Tag Archives: Google Chrome

Chrome for a Cause: Results, Possible Future Projects

Posted 22 December 2010 | By | Categories: Chrome, Google | No Comments

So glad to hear that the Chrome for a Cause project did so much good during its short run – an amazing 60,599,541 tabs donated to charity! A total of $1 million dollars was donated to the charities, with the tabs and associated dollar amounts, as well the actual equivalent charitable items, shown by this [...]

Google Chrome Blog: Browse for a good cause

Posted 15 December 2010 | By | Categories: Chrome, Google | 4 Comments

Google’s Chrome community is making it very easy to do something good this Holiday Season. The new Chrome for a Cause extension will keep tabs (haha) on how many tabs you open while browsing the web every day between Dec. 15 and Dec. 19. At the end of each day, you can choose to contribute [...]

MiniPost: IE9 Browser Unsupported… On a Bing Site?

Posted 29 September 2010 | By | Categories: MiniPost, Web Browsers | 1 Comment

Trying to hit the Bing Local Listings tool this morning, I ran into an issue; well, a couple of issues. Tried first with Google Chrome, no dice – browser unsupported. Tried next with Internet Explorer 9, the Beta, of course. Surprise! Again, no dice… Generates that same Unsupported Browser message, seen below: I know, I [...]

How to Pin Websites in Google Chrome

Posted 19 September 2010 | By | Categories: Chrome Tips, Web Browsers | 2 Comments

One of the top features I liked about the IE9 Beta, and wrote about here, was the ability to Pin a website to the Windows 7 Taskbar or Start Menu. This feature has been much touted by many reviewers and bloggers as one of the more innovative and interesting of the new IE9. Not to [...]

Top 5 Favorite Features of IE9 Beta

Posted 16 September 2010 | By | Categories: Microsoft, Web Browsers | 4 Comments

Someone asked me what is my favorite feature of the new IE9 Beta? I had to think a bit, and finally decided – there isn’t just one! So, after a half day or so of playing with the new IE9, here are my Top 5 Favorite Features: 1. Color-Coded Tabs For those web users, especially [...]

IE9 Beta First Impressions

Posted 16 September 2010 | By | Categories: Web Browsers | 5 Comments

I almost always try the beta or test version of software. I am not so much into testing for testing sake, just trying out new stuff, before it is widely available. I tried the test Win95 interface for Windows NT 3.5, back before NT 3.51 adopted the new Win95 interface outright. For that matter, I [...]

Chromium Blog: Introducing Google Chrome Frame

Posted 22 September 2009 | By | Categories: Web Development | No Comments

  Very cool tool here, and just in time for IE folks to take advantage of the upcoming ultra-communications tool Google Wave. a plug-in for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer that loads site content in a Google Chrome frame within IE. This provides a seamless updated browser experience for IE users – using the faster rendering engine [...]