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Comments (0) · 7 October 2009 · permalink
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Categories: Web Technology,
An interesting post from Google, that many techy types would already know to be true – many people don’t know what a browser is. Included in the post is a vox-pop on the streets of New York, and this simple explanation of a web browser (send this to your mum etc).
There’s also a dedicated site: What Browser?
Comments (0) · 17 August 2009 · permalink
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Categories: Music, Web News, Web Technology,
major labels set to offer thousands of songs to customers for a small monthly fee
Will you pay $9.99 for a streaming music service (all the music you can listen to, but nothing to keep)?
How’s your bandwidth quota?
Comments (0) · 11 July 2009 · permalink
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In case you missed the news in tech this week, Google have announced the Chrome Operating System, basically an operating system for netbooks built around the Chrome web browser. See also TechCrunch
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Categories: Photo, Web Technology,
Schmap is a different approach to a tourist guide, integrating Google Maps with photos sourced from Flickr.
Really, I’m plugging it, because they asked to use a photo of mine.
National Gallery of Australia on Schmap.
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A video tour of a Google container data center. Inside the hangar there are 45 containers, each holding 1000 servers. Also check out a Google server. [via the Official Google Blog]
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Not happy with a “.com”? Get your own top-level domain… for $US185,000.
Draft guidelines on the process are now available from ICANN, I think they expect the first new top-level domains to be in operation by the end of 2009.
An audio explanation from ABC Newsradio:
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A personal blog by Simon Job.
My blog about maths teaching.
MathsClass This Week #2
Nothing to do with MathsClass, this week saw the addition of Emma to our family. Four maths teachers kindly shared their work on MathsFaculty for others to use.
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