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Images: Touring Google's Chrome browser

News With Chrome, you can create shortcuts for these applications. And now, it has -- well, kind of. Chrome is an open-source attempt by the search giant to bring Internet browsers in line with how we use the Web today -- streaming videos, chatting...

Tags: browsing, bookmarks, bookmark, beta

5 September 2008, 9:13

What you'll find in Chrome's fine print

News By default, Chrome will add all manner of shortcuts, so if you don't want it to, be sure to click "customise these settings. Yesterday, Google went live with its Chrome Web Browser. I immediately clicked download, but not before I saved a copy of...

Tags: terms, advertising, chrome, agreeing

3 September 2008, 9:04

Photos: Google's Android software on display

News Android screen with two shortcuts: one for the New York Times Web page, and another for the contact information for a person in the Android contact list. The project, under development by Google and a number of partners in the Open Handset Alliance...

Tags: man, contact, engineering, maps

29 May 2008, 9:11

News.blog: Google tests user-influenced search

News Other interface experiments you can sign up to use at Google Experimental Labs include timeline and map views of results, keyword suggestions and keyboard shortcuts. Google is experimenting with a new Web search interface that allows people to...

Tags: google, icon, labs, orange

30 November 2007, 10:18

Gearing up for DARPA's street race

News With two years in between races, the team said it now has the luxury of more time to fashion its new, improved TerraMax, without taking any shortcuts. The day before, one of the oversized truck's competitors in a race of robotic vehicles sponsored...

29 January 2007, 9:14

Images: Microsoft Office, then and now

News Some shortcuts require the CTRL key. Here's where to find that and other must-have commands in the new Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007. Then: Grey pull-down menus Microsoft's ambitious update to its Office suite has done away with the familiar...

25 January 2007, 10:47

Windows Live Mail goes Dutch

News Windows Live Mail includes desktop software features like keyboard shortcuts, the ability to select multiple emails and drag-and-drop functionality, as well as a safety bar that alerts users when it detects potentially fraudulent email, he said.

13 November 2006, 9:20

Mozilla looks forward to Firefox 3.0

News These include the creation of desktop shortcuts to work with Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), user-controlled style sheets, the option to customise shortcuts and a host of other features. Proving that the truly modern company stays nimble on its...

18 October 2006, 9:29

Ask.com search to go mobile

News Ask.com Mobile features navigation shortcuts to minimise keystrokes and provides direct access to key search categories on the home page, such as directions, image search, business listings, maps and weather, according to the company, a subsidiary...

12 October 2006, 7:15

Where's Jeeves? Ask.com rebrands

News Ask.com is minimal in design, with the red logo against a white background, the search box and a new customisable toolbox with shortcuts to 10 default search tools including maps, images, weather, dictionary and local search.

27 February 2006, 8:57

Orange shows off latest SPV laptop-3G phone

News The clamshell M5000 -- touted as a cross between a phone and a laptop -- has its own mini-sized Qwerty keyboard and 3G connectivity, as well as the usual suspects feature-wise: web, email, push-to-talk and shortcuts to a businessperson's favourite...

22 September 2005, 9:08

New Yahoo Mail beta unveiled

News In addition, the new version adds address auto-complete, right-click menus and standard keyboard shortcuts. Yahoo unveiled a limited public beta of its new Yahoo Mail service on Wednesday, featuring a new desktop email application-type interface...

15 September 2005, 8:58

Yahoo sneaks home page change into IM update

News By accepting Yahoo's 'typical' installation of YIM with Voice, it will also download Yahoo's Search Toolbar with anti-spyware and anti-pop up software, desktop and system tray shortcuts, as well as Yahoo Extras, which will insert Yahoo links into...

2 September 2005, 9:16

Yahoo expands mobile phone search functions

News The new SMS Search feature promises to let people get specific information in text on their mobile phones, such as weather, stock quotes and store addresses, and use shortcuts on the keypad to make it faster.

7 July 2005, 9:06

Yahoo overhauls free Web email service

News In addition, the new version adds address auto-complete, right-click menus and standard keyboard shortcuts. Yahoo is planning to overhaul its free Web-based email service to make it work more like a desktop email program, the company announced on...

28 June 2005, 7:45