WWDC 2010 Journal, last day

By Mike Morton, Google Mac TeamGoogle engineer Mike Morton has now made it home after a week of sipping at the firehose known as Apple WWDC in San Francisco. In today’s post, Mike shares his thoughts and observations as the conference winds down — an…

Namebench

Namebench is an open source tool for testing DNS servers. It compares the performance of your ISP’s dns service with popular third party servers. This app runs a thorough benchmark using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. Download Namebench [Mac OS X, Windows, and UNIX]

DNS Benchmark

GRC’s DNS Benchmark performs a detailed analysis and comparison of the operational performance and reliability of any set of up to 200 DNS nameservers at once. It uses internet’s most popular top-50 domain names for testing the fastest dns servers available for your ISP. Download DNS benchmark

Run Google Android on an Apple iPhone

Do you own an Apple iPhone? If yes, have you wished you could run a Linux flavour on your iPhone perhaps via dual booting ? Then your wish is answered. “Linux on the iPhone” blog team has successfully installed Google Android (which runs a Linux kernel) on Apple iPhone.

Watch the following video and gauge for yourselves how well Google Android performs on an Apple iPhone.

More details of this unique project can be found here.