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Many of the employees at MentorMate have Google Android phones. There are a few iPhone owners too, but they’re in the minority at MentorMate. We did a little survey and found out what Android apps everyone was using. We then consolidated the list and filtered out all the apps that wouldn’t be used by your average Google Android user. What follows is a list of truly great apps that every Google Android user should have. These apps have one more thing in common, they’re all FREE!

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On November 19, 2009 Google announced their open source Chrome operating system built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security. The presentation started with a slide showing the increasing number of Chrome users – the browser that is used as a base in their OS. The slide also stated that Chrome has “39x faster JavaScript than Internet Explorer.” Is it really that much faster or faster at all? Will their built from scratch “V8 JavaScript Engine” outplay the latest version of the Microsoft browser and will it work almost 40 times faster?

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MentorMate’s web marketing team has created a list of some commonly-found problems in web site design. These flaws are detrimental aspects to the site in terms of actual site functionality, usability, and/or search engine optimization. They are problems that are readily apparent without an extensive technical background, and ranked in order, beginning with the most severe red flag and ending with more minor inconveniences that could be improved upon.

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Recently, we’ve been dealing with an issue related to our Tomcat Application Server and wanted to share how we solved this one. We found one that the application server was irrelevant (it could be Glassfish or another as well). The server was running the latest version, Tomcat Application Server 6.0.18, and it was crashing in irregular intervals. There was no easy solution because the server stopped making logs before crashing.

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