Archive for July, 2010

FeedSquares: Great new way to read your New Feeds with Chrome

by Liz on July 31st, 2010

It’s hard making sense of all the news and rapidly seeing what you already read and what you didn’t read. Reading feeds with Google Reader is ok, but it still is not optimal if you have a lot of feeds with 1000s of new posts per day. Feedsquares tries to end this problem by making [...]


A new Chrome os release every 6 weeks?

by Liz on July 29th, 2010

Google has promised to produce a new, stable, version of Chrome OS every six weeks. Sounds grand, but what’s the point? Google’s program manager Anthony Laforge wrote on the Official Google blog that the company is aiming to present a new, stable, release to speed up the pace at which Google Chrome releases are available [...]


Google introduces Chrome Canary

by Liz on July 26th, 2010

For the hardcore Chrome fan there’s something new to try: the google Chrome Canary version. So what ‘s a canary version? Well, it’s a mining term. When miners used to go down dangerous dark mining shafts, they used to bring canaries (those little birds) with them. As coal mines became deeper, so did the problems [...]


Features in Chrome 6

by Liz on July 22nd, 2010

When companies make a new version of a software package, they always have to carefully consider what will be part of that version and what will be moved to the next version. Google, in it’s process to create new versions of Chrome is no different. For version 6 a lot of stuff did not make [...]


FireFox 4 is coming; is Chrome being threatened?

by Liz on July 19th, 2010

One of the great features Chrome is actually something that one should expect from any software; it’s light and not killing your computer because it uses tons and tons of memory. Although you would like any application in the world to have the same characteristics, Chrome has been very kind to my Macbook, unlike safari [...]


Chrome OS ready for fall?

by Liz on July 19th, 2010

The programming boys at Google have recently made noticeable progress. The look and feel are simpler, cleaner and probably less process intensive than the previous versions. What’s more…


The coolest Chrome extensions

by admin on July 17th, 2010

Google released a list of what they think are the coolest Chrome extensions. We thought to comment on a few of them and then, if you didn’t already, let you install them! First of all, let me start with something I find one of the greatest inventions on internet today; TinEye. An online utility to [...]


Dangerous extensions possible for the secure Chrome browser?

by Liz on July 14th, 2010

The Chrome browser is seen as the safest browsers around. With it’s sandboxing technology and other protection strategies, it’s quite safe to browse the web with Chrome. After the FireFox guys discovered a plugin that steals passwords, the world was shown another possibility hackers will try to exploit to get into your computer. Obviously people [...]


World domination for Chrome?

by Liz on July 14th, 2010

ABI Research reports that operating systems like Android and Chrome OS (meaning ofcourse the Linux kernel as well) will be dominant on non smart phones in 2015. If this will happen it is quite significant for Linux and for Chrome and Chrome OS. Devices like smart phones, but also netbooks, *Pads (non-Apple iPad pads which [...]