Look out, Logmein.com (and similar services). A new “Chrome Remote Desktop BETA” Plugin has effectively made screen sharing and remote control easier and far more affordable. For starters, Chrome Remote Desktop BETA is free. Toss in an easy, single-use security code driven authentication and you’ve got the meaty core of your typical RDP client. With Chrome’s web presence growing daily, it would seem rational to think that paid RDP services may...
At first we thought Google was pretty slick by moving to a brisk 6-week release schedule for major Chrome revisions. Mozilla follows a similarly spaced schedule of their own. However, we don’t know what to think after discovering that the Firefox 8 beta is already available for download. What’s new you ask? Ability to use Twitter as the default search engine. More options for tab restoring on start-up. Increased user control over add-ons. HTML 5 (for...
The world wide web within Windows 8 and the Metro-styled Internet Explorer 10 will be a lot less…full. After years of constantly criticizing Apple for their lack of Adobe Flash support on their mobile iOS platform Microsoft is now beginning to sing the same Flash-less tune, though for a good reason… While the irony is thick, we don’t fault Microsoft for giving up on Flash. to be fair, however, it isn’t just Flash — IE 10 will not run any...
Want to follow a few non-native speaking Google+ users but don’t feel like running back and forth between languages on Google Translate or learning another language? You’re in luck. A Google Translate engineer by the name of Matt Suess just announced a new Google+ Chrome extension that aims to bring down language barriers with easy, seamless Google Translate support. As you can see from the image above, once the extension is installed a handy...
We’ve been using OS X Lion on our new MacBook Air for a little over a week now. During that time we’ve reverted back to Safari for our internet conquests solely because Google Chrome doesn’t yet support all of Lion’s baked-in gesture functionality. But things are beginning to change with the current Chrome Dev version 14. Besides new two-finger swipe for forward/backward navigation between tabs, speed is once again a focus. But is it the fastest?...
This is awesome, and you should do this — Play Super Mario in your browser compliments of HTML 5! Yeah, it’s not the smoothest gameplay ever. But…it’s Super Mario…in your browser. Thank you, Robert Kleffner. /The End. Via: ...
