Posts Tagged google

How To Open Docx & Doc Files Without Microsoft Office Installed

Posted on June 27, 2010 by MidaNo Comments

Not everyone uses Microsoft office but sometimes you may get files in Docx or Doc formats and you might think that the only way to view and open these format is Microsoft office so here is 3 methods you can use to open and view Docx and Doc files without Microsoft office installed.

1. Using Google Docs

Its really great service from google you can just upload the Docx & Doc files to google Docs and then you can open, view. print or even edit it and the best of all you can access them anywhere you want all you need is google account.

How To Disable The New Google Search Results Pages Options left sidebar

Posted on May 10, 2010 by MidaNo Comments

Google just introduced a new search results page interface. Unlike any other change google has mad this new search results page interface has 3 columns there is new option column on the left side, and the search results is on the center column and finally the sponsored links in the right side of the screen. But if you don’t like the new interface and you want the old one back there are two ways you can do it to remove the left option sidebar from Google Search results pages.

Save and Read Google Maps In Offline Mode With GMapCatcher

Posted on April 2, 2010 by MidaNo Comments

GMapCatcher is a free and easy to use offline maps which helps you download maps from online service such as CloudMade, OpenStreetMap or Google Map and then you can use it in offline, You will be able to  continue viewing the maps after even though even when you not connected to any maps services.

Find The Fastest DNS Servers With NameBench

Posted on January 27, 2010 by MidaNo Comments

NameBench is free and easy to use tool which lets you benchmark the fastest DNS servers to increase internet speed, NameBench benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output to give you the Fastest DNS Server to use.

How to Setup Google Public DNS on your Computer

Posted on December 4, 2009 by MidaNo Comments

Google today launched their own DNS service its called public DNS service its Similar to OpenDNS. Usually ISP will provide you with their own DNS servers but there are many reasons to switch to another DNS server for instance Censorship and country restrictions some countries  or companies use DNS servers to block access to some websites on the internet. but this is consider weak block and you can easily bypass by changing to another public DNS servers like OpenDNS or Google public DNS.

Performance is another reason to switch to another DNS servers some ISPs DNS servers not that great and not optimized for faster web surfing not to mention the outdated caching.

 

Google promise that you will experience a faster browsing experience but as they just launched this service i noticed Performance issus slow down and time out on some websites. so the result is against Google at this time but i expect in the next few weeks Google will improve this DNS servers performance and we will get what they promised us a faster browsing experience .   

How To Configure your network settings to use Google public DNS