Google Chrome 4.0 went live a couple of weeks ago, and it has a feature that’s been missing in most mainstream browsers ever since the Web was invented: a progress bar that actually shows, well, the progress of uploads. It’s really frustrating to be uploading a large file to a website or as an attachment [...]
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Chrome’s Coolest Feature: File Upload Progress Indicator
Published by February 20th, 2010 in Google, Reviews, Software 2 CommentsGoogle Hiding URIs for Certain Search Results
Published by November 30th, 2009 in Design, Google 15 CommentsGoogle is now unfortunately hiding the URIs for certain search results far more often than they ever have done in the past… and it’s quite annoying. The Google search site is the pinnacle of function over form: it is sparse, plain, simple, and yet contains tons of information. But it seems that they’re taking it [...]
Does it GTK/QT/Win32 Really Matter for Chrome?
Published by February 15th, 2009 in Design, Google, Linux, Macintosh, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Windows 8 CommentsA recent article on OSNews highlights the changes expected to come in Google’s Chrome 2.0 for Windows and the progress being made on the Linux and OS X fronts for Google’s new browser.
In the article, Ben Goodger, lead Chrome UI developer, states
[Google avoids] cross platform UI toolkits because while they may offer what superficially appears [...]
Google Abandons Standards, Forks OpenID
Published by October 29th, 2008 in Corporate Talk, Google, Security 74 CommentsA couple of hours ago, the Google Security Team posted an article claiming that Google’s made the switch to OpenID, joining Yahoo! and Microsoft in the ranks OpenID providers.
But it looks like someone may have been a bit to hasty to pull that switch (perhaps itching to get some of the limelight Microsoft has been [...]
Possible Severe Gmail Security Vulnerability (Updated)
Published by June 23rd, 2008 in Google, Hacking, Privacy, Security 14 CommentsGmail may have a serious security vulnerability that can result in the leaking of sensitive private information randomly to people you don’t know, haven’t contacted, and have nothing to do with.
It would seem that between the way Gmail saves and retrieves sessions, existing sessions are authenticated, and views are cached there are one or more [...]
Making Gmail a More Welcoming Experience
Published by May 19th, 2008 in Design, Google, Reviews, Software 1 CommentIt used to be that when you opened your Gmail account you would see a bland, blank page with the text “Loading…” in the upper-right corner of the screen, as you waited for your browser to download the Gmail scripts and to make contact with the mail server to download the list of messages and [...]
Bloggers: Boycott Pay-Per-Action!!
Published by March 21st, 2007 in Blogosphere, Corporate Talk, Google 2 CommentsIf you’re a blogger or a small-site webmaster, get ready to boycott Google’s new Pay-Per-Action program. Why? Because you’ll never get as much money as you do right now with AdSense & Co.
Google calls Pay-Per-Action the “complement to AdWords,” but in reality, Pay-Per-Action is an AdWords/AdSense replacement. Look at it from Google’s point of view: [...]
Whatever Happened to MSN's “AdSense” Anyway?
Published by December 14th, 2006 in Corporate Talk, Google, Microsoft, Windows, Yahoo! 5 CommentsBack when Yahoo! first announced their plans for a pay-per-click advertising program to compete with Google’s highly-successful AdSense program, Microsoft also expressed interest in the field, and had decided to do likewise following the successful re-launch of its MSN Ads program. MSN Ads is basically AdWords – context-based pay-per-click ad campaigns directed at advertisers, not [...]
Does Net-non-Neutrality Already Exist?
Published by December 8th, 2006 in Blogosphere, Corporate Talk, Google, Privacy, SEO, Yahoo! 5 CommentsNet-Neutrality is without a doubt the biggest techno-political debate of the year. The entire issue has spun out of control since mid-2006, and here on the eve of 2007 it has yet to be resolved. The only question is, has net-neutrality already been destroyed and hacked-to-pieces to a greater extent than anyone thought already existed?
Earlier [...]
SearchMash: Google Reborn
Published by December 2nd, 2006 in Google, Microsoft, Programming, Reviews, Software 27 CommentsMove over Google, there’s a new search engine in town! What’s that? SearchMash is Google? Never mind then, scratch that…
It doesn’t make a difference really, stop going to Google.com because that’s not the place to get answers nowadays. SearchMash is, both literally and figuratively speaking, the new Google.
It’s quite a challenge really: how [...]
