Happy Birthday Google: 20 Years of Google
As someone has been using computers for the past 20+ years, I feel like I have a unique connection with Google. I remember using it for the first time and thinking, “This isn’t going to replace anything. Internet Explorer and Netscape are just too user friendly and have…
Opera Is Embracing Built-In Ad-Blockers
Isn't it annoying when you have to wait on your browser to load — only to find out most of the page consists of ads? Some tech-savvy users install browser plug-ins to block those ads and improve their experience and loading times, but one browser, Opera, is embracing built-in ad-blockers.
In a developer…
Latest Chrome update to contain Brotli.
Google has announced that it has started to release the latest update for its Chrome browser. This update will contain their new browser compression tool, "Brotli." The new algorithm will compress web pages by 26%, thus increasing your browsing speed.
Google first made the announcement last September: "At Google, we…
Google has announced end of support for XP, Vista, and OS X.
Google announced that it will no longer be supporting its Chrome browser on systems running Microsoft XP and Vista as well as Mac OS X versions 10.6, 10.7 and 10.8.
Starting April 2016, Google will no longer release updates and security fixes for their…
How to Browse Incognito
The Internet can be a dangerous place. Sometimes you want to keep your identity a secret on the web. Now, your reasons for doing so aren’t any of our business, but here are three ways you can take advantage of Google Chrome's Incognito mode to browse the web in an anonymous…
Improve Your Google Chrome Experience
If you’re one of the many people who prefer Google Chrome to other browsers, you know all about extensions and how they can improve your browsing experience. These are mostly add-ons that are designed to augment your browsing experience or add new features. While some aren’t so useful, there are…
Are you already sick of the storms and outages brought by the beginning of summer? So are we.
You might have experienced the frustration of reading an article online and having the Internet connection cut out on you. This is one of the most common problems while working with a shoddy WiFi connection (or when your…
The next version of Internet Explorer might look more like the competition rather than a retooled version of itself. Scheduled to debut in Windows 9 and codenamed "Threshold", Internet Explorer 12 (IE12) is said to look like a "cross between Chrome and Firefox" as part of a massive overhaul to the user interface that will…
miniLock app makes Encryption easy!
Use of encryption is on the rise. More than ever before encryption is being adopted by criminals, governments, and wise technology users. The U.S. court systems annual report on law enforcement eavesdropping in 2013 stated that encryption foiled state police attempts to serveil criminal suspects in 9 different cases. That…
Google’s Chrome browser found that a Turkish certificate authority mistakenly released certificates for the Google.com domain to organizations that were not Google. What’s the problem with this? Well, if an organization has access to a certificate for Google.com they can setup a website as if it’s actually Google.com and run Man in the Middle attacks…
Google has released another experiment, this time they utilize the new features of HTML 5 and CSS3. Now if you and your friends have Google Chrome installed you can start a live session and jam out with them. You simply download Jam with Chrome from the website then your ready to jam out.
Once you go to the…
After months of delay, Google this week will let people use Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar even when they're offline, a key feature for making the company's cloud-computing vision more practical.
Gmail Offline is a separate Web App that runs only in Chrome for now. It stores about three to seven days' worth of…