Is Chrome really faster than Firefox?

I used to believe that. Till this morning.

I have Chrome developer version 3.0.192.1 which seems as the fastest browser on the test, nearly as double as Firefox 3.5.

I have also Firefox 3.5.

I fired up google maps in Chrome. The panning was extremely slow. I dont know why but it IS slow. Not twice as fast as FIrefox 3.5 but as 1/3 slow of it.

In Firefox 3.5 the panning was ok, not just Ok it is much faster than 3.0 series.

I dont know the case for Chrome stable release.

Continuing with the awesome browser Firefox 3.5. I definitely recommend it.

Setting up World Wind, JOGL and Eclipse Galileo

World Wind lets you zoom from satellite altitude into any place on Earth. It is like an open source Google Earth. To run the examples, and to play with World Wind you should have a OpenGL compatible graphics card. World Wind comes in two flavors, namely for .NET and for Java.

You can download the Java release from here.
For Java you will also need JOGL libraries for OpenGL support. JOGL is in fact JNI interfaces for direct access to OpenGL hardware.

You can get JOGL from here. Choose your platform as it is available for many platforms like linux and mac.

I wanted to compile world wind from scratch. I installed latest release candidate of Eclipse Galileo and created a new java project and used the World Wind src directory as the source.
To compile the WOrld WInd you should add the JOGL libraries as external jars to the project.
This will be enough to compile the World Wind source tree but not enough to run the examples. To run the examples you should point the JNI interface library path to the JVM [1]. Create a "Run Profile" and in the Arguments tab -> VM arguments paste this.

-Djava.library.path=E:\jogl-1.1.1-windows-i586\lib

The path should change according to your JOGL installation directory.

That's it.

References:
[1] http://www.jagoharry.co.uk/using-jogl-and-swt-in-eclipse-java-projects/
[2] https://jogl.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=9260&expandFolder=9260&folderID=0
[3] http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/

Thumbs down for Copernic Desktop Search.

I have been a fan of Copernic Desktop Search over MS, Google for a long time, but the glitches that seemed to be bugs never get fixed. To give an example, I searched for email from one of my colleagues and CDS only lists 6 of them. In fact I have 50+ of them in my Outlook. Somehow CDS ignores them.Maybe I haveto buy the CDS pro version to get my emails indexed properly :).

I had to switch to MS Desktop search, unfortunately. For the emails it seems more robust.

What I liked in CDS was ease of use, ability to show the searched keywords highlighed in its built-in editor, which I can push aside for a reliable functioning.

Twitter trends in rss

This is a pipe to get twitter trends in rss format.
Normally you can only get it in json.

Earthquakes of Turkey in the last 24 hours

This is a georss that you can use to view earthquakes in Turkey.

See here in google maps(KML).
Or view it in yahoo pipes map...

The data is retrieved from http://www.koeri.boun.edu.tr/sismo/map/tr/index.html and prepared for yahoo pipes with dapper.

Best Firefox add-ons I install at setup

For del.icio.us bookmarks I prefer this.

For IE specific sites! I install IETab.

For download management I prefer Downthemall.

Not so necessary but Pdf Download is a good tool for handling pdf links.

For Gmail, the following add-ons and greasemonkey scripts have been particularly useful for me while using gmail. First install GreaseMonkey and then Better Gmail 2... Then you install this greasemonkey script for hiding the labels with no unread messages. And of course Remember the Milk addon for Gmail .

For twitter I use twitterfox (although I am not a fan of Twitter in any way).

Some following tweaks;
browser.tabs.loadDivertedInBackground -> true.