Following our story on the different browsers of the future, you may be interested in the traffic rankings for NeoSmart.net since the story's publication:
Browser Traffic @ NeoSmart.net
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The Trouble with Logos
Many design logos for a living, and even more as a hobby. But the worst logo designers are those that make them because they have to. Making a logo for a program or application is even harder than making one for a company or organization; especially since the latter can easily be an abstract work, something to go with the name. But icons and logos for a program need to be exact, they have to fit the "mood" of the application and match it curve for curve. These icons need to display a message that coincides with the functionality of the program to give you the end user a complete user experience that they will never forget – ever.. that is if you plan on keeping and growing your user-base!
A Cool Look at the Future Three
Dear Readers, you might find this comparison of traffic-per-browser to NeoSmart Technologies since this articles publication interesting.
Internet Explorer 7 has undeniably come a long way. Whether you like Microsoft's giant of a browser or hate it to pieces, the fact remains that Internet Explorer 7 is the single biggest update/upgrade this browser has ever seen, very comparable to the Windows 3.1.1 => Windows 95 upgrade in Microsoft's Operating System lineup. In this mini-writeup, we will be discussing from a fairly objective position how Internet Explorer 7 now stands compared to the latest offerings from it's biggest competitors: Firefox and Opera. This isn't a comparison, there will be no "winner," not in this article at any rate!
Unlike the other so-called reviews on the web, we're not going to compare it to Phoenix 0.1 and Opera 3; we're doing the real thing here, IE7 as it stands side-by-side with Opera 9 Build 8372 and the latest Firefox weekly. This isn't going to cover the glitches and the bugs that will be sorted out (hopefully) sooner or later, we're focusing on the hard-core features and the projected audiences, to evaluate the overall product experience.
Vista 5365 Haunted by Bug from the Past: PDC 2003!
5365 is was a good build. It looked pretty; it had nifty features, stunning wallpapers, and a fairly stable core. But, as the say, looks can be deceiving.
Can an operating system without the ability to access the internet be considered a "good" OS? As a desktop machine? I doubt that the best written operating system is worth a dime if it can't connect to other computers and services. It just won't work. So, excuse me while I uninstall Windows Vista Build 5365, and update GRUB2 to reflect the changes and boot FC5 instead.
Bye-Bye Akismet
It's been a hell of a month for Akismet on our site; for some reason we've had more false positives than real spam stuck in the filter, and more spam in the comments than real replies.. So we've decided to give Spam Karma 2 a chance.
I've noticed it has a helluva lot more options than Akismet, and at the very least the logic remains on our server and does not await a reply from a heavily-hit server on Automattic's end. We'll see if this does the trick, but we have high hopes!
Something Big Coming Your Way
Download this application here!
I'm really happy to be able to tell you about something that's been it the works and under wraps for quite a while, because we feel you deserve to know in advance so you can get your computers ready! NeoSmart Technologies and PROnetworks have teamed together; and we're almost done designing and publishing a program that will literally change the face of Vista and how you look at it.
ATi Drivers for Windows Vista 5365
This is just a quick post to inform everyone in need of ATi Drivers for Microsoft Windows Vista Build 5365 on what to do…
The default drivers work fine if all you want from them is for Aero Glass to work. However, they result in very slow animations, and even simple tasks like scrolling in Internet Explorer hang for a couple of milliseconds at a time. If you follow this link you will get to a page to download the official 5308 drivers, which work perfectly on 5365… Best of luck!
NeoSmart Gallery Updated
If you came here yesterday looking for screenshots and captures of Windows Vista build 5365; you should leave here today happier, because we already have 80+ captures from 5365 ready for your enjoyment..
You can start looking at the pictures from within our Vista 5365 album or take a look at the twenty new breath-taking wallpapers in 5365 immediately if you so choose… or you can read on to see what's there, what will be, and why we need your help.
The Gallery…
The server load is sky-high ATM, 13.something (thank you OSNews! We love you too!); and our heavily-hacked forums and blog are holding their ground perfectly! Hurray for that.
At the same time, our new image gallery (only installed yesterday) is in somewhat of a flurry. If you get a "max_connections" error, please just hit F5, you shouldn’t need to do it more than once. I’m re-coding a couple of things, so by the time the screenshots are up, it should be good to go.
Update: We’ve done our bit of optimization, still a lot more to go, but we have lowered the sever load quite a bit. We have also unlocked the gallery to allow for the uploading images by registered users, please see here for more info.
Someone Remind Me…
To never update a blog from SVN in the middle of a traffic surge.
For some reason after executing "svn up" in the shell, *everything* in the wp-content folder that was not on the SVN was deleted!! I don't understand it, and no other folder was touched, but it's quite obvious, seeing as all plug-ins and themes have vanished. Please bear with us while we do something with the theme; then wp-cache the site…
Update!
Thank god for SSH.. Some quick wgets and tars and unzips got rid of most of the damage. I've gone as far as to get rid of the WP svn completely, sorry, but I cannot afford to have that happen again. If you notice any quirks thus far, please leave a comment..