I haven’t been on MySpace for a long time. In my opinion, it has become a useless website; social networking has moved on. Even when it was “in”, it was ugly and difficult to use. Since becoming dormant, I had no use for my account and decided to close it… READ MORE
Get My Goo (http://goo.gl/9wd5) has just lanched, making it easy to create goo.gl short links without using the Google Toolbar or Google Reader. Simply enter your URL and a cool goo.gl URL will be instantly created. READ MORE
Earlier this month, I had been suffering from extremely unstable service from (mt) MediaTemple; this caused quite considerable downtime. In fact, it was so bad that some of my hosted websites became unusable for 2 DAYS! I understand that hosts have problems from time to time, but 2 days!? This is just totally unacceptable, and so I decided to pack my bags and look for a more reliable host.
I had Linode (aff), a Virtual Private Server (VPS) host, in my bookmarks for quite a while; just in case I decided to move host in the future. A ‘Linode 360′ provides 360MB of RAM, 16 GB of storage and 200 GB of data transfer for a mere $19.95 per month. {(mt) MediaTemple offer ‘more’, but you are unlikely to get anywhere near using it without overaging on ‘GPUs’ or database usage; I was eventually forced to buy a MySQL container, and my sites receive very little traffic at all.} READ MORE
Taxomation.com have just released ‘404 widget‘ — a useful tool for helping your site’s lost users. The widget looks at the URL a visitor tried to load, and extracts keywords from it. It then runs over to Yahoo! and finds related pages from your site — all just in time to be displayed to the visitor, who can choose a page or keep searching. READ MORE
Today, Google announced the release of Google Public DNS — a complete alternative to the Domain Name System (DNS) offered by your ISP, OpenDNS and similar services. Google claims that their DNS service is fast, secure, and — unlike many ISPs and OpenDNS — they promise never to filter, block or redirect DNS responses.
From previous experience, it can be expected that Google Public DNS will only get better — but I believe that its openness and performance are reason enough for it to be adopted now. I have already switched, and you can do the same in a few seconds. READ MORE
Google Chormium OS has been released! If you want to take the new operating system for a test run, you can download the source code or get an image for VMware player (the later is the easy option). For now, engadget.com has some screenshots, but I hope to try Chrome for myself soon. Stay tuned.
Here’s something you expected: Virgin Media have taken even more control away from you and will hijack a domain when a DNS entry doesn’t exist. Try to go to a domain that doesn’t exist, and rather than get Firefox’s error message or equivalent, Virgin Media will pretend it does exist and give some search results. READ MORE
When I first heard about Google Chrome OS, I initially thought it would be a basic operating system which supported just an Internet browser — where the Internet browser is within the OS. From what I have heard, however, it seems that “the” operating system could just aswell run within the browser.
Of course, there will be an OS to run the Internet browser; but, will there be another “OS” within that? READ MORE
Everyday there are millions of web page requests. Each request should hypothetically (and can) be simple; but, for some reason, pointless, redundant data is sent between machines, wasting bandwidth and time. The idea, which reduces this pointlessness, has the potential to save bandwidth across the Internet. It will reduce the amount of data sent with HTTP requests, which may in turn reduce the number of packets having to be sent.
After making a HTTP request for http://infinity-infinity.com/, this is the response you get back:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 11:08:46 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.54 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.8 X-Pingback: http://infinity-infinity.com/xmlrpc.php Vary: Accept-Encoding Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Following this, you get some data — the “thing” you requested. I am concerned with the above. These headers are not the content; they describe the content. It actually makes sense to ordinary people: even if you have no experience with this, you can deduce some of its meaning — Date: tells us a date, Server: describes the server and Connection: Close literally means “Close the connection”. READ MORE