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The HTC Desire indepth
In a previous post I said I recently got a new phone, the HTC Desire. But since I only had it very briefly I felt it wasn’t the time yet to write about the phone itself. Well know I’ve been playing with it for more then a week so it’s time to write some small article about it.
So I’ve been using HTC phones for several years now and so far I’ve liked every single phone I’ve had. But the Desire was my switch from Windows Mobile to the Android platform, and I was very worried about the switch to say the least.
First impression of the Desire
After switching on the phone for the first time I went through the setup procedure, which is as simple as 1, 2, 3. So thank god for that, it’s a huge step up from Windows Mobile 5.
I have to give HTC one thing, the phone response very well to any time you touch the screen. It’s probably the capacitive screen, but its a whole lot better then what I was used to. Just after first boot you will probably play around a little with the widgets that are included.
As the Sense interface gives you 7 different tabs that you can put widgets on it will take you some time to configure it to your likings. Which is as much a blessing as a curse, especially in when you are just using the phone for the first time. Luckily the phone comes with several presets for the Sense interface.
My biggest concern was migrating all my data from Windows Mobile to the Android platform. And unfortunately my worries where right. So Google step up to the plate and make migrating from different phone platforms easier. It’s impossible to migrate text messages or call history without doing a lot of manual work.
The good the bad and the ugly
So what’s up with this phone. Is it a good thing to buy or good gift to get 
. Well it sorta depends on what you are expecting. If you want a phone that gives you a lot of access to your social networks, then yeah it might be something for you. If you want something that just enables you to call and send text message, then please don’t waste your money on the Desire. It’ll do the job but at a high price.
Having said that here are some of the pro’s and con’s of the phone:
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Google found a way to crash Internet Explorer
Ok today I came accross something really weird. I was trying to find information on setting up my own mail server using PostFix. No problem really, just used Google search to find the information.
The strange crashes started happening once I found a page that didn’t contain the information I needed and I hit the back button. Every single time I did this Google crashed my tab with some type of cross scripting warning. Even when IE tried to recover the tab it crashed again. After the second crash IE just said, slightly paraphrased, ‘f*ck it the website keeps crashing go somewhere else instead!’.
So here is the steps to reproduce (as it crashed every single time):
- Use Internet Explorer 8
- Have multiple tabs open, I had at least two in a google search result
- I was logged into personalized search, don’t know if it is relevant but hey you never know
- Click on of the search results
- Hit the back button, or the backspace key
- Presto crasho.
Always fun to see how some javascript can crash a Internet Explorer tab. I am at least presuming it is caused by javascript.
Google Doesn’t Like .0 extension
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Loading ...We all know that search engines have strange quirkes when it comes to filtering the indexes they have. Well very recently it came to my attention that Google has added some new extensions to the filter list.
We already new that files with .exe, .dll and .lib were being filtered from the search results. Which I think is a good thing, as it protects the visitors from potential harm. But just a few days back I got word that Google is now also banning or blocking pages ending on .0.
Some examples are:
- The wikipedia page Web 2.0 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0) ending in .0 is no longer showing up in the search results, rather the page ending in 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2).
- The Seomoz page for Web 2.0 has disappeared from the results. Instead the summary page is listed.
After some chatter about the issue around the internet and blogs Matt Cutts wrote a quick entry in his blog as to why they have been removed from the search results. Read it at http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/dont-end-your-urls-with-exe/.
So for know try to avoid ending Url’s with .0 or any of the already known blocked extensions.
Building a PHP search indexer
I’ve been working on a demo website called MovServDex for quite some years now. I’m calling it a demo website, but it’s really a fully featured website on TV shows and movies. In the latest version I have decided to add a search engine. In this post I’ll shed some light on how you can create a PHP script that will ‘crawl’ the web for pages.
Before I continue please note that this is not meant to be a replacement for a real search engine like Google. But it may be useful for you to use on your own website.
