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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 13th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Usenet Provider Giganews Reaches 400 Days Of Data Retention

Giganews has been my Usenet provider for the last couple of years. Before that I switched from service to service only to be disappointed eventually by poor performance or connection problems. Yes, these services were cheaper than Giganews but you did get what you paid for, at least back then. The Usenet provider landscape has [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 12th, 2009
  • Comments: 9

How To Track Google Keyword Rankings In Google Analytics

Professional webmasters, and also many other website owners, need a way to keep track of keyword rankings of their website. Keyword ranking simple means the position in selected search engines of a website for a specific keyword. Ghacks is for example ranking on the first spot in Google, and probably in every other search engine [...]

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Categories: The Web, Tutorials Advanced

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 11th, 2009
  • Comments: 8

Yahoo Mail Integrates Drop.io To Support 100 Megabyte Attachments

Big companies are not only currently competing with each other in the search engine niche but also when it comes to webmail. It’s actually the same three companies – that is Yahoo, Microsoft and Google – that provide both search engine and web mail services. One of the latest areas of interest for web mail [...]

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Categories: Email, The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 11th, 2009
  • Comments: 6

Facebook Lite

Facebook has activated a lite version of their popular website for users in selected countries. Facebook Lite was initially designed to offer users with slow Internet connections a faster way of accessing the most relevant sections in Facebook. The concept still seems to be valid although only users from selected countries can currently open the [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 10th, 2009
  • Comments: 384

Did Google Just Increase The Font Size Of Google Search?

It is not often that Google changes something on the front-end of Google Search. The only element that the Google developers change regularly is the logo that adds a little bit of change to the search engine every other day or so. Changes to the rest of the front-end on the other hand are rare [...]

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Categories: Google, Search Engines, The Web

Install Internet Explorer on Linux with IEs4Linux

Believe it or not, there is sometimes a need to have Internet Explorer available. Some web designers like to be able to to test their sites with all possible browsers. Some websites are poorly designed and will only function properly in Internet Explorer. So many designers (and users) need to have this browser available. If [...]

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Categories: Advice, Internet Explorer, Linux, Open Source, The Web, Tutorials Basic, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Sep 9th, 2009
  • Comments: 5

Look Up Local Time, Date And Weather Of Any Place In The World

Looking up information like the local time, local date or local weather can be helpful in certain circumstances. Maybe you are planning a trip to another location and want to make sure to be prepared, maybe you do not want to miss the important video conference with that other company from China (or another country) [...]

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Categories: Online Services, The Web

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