Posts Tagged ‘Google’

Google+ is now open to all

After about 90 days of trial on invitation-only mode, Google+ is now open to everybody.
For those who don’t know, Google+ is the social network platform of Google, with several interesting features like Circles, Hangouts, …
For example, you can see my page on Google+.
Personally, I find this social network very interesting, but there are not enough people on it to concurrence really Facebook …

No more ads on the site !

Hi,
As you have perhaps noticed, there is no more Google Adsense on the site. I removed them for several reasons :

They were not really visually good
They slowed down the site by a factor of two
That gave a bad image of the site
This is not the main goal of the website to make money
They didn’t made enough money to counter the previous disadvantages

So you will …

Save time with the Gmail Priority Inbox

Hi,
Some days ago, Gmail released a new feature, the Priority Inbox. Actually, the feature is not released on all accounts, but if it is released on yours, you can see a message “Try Gmail Priority Inbox”, in top right high corner, just after your user name.
Once you activated this new inbox, you will see two inbox, the new Priority Inbox on top and the …

Links of the week (April 20)

Some interesting links of the week :

Poll Results: We’re Not Quite Ready For Web Based IDEs : Interesting poll results on how the developers are ready about web based IDEs
How to localise a Play Framework application : Peter Hilton explain how internationalize a Play! Framework application
The Top 15 Google Products for People Who Build Websites
Swinging Task Dialog (part 5) : Eugene Ryzhikov continue …

10 most useful Google Tools

More than provide an extremely powerful search engine used by almost everybody, Google provides also a lot of very useful tools. In this post, i list the 10 most useful Google tools from my point of view.
1. Gmail
For me, this is the best email client ever. The interface is quick and reactive and there are many interesting features. The spam filter is really powerful, …

Drag and drop files to Gmail

The Gmail team has just added a great new functionality to Gmail.
Until now, to add attachment to your mails, you had to click “Attach a file”, find the good file and click it.
Now, you can directly drag the file from your file system to Gmail :
Gmail Drag files from file explorer

Gmail Drag files from file explorer result
It’s a little functionality, but that save a …

Tip : The bookmarks bar disappears on Google Chrome !

Hi,
I Found that my bookmarks bar on Google Chrome disappear sometimes. This behavior is very confusing, is searched a few and i find that it was me that make it disappears and appears.
On Google Chrome, you can hide/display the bookmarks bar using <Ctrl> + <B>.
Hope that will help someone.

Improve performance of your web site with Page Speed

Page Speed is a Firefox addon who add a new functionality to Firebug enabling the user to evaluate and improve the performances of a web site. In this post, we will see how to use it the make your pages load faster.

Google Analytics goes asynchronous !

From this month, Google provide a new Google Analytics script that works in an asynchronous way.
This has several advantages :

The time to load the script has less impact on the page loading time.
Best data recovery and so more saved visits. The visits terminated before the script loading doesn’t happens anymore. Because, due to the asynchronous way of loading, we can add the analytics code …