What’s in a name?

It’s a simple question – what’s in a name? Or, let’s put it even simpler – What is YOUR name? In the normal, real-life world in which we live in, this seems to be quite a simple answer. My name is Derek O’Harrow. Amongst my circle of friends, colleagues and acquaintances, this is me – [...]

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Nested/Hierarchical Tag Clouds

We are all familiar with the ever popular tag cloud (as used on this site and many many others), which provides a way to see what topics are popular by providing a cloud view of the hash-tags posts are categorised within. The tag cloud simply provides a list of the tag words used, with those [...]

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Google announces Chrome OS hardware partners

As reported on engadget, Google has named the hardware vendors it is partnering with that will provide solutions with the Google Chrome OS on them. The list also, interestingly, includes Adobe, so support for Flash is probably a safe bet.

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Google introduces the Chrome OS

Google has today announced on its blog that it is producing a Google Chrome operating system -Introducing the Google Chrome OS. This has been a long-running rumour for several years now, being exacerbated by the release of the Google Chrome browser last year. From the Google Announcement it appears that the Chrome OS will be [...]

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Can you run Google Gears on Firefox 3.5? Yes!

Until now it’s not been possible to install and run Google Gears on Firefox 3.5, which has meant that things like Offline gMail and Google Reader won’t function. Well, some industrious individuals have gone and hacked the Google Gears installer so that it now works with Firefox 3.5. A word to the wary though – [...]

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