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John Ibrahim (for sale)

Google Girl — Sat, 08 May 2010 03:47:21 +0000

Holymac! John Ibrahim’s domain name is for sale (along with some other cool variations). Wonder how much would that be worth?

johnibrahim.com.au

Google Chrome for Mac Pre-Release Available

Google Girl — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:51:34 +0000

The Chromium Blog have released details of the released Chrome versions for Mac and Linux. They say outright “whatever you do, please DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM! Unless of course you are a developer or take great pleasure in incomplete, unpredictable, and potentially crashing software.”

So the choice is yours. Here’s the dowload link for Google Chrome for Mac http://blog.chromium.org/2009/06/danger-mac-and-linux-builds-available.html

Google Page Speed

Google Girl — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:41:35 +0000

By word Google, you’ve done it again. You’ve given we web folk another simple tool that makes our life easier, and our websites faster. The newest addition to the Google stable of website wonders is Google Page Speed. It’s officially open-source, and works in cahoots with FireFox and FireBug (so you need both those tools to run it).

Page Speed takes Firebug to another level, showing you some really cool stats and facts on your test page. Some of the coolest features are ….

CSS Efficiency: It goes as far as advising how many, and which of your CSS rules are either “inefficient” or ”very inefficient” rules.
Unused CSS: Do you have one big, sitewide style sheet? Google Page Speed will tell you the size, the %, AND which selectors are unused on the test page. It’s is a big eye opener when you see how much CSS is load but not necessary.

And there are plenty more worth mentioning, including …

Script and Style order
Proxy Caching
Browser Caching
JavaScript Optimisation
Image Optimisation
DNS Lookups
Parallel Downloads
and heaps more

Page Speed is a MUST try, so here’s the Google Page Speed download link.

Google Wave

Google Girl — Sun, 31 May 2009 14:04:24 +0000

Everyone is talking about Google Wave. There is a demo video available from the Google I/O 2009 Conference. When I saw the 1hr 20min duration and thought “no way! I am NOT watching that”. But then I read Seth Godin talking up Google Wave, and I couldn’t help myself.

Where Google Fails Badly

Google Girl — Fri, 22 May 2009 04:59:34 +0000

I’m trying to get a Google Map API for a website that uses Google Apps hosted mail. You would expect Google to recognise, and accept, a Google Apps hosted email address as a “Google” account, and authorise the API accourdingly. Wrong. In order to get the API, I have to create a new Google account, using the pre-existing Google Apps email address. What a joke.

That’s FailMail if you ask me. And just an absolute WAISTE of an email sign-up. The account will never be used, and Google is already HOSTING the entire company’s email. Why Google, why..?

Google Apps Sign Up is Down

Google Girl — Thu, 14 May 2009 09:47:15 +0000

HOLYmac! Google Apps is doing some really strange things right now.

The Google Apps page is directing me to the UK edition (even though I’m Australian based)..?
So I’m seeing http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en-GB/business/details.html instead of the US$ I’ve always seen before
And then the “Begin Free Trail” is bottoming out with a “server not found” error here: http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/sample/new

I took some screenshots, because I’m sure it’ll be fixed in no time.

Google Apps directing Australian traffic to the UK sign up

Google Apps giving Australian signups GB Pounds

Google Apps 404

8min Google Indexing

Google Girl — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:33:51 +0000

Holy Mac! Google indexed our last article in under 8 mins. Ironically, that article was suggesting how good a 1hr index timeframe was. Maybe Google have a bias index system that expediates any article spreading Google love..? Or maybe the Twitter Effect is real (Twitter’s Real Time Search is scaring Goolge) ..?

Indexed in under 8 minutes. Holy Mac!

The Twitter Effect: Google Indexing Faster Than Ever

Google Girl — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:17:31 +0000

Holy Mac! Google are Indexing pages fast. Faster than ever. The Holy Mac website is only 3 articles old, and our last post was in the index (way up the rankings!) in less than an hour.

The Twitter Effect - Google Indexing Speeds Are Faster Than Ever