Archive for the ‘Web’ Category
Tuesday, July 25th, 2006
Techcrunch is reporting on the low usage numbers Google products (specifically their Google Talk IM program) have compared to some of their competitors. Here are some more numbers regarding Google and their competition, from the NY Times. Though Michael notes that the scores given do not include usage of the ...
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Thursday, May 18th, 2006
Due to some bad problems with my main machine, I have been in the process of bringing my backup laptop (Inspiron 5150, 768mb RAM, almost three years old, recently reformatted) up to speed for my development needs. This included installing Crystal Advanced Developer 10 (required for one of the ASP.net ...
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Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
As reported on Techcrunch, a new personalizable news portal called Spotback was launched yesterday. This one aims to set itself apart from other sites by taking the items that you approve or disapprove (using a sliding scale), and using this feedback to recommend other articles that might be of interest ...
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Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
Whenever you type in an <a href="..."> tag, there are a number of different ways to write in your link. The location that you give can be:
Absolute: "http://ellisweb.net/" - this will work from any page, and will always point to the proper destination. These can get annoying though. After ...
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Friday, March 31st, 2006
Throughout the life of this domain, it has been hosted by at least half a dozen webhosts. Most offered good deals, had good track records (I always researched them before going with a specific host) and not too many complaints. Initially, the service was almost always good.
Yet for each and ...
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Monday, March 27th, 2006
Want a sneak-preview at Google's new search interface? Check out this article from Ars-Technica:
Go to Google
Enter the following into your address bar (one line), hit enter (ignore the popup): "javascript:alert(document.cookie="PREF=ID=fb7740f107311e46:TM=1142683332:LM=1142683332:S=fNSw6ljXTzvL3dWu;path=/;domain=.google.com")"
Search away
You will get the a new look at a Google Search:
My initial opinion: I hope this is a first draft. ...
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