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Namebench Benchmarks DNS Services

Posted By: Christineon: December 06, 2009In: Cloud Computing

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

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How to Know When Your DNS Servers Are Failing

Posted By: Christineon: December 06, 2009In: Cloud Computing

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

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EtherPad Backtracks and Re-opens

Posted By: Christineon: December 06, 2009In: Cloud Computing

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

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Google Public DNS Service at Lucky IP 8.8.8.8

Posted By: Christineon: December 04, 2009In: Cloud Computing

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

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Testing Chromium OS

Posted By: Christineon: December 04, 2009In: Cloud Computing

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

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Configure Google Apps For Your Domain

Posted By: Christineon: October 28, 2009In: Cloud Computing, Webapps

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

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Secure Your Laptop in Public Places

Posted By: Christineon: October 06, 2009In: Cloud Computing

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

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The First Google Wave Search You Must Know

Posted By: Christineon: October 01, 2009In: Cloud Computing, Google Wave

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

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It’s Google Wave Mania Day!

Posted By: Christineon: September 30, 2009In: Cloud Computing

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

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Details on Twitter’s Imminent Geolocation Launch

Posted By: Christineon: September 23, 2009In: Cloud Computing

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

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Google Wave Team Gives Up on Internet Explorer

Posted By: Christineon: September 22, 2009In: Cloud Computing, Webapps

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

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Should You or Shouldn’t You Host Your Own Webapps

Posted By: Christineon: September 21, 2009In: Cloud Computing, Webapps

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

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Sync Your Google Calendar to iCal in One Step

Posted By: Christineon: September 05, 2009In: Cloud Computing, Mac OS X

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

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Import Facebook Phone Numbers into Your Google Contacts

Posted By: Christineon: August 23, 2009In: Android, Cloud Computing, iPhone

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

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Free Tools to Back Up Your Cloud Data

Posted By: Christineon: August 12, 2009In: Cloud Computing

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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