The chair of Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit that funds the development of Firefox, last week defended the decision to pursue in-browser ads, saying that it’s important to generate revenue. Check this article from PCWorld.com
Skype has addressed some of its biggest irritations for chat users, with an update that properly syncs messages across all devices. Check on this update from PCWorld.com
Although Twitter has been booming in the social media world, you may have tried it and decided it isn’t your cup of tea. If this is the case, there are a handful of other places to go that have been running for quite a while. Check on this article from MakeUseOf.com
Ten second boot-up. Photoshop running in mere seconds. There are plenty of advantages to running your computer on an SSD. The sheer speed of everything never ceases to amaze, but that isn’t to say that there are no downsides. With SSD memory costing several times as much per gigabyte as traditional storage, newer MacBooks often don’t have as much storage as their older hard disk counterparts. Check the article from MakeUseOf.com
Facebook wants you to be able to “better express your own identity,” so the network is adding a range of gender options for American users for whom male and female don’t apply. Check this article from TechHive.com
VMware will offer virtual desktop services for Google’s Chromebooks, allowing them to run Windows applications on the pared-down laptops based on the Chrome OS. Check on this article from PCWorld.com
Firefox Aurora, the pre-beta version of the popular Web browser, just saw a pretty significant update that should make it into the official builds of Firefox eventually, bringing Firefox accounts, improved syncing and more. Check on this article from MakeUseOf.com