Articles on Extensions

Google Chrome to hit Macs in December - Nov 12, 2009

Crave Google plans to release a Mac beta of Chrome in early December, judging by some chatter on a mailing list for the browser. Chrome 4.0 is available today as a beta ... Read story »

Google Chrome extensions: Not yet, but later - Sep 6, 2008

Crave One of Firefox's initial claims to fame is the fact that the browser can be extended with a multitude of plug-ins, and even though Microsoft caught up with Internet Explorer, Firefox ... Read story »

Firefox extension makes Flash games full-screen - Nov 19, 2008

Crave Flash Game Maximizer turns almost any Flash game window into a full-screen affair, regardless of whether the developer made it an option. A new Firefox extension aptly named "Flash Game Maximizer" ... Read story »

Puzzle extension turns any Web image into a game - Dec 24, 2008

Crave Here's a fun extension from the experimental section of Mozilla's Firefox add-ons site. It's called Puzzle, and once installed lets you turn any image from a page you're on into a ... Read story »

Tamrac's new foldable tripod is like tent poles - Nov 24, 2009

Crave Currently, most tripod legs are hollowed and allow the extensions to fit inside. However, Tamrac has taken a different approach and designed what is possibly the most innovative tripod we've ... Read story »

The most significant thing this week: A new genre of phones defined--the App Phone - Nov 6, 2009

Blogs I've never called the iPhone or Android phone a smartphone. Somehow, the smartphone was reserved for phones which were much more limited in capability. My first smartphone was the Sony Ericsson ... Read story »

.中国 is coming, and China is pleased - Nov 1, 2009

Blogs The Internet, for its 40th birthday this week, got quite a shakeup: For the first time ever, Internet domain extensions can comprise non-Latin characters. After the domination of .com, .net, .co.jp, ... Read story »

Improved interface for IE6 on Windows phones - Oct 7, 2009

Crave For a long time, Microsoft's browser for Windows Mobile phones has been a weak link in the Windows Mobile operating system. Internet Explorer Mobile has been infamous for being ungainly, slow, ... Read story »

The Most Incredible Knife - Aug 25, 2006

Crave Aside from the fact that this thing has--at last count--85 features built in, you'll have to find the Most Incredible Pocket to house this multi-multifunctional Swiss Army Knife. Wenger may be ... Read story »

Windows 7 default user account control worries experts - Oct 23, 2009

Crave Corporate IT departments should be pleased with new security measures in Windows 7, but consumers are still at risk of getting hit by malware despite changes in the User Account Control ... Read story »

Leg extensions turn humans into horses - May 6, 2009

Crave The notion of horse legs for humans just seemed strange to me--until I saw longshot Mine That Bird's gorgeously graceful sprint to the finish in Saturday's Run for the Roses. ... Read story »

Firefox 3.5 benchmarked: Twice as fast as Firefox 3 - Jul 2, 2009

Crave 2009 is the year of the Web browser. We've had the best version of Opera in history, the most impressive version of Safari, the beginnings of Google's Chrome on the Mac, ... Read story »

A faster Google Chrome means what? - May 26, 2009

Crave A browser upstart like Google's Chrome must have some cleaving edge if it's to hack its way into the marketshare predominated by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, and to a far lesser extent, ... Read story »

Asus FastBoot reduces 64-bit Windows 7 boot time - Nov 11, 2009

Crave Though Windows 7 claims to boot faster than its predecessor, that is still not fast enough for some. The Lenovo Enhanced Experience uses extensive optimization on the system drivers, BIOS ... Read story »

An unofficial "dislike" option on Facebook - Nov 5, 2009

Crave Feeling grumpy? Add a "dislike" button to Facebook. Facebook's "like" feature has been around since February, but the massive social network never provided users with a way to quickly voice ... Read story »

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