As January comes to a wrap, we had an exciting week here at groovyPost! Below is a quick look at our most popular groovyPosts and News blips from the week as well as some Tech Tidbits we didn’t find time to cover.
Also, a reminder to our groovyReaders. Although were always on the hunt to find and write about groovy tips, news and tutorials, we could always use tips from the you, the community! So be sure to send us any great tips you might have at tips@groovypost.com! Your tip just might make its way on the front page!
Delete iPhone, iPod and iPad Backups and Reclaim Gigabytes of Hard Drive Space
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Why Are The A & B Drives Not Used By Windows?
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How To Customize Your Facebook Profile Photos Into A Large “Hacked” Image
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Mozilla Blocks Skype Add-on for Firefox
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 Want to Work for Google? They Will Hire 600+ Employees this year!
The title pretty much says it all and it was enough to skyrocket the article this week into our top 5 posts of the week! |
Gmail Adds Desktop Notifications to Gmail
The Gmail team just added a new feature that, once enabled, will alert you of incoming email and messages outside of your browser window. Currently only supported by Chrome, but coming to other browsers soon via HTML5. |
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| Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 Beta 10
It was bound to happen, I mean after beta 9 the only next logical step is beta 10, right? Luckily, 11 is the last number on Mozilla’s calendar, so we are only a couple steps away now from Firefox 4 release candidate! |
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| Android Soon To Support In-App Purchases
Android App Marketplace sales aren’t doing too hot in comparison to Apple’s iOS App Store. Google is bringing in some changes to allow developers to monetize better, but I doubt this will make for much improvement since most Google users have a “software is free” mentality. |
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| Facebook Increases Security With HTTPS
Facebook has finally finished covering it’s entire site with HTTPS, this brings a drastic change in browsing security for the social media website. Previously some parts of the website didn’t support HTTPS, so even if you logged in using it you would still be left vulnerable. Now you’re safe while browsing Facebook, except that well, you’re still on Facebook… |
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| Facebook Launching A Groupon Competitor, sort of
Last week we briefly touched on Google opening up a Groupon competitor, and it seems like everyone got the same idea. Facebook is now working on a new service they call “Buy With Friends.” Though, Facebook’s primary focus right now is on the purchase of Virtual Goods (Facebook in-app items and other useless things) but it is sticking with the Facebook “currency” used to purchase everything on the website; “Facebook Credits.” |
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Google Starts Censoring Bitorrents And Filesharing From AutoComplete
Google has just instated a new policy that will prevent “pro-piracy” keywords from automatically being filled in by Google searches. This isn’t a huge censorship, but the Bitorrent community is outraged. |
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