Cody Taylor

Without warning, Google has quietly removed the iGoogle Web site formatted for the iPhone. The iPhone formatted version of iGoogle now redirects users to the generic Google Web site formatted for mobile devices. The version of the page that was unique to the iPhone, optimized for Mobile Safari and offered sections that were expandable…

These days, EVERYONE is interested in lowering their household electrical consumption. One way to help do that is by tracking and understanding power usage real-time (not a month later when you get the electric bill). The following will describe the details involved in making a safe, real-time web based household power usage chart for cheap.

What happened to Knol? Announced by Google in late 2007 and launched in July 2008, the site was meant to bring more credible (read: not written by anonymous Wikipedians) “knowledge units” to the web, and it would allow the authors to cash in on their work. But it’s 2009, and Knol appears to be notable largely for its non-notability.

This Firefox add-on provides a highly convenient and clutter-free method to quickly open websites that you use often. SiteLauncher is 100% keyboard driven–one special hotkey makes the the Launcher overlay appear, followed by a unique key to open the site you want as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Twitter is great for traffic, but just how great it is, well, you’ll never really know. Why not? You’ll ask. Well, the only traffic you’ll see coming from Twitter is traffic that comes through Twitters web interface. And most people I know don’t use the web interface, they use desktop and / or phone clients.

1sockchuck writes “Web sites and social networks are scaling up for huge traffic during today’s Inauguration. Photo sharing sites are expecting a surge in volume around the noontime swearing-in, while Twitter has doubled its capacity. Some net watchers say peak volume may not match the record levels seen on Election Night 2008 (as reported by Akamai’s Net Usage Index). As noted yesterday, DC-area wireless networks are the most likely bottleneck for messaging and photo sharing. “

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