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Archive for October 5th, 2006

GMail’s Alexa Page “Hacked”?

October 5th, 2006
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I was looking at GMail's Alexa page and noticed that someone had messed with the title and description that is provided. I wasn't sure what the 233100.com was but clicking on the link took me to GMail.com just like it should. I manually typed in the 233100.com and it was obviously some Chinese site that I couldn't understand.

I then saw the "Edit Info" button on the Alexa page so

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Meebo Surpasses 500,000 Users

October 5th, 2006
5 Comments Written by Ryan

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Just a little bit ago Meebo announced that they had the 500,000th user register earlier today. That may not sound like that many because I always hear about a lot of people using the service, but you have to take into consideration that you don't have to register in order to use Meebo. That is one of my favorite things about the site.

Here are some of the stats

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Release Candidate Of Firefox 2 RC2 Available

October 5th, 2006
16 Comments Written by Ryan

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Update: Firefox 2 RC2 has actually been released and can be downloaded from here.

Mozilla has placed the second release candidate of Firefox 2 RC2 on their FTP. This is another confusing version because it should be called Firefox 2 RC2 RC2 so I tried to word it a little smoother.

The official testing day for this release candidate of Firefox 2

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We mentioned the Jedi Concentrate application a few days ago from the App-A-Day blog and it is a really clever concept. It lets you dim everything except for the current application that you have open so that you can focus on it a little better. Someone decided to take it a step further by combining it with the Words Per Minute (WPM) program that App-A-Day also

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Google announced a the new Google Groups yesterday that is, of course, in the Beta stage. Take a look at the screenshot above that is from the Google Groups Beta Tour...looks an awful lot like GMail doesn't it? Of course it does! GMail has got to be Google's most popular service (next to the search engine) and the reason being their clean, simple, and productive interface. Google seems

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Last night the Windows Vista RC2 download page was temporarily viewable but the download links were still unavailable. Apparently Microsoft didn't want the world to be able to view the page quite yet because they promptly removed it as the word started to spread.

Paul Thurrott also went on to update his article saying that the build string for RC2 has been bumped

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Google's new Code Search is probably one of the coolest and most useful things that I have seen them launch in a long time. The idea is so simple yet it has proven to be a difficult task to find example code when you need it.

There is one thing that they definitely need to do though. In the Advanced Code Search options they have a

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