Category: Chrome

Acer Iconia Tab: First Impressions

Today on my trip out and about to Hornsby Westfield I dropped into JB Hi-Fi to have a look at what they had on display and was stoked to find that they had a Android Honeycomb tablet on show in the form of the Acer Iconia Tab. Prior to today, I had never see a …

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Play Angry Birds for Free in Your Browser

Not exactly a tip but for those of you who need an Angry Birds hit when you don’t have your mobile or tablet device handy then this might hit the spot. All you need to do is visit http://chrome.angrybirds.com/ in your browser of choice (I have tested Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4 and Google Chrome …

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Live Closer to the Bleeding Edge with Firefox Aurora Builds

There will always be people who want to live right on the bleeding edge when it comes to trying out the latest software and seeing how it performs on their system. Of course, there are people who are not as adventurous as they worry about bugs disrupting their daily routine or breaking some of the …

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Push Content to Android Devices with Chrome to Phone

Pushing a Phone Number to Your Phone via Chrome to Phone

Sometimes it can be a pain having to e-mail URLs or finding cross-platform bookmark syncing solutions when you just want to be able to quickly look at a webpage you are currently viewing on a mobile device. Perhaps you want to have the ability to copy and paste text from a webpage in Chrome on …

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Webroot Social Media Sobriety Test

Some of us may have regrets of posting a message on one or more social media websites after having had a big night on the grog. Whilst I don’t drink (and as a result don’t have this particular issue) I can possibly see some merit in a sobriety test for social media sites for those …

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Keep Tabs on the Climate Conditions with Forecastfox Weather

Weather on my Cisco IP Phone

Another quick tip for tonight. Not all of us are lucky to have desktop phones that show the weather at a glance but there is a way to get it in Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome without too much fuss. There’s a great little add-on called Forecastfox Weather which, as you might guess, add the …

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Avoid Waiting For Downloads with Skipscreen

If you download a lot of stuff from services such as MultiUpload or RapidShare and you don’t have a premium account you may be all too familiar with having to wait up to several minutes before the site will let you download your file. I experience this all too often as I am keeping an …

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Web Browser Tab Management Tips

Here’s a quick tip for tonight. The latest versions of Google Chrome, Internet Explorer (IE9 currently in beta), and Firefox (Firefox 4 also in beta) support a couple of neat features when it comes to tab management. The first feature allows you to shift the order of the tabs around simply by dragging them left …

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Learn How to Make App Tabs in Your Browser

App Tabs in Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 6

Just a quick tip for this evening. With Mozilla Firefox 4.0 Beta 6 and also Google Chrome you have the ability to create an “app tab” (in Firefox speak) or a “pinned tab” (in Chrome speak). Basically, these are like sticky tabs that persist between browser sessions (i.e. when you close and reopen them) and …

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Xmarks Shutting Down in Early 2011

Back in June, I blogged about a great piece of software called Xmarks (previously known as Foxmarks when it was originally written as a plug-in for Firefox). In a nutshell, it allowed you to sync your bookmarks and your website credentials up to the cloud (over a secureand  encrypted connection) and then sync them down …

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