I have been installing and configuring Firefox a lot of times this week! It is becoming a bit repetitive!
I think that nearly all of the default settings are perfect, and I just change a few of them. Probably the most important of these is that I add more accept languages.
I then install the following add-ons and plugins:
Lastly, I make the following changes to the configuration file (See About:config for instructions on doing this):
I can now reference this online myself :)
Tags: Adobe, Firefox, Google
Over the weekend I did a search using Google for something that was on television at that time. I was very surprised to see Google listing current Twitter postings near the top of the search results!
Tags: Google, Twitter
Google announced its latest offering during the week. It is called Buzz, and it represents Google’s entry in social networking (again).
More opinions of Buzz are contained in Google takes on Facebook and Twitter with network site and Google Buzz - Gmail mod for the Tweetbook set.
I think that it looks like a good idea, and it should certainly appeal to people who already use Google’s other services.
Tags: Google
A blog all about humorous Google auto-completes: Autocomplete Me.
While I am on this topic, Let me google that for you is also very funny :D
Tags: Google
I just heard that Google has released a new programming language called Go! More information is available at The Go Programming Language.
My initial reaction is that I do not see the advantage of this new programming language.
Tags: Google
A friend recently made me aware of a new child locating service called num8 by a company called Lok8u. The service is delivered using a child-friendly watch that contains a GPS receiver, and it uses Google Maps to display the child’s location.
The Lok8u website claims:
Now available.. the world’s first GPS locator that locates your child…not just the device.
And…
num8 is the world’s first GPS locator device that has been specifically designed with children in mind.
I am wary of these claims… For example, I think that Wherify would dispute these claims (if it was still operating)!
Wherify Wireless Watches
I am sure that there are many others also!
Tags: Google, GPS, Lok8u, Wherify
I read an article during the week about a letter of support for Net Neutrality from some of the biggest, and most well-known, Internet based companies in the world. The article is Big names support net neutrality, and it lists the following supporters:
The letter, signed by the chief executives of Google, Ebay, Skype, Facebook, Amazon and Sony Electronics among others, says that maintaining data neutrality helps businesses to compete on the basis of content alone.
And…
Other signatories included community websites Digg, Flickr, LinkedIn and Craigslist.
This list of companies does not really surprise me, as they probably have the most to gain from Net Neutrality. Conversely, it is probably the telcos who have the most to loose!
Tags: Amazon, Craigslist, Digg, eBay, Facebook, Flickr, Google, LinkedIn, Net Neutrality, Skype, Sony
I learned today that DCU is to outsource all of its email to Google. I estimate that DCU must have tens of thousands of email accounts. So I would have thought that it would be more cost effective to provide this service in-house.
For more detail about this see Information Systems and Services.
Tags: DCU, Google
A friend sent me this very humorous link:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recursion
:D
Update 25/7/2009
Google has updated the results page for this search :o To see how it looked yesterday see Google Helps You Understand Recursion.
Update 4/8/2009
The recursive result is back again!
Tags: Google
