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Google Page Speed vs Yahoo YSlow
I try to stay away from cutting edge releases and let things cool off. But YSlow is one of my favorite web development toys tools and newly released Page Speed is perfect rival for it. So two tools, two huge companies, both want to help us have bette...
Seems images search online really gets better
Last night Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today tweeted quite challenging question: Has anyone seen this FavIcon before? It is very familiar to me but I can’t remember where. If it was something like “anyone read these words?” then Google w...
Bad idea to rely on new hard drive
This won’t be one of my usual horror stories. But this would be story of horrors that can happen to your data unless you pay attention. Studies on hard drive reliability are extremely rare, most of information comes from manufacturers and data ...
Why Google seems evil
As long as your only interaction with Google doesn’t leave omnipresent search line – all is good. However beyond that there is suddenly plenty of negative feedback, stories of valuable data (or money) lost and general anxious attitude. So had Goo...
Get Google’s opinion on site safety
Internet is filled with sites that spread malware and browsing is like walking rope above those. Antivirus and firewall are a must but they don’t tell you if specific site is safe or not. Google does. Google Safe Browsing When user googles, clicks...
Consolidating email accounts
My recent computer meltdown had really highlighted few areas I need to get in order. Email turned out to be huge glaring hole in my setup that completely crashed from simply losing access to main Opera installation. And so I started to tweak. My pro...
Web notetaking – research evolution or poor wiki spinoff?
Jose Ripiajo had made “Web notetaking. Google Notebook, NotePub or Luminotes, what is best?” suggestion in my sidebar Skribit widget. Which puzzled me a bit (I like being puzzled – keep those good suggestions coming!) because I never really und...
Did you know Internet has an archive?
Internet changes all the time. Thousand of sites appear and disappear. Those sites that survive go through plenty of changes. Wouldn’t it be cool to see those old or retired versions? Internet Archive Wayback Machine maintains a backup of Internet ...
FeedMySearch.com turns googling into RSS
RSS may look like an easy concept – take existing content and format it as RSS . However considering purpose of RSS (getting updates ) how do you ensure that content created in the future can reliably get into feed? It is easy in the scope of singl...
