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Google DNS Launches

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:11:15 +0000

Google launched a DNS resolving service called Google Public DNS that uses Google’s infrastructure to improve page loading time. A DNS resolver converts domain names into IP addresses and this process might slow down browsing.

Google’s privacy page says that the full IP addresses are deleted within 48 hours and Google does not permanently store personally identifiable information. “We built Google Public DNS to make the web faster and to retain as little information about usage as we could, while still being able to detect and fix problems.”

Point your DNS settings at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 to make use of this new service.

Google quick search box

admin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:36:07 +0000

Ok i’m not sure how I managed to miss this gem but anyway. I use the brilliant application (and everything else) launcher Quicksilver. Now there have been problems in compatibility with Snow Leopard (10.6) which for me at least have been sorted. Nicholas Jitkoff, the developer of Quicksilver, recently moved on to work for Google and he’s been busy.

Enter Google Quick Search box, a reduced functionality version of Quicksilver, themed with Google’s standard look and feel. it pretty much encompasses everything i used to do in Quicksilver an has integration with Google Mail/Google Apps and Twitter. So for now it replaces Quicksilver on my system. I don’t feel quite as bad since the same guy developed it.

iPhone 3GS Compass and Google Maps

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:57:34 +0000

In order to get google maps to orient the map to your current direction, simply hit the GPS fix button again. It’s not very well documented but simple when you know how.

[updated] and before everyone tries to work out where I was. Starbucks of course.

Google Checkout is live!

nick — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:22:51 +0000

I’d be interested to see how this fairs against the likes of paypal. Whilst i have nothing against paypal, with the mighty google in the picture i can see them making more that just a little impact in the world of online payment processing. The advantages of the google system is that it will link in with your adword campaigns, giving you free payment processing for every £x’s of adword ‘tokens’. As opposed to the likes of worldpay and secpay which charge per transaction, this is effectively giving you a load of free adwords tokens. Nice!

Random Act of Kindness

nick — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 09:17:12 +0000

Who say’s that nice people don’t exist anymore in big cities? Heading over to watch Mission Impossible 3 in Leeds with Steve, we decided to call into Nandos in the Light. After finishing our burgers we were greeted by a Waitress asking if we going to be watching the footy or Pirates of the Caribbean on the 6th of July. We you can imagine my response! Footy pah, who watches that! Which of course turned into a full on conversation about films etc.. Once i get going on films there’s no stopping it Following our conversation she offered to cover our deserts. I was just blown away by that. Not that anyone will ever read this but that was just super kind! Thank you! Now i admit not many of you would find this very interesting but to me it offers a glimmer that people do exist in big cities which have time for others.

This is turning into a ‘people who have been randomly nice to me’ blog… lol

Technorati Tags: kindness, leeds, nandos, nice

Google releases Google Calendar

nick — Sun, 16 Apr 2006 08:53:16 +0000

Google has just released Google Calendar. Finally! Check it out in all it's web 2.0 goodness.

Planet Earth

nick — Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:04:29 +0000

I’ve just been having a snoop on the BBC website trying to find info about the new Planet Earth Series, looks excellent.

They have a cool little flash app where you can explore and pull up video content on a particular area.

Nice but i recon a tie into Google Earth with BBC content just like the National Geographic does would have been better. I’m not saying that it’s not fantastic but i’m all for open sharing, would probably have pushed all the Google Earth users at the BBC too. Anyway check it out!

Firefox and Google Firefox extensions

nick — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:47:07 +0000

I know i’m probably a bit late to the firefox party, i just can’t get myself over the “I’m an Apple user, therefore i must use safari”. Anyway, i’m trying it out OK? Now i’ve just discovered the most amazingly cool thing i’ve seen in a long time. From Google Labs we have the Google Firefox Extensions and most notably the Web Comments plugin. Now whenever i visit a page on the web i get a little popup letting me know about pages linking to this page. Now i know that technorati has the functionality but it’s different when it’s just there all the time. Thanks Google!