It took Google some time to open their social network service Google Plus to the public. Up until now it was only possible to join the service after receiving an invite, or by accessing the site when Google removed the invite-limitation temporarily. Google today over at the official Google Blog announced that Google+ is now [...]

Categories: Google

Google is supporting its social networking service Google+ with Google Chrome extensions. This includes the Google Translate for Google+ extension for instance that allows users to automatically or manually translate posts on Google Plus. Google+ Manager is a relative new extension for the Firefox web browser that combines access to several handy features in one [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

So called scraper sites or scrapers are one of the dark phenomenons of the Internet. The sites basically republish the RSS feed of one or multiple unique websites on a domain, usually without rights or link back to the original source. Technology in this sector has advanced in past years, and scraping has been combined [...]

Categories: Web Development

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Previously, Google Plus users were able to block people on Google+, which basically meant that those people would be removed from a user’s circles and would lose the ability to comment on a user’s content or view contents shared with that user’s circles. Google Plus users are not notified that they have been blocked, but [...]

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My story on Cnet’s Download.com installer that the company added to many downloads on their website has sparked the interest of other websites and software developers. Users who download software from download.com now download an installer first that comes bundled with a toolbar. This web installer then offers to download and install the installer of [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Google users who want to sign in with their Google account on the Google website see currently a highlighted announcement on the page. The announcement reads “Coming Soon: A new sign-in page!” with options to preview the new page or to learn more about it. The change to the sign-in page is part of a [...]

Categories: Google