Category: Google

  • How Tech Companies Apologize [comic]

    How companies interact with customers and the press has always been something that has fascinated me.  I find it interesting how different one company handles a situation compared to others in similar situations.  Some companies take the approach that the customer is always right while others take the please don’t sue us although we don’t…

  • Chrome takes your language test for you [pic]

    If there is one thing I know, it is that school can be a major pain in the butt, especially the tests that are given.  I could go on for hours about problems I have seen with tests from not including the right answer to horrible misspellings, but I will save those stories for another…

  • Android Just Hungry T-Shirt [pic]

    Like many millions of other people, I am the owner of an Android based phone.  While I can’t call myself a happy owner, I still think this Android t-shirt is pretty funny and just plain cool.  It does an entertaining job of showing just how the OS is taking a bite out of Apple’s smartphone…

  • Prevent duplicate tabs in Google’s Chrome Browser

    I may not be a fan of Google Chrome like many other tech enthusiasts (I am a proud Opera user with Firefox as my fall back browser for when something won’t work), but this extension found by the folks over at Tekzilla is likely to help reduce the headaches of Chrome users.  If you are…

  • Get instant search in Firefox with InstantFirefox [video]

    The awesome crew over at Tekzilla has found a great little Firefox extension called InstantFirefox that brings Google’s new Instant Search functionality to Firefox.  You can now type in your address bar and get instant search results from various sites which is really cool!  Check out the video below for all the details.

  • Windows Phone 7 passes 5,000 apps while Android hits 200,000

    A pair of stories have surfaced today showing the latest app numbers from Windows Phone 7 and Android. Windows Phone 7 has reportedly now hit 5,000 apps in its marketplace.  The average app cost on WP7 is currently $1.51.  Of those 5,000 apps, over 1,100 are games which is a rather impressive number.  To check…