Earlier today, Google released a new Chrome extension called Personal Blocklist as part of their ongoing campaign/battle against content farms. This Chrome extension enables users to block spammy or fishy sites and keep them from showing up on their web search results. Here’s an excerpt from the official blog post by Principal Engineer, Matt Cutts: [...]
Continue reading...Friday, November 5, 2010
Earlier this week, Facebook rolled out several updates including the Mobile Initiative with updates on its Facebook iPhone/Android apps. However, the most noticeable update and the one that got a lot reaction/complaints is the Facebook font size. A lot of Facebook users are complaining about the smaller font size because it’s causing them to squint [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, October 21, 2010
Got an email invite a few weeks back from Aileen Apolo-de Jesus for an exclusive Google Chrome event. Since I couldn’t make it to the event, I asked Aileen if she could send me a press kit. I got it October 1st but because of my busy schedule and the week-long road trip, I wasn’t [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 9, 2010
Gmail’s built-in filters, labels and the recently launched Priority Inbox help users who receive a boatload of emails on a regular basis to easily organize and manage their Gmail Inbox. However, there are still instances where the built-in features aren’t enough to organize and keep track of the emails you send and receive. Boomerang for [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, September 2, 2010
It was exactly two years ago this month, when Google released the first beta of Chrome, their version of the web browser. Since then, Chrome have accumulated numerous features, browser themes, password manager, better privacy controls, built-in Adobe Flash Player, HTML5 capabilities and over 6,000 extensions. For Chrome’s 2nd birthday, Google is celebrating this momentous [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Back in October of 2009, Mozilla launched the Mozilla Plugin Check tool to help Firefox users keep their plugins/addons up-to-date, addressing the issue of outdated plugins being a major source of security and stability risks for users. Yesterday, Mozilla announced that the Mozilla Plugin Check tool will now also be supporting other web browsers like [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 22, 2010
For Gmail users, are you aware that you can now drag-and-drop attachments to your emails? Last week, Google announced on the official Gmail blog the release of the new drag and drop attachments feature for Gmail. This new feature is automatically added to every Gmail account so users don’t have to install it via Gmail [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, April 15, 2010
For those who use Google Reader as their main RSS reader/aggregator, the default interface can sometimes be too cluttered with all the colors, social features and buttons. If you’re not using most of the features and if you want a clean and minimal Google Reader interface, then you should check out Helvetireader. Helvetireader is a [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 12, 2010
Recently, a blogger friend of mine asked me how I got the social media icons (with links) on my email signature. If you recently received an email from me, then you might’ve seen it too. My email signature contains my name, a link to my blog – JaypeeOnline, links to my LinkedIn profile, Facebook Fan [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
Pardon the late post. I was supposed to publish this yesterday Sunday, but I was so tired after playing several games of basketball that I immediately fell asleep when I got home. Anyways, how are you folks doing? Hope everyone’s doing fine and had a great weekend like I did. As most of you guys [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, October 18, 2008
In the past couple of weeks I’ve been experiencing some problems with Firefox so recently I’ve been using Google Chrome more frequently. While in the process of looking for Google Chrome plugins/extensions and tweaks, I came across this flash-based game called the Chromon. It is an adaptation of the popular electronic memory game in the [...]
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