Category: Web

  • The Facebook Gift Shop Closes Its Doors, Focus Shifts to Improving Other Features

    Topping the list of Facebook features I’ll never miss, the Facebook team removed the Gift Shop as of August 1st.  No longer will you see the nagging option to give your friends images of cakes or puppies for their birthdays (I’m still baffled by the whole virtual item/currency thing). Jared Morgenstern, Facebook’s product manager for…

  • How to Install Adobe Reader Without Installing Adobe DLM (Download Manager) Browser Plugin

    As a quick follow-up to my previous article about installing Flash player without installing Adobe’s DLM browser plugin, I’ll cover how to avoid installing this unnecessary intermediary software when installing Adobe Reader. If you didn’t read my previous article, here’s what you need to know: Adobe DLM is a “download manager” plugin that is installed…

  • How to Install Adobe Flash Player Without Installing Adobe’s DLM (Download Manager) Browser Plugin

    Most of us use Adobe Flash, that’s simply a fact of the internet.  YouTube, Hulu, Pandora, and dozens of other sites currently use Flash to provide you with interactive media and applications, and until HTML5 (hopefully) gives us a viable alternative, we’re stuck with it in many ways. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t…

  • How to Enable Vertical Tabs in Google Chrome

    Update: Vertical tabs have now been removed by the Chrome development team. Read more: A fond farewell to vertical tabs in Google Chrome I’ve been using Google’s Chrome web browser exclusively for a few months now, but one of the things I miss most about Firefox is the ability to view my tabs vertically rather…

  • Netflix Will Soon Stream Newly-Released Movies Months Earlier

    I’ve been using Netflix Instant Watch as a replacement for cable TV for the last two years, and I haven’t looked back since making the switch.  Instant Watch has been a great way to get movies and TV shows quickly, and with the rapid expansion of available content and compatible devices, it’s prime time to…

  • Gmail Adds Highly Requested Feature – Rich Text Signatures

    I have a very simple email signature in Gmail, but I’ve always been disappointed that I wasn’t able to add links or change the formatting.  I mean, we can use the rich text editor in the main composition window of Gmail, why can’t we use it in our signatures? For example, I get away with…

  • Friday Fun! Get Your Flash Game Fill With Morplee

    Kick back and relax, it’s Friday! What better way to pass the time at work than with a Flash game? Morplee follows the WarioWare format of throwing mini-games at you and seeing how fast you react. You’re given 60 seconds to complete 25 mini-games, running the gamut from frantically clicking as fast as you can…

  • Infographic: Study Shows Email is Still Our Favorite (with poll!)

    Good news, anyone!  If you’ve ever been worried about communication services like Twitter or Facebook eroding the usefulness of your beloved email, a recent study by ExactTarget shows that email is still the king of our digital lives. The study they conducted asked users “What is the first place you go online in a typical…

  • Enter Social Networking Nirvana with Flotzam (Facebook, Twitter, Digg, and more)

    Look, we all knew it was just a matter of time until some bold developer crammed Facebook, Twitter, Digg, YouTube, Flickr, and blogs together into a single application.  Surprisingly, the universe didn’t collapse under the weight of this tremendous concept, and what came out of the reaction was a pretty cool application called Flotzam. Flotzam is a…

  • New Silverlight-based Facebook Client Impresses

    I really don’t care for out-of-browser clients for my internet services.  They are typically a sluggish waste of time, instead of an extension of what I like about its browser-based counterpart. Luckily, the Silverlight 4 Facebook Client is very useful and less of a pest (Silverlight is a Microsoft technology for creating interactive applications, similar…