http://geek.pittcrew.org/categories/internet/ Recent content in Internet on PittGeek Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:00:42 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2011/07/first-impressions-of-google-plus/ Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:00:42 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2011/07/first-impressions-of-google-plus/ At first glance, Google+ seems promising. I like how the Circles feature gives you more control over who you share with. The desktop browser interface looks nice and works well, but the mobile experience on the iPhone leaves something to be desired. Several features are unavailable including photo uploading and profile editing, and viewing someone else’s profile still redirects to Google Buzz. The iPad just displays a larger version of the iPhone interface that doesn’t take any advantage of the increased screen size. http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2009/09/super-sized-google-search-box/ Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:17:59 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2009/09/super-sized-google-search-box/ Google recently increased the size of the search box on the home page and search results. Am I the only one that thinks it looks clunky and amateurish? http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2008/10/wcf-services-with-the-asmx-extension/ Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:07:55 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2008/10/wcf-services-with-the-asmx-extension/ When creating a new Windows Communication Foundation web service, the default extension is .svc. This can be a problem if you want to migrate an existing .NET web service where clients may have hard-coded the .asmx extension. The following article from MSDN Blogs shows how to configure a WCF web service that uses the .asmx extension: Wenlong Dong’s Blog : How to use .asmx extension to handle WCF requests? http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2008/10/open-source-ajax-libraries-hosted-by-google/ Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:18:26 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2008/10/open-source-ajax-libraries-hosted-by-google/ Via Ajaxian: Google is now hosting a number of open-source AJAX libraries, so you can take advantage of the vast Google infrastructure to reduce the load on your server. Complete details on how to access the script files can be found in the AJAX Libraries API Developer’s Guide. http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2006/04/google-releases-calendar/ Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:55:46 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2006/04/google-releases-calendar/ This past week, Google released the new Google Calendar service. I’ve really become a big fan of Gmail, and it looks like this may be another service that I’ll be getting a bit of use out of. My wife has been trying to get me to keep better track of our various family events and appointments, but I find the process a bit cumbersome. She puts together a calendar on paper, which I then have to take to work and transcribe into my Outlook calendar. http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2006/01/opera-browser-is-now-free/ Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:41:02 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2006/01/opera-browser-is-now-free/ The Opera browser is now totally free. Opera started out as one of the few commercial competitors to Microsoft and Netscape’s free browsers. They later came out with an ad-supported version that you could use for free if you didn’t want to pay extra to get rid of the ads, and now they have finally eliminated the ads and made it entirely free. This has apparently been out there for a while, but it doesn’t seem to have gotten much hype. http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2005/12/will-delicious-be-replaced-by-yahoo-my-web/ Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:52:36 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2005/12/will-delicious-be-replaced-by-yahoo-my-web/ I’ve been using del.icio.us for a while now, not so much for the “social networking” aspects of it but because it’s a great way to keep track of all the useful and interesting stuff I find scattered around the Web. Not too long ago, Yahoo! debuted a similar service as part of its My Web 2.0 Beta. I gave it a try and found that it had a nice UI and a few enhancements like the ability to limit who can see your links, but also a few drawbacks (in particular, no option to rename an existing tag). http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2005/12/internet-explorer-inside-a-firefox-tab/ Mon, 05 Dec 2005 13:44:12 +0000 http://geek.pittcrew.org/posts/2005/12/internet-explorer-inside-a-firefox-tab/ Via Scott Hanselman, you can now display a web page with Internet Explorer directly inside a Firefox tab. The extension is called IE Tab, and it provides similar functionality to the older IE View except that it embeds Internet Explorer inside Firefox instead of opening a separate IE window. Once installed, you can right-click a page in Firefox and switch to IE mode without switching tabs. You can also right-click a link and open the link in a new IE tab.