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Update Adobe Flash Player

// November 25th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // Tech

I was going through my site Analytics right now and see that a surprising number of people, almost 33% of the visitors still use an older version of Adobe Flash Player on their browser. Some of them are using Flash Player 9.

Why do you need Adobe Flash Player? Almost any video you play online Youtube, Hulu, Netflix or interactive websites like Facebook use Flash Player.

Why should you update since the old one still works? Adobe recently added support for enhanced hardware acceleration. What it means for you is that if you have a decent enough computer, the flash player you had till now is not using your full computer power to display good quality videos. That’s the reason your videos are crappy and choppy. ( Assuming your internet’s not the issues )

This should help you with testing your version of Adobe Flash Player and you can download the latest version from here.

Facebook Chat and Why I Think It Sucks!

// April 23rd, 2008 // 5 Comments » // General, Tech

Its a rat race. That’s what it is. I do not seem to get the point why Facebook needed a chat window for its already cluttered and lame looking interface. Google has chat. Microsoft has chat. So may be they thought lets get chat too.

The online friends functionality it shows was already available. And if you see a friend online you can always post a message on his wall. And he can reply back if he wants to, then and there. Its not like you need an entirely separate area for chat, some other area for posting walls and yet another area where you send messages. I mean wall posts are public and messages are private – I can understand them. But why in the name of god do you need chat?

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There was one blog the other day where I see people whining about no “folders” in Gmail in the comments. Gmail has labels. Why do you need folders? And what is the point of different webmail clients if they all look, feel and offer the same? If you cannot live without your “folders”, please DO NOT use Gmail. What I don’t need right now is Google doing something stupid and adding a chat interface as default to Orkut, just because Facebook has chat too.