Archive for April, 2011

Chrome Browser History Too Basic? Install History 2!

by Donovan Leiber on April 13th, 2011

Some people rely on their “History” tab quite frequently. Can’t remember exactly what address or URL had that great information from last week and forgot to bookmark it? Or maybe a few days ago you visited a link sent by a friend, didn’t read it, and you computer restated. There are infinite reasons why you [...]


CR-48 Trackpad Fix Makes the Chrome Notebook 100% More Usable

by Donovan Leiber on April 12th, 2011

When the CR-48 Notebook first launched it was well received except for one fatal flaw – the trackpad. It was a glitchy pain in the butt that made using the first ever device built on Chrome OS a complete nightmare. Well… that problem has now been fixed with the Chrome OS 11 Beta. It’s often [...]


Accidentally Close Your Tabs/Windows In Chrome? Get Them Back!

by Donovan Leiber on April 12th, 2011

It’s true in many cases that the best way to fix a problem is by preventing it in the first place. We’ll share the easy “fix” afterwards, but first let’s share a little tip on how you can prevent from accidentally closing an entire window in Chrome accidentally. Simply install the Chrome Toolbox Extension and [...]


Chrome Changing An Icon

by Chris Chavez on April 11th, 2011

Google will be updating the Chrome icon on their popular browser and I have mixed feelings towards it. It seems they’re moving away from that shiny, Chrome sphere and onto something a little more — flat. The styling is very similar to the design of the new stickers we’ve been seeing come bundled with the [...]


Chrome Drops Support For Google Gears

by Donovan Leiber on April 11th, 2011

Google launched Google Gears in 2007 as a way to speed up your web experience by downloading many elements of websites to your local computer. Although Google discontinued Gears last year in an effort to move the benefits of Gears into HTML5 and support them with Chrome instead, Chrome 10 and 11 still supported Google [...]


ChromeLite: Yesterday Is Tomorrow

by Donovan Leiber on April 10th, 2011

Remember when your dailup modem took 45 seconds to connect, made all kinds of crackling noises, and then showed web pages in text only? Google wants to focus on SPEED and so they’ve launched ChromeLite which brings you back to the old days where text only was the way to go. You can actually download [...]


Chrome Speech-To-Text Illustrates One Advantage Of Ice Cream

by Donovan Leiber on April 9th, 2011

So we’ve been hearing a lot about Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Ice Cream from an Android and GoogleTV standpoint. Gingerbread was built for phones, Honeycomb was built for tablets and Ice Cream would reportedly merge the two into one single OS. The latest rumors suggest Ice Cream will not only merge the code base for these [...]


Web Navigation API & Proxy Extension API Give Extension/App Devs More Fuel

by Donovan Leiber on April 8th, 2011

Honestly, it appears that Google will be doing for the web browser what Android is doing for mobile devices. With Chrome, Google continues to announce new standards and new APIs that allow 3rd parties to tap into the inherent power of the browser to create new, cool, useful, and helpful extensions and apps. The latest [...]


Chrome Extends Additional Protection Against Malicious Sites and Downloads

by Donovan Leiber on April 8th, 2011

The internet is serious business. Unfortunately, much of that serious business is done by seriously bad people. Whether they’re undermining your browsing habits to show you spam ads, or attempting to force downloads that will install spyware to steal your passwords and adware to ruin your browsing experience, sheisters are all over the place trying [...]


Tens Of Millions Suggest Chrome is Key Piece of Google’s Chess Game

by Donovan Leiber on April 8th, 2011

If you’ve been paying attention to Google over the past few years, you would be hard pressed to convince anyone they haven’t played a brilliant game of strategy. While they’re typically a “search” and “ad’ company, Google has pressed into many new markets and become the defacto leader. GMail, Google Maps, YouTube and Android Phones [...]