Which Apps Do You Think Are Missing On Chrome OS?
A big target group of Chrome OS may be casual users – e.g. it seems to fit perfectly as operating system on the computers of an internet cafe (not the worst thing for Google, as that’s a place where many young people in many countries may use the internet most of the time). But what if you’re a creator working with your OS to develop software, retouch images, model 3D sceneries, compose songs, or cut videos? What about playing 3D games? The cloud already offers many apps like calendars,...
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BitTorrent Goes Social with Hexagon.cc
Though the drama around one of the biggest torrent trackers out there, The Pirate Bay, still hasn’t subsided, most of the users are turning elsewhere, trying to find decent alternatives for their torrent needs. Hexagon.cc may not be indexing millions of torrents, but it does bring something fresh to the concept: a focus on social file sharing. Started by the admins of another popular torrent site, isoHunt, Hexagon.cc looks completely different from most torrent-related sites: it’s got a...
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Facebook Captcha: What You DON’T Need to Type
*Update: Commenters pointed out that the methods explained below ruin the reCAPTCHA project, which Facebook uses for its bot detection, and it might be true, so let me clarify. I’m aware that reCAPTCHA serves a good cause – digitalization of books and newspapers, and I’m sorry if I’ve encouraged anyone to cheat the system, as that was not my intention. However, as you can see in the example below, most “special” characters that appear in reCAPTCHA, such as those with umlauts,...
Read MoreI scream, you scream, we all scream for iGoogle social!
We launched iGoogle in 2005 as a way for people to quickly and easily personalize their Google experience with all the information on the web that was most useful to them. Now tens of millions of people choose to use their iGoogle homepage to check email, track the news, watch videos, chat with friends and much more. Today, we’re pleased to tell you about the new social features that we’re introducing to iGoogle. First, we’re excited to introduce social gadgets for iGoogle....
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YouTube Redesign: Becoming the Google of Video?
YouTube may be testing changes to its navigation design, according to reader Eric Calouro. While visiting the site’s homepage today, he grabbed a screenshot of a previously unseen design that puts a large search box at the top of the page, removes the “Broadcast Yourself” tagline and de-emphasizes all menu items. In other words: the site looks increasingly like a video search engine. However, the change has not been rolled out to all users: Eric’s is the only report we have so far,...
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