Monthly Archives: November 2009

Advertising Dollars – The Sad Reality

For a long time, I believed advertising with Google Ads was a magic solution to making money. Make a blog or some kind of popular site and put some ads on it and wait for cash to rack in. But … Continue reading

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Gigantic Microsoft Fail: Office Web Apps isn’t free

READ THIS FIRST: I may be wrong. Microsoft has made no official statement on the subject. The only reason, which is purely technical, that Microsoft currently ties Office 2010 with Office Web Apps is that the later is in Alpha … Continue reading

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Why SitePoint is horribly wrong about Google

[ad#google]First, read Why Google Should Not Give Chrome the Go-Ahead from SitePoint. Frankly, I think SitePoint misses the whole point of Native Client and Go here. Just look at Chrome OS, it’s pretty clear Google is thinking 25 years ahead, … Continue reading

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I know, but please force yourself a bit, HTTP isn’t pronounced HTP

So, for all the curious out there, in episode 16 of TWiG (This Week in Google), Mary Hodder kept saying H-T-P instead of H-T-T-P to refer to the HTTP protocol. And so, here’s my personal message to her: Unless you … Continue reading

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News Papers want to do without Google,
but only Google can do without them

Surely you’ve heard about the European News companies making a partnership with Microsoft to shut down their door on Google and get better content control with a new protocol like robots.txt of which the development would be funded by Microsoft. … Continue reading

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Using a Browser Does Make a Difference

[ad#google] When diving into the browsers war, often times you will hear that using the browser you prone won’t do anything good. This argument is often used to trample new Opera users, the argument being that it is not worth … Continue reading

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The world gets HSPA+, Japan gets LTE

Oh, the joy of cell phone technology. While for a while I thought, wow, HSPA+ is 3 times faster than current FOMA technologies in Japan, which means Canada, and the rest of the world, is finally getting up to speed, … Continue reading

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TELUS Makes Awesome
New Clear Choice plans look more expensive but are actually cheaper

Might I say finally? [ad#google] At least, it looks like one Mobile Carrier in Canada understood; don’t stop charging for access fees, just hide them in more expensive plans. I admit it doesn’t really change anything. TELUS’s new charging model … Continue reading

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