9 Ways to Customise the New Tab Page in Chrome

Chrome’s new tab page is serviceable, but a bit boring. Whether you’re looking for a nice background for your new tab page or want to easily create your own visual bookmarks, add custom widgets, and view live information such as the weather or updates from your social networks, we’ve got a list of ways to make Chrome’s new tab page your own. Unfortunately, many new tab page replacements don’t have the useful “Recently closed” and “Other devices” options that appear at the bottom of Chrome’s default new tab page, allowing you to reopen closed tabs and open tabs from other...

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YouTube's AJAX Interface, Live in Chrome

YouTube's AJAX interface seems to be publicly available, at least for Chrome users. Back in May, I noticed a red progress bar at the top of YouTube's pages when loading a new video: YouTube experimented with the HTML5 history.pushState to change the browser URL without reloading the page. Then YouTube's engineers detailed their plan to make YouTube pages load faster. In the new interface, the video player and the JavaScript/CSS files are only loaded once, so when you click a new link, YouTube only loads the HTML page and the video. This happens almost instantly.

For some reason, the AJAX interface currently launched by YouTube only works when you click a related video or when you load a playlist. It doesn't work yet for the homepage and search results.

How To Disable Startup Programs In Windows 8.1

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There are a couple of reasons why you would want to stop some programs from loading with Windows. Maybe Windows is booting very slowly and you want speed up the boot by disabling unnecessary startup programs; or maybe a recently installed application is automatically starting with Windows and showing annoying popups every time you turn [...]

Popular game Dots arrives on Android and Kindle Fire

Dots, a very-popular and highly addictive game for iPhone and iPad devices is now also released for Android Smartphone and Kindle Fire.

Betaworks-the company behind Dots launched today morning this simple connecting app and now it is available in Google Play and Amazon Appstore.

Dots iOS version has been downloaded 5 million times and almost 1 billion games played since its launch.

In Dots game, you have to connect as many same-colored dots as you can in 60 seconds. With the released of Android version, Betaworks also released a new untimed mode called Movers.

For the first time in Dots, an un-timed, moves based mode is available; kick back and take your time while planning strategic moves.

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Become A More Organized And Productive Leader With Wrike

Taking on new roles and responsibilities is very often a part of life. As you get older, there will be situations where you need to manage projects, people, and overall goals of an organization, or maybe even a company. Life can get pretty crazy, unless you learn real fast how to get organized and get serious about setting up a long-term vision, and then putting together plans to get there quickly. Whether you’re heading up a single project at work, or you’re managing a small company, either role requires extreme organization and planning. This isn’t always possible with just a...

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5 Awesome Reasons To Use Google Forms

If you’ve ever tried to make an online survey, you’ve probably tried a few tools here and there. You’ve no doubt enjoyed some features of one product, and some of another, while being frustrated at the limitations you’ve come across. Survey tools we’ve tried and loved at MakeUseOf include PollDaddy, SurveyMonkey, Survey Legend, SIS, and MicroPoll: They all have their benefits and shortfalls. You may have already heard of Google’s Form feature, but not given it a try yet. Today I plan to convince you to give it a go. As a previous worshipper of SurveyMonkey and PollDaddy, I am...

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