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Google Gears: LocalDB Example

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Steve

I have recently been playing around with google gears; Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser such as interacting with the desktop, storing local data and running … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome Extensions

Posted on December 12, 2009 by Steve

Google chrome have just released a BETA version of the extension gallery. You can check it out here. There are many good extensions already released. I have listed below some of the more interesting ones. Speed Tracer (By Google) is … Continue reading →

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Google unveils Chrome operating system

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Steve

Chrome OS, due to launch next year, will be based on Linux, and is leaner than Windows and some people believe it could radically change the way we use computers. User data will be stored on Google’s servers and synchronise with … Continue reading →

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Google Launches Public DNS

Posted on December 4, 2009 by Steve

Google will use its own DNS servers to resolve queries from computers using Google Public DNS. In its Thursday announcement, Google said that page loading performance would be improved by provisioning and load balancing its servers, and by minimising denial … Continue reading →

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