It happens to the best of us! Google Goes Down Today
I am in no way comparing us to Google.
But when I was trying to get my email from my G-Mail account I was encountering problems – No Messages. It had the look and feel that I lost my network connection. My browser was stuck. So after the due diligence of checking my wireless connections, checking different machines, different network connections and virus protection I still couldn’t connect to Google.
Hmmm… The perplexing computer system.
Come to find out Google had a little oops today. Yes on May 14th, 2009 Google was down for about 45 minutes. Did you notice it? I sure did….
What happened is when they identify a malicious site and ban them from being presented, they put them in a malicious website database in Google. That’s when a little human error came into play. A typo! A simple back-slash instead of a forward slash created this little blip in Google. So all sites with this typo got the blackout effect and couldn’t connect. A human typo created this blackout in Google accounts. I guess the right type of slash in the malicious database is a very important thing in the Google database, if not, Oops.
But been there, done that, typo’s happen. So have my freinds at Kyocera and Taskalfa or Taskafla. No big deal, everything is working fine now.
It happens to the best of us! Google Goes Down Today
I am in no way comparing us to Google.
But when I was trying to get my email from my G-Mail account I was encountering problems – No Messages. It had the look and feel that I lost my network connection. My browser was stuck. So after the due diligence of checking my wireless connections, checking different machines, different network connections and virus protection I still couldn’t connect to Google.
Hmmm… The perplexing computer system.
Come to find out Google had a little oops today. Yes on May 14th, 2009 Google was down for about 45 minutes. Did you notice it? I sure did….
What happened is when they identify a malicious site and ban them from being presented, they put them in a malicious website database in Google. That’s when a little human error came into play. A typo! A simple back-slash instead of a forward slash created this little blip in Google. So all sites with this typo got the blackout effect and couldn’t connect. A human typo created this blackout in Google accounts. I guess the right type of slash in the malicious database is a very important thing in the Google database, if not, Oops.
But been there, done that, typo’s happen. So have my freinds at Kyocera and Taskalfa or Taskafla. No big deal, everything is working fine now.
It happens to the best of us! Google Goes Down Today
I am in no way comparing us to Google.
But when I was trying to get my email from my G-Mail account I was encountering problems – No Messages. It had the look and feel that I lost my network connection. My browser was stuck. So after the due diligence of checking my wireless connections, checking different machines, different network connections and virus protection I still couldn’t connect to Google.
Hmmm… The perplexing computer system.
Come to find out Google had a little oops today. Yes on May 14th, 2009 Google was down for about 45 minutes. Did you notice it? I sure did….
What happened is when they identify a malicious site and ban them from being presented, they put them in a malicious website database in Google. That’s when a little human error came into play. A typo! A simple back-slash instead of a forward slash created this little blip in Google. So all sites with this typo got the blackout effect and couldn’t connect. A human typo created this blackout in Google accounts. I guess the right type of slash in the malicious database is a very important thing in the Google database, if not, Oops.
But been there, done that, typo’s happen. So have my freinds at Kyocera and Taskalfa or Taskafla. No big deal, everything is working fine now.
Google’ G1 Phone hits the street! Allocated?
T-Mobile’s site is now taking orders for the new G1 phone with Google, but what can be easily overlooked on their site is the “Extremely limited supply”. Nothing like a good allocation right before the holiday rush.
I know allot of people that have an iPhone and waited in line for the prized few at the beginning. I just wonder how many will switch to the new Google G1 phone. Will you switch? The new Google G1 Phone with T-Mobile has some really cool features like, ShopSavvy. With ShopSavvy you can comparison shop before you buy. Just find the product in a store, scan the UPC code of a product, with the the camera. You are now set to compare prices from onli
ne merchants and nearby local stores. You can read product reviews and even build an on-line wish list to share with your friends.
But one word of caution with this feature, manufacturers are known to give the same product a different UPC code for each retailer. This is a common tactic amongst home appliances that are sold in Lowes, Home Depot, Best Buy and Circuit City.
The second feature I like is Locale. Locale automatically changes your phone settings to react a certain way depending on where your GPS shows that you’re located. Maybe you want your ringer off when you’re at work or extremely loud when you’re at happy hour after work. It all happens automatically with Locale.
With the phone priced at $179.00, it seems to have more features than the Apple iPhone.
So who is going to switch?
Google’ G1 Phone hits the street! Allocated?
T-Mobile’s site is now taking orders for the new G1 phone with Google, but what can be easily overlooked on their site is the “Extremely limited supply”. Nothing like a good allocation right before the holiday rush.
I know allot of people that have an iPhone and waited in line for the prized few at the beginning. I just wonder how many will switch to the new Google G1 phone. Will you switch? The new Google G1 Phone with T-Mobile has some really cool features like, ShopSavvy. With ShopSavvy you can comparison shop before you buy. Just find the product in a store, scan the UPC code of a product, with the the camera. You are now set to compare prices from onli
ne merchants and nearby local stores. You can read product reviews and even build an on-line wish list to share with your friends.
But one word of caution with this feature, manufacturers are known to give the same product a different UPC code for each retailer. This is a common tactic amongst home appliances that are sold in Lowes, Home Depot, Best Buy and Circuit City.
The second feature I like is Locale. Locale automatically changes your phone settings to react a certain way depending on where your GPS shows that you’re located. Maybe you want your ringer off when you’re at work or extremely loud when you’re at happy hour after work. It all happens automatically with Locale.
With the phone priced at $179.00, it seems to have more features than the Apple iPhone.
So who is going to switch?
Google Chrome – Just Another Browser?
Google should be launching it’s new web browser later on this afternoon in Beta format. While this really doesn’t have anything to do with Office Supplies, it could effect your office. Google did jump the gun in the release of information about the new browser late last night on Google’s blog, but we are still unable to download today. But for the eager, you can see a few screen shots of Google’s Chrome browser on PC World website.
Google keeps it simple and easy to use as always.
With all of the money behind Google, they should be able to catch up on the installs of browsers pretty quickly.
We have included some benchmarks percentages of browser usage from multiple sites, we shall check back on these next month and see if Google has captured market share in the browser world.
| 1. | 79.03% | ||
| 2. | 15.66% | ||
| 3. | 3.74% | ||
| 4. | 1.57% |
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Google Chrome – Just Another Browser?
Google should be launching it’s new web browser later on this afternoon in Beta format. While this really doesn’t have anything to do with Office Supplies, it could effect your office. Google did jump the gun in the release of information about the new browser late last night on Google’s blog, but we are still unable to download today. But for the eager, you can see a few screen shots of Google’s Chrome browser on PC World website.
Google keeps it simple and easy to use as always.
With all of the money behind Google, they should be able to catch up on the installs of browsers pretty quickly.
We have included some benchmarks percentages of browser usage from multiple sites, we shall check back on these next month and see if Google has captured market share in the browser world.
| 1. | 79.03% | ||
| 2. | 15.66% | ||
| 3. | 3.74% | ||
| 4. | 1.57% |
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