Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category

On Google’s New Favicon

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

My first gut reaction to the Google’s new favicon was: “Someone got it all wrong here, this ain’t Google, and this is a miss”. I personally just didn’t like it. To me, the new favicon doesn’t complement the Google brand and I felt it was at conflict with it. ...

Get Your .NG Domain Name

Monday, June 16th, 2008

You can now secure your .ng domain name, at no cost. The process is easy, hassle free and shouldn’t take more than 3minutes. Go to db.register.net.ng where the domain name registration tool provided by the National Information Technology development agency (NITDA) resides. Get your NIRA handle and password. After that, coast ...

Multiple IE’s on your WinXP machine

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

if you're like me, you like to use the latest software. that includes browsers. unfortunately, the latest browsers are a really bad idea if you're into web design - specifically standards-based design. because you need to workaround features not supported in older browsers. i made a really big mistake ...

Yahoo Juku - get ready for some serious web development training.

Friday, May 16th, 2008

from YUIblog: Yahoo! is starting a new version of their training program, Yahoo! Juku, where they'll be training some of - as the blog puts it - tomorrow's front-end rock stars. While you may not be able to register, be not dismayed - the training videos will be uploaded ...

Here comes Google App Engine

Saturday, April 12th, 2008

Have you heard about Amazon S3 or EC2? Well if you have, understanding what Google App Engine is trivial. You can view Google App Engine as Amazon S3, EC2 and more all combined together.Google is reputed to have one of the largest installations of computers worldwide. According to the Google Story (David A. Vise), Google ...

Still…Surf Africa.

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Biyi pointed me to this article while he was researching materials for a paper he was writing. It’s a descriptive narrative given by a foreign journalist on the state of ICT in Nigeria/Africa and how due to improper management, infrastructure is being left to languish. Its 4 years since the article ...

Googling with more power

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

Yeah we all know Google and we all use it. Most probable Google is the first place you turn to whenever you want to search for information on the web. But the question is this: how well do you know how to use Google? Google is a very powerful tool ...