In my last post, I was talking about buying a new phone this year and also waiting for Win Mo 6.5 to show its colours. But now, MS made my choices pretty simple, it's now Android, iPhone or Palm Pre.
Windows Mobile 6.5 is still lingering in last century
Microsoft recently came with the announcement of Windows Mobile 6.5 in MWC yesterday and it looks good from a first sight and also feels way ahead of its previous versions. Ahem, "... way ahead of its previous versions"? Not at all folks, Win Mo is just got a new look and some tweaks here and there, that's all. I wonder what's MS is doing all the way since January 2007, when Apple announced their revolutionary iPhone for the first time. This is 2009 and there is still not support for Capacitive Touchscreens? Adding to our agony, no update Media Player, weirdly small onscreen keyboard in IE, no direct Zune integration, what the hell is this?
Google Analytics is bloated
People love Google and I'm not an exception too. But that does not make it necessary to take it for granted that everything Google is godlike. I don't believe that 'Googliness is Godliness' (my take on cleanliness is godliness). And adding to my agony (besides Google Chrome), Google Analytics is playing fowl with my website for months. Some friend of mine recommended it to me and I accepted (now I'm feeling guilty of it). Google Analytics is shit, a pure piece of crap. It makes your site a helluva slow, add to its latency, spy on what you are doing with Adsense and also after all those craps, does not show actual and accurate stats at the end of the day. And did I mention that it also can't track the traffic in real time? Not so Google like, which applied a great layer of AJAX and JavaScript to all of it's major apps like Gmail or Reader that works.
I am still relying on my awstats, and that's great for me now. I don't needed to set a goal to catch up, I don't need to see flashy graphical representations of all the stats you are provided with. I just want a simple, low on bandwidth but accurate and detailed statistical system and awstats is providing it with pleasure.
I am still relying on my awstats, and that's great for me now. I don't needed to set a goal to catch up, I don't need to see flashy graphical representations of all the stats you are provided with. I just want a simple, low on bandwidth but accurate and detailed statistical system and awstats is providing it with pleasure.
Google Chrome for Mac is almost there? Yes and No
Google's Mike Pinkerton, one of those devs working hard to get Google Chrome in Mac OS X as early as possible, posted some developer build screenshots of Google Chrome in his blog. But before even we are jumping to rejuvenate the event, here's what the author is saying himself,
Now mind you, clicking doesn't work, and the renderers crash like nobody's business, but the other great thing is that the user interface stays running even if they do. Just open a new tab and keep going! It's important to point out that's part of what's taken us so long to get to this point. The WebKit that ships as part of Mac OS X can't run this way -- it took a lot of work to marshall it to do so. In addition, the UI clearly needs much love, but it's an indicator of the clean and simple direction we're heading.
So it seems that we still have to wait for devs to make their ends meet and Google Chrome for Mac is definitely not coming before Q2.
