Review: Concentric Web Hosting

Rai    Review     blog, business solutions, concentric, google, starter web, web hosting, web hosting companies, web hosting plans, websites

If you are looking for a reliable web hosting company for your company website or personal blog, you might have Googled your way into the jungle of online companies selling web hosting and domain registrations. There are so many providers to choose from and so many options are being offered, you ought to take note of every company you find and jot down their shared web site hosting options because not all web hosting companies are the same. But the real question here is, how do you separate the bad apples from the good ones?
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Google Cheat Sheets

Rai    News     cheat sheet, command, google, Tips

If you are interested in Google domains, services or search operators, then get the Google Cheat Sheet. This PDF file contains the extensive list of thing that I am sure everyone wants to know.

Download the cheat sheet PDF here or view the screenshots:

Cheat Sheet Page 1

Cheat Sheet Page 2

Microsoft Makes $42B Bid for Yahoo

Rai    News, Random     bidding, business, google, Microsoft, yahoo

Unable to topple Google Inc. on its own, Microsoft Corp. is trying to force crippled rival Yahoo Inc. into a shotgun marriage, with a wager worth nearly $42 billion that the two companies together will have a better chance of tackling the Internet search leader.

Microsoft’s audacious attempt to buy Yahoo, spelled out in an unsolicited offer announced Friday, shows just how much Google threatens the world’s largest software maker’s grip on how people interact with computers.For Yahoo, the bid represents another painful reminder of how missed opportunities and mismanagement combined to open the door for Google to supplant it as the Internet’s main gateway, decimating its stock price in the process.

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Random Cute Sites

Rai    Internet     google, Internet, proxy, Random, websites

I recently subscribed to StumbleUpon.com and figured my way into the site. In a nutshell, you can use StumbleUpon to discover all sorts of sites. Pretty neat thing I should say although I am little too late to get into the boat . read more

Speed Up File Searching with Google Desktop

Rai    Linux     , google, google desktop, search files

I have this habit of saving files everywhere and when I need that file, it is like rummaging through one week’s garbage. When I save that file, I know where I saved it, for the next fifteen minutes anyway. If you are like me, and find and locate can’t seem to give you results you do not need, then Google released its new desktop companion, Google Desktop.Google Desktop works like locate but much complicated (you know I like it complicated, lolz). It indexes your files – and I mean not just text and documents, but also emails, visited webpages, cache, man pages and even your Gmail account. Whenever you save your documents, Desktop updates the index. Unlike with locate, you need to run updatedb to update slocate db files so locate can give you accurate search results.

You just download the .rpm or .deb file and install it. There are no pre-requisites (as far as I know) and open the Google Desktop menu on your desktop (KDE or Gnome). Press Ctrl key twice to bring up the search dialog and search away and press Ctrl again twice to hide the search bar.

Basically, Google Desktop works like Google web, but it searches your computer and the web for files matching your search results. You can define which Gmail account and folders will be included in the search as well as an exclusion list, which will not be included during search. Initially, Google Desktop runs a first-time indexing of the folders and emails to populate the search index which will later be used as the list that contains the filenames and locations.

The search results takes its cue from Google web, giving you not just the location, but the preview of the file as well. If the keyword was found inside a file, it displays that file.

To download Google Desktop, you can visit their website.

Thanks to Doc Pablo Manalastas of PLUG