What's up with AllMyApps's account linking?

I have an account in AllMyApps. AllMyApps wasn't really useful, but I still have my account there. Recently they introduced account linking, just like many other sites do. But when I tried to link my Google Account, it claims that "it wants permission to view my Contacts".

Evils of deleting cache and Private Browsing (cacheless browsing)

People seem to like clearing their browser cache habitually thinking that it will keep browsing smooth, akin to sending a car for a service. Some also clear cache because of paranoia: someone might view my browser history, I better not keep any. To the extent that they yearned for a feature that will automatically clear cache when they finish using it. Now, it's included as a standard in popular browsers. But don't you feel anything when you have to redownload a (lawful) page you've visited yesterday?

Subscribe? No, thank you. Go away please!

In Japan where I used to live, from time to time a newspaper agent will knock on your door in the afternoon to sell you subscriptions. In Malaysia where I live right now we don't have that, but pretty soon maybe it will too as less and less people are buying from the stands because they can already read it online. But what I want to focus here is the experience of having someone appear in front of your door as you open it to answer the doorbell, only to be begged for subscription. Haven't you experienced something similar on the net?

Google Chrome: 20 processes and not counting…

When first released to public, it was touted to be a fast browser with emphasis on stability. Google Chrome is probably the first to have brought tab-process isolation to the browser market (or was it IE8? The preview got out at almost the same time). And it did live up to its name. Crashing plugin? No problem, the plugin container is killed, and browser resumes as usual. It's fast. It's stable. No cruft. Wait, this is some kind of déjà vu… wasn't Firebird like that too?

Handling Google Chrome (Chromium)'s sucky bookmark manager

Get Firefox. Register Xmarks account. Install XMarks extension on both browser. Sync on Chrome. Sync on Firefox. Edit bookmarks as you like in Firefox. Sync again, on Firefox, then on Chrome. Problem solved. Well, at least I have to do this until Chromium devs implement a better bookmarks manager.

Evils of dynamic content

Remember the dial-up-served HTML 0.x age, where pressing back button instantly brings you to previous page? Nowadays most of the content you see on the internet are actively served i.e. they are not loaded from static .html files, so sometimes we need to wait for the browser to revalidate the page before loading from cache. We are trending further away from static serving, and going further into dynamic pages, but what haven't we lost something along the way?

Facebookers: Stop taking high resolution photos!

Today's article will be about SNS and proliferation of photo uploading by vain users who want to show off so many things that they think needs urgent attention so that thoughts could be shared, nonetheless humanity can survive mighty fine without them.

A request to web authors: do way instain "font-size: x-small;"

Do you realize the number of web pages that have the main font size i.e. font for articles smaller than default? It's a pain to my eyes, and I'm sure it is too for other non-machine web surfers.

Another noise on the net introduced

Don't you hate it when your search result is polluted with irrelevant things? You may be blamed for not having the knack of putting together good search terms, but sometimes, there's just no helping it; the information you're looking for just don't have enough distinctions to allow it to be siphoned from all the junks. Here's to hoping that this blog won't become another one of those mess.