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Since October 19, 2005, Gmail users in UK can only sign up for Gmail service with an email address ended with @googlemail.com instead of @gmail.com due to trademark dispute. Although googlemail.com is interchangeable to gmail.com, where any email sent to a @gmail.com address will also get delivered to recipients on Google Mail, some users simply do not like the “unique” @googlemail.com with extra keystrokes.

Gtalk might not be the best instant messenger application that users can find but surely it is one of the favorite products of many Google users. This web-based application for instant messaging allows users to enjoy instant communication with their friends when they are reading their Gmail. Besides messaging, Gtalk in fact also allows users to make real time video call chat via its new […]

Most computer keyboards are designed for English users who construct words from the Latin alphabet. However, other users are at a disadvantage if their language of communication has special written characters such as Polish, Russian or Arabic unless they are using special keyboards designed for these specific languages. To facilitate and enable non-English users to browse more efficiently, the internet search giant, Google, has started […]

Previously we mentioned about Volery that can install multiple programs and applications at once, here is another similar web service utility that can be a good alternative. Named as FreeApp, it comes with a wide variety of famous program lists and allows users to select for installation at once, saving all the hassle of having to install them one after another which are both effort […]

After setup and configuring Apache to enable GZip compression or instruct PHP scripts to output in compressed format, webmasters or system administrators may want to run a test to check and verify that the web server is actually churning out and serving the compressed content in Gzip or Deflate encoding.

Web hosts managed by cPanel control panel can have GZIP compression enabled by using mod_deflate on Apache 2.x (Apache 2.0 or Apache 2.2 HTTPD server). GZIP compression can compress and reduce the size of web pages that been transmitted and sent to requester, saving bandwidth and speed up website speed. cPanel has built-in mechanism to turn on and enable mod_deflate module (or mod_gzip on Apache […]

mod_deflate is a module that been loaded by Apache HTTPD server to compress web pages in GZIP encoding before serving and transferring the web pages across Internet to requesting web browser. GZIP compression can potentially reduces and shrinks the size of the files by between 60% to 80%., reducing the traffic bandwidth required to serve the request.

The loading speed of a website is an important consideration for webmasters, not only in term of end-user browsing experience, but potentially also can make or break search engine ranking position (SERP), especially in Google, which started to take web page speed into consideration in its algorithm. One way to improve the serving speed of web pages is to enable GZIP compression to compress the […]

Compressing a web page been serving it to web browser which requested the web page can save and reduce bandwidth usage. With lesser bytes to transmit and transfer over Internet, a web page request can be fulfilled and transferred faster, freeing up process and resources to handle other requests. The end result is faster website, which improves visitors’ experience and potentially improves search engine ranking.