Adobe's dynamic web push

Adobe introduced its Apollo product's alpha version, which provides both access to rich internet applications and provides offline usage of web applications. In recent years web 2.0 applications blurs the border between our desktop applications and dynamic web applications. Google maps, google spreadsheets and a variety of applications from different vendors are now available for online users. Rich internet applications are good in that they provide online access of your documents, mail boxes from everywhere, support collaboration and some other useful facilities from provider(ie. search your mails, backup etc.)

However online applications should be "online" all the time. Due to connection errors or problems of the service provider, a user may not be able to use the application at all. Adobe's Apollo product aims to remove this problem. It is compatible with AJAX and gives opportunity to use your web application offline.

Adobe provides another tool, Flex, to build rich web applications. Flex is available to users, developers. It has an Eclipse-plugin too.

Web 3.0, but what?

We could not even catch the Web 2.0 train(how possible; everyone gets different things from "Web 2.0".). Nowadays I've been reading some articles about companies that calls themselves as "Web 3.0" companies. What is this idiocity? Is web something that has new releases every six months? Or can anybody call a new application or business scheme just incrementing the "Web"'s version number?
All this is non-sense. Web 2.0 is all well; social networking, rss feeds, user generated content, AJAX-enabled applications. But what is the real outcome of it? Can we use internet in everyday life as pure "Web 2.0"? There are many obstacles in Web 2.0, and now we are trying to understand web 3.0.

Hijackthis is sold!

The popular antispyware HijackThis is acquired by TrendSecure Corp, an antivirus and security software producer. Hijackthis was written by a university student and he has sold the product because he could not find enough time to update the software due to university obligation he had.
Trendsecure has published the first beta of the HijackThis 2.0 here

AJAX: some pros and cons

Pros:
1) The web page doesn't need to load entirely, just the needed parts are refreshed if required
2) Javascript scheme is more secure. It has "same source/same server" rule. The requesting page should be on the same server/domain

Cons:
1)History back operation is not possible most of the time
2)Because of dynamic structure, pages cannot be indexed or historically archieved

Web 3.0

BBC and IBM signed a deal to build a video search tool as a "Web 3.0" application. IBM has been developing a video search engine that identifies objects in a video and indexes the videos according to the content. Current video or image search engines are based on meta tag or some keywords. However the real problem in video or image search is to automate indexing procedure, which IBM is believed to develop a good engine.

Windows live one care failed second test

Windows live one care failed the second test that is performed against 500,000 viruses. There were 17 security products and live one care hit %82 success and failed the second test.
It is ironic that microsoft fell behind the other security software vendors to protect its own product.

Future of office application

By announcement of Google Apps for domains the competition between classical desktop applications and new "web 2.0" application gets hot again. With Google apps or other beta application available online, users enjoy using their applications wherever they are online without carrying any document and without worrying about what kind of computer,OS they are using.

The new approach, which have been discussed for about 3 years has a direction: online operating system. Online operating system concept is a threat to Microsoft which dominates the OS market. Internet penetration will help the web applications, however the security concerns and internet availability are the basic obstacles so far.

I tried Google spreadsheet, which is very helpful if you are lost between spreadsheets that reside on your multiple computers(home, work,school etc). It was always a problem for me to find a spreadsheet that I used it for a small note only, or I had many versions of a document and cannot find which one was the last "useful" one. Collaboration is also a powerful side of Google spreadsheet. Gmail, the life safer, is both my mailbox and my document storage area.

However security problem(both internal and external) and internet availability is a concern for me. There were moments in the early times of gmail when the "service is temporarily unavailable" was annoying. Also sometimes I couldn't get online too. Another issue is the password theft of your account which is problem of many MSN messenger users.

Book on mathematics

Making math or telling it... I was unaware of such a discussion among mathematicians till I read a few pages of my new book named "The art of Mathematics". It is an interesting book that its writer intends to "tell" something about math without apologizing. According to the writer, the pure mathematicians who "make" math think that they are doing the real job while the others who "tell" about mathematics are the ones who are not producing anything but talking about their work.

At first the idea seems very rude but in recent years very few men produce some ideas and the rest is just talking, criticising, describing or making fun of these works. The world needs more fresh work, innovation. Criticism, descriptions and other stuff are all necessary but should not be the essentials.

Ankara again

After a 3,5 years break, I am now in Ankara again, due to my military service. This year, even the cold and snow makes life more difficult, will be something like a holiday if a surprise won't happen.
Military service is not like a thing what was in my mind previously. It is sometimes boring to be far away from your loved one; however it pulls you from the stress and fast tempo of the working life.

Anyway, it is not so good, not so bad. If obliged, then we must keep on doing it.