Google Account Phishing Attempt Using Orkut
Earlier this week, I received a greetings card from someone called Shelia who was using "Orkut Greetings" (supposedly a service offered by Orkut, Google's social network). Or at least that's what the...
View ArticleFinding Cartoons to Use in Google Knol
Google's new publishing platform Knol has an interesting feature to offer: authors are allowed to use one cartoon from The New Yorker magazine per article*. The New Yorker started in the mid-1920s and...
View ArticleKnol’s Nofollowing Of Links
Knol is a publishing tool but unlike some other such tools by Google, this time all your article's outgoing links will be "nofollowed." The nofollow attribute is a mechanism to disable the juice a link...
View ArticleCan You Guess What This Cartoon Is?
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View ArticleGoogle Chubby and the Paxos Algorithm
Nope, this is not the title of a children's book (though it would be great as that!). Quote Google: Chubby is a fault-tolerant system at Google that provides a distributed locking mechanism and stores...
View ArticleUnicode Graphic Domains
Domains using the full character spectrum aren't really supported well in browsers, partly due to security issues... so entering something like bücherei.com (the German word for library) will resolve...
View ArticleA Notice From The Bureau of Public Anomaly Screenings
Date: August 7, 2032 From: The Bureau of Public Anomaly Screenings Subject: A notice Dear citizen, As you may know, under the Public Screening Act of 2030, all citizens are undergoing routine checks...
View ArticleHow Google Looks for the Colorblind
According to the Colorblind Web Page Filter, above is what Google.com looks like for users with protanopia (red/ green color blindness). Perhaps Google should run this as their logo one day to raise...
View ArticleA Safer Gmail With Https
Google added a new feature to Gmail to always use a secure (https) connection. Switch to the settings/ general tab and scroll down to "Browser connection" to see if you got it already (if not, it may...
View ArticleOffshore Company
Offshore Company – What are they and what do they do? The answer to your question regarding an Offshore Company is as follows: They are a company operating offshore or rather they primarily conduct...
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