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The Best Websites and Web Apps for Making Use of Exactly One Hour of Free Time

It’s lunchtime—or maybe it’s just a break you’re taking from the world. Either way, you’ve got an hour to spare, and that could mean running errands or braving the outdoors, or it could mean snacking at your desk while idly clicking around the internet (employer IT policy permitting). If you’re looking for inspiration for your…

Gadgets David Nield Feb 12

How to Play Apple Music from the Web

Apple isn’t known for its web apps, though you can now access a lot of its core apps (in basic form) through iCloud on the web. It doesn’t include Apple Music, but Apple does make APIs available for the service that other programmers can hook into—and that means there are now several third-party online players…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 23

Google’s ‘Squoosh’ Image Compression Tool Shows Off the Power of Web Apps

Google has a new, experimental web app for you to try: Squoosh. It uses the latest in image compression technology to cram your pictures into smaller file sizes with a minimal loss of quality, but what really impresses about the app—coded in the WebAssembly programming language—is its speed, even under a relatively heavy load. “This…

Gadgets David Nield Nov 14

7 Free Online Tools to Rescue Your Photos Without Photoshop

Whether you’re sharing photos on Instagram or working on an art project, the quality of the final image matters. Even if you don’t have something like Photoshop installed, you can get your pictures looking their best with the help of some free, simple-to-use web apps—and we’ve picked out seven of the best for your needs…

Gadgets David Nield Apr 20

12 Useful Web Tools You Didn’t Know About

Google isn’t the only company creating useful apps for the web. There are plenty of great online resources not made in Mountain view, provided you know where to look. Here are 12 of our favorite online apps and websites that are worth collecting in your browser’s bookmarks, ready to go at a moment’s notice, to…

Gadgets David Nield Nov 15

You Don’t Need Desktop Apps Anymore

Fire up your Start menu or Dock and think carefully for a moment: Out of all your aging desktop apps, how many do you really rely on these days—or even better, how many of them don’t already have very capable web app alternatives you could use instead? Unless you’re a film editor or a graphic…

Gadgets David Nield Aug 7

Google vs Apple vs Microsoft: Which Online Office Suite Should You Be Using?

You don’t necessarily need to install a desktop application to get your hands on a decent office suite any more, and the biggest names in tech all have free, online productivity tools you can access from any browser—so which one should you be using? We take a look at the features, strengths, and weaknesses of…

Gadgets David Nield Jul 27

10 Tricks to Make Yourself an Instapaper Master

Good news: the best read-it-later service, Instapaper, is now giving away premium features for free, which means most of us have got a whole bunch of new goodies to play around with. Here are ten of Instapaper’s best features you might not know about. 1. Search through articles in a snap If you can’t remember…

Gadgets David Nield Nov 30

How to Mute Specific Sites in Your Browser

Having to close a tab with audio blaring from an auto-play ad is one of the web’s greatest annoyances, but at the same time, most of us want to hear videos coming from YouTube or Netflix. How do you mute one without the other? Fortunately, there are a couple of easy solutions available. The major…

Gadgets David Nield Sep 7

See How Far Your Budget Will Get You in an Uber

Uber has made hailing a cab as easy as pushing a button, saving countless passengers from wandering the streets in search of a ride. There are still some gaps in the Uber experience though—and Up Hail is happy to plug one of them. It’s a price comparison service for ride-hailing services, but you can actually…

Gadgets David Nield Jul 14

How to Add Social Media Links to Your Gmail Signature

You don’t have to settle for a staid, text-only signature for your Gmail account: with a little image manipulation and the help of Google Drive, it’s possible to insert images and even links to your social media accounts (or any other part of the web). Here’s how to set it up in a few minutes.…

Gadgets David Nield Jan 8

9 Free Web Apps to Replace Your Desktop Software

A few years ago, trying to move to an online-only existence wasn’t a practical option, but now long-serving web apps have grown more powerful and you can now do almost everything in a browser that you can do on the desktop (albeit in more limited form). Here’s our current picks for the best online apps…

