I mentioned in my previous Trail Log that my look at the new Site Performance feature in Google Webmaster Tools tools led me down a rat hole looking into ways to optimize my website. Since I use WordPress I approached this as WordPress optimization, but the reality was most of this was basic web optimization. I did use these tools to help decide which WordPress plug-ins & features to use. Plug-ins or features that degrade performance for little benefit were dropped. In this article I’ll discuss the tools it led [...] Read the rest »
The OS Quest Trail Log #46: Housekeeping Edition
It’s been over a month since I’ve done a Trail Log and I got some time for blog updates this weekend so I might aw well do one. The day job has kept me busy and pretty well burnt out by the time I get home so I haven’t dived in depth into anything for awhile. But recently I’ve started to take a look at things that have piqued my interest. Optimization I’ve been on a Google kick lately, first looking at Picasa Web (because of the Google Eye-Fi offer) [...] Read the rest »
Google DNS – Close But No Cigar
Among Google’s recent announcements was their introduction of Google Public DNS. I’ve been using OpenDNS and have no complaints. Well, actually I recently found I had defaulted back to using my ISP’s DNS (Comcast), probably during a router firmware upgrade. When I switched to back OpenDNS I also didn’t notice a different over Comcast. I wouldn’t have noticed unless I was in the router config for another reason and happened to see it. Comcast and OpenDNS both do typo hijacking and display a search page with ads rather than an [...] Read the rest »
Google Wants Our Photos In The Cloud
Google currently has a deal going that offers a free Eye-Fi card when you lease 200GB of storage for them for a year. When I first saw it it seemed like a pretty good deal, and I hate to pass up a good deal. But it’s less of a deal if I don’t really need the space and won’t use the card. So that got me thinking about my options. The space is split between Gmail and Picasa. I’m not even close to my Gmail limit and I’m not currently [...] Read the rest »
