Office 365, Microsoft’s attempt to bring Office to the web as a subscription based service, has been available since 2010 for a select number of beta testers. Back then you were able to enter your email address to receive a notification once the service would enter public beta. That day has come and users from [...]
Chrome Gets Per-Site Permissions to Run Quicktime, Java Plugins
Big news today for the Google Chrome crowd. A post on the Google System blog outlines a recent change in the browser that affects the Java and Quicktime plugin, and maybe even other lesser known plugins. Probably the easiest way to demonstrate what has been changed is it show you a screenshot of Apple’s popular [...]
FfChrome Firefox Add-On Optimizes The Browser’s Context Menu
Firefox displays a lot of options when you right-click in the web browser. The list of items depends on the element that you right-clicked on, as some entries are only shown if you click on images, text or media contents. When you look at all of the entries you may notice that you only use [...]
Opera Widgets Overview, Discovering Opera Part 3
We are looking at Opera Widgets in the third part of our Discovering Opera series. You can read about Opera Turbo and Opera Unite in the two previous parts of the series. Most users know widgets probably from their operating system. In Windows they are called gadgets. They are small applications that serve many different [...]
Windows 8 Gets Hybrid Boot
You probably know what hibernation is, right? Instead of shutting down the operating system you can use hibernation to save the contents of the RAM to the hard drive to speed up the next start of the operating system and start working where you left off. Hybrid Boot is a new feature of Windows 8 [...]
YouTube Snagger, Download YouTube HD Videos
Computer users have dozens of options when it comes to downloading videos from the world’s most popular video hosting site YouTube. From browser extensions over userscripts to standalone software programs that vary in comfort and features. Check out our download YouTube videos guide for a selection of the best available tools to snag videos from [...]
Norton Antivirus, Internet Security 2012 Beta Download
Norton has made available beta downloads for their upcoming security software refreshes. Norton Internet Security 2012 Beta and Norton Antivirus 2012 Beta are both available for download at the Norton Beta Center. Interested users need to fill out a small registration form before they can download one or both of the applications. We take a [...]
Chrome Torrent Turbo Search Finds Downloads On Multiple Torrent Sites
Sometimes when you are searching for a specific file you may use Bittorrent indexers to find it. Most indexers allow you to search their index, and it happens that you have to visit and search multiple sites before you find the download that you have been looking for. Torrent Turbo Search is a free Google [...]
Google Video Closing Down, What You Need To Know
Before Youtube, Google tried to conquer the video hosting niche with a service that they called Google Video. When they discovered that they could not compete with Youtube, they bought that service and made people forget all about Google Video. There are actually many similarities to Google’s attempt in past years to get a foothold [...]