Tag: Web

  • Clearly: Chrome browser extension cuts distractions from web pages

    Clearly: Chrome browser extension cuts distractions from web pages

    Evernote has created a tool for people who are easily distracted. Clearly is a Google Chrome extension that strips out navigation, links and advertisement from any Web page and presents you with a cleaner, less distracting online reading experience. The Clearly reading experience is customizable: you can choose between three styles of background and typography –…

  • BitTorrent takes on Dropbox with new file-sharing service

    It seems that everyone is planning an Operation Overthrow against popular file synching service Dropbox. Earlier this week, it was Insync. This time, the newest member to join the movement is BitTorrent, Inc. with their new desktop app simply dubbed Share. The service allows you to transfer any type of files to anyone with no…

  • Rupert Murdoch joins Twitter, the world laughs

    I never thought I’d live to see the day Rupert Murdoch joined Twitter. But it’s happened. And it’s wildly entertaining watching the most-famous n00b in the world try to get his head around the micro-blogging social network. Long may it continue. Rupe Is No Dupe If a celebrity or famous face isn’t on Twitter then…

  • BrandMyMail mashes your email and social networks together

    BrandMyMail mashes your email and social networks together

    There are two types of email you can send: Text or HTML. Text is just the words. No colors. No photos. No layouts. HTML is basically a web page sent through email servers. For most of us, it really doesn’t matter when we send email. We just type, and the resulting HTML-formatted email is a…

  • ShiftEdit: A Web-Based IDE for PHP, Python, Ruby and More

    If you’re a programmer or developer that juggles several projects at a time, your code can sometimes be lost between multiple workstations, or worse, lost in some sort of catastrophic system failure. If only you’d had a chance to run a backup first! With everything going to the cloud these days, wouldn’t it make sense…

  • 2011 Black Friday Shopping Guide

    There’s nothing better than getting a great deal on a new computer or gadget. That’s what makes Black Friday such an awesome time of the year for bargain hunters. It’s also just around the corner and I’m sure a lot of you are probably getting an idea of what stores you’re wanting to hit up…

  • Four HTML5 and JavaScript Frameworks To Jump-start Your App Development

    Four HTML5 and JavaScript Frameworks To Jump-start Your App Development

    Let’s just face the facts: Flash is dying, platform/browser agnostic development is in, and Windows 8 is bringing HTML5/JavaScript to desktop development. Love it or hate it, as a developer you’ll probably need to familiarize yourself with the finer points of HTML5 and JavaScript-driven application design, but where does a person start? Traditionally HTML and…

  • Why Ashton Kutcher, aka “aplusk”, hates Twitter

    I can’t say I’ve ever been a particular fan of Ashton Kutcher. But his erroneous, ill-informed tweet and subsequent throwing of toys out of his Twitter-branded pram has me thinking he’s an absolute idiot. In a nutshell: Kutcher claims to have heard about the firing of Penn State head football coach Joe Paterno in passing…

  • Make your apartment search easier with Padmapper

    Finding an apartment on the internet is equivalent to hopping into a tractor tire and being rolled down a hill. You start at the top with high hopes: using the power of the internet for finding desirable rental properties and listings. From there, though, the process spirals downward. Apartment searching sites are hard to navigate,…

  • Adobe kills Flash for mobile in favor of HTML5

    That’s it, folks. Adobe Flash Player for mobile devices has officially packed up its bags and walked out the door never to be seen again. Of course, Flash for desktop operating systems will live on (and probably not all that well), but Adobe has decided that Flash on mobile devices just isn’t in the cards.…