See whether or not your ISP’s DNS server is faster or slower than other alternatives like OpenDNS or Google Public DNS with Namebench. This free benchmarking tool pits your current DNS... Read more
Now that both Google Public DNS and OpenDNS offer an alternative, public DNS services anyone can opt to use instead of their service provider’s DNS servers, the question is: how do you... Read more
Yesterday on This Week in Google while I was complaining that Google’s acquisition of EtherPad should have been handled much more gracefully–by, you know, notifying EtherPad user... Read more
Today Google launches their new public DNS service, which aims to speed up the time it takes for your browser to find web sites. To use it, set your DNS server address to 8.8.8.8–a luc... Read more
Finally got to try out the developer version of Google Chrome OS (Chromium OS) on my Asus Eee PC today. Booting from a USB drive is a much faster experience than running it in a virtual mach... Read more
There’s always lots of interest in posts about Google Apps, a lesser-known way to put Google services behind your domain name. This morning at Lifehacker I ran down some of the most im... Read more
Over at Harvard Business Online this week, I ran down a few best practices for keeping your notebook computer–and its contents–safe when you’re out and about. Here’s... Read more
If you’re one of the lucky folks who got into Google Wave this week, your excitement probably turned to “Now what?” when you logged in and realized you had no one to wave w... Read more
Google’s inviting 100,000 people to the Google Wave beta today, which means Twitter is already awash in people asking about and begging for entry (hello, trending topic). For what it... Read more
Twitter’s new geolocation support was supposed to launch for developers at today’s Twitter Conference in LA (which I’m attending), but it wasn’t quite ready yet. Stil... Read more
After “countless hours” of work, the Google Wave team has thrown up their hands and decided not to make Wave work in Internet Explorer natively. Instead, they released Google Chr... Read more
One of the smartest people I’ve ever met, Maciej CegÅ‚owski, says you shouldn’t self-host web-based software like WordPress or Fever or eventually, Google Wave, because it requir... Read more
On each new episode of This Week in Google (details) I’ll highlight a tip for using cloud/Google apps smarter, faster, and better. I’ll document those tips here. If you’ve upgraded... Read more
Android users with Facebook friends who list their phone number in their profiles will love this: Brad Fitzpatrick offers a Greasemonkey script that exports those phone numbers to AddressBoo... Read more
Cloud computing lets you store your data in web applications and access it from any browser, anywhere—but that doesn’t mean you don’t need a backup plan. Next time your favorit... Read more
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