Tuesday, January 26, 2010

New Info on New Products

New Chrome Browser Has Extensions, Bookmark Sync

Google has released version 4 of its Chrome browser with extensions and bookmark sync, two most-requested features. Chrome 4 users can try out 1,500 extensions that Google said take seconds to install and uninstall. Bookmark sync lets Chrome 4 users have the same bookmarks on multiple computers. Chrome usage has been growing.

Microsoft Office 2010: What's in It for You?

When Microsoft Relevant Products/Services releases Office 2010 later this year, will it be an upgrade worth pursuing, or will it, like Office 2007, be one that you can easily let pass? That's a question that's no doubt on the minds of many existing Office users -- as well as more than a few executives at Microsoft.

Facebook's 'Dashboard' will clean up apps soon

What will the dashboard, part of a newly organized Facebook home page, bring to ordinary users? For the most part, it cleans up the Facebook app experience for users who may have installed dozens of third-party applications, and separates games--many of the platform's biggest sensations--into their own tab.

USB 3.0: Changing the Storage Game

From my perspective, one of the most important and most overlooked trends at CES was the emergence of name-brand external drives that support the USB 3.0 or "Superspeed" specification. Effectively, this is a connection protocol that looks just like the USB 2.0 connections we're all familiar with, but it should let you transfer data to and from external drives three times faster than you can with USB 2.0 drives.

Seesmic makes Twitter pretty, with Look

Look is a new product designed for the Twitter watcher much more than the Twitter contributor or participant. The app lets you scan the feeds of popular Twitter celebrities, or show feeds for specific topics, like the NFL or Wall Street business. It can display tweets as they come in, or it can go into "playback" mode to let you catch up on what you missed.

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