Posts Tagged “web”

Google Public DNS: Online

Posted on December 4th, 2009 by primatage

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.
 

The HTML 5 Cheat Sheet to End All Cheat Sheets

Posted on September 6th, 2009 by primatage

I’ve seen a lot of HTML cheat sheets, and many of them are very nice, but I have to say this one amazed me. Not only is it absolutely enormous, but it’s extensive, to boot. Dimensions weigh in at a full 4961×3508. It’s clean, simple, and rather elegant for being so packed full of useful [...]

Google Caffeine – It's Sneaky Goodness

Posted on August 15th, 2009 by primatage

Apologies for the lack of posts recently, I’ve been overly busy and am currently working on a post that was meant to publish on Monday, but has been repeatedly sidelined by research and other work. Thanks for not forgetting about me :)
Earlier this week Google went public with its experimental new search engine, lovingly called [...]

SO GIBSON IT HURTS.

Posted on August 6th, 2009 by primatage

Early this morning, Twitter dropped off the face of the Internet for a couple of hours. When I noticed the distinct lack of chatter I went to see if anyone was still awake on Facebook. That wasn’t loading either. I started wondering if maybe both had gone down simultaneously, since I still had data streaming [...]

Social Media Pushers on Twitter: Here's a Tip.

Posted on August 5th, 2009 by primatage

Treating social-networking sites or services such as Facebook and Twitter as nothing more than tools may get your clients a modest amount of pageviews, but it’s really only making you the telemarketers of the Internet.
That’s it. Nothing more.

TechCrunch: Arrington's Showing His Ignorance.

Posted on August 1st, 2009 by primatage

Yesterday on TechCrunch, Mike Arrington posted a rant article proclaiming that he “Quit The iPhone.” I began reading the post with the usual trepidation, since lately it’s just not possible to predict what Arrington might do in what seems to be an endless bid for the world’s attention. My fears were indeed confirmed as he [...]

Apple and Google: A Lovers' Quarrel.

Posted on July 29th, 2009 by primatage

Recently, I posted about the kibosh Apple put on Google’s Voice app for the iPhone, leaving it a web-app like Latitude. It turns out, Latitude itself was also meant to have its own native app, which was summarily put to death as Voice’s was. I’m seeing a great deal of ranting and raving about AT&T’s [...]

Facebook: "Misleading Rumors" About Ads

Posted on July 29th, 2009 by primatage

Sometime recently this message began popping up whenever a user visits the Facebook Ads section of their Facebook Privacy Settings. It’s dressed up to be some sort of reassurance to paranoid individuals, but to me it looks like a blatant insult to anyone aware of the original issue, as well as a statement calling myself [...]

[Updated] AT&T Picks a Fight… With 4chan

Posted on July 27th, 2009 by primatage

It’s hard to say at this point exactly what the brass at AT&T were thinking. Apparently they’ve decided the best reaction to DDoS attacks targeting 4chan is to completely block access to the site’s affected boards. The move affects users on their landline networks only.
I don’t think it’s necessary to go into too much depth [...]

Google Wave: Nuff Said.

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 by primatage

I’m not about to lie to you. Google Wave gets me so excited that I feel like a schoolgirl. I’ve never even been a schoolgirl before, so that’s an odd feeling. Wave’s like that.
So it’s not difficult to imagine how giddy I was when Mashable posted about Google’s surprise blog update that actually named a [...]