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Google Public DNS: Online - December 4th, 2009

Official pages on the matter: Official Google Blog Post Google Code Overview Google Code Instructions It’s as easy as entering two numbers in your internet connection settings. The payoff is minimal, but I’m quite happy to be using Google’s servers instead of Comcast’s.  

Tags: dns, google, news, web, win
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Twitter-Style Retweets Are (Were) Missing [Updated] - December 3rd, 2009

Yep, completely and utterly missing. It’s been the better part of a day without the much-maligned pile of fail feature that Twitter’s massive ego of a CEO insisted we’d all grow to love — and they’ve not said a word about it. Unfortunately, because of their noted silence on the matter, the odds are about [...]

Tags: fail, retweet, twitter
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Facebook Ditching Regional Networks (finally) - December 1st, 2009

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted An Open Letter from Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s official blog. Aside from the hilariously redundant title of the post, there’s not too much fun stuff in this one — but it does put some final affirmation to the long-run rumors. The main point of the release: The plan [...]

Tags: facebook, privacy
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Google's Experimental Redesign: You Can Activate it - November 25th, 2009

Google recently (within the last couple of days) went wide with selective testing of their experimental new redesign — meaning only one in thousands of users would see the new interface at all. Some of those users have been good enough to rifle through their cookies afterwards. Notice Anything? It’s not a huge difference, but [...]

Tags: google, internet, tips, tricks, win
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Oxford Dictionaries = Expensive Toilet Paper - November 18th, 2009

In case that sounds a bit harsh, it’s because it is, but after reading yesterday’s release from the Oxford University Press, it’s warranted. The release announced Oxford’s coveted Word of the Year to be none other than the now ubiquitous Unfriend, which in and of itself is no matter of contention. The problem is how [...]

Tags: facebook, fail
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Project Retweet: Suspended - November 11th, 2009

After rolling out their lackluster new retweet feature not but one day ago, Twitter today announced that it’s been “temporarily disabled.” According to Twitter, they’re simply working on “a few problems” that have occurred during the rollout. Twitter: Here’s Your Problem Nobody likes your failed feature. The fix is simple, just remove it and act [...]

Tags: fail, retweet, twitter
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