Bing has some wonderful displays for their backgrounds. While this is true, Google also has interesting and fun Google Doodles. Bing wallpaper for Google homepage is an extension that puts the best of both sites under one hood, allowing a few custom views to create a brilliant display. Install the extension and it works right ...

Among the Google Chrome tricks and features available to its users is the opportunity to test and play with some of its experimental flags. Google Chrome experimental flags offer users on different devices and operating systems to activate and deactivate various features and processes on their Chrome browser. For example, one of the features you could enable is an FPS counter, which shows a page's actual frame rate in frames per second, whenever hardware acceleration is active. Recently, Google have ...

Do the balloon tips that keep popping up in Windows annoy you? Applications display notifications via a balloon in the notification center. I’ve found this to be annoying especially when the tips aren’t useful but are rather telling me things I already know. Especially if you have multiple programs running down there on the taskbar, disabling every one is nothing short of a tedious task. Fortunately, we can share with you a registry hack that can ...

With the recent high-profile Twitter account hackings, it's no wonder Twitter has followed in the footsteps of Apple and others who have enabled two-step verification to protect accounts. If you're looking for extra protection on your Twitter account, this is how to enable two-step verification. How to enable two-step verification on Twitter Login to your Twitter ...

Do you need to keep a consistent brand across your social media profiles? Do you find it hard to keep up with changing sizes of profile photos and header images? Keeping up with your social networks is hard enough. But constantly creating new images in different sizes and aspect ratios is just annoying. Until now. Enter Social Media Image Maker. Created by French design company Autre Planete, Social Media Image Maker is a useful web tool which lets you resize and ...

If you’re using Google Chrome, consider taking note of what plug-ins you use and need on a daily basis. Having too many plug-ins attempting to run at the same time can cause both security risks and performance issues. Some plug-ins are enabled that aren’t being used and could potentially be compromised to enable a remote exploiter to gain access to your system. Though this is unlikely, it’s important to shield yourself. How to enable or disable Chrome plugins Open Chrome’s Plug-ins from the chrome://plugins ...

Do you ever need to quickly remove the background from photos? Maybe you want to add a more dramatic sky to your dull landscape. Or pretend you’re in Machu Picchu when you haven’t left your Mom’s basement for three weeks. What if you can do it quickly, and for free? Did I hear a “hell yeah”? Check this out… Clipping Magic does exactly that. It’s a web app that removes the background from your photos and lets you create masks, cutouts, or clipping paths. Cut it ...

The web is full of interesting services. Twitter, Facebook, and reddit have changed the way we consume information and communicate with each other. Try to imagine life without your favorite web apps. We can’t comprehend how we got by before Google Calendar, the be-all end-all of our planning and organization. Out of all those services, none are quite like Shuffle My Life. It’s a new service that aims ...

One of the best and most under-utilized, in our opinion, features of Minecraft is multiplayer. Multiplayer Minecraft is a blast. You and a group of friends drop yourselves into a custom world and work with or against each other to build or destroy something. The results can be chaotic and entertaining.  While we've shown you how to get more from Minecraft by installing texture packs, there's something more exciting about ...

Depending on your Windows setup, having the My Computer icon on your desktop can be one of the quickest ways to access your primary drive, removable drives, Libraries and more. Luckily, for both Windows 7 and 8, you can quickly display the My Computer icon on your desktop with just a few steps. Since the steps are the same in both versions, you don't have to do anything complicated to ...