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And Sulumits Retsambew again

Hellas — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:59:57 +0000

I am becoming boring with this Sulumits Retsambew thingy. But you must understand me that contest is coming to an end. There is maybe around 20 days until end of the Sulumits Retsambew seo contest and things are getting tight. My www.sulumitsretsambew.org is still on the top, from the begining, but people are becoming active and many changes are happening. That is the enough for me to start work more on the contest and try to defend my place against attacking opponents.

I am having troubles building links. Just stopped at 16k and no matter do I build them or not, they always stay on the same ammount. My main opponent now has them over 19k.

Interesting thing is my supporter Sulumits Retsambew entry at my old Opera blog. It getting higher and higher. From page 10 to position 29. From position 29 to 23, from 23 to 20 and finally from 20 to position 19 and second serp page. I am still thinking to help or not help that site with little bit of backlinks, or to spend that time to my official Sulumits Retsambew entry.

Anyway time is passing and I hope I will stay at the top.

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iPhone 3G

Hellas — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:12:27 +0000

I am not so much interested for mobile phones but while searching for smart phones this one blow me away. iPhone 3G!
3G iPhone is smart mobile phone by Apple (is there anyone who did not heard for them). It has that fancy design, so as all Apple products but iPhone 3G have great options and hardware under the skin. It is the advanced version of common iPhone. This phone is coming without keyboard. Actually it have keyboard – virtual keyboard on its screen, sensitive to touch. 2mpx camera is also here. Most interesting function for me is full 802 b/g wifi adapter for internet connection and UMTS or HSDPA 3G standard. His 400 MHz processor is probably strong enough for coffee surf. Also I am wondering how Opera Mini (even if Apple is against this – they prefer that you use Safari) would work on this thing.

Interesting option also is assisted gps and 3.5 inch TRRS connector for the headphones, so finally I can get rid of my old mp3 player. With its interface, 1400 mAh battery and lets say 8 GB memory card, iPhone will perform better then probably most cheaper mp3 players today. Interface is also respectable: 480×320 px, 3.5 in (89 mm), 3:2 aspect ratio, 262,144-color LCD.

Price: 500$
Conclusion: When it gets little bit cheaper, I will throw my old SE K750 into the garbage .

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Internet Explorer vs Firefox vs Opera vs Chrome vs Safari

Hellas — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 19:49:39 +0000

Browser wars – Browsers FACEOFF – 2008/2009 – comparison test

I searched all over the net for latest browser speed comparison test and I did not find anything, so I decided why not to make test myself. I already had on my pc, Opera and Firefox so I downloaded latest version of IE7, Chrome and Safari. Since I am big Opera fan and I am using Opera Browser for over 9 years I thought that Opera will easily blow up opponents just like it did maybe two years ago. However I did not count that Chrome is so blazing fast. I used few old tests from HowToCreate.co.uk and Java Script tests from CelticKane.com and also I added few of my own… All browsers are tested on same machine Athlon 3800 64bit, Gigabyte M55S-S3 mainboard and 2 gb DDR2 ram and Windows XP with SP2.

Browsers:

Opera 9.63
Firefox 3.0.4
Internet Explorer 7.0.5730.13
Google Chrome 1.0.154.36
Apple Safari 3.2.1

All browsers are tested “out of the box” without any extension or plugin.
This gave significant advantage to Firefox, since it is considerable slower with just couple of extensions.

1. Cold Start:
For cold start test, I run the programs (after windows finish loading) and then I measure time of loading until browser is ready for use. I measure 3 times and between any test I reset my pc. For other tests I also measured 3 times and then calculated average value… After first test, Chrome already jumped on the first place with unbolivable load of only 1,6 seconds. Opera was second with 3,7 second and surprise was Internet Explorer with just 0,1 second behind Opera. Safari started bad with very slow loading with over 10 seconds.

2. Warm Start
Warm start is the test when I run browser then turn it off and then start it again without turning or logging out from windows. I hardly got Chrome loading time in this case, since it was incredible fast. Safari, for a difference from last test, was now very fast to. Opera and Firefox are slower then first three.

3. Acid 2 test
Acid 2 is web standard compliance test. All browsers easily passed, but IE7 failed completely with ruining and deforming that poor face.

4. Acid 3 test
After easy job on ACID 2, neither one browser passed Acid 3 test. However Opera scored most points, ending it with the score of 85. Chrome was second with the score of 79. Some alpha and beta version of browser are already passing successfully this test…

5. CSS speed test
This test was taken from HowToCreate.co.uk!
Quote:
To test CSS rendering speed I use a CSS benchmark test devised by nontroppo. The test measures the time it takes the browser to render a page consisting of almost 2500 positioned DIVs. The page is stored locally, loaded once to pre-load it, then reloaded 3 times, and the average time taken for those three renderings. The page is the first page loaded after starting the browser (after logging out and in). All browsers took significantly longer during the initial load, which is why I discount this initial load, as it does not reflect the reality of normal rendering. Safari and Firefox headed clear victory here leaving behind Opera then Chrome and IE7.

