Chrome Web Store – Web Apps Marketplace
In addition to the official introduction of Chrome OS, Google also introduced the new Chrome Web Store, a marketplace for web applications designed for Google Chrome and Chrome OS.
These web apps are tied with your Google Account and therefore can go with you where ever you use Chrome, similar to how iTunes purchases are …
Chrome OS – The OS of the Future – Nothing But the Web
Today at a special Google Chrome event, several announcements were made, including the introduction of Chrome Web Store as well as the highly anticipated Chrome OS.
What is Chrome OS?
It’s “an experience that is nothing but the web”.
Chrome OS is a cloud-based operating system that is basically the Google Chrome browser as the …
Google Wave is Officially Apache Wave
Remember the proposal for Apache to revive Google Wave? Well, its official. Google Wave is now Apache Wave.
Google Wave was launched 1.5 years ago during Google I/O 2009. It was one of the most hyped product launches of 2009. Unfortunately, it didn’t see much user adoption and as a result, Google pulled the plug …
Tumblr Recovers From 24 Hour Blackout
Are you a Tumblr user? The outage that started at around 5 PM EST yesterday appears to be over. Tumblr is officially back online and access to all blogs has opened again.
Tumblr tweeted the following message:
The recovering database cluster is online and healthy. We’re incrementally opening up access to blogs while monitoring performance.
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Beware of Holiday Email Spam
It’s the holiday season and spam is on the rise. No I don’t mean the food; I mean the ones in your inbox. My inbox has recently been getting a lot more spam than usual.
A lot of these spam messages appear to be related to holiday deals with eye-catching subject lines like Avira Security …
Tumblr Down for Four Hours and Counting
Are you a Tumblr user? We don’t normally report when major websites are down because its normal, but Tumblr has been down for four hours now. Visiting tumblr.com or any Tumblr blog will give this lovely message.
Two hours ago, the message was actually different, saying that it was an error rather than a database …
Chit-Chat Brings Facebook Chat to the Desktop [Review]
Do you use Facebook Chat? Ever wanted to chat with your Facebook friends without actually going to facebook.com or even have your browser open?
Many multi-protocol chat clients have Facebook Chat except suppose you wanted a simple client that would just let you chat over Facebook without any other unnecessary features. Chit-Chat claims to be …
How to Use a Custom Domain with Dropbox Public Links
Are you a Dropbox user? Do you frequently share files using the Public folder feature? Would you like to have the public links be something other than dl.dropbox.com?
Dropbox allows files to be placed in a “Public” folder. Each file in this folder has a special public link that can be shared with others. …
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