Today, during the launch of Maps 7.0 for Android, Google has raised many modifications and additions. Mainly, the return function of offline viewing. So with the latest version of Maps for Android, users can now save a map for offline viewing later. Some time ago a method of bypassing this limitation was on the canvas. It was easy to access by typing the keyword “OK Maps” in the search... »
So today marks the end of the internet as we know it…Google Reader is officially dead! However will we continue to get all of our aggregated content in a way that we know and love? We’ve previously covered other alternatives like Feedly, but today we’re going to tell you about a great open source alternative called Tiny Tiny RSS which allows you to roll your own RSS system. But ... »
A video created for internal use at Microsoft seems to have made it’s way out on to the Internet. Coincidentally the “internal video” coincides with Google’s 2013 I/O Show. One could think that this “internal video” was always destined to hit the Internet…SURELY NOT I hear you cry. Microsoft would never resort to such an underhanded tactics…would ... »
Google have announced today that they have changed the way in which your account storage is shared across services like Gmail, Google Drive, and your Google+ photo’s. Before today you simply had 10GB in Gmail, and then another 5GB to use on your storage for Google Drive and your Google+ photo’s. But now the storage is shared across all three services; so let’s say for example tha... »
A couple of weeks ago Google announced that they are enabling Google+ comments in their blogging platform, Blogger. This is great news for those with a blog on Blogger, but what about us WordPress users? Well, devops extraordinare Brandon Holtsclaw has come to our rescue with Google+ Comments for WordPress. There have been a raft of Google+ Commenting plugins on WordPress.org, but ironically most... »
None of us like to think about things like death or serious injury. But unfortunately it’s a necessary evil that we all must plan for. Now that many of us have a lot of data in the cloud, health insurance isn’t enough; we also need to make sure that our “digital will” is filled out as well. Google have just made this a whole lot easier with the release of the Inactive ... »
Yesterday, Google announced on the Chromium blog that they will be forking the excellent WebKit rendering engine to a new version dubbed Blink. For those that don’t know, a rendering engine is a piece of software with the job of processing a web pages code and rendering the result on a computing device’s screen. So, if you right click on this page and select ‘View Source&#... »
Hacking is a huge problem across the whole of the internet, and with recent stories like Twitter being hacked it’s obvious that hacking is alive and well all over the internet. So Google have decided to step in and help. It’s not just the big boys Just because your site isn’t as big as some of the ‘big boys’ who have recently been hacked like Twitter & LinkedIn,... »