TechAirlines: Technology Tips

Web of Trust (WOT), the popular online security community and site rating add-on, has just announced that their extension for Safari is now officially available, thanks to the new Safari 5 supporting extensions. WOT for Safari Due to the gray color scheme of the Safari toolbars, the extension is slightly different than it is on other browsers. The colored icon fades after a few seconds. When you visit... 

Are you someone who can’t get enough of the sound of swarming insects from the World Cup? YouTube, like its parent company Google, loves pranks and obviously couldn’t resist. They have added a new Vuvuzela button just for you. YouTube's New Vuvuzela Button The Vuvuzela is a traditional instrument commonly played in South Africa at football (soccer) games, which includes the World Cup... 

Over a month ago, we covered Firefox 3.6.4 Beta. While this may seem like your average minor update with some security, stability, and bug fixes, Firefox 3.6.4 features Lorentz, the highly anticipated OOPP (Out-of-Process-Plugin) feature. This isolates plugins like Flash and Silverlight into a separate process so if they crash, only the plugin goes down and the user just needs to refresh the page to... 

Do you use WordPress? We previously reviewed the first public beta of WordPress 3.0 back in April. Today, Automattic has just announced the gold release of WordPress 3.0, with numerous new features, including multi-site, menu editor, custom backgrounds, headers, post types, and much more. Learn more about this new release in the video below as well as on our new BlogAirlines. What are your thoughts... 

We all know Google’s famous home page. Plain and simple with a white background. Google has announced the addition of wallpapers for the classic home page. Finally, users can customize the classic homepage with their own backgrounds by uploading them, choosing an image from Picasa Web Albums, or an image from Google’s gallery. To get started, visit the classic Google.com homepage and click... 

Did you enjoy this weekend’s Google Pac-Man doodle and game? Disappointed that it’s no longer on the front page? Well don’t be! Google has just announced that the Google Pac-Man game will permanently be available at www.google.com/pacman. This new page looks and works exactly like the regular Google home page, except that Pac-Man is there, so everyone can now play Google’s version... 

Remember a week ago when I reported that SugarSync’s referral bonus space expires on January 1, 2011 and this information was cleverly hidden in their Referral Terms? One day after this, I was informed by Drew Garcia, VP of Product Management at SugarSync, that the terms will be updated in a week or so to allow users to keep their bonus space for the life of their account. And this was definitely... 

Google is famous for changing its home page logo, known as the doodle, to celebrate various events and holidays. Today is no exception. Google has changed its front page to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the classic game, Pac-Man, involving the yellow pizza shaped Pac-Man and the 4 ghosts, Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde. When you first visit Google.com, a static Pac-Man doodle will appear. After...