Google Wave Review & Dev Preview

Google Wave?
Google wave is a new product from Google, it is like but much more than a collaborative chat with bots helping you and adding interactive data within conversations.

It is a developer preview that I got so its kind of slow. The chats are realtime, which means you will have to think really hard before you type it :D . You can add maps, videos, images, or even other websites or anything within a conversation to make it live. Each of these conversation is called a Wave. And each item inside is a Wavelet, Those who have brushed upon their Signal processing subjects would ring a bell here. The waves are recorded in time and can be played back to see the conversation growing.

It takes sometime to load and the javascript pretty much hangs around when we do something like resizing the windows. The pretty new scroll bar is cute.

About bots, you can add bots to your conversation that augments information like if we type some keywords, the bots parse them and fetch the information and populates the conversation for you.

Am still trying it out .. So will keep updated here..
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Acer Aspire 4520 vs Compaq Presario V3000AU : A wifi comparison

Intro
This is a first hand comparison between the wireless adapter performance between the Compaq Presario V3000/3155AU and an Acer Aspire 4520.

The test

The test I did is to ping the local wireless router / access point.

ping 10.0.0.1 -n 100

These is the result of Acer Aspire

Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=3ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 10.0.0.1:
   Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 100, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
   Minimum = 1ms, Maximum = 84ms, Average = 2ms

This is the result for Compaq Presario

Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=1424ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=64
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=2899ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=3672ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=2ms TTL=64
Reply from 10.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=6ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 10.0.0.1:
   Packets: Sent = 100, Received = 45, Lost = 55 (55% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
   Minimum = 2ms, Maximum = 4236ms, Average = 801ms

Apparently the connection was too poor in Compaq, I had to use a pen drive to copy the statistics and post it here.

Do you have a Compaq Presario??
Do let me know ...

Yahoo! Built in chat with mail

Yahoo!
Catches up with Google and introduces the same Inbox + Messenger bundle. On the new yahoo mail beta now you can chat to your friends too.





At first look yea it rocks. It has almost all the formatting and smilies used by messenger. (Of course the Gizmos are missing).

But still gmail is ahead because, gmail allows you to be signed in on more than one place. For eg: mail and google talk. Yahoo does not allow that when you sign in inside the mail, you get disconnected on the messenger. I donno about you but hmmm I dint like that.

Secondly the gMail client is neatly presented on top of your mails, So you can go on reading the mails while your slow friend is finding the keys on keyboard ;)
Third, I hate that advertisement on the right edge! And most importantly it refreshes too often making it a pain! Of course I know free always implies filled with ads , but I guess this is a little too much.

What do you think?