Category Archives: Google
Find my Android
The other day I temporarily lost my phone and panicked. I woke up early in the morning, at 5am – thinking it was 5pm. Couldn’t find my phone. Thought I had missed meeting a friend that day. Then I realised … Continue reading
Advertising in OS’s
Would you or better yet, could you use an operating system that has adverts? Google are working on their web-based OS which would probably have the usual targeted adverts based on either surrounding content or user profile data.
Speed up your page serving with ‘mod_pagespeed’
Google announced (a while ago) a module to Apache 2.2, ‘mod_pagespeed’ will automatically optimise webpages, serving up content faster to your consumers. mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages and resources on them. It does this … Continue reading
Google maps moves drops Flash
Why is this awesome? Because Google are dropping a locked in piece of software (which is bug ridden, and insecure, and has extremely poor performance on anything but Windows).
Google having trouble with Safari 5 (malwaring?)
Recently I’ve been seeing some weird things happening with Safari & Google. Lately, gMaps is very slow and takes up a lot of process. Streetview is horrible in Safari 5. gAnalytics doesn’t display content correctly. I’ve been using Chrome for … Continue reading