Daily Archives: September 28, 2008

Forget about browsing from Saturday to Monday

Posted on September 28, 2008 by prasanth

I have been noticing this for the last few months. I can’t use Internet at decent speeds during Saturdays up to Monday. This problem is not with one company or one type of connection. Broadband, wireless Internet and even GPRS on mobiles all have same issued. All of them go down to half their speeds during the weekends.

I think all these companies are slowing their connections down intentionally. They have so many offers like free on weekends etc that they can’t keep up with the customer demand. Then why do they sell so many connections.

It takes until Monday afternoon to get any decent speed once again. Airtel is the big one I have noticed that has this problem, even bsnl struggles to keep up with the demand.

Do you notice this or am I the only one facing this issue.

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How to improve safari on iphone

Posted on September 28, 2008 by prasanth

Safari browser on iPhone is the best damn browser out there on any mobile. So is there something more to improve.

Not much but here is what I think apple should change to improve safari in iPhone. It’s not like they will allow other browsers, so hope some one at apple takes these into consideration.

The big change I want is full screen but I think apple will not do that because it could confuse people. So the best thing they could do is to make the task bar and the address bars disappear after the page loads or once the user clicks the stop button that way users get more screen space to see the webpage. Similar to how the video play back works. You see the controls only when you want them.

At the moment the address bar disappears once you scroll down the page but the status bar stays on wasting the valuable space.

How apple missed this in the first place is not quite obvious. It’s a small change and will give the user full screen mode without much change.

Apple already offers option to change the search engines. So why not a bookmark sync, why not parter with delicious or even google or yahoo bookmarks and offer a way to sync bookmarks. They also could roll their own free bookmark sync. I know they do it with mobile me. What I am talking about is only bookmark syncing.

The last thing is plugins. You don’t have to let others plugin, I didn’t want to see yahoo or google toolbars what I am taking about is plugins to play mp3, and other file formats. Just support the main one and I would be happy. Like .avi, mp4 etc.

I can already do this with dtunes on jailbroken iPhone. So it can be done and it’s not that hard.

Hope they take some of these suggestions into consideration. Comment away if you like to see any other changes.

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