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As the time we spent online increases, the amount of data that we placed online also increased. From your emails in Gmail, your friends information in Facebook, your confidential files in Dropbox, your credit card detail in Paypal, we almost throw our whole life onto the Web. The problem is – is it safe to do so?

Over the past few weeks and months, we have seen several high profile companies got hacked. Gawker, Mozilla, Trapster, to name a few. Million of usernames and passwords were leaked to the public. This is only the beginning and I am sure we bound to see more of such things happen.

So for this week poll, “Do You Still Feel Safe Storing Your Files/Information Online?”

Let’s the voting begin.

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The question for this week’s poll is: How Many Social Networks Are You Actively Involved?

By “social networks”, it can refer to Facebook, Twitter, LInkedIn, FriendFeed, Orkut etc.

By “actively involved”, it means you login (and use) the social network at least once per day.

Let’s the voting begin.

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Poll results and this week’s poll after the jump.

The question for this week’s poll is: What is your favorite browser?

Let’s the voting begin.

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Feel free to leave in the comment your favorite browser if it is not in the list.

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Poll results and this week’s poll after the jump.

The question for this week’s poll is: Do You Wish to See Delicious Shut Down?

At first, Yahoo said that it’s going to shut down Delicious. Next, it said that it is going to offload Delicious (instead of shutting it down). What about you? Do you wish to see Delicious get shut down?

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Feel free to comment if you are using other bookmarking services.

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Poll results and this week’s poll after the jump.

The question for this week’s poll is: What’s Your Favorite Instant Messaging Application?

Be it Windows, Linux or Mac, there bound to be an instant messaging application that you used frequently. The list below is not conclusive. If your favorite app is not in the list, do let us know in the comments.

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Poll results and this week’s poll after the jump.

The question for this week’s poll is: How much are you willing to pay for a mobile application?

There are many factors that can make or break a mobile application. Other than its usability, the price point is also a deciding factor. For the end users like you and me, are you willing to pay for any mobile application? If yes, what is the largest amount you are willing to spend on any application?

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Poll results and this week’s poll after the jump.

The question for this week’s poll is: Do you prefer a Full or Partial RSS feed?

This is really an interesting topic discussed over and over again, but with no conclusion. Readers generally prefer to read full RSS feed while it is more advantageous for webmasters to offer partial feed.

In Make Tech Easier, we have always offered full RSS feed, but it also means that spammer can easily take our feed and publish our contents on their sites as their own. It is heartbreaking to see the content that we have spent a great deal of time writing copied and pasted on advertisement-ridden sites.

So, what do you say?

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Also, would you be angry if we switch to partial RSS feed?

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Poll results and this week’s poll after the jump.

The question for this week’s poll is: What is your favorite smartphone?

With the increasing popularity of iPhone and Android, and Microsoft joining the race with WP7, it is really interesting to see which one will edge out top.

Note: if you are using two or more smartphones (for example, iPhone and Android), choose the one that you love most.

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If you are yearning for a better (or faster) PDF reader, here are several options for you.

1. Adobe reader

Adobe reader is the old granddaddy of all PDF readers. At 60+ MB, it is also the bulkiest and most resource-intensive among them all. In term of features and rendering quality, it is also the best. Features included in Adobe reader include commenting capability, interaction with forms, detach and locally save attachment, extended search capabilities and so on.

Adobe reader also comes with a Firefox plugin so you can view PDF file directly in your Firefox browser.

Installation: You can install Adobe Reader in Ubuntu via the Ubuntu Software Center

2. Foxit

Foxit is best known for being a lightweight alternative for Adobe reader. It used to be only available for Windows, but now has released a Linux version too.

The Linux version of Foxit does live up to its name. It is speedy and the quality of rendering is superb. There are also features such as a marquee select function where you can select an area and copy it as image. It also comes with a one-click full screen mode, great for those who like to read PDF ebooks on their desktop. Highly recommended.

The Foxit PDF reader is currently not available in the repository, so you have to download the deb (or tar) file from its website.

Download Foxit PDF reader

3. Google Chrome

All beta and dev version of Google Chrome come with an inbuilt PDF reader that you can use immediately. It is very minimal and only comes with the zoom in/out feature. The rendering quality is good (much better than Evince). If it comes with a search function, it will be a good replacement for Evince.

Screenshots: Comparison of PDF rendering on Evince, Foxit, Google Chrome and Adobe Reader (click to enlarge).

4. Okular

Okular is more than just a PDF viewer. It is more of a universal document viewer that supports documents of multiple formats.

One good thing about Okular is that it allows you to annotate on the PDF file, which most software don’t allow. The bad thing – it does not write the annotation to the files, so if you open the same file on another PDF reader, the annotations will not be around.

Read the full review of Okular.

5. XPDF

XPDF is another popular PDF reader for Linux. It supposes to be a lightweight and efficient PDF reader, but I find it to be terribly slow and ugly. Some of you may like it, but it is not my cup of tea.

XPDF can be found in Ubuntu Software Center.

For intermediate to expert users

6. Apvlv

For those who loved Vim, I am sure you will love Apvlv too. Apvlv is a vim-like PDF reader and it is specially built for speed. It is fast and extremely lightweight. If you are familiar with Vim, you will feel extremely at home with Apvlv.

Download Apvlv (required compilation)

7. Zathura

Zathura is well-liked by many people in the Linux community, mainly because it is highly customizable. It is a command line based PDF viewer (like Apvlv) but it allows you to customize to your liking. Things you can configure include the appearance, keyboard shortcuts, toolbar etc.

Download Zathura

8. MuPDF

MuPDF is a lightweight PDF viewer written in portable C and is tailored for high quality anti-aliased graphics. For a lightweight PDF reader, I prefer MuPDF much more than both Apvlv and Zathura, mainly because it is fast, provides high quality rendering and doesn’t take up plenty of space. One thing though, when you first start using it, it will take some time to get used to its control interface.

Download MuPDF

Quick Poll

You have seen all the alternative PDF readers. It’s time for a quick poll.
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Out of a total of 92 votes,

• 79.5% like Firefox
• 6.5% like IE
• 6.5% like Safari
• 6.5% like Opera
• 1% like other browser

This result seems a bit of a surprise when the statistics taken from W3C shows that (in Dec 2007) Firefox users only account for 36.3% while IE users (inclusive of IE5, IE6 and IE7) take up 55.9% of the market share.

Sources taken from W3C

To investigate the statistics further, I look at the analytical statistics for few of my sites.

For MakeTechEasier, 81.83% of the visitors are Firefox users while 14.5% use IE. This result matches that from the poll.

For my other non-tech sites, the result is similar to the W3C statistics, with 60% of IE users and 32% of Firefox users.

So, can I conclude that geeks (or people with technical knowledge) use Firefox while the rest use IE and other browsers?

What do you think?

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