Fili Wiese

Installing Gnome 3 on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)

Fili Wiese — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:34:51 +0000

If you are reading this article, chances are that you have tried the Unity interface on Ubuntu. Although Canonical has done a great job with the development of Unity, some of us still prefer to use Gnome as a default GUI. In addition, the Gnome team has also done an excellent job improving Gnome and [...]

SES Amsterdam, here we come!

Fili Wiese — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:43:48 +0000

Like previous years, I will be attending SES Amsterdam 2011 next week. I am joined by my colleagues Selina Choo and Christoffel Hiltermann from the Dutch Google Search Quality team. Together we will be present at the conference to answer webmaster and SEO related questions. On behalf of Google Search Quality I will be taking [...]

Things to do in Ireland

Fili Wiese — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 01:02:03 +0000

And now for something completely different! Frequently I have colleagues, friends or family asking me what they could do while they are visiting Ireland. So I decided to share my favourite spots in this article. I have separated the activities/destinations you can do/visit within Dublin, around Dublin (often as day trips) and far outside Dublin [...]

Tips of the Week

Fili Wiese — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 07:32:39 +0000

Over the last months I have posted a number of tips on Twitter, hoping this would benefit my Twitter followers. As the number of retweets have increased I decided that publishing some of these tips here might also benefit you (the reader of this post), just in case you missed some or all of [...]

Transitioning to a Google Apps account

Fili Wiese — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:45:42 +0000

A few months ago I switched from my normal Google account (@gmail.com) to my Google Apps account (@filiwiese.com). I ran into a few snags along the way and I haven’t solved them all yet, however I thought it might be useful to share my experiences so far with my readers so you can consider [...]