Contrary to speculation by some, Google’s decision for encrypting search data is motivated by the goal to make the web as a whole more secure and it’s not driven by economic interests. I think Google is silently forcing the internet to do what they should be doing on their own.
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Since Google Buzz is Twitterish in the sense that you can post a quick note, but different in the sense that (amongst other things), it can be longer than 140 characters. So in that vein, I’m starting to try to make a habit of a quick post (a couple per week) of things I do …
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I have been doing a lot of reading and a lot of thinking and trying to decide what exactly Web 2.0 means. What massive advancement in an emerging technology called the internet advocates an increment in major version number? Some people say its the looks. The new feel of the internet with crazy CSS and …
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In one my Rails applications, I allow the user to search for surrounding businesses from their current location. I always showed them a You Are Here marker. The issue I had with this was that the marker was always the icon as the search results. Differentiating these markers is actually extremely easy with ym4r_gm plugin. …
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As regular readers of this blog know, I am in the process of trying to back up Google Apps accounts to Dovecot. Well I have finally found my solution. Not only does it work, but its in Ruby. First thing that you’ll need to do is grab yourself a copy of Larch. I did this …
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I have been trying to find a way to copy everything from a Gmail account to a Dovecot mail server. The way I have ended up doing it so far is simply by using Apple Mail (if you regularly read this blog, you’d know that I use a Mac). The steps are as follows: Create …
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It took a little hunting to figure this one out, so I decided to write a quickie blog post about it. If you use Google Analytics and have put the overlay on your website to gain information, you may have noticed that it is quite challenging to get rid of. Well the solution, as is …
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I was having a chat with my two friends from Redub Consulting about the new Google Chrome browser. At a cursory exploration, we found that (as promised) the Javascript engine is incredibly fast. But I don’t want to throw that out there since Google already us that in their Chrome Comic. I want to talk …
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