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Filed under: Analysis, Browsers

The European Commission responded earlier today to the petition submitted by the ‘Gang of Six’ web browsers seeking “any of a myriad of small changes” to alert users of the 7 browser choices not initially displayed on Microsoft’s new European Browser Choice update dialog. In an email to CNet writer Stephen Shankland, [...]

Filed under: Fun, Internet, News, Google

A special shout out to our tipster @RussHogg who told us the entire 137 year archive of Popular Science Magazine is now available for online free browsing. You can view the entire collection’s issues as they appeared at time of publication. It’s definitely fun to go back in time and [...]

Filed under: Office, Productivity, Web services, Google

Google has been steadily adding to the variety of file types allowed in Google Apps — you can store or share basically anything, now — but there was still a missing link between the Microsoft Office documents you use on your desktop and the Google Docs files you edit [...]

Filed under: Apple, Google, Open Source, iPhone

In what comes as a bit of a surprise move, Google has decided to open-source the code for ReMail, the iPhone app it recently purchased and retired from the App Store. Speculation at the time was that Google was killing the existing ReMail product as a way to gain [...]

Filed under: Macintosh, Commercial

It’s bundle time for Mac software lovers. If you’re not familiar with them, there are a few companies out there that collect a bunch of great (and sometimes not-so-great) Mac software titles into a bundle, and sell them at a highly discounted rate. It’s attractive to buyers because you can often get [...]

Filed under: Education

Zotero looks like a very useful Firefox add-on for researchers. It has been covered on Download Squad back in 2006. Over three years later, it is still going strong and now has word processor integration. The add-on lets you add citations from anywhere in the web; you find a page which is useful [...]

Filed under: Google, Browsers

If you don’t need notifications for every Google services under the sun (as provided by One Number) and you’re just looking for a solid GMail notifier for Google Chrome, have a look at the Google Mail Checker Plus extension.

I haven’t encountered many Chrome extensions which utilize the desktop notification functionality, but what [...]

Filed under: Fun, Internet, web 2.0

Augmented reality is one of those nebulous buzz phrases. Depending on who you ask or where you are, it can mean almost anything — but one thing’s for sure, no one’s really sure what it means. The general idea is that there’s ‘more than meets the eye.’ Your boring, fleshy [...]

Filed under: Business, Social Software

Social networking giant Facebook just scored an intellectual property victory by patenting its News Feed, the constantly-updating stream of friends’ activities that users see when they sign into the site. The patent, uncovered by AllFacebook, also includes News Feed features like advertising, filters, and searching the feed.

The original application was [...]

Filed under: Internet, Security

Yay privacy! Students in Philadelphia received laptops from school to get a better learning environment, which is actually a good thing. But the build-in webcams can be covertly activated by the schools’ administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students - and more shocking: their families. Yes, at home.

The [...]