About Brian Yang
Brian is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of TechAirlines. He is also a developer and manages most of the site’s operations. He enjoys web development in his free time and is currently trying to learn Python. He is currently a high school senior in New York City.
Website: http://www.techairlines.com
Twitter: yangbrian
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Joined TechAirlines: August 5, 2009
Chrome Extension Gallery Open for Business
A few weeks ago, Google opened up its extension gallery for developers to upload their extensions. Today, this gallery is now open for business featuring hundreds of extensions for Google Chrome 4 (currently in Beta).
Installing them couldn’t be simpler. Make sure you are running the latest Chrome 4 Beta and click the big blue …
LastPass: The Last Password You Need to Remember
How many unique online passwords do you have? If your answer is one or two, you either need to get out on the web more, or the more likely answer, you are using the same password for everything, a very poor but popular security practice. Users, myself included, often use the same password for everything …
The Fading Google Home Page
A few weeks ago, entering a line of javascript to set a cookie would reveal a new version of Google’s home page where by default, only the logo, search box, and search buttons are visible. The other elements fade in when users move their mouse. Today, it looks like this new Google home page has …
Is it a Real Box or is it VirtualBox?
Do you need to run multiple operating systems? Is multiple booting not for you? How about the easiest way to run multiple operating systems? Virtualization!
There are a few virtualization options out there, one in particular is Sun VirtualBox.
On November 30, 2009, the next major version of VirtualBox, 3.1.0, was released featuring dozens of …
What’s Behind This Short Link?
URL shortening services such as bit.ly and TinyURL are becoming more and more popular these days for Twitter links… and for spreading malware. What’s that? Malware?
These services have gained popularity on Twitter where users have to send links in less than 140 characters combined with their message. The problem is that users have no …
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
And now for a list of 10 free software I am most thankful for over the past year:
- Mozilla Firefox
- Dropbox
- 7-Zip
- Notepad++
- CCleaner
- Digsby
- Google Chrome
- Filezilla
- Paint.NET
- VirtualBox
What software are you most thankful for? Enjoy the holiday!…
Is a Redesigned Google Coming?
Is Google redesigning their home page and search results? Don’t worry, its still a simple, clean, and white interface we all love.
According to Blogoscoped, typing in a line of Javascript into the URL bar when at google.com reveals a new Google prototype. Go to google.com. Then, remove everything from your URL bar replacing it …
Open PSD Photoshop Files in Paint.NET
Don’t have Photoshop and need to open PSD files? Are alternatives like GIMP too slow and heavy? I recommend Paint.NET as a great free alternative to Photoshop because its lightweight and fast. Unfortunately, it does not support PSD files. Luckily, thanks to a free plugin, it can open and save PSD files.
Simpy download the …
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