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Switched to Google Chrome

Hi, my name is Cocaman and I am a Google Chrome user. I was a long, long time Firefox user (even used Firebird). But lately I only had troubles with the cute fox. I crashed several times a day for no good reason. It was getting slower and slower and so I gave Chrome a […]

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Google vs. China: What About Mobile?

Google today announced, that they redirect any services from google.cn (Google China) to their services at google.com.hk (Hong Kong). The reasons are, that google.com.hk is outside of the great Chinese firewall and therefor does not need to be self-censored. On the other side, this means that China can just block any traffic from inside to […]

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Free Online Website Translation Tools

The Bad, the ugly and the worthless It’s Sunday evening and people are waiting for the Oscar ceremony to start. And while waiting, I gave some free online translation tools a spin. If you do not understand German, you will not have to much fun in this post, sorry. Here are the nominations Yahoo Bing […]

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History of reMail

By now you should have heard that reMail, an email search client for the iPhone, has been bought by Google and was removed from the AppStore. What is a little bit more interesting in my eyes is a look back. What was reMail like in version 1, and what has changed. In the very first […]

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Browser Visualization Video

Google Analytics has a nice little visualization tool. With this, you can create good looking graphs and animations for various kinds of data. I have created a small sequence to show you the change of browser types that visitors of my blog have. The data is from 2009 (January through December) and shows that my […]

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