Category Archives: Tips

OpenDNS: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

By Siddhartha Reddy | March 17, 2008

OpenDNS is a free alternative to the DNS resolution service that your ISP provides you.
Update: OpenDNS has recently added an option to turn off the “ugly” proxying I describe below. See David Ulevitch’s comment below.
The Good:
OpenDNS is fast and reliable, more than the service offered by any ISP I have used. In addition, it offers [...]

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Get lucky, navigate with Firefox and Google

By Siddhartha Reddy | March 9, 2008

A lot of the searches I do every day are navigational. What this means in plain English is that I do a search to find a particular web page/site and then just navigate to it. This is in contrast to the exploratory searches where I usually end up visiting more than one of the search [...]

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