Posted by snek on December 4, 2009
Supposedly this change has been rolled out to certain locations quite a while ago, however for me (and I guess most people in the Netherlands) this change was only put live this as of today. If you now go to Google and don’t move the mouse you will see quite an empty page showing just [...]
Posted by snek on December 4, 2009
Today Google anounced a new free service: their Public Dns. This is part of Google’s quest to speed up the internet which they have released quite a few tools for (which used to only be used internally at Google HQ) an optimised browser and now we get this free service as another extra. My first [...]
Posted by snek on November 20, 2009
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to release this and I am surprised it didn’t even take 24H after the announcement that the Chrome OS source is available for someone to release an image for a Virtual Machine. It also turns out Canonical helped to develop Chrome OS, quite an interesting [...]
Posted by snek on August 10, 2009
I did not see this one coming, but Google recently anounced a new NX client/server they are working on, called NeatX. Most people will be familiar with FreeNX or NoMachines NX, however both these projects have their downsides. FreeNX is a messy jumble of code making it extremely hard to maintain and NoMachines product is [...]