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Introducing Google TV

Nerd Grind — Fri, 21 May 2010 22:22:34 +0000

Google has teamed up with Sony and Logitech to make your TV smarter with a little thing called Google TV. Google is once again leveraging their search technology to make it easier to find the TV shows you want to watch, but they are also hoping to serve you little unobtrusive ads in the process, [...]

Google to End Chinese Censorship or Shutdown Google China after Gmail Attacks

Nerd Grind — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:07:10 +0000

Google is getting back to their "Don’t Be Evil" motto after there were attacks on human rights activist accounts on their Chinese Gmail servers. Google has announced that these attacks created so much concern over the lack of free speech, and censorship in China, they would no longer be censoring their search results on google.cn. [...]

Dell Catalog 2010

Nerd Grind — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:37:48 +0000

Dell has published their new catalog for 2010, and it’s loaded with a lot of good deals. The mini laptops are priced just right for kids, and adults looking to save. My favorite for laptops is LoJack, which I use for my laptop. With the introduction of the 64 bit version of Windows 7, desktop [...]

Canonical Link Element Helps Clean Up Duplicate Content for Better SEO

Nerd Grind — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:36:16 +0000

Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo have added support for the new Canonical Link element to help identify a link to content on your site where all traffic should land when more than one link exists to the same content. The Canonical Link will be used for the search engine index, and sitemap URLs will still be [...]

Cannot Create New Ad Network Order in Google Ad Manager

Nerd Grind — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:16:12 +0000

Google Ad Manager is a great platform to serve ads, but it has a few bugs that Google still has not addressed. Personally I was able to add New Order, and New Ad Network Order, to create some orders, but then I started seeing the error: "A company with this name already exists. Choose a [...]

What is Google Chrome OS

Nerd Grind — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:52:06 +0000

Not long ago Google introduced their Google Chrome web browser, which was much faster than any other browser, and offered all the functionality needed, without the bloat of features rarely used. Google took this concept and applied it to their new operating system they call Google Chrome OS (operating system). The concept with Chrome OS [...]

Family Guy Windows 7 Microsoft Promotion Videos

Nerd Grind — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:04:39 +0000

Microsoft had contracted Family Guy to make some funny Windows 7 promotional video clips, but after the show did a more than usual controversial show that Microsoft execs attended, they decided the show’s values were not consistent with Microsoft’s Windows brand. Microsoft did publish the four video tape clips on their YouTube Windows channel.

Black Friday Sales

Nerd Grind — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:53:50 +0000

The Black Friday 2009 sales are upon us from Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Kmart, Toys R Us, Apple, Dell, and many other retailers will be having massive sales. Don’t miss them. If you didn’t get the Black Friday Flyers in the mail from Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Kmart, Toys R Us, Apple, Dell you can [...]

Power Defragmenter for Windows 7 and Windows Vista and Windows XP based on Contig

Nerd Grind — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:58:52 +0000

If you’ve noticed your computer getting slower over time you might need to defragment the files and folders on your hard drive. From Windows XP forward a basic defragmenter was included, but it was very poor. Microsoft did include a Windows defragmentation API that could be hooked into to provide better defragmentation. The reason you [...]

Facebook Notifications Software for the Desktop Download

Nerd Grind — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:23:07 +0000

A .NET desktop application called Facebook Notifications 2 can make it much easier to check for pokes, messages, events, friend requests, notices, and more, without logging into Facebook.com every time. Once installed the program will place a small icon in your tray from which you can find out all that is happening in your Facebook [...]