Having recently started working at a school where email, calendars, documents etc are hosted by Google Applications, I felt that it would be worth while incorporating these into my teaching and planning. This post describes the benefits I have found from this in the first few weeks, and will outline some plans that I have [...]
Having previously looked at the memory usage of Google’s Chrome, it’s time to analyse it’s much mentioned javascript engine, V8. Assumedly named after the engine with the same name, V8 compiles javascript to machine code, rather than bytecode to achieve greater performance. In this respect, it’s similar to Firefox 3.1′s TraceMonkey, a JIT javascript compiler again [...]
Google Chrome Memory Usage, originally uploaded by Rich Bradshaw. Browsing to about:memory in Google Chrome gives you this interesting display showing memory usage for both itself as well as other browsers running. According to the browser, this is the memory usage of the following browsers on blank pages. (Although Chrome is on the about:memory page, that’s [...]
An interesting view into how students live today. I’m thinking that it depends what degree you study on how much work and classes you have to do – 3 hours of class + 2 hours work a day is much less than I did, and I only graduated last year! Also, noone brought laptops to [...]
Image via Wikipedia Having talked to some university students who had taken computer science/IT degrees, I was amazed by how little they seemed to know about making anything that’s secure or even remotely logical. The group I met with primarily had been taught PHP. Having looked at some sites they were designing I realised 5 [...]
Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us Really interestingly made video, definitely worth watching! Covers the history of the internet in a really creative way.
The new semantic search tool for wikipedia, Powerset, have just announced a competition challenging users to find interesting “Factz” using their search tool. So far, I’ve found: What eats humans? We have the usual: zombies, monsters and sharks, but the list also includes Catholics, foxes, streets and pigs… What do chickens like? Only three things, [...]
Image via Wikipedia Google have released a section in the settings tab of Gmail called labs. This was predicted by a few blogs recently, and it seems to have come true today. The new labs section includes: Quick Links: Add links to the sidebar for any bookmarkable page in Gmail. This lets you add custom [...]
Image via Wikipedia It’s been around for a while now, but getdeb is still a very useful tool. It has links to hundreds of .deb files for easy installation of newer software that hasn’t made it’s way to Ubuntu yet. For starters, try installing: Banshee Pidgin Screenlets Tangerine Much nicer than compiling from source!
With the release of Microsoft’s Invite2Messenger, we can now get all our Facebook friends out of Facebook, and into our address books. Useful for finding your friends on other sites, as well as for emailing them! 1. Go to: https://www.invite2messenger.net. If you get a warning about the security certificate, just allow it. 2. Choose Facebook [...]