Raju vegesna’s Blog

I have seen that some IBM laptops come with a seperate Finger Print recognition hardware. This is an add-on and additional inconvenience to the user before he starts working.

An alternative - how about using the tap pad itself as a finger print recognition hardware? The user anyway uses this (in most cases) piece of hardware. So instead of providing a seperate hardware, the same mouse pad can be used of authentication purposes.

More intelligence can further be built (in conjunction with OS) so that when the user taps, he can be automatically login into OS.

Raju

As soon as Google introduced Web Accelerator (http://webaccelerator.google.com), I immediately liked the idea and jumped on it with my expectations high.

I installed the product and started browsing and after 30 minutes I saw how much time did it help me save. It said 0.4 seconds. I was disappointed.

Considering 16MB of my memory usage and its startup time it’ll will probably take more time to start my machine than it is saving.

I also have another worry. It is privacy. I feel that someone is looking over my shoulder while I browse. Because I am always logged on to Gmail, Google already knows what I am searching for using Google Search History. With Orkut, Google already knows the community. With Web Accelerator they know what sites I visit. With all of these, privacy is something that I am starting to worry about.

May be I got my expectations high on each service Google releases because they always raise the bar.

Raju

We have seen Google Suggest suggesting us words based on popularity etc. Now how about applying the same concept for an address bar on the browser?

Here is my requirement. When I go to my address bar, as I start typing the domain name, it should start prompting the domains based on populatiry and other parameters. This should not be based on history that is available today in most of the browsers. It should be based on the overall popularity of the sites on the internet.

I guess to implement this custom address bar, the vendor has to have a complete DB of domains on the internet and then has to crawl all domains and know its populatiry and I guess only search engine vendors can do this. I hope to see someone implement this someday.

Is this one of the reasons for Google becoming an ICANN-accredited registrar? We never know.

Dont u think the Address bar that we use n number of times each day needs more improvements?

Raju