Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
Monday, March 30th, 2009
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The Malaysian web can be a frustrating experience if you're not using any Microsoft products. Maybank2u have an 'online banking buddy' to help their customers ask questions and avoid giving them answers. We were recently wondering about changing online merchant payment processors, and considered ...
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Saturday, December 13th, 2008
My brother-in-law had the worst Acer TravelMate laptop (a 528TE) in the world. It wasn't a bad set of hardware, it was just that the plastic case had so completely degraded that he had to carry the laptop around in a cardboard box to keep all the pieces together. The ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
I had been wondering how difficult it would be to make a search engine widget for spider.my - there's so much important stuff yet to be done, but I got distracted by the gloss! The great news is - very easy! You can visit spider.my now and add its search ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Up until a couple of days ago, the Spider.my search page applied only minimal formatting to hits, and no extra page decoration. The 'blank screen of death' appeared for a search miss: no results, no page content.
Just to reassure the user the empty page was 'normal', I'd put a lame ...
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
While working on the ZoneEdit update script, I did a survey of IP address checking techniques, 4 of them described below, and a fifth prototype which I think is the fastest and simplest IP address check on the Internet. I host several sites on servers in my home. I have ...
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