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Adobe Flash may be dying the slowest death of any software platform that's ever existed. And it's about to move even closer to its demise, based on a recent announcement from Google. The search engine and internet services giant has announced that it will stop Flash from loading by default for most websites in its popular Google Chrome web browser. Google
Over the past few days it has come to light that Google was blocking all bit.ly links as if they were malicious. That quickly became a real problem around the web, as many services use the URL shortening service. This made things even harder for folks using the ever-growing Chromebook platform, as there is no way around a problem such
There are times when only hard copy will do but anyone who has tried to print from a tablet will know that it's not always easy. The main ecosystems from Apple and Google have their own printer strategies with AirPrint and Cloud Print respectively but support is spotty at best. Several printer manufacturers have gone so far as to create their
While researching the Philips Hue Android apps, I discovered that currently there is a single Hue app for Chrome. It's called Hueful and while it's fairly basic, it deserves a mention as (a) it's the only app on Chrome but (b) it shows that Chrome can support this kind of hardware-oriented app. Previously I would have discounted Chrome from being an
Google is taking aim at the PC market with its increasingly better offerings of Chromebook hardware. Now the search giant is also touting "family safe" as one of its selling points. If you are using the beta channel version of Chrome, you now have access to monitor and control what other users access through the browser/operating system. "Let’s say you’ve recently
With the death of Google Reader earlier this year, many net denizens were left scrambling for an alternative -- and issuing a few choice words to Google upon departure. While countless (exaggeration) alternatives exised, most would up landing on Feedly. In fact, the service did an admirable job scrambling to add bandwidth and servers to face the influx head-on. While the
Yesterday on the Chrome blog, Google announced that new Chromebooks from Acer, Asus, HP, and Toshiba were on their way. Arriving in the next few months the new Chromebooks are based on Intel's Haswell chips rather than the current ARM processors and the chip's low power consumption will double the battery life. These new Chromebooks are (roughly) the third iteration