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Author Archives: Alistair
Google Maps Labs
In true Google fashion, they have recently extended the reach of their ‘labs’ experiments by releasing a Google Maps Labs – a place for the Google Maps team to experiment with new features that may or may not be ready … Continue reading
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Google Fusion Tables
Google have recently released a new labs product known as Fusion Tables. Google Fusion Tables allows users to merge data from numerous data sources, to deliver compelling easy to understand comprehensive visualisations of the merged data set. The announcement for … Continue reading
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Google Webmaster Tools Displaying PDF & Word Document Links
Google Webmaster Tools has the ability to explore the internal links and external links or backlinks information for a given domain, instead of relying on the infrequently updated and wildly inaccurate link: operator within a Google search. Traditionally the link … Continue reading
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Google Local Business Centre Receives Upgrade With Humorous Outage Message
The Google Local Business Centre is currently undergoing maintenance for approximately 60 minutes and instead of a standard maintenance notice, Google engineers have gone for something a little more light hearted: The Google Local Business Center is unavailable for the … Continue reading
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Google Search Options Enhanced
Google Search Options allows the user to refine their search to target a subset of the normal search results, such as only showing video, forum or news results in addition to date and time filtering. Today the search options have … Continue reading
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Leaving Kubrick
Since launching #if debug in November 2007, I have been using the default WordPress theme. Initially I didn’t change the theme because I thought that it was sufficient and after not chaning it for so long – I had unfortunately … Continue reading
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Firefox Software Upgrade Process Inefficient
I’m using Firefox for the first time on my notebook in quite some time and I noticed that it was downloading an update. Curiously, I checked to see what version I was currently running and it was 3.0.10 and I … Continue reading
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Hicksdesign Redesigns Without Any Fanfare
Jon Hicks, of Hicksdesign fame, has recently redesigned his unique and always creative web site and it appears to have gone unnoticed thus far. Likes The texture applied to the main circular logo, it makes it feel like a heavy … Continue reading
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How To Get Your Google Profile Indexed
In December 2007, Google released the first incarnation of the Google Profile. This was the beginning of a continued effort from Google to refactor numerous services to have a more modular architecture, so that key pieces of information were held … Continue reading
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YouTube Subscriptions & Unexpected Notification Behaviour
I use the YouTube subscription feature to try and keep on top of a swarm of excellent video content being provided through YouTube. In my account settings, under the Email Options section I have all of the default options selected … Continue reading
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