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try Google Chrome!

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Published on Friday, 05 September 2008 00:00

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Google Chrome is the latest answer from Google to the market of browser. I plan to use it at the moment for its privacy feature (you should be able to browse without leaving any cookie or trace) fro my e-banking. After 2 days of usage, I still feel not ready to give away my other browser: Firefox (at work) targeted for development: Firebug, web developer, tamper data, fast dial, http fox, fire gesture Opera (at home) as I always keep 25 windows open and refresh them when needed all together! I like Google chrome, as it work perfectly and always give the best search result. I will switch if any engine is able to deliver better results, but since 9 years, I am still waiting... http://www.google.com/chrome

 

Android how to delete system application and remove unwanted MyTaxi on Galaxy S3

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Published on Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:32

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I use the hard way, free but a bit more difficult as it require a rooted device, I personally use “Android Terminal Emulator” with granted root permissions (after typing su a prompt will appear)

Android how to delete system application

su (enter)
mount -o rw,remount /system (enter)
rm -r /system/app/FILE-NAME-HERE.apk (enter)

How to remove this SHIT of myTaxi – Passenger Taxi App on Samsung Galaxy S3

This application got installed without my knowledge by a Samsung update as a System App that CANNOT BE UN INSTALLED!

First before I forgot: Go to hell Samsung and Intelligent Apps GmbH

If either of you continue in that direction, installing software without my prior permission, the next update to my Samsung Galaxy S3 will be CyanogenMod 10

Back to the removal of MyTaxi,  Samsung did hide taxi.android.client_v2.5.1.apk under the name /system/app/samsung_ch.apk

To remove it

su (enter)
mount -o rw,remount /system (enter)
rm -r /system/app/samsung_ch.apk (enter)

Google Desktop available on Linux

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Published on Saturday, 30 June 2007 09:45

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Google was set to launch late on Wednesday a beta version of Google Desktop search for Linux in a sign of encouragement by the search giant for Linux on the desktop.

Google Desktop allows people to search the Web while also searching the full text of all the information on their computer, including Gmail and their Web search history. Because the index is stored locally on the computer, users can access Gmail and Web history while offline. from News.com

 You can now use on linux:

• Google Picasa for Linux
• Google Earth for Linux
• Google desktop for Linux

Mac user can also enjoy some Google tools like Desktop search

t was a nice surprise for me to see that google desktop does not eat too much resources, even when indexing the harddrive. Better than beagle (.NET under Mono) or Strigi, Pinot, Tracker and Recoll (these five search engines work together on a common search API for the free desktop called Xesam [freedesktop.org].).
Time to install OpenSuse again :-)

Google +1 your website for Joomla!

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Published on Monday, 11 July 2011 19:37

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My Joomla extension SocialSharing now support Google+ starting with version 1.6.1, you can see it running live on my site.

Add +1 to your pages to help your site stand out

+1 buttons let people who love your content recommend it on Google search

+1 helps people discover relevant content—a website, a Google search result, or an ad—from the people they already know and trust. Adding the +1 button to your pages lets users recommend your content, knowing that their friends and contacts will see their recommendation when it’s most relevant—in the context of Google search results.

When a signed-in Google user is searching, your Google search result snippet may be annotated with the names of the user's connections who've +1'd your page. If none of a user's connections has +1'd your page, your snippet may display the aggregate number of +1's your page has received.

Downloads

• Download plg_socialsharing_1.6.1.zip for Joomla! 1.6 or
• Download plg_socialsharing_1.5.1.zip for Joomla! 1.5.

Previous user can use the Joomla! 1.6 updater in the administrator area to get the latest version with one click.

Nexus Prime vs Samsung Galaxy S2 vs Apple iPhone 4S

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Published on Thursday, 20 October 2011 21:40

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My next telephone will be a Samsung Nexus Prime   bye bye Apple

