Google have now got a car on Irish roads to capture street views for Google Maps. It’s a black car with a great big mast equipped with GPS and cameras to capture street view images of Dublin. The street view feature is already live for parts of the US and the UK although it will [...]
Google recently rolled out two new improvements to their search engine results. The first of which is better related searches, these are the links that sometimes appear at the bottom of search results and can sometimes help you refine your searches. The second improvement is longer snippets for each result when you search with longer [...]
Michele Neylon from Internet hosting company Blacknight has posted a disturbing letter recieved from solicitors representing IRMA (EMI, Sony, Universal Music and Warner). The letter threatens legal action in regards to filesharing and illegal downloading of music. The letter which targets Irish ISPs like Eircom (who seemingly have agreed under preasure to block websites) requests [...]
Microsoft have released Release candidate 1 of Internet Explorer 8 which can be downloaded here. New features include domain highlighting in the address bar so you can quickly and easily identify legitimate or fake websites and private browsing options so you can secretely buy that special gift for someone or just use it to browse [...]
Looks like click fraud and botnet activity is on the increase for ppc advertisers. Read the report from Click Forensics for a detailed breakdown.
Google launched a new (Digg like) feature to their search engine earlier this week that allows users to promote and comment on search results. You’ll need to be logged in with a Google account to use the new feature.
So what does it do? Well if you find yourself searching the same keywords regularly through Google [...]
Do you think you’ve got what it takes to optimise a website to rank high in Google?
Well if you’d like a chance to prove your search engine optimisation skills Damien Mulley has an SEO competition running where participants must create a website on a brand new domain name and try to get it to the [...]
Firefox 3 has set a new Guinness World Record for the most software downloads in 24 hours. 8,002,530 downloads were logged on the day it was released. I guess this means I’m part of a Guinness World Record, along with 8,002,529 other people, yipee! I wonder if that’s also the most people involved in a [...]
Icann announced the opening up of top level domains for registration this week allowing anyone to register a tld of their choice. A tld or top level domain is basically the .com or .ie etc. that you see on the end of URLs. This means that any person can now register a tld such as [...]
Firefox 3 Internet browser was officially released today at 6pm GMT and can be downloaded from the Mozilla website.
Most notable new features and improvements include:
Improved performance with faster page loads and less memory usage
New smarter location bar
New page zoom
Better password management
A full list of the top new features can be seen here.