some quick instructions for those that want to pop Googles latest and greatest on your Nexus 5. Download the system files – Google Factory image: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#hammerhead if you want/need root, also get – Latest TWRP Recovery: http://techerrata.com/browse/twrp2/hammerhead – Chainfires kernel install script: http://download.chainfire.eu/363/CF-Root/CF-Auto-Root/CF-Auto-Root-hammerhead-hammerhead-nexus5.zip Install Steps Extract the files from the Factory image, until you have […]
and then there were… Five!?
A couple of months ago, Opera announced they were dropping Presto in favor of WebKit to allow them to spend their time focusing on the browser rather than the HTML rendering engine within it. This was seen by some people as a loss for web standards as Opera were the major company pushing standards and […]
Google open a fresh pot
Google last night announced they have completed their migration to their new web indexing system known as ‘Caffeine’. This new system basically allows them to push anything Googlebot finds into the main index in seconds rather than weeks. Previously Googlebot would crawl the web, find a site, then submit its content to another system for […]
Page Speed Score: 93/100
Google made a post the other day about “Me and site performance, sitting in a tree…” so I thought before we get to the “…k, i, s, s, i, n, g!” I should give her a run for her money, check she is good enough for me. First thing the post suggest is to check […]
Verify your domain via DNS
Google have announce another way to verify you own a domain in their webmaster tools, via a DNS TXT record. This solves a problem I have had many times in that it verifies the whole domain. Until now, you had to verify you owned every sub-domain on a domain before you could use webmaster tools […]