	Apple iPhone 4S	Samsung Galaxy S2	Samsung Nexus Prime
Size(Height* Width* Depth):	115.2 mm x 58.6 mm x 9.3 mm	125.0 x 66.0 x 8.5 mm	135.5 x 67.94 x 8.94 mm
Weight	140g	116g	135g
Mobile Network:	UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), 3G	UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA (850, 900, 1800, 1900, 2100 MHz); GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz), 3G	HSPA＋ 21Mbps/HSUPA 5.76Mbps 850/900/1900/1700/2100 EDGE/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 3G/4G
Wi-Fi	802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi (802.11n 2.4GHz only)	802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi (802.11n 2.4GHz & 5GHz)	802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi (802.11n 2.4GHz & 5GHz)
Bluetooth:	Bluetooth 4.0	Bluetooth 3.0	Bluetooth 3.0
GPS:	A-GPS	A-GPS	A-GPS
Display:	Retina Display	4.3″ Super AMOLED Plus 800×480, Gorilla-Glass	4.6 Inch Super HD AMOLED, Gorilla-Glass
Display Width:	3.5-inch	4.27-inch	4.65-inch
Resolution:	960 x 640 Pixel	480 x 800 Pixel	1280×720 Pixel
Other	accelerometer, compass, gyro, proximity sensor	accelerometer, compass, gyro, proximity sensor	accelerometer, compass, gyro, proximity sensor, barometer
Camera (Back)	8 MP	8 MP	5MP LED Flash
Camera (Front):	VGA	Ja, 2MP	1.3 MP
Operating System:	Apple iOS 5	Gingerbread Android 2.3.3	Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.0
Processor:	Apple A5 (Dual Core)	Samsung Exynos 4210 1.200 MHz (Dual Core)	Dual-Core Texas Instruments 1.5 / 1.2 GHz CPU
Memory (RAM):	512MB	1 GB RAM	1 GB RAM
Internal Memory	16/32/64 GB	16 GB	16 GB
External Memory	No	Yes micro SDHC	No
Autonomy		1650mAh Talk time 8 hours, one day heavy usage, two days moderate	1750mAh Talk time: Up to 8 hours on 3G
Price www.digitec.ch	CHF 879.- (Apple iPhone 4S - 16 GB – SIM-Free)	CHF 489.- (Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II - 16 GB - Black)	?
Website:	Apple iPhone 4S	Samsung Galaxy S2

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Alternatives to Google Reader

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Published on Monday, 18 March 2013 20:46

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I've been a huge fan of Google Reader for years. I usually start every morning with my coffee and Google Reader...

Note: i am still not decided between Tiny RSS and Newsblur, both are running on my server…

The bad news

We launched Google Reader in 2005 in an effort to make it easy for people to discover and keep tabs on their favorite websites. While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined. So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader. Users and developers interested in RSS alternatives can export their data, including their subscriptions, with Google Takeout over the course of the next four months. see  http://googleblog.blogspot.nl/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html

Get your data

As usual Google do a great job, and let you download your data very easily with Google Takeout. You can get there a copy of ALL of your Reader data:

• List of people that you follow / follow you
• Items you have starred / liked /shared
• Notes and comments

Follow this link to download only your Reader data from Takeout.  Your subscriptions are then available in a xml file that can be imported in most RSS aggregators. (see below)

The hidden plan

Both Google+ and Facebook are pushing now to be your one and only news aggregating site. You can still sign the online petition at https://www.change.org/petitions/google-keep-google-reader-running (for what it is worth)

My Alternatives to Google Reader

Feedly

• Synchronizes itself with Google Reader until July,
• Same keyboard shortcuts,
• Import from Google Reader using Google's OAuth,
• Mobile app,
• Firefox and chrome plugin,
• Tips for Google Reader users migrating to feedly

Newsblur

• Commercial and free plan for up to 64 12 RSS channels,
• Import from Google Reader using Google's OAuth,
• iOS apps, Android Mobile app
• Open Source (MIT),
• Self hosting thanks to  https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

Tiny RSS

• Free software, licensed under GNU GPL
• Paid mobile app,
• Chrome plugins
• Commercial plan
• Self hosting thanks to Github (I did install my own copy at http://rss.waltercedric.com)

Good FTP client

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Published on Tuesday, 16 August 2005 00:00

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If You are in the business for searching a good FTP client to maintain Your homepage under linux and are already deseperate with KBEAR stability (default KDE ftp client). then You are ready for trying one of these:

• gFTP is a free multithreaded file transfer client for *NIX based machines. You can install it using YaST. It is a lot more user friendly (if You're working with windows ftp client) and a loooot faster than kbear...I only using this one now.
  

• GUI FTP client for X Window System (looks like WFTP old windows ftp client) but it is also working nicely.

YOu can visit the screenshots section for both of these tool before deciding which suit more for the job.

Twitter meet Google Map

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Published on Monday, 22 June 2009 00:00

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When Twitter use Google API, the result is http://www.twittervision.com/, a web 2.0 fun application. Watch people Twitting around the world on Google map in realtime, their API is available, so interacting with the service is easy (iPhone has one apps in itune store named: twittervision)

Use Google Chrome in Internet explorer with Google Frame

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Published on Sunday, 27 September 2009 00:00

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Google Chrome Frame is an early-stage open source plug-in that seamlessly brings Google Chrome's open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer. With Google Chrome Frame, you can:

• Start using open web technologies - like the HTML5 canvas tag - right away, even technologies that aren't yet supported in Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8.
• Take advantage of JavaScript performance improvements to make your apps faster and more responsive.

