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New HTML5 Music Video Experient: Embed A Message In An OK Go Clip

We know that HTML 5 and stuff like Canvas, SVG, and WebGL is cool, but how cool are they? Cool enough to let you embed a message in a music video and have the band Ok Go dance it out for you.


July 27, 2011
Software

Google Adds Two-Finger Lion Gestures To Chrome

Obviously those who disabled natural scrolling are laughing. But as you may’ve noticed already, Chrome’s three-finger left/right swipe to navigate through previously viewed pages has been broken in Lion, because that gesture now flips between desktops.


July 13, 2011
Computing

How To Turn Your Netbook Into A Chromebook With Chromium OS

Google recently released its own line of Chrome OS-clad netbooks, but with only a few choices, a somewhat high price tag and no clear Aussie release plans. As such, you might be more comfortable running Chrome OS on your own machine. Here’s how to install it on your current laptop or netbook.


June 10, 2011
Software

Save Yourself From Weiner-Calibre Online Embarrassment With Internet Shame Insurance

The web is filled with opportunities to humiliate yourself. You reply all with a scathing takedown of your boss; you post pictures on Facebook of a drunken night out and your mum starts to worry; you accidentally tweet a picture of your private parts to the internet at large. Internet Shame Insurance helps you protect the privacy of your Weiner whenever possible.


June 9, 2011
Computing

Samsung’s Chromebook Is Just A ‘Well-Polished Cr-48′

All of the complaints about the original Chromebook – the battery life, the hardware, the trackpad – have been fixed in Samsung’s model, which iFixit tore apart in true teardown style.


May 12, 2011
Computing

The Laptop Of The Future, Version 1.0

Google’s CR-48 Chrome laptop was a rough draft of the kind of computer people will be using eventually—lean, fast, utterly and completely connected—but it had its problems. (Oh lord, the trackpad.) Samsung’s Series 5 Chromebook is like version 1.0.


April 22, 2011
Computing

Will Chrome Notebooks Be Available For A Monthly Fee?

We’d heard previously that Google’s going to make its Chrome notebooks widely available this June or July. A little more curious, according to Neowin, is the way in which Google’s bringing Chrome hardware to the masses: as a subscription service, reportedly, tied to Gmail.


March 25, 2011
Software

Wikipedia Beautifier Makes Online Encyclopaedia More Readable

Chrome: The Wikipedia Beautifier extension cleans the cruft from Wikipedia to offer an easy-on-the-eyes reading experience on the popular online encyclopedia.


March 11, 2011
Software

Site-Blocking Chrome Extension Now Official Feature Of Google

Google just announced that the previous Chrome extension that let you block terrible sites from popping up in your Google Search results will now be a real, official feature of the Google. Awesome!


March 9, 2011
Software

Banish Charlie Sheen From The Internet With This Plugin

WINNING! TIGERBLOOD! I BEAT MY WIFE! COCAINE! If you’re getting sick of the Charlie Sheen internet locomotive, this handy Chrome and Firefox plugin – “Tinted Sheen” – will blot out all text and image mentions of the disintegrating has-been. [via BoingBoing]