Dropbox dismisses hack demonstrated by developers

Two developers have cracked Dropbox’s security, even intercepting SSL data from its servers and bypassing the cloud storage provider’s two-factor authentication, according to a paper they published at USENIX 2013. Check out this article from PCWorld.com

Transform Google Tasks Into a Task Management Suite With Google Tasks Offline

Using Google Tasks is like a love-hate relationship. Only an external Google Tasks client could possibly serve as a marriage counselor for such a relationship. The problem is that finding a desktop client that actually works apart from your active browser session isn’t that easy to do. Check out this article from MakeUseOf.com

Three handy (but often-overlooked) Google Chrome features

We are all of us creatures of habit, and those habits can easily extend to our Web browsers, where we’re so focused on our usual daily routines, we often overlook certain capabilities that can save us time or improve our productivity. Check on this artice from Laptop Mag Blog

Why Skype still can’t compete with iMessage (it’s all about greed, grudges, and fear)

Back in April, I fanned some flames by suggesting that Microsoft needed an iMessage of its own—a free, baked-in messaging app that can serve as a communication hub across the far-flung Windows platforms, drawing in users from the mish-mash of communications services that exist today. Apple has iMessage. Google has Hangouts. Microsoft, I argued, should lean on Skype, which it bought in 2011. Check out this article from PCWorld.com

Tumblr issue causes incorrect posts to appear on users’ blogs

Tumblr is working to resolve an issue causing seemingly random content to be posted to people’s blogs that they didn’t put there themselves, with pornography showing up in some instances. Check on this article from TechHive.com

Twitter’s related headlines find the stories behind the tweets

Twitter is like a runaway train. If you jump on midway through an event or a news cycle, you may as well hop right off again—there’s no way you’ll catch up. But now Twitter is making it easier to figure out what on earth is going on with related headlines that explain the story behind the tweet. Check out this news fromTechHive.com