What is even more clever is that thanks to a special embedded tags in your html body, you can propose to your visitor to install this plugin, and thus increase market share of Google chrome. That’s a direct hit at Microsoft domination plans :-) (we own the file format, and runtime environment)

 

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Need for Speed? mod_pagespeed from Google

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Published on Thursday, 04 November 2010 22:05

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mod_pagespeed is the latest addition to our family of products, performing on-the-fly optimization in the Apache™ 2 HTTP Server. It provides webmasters and web developers that manage their Apache 2 configuration with technology that applies Page Speed performance best practices automatically. Webmasters can get the benefits of the optimizations without having to manually going back and fixing the performance issues that Page Speed detects.

This solution is valid if you do not want to carefully optimize your site, and it come for now at huge initial CPU costs till the cache is filled up. The load on my server has proven to be unacceptable (for me) and I was forced to switch it off. But it may work on your server depending on the page size, number of visitors. Authors are working hard and communicating a lot on the official mailing list to reduce that load and improve the code in the coming weeks

If you trust me, you can download the library module libmod_pagespeed.so for Apache 2.2

from http://drivers.waltercedric.com/

Check before installing the MD5 keys of this file

# md5sum -b mod_pagespeed.so
187995e3623a222ec5b54c331ee7ffaa *mod_pagespeed.so

If it matches, drop it into your Apache library folder /usr/lib64/apache2/

Build Apache module mod_pagespeed yourself

On my OpenSuSE system, I was forced to install first

zypper in gcc-c++

Then read  http://code.google.com/p/modpagespeed/wiki/HowToBuild

you should get after a successful build

• ./out/Release/libmod_pagespeed.so
• ./out/Release/install/common/pagespeed.conf

Install the module library

cp ./out/Release/libmod_pagespeed.so  /usr/lib64/apache2/mod_pagespeed.so

Configuration

After installing mod_pagespeed, it can be customized and configured by editing the Apache configuration file

/etc/apache2/conf.d/pagespeed.conf

so you can run

# cp ./out/Release/install/common/pagespeed.conf /etc/apache2/conf.d/pagespeed.conf

Create some directories

# mkdir /var/mod_pagespeed/
# mkdir /var/mod_pagespeed/cache/
# mkdir /var/mod_pagespeed/files

Has to be writtable by apache

chown -R wwwrun:www /var/mod_pagespeed/ 

and finally restart apache

 apache2ctl restart

There is a lot of available settings that are all well explained in this page http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/docs/using_mod.html

Here is my /etc/apache2/conf.d/pagespeed.conf stripped of all comments as an example:

LoadModule pagespeed_module /usr/lib64/apache2/mod_pagespeed.so

    SetOutputFilter MOD_PAGESPEED_OUTPUT_FILTER
    ModPagespeed on

    ModPagespeedDomain www.waltercedric.com
    ModPagespeedUrlPrefix                "http://www.waltercedric.com/mod_pagespeed/"
    ModPagespeedFileCachePath "/var/mod_pagespeed/cache/"
    ModPagespeedGeneratedFilePrefix "/var/mod_pagespeed/files/"
    ModPagespeedRewriteLevel CoreFilters
    ModPagespeedEnableFilters collapse_whitespace
    ModPagespeedEnableFilters extend_cache
    ModPagespeedEnableFilters combine_css
    ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_css
    ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_javascript
    ModPagespeedEnableFilters rewrite_images
    ModPagespeedEnableFilters remove_comments
    
    # This page lets you view statistics about the mod_pagespeed module.
    
        Order allow,deny
        # You may insert other "Allow from" lines to add hosts you want to
        # allow to look at generated statistics.  Another possibility is
        # to comment out the "Order" and "Allow" options from the config
        # file, to allow any client that can reach your server to examine
        # statistics.  This might be appropriate in an experimental setup or
        # if the Apache server is protected by a reverse proxy that will
        # filter URLs in some fashion.
        Allow from localhost
        SetHandler mod_pagespeed_statistics
    

Troubleshooting

You may be forced to remove mod_deflate

You can disable mod_pagespeed by adding in the url  ?mod_page_speed=0

Some mod_pagespeed filters

• add_instrumentation Adds client-side latency instrumentation.
• extend_cache Improves cacheability.
• collapse_whitespace Removes unnecessary whitespace in HTML.
• combine_css Combines multiple CSS files into one.
• combine_heads Combines multiple elements into one.
• move_css_to_head Moves CSS into the element.
• elide_attributes Removes unnecessary attributes in HTML tags.
• inline_css Inlines small external CSS files.
• inline_javascript Inlines small external Javascript files.
• outline_css  Moves large inline tags into external files for cacheability.
• outline_javascript  Moves large inline tags into external files for cacheability.
• remove_quotes  Removes unnecessary quotes in HTML tags.
• remove_comments  Removes HTML comments.
• rewrite_css Minifies CSS.
• rewrite_images Rescales, and compresses images; inlines small ones.
• rewrite_javascript Minifies Javascript.

Links

• http://code.google.com/speed/page-speed/
• http://code.google.com/p/modpagespeed/