Monday, April 25, 2011

Life is like a browser

....and the whole exercise is of keep opening new HAPPY tabs while keep closing old SAD ones..

When you launch a new session, it takes you to your HOME. You can as well customize your HOME page and decide what you want to see there & what you don't.
That small '+' sign on top lets you open a NEW TAB, like a new day, empty but full of opportunities & possibilities. On the blank new tab, you have 'Most Visited' & 'Favorite' links, things you most often end up doing or 'like' doing everyday. In corner, small 'Recently Closed' section tempts you to visit those past moments you might wish to relive.
'History' like a photo album holds record of all happy/sad, proud/embarrassing memories.

In any browsing session, you start from HOME, go on visiting those necessary, important tabs and settle on your favorite ones for the rest of the time. You want to get done with some tabs as fast as you can as if you wish you did not have to visit them but eventually had to. And then you linger around few other tabs, not willing to move on as if you would settle on them forever if you had a choice.
In this same session, there are always some tabs open. They sort of have their reserved place there. Kind of destined to be part of your browsing session each time. You keep visiting few of them more often than others partly because you need to, partly because you just want to. With some of them, its more like duty or a ritual. With a set of others, its like addiction. And then with handful of few, its like pleasure. These are the ones you WANT to visit, they bring smile on your face. But then there are few you try to avoid, just glance over their title and move to next one. They are the dark horses in a fleet of white. You wish you could get rid of them some day but don't have time/energy/will to work it out.
Out of all these tabs - some are heavy in memory footprint, slow down your whole session, affecting all other running tabs. Some are light as feather, don't even bother to make their presence felt. Some need high-end graphics, external plug-ins and all kinds of fancy stuff to keep running. And some are rendered seamlessly in basic HTML mode only.
There are some you mark Favorites and others you wish to erase from History. Some throwing unwanted information on your face and some requiring you to authenticate yourself several times before letting you access your own stuff.

And then there are 'Pop-Ups'! Yess! They are always present in each browsing session. Those unwanted, unintended & unforeseen tabs opening & closing at their will while you go on with your business. Making you pay attention to them, disrupting your intended flow, eating up your resources planned for other better, fruitful tabs.

The trick is to keep focus on tabs which matter. To keep away from those which create trouble. To keep an eye on Fishy/Spam/Malware ones, deal with them before they get fatal. And to keep opening new HAPPY tabs while keep closing old SAD ones - but still managing to HOLD on to your 'Favorite's...

Sunday, April 3, 2011

The Champion!

There are no other more deserving hands to hold this world cup