It’s very common for the major technology companies to release video adverts for their products that deride or poke fun at the competition, probably the best example of these are Apple’s excellent parodies of Microsoft’s “I’m a PC” adverts. Now though Microsoft are hitting out at Google with the introduction of the Gmail man, an annoying [...]

Categories: Google, Microsoft

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Google just announced the availability of the webmaster related service Page Speed Service. You may remember that the company started to introduce its Page Speed service about two years ago which provided suggestions to webmasters and developers on how to improve the page loading times of their websites and web services. The Page Speed Service [...]

Categories: Web Development

Webmasters have really no choice but to add the Google+ button and other social networking buttons to their websites. Why? Because social signals will grow in importance in the coming years. These buttons can also be convenient for site visitors who would like to share a specific article or the whole website that they just [...]

Categories: Google, Web Development

We have discussed Google’s decision to stop updating its Google Toolbar extension for the Firefox web browser. The most recent version of the Firefox web browser, Firefox 5, is not supported anymore. The same is true for future versions of the Internet browser. The last version officially supported is Firefox 4. What can Firefox users [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

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 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

How do you search when you use the Google Chrome browser? Do you enter the search term directly in the address bar, open the Google search homepage and search there or do something else? Highlight to Search is a very popular Google Chrome extension that adds a feature to search by simply highlighting text in [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

A computer with a malware infection causes serious troubles for its owner or the current users, especially if they are not aware of the infection. The danger itself depends largely on the type and purpose of the malware, and can range from stealing files to destructive behavior or using the hijacked computer as a proxy [...]

Categories: Google, Security

Google in a somewhat surprising move announced that they will discontinue development of the Google Toolbar for the Firefox web browser. Taking effect immediately, the company notes that the Google Toolbar will not be supported on Firefox 5 and future versions. The change has no effect on the current toolbar offered for the browser which [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox