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

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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.

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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

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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).

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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

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