Facebook currently has two types of profile pages. The first type is “Personal Profiles”, which are meant to be representing persons, and the second type is “Public Profiles”, which are meant to be representing public entities such as organizations, music bands, educational institutes etc. You “Add as Friend” “Personal Profiles” and you “Like” “Public Profiles”.
Anyone with a Facebook account has a personal profile and s/he can create many public profile too. But there is a problem … More… »
Posted by budhajeewa at 8:29 am on August 11th, 2010.
Categories: English, Facebook. Tags: Suggestions.
OKay, Google has officially announced it, Google Wave is going to die by the end of this year!
Google Wave was a product that Google set high expectations in users’ minds. And that very over expectings showed Google Wave it’s way to grave. Even I wrote a blog post called “Google Wave වලට කලින්ම එකතු වෙමු ?” – in Sinhala – inviting my readers to join Google Wave early. I was so fascinated about Google Wave after watching that two-and-half hours long video about Google Wave at Google I/O 2009! More… »
Posted by budhajeewa at 10:23 am on August 7th, 2010.
Categories: English, Google. Tags: gmail, Google, Suggestions, Wave.
I really love the concept of repository based software management used in Linux, rather than the “Download the installer, double click, next, next, next, finish” method of Windows (I’ve never used MacOS!). But this repository based software management methods too has some points that disappoint me. More… »
Posted by budhajeewa at 9:52 am on August 5th, 2010.
Categories: English, Linux. Tags: Linux, Suggestions.
In WordPress 3.0 – latest available version – there are 2 modes available for the user to run it. “Single Site Mode” and “Multi Site Mode”.
In “Single Site Mode”, you have one site and the admin-panel associated with it.
In “Multi Site Mode”, you have many sites and many admin-panels, one admin-panel associated with each site. More… »
Posted by budhajeewa at 10:02 pm on July 19th, 2010.
Categories: English, Webware. Tags: Suggestions, WordPress.
“OpenID” is a service that allows people to login to various web sites, without providing email address and password each time. When the user pointed a website to his OpenID, that site can grab the required – and allowed – information from the users’s OpenID. Therefore, OpenID can be identified as a “Online Identity Card” of a person or a particular personality (One can have several personalities online, thus several OpenIDs). More… »
Posted by budhajeewa at 2:41 pm on July 16th, 2010.
Categories: English, Internet. Tags: OpenID, Suggestions.

“A screencast is a digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration. Although the term screencast dates from 2004, products such as Lotus ScreenCam were used as early as 1994. Early products produced large files and had limited editing features. More recent products support more compact file formats such as Adobe Flash and have more sophisticated editing features allowing changes in sequence, mouse movement, and audio.
Just as a screenshot is a picture of a user’s screen, a screencast is essentially a movie of the changes over time that a user sees on his monitor.” More… »
Posted by budhajeewa at 8:39 pm on July 5th, 2010.
Categories: English, Ubuntu, WWW. Tags: screencast, Ubuntu, youtube.
Google has been the most innovative company out there in the web-sphere for a quite long time. But ts true that even Google may have some things to learn from others, but, when doing so, Google has been very reasonable until now. This time Google has made a step that – at least for me – looks very unagreeable, which is giving users the option to choose background images in Google Search main page!!! More… »
Posted by budhajeewa at 6:20 pm on June 7th, 2010.
Categories: English, Google. Tags: Bing, Google.