If you’ve been using the internet for a while, you should have come across names like OpenDNS and Google Public DNS. All these free DNS server provider claims to speed up your internet experience and improve security—so which to choose?

Rarst suggested two tools to test which DNS server has the best performance for you, namely namebench and DNS Benchmark. I prefer the latter for its simplicity, but the former has a more detailed test report if that’s what you prefer.

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How often do you see an amazingly beautiful WordPress theme, only to disappoint when you discover its price tag? If content is king, I would say design is queen.

Why is appearance important? Just imagine Obama campaigning for his presidency in just sandals and short pants.

There is definitely no shortage of good WordPress themes, but the free ones are used by so many other blogs that it has lost its uniqueness, while for the premium ones are sometimes just to pricey.

Now what about this—join a premium WordPress themes giveaway which will guarantee you a win if your blog has a PageRank of higher than 2? That’s exactly what ThemeGrade is doing.

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Google Maps is no doubt one of the most used tool to find almost just any location or place on planet Earth. There is one problem though. You can only enjoy such convenience if you are connected to the internet. There is an option to print on Google Maps, but the limited map size and zoom level doesn’t make it any helpful.

Here’s a simple tool that can partly solve the problem, Google Map Saver. With it, you can save any part of Google Maps as an image to your local disk, at a zoom level and resolution of your choice. Being able to select the zoom level lets you dictate how detailed you want your map to be.

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As you probably have already know, SheepTech is now CommentLuv enabled. While it is clearly helpful in increasing the number of comments, it’s also adding clutter that I deem unnecessary, the info panel. It appears whenever you hover your cursor on the little heart next to each CommentLuv link, providing little to no value, in my opinion.

If you are thinking the same, here’s how to disable it. I’m unsure if it’s the best way to do it, but it works at least.

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SheepTech has joined the club! To encourage more comments and voice from our readers, SheepTech is now CommentLuv and Top Commentators enabled. If you are unfamiliar with these WordPress plugin, CommentLuv will grab your blog’s latest article and link to it whenever you post a comment.

Top Commentators plugin on the other hand, as its name suggest, will list the top 5 commentators at the sidebar. As the comment activity on this blog is low, it’s not at all difficult to get on the list. The highest commentator at the point of writing has just 2 comments, the rest being just one.

For the time being, all the links are nofollow. I might consider do-following in the future, depends on how things go.

Alright, start commenting already

Steve Ballmer iPad review parody

• Site Speed now part of Google’s search ranking algorithms
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• Firefox Lorentz Beta Isolates Plug-in Crashes for Uninterrupted Browsing
  Lorentz brings a Chrome-like process isolation to Firefox, containing messy plug-in crashes.
• Apple iPhone OS 4: Everything you need to know in one handy list
  After months of speculation and rumors, Apple’s newest OS has finally arrived.
• Video Chat Coming To The Next iPhone? All Signs Are Pointing To Yes
  As they do with any major new iPhone OS release, people have been tearing apart the iPhone OS 4.0 SDK from the very second it was available.
• iPhone OS 4: Google branding removed in Safari search
  iLounge has pointed out that the “Google” branded search button in mobile Safari has been renamed “Search” in iPhone OS 4.
• Hacker jailbreaks the iPad less than a day after release
  A lot of people complained about the iPad’s closed-off software. But no one did anything about it — until now, apparently.
• Adobe Employee: Go Screw Yourself, Apple
  Speaking purely for myself, I would look to make it clear what is going through my mind at the moment. Go screw yourself Apple.

Expect more Apple news in the following weeks at the rate things are going right now. Probably there would be another wave when the new iPhone is announced in the next few months.