Vinay's Tech Stuff

With their latest announcement to host any type of files on Google Docs, Google is foraying into the arena of "your data in the cloud, access, organize, share - anytime from anywhere" business that we have been envisioning from a long time (over 4 years now!). What's interesting is the approach that google has taken. Instead of traditional approach of building all the features that are geared towards providing this product vision from ground up and releasing the end product, Google has built seemingly independent product and tested the waters first. And once the users have accepted each of those individual pieces reasonably well, they are integrating them all to provide a powerful experience. (Privacy conspiracy theorist may say this is much like boiling a frog in the water slowly!). Interestingly enough, Google's price of storage per GB seems to be the cheapest at the moment at $0.25/GB/year. But their initial free offering is just 1 GB with 250MB file size limi...

Most people think Google is a search company! Well, yes they are a search company. But primarily they are a very good web technology company. What they do brings Internet and its way of life much closer and more easier to many people. Can you imagine that if you are a small business owner, you have quite a few things going for you because of Google. The product of theirs I'm referring to here is Google Apps for Domains. Google Apps for Domain provides free e-mail (2GB) accounts at your domain address. This, along with the google talk messenger service at the same address, pages, and calendar make it a pretty nice offering, all for free. Also, throw in a restricted private groups at google groups beta, you have a pretty good online infra structure for your company! Very reliable, secure and free! I just setup all this for a company called SSC Vanilla . And the handful of people at this company are already using it and seeing the benefits. More to come later, may be.

Today I searched for "form $PHP_SELF" on Google the search within Firefox. I got 10 results. I wanted more. So, I hit preferences and changed the number to 100. When I save the preferences and it gets back to the page, this is what it says! G o o g l e Error We're sorry... ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now. We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software. We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again on Google. Then I opened google home page, went straight to preferences and changed results to 100 and then did my search. viola! everything was fine! So there was...