Month: January 2011
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Revisiting an old friend
It’s a new year, so the slate is clean and there’s lots of new things to try. Or old things that dropped off the radar to revisit. In my case, it’s photography and image processing. I used to enjoy working in a wet darkroom and watching images materialize on paper. That was years and many…
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Speed up your Internet experience by using the right DNS server
Last week I saw this LifeHacker article (via AppleInsider) about NameBench, a window utility that tests the speed of your system’s DNS servers. And I was wondering if my DNS was as fast as it could be… Previously, I’d switched my DNS services over to OpenDNS, a free alternate DNS Provider that adds value as: Ultra-reliable, globally-distributed…