Hypothetically, what would you say if Microsoft would enable an offline mode for Hotmail or Office Live 365 but only for Internet Explorer? Chance is, a lot of users would cry foul play and demand that Microsoft would enable support for other web browsers as well. If you look at Google these days, you might [...]
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Verify That Amazon Items Are Shipped To A Selected Country
You may remember that I buy most of my computer games and media at the Amazon UK store and not the store in Germany. I benefit in two ways here: First, prices are a lot cheaper than they are in Germany. I sometimes pay 50% less for the same item. Second, I get games and [...]
How To Install Google Chrome For Multiple User Accounts
The default, or shall I say more prominent, installer for the Google Chrome web browser offers only single user account installations only. More precisely, it can only be installed for the user account that is currently logged into the operating system. That’s not a problem for single user systems, but if you maintain computers with [...]
Google Translate for Google+
I have been using Google’s new social networking site Google Plus ever since I received my invitation. To be honest, I have been spending more site on the site than I have on Facebook or Twitter combined. That’s still not much compared to social networking geeks who spend hours on those sites. Still, I use [...]
Google Dictionary Chrome Extension
Google some time ago retired the Google Dictionary web service. Well, that’s not entirely correct. What Google retired was the frontend of that service on the web. The definitions are still available, but can only be displayed in Google Search. Users need to use the advanced search parameter define followed by the phrase that they [...]
Chrome’s New Tab Page Redesigned, Now Paged
Just spotted a change to the new tab page in the Google Chrome browser. The change is life in the latest Google Chrome Dev build, and I’m not 100% sure when it was first introduced (meaning it could be older than today, but I failed to spot it). Previously when you’ve opened a new tab [...]
Gooce+, Add Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn To Google Plus
I find it rather difficulty to spend time on all social networking sites that I have an account for evenly. The three dominant social networking sites that I use currently are Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus. I never got the hang of LinkedIn and do not use localized social networking sites. If I would add [...]
Google Related For Chrome Extension
Google Related is a brand new extension by Google for its Chrome web browser. The extension acts as a browsing assistant displaying related news and contents in a small bar at the bottom. This process itself is automatic. The related information that are displayed on the toolbar at the bottom of the browser screen are [...]
Enlarge Photos On eBay Auction Pages
The photos that users upload to eBay are used to populate the search results and category listings. The eBay auction platform automatically displays thumbnail versions of the uploaded photos on search and category pages instead of the, often larger, versions of the photo uploaded by the eBay user. While that may not be a problem [...]
Samsung Series 5 Chromebook Review
Samsung’s new Series 5 Chromebook is one of the very first devices to market running Google’s own Chrome OS, a Linux variant cloud-based operating system that is essentially just a web browser and nothing else. I’ve been testing and living with the Chromebook for a few days now and have already written about my thoughts [...]
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 [...]
GTools+, Display Google Bar On All Web Pages
If you are a heavy Google user you may like the Google bar that is displayed on top of all the Google properties. The bar links to several Google properties and displays notifications about new messages or posts on Google+. It furthermore contains a share link if Google Plus is used, and a link to [...]
Most Popular Google Chrome Themes
I have to admit that I’m not a user who likes to change the default theme of a web browser. Not because there are no cool themes out there for my browsers, but mostly because I do not really care how my browser looks like design wise. But themes are very popular and I certainly [...]
Chrome Live Sport, Watch Live Sports In Your Browser
Live Sport for the Chrome browser is a sport fan’s dream come true. The Chrome extension lists direct links to sport broadcasts which can be viewed directly in the browser. That’s handy if your national TV is not broadcasting the match or event at all, if you are abroad and want to see your favorite [...]
Good news, IE users aren’t stupid after all
Last week we reported, somewhat sceptically I’m happy to say, about a piece of research by a company called AptiQuant Psychometric Consulting, that said that people who used Internet Explorer had lower IQs than people who used other browsers. The research “measuring the effects of cognitive ability on the choice of web browser” was apparently [...]
Firefox Appears To Handle Lots Of Tabs Better Than Chrome
Which web browser handles 150 open tabs better, Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome? That’s what Gregor Wagner wanted to find out in a scalability test. The test setup was the following: Open the 150 most popular web sites in both web browsers and see which performs better memory and performance wise. Gregor automated the process [...]
MuteTab For Chrome Lets You Put An End To Background Tab Sounds
Maybe you can relate to the following experience. I was watching a video on my computer and heard background noise in the background. First I thought that the video had been recorded with those by accident, but they were still there after I paused the video. I checked the open browsers and their tabs, one [...]
Magic Actions for YouTube, Chrome Browser Extension
Magic Actions for YouTube promises to be the most convenient way to watch YouTube videos in the Google Chrome browser. But can it live up to that promise? When you look at the feature set you will notice that it combines several unique options with features that are common in other YouTube extensions as well. [...]
Block All User Comments On Google Plus
When you are spending time on Google Plus you will eventually come upon comments made by users which you would prefer not to see or read on the site. While it is easy to remove those users from your own stream, for instance by removing them from your circles, it is not possible to remove [...]
G+me for Google Plus, Better Google+ Stream Collapsing
The stream, that’s basically all the messages that people write that are in your circles, provided that the visibility includes you on Google Plus. I’m personally not that happy with the way the stream is displayed on screen. Sometimes, you see so many comments under a message that you have to scroll multiple pages to [...]