A Google engineer recently posted a message on the Chromium development board stating that his team would be implementing a synchronization service into Chrome’s open-source progenitor as early as this week. What’s different about Chrome’s sync service? It uses a “push” service, through Google Talk protocols, to instantly move bookmarks, settings, and other user data [...]

On Friday 31 July 2009, Mozilla Firefox was downloaded for the one billionth time since its initial v1.0 release in 2004. (One billion is one-thousand million. Any version of the full installer is counted as ‘one’ download. Automatic updates are not included in the figure.)

The internet has made it easier than ever to share media and data with friends, family, and co-workers, but that doesn’t mean burning your own CDs and DVDs is a thing of the past. Blank optical discs are dirt cheap, they work virtually everywhere, and if you bought your computer sometime in the last 5 [...]

Before launching any new website, feature, or upgrade, it has to be tested. The worst nightmare of any programmer, designer, or business is to launch a broken website that drives away users and hurts reputations. It will only create more work, more headaches, and lost profits. Luckily, there are many great tools for web development [...]