Archive for the ‘Google’ Category

Google offers $1 million reward to hackers who exploit Chrome. It’s just occurring to me now that contests like these are just like the design contests that consistently get lambasted each and every time they crop up. I likely don’t hear any recoil about these browser security contests because I’m not in that community, but [...]

Web Dev .NET: TextMate-like ⌘T & ⇧⌘T in Chrome Dev Tools & Other New Features. Chrome has been my primary browser since a few months after it’s debut. I’m a sucker for WebKit and the thing just flies. Elijah Manor took some time to outline some of the bleeding edge changes coming to the Web [...]

Kevin Fox – Google+ – I was writing a blog post about three recent changes to…. There’s a lot to read in this post, but it outlines a number of questions I’ve had as of late. Google’s never been looked at as a company that really optimized the design experience. That is until as of [...]

Why I use DuckDuckGo, and you should too – Clif Reeder. A few weeks ago I followed along with Ben Brooks and ditched Google for DuckDuckGo. I’m not a privacy zealot and I know that my usage of Google is for their sole purpose of getting to know me better in an effort to send [...]

Official Google Blog: Updating our privacy policies and terms of service. Privacy policies are actually a big deal. They’re the EULA of websites and often go ignored, resulting in outrage from user bases who never read it in the first place and are infuriated that the company behind the site followed through on what was [...]

YouTube – Google Chrome Developer Tools: 12 Tricks to Develop Quicker. I’ve been using Chrome for longer than I can keep track of, but it does continue to get better for developers, regardless of any (ahem: video) decisions that are made by Google going forward. One of the main reasons I like Chrome so much [...]

Chromium Blog: HTML Video Codec Support in Chrome. This story made quite the wave yesterday, with myself included. I’ve been using Chrome as my primary browser for months, I love it. This decision will cause me to switch back to Safari. From the looks of it, there are lots of others with the same mentality. [...]

Marco.org – Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search. I hope to some day be able to write like Marco. His latest publication echoes my sentiments exactly. Google has been receiving a ton of slack lately, and in my opinion it’s quite deserved. How many times within the past six months have you had to sift [...]

There was a time when accessibility conversations took place as much as the latest tricks with CSS or JavaScript. Has the world moved on, leaving accessibility in the dust? Realizing that I have done my fair share of neglecting accessibility best practices lately, I’m going to focus on it.

Typekit and Google Announce Open Source Collaboration « The Typekit Blog. I think this is great. Typekit is really making an impact with the service provided, and Google hopping on board is a really great thing for the both of them… and all of us. We’re happy to announce that we’ve teamed up with Google [...]