In June of 2012 Microsoft added the "Snapshot" feature to its Bing search engine, which enables answers at a glance in the center column of the search results page. Richard Qian, of the […]
Microsoft introduced an improved taskbar with the release of Windows 7. The taskbar enabled users of the operating system to pin programs and items to the taskbar where they acted like shortcuts. […]
If you are using Google Reader as your main RSS feed application you have probably started to evaluate other RSS readers to find the best suited alternative for you. The web-based and […]
Many gamers like to play games as early as possible. For many, it does not really matter if the game is not finished yet, beta or even alpha access to a game […]
I have ripped - and downloaded - some of the TV shows that I really like to my PC so that I can watch them whenever I want without having to find […]
Google Keep, Google's newest pet project, is now available if you directly open this url in your web browser. It does not appear to be linked yet on Google Drive though, but […]
Anyone still using eBay to buy and sell products? I have to admit that I visit the site maybe once or twice per year now. That was different years ago when I […]
Whenever I leave home, I tend to set my phone to vibrate only as I dislike it highly when it is going off in a crowded place or in a situation that […]
If you are browsing the Shoutcast directory of Internet stations regularly to find and play stations that you are interested in, you may have noticed that the site the directory is displayed […]
Solid State Drives (SSDs) have come a long way ever since the first generation appeared on the market. I remember that the first SSD I bought was not really that much faster […]
Firefox's user interface is more customizable than Chrome's or Internet Explorer's is, and that is a good thing. I never quite understood why Google or Microsoft did not implement options in to […]
Opera in February 2013 announced that it would use another browser core for the majority of its web browser products. In particular, the company decided to use Webkit, which is also the […]
Less than a week ago Google started to block ad blocker apps from its Play Store. Ad blockers are used for a variety of purposes on mobile devices, including blocking advertisement in […]
Welcome to the sixth part of our Discovering Opera series that we started back in 2011. This time, I'm looking at Opera's session management capabilities which shine in comparison to other browsers. […]
Electronic Arts, one of the largest game publishers, has a lot of problems these days. First there was the Sim City fiasco where the company decided that it is more important to […]
If you visit a couple of websites regularly throughout the day, and all at once, then you have probably considered improving the process in your browser of choice. The easiest way in […]
The end of support for the original version of Windows 7 is near - it ends on April 9, 2013 - and Microsoft as a consequence decided to distribute the first service […]
TabCloud was listed as Alan's number one extension for Google Chrome for 2012 and I always wanted to take a closer look at the extension to write a review of it here […]
You have a couple of options to improve how you interact with Windows 8's start screen and the apps that run on it. You can naturally use the way Microsoft envisioned users […]
If you haven't been living under a rock for the past week then you know that Google's has made lots of news and most of it was not good, thanks to the […]
I reviewed DropIt for the first time in 2010 and came to the conclusion that it is a handy file management tool. Today, DropIt 5.0 has been released and I thought it […]
Synctube was a popular service that enabled you to watch YouTube videos together with friends. That's a great way of sharing a find with friends, or watching a video of your favorite […]
Indicators of a new note taking service by Google came to light after Carlos Jeurissen did some heavy code snooping on various Google properties. From the looks of it, Google Keep will […]
It has certainly not been easy for file hosting providers ever since Megaupload was taken down. Rapidshare back then decided to change its plans completely to something that looked and felt more […]
If you hang out on several social networking sites you have probably noticed that they all make use of images in a variety of ways. There is the profile photo that is […]
FancyCache is a new caching product for the Windows operating system that introduces a couple of interesting features that users may find helpful. I'd first like to note that it is currently […]
Most web browsers make downloading a large quantity of images an unpleasant experience. While there are tools available that improve the downloading significantly, like the excellent Bulk Image Downloader for Windows, Image […]
I remember a time when web browsers displayed an RSS icon in their address bar when you opened a website with a feed. The icon served two purposes. First, it reminded you […]
Google is constantly tweaking things, adding things and, most notably this week, removing things -- yes, we are all still bitter about the Reader debacle. Many of these tweaks are much smaller […]
I can't really say when those fancy quotes started to appear in posts that I made on this WordPress blog, but one day they were there. I did not really put too […]
Google announced that it will retire Google Reader, probably the most popular RSS feed reader in existence, on July 1, 2013. The news shocked many users of the service and made huge […]
When you are thinking about pioneers in games, you are probably getting warm and fuzzy when Colonization comes to your mind. Pioneers is not like that even though it makes a couple […]
Dropbox's buying spree has not ended yet. The company today announced that it acquired the email app Mailbox and the team behind it. Mailbox is Dropbox's third acquisition in the last months. […]
YouTube, for being the largest video hosting site in the world, has some of the worst video controls of all the video sites out there. When you play a video on the […]
For the past week or so I have been noticing that various versions of Google Chrome started to add icons to the Windows system tray. I first noticed it in Google Chrome […]
Microsoft has not released information about how the company's Surface devices do sales-wise. It launched the Surface RT back in October 2012 along with the Windows 8 operating system, and the Surface […]
The first item that I ever funded on the crowd funding platform Kickstarter finally shipped to my location. I funded it back in December 2011 shortly after taking note of Kickstarter for […]
If you are a member of the live broadcasting and streaming websites Justin.tv or Twitch.tv, or just happen to be on those sites every now and then to watch some live streams, […]
With Twitter limiting third party developer API access, users either have to find an application for their system that has not reached that limit yet, or use one of the official clients […]
If you work on multiple computer systems, some local some remote, you may have encountered situations where you'd want one of your remote machines to handle a task. Maybe you discovered a […]
