The last two months have been rather uneventful when it comes to Opera Software news. It seems as if the company has gone quiet shortly after it announced its move to Webkit, and later on to the Blink fork together with Google Inc.
Yahoo announced a major overhaul of its photo hosting and sharing community Flickr yesterday. You have probably read about it on every other tech blog by now.
When it comes to Firefox's add-on bar, you can either display it or not, but that is about it. It is not as useful anymore as the old status bar that it replaced, unless you install add-ons in Firefox that add the missing functionality back to it.
The only element that is currently displayed in Firefox's Title Bar is the one-button menu. While it won't be there for much longer, I always felt that displaying only the menu button there was a colossal waste of space.
Passwords that you enter in the Google Chrome web browser, or in any other browser for that matter, are always hidden behind asterisks.
Google launched a new layout for its social networking service Google+ recently that introduced several interesting features but also a Pinterest-like layout that I think does not really work well when the emphasize is on text and not images.
Say you are working in an app on your Android device right now and need to launch another right away even though you are not finished yet in this one.
Download mangers are a dime a dozen on Android but if you want to find a real good one, you really have to look long and hard, and spend hours installing and testing the available selection.
If you like to listen to music or audiobooks when you are going to bed, for instance to help you fall asleep or filter out background noise, you may have noticed that there is no option to turn off playback after a set amount of time.
Now that the new Google+ interface has been out for a while it is time to address certain issues that users may have with it.