May 15
If Chrome on your Android device is acting sluggish, you don’t have to just twiddle your thumbs in silent frustration. By changing how much memory is allocated to the mobile browser, you can speed things right back up.
Apr 08
We’ve seen eavesdropping issues in Chrome before, like one exploit that lets sites ask for permission to the microphone, and then keeps listening long, long after
Feb 25
Tabs can multiply and get out of hand quickly — sucking up precious CPU resources and making it virtually impossible to find what you want in your browser. Tame your crowded, disorganized browser window with OneTab.
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Feb 12
There is no escape from consumerism: Mozilla has announced that it is going to start experimenting with promotional tiles in its ‘new tab’ page.
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Jan 31
Have you been mocking Grandma for holding fast to a clunky, barely functional copy of Internet Explorer 7? Get ready to eat your words. A nurse and patient-pairing website has decided that, rather than put up with customers trying to run IE 7, it’s just going to buy them a whole new computer, goddammit—fancy new browser included.
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Jan 15
14 Design Trends for 2014
Posted in: Today's Chili
Just as we did a year ago, I’m kicking off 2014 with a list of design trends I expect to gain ground over the next twelve months. The world of interactive design is an extreme fluid in terms of what’s determined as a staple of good design from year to year.
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Oct 09
If it wasn’t for artists who embraced the company’s computers, Apple might not have survived to release the iPod. And were it not for MacPaint, the simple (by today’s standards) bitmap-based painting program included with the original Macintosh, those artists may have never fell in love with Apple in the first place. But if you’re too young to remember what all the fuss was about, now you can relive MacPaint in your browser with CloudPaint.
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Oct 02
We’ve all got some nostalgia for computing days gone by, and you have to admit there’s a little corner of your heart that lights up at the thought of Windows 95, right? Right?! Well Microsoft wants you to dig in and find it by taking a trip down memory lane with its new, re-invented web-version of Hover, a Win95 classic.
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Sep 09
Web browsing on the iPad—or any tablet for that matter—is far too frustrating of an experience for what’s really one of the device’s most basic uses. Safari for iOS was designed with an iPhone in mind, so anything larger becomes an awkward mix of sweeping gestures and pointed tapping. Opera’s newly launched iPad-only browser, Coast, wants to fix that.
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Sep 05
Up until now, Chrome’s Web Apps have been trapped in your browser, living with the rest of your internet like glorified tabs. Well, Google’s putting an end to that today. A new breed of Chrome Apps is here, and they live on your desktop.
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