Posts Tagged ‘google’
Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
Hopefully, the Google+ redesign works out better than Facebook’s “Timeline” fiasco …
If you have been to Google’s social networking site Google+ in the last few hours, you may have spotted design changes on some pages or profiles that may have made you wonder what’s going on over there. Google just announced that they are currently rolling out a redesign of the Google+ website, which includes user profile pages, business pages and everything in between, that is modifying the layout and design of the social networking site considerable.
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Tags: facebook, google, Social media
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
If you spend a lot of time downloading images and other files via Chrome, you might find this helpful …
Download Master is a useful extension for the Google Chrome web browser that you can use to download multiple files at once from a website. You will notice a new icon in the address bar of the browser after installation of the extension.
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Tags: Bulk Image Downloader, chrome, File Downloader, google
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Monday, April 9th, 2012
This looks like kind of an interesting add-on for Chrome … but I think I’ll just stick with good old Notepad for the time being …
Computer users have several options at their disposal when it comes to note taking. They can take the conventional route and use post-its, paper or any other form of physical notes. While this may be convenient at times, these methods often lack features that computer generated notes offer. It is for instance not possible to sync the notes between devices, edit them without making a mess, or copying them into other applications.
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Tags: chrome, google, Mini Notepad, notepad
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
I’m so old, that I remember a time when Netscape Navigator used to be the hottest browser around …
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols questioned whether the Mozilla Firefox web browser has a future in the web browsing market in a new commentary on ZDnet yesterday. Lets take a look at the points that he makes to better understand the argument.
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Tags: chrome, firefox, google, internet explorer, mozilla, Web browsers
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
Spam isn’t all that big of a deal to me. Heck, I just treat it the same way I treat snail-mail junk-mail; I toss it in the trash, no filter needed.
Like many other email providers, Gmail is using anti-spam technologies to filter out spam messages automatically. These spam messages are then moved into the spam folder, and not into the mail inbox. That’s beneficial to the user, as it reduces the time it takes to go through all incoming emails.
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Tags: email, Gmail, google, Spam, spam filter
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
I wonder how many of my other favorite programs will need updating in order to work with the new Windows 8 OS?
The two user interfaces that Windows 8 ships with make it more time and development intensive for developers to provide a working version of their software for both interfaces. Microsoft for instance makes available two versions of their Internet Explorer 10 browser when the operating system launches. First the classic Internet Explorer for the desktop that ships with all the bells and whistles included, and then the Metro UI Internet Explorer that is more bare-bones. This particular version of Internet Explorer does away with plug-ins, starts in full screen and makes use of a minimalistic interface.
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Tags: chrome, google, internet explorer, metro ui, microsoft, windows 8
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Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Here’s an interesting Firefox add-on for those of us who are concerned with privacy …
With Google consolidating many of the company’s privacy policies into one came the fear that the companies primary motivation for the move was to generate even more revenue through their advertising programs than before.
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Tags: add-on, DuckDuckGo, firefox, google, mozilla, privacy, Protected Search
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
Google needs to make up its mind whether it wants to be a search engine or a marketing research tool … strike that, now that I think about it, I guess Google has already made up its mind.
By now you have probably read about Google’s privacy policy changes that take effect today. Some of you may have deleted their web history and other Google history, or even migrated Google services to other service providers with stricter privacy policies.
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Tags: google, Google Dashboard, privacy policy, Web History
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
I’m not sure if I agree with this or not, but the author definitely raises some interesting points …
This week, Google was found out to have been bypassing privacy settings in both Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and Apple’s Safari web browsers, as Martin reported here. In a statement on their blog, the Corporate Vice-President of IE blogged “IE blocks third-party cookies unless the site presents a P3P Compact Policy Statement indicating how the site will use the cookie and that the site’s use does not include tracking the user. Google’s P3P policy causes Internet Explorer to accept Google’s cookies even though the policy does not state Google’s intent.”
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Tags: cookies, facebook, google, microsoft, privacy, security
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Thursday, February 16th, 2012
Flash users should probably check this out; it looks like a fairly important security update …
Adobe has released a new security update for Flash Player that fixes several critical security vulnerabilities in the product. The vulnerabilities affect all platforms Flash Player is available on. Affected software versions are Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55 and earlier for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris operating systems, as well as Adobe Flash Player 11.1.112.61 and earlier versions for Android 4.x, and Adobe Flash Player 11.1.111.5 and earlier versions for Android 3.x and 2.x.
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Tags: adobe, android, chrome, flash, google, security
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