6. Javascript speed
I assigned browsers to celtickane.com javascript speed test. Every browser is tested three times and then average speed is calculated. Chrome won again with Safari on second, Opera on third, Firefox on 4th and as expected IE7 on the last place.

7. Memory usage
I started every browser with one tab. Opened google.com and then checked with Chrome “memory usage option” how much every browser take memory. IE7 taked easy victory here probably because parts of the IE are in some other windows processes which are not counted. Safari taked shameful last place with using over 65 MB for loading only one page.

8. Setup Size
Opera used to have smallest installation file but now Firefox takes that place. Interesting thing is that if you dont need additional languages then Opera setup.exe is smaller then 6 mb, however since Opera gives this file for download by default then I took that file in count.

9. Options
Firefox got second win. By using extension firefox becomes very powerful tool. Main reason why people use it. Opera widgets are silly thing in relation to extensions and UserJS are ok but not good as Firefox Extensions. However this bring another conclusion, Firefox without extension is nothing. If you integrate to many extension then Firefox performance decrease significantly, almost 4-6 times… As I already mentioned this tests are conducted on Firefox without single extension. Just Out of the box. Even with that problem, Firefox easily take win here leaving Opera behind. This category gives also to Chrome first last place since Chrome in current stage looks like a hairless person

Conclusion and FINAL SCORE.
Opera do not have advantage any more. Instead of advantage it is neither anymore the fastest. Chrome is ahead, then Opera on second place and Firefox just behind it (depends on personal taste). Safari is ok browser but weaker then first three, and it looks that Apple marketing is just a bunch of lies. IE7 is the bad thing. Just like a IE6. But since people get it free with windows they still use it. If we counted Opera powers of customizing skins, moving elements (such as menus, buttons, toolbars, adressbar, statusbar, skins) then Opera would be easily be on first place…

For myself, I am going to stick with the Opera. Chrome, even if it is fastest, dont have some key capabilities. Probably people who use Firefox think the same as Opera fans…
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Opera 9.61

Hellas — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 11:57:07 +0000

Opera released Opera 9.6 and fast after that 9.61. Opera 9.6 contain security and stability upgrade, while Opera 9.61 bring us integration of the Opera Presto 2.1.1 user agent engine and some security upgrades. Complete list of what is added or upgraded in 9.6 you can see here. And complete list for 9.61 here.

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Opera SEOBAR

Hellas — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:02:23 +0000

Few days ago i posted this topic at Digital Point Forum. But here is it again.

SEObar – is a powerful tool for web-site promoters and analysts. SEObar is compatible to work with Opera 8 and Opera 9 browser.

SEObar can display the following information on the page of your browser:

Alexa Traffic Rank
Google Page Rank
Yandex CY (Russian SE)
Directory data:
DMOZ: Open Directory Project
Yahoo! Directory
Yandex.Directory (Russian SE)
Rambler’s Top100 (Russian SE)
Number of backward links:
Google
Yahoo – references for current page or domain
MSN – references for current page or domain
Yandex – number of referring pages and sites (Russian SE)

The information is displayed in the SEObar’s panel and the browser’s status bar.

However i noticed that it not function very well on page with frames. You must load only page showed in frame and it dont work sometime on pages with inline frames…

Here is print screen how it looks like on basic view…

Download latest version and see all details about how to setup, use and install you can find on official
OPERA SEOBAR webpage.

http://puzzleclub.ru/files/seobar/index.html

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Opera 9.5

Hellas — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:10:28 +0000

I dont know what to say. Use Opera maybe over 8 years now and this is the first version i dont like, but its easy to change that.
Here are things that I think are very bad:

1. Skin. It is very ugly.
Solution: right click bellow menu bar, click on “Customize” then go to tab “Skin” then “Find more skins” then download Opera Classic Skin probably first one or which ever you like.

2. Status bar at bottom. Personnaly dont use status bar and like that is by default off.
Solution: View -> Toolbars -> Unchek status bar
For all others who does then this location is probably natural, but you can place it
top left right or bottom at
View -> Toolbars -> Chek status bar and select appropriate “Placement”

3. Again Progress bar is up. Not like old school Opera.
Solution: Right click bellow menu bar, click on “Customize”, go to Toolbars, then set progress bar
“Pop-up at bottom”.

4. You cant open panels any more with clicking the left border of Opera.
Solution: Right click bellow menu bar, click on “Customize”, go to “Panels”.
Set Panel placement to Off, and check “Show panel toggle at edge of window.

Big problems:
5. JCE WYSIWYG editor do not work anymore in Opera.
Solution: It work at new 9.51, so simple update will solve the thing.

6. When you turn off Opera in Vista you cant turn it on.
Solution: Wait few seconds (30-100) or kill it from task manager.
Permanent solution: not found yet

Thats it for now. Hope that new Opera will resolve problems with JCE WYSIYG editor.
Also i hoped that ACID 3 will be owned but its not.

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