gHacks technology news » caffeine http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:22:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Compare Current And Upcoming Google Search Results http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/21/compare-current-and-upcoming-google-search-results/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/21/compare-current-and-upcoming-google-search-results/#comments Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:05:57 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=15575 Google is currently giving webmasters and other interested users a sneak peek of their upcoming search algorithm. Interested users can open a sandboxed search engine that is using the new Google search algorithm to test it. Google is mainly offering this new search engine to webmasters to test website rankings but it can also be used by other users as it seems to be faster and with less advertisements in its current stage.

Webmasters who want to compare search engine results can open the old and new Google search engine in two tabs to compare results. A more practicable solution is the use of a tool like Compare Google which displays search results on one page.

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Users can enter a search phrase and an optional domain name on the search page. The tool will then display the old and new Google search results next to each other on the same page which makes it easier to identify ranking changes. Domain matches will be displayed in red so that ranking changes for a specific domain name can be identified on first glance.

Compare Google is a free online tool that can help webmasters find differences between Google’s old and new search result ranking algorithm.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/21/compare-current-and-upcoming-google-search-results/feed/ 1 Use Caffeine To Keep Your PC Awake http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/use-caffeine-to-keep-your-pc-awake/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/07/27/use-caffeine-to-keep-your-pc-awake/#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:08:47 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5633 I’m normally the one who needs two fresh cups of coffee every morning before I start my usual routine of checking emails, comments and statistics of my online empire (hrhr) but the analogy of the software Caffeine is quite tempting.

Computers can go to sleep as well as we all know. They can fire up a screensaver or go to sleep by turning off the monitor completely and Caffeine is a software that can prevent this from happening by simulating a keystroke every 59 seconds.

The default value can be changed to a keystroke every x seconds instead. To prevent problems with running applications the software simulates a shift-down, shift-up keystroke in Windows 98 and a shift-down keystroke in Windows XP and 2000.

The software has a size of only 11 Kilobytes and could be useful if your computer falls asleep every now and then. On the other hand the sleep and screensaver intervals can be changed as well or turned off. Still nice to have a coffee cup sitting in the system tray.

And then there is the possibility of the drinking bird that presses a key for you just like Homer did in the King-Size Homer episode of the Simpsons.

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