Google Chrome Audio Indicator Shows You Which Tabs Are Being Noisy
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You know the feel all too well: you’re surfing the internet, probably looking at porn, and one of the tabs starts making noise because an audio ad started playing. You’re scrambling to not only mute your computer with one hand, but find the offending tab and close it with the other. You can’t find it, so you have to close Chrome entirely. Now you’re skittish, making sure no one heard anything. Read the rest of this article…
Facebook Audio Notifications Now Appearing In The Wild, We Show You How To Turn Them Off
DOO-DOO.
While it was announced a few months ago, Facebook is now activating audio chimes with notifications on a standard web browser. I don’t hate it, it keeps me in the loop when Facebook gets lost amongst my many browser tabs, but with however many connected devices you own, it may get noisy to have an extra chime when Sally likes your photo or Uncle Doug replies with a diatribe. So, how do you shut it off? Let me show you.
I’m Not Sure What Google’s Thinking With the Chromebook Pixel
It’s built like a luxury car!
When Google first came out with the Chromebook and were giving them out to people to let them test, I thought it was neat. Nick and I both got one and while I enjoyed playing with it for a little bit, I just couldn’t use it to be productive with what I do for a living. The Chromebook is a netbook, meaning that you can’t install any software on it, it’s essentially a web browser. For people that only use the computer for internet things and writing documents, it would be perfect, especially at their price point of $249. Read the rest of this article…
It’s Better Than Swype, But SwiftKey’s New Flow Feature Isn’t Perfect, Yet
HEY BRO GET YO’ FLOW ON.
I don’t hate Swype, but at several key levels, I despise it. Because all the cool kids want it though, SwiftKey has spent a lot of time developing their new Flow feature, which will satiate your need to gesture a single thumb across your keyboard to generate words on your smartphone rather than pecking them out with both. I love SwiftKey and while Flow is a better experience than Swype, it’s not quite ready to win me over to swipe-based mobile keyboarding.
HTC Unveils Cool New Phone, The HTC One, Will Probably Get Blown Out By Samsung Next Month
HTC is in a pickle, despite how neat the HTC One is.
Last year, HTC – once a titan amongst smartphone makers – decided to focus on two models: the One X super-performance model and the One S for the value-minded customer. HTC had been criticized for having far too many offerings and confusing the hell out of the average buyer. The One series still ended up branching a few variants and carrier-specific models, but keeping it simple(r) wasn’t enough to save the company’s profit. Today, they unveiled the latest HTC One, only one design, with specs that seem to run right down the middle of expectations of a modern phone, perhaps even better. Their biggest problem? Samsung is rumored to unveil their Galaxy S 4 next month, which will proceed to conquer the world, leaving HTC’s cute little offering in the dust.
Consumer Camp: How Microsoft’s MVPs Want To Educate The World – The Marques Lyons Interview
Near a Microsoft Store? Check for one of these events. Photo credit: Consumer Camp
For those unaware, Microsoft makes a lot of products. Some are pretty successful, others not so much, but all work together, especially with the advent of their new Modern UI and new releases of Windows and Windows Phone. Amongst those who know the ecosystem best, Microsoft promotes “MVPs”, or Most Valuable Professionals, to evangelize their products. A few years back, I wrote for Zune MVP Marques Lyons’ site Inside The Circle, which made sense considering my passion for the player, but he’s since retired the site to focus on his newest creation: Consumer Camp, a nationwide tour of sorts in which Microsoft MVPs converge on your nearest Microsoft Store to meet with the masses. Recently, I had the opportunity to chat with Marques about Consumer Camp and his thoughts on Microsoft’s new direction in general.
Lying About Tesla’s Model S Will Result In CEO Elon Musk Wrecking Your Junk With Facts
Tesla records all review drives, so they know exactly when you’re telling the truth.
I wager that New York Times reporter John Broder didn’t see this coming. A few years ago, BBC’s Top Gear program ran a segment on the Tesla Roadster, the all-electric company’s first car. I enjoy the show thoroughly, so it was a bit of a surprise that the crew had such trouble with it, including running out of juice well before the advertised range and the car breaking entirely, unable to operate. Back in the shop, Tesla discovered that the show had no such issues and had, in fact, scripted the entire disaster. Not only did a court case follow, but Tesla began to log the telemetry of the vehicles they sent out for review. When the Times published Broder’s negative review of the car, featuring a picture of the car being pulled onto a flatbed tow truck, Tesla was more than a little skeptical. Then they pulled out the logs… and the results weren’t pretty.
Google, Just integrate Lookout Security Into Android Already
I don’t know why this isn’t integrated into the OS.
I love Lookout. I had convinced my friend, we’ll call him Jerry, who then convinced his friend, we’ll call him Kramer, to pick up Lookout Security for his Android phone. Sure enough, in less than a week Jerry is telling me about how he and George had gotten home without George’s phone. George had lost it somewhere. No matter! The phone had Lookout Security running and just a little bit of battery left so they whipped open a laptop and pulled up Lookout’s web site. Sure enough, they found the phone resting in a bed of snow outside the bar they’d just left. For a free app, it’s pretty amazing.
Because You Asked For It, Vertu Is Releasing A Bizarre $11,000 Android Phone
It’s delectable, but stupid, yet amazing.
Vertu phones have always been a bit of a joke. Here’s this incredibly expensive mobile technology artifact that takes the finest of Nokia’s Symbian OS and marries it with luxurious, hand-made hardware. Their designs were exquisite, weird, and it was hard to imagine an actual human purchasing one. Now that Vertu has unveiled their Ti model, I might have to start a Kickstarter donation drive to own one. You see, Nokia sold Vertu last year, freeing them from the obligation to Symbian, but also a further note to Windows Phone. Vertu picked Android for compatibility and while the specs are pretty admirable, but there are enough lukewarm bits in here to throw even the most casual Android fan off.
PayPal Coming to a Gas Pumps Near You
This reminds me that I need to get gas tomorrow…
Isn’t is the future already? Why are we still paying with cash, checks and carrying around wallets full of cards? Google Wallet has been trying to get NFC out there but have been getting blocked by wireless carriers because they have their own agendas that aren’t in fruition yet. Read the rest of this article…
