What I like about twitter is that I get the lastest news and blog post headlines all in one place and in one short little tweet with a link to the full article. To me this resembles RSS feeds, but what makes it different is that I don’t have to click on each feed link to see what the contents are.

I would share my twitter account, but up till now I don’t really post any interesting tweets. If you have anyone interesting to follow, which could also be yourself, just let me know.

Simply put, I would not recommend getting an HP laptop. Having the video card burn after about a year and a half of use and then having to fix it for 200$ does not count as a good solid laptop to me. A friend of mine also has the same laptop and after a year or so both of our DVD players stopped working. They both only run CDs (who needs a DVD player? anyone?). And the battery?….

According to the article, HP profits from the computer division declined 19%. They make good printers and I thought the same would go for thier computers. But after experiencing them I know I won’t buy any HP laptops again.

But thats not why I am posting this. The article is actually a presentation that compares both companies in terms of their operating systems, internet browsers, search engines, apps, ect.. Very informative and interesting to know that both are actually providing almost the same services, its only a matter of popularity and which one came up with the service first.

Now imagine not having to keep your TV set next to the closest plug outlet, or not having to worry about where to plug that laptop charger “at all”. This new system will power up all those devices wirelessly. It uses two coils (imagine two antennas), one that is connected to an electricity outlet and the other is connected to the device. Each coil is set to have the same frequency and then a magnetic field is produced which allows energy from the main coil to flow to the device, build up voltage and hence the device is charged. Since the energy is transferred through magnetic fields, safety is not considered a concern.

I can’t wait until this comes to the consumer market. I can get rid of all the table lamp wires, laptop chargers, cell phone chargers, TV wires, etc. As it states in the begining of the article:

” Electric tech could make plugs obsolete”

Anyway, one article that I really like is Google Chrome OS and Microsoft IE OS on Doublebackslash. It talks about the new OS and whats the hype all about. Worth the read.

Nokia has a plan to develop cell phones that uses ambient radiowaves coming from the weak signals of other electronic devices such as TVs, radios… ect, to recharge cellphones. The power invested will be small and won’t be enough to hold an active phone call but will be enough to keep your cellphone on. The article by the Gaurdian explains more.

So far they have been able to invest 5 milliwatts of power. The goal is to reach 20 milliwatts. The phone is expected to hit the markets from 3 to 5 years.

People are already comparing it to Google, so I thought let me test it too and compare. I wrote in both serach boxes the word amazon and got the following:

1.  Bing gave me 198,000,000 results while Google gave me 853,000,000 results, which clearly means they are using different search algorithms.
2. Google displayed on the first result page news results about amazon with the date of publication. Whereas, Bing did not.
3. Bing dislplays on the left side related searches to the term amazon. Google has that on the bottom.
4. Bing gave me amazon.com.uk as the first result (even though I have “show all” clicked, I didn’t ask for the UK results only, could be checking which location is closer to me as I am closer to the UK than the US), while Google gave me amazon.com.

I changed the search to pizza and noticed the following 

1. Bing gave me 57,800,000 results while Google gave me 154,000,000 results.
2. Google makes the result pages more interesting by adding photos of what you are searching of (delicious pizzas), while Bing does not unless you choose to search images.

Other differences:

1. Google displays how many seconds it took to get the results, Bing does not.
2. If I misspelled a word in the search box, Google does one of two things: 1. asks me if I meant this and adds the correct spelled word while displaying results using the correct and incorrect spelled word. 2. or it directly fixes it and displays results accordingly. Bing fixes it and displays the results with the correct spelled word and also gives the option to see results with your misspelled word.
3. I am a huge fan of the define: feature in Google I use it all the time and I have already added it as an accelerator in IE8. I didn’t see anything similar to that in Bing.
4. I typed in my other blog name “The Wireless Corner”, Google displayed it as the first result on first page, Bing on its 3rd result page gave a link, not to the homepage, but to one of my articles posted on the blog.

Well those are some of the differences I noticed between the two search engines, if you have more that you would like to share then just leave me a comment.

Bing is looking good, its very user friendly and has some features that are different from Google. It is still a beta version, perhaps they will add more features to it when its full version is released. But Bing has a long way to gain the popularity that Google has. In the meantime, I will keep googling using my favorite search engine. (Will people start using the bing term in sentences like, I was binging all day. Or I binged the word? Let’s see..)

TIOBE is a website that ranks programmng languages on a monthly and yearly basis. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. The June of 2009 report states that the second most popular language is C Programming, coming right after Java. And also from the report, C was “Language of the Year” in 2008. So what makes this language which was found in the 1960′s still popular?

C is the programming language that is used in embedded software, operating systems, drivers, compilers, DLLs, etc. Software that is close to the hardware. It gives access to system memory and its fast since its compiled and not interpreted. Also, if you are new to programming, then C would be the best language to start with, its simple, clear and does not have all the complications and details of the object oriented languages. Once you learn C, learning all the other languages becomes alot easier since the basic concepts are the same among all languages.

C still has its place in the programming world and I doubt it will lose it anytime soon. So if you know C programming then don’t worry, its not out-dated.