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Firebug Impacts Google’s GMail Performance

Posted on 04 March 2010

If you’re a web developer or web designer you’ll need to read this support article I located on Google.
For the best Gmail performance, we suggest disabling Firebug for www.google.com.
Windows or Linux Users
To disable Firebug:

Open the Firebug pane in your Gmail tab by clicking the Firebug icon.
Click the down arrow next to the Net tab, and [...]

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Wordpress.com Stats Plugin

Posted on 18 February 2010

Going in and out of a number of wordpress instances that I manage I found this very useful wordpress plugin called wordpress.com Stats. It’s pretty decent to give you a quick indicator of the traffic you site receives. By no means is it exhaustive but if you see a decent amount of activity or an [...]

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IE6 being pushed out by Google…FINALLY!

Posted on 01 February 2010

Someone finally stands up to IE6.
Here’s the email I recieved:
Dear Google Apps admin,
In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology.  This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5.  As a result, over the course [...]

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Remove Feedburner Post

Posted on 11 December 2009

Working with Google’s Feedburner
While managing one of the many feeds I setup or maintain I had to claim the post in Technorati and in doing so I needed to create a post so Technorati can confirm I’m an authorized person. That post requires that I place a code into the blog, which ends up in [...]

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Caught in a Google Experiment as Test User

Posted on 09 December 2009

Look ma’ no hands!! While looking into an issue (beyond the fact that I misspelled Atlanta in my search)  as a web developer and seo practitioner I ran into a Google search results page that displayed far more than I was expecting. I came across an article on Mashable that said Google randomly selects people [...]

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Web Developer Firefox Plug-ins

Posted on 14 November 2009

As a web developer I often need a “fix”. No, not caffeine. Ok, well maybe I don’t need “the fix” but some of the web sites I inherit do or a new feature being implemented may have some conflicts so I need to do some debugging in order for the site to work correctly and [...]

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Google’s Gmail Pop3 refresh script

Posted on 23 October 2009

Finally, I’m not going to have to manually fetch my POP3 accounts I setup in Gmail! The hell you say? Ok, here’s the deal, I often get time sensitive emails I need to respond to and I only want to manage one email interface. Gmail has the ability to connect my non-gmail email and set [...]

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Google Calendar for Holidays and Sports

Posted on 13 October 2009

Some of you may have noticed that Google has updated a Calendar feature. Google provides holidays for a number of countries that you can add to your personal calendar. You can also add your favorite teams to your calendar so you don’t miss a game! Simply go to your Google Calendar and in the upper [...]

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Google Labels – Are you making the most of labels?

Posted on 22 September 2009

As tasks, projects and contacts increase I’m needing a way to manage my email via Google’s Gmail. I’m increasingly becoming reliant on Google’s label feature to manage my email accounts. Here are some situations I personally use Google’s labels:

I have four pop accounts that feed into Google that are filtered into labels to identify email [...]

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Permalink Settings on Windows Platform

Posted on 17 September 2009

As I transitioned my personal web site from ASP.net using master pages to Wordpress 2.8.4 I found myself trying to understand why permalinks were not working. After going through a complete setup and deletion of my database as I had thought I did something incorrectly I found a note online saying that someone used index.php [...]

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