Gadgets David Nield Aug 5

Your Webcam Feed in ASCII Is the Greatest Thing You’ll See Today

Say goodbye to the rest of your day. Because after playing with this web app that turns your webcam feed into a realtime stream of ASCII art, you’re not going to want to do anything else ever again. The site was actually made by Eric Fredericksen back in 2012, but just recently uncovered by Animal…

Tech News Ashley Feinberg Apr 3

Google’s Chrome Apps Have Finally Escaped Their Browser Prison

Up until now, Chrome’s Web Apps have been trapped in your browser, living with the rest of your internet like glorified tabs. Well, Google’s putting an end to that today. A new breed of Chrome Apps is here, and they live on your desktop. Like old-school Chrome Apps, these new ones can sync between devices,…

Tech News Eric Limer Sep 5

Little Outliner: The Cleanest, Simplest Outliner Web App Around

Little Outliner is a new editor from Dave Winer that automatically saves text locally. The HTML5 web app is a super simple, super straightforward way to create outlines. Here’s a quick how-to for using Little Outliner. You can expand and collapse headlines hierarchically, and move things around with your mouse. For example, you press return…

Tech News Leslie Horn Mar 25

Dish.fm Consults Foursquare and Yelp to Help You Decide What to Order

What should you order for dinner? Dish.fm is a new iOS and web app that pulls from thousands of reviews on Yelp and Foursquare to help you decide specifically which dish is the best. The app culls these user-generated reviews to check for mentions of specific menu items. So if the pad thai is a…

Tech News Leslie Horn Dec 17

5 Reasons Why Spotify in Your Browser Is a Good Idea

A Saturday TechCrunch report about a browser-based version of Spotify led to thousands of posts over the weekend. https://gizmodo.com/spotify-could-finally-be-coming-to-a-browser-near-you-5941639 The odd thing about Spotify’s reported makeover as a web app: Its status as a desktop client is responsible for at least some degree of its success. Being a desktop app allows Spotify to gobble upstream…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm Sep 10

Collusion for Chrome Reveals Who’s Spying on Your Surfing

The concept of privacy on the Internet is naive at best. Fact is everybody tracks what you do online. Collusion for Chrome, however will show you exactly where your information goes when you’re served a cookie. Collusion is a simple extension for the Chrome browser and is currently available at the Chrome Web Store. According…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Apr 17

Songza’s New Concierge Picks Free Music for Your Specific Situation

We music fans are large; we contain multitudes, to borrow from Walt Whitman. Sometimes we want to rock out. Sometimes we want to mellow out. Sometimes we don’t know what we want – we just want it to sound good. To try to grapple with the all-too-common problem, “So what do I actually listen to…

Tech News Eliot Van Buskirk - Evolver.fm Mar 5

Microsoft Office Web Apps Thinks Oversharing Is a Good Thing

Take it from Office Web Apps-with over 30 million users, they know a thing or two about reaching the masses. Sure, we now live in a world where it’s possible to find out what your third cousin once removed is eating for dinner at this very moment, or what your buddy was actually doing last…

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The Best Websites and Web Apps for Making Use of Exactly One Hour of Free Time

How to Play Apple Music from the Web

Google’s ‘Squoosh’ Image Compression Tool Shows Off the Power of Web Apps

7 Free Online Tools to Rescue Your Photos Without Photoshop

12 Useful Web Tools You Didn’t Know About

You Don’t Need Desktop Apps Anymore

Google vs Apple vs Microsoft: Which Online Office Suite Should You Be Using?

10 Tricks to Make Yourself an Instapaper Master

How to Mute Specific Sites in Your Browser

See How Far Your Budget Will Get You in an Uber

How to Add Social Media Links to Your Gmail Signature

9 Free Web Apps to Replace Your Desktop Software

Your Webcam Feed in ASCII Is the Greatest Thing You’ll See Today

Google’s Chrome Apps Have Finally Escaped Their Browser Prison

Little Outliner: The Cleanest, Simplest Outliner Web App Around

Dish.fm Consults Foursquare and Yelp to Help You Decide What to Order

5 Reasons Why Spotify in Your Browser Is a Good Idea

Collusion for Chrome Reveals Who’s Spying on Your Surfing

Songza’s New Concierge Picks Free Music for Your Specific Situation

Microsoft Office Web Apps Thinks Oversharing Is a Good Thing

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