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Yes it's true, but it's not exactly what you would think... In mid-2007, Google acquired the "one phone number for all your phones" startup GrandCentral Communications. The concept is that you register to get a single phone number that you'll be able to keep for life. The magic of GrandCentral is that it allows you to register multiple phone numbers behind this "virtual" number and then if you decide to move or switch cellular carriers, you just change your settings in your GrandCentral account and all your friends and relatives will never know. For the last year and a...
Welcome to this addition of the PowerShell ABC's where you'll find 26 posts detailing a component of the PowerShell scripting language, one letter at a time. Today's letter is the letter "J". Bet you thought I was going to go with Jagged Arrays for this one huh? Nope! Today's word is JavaScript. Huh? You may ask why I would pick JavaScript since that is a completely different scripting language and this is a series on PowerShell features. Well, I'm glad you asked. PowerShell is a very extensive scripting language, but it is relatively new to the scene of windows...
A while back I posted about Google's new browser Chrome. I talked about the new features included and how I believe it will be a force to be reckoned with in the pending browser wars. What I didn't mention was that by using it, you will actually become smarter! As reported on TechTree.com, According to results soon to be published by the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Internet searches can actually help strengthen the aging brain thanks to greater mental "activity" that it undergoes while waiting for the search results and the following "scan". Recent research utilizing MRI...
Google takes aim at your last place of ad-free solitute - Gaming. Ads, you know what they are. You are surrounded by them day in and day out. Whether you are watching TV/movies, browsing a website, reading email, or reading your favorite blog, they are there to greet you. In the past, we've always had at least one place we could go to escape the assault of ads on our life - gaming. Well, you better enjoy it while it lasts because Google aims to take that refuge away from you with it's Google In-Game Advertising initiative. ...
Ever have one of those mornings where you wake up and can't remember the events from the night before. Come on, we've all had them at least one time in our lives. You wake up hung-over, walk into work and find yourself in either the bosses office or, even worse, the HR department with no clue as to what is going on. You later find out that the night before after hours at Moe's Tavern, you stumbled home, logged into your gmail account, sent out an inappropriate email to a colleague, and then crashed in your easy chair. In...
I was playing around with Google Chrome the last few days and of course the first thing I did was login to my personal email account on Google Apps. Everything seemed to work great so I went ahead and visited a few other sites. Somewhere along the way I received an error page and clicked through it not thinking anything of it. Yesterday on the DevCentral Podcast, Colin was talking about his recent tech tip on "Can iRules fix my cert mismatch errors?" and that reminded me of that error message. So I went back and checked it out...
Seeing how I haven't installed any beta software lately (yeah right), I figured I jump in with everyone else on the net and see what's up with Google's new entry in the browser market. If you haven't heard about Chrome yet, then just do a Google Search on it and you'll have plenty to read for the foreseeable future. The install was small 468k so the download was fast and the install took about 15 seconds so in well under a minute I went from "click" to "play". Not too shabby. So, if you too are interested in giving...
Your first question after seeing the title of this post is probably something like: What the heck does iRules have to do with Bill Gates? I'll get to that... First, take a look at the map overlay of the users of DevCentral that I took a while back. I picked a day at random and pulled this from our Google Analytics account. For those who are running a website and are not doing analytic reporting on your site, I'd highly recommend you hop on over to Google Analytics and setup an account. It's free and fairly simple to...
One of the core components of anything on the Internet is Search and DevCentral is no exception. We've had search implemented in one form or another on DevCentral since it's inception but we've struggled with the accuracy and coverage of results. So with no further ado, I'd like to introduce you to the new integrated search on DevCentral. One of the added features is that we can easily include external content such as, for instance, the tcl documentation. Oh, and we now support searching protected content in the wiki and forums - woohoo! With the protected pages,...
