K’s Weblog

Those clever gals and guys at the Google Labs are at it again. There’s a new enhanced version (the “universal version”) of search which combines results from image, video and text components in a single search result. This began to appear last weekend in search results from most of the major Google localizations…
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Recently I was looking for something to block ads while I surf the net, something quick and clean, and preferably a plugin for Firefox.  What I found was an extension called AdBlock Plus by Wladimir Palant.  This has been a great little extension, as it blocks ads, (images, swfs, scripts) from appearing on the page [...]

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Last week Google revamped their web-statistics package Google Analytics.  The new look boasts some very web 2.0-ish graphs and provides all the same reports as before.
One of the new features is a drill-down world map, which provides a bit of an easier view of where your visitors are coming from.  Some more detail from the [...]

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Microsoft has recently released Silverlight 1.0, a .NET-based competitor to Adobe’s Flash animation product.
This is an interesting strategic move as Microsoft is moving into what is clearly established territory for the Flash brand.  Microsoft is extending the reach of the new Windows Presentation Foundations (WPF) to the web with a version being called WPF/E (WPF/Everywhere).
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Well it’s been 9 whole days now, and I can officially say I’m a Facebook convert.
At last count, there were 116 people on my friends list. All of whom I’ve been friends with at some point in my past and many of whom I haven’t seen in years… a few almost a decade.
Tonight I [...]

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