Dear users, you may have noticed some outages in the past few days. We had to do those to reduce our operational costs and provide a faster experience to you. You will be happy to know that all these changes have been completed successfully and now you will have fewer outages (if any at all).
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Problems on iPhone 5
I am aware of problems with the iOS app where the toolbar does not work only in iPhone 5. It works fine on the iPad and on the iPhone 4. Weird. Looking into the issue
Service outage currently
An unexpected problem is being investigated at this time.
We will restore service as soon as possible
We will restore service as soon as possible
Monday, October 1, 2012
Significant updates rolling out today....
I am rolling out updates which improve the speed of anyone using our RSS feed after registering and logging in with us.
Also - when you login, on your personal news web page, the user interface is the same as the main site. Just note that this page is updated whenever new news comes in, or you read these articles.
Be sure to register and try our RSS feed after a few hours.
We are the only site who keeps track of what you have read and always show you new articles only.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Why most Apple analysis is wrong...
I keep reading all these articles comparing Apple to Android and Windows Phone, and why the other platforms will eventually overtake Apple. I don't think that is going to happen, unless Apple itself screws up badly.
Why would you buy products from companies who always say the next iteration would be better, and whose products get obsolete in a few months time? - isn't that what is happening with Android today, and with Microsoft and Windows?
Why buy something like that, when Apple always delivers the best they can in a few product lines. You never regret buying a Mac or iPhone or iPad. You do regret when you buy a PC or Android phone.
Can you hear me - all those people who got the Droid X last year? - anyone hear about that anymore?. I still have and love my iPhone 4. It is the perfect phone. The hardware updates in iPhone 4S, I can wait till iPhone 5.
Many people say that Apple lost to Microsoft because MS licensed windows to other companies who priced it below the Macs. This is actually not true.
Apple lost the last time, because they stood still fighting within themselves, refusing to partner with others, and not innovating. They stood still, while others were able to improve their crappy operating systems over time. And they still don't have good developer tools like Visual Studio for the Mac.
Microsoft is just a good developer company who wrote a crappy OS because nobody else would do it properly. They had to be able to run these PC programs on some operating system right?
Microsoft may have won, but even Windows 7 or Windows 8 is not anywhere as good as any of the Apple operating systems. So, I don't think they ever "caught up". I can't say they caught up when my first model mac book air can handle multiple email accounts better than a 2011 Core i5 Windows laptop with 8GB RAM.
I can't say MS caught up when their crappy OS runs the hardware so bad, the disk wears down in a fraction of the time, while my macbook hard disk remains fine, without losing my data for years.
We are in 2012 people.
They could not even get the laptop sleep and wake to work properly, or stop the trackpad to behave weirdly, or VPN to crash after coming out of sleep, or make Outlook faster...
Every version of Android, I just go check the email client, keyboard and the browser, get disgusted and walk away. I have tried every Android device from phone to tablet, got frustrated and walked off.
Why would you buy products from companies who always say the next iteration would be better, and whose products get obsolete in a few months time? - isn't that what is happening with Android today, and with Microsoft and Windows?
Why buy something like that, when Apple always delivers the best they can in a few product lines. You never regret buying a Mac or iPhone or iPad. You do regret when you buy a PC or Android phone.
Can you hear me - all those people who got the Droid X last year? - anyone hear about that anymore?. I still have and love my iPhone 4. It is the perfect phone. The hardware updates in iPhone 4S, I can wait till iPhone 5.
Many people say that Apple lost to Microsoft because MS licensed windows to other companies who priced it below the Macs. This is actually not true.
Apple lost the last time, because they stood still fighting within themselves, refusing to partner with others, and not innovating. They stood still, while others were able to improve their crappy operating systems over time. And they still don't have good developer tools like Visual Studio for the Mac.
Microsoft is just a good developer company who wrote a crappy OS because nobody else would do it properly. They had to be able to run these PC programs on some operating system right?
Microsoft may have won, but even Windows 7 or Windows 8 is not anywhere as good as any of the Apple operating systems. So, I don't think they ever "caught up". I can't say they caught up when my first model mac book air can handle multiple email accounts better than a 2011 Core i5 Windows laptop with 8GB RAM.
I can't say MS caught up when their crappy OS runs the hardware so bad, the disk wears down in a fraction of the time, while my macbook hard disk remains fine, without losing my data for years.
We are in 2012 people.
They could not even get the laptop sleep and wake to work properly, or stop the trackpad to behave weirdly, or VPN to crash after coming out of sleep, or make Outlook faster...
Every version of Android, I just go check the email client, keyboard and the browser, get disgusted and walk away. I have tried every Android device from phone to tablet, got frustrated and walked off.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Lots of updates recently...
A lot of changes have happened recently. As you know we made the home page more like a true metro style app with the article links directly on it. Also, the breaking news page was modified yesterday night to make it more usable and readable for everyone.
Speed has considerably improved by moving most of the infrastructure to Windows Azure. Also, we are using the azure cache to drive the articles to the site, thereby reducing the database hits by the application. This has significantly improved the application performance.
Article ranking has been improved because we consider article clicks from our twitter links as well now. So, if someone likes an article, it will improve its ranking.
There was some problem with the azure caching code which made it slow, so I have fixed that because I know lots of users are going back because the site is slow. I want it to be very fast and I have realized, that it will happen only if I cache properly.
Speed has considerably improved by moving most of the infrastructure to Windows Azure. Also, we are using the azure cache to drive the articles to the site, thereby reducing the database hits by the application. This has significantly improved the application performance.
Article ranking has been improved because we consider article clicks from our twitter links as well now. So, if someone likes an article, it will improve its ranking.
There was some problem with the azure caching code which made it slow, so I have fixed that because I know lots of users are going back because the site is slow. I want it to be very fast and I have realized, that it will happen only if I cache properly.
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