Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Google Chrome

Friday, September 5th, 2008

I've played with Google Chrome a little bit, it seems slightly faster than Firefox or Internet Explorer, but that could just be because it's new and it seems fatster to the human mind. My problem with Google Chrome, though, is that there are no add-ins (a.k.a extensions). I am a heavy ...

Gmail Security

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

Good news: Gmail now (soon) shows the number of logged in sessions that you have open. You can even log sessions out remotely. This is great news for people who use Gmail frequently but are afraid of the security risks. If you are anything like me, you probably sign in to ...

Google News

Monday, June 16th, 2008

Google Favicon, Revisited - The Goolers are still trying to find the perfect favicon. I think most of the options look good, and I don't think they'll ever be able to please everyone. Google Monitoring ISP Throttling - Google will be creating a tool to help consumers detect if their ISP ...

New Google Favicon

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Google now has a new favicon (the icon that appears next to the URL in your web browser) - it's a lower case, blue "g." The new one seems to be more "hip" and web 2.0-ish. The old "Big G" was very recognizable - brand recognition might take a hit ...

Amazon.com Music MP3 Store

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

I'm really impressed w/amazons selection of DRM free music. I'll still use iTunes for my player, but amazon is my new store Kevin Rose via Twitter It's great to see that people are slowly realizing how the iTunes Music store locks you in to iPods for the rest of your life. Amazon ...