Daily Archive for December 12th, 2007

Eight business technology trends to watch

McKinsey, one of the biggest management consultant, released a very interesting article Eight business technology trends to watch.
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Prayer times for Mac

Living in Europe makes me miss Adzan so much. A little application called Guidance help me for it.

So now what I miss is only a Quran for Mac.

Note: The header of the website is cool, huh?

Standardized CV or Personal CV?

Curriculum Vitae or in many occasion just called as CV is a standard ‘weapon’ for promoting individual. It is used most commonly for job application, but also for scholarship application, candidacy promotion, project proposal or even marriage proposal :) .

So now the question is, which one do you prefer? A standard CV or a personal CV?

Standard CV has advantage that it is easier to be collected and resumed. Comparing several standard CVs is also easier and take less time. Creating this kind of CV is also easier. Just take the template and fill it. Several companies even provide possibility for applicants to submit the information via online CV. Europass is an example of EU’s effort to standardize CV throughout Europe.

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Site specific browser

Two days ago, I wrote about how today’s browsers are not fast enough for site that using many JavaScript. If you using the browser for opening many sites, that’s even worse. A problem in one site can affect the other site. Say you write a document using Google Docs and browse other site which unexpectedly has some problem in its script. You may lose some valuable information due to this behavior.

This problem is recognized by some people. That’s why Mozilla creates Prism aka WebRunner. The idea is simple, take browser’s renderer (btw, that’s Gecko for Forefox) and create a new application using the same renderer. This application is just another browser, but it is limited to browse to a unique site. So for example, you can create two applications, one for browsing Google Reader and the other just for browsing GMail. The advantage is pretty obvious. Your application will simply run faster due to smaller memory footprint and there is no need to worry that it’s forced down (except if the site itself has some errors, of course).

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