I think it was last year when Google first mentioned that they would add remote desktop capabilities to Chrome OS and the Chrome web browser. Yesterday Google released a first beta version of Chrome Remote Desktop, an extension for the Chrome browser on the official Chrome Web Store. Google points out that the goal of [...]
Prizma Puzzle Challenges [Game Saturday]
It is Saturday again and this means that I’m going to review another game for you to play during the weekend. Today’s game is Prizma Puzzle Challenges, a browser based puzzle game in which you need to direct light – or is it a laser? – through various nodes to reach the exit of the [...]
Teach Parents Tech, Tutorial Videos For Common PC Issues
Since you are reading this blog I assume you get a lot of tech related questions that you need to answer. In my family it is my mom who is asking me questions about sending images as attachments via email or deleting lines in an Excel document. And while that feels very basic for me, [...]
How To Enable, Disable Google Chat History
If you have a Google account you can chat with your contacts, for instance over at the Gmail homepage. This web based chat works pretty much like a standard instant messenger chat. You get options to send files, use emoticons or call the user. And like instant messenger chats, Google chats get recorded automatically by [...]
Day Zero, Plan Things To Do In The Next 1001 Days
If you had one day to live, what would you do? You probably know that question and I personally find it very hard to come up with an answer to that. Day Zero takes the question a step further by asking you what you would like to do in the next 1001 days. It is [...]
Sync Broken In Firefox 7.0.1 Release
Life over at Mozilla is surely not as easy-peasy anymore than it was a year or two ago. With Chrome breathing down the browser’s neck and Microsoft getting their act together it has become a tough playing field. The rapid release process should have changed it all, and for the better. Bad news however seem [...]
HackNotifier, Check If Online Accounts Have Been Compromised
News about big hacks and the publication of user databases have slowed down considerably in past months. Before that reports of hacks were nearly daily in the news with companies like Sony, Gawker or Ashampoo the target. Many user databases that the hackers dumped during the hack were published on the Internet afterwards. Not all [...]
MobiTest, Test Mobile Website Performance
The rise of smartphones and other mobile handheld devices has increased the importance of optimizing websites for smartphones and other mobile devices. There are three core aspects that need to be taken into consideration. The size of the display which is often a lot smaller than standard desktop display resolutions, the technologies supported by those [...]
Ambient Mixer, Listen To, Create Ambient Sounds
I recently began to take a closer look at ambient sounds and noise colors, e.g. white noise, to improve my sleep. I personally do not sleep that well which can be mainly attributed to working in front of a computer monitor all day, and to my sensitive hearing. To make matters worse, I live in [...]