Leave it to Google to come up with interesting new things. I downloaded the latest version of Chrome and noticed that several things have changed. You can now synchronize extensions and preferences across browsers. The best part though is the new graphic for SSL certificates: This is the graphic that you now see when you [...]
Posts Tagged ‘web’
2 Aug
Roadrunner Issue Resolved
The Roadrunner delivery issue at work has been resolved. I waited all weekend to see if our e-mail would deliver. Roadrunner’s block on our IP address was never removed. I sent an e-mail address to postmaster@rr.com with no luck. There isn’t even an autoreply configured for that account. All of the other major ISP’s resumed [...]
15 Jul
Practice Safe Searching
As I was navigating the internet today at work I noticed a new Google feature that seems rather interesting: Google has released the beta version of their https encrypted search website. Google probably didn’t encrypt their searches from the beginning due to the increased overhead of the https protocol. After several test searches I cannot [...]
13 Jan
Google Stands Up To China
Google is taking a courageous stand against China. Good for them! We launched Google.cn in January 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China and a more open Internet outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results. At the time we made clear that “we will carefully [...]
9 Nov
Goodbye Geocities
I remember setting up my first Geocities webpage back when I was in college. In 1995 anyone who could make their own webpage was some kind of technical wizard. I spent a lot of time hand coding html files with a text editor. Creating a website is a completely different process now. This is the [...]
