Google unseats Microsoft as the U.S. browser powerhouse Google’s strength in mobile browsing pushes it past Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Google has unseated rival Microsoft as the leading browser maker in the U.S. for the first time, Adobe said this week, citing data from its analytics platform. The rise in Google’s domestic fortunes followed Microsoft’s reduction to second fiddle… Read More »
SndLatr for Gmail Sometimes I (TC) like to sneak away from the workplace and frolic in the land of Anna Lee -yes, with Puff the Magic Dragon. But I don’t want EB to know I’m gone. The best way to make her think I’m toiling away in the dungeon is for me to occasionally send her emails. But… Read More »
Microsoft sticks to vow, leaves XP exposed to ongoing attacks Refuses to patch Internet Explorer bug that hackers are already exploiting Hackers are exploiting an Internet Explorer (IE) vulnerability that was left unpatched in Windows XP on Tuesday, Microsoft and outside security experts said. The bug, identified as CVE-2014-1815, was one of two Microsoft patched with a critical… Read More »
Laine (and many others) want to know how to set a home page in their browser How can I make Cloudeight my home page? Our answer The fastest way to set a home page in your browser is to visit the page you want to make your home page — in your case www.thundercloud.net/start/ . Once you are on… Read More »
18 Ingenious Internet Tricks You Didn’t Know Existed So many shortcuts. And kittens. Alejandro Escamilla / BuzzFeed 1. Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed Use “Cmnd + Shift + T” on a Mac. Works in Chrome and Firefox. 2. Daniel Dalton / BuzzFeed In Chrome at least. 3. See more at BuzzFeed
Heartbleed is one of those things that became a media monster darling. Everyone is making this out to be the end of the Internet — but as of now there hasn’t been a single confirmed case of anyone siphoning user data using Heartbleed — except for the NSA. Wouldn’t it be something if it were discovered that the… Read More »