The first glimpses of Apple’s new proposed Cupertino HQ appeared the other month, but now more images have appeared courtesy of Techcrunch The new building, known as Campus 2, will take up 2.8 million square feetm contain a 1,000 seat auditorium and research facilities civering 300,000 square feet. Currently the building, which vaguely resembles an [...]
The New Firefox Permissions Manager
Introduced in Firefox 6 is a new permissions manager that allows users of the web browser to define permissions on a per-site basis. Permissions? Currently restricted to the following settings: Store Passwords, Share Location, Set Cookies, Open Pop-up Windows and Maintain Offline Storage. You can open the new permissions manager in Firefox by loading about:permissions. [...]
Mozilla Modernizes Its Add-On Repository
If you have visited one of the add-on repositories on the Mozilla.org website lately you must have noticed that the design and layout has changed significantly. I thought for a moment on my first visit that I was in the Chrome web store, before I realized that this was the new layout of the add-on [...]
Can you live with Google’s Chrome OS? Erm, No
A few days ago I took delivery of a Samsung Chromebook to test, I’ll be writing my full review of the Chromebook in a few days, but I wanted to see how easy it would be to live with the Chromebook as my main PC for a week. You can read that first article here. To [...]
RegName, Fast Regular Expression Based File Name Changer
Have you ever tried to rename a number of files, say a few dozen, in Windows Explorer? The renaming operation takes a long time. In addition, renaming those files is a repetitive boring process, especially if the multi-file renaming option of Windows Explorer is of no use to you. Enter RegName, a free Open Source [...]
Mozilla Firefox 6.0 And 3.6.20 Pushed To Release FTP Server
The official release date for the next stable version of the Firefox web browser is August 16. This is also the day when all other channels move a version up, so to speak. Beta users will move to version 7 of the browser, Aurora users to 8 and Nightly users likely to version 9. The [...]
Browser Sign In Firefox Add-on
Mozilla announced a new sign-in system technology back in July. With the help of this new technology, Mozilla promised to make log ins easier and more secure. Instead of having to remember and type in log ins for different web services and sites, users can utilize the Browser ID to sign in just with their [...]
Google+ Games [Game Saturday]
Google enabled Games on my Google+ account while I was sleeping and I thought it would be a nice idea to review what Google+ Games has to offer on Game Saturday. Let me give you a short Google+ introduction before I take a closer look at the games on offer. Google+ is Google’s attempt to [...]
Popchrom, Create Text Shortcuts In Google Chrome
Do you have to write the same text multiple times per day? For instance when replying to business emails, writing blog posts or commenting on them on the Internet. If that is the case you might have considered using tools that let you create text shortcuts that you can simply paste into your texts to [...]