TweetNow, if anything, Microsoft knows very well the key user of its browser, so therefore understands that those people aren’t always that happy with big changes. Take Internet Explorer 9′s latest interface, for example, with its compact address bar and in-line tabs. However, to keep the loyalists onside, they’re adding an optional switch to impart [...]

TweetIt’s had too many delays to mention, but it seems that Firefox 4 looks set for a February release. Posting on the Mozilla Planning mailing list, the Director of Platform Engineering, Damon Sicore thanked Firefox 4′s “tired and stressed” developers, urging them to persevere  in order to produce one last burst of innovation and “ship [...]

TweetFoursquare has tweeted that its users have uploaded over one million photos. Attaching photos (check-ins, tips and venues) has only been possible since the service updated its iPhone and Android apps last month. Aswell as photo uploads, the update allows Foursquare users to comment on check-ins, and view their check-in history. Foursquare’s BlackBerry app will [...]

TweetToday – right now, in fact – the U.S. House of Representatives will be transitioning over to Republican control, after the “schlacking” Obama got in the midterms in November. To mark the event, the first speech by new House Speaker, John Boehner, is streaming live on the Pledge to America Facebook page. I’m watching the [...]

TweetThree Words is a quick, easy and vain way to find out  how popular you are or how much your friends secretly despise you. It’s basically a cut-price version of Formspring: you sign up, and then people can describe you in three words. By default the three words are submitted anonymously, which most people will [...]

TweetEver wondered if that little sherbert-coloured person that you can drag around in Google Maps to enter Street View has a name? Oh, you haven’t? Must only be me then. Well, his real name is Pegman. This modern-day Clippy is more xmassy than me today, as he’ll be wearing a Santa hat all day (as [...]

TweetNow this is an interesting feature. They’ve made embedded YouTube videos have a new clickable link in the upper-right corner that appears when you hover over the video. This is called ‘Watch later’, and obviously, lets you watch the video later. It’s such a simple idea that you wonder why no one’s thought of it [...]

TweetWith the help of Harvard University, Google has just released a tool that has entertained me for at least half an hour. It lets you compare words, or phrases, from a corpus totaling 500 billion words from 5.2 million books — in Chinese, English, French, German, Russian and Spanish. Not to over-exaggerate, but the potential [...]

TweetDon’t worry, this one isn’t quite as bad as the Gawker hack: McDonalds (and over 100 other firms) have had their marketing databases stolen. An email marketing company called Silverpop is to blame for the breach, but fortunately only real names, interests and email addresses were breached; no passwords, and no Social Security or credit [...]

TweetPing, Apple’s music network, has been updated to make iTunes-based listening more social. You can now create playlists of your favorite songs (which you can make public to your Ping followers.) This encourages them to rate or review any of your public playlists, and, even collaborate on public playlists with you. To create a playlist, [...]