily i have the askimet wordpress plugin, without it i would of been overwhelmed with spam on my blog. I would have to delete each comment individually, and if you try to delete 500 comments it would take a fair bit of time.

The graph above is a view of the rise in spam in my blog post, as you can see it really started to take off around the March 2009 section of this year, this is a complete reflection on the fact that i started to blog a lot more from the beginning of March. It just goes to show if you work more on a site and that site begins to get traffic that you will not escape the spammers. Well good luck to them because they are not getting publicity on this site, as soon as there few hundred word comments with god knows how many links gets left, instantly Askimet will detect it and remove it before it appears on the site at all. Now thats what i call service!