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OpenDNS Serves 20 Billion DNS Requests In One Day

by Jeff Weisbein December 16, 2009

OpenDNS has been around for quite some time now, I use them myself, though lately I have been messing around with Google’s DNS (since it’s new and well I’m a geek). Nonetheless, David Ulevitch (OpenDNS founder), just posted on his Facebook and Twitter that yesterday OpenDNS served 20 Billion DNS requests. That is a single-day [...]

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World’s Most Expensive Holiday Card

by Jeff Weisbein December 8, 2009

CNET UK’s Chris Stevens has made like Martha Stewart and come up with a step-by-step video (see above) teaching you how to turn your old tech into the most expensive Christmas (or holiday) card in the world. Get this! It uses an iPhone in the card itself. It’s pretty slick. Granted you need to have [...]

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GeekBench: How To Benchmark Your System

by Jeff Weisbein November 14, 2009

GeekBench is a piece of software that allows you to benchmark your system and then compare your benchmark against similar computer systems. GeekBench was created by PrimateLabs and has both a free and paid version of their software – the paid version goes for about $20. The paid version allows you to run the 64bit [...]

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Brain Toniq Taste Test

by Jeff Weisbein August 12, 2009

I would like to thank TrueToniqs for sending me a couple of cans of their Brain Toniq energy drink. Brain Toniq’s slogan is “The intelligent think drink” – it is supposed to make you think clearer by clearing out what they call “head fog”. It is a low(er) calorie (it has 80 to be exact) [...]

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Pingdom Review: Monitor Your Websites Uptime

by Jeff Weisbein August 11, 2009

Pingdom is a freemium web service that allows you to monitor and track your websites uptime. As all website owners and server administrators know – uptime is extremely important. The more your site/server is down the more money you are losing. Not only does it effect possible advertising or sales revenue, it can also harm [...]

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10 Computer Repair Tips Any Tech Should Know

by Jeff Weisbein August 1, 2009

When it comes to computer repair there is a lot more to know about then meets the eye. Here are ten (10) tips on how to improve your computer repair service (business). This post was written by geekinside who is a member of our chat room. 1. Identify your skill set – You may be [...]

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How To: Configure Nginx As A Reverse Proxy

by Jeff Weisbein June 8, 2009

I previously wrote about why page load times are important and outlined a couple of ways you could improve your web servers performance with regards to page load time. One of the ways I mentioned was to use nginx as a reverse proxy to serve all of your static files while letting Apache handle all [...]

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Why Page Load Times Are Important

by Jeff Weisbein June 6, 2009

Recently, Google announced they were open sourcing one of their internal tools called Page Speed. Page Speed can be used in conjunction with the Firefox plugin Firebug (install Firebug then install Page Speed). The tool will analyze any web page and provide useful information and feedback that you can use to help improve the pages [...]

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I Will “Bing It” For An Entire Week

by Jeff Weisbein June 1, 2009

I have decided to challenge myself for an entire week – I will only use Bing for searches. That’s right – no Google, just Bing. Why am I doing this? Well, I have been a die hard Google user since I got on the Internet and to date I have not found a better way [...]

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iPhone vs Palm Pre: Why Apple Shouldn’t Worry

by Jeff Weisbein May 23, 2009

The Palm Pre will be available on June 6th (two days before WWDC when Apple is excpected to announce a new iPhone) for $199. Should Apple be worried? Is the iPhone in grave danger? I really don’t think so. Forget the features and functionality in both devices for a second. If you ask me, I [...]

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