Google's Chrome leaves beta

		December 13, 2008

	Google's Chrome browser leaves beta, goes 1.0 This week Google's Chrome browser left its beta status. It's one of the shortest beta periods for any Google product. More important though, it's a big step towards getting Chrome adopted by business users and pre-installed on new PCs. The update to 1.0 isn't just a name change. There are new features too, such as an improved bookmark manager and simpler ways to manage online privacy. To get the update, just fire up your Chrome browser and it will do the rest. Read more Josh Lowensohn Associate Editor, Webware.com New on Webware.com Microsoft launches bookmarking tool Posted by Josh Lowensohn Hot on the heels of launching its Web news-tracking service Political Streams, the Live Labs team at Microsoft has released a tool called Thumbtack. Similar to Listas, a previous Microsoft Live Labs project, Thumbtack lets users grab chunks of information from Web pages and store it in the cloud.  Read more  Firefox 3.1 beta 2 released Posted by Stephen Shankland On Monday Mozilla released the second beta of Firefox 3.1. The updated version of the popular browser brings a host of changes and improvements. Changes include support for video and audio built into Web pages, a built-in service for telling Web sites a user's location, private browsing, and dramatic improvements to JavaScript making services like Google Docs run even faster.  Read more  Google's 2008 Zeitgeist shows the most popular searches Posted by Dan Farber With 2008 coming to an end, the data miners at Google, which perform more than 60 percent of searches worldwide, have compiled their Zeitgeist lists of the most popular search terms. You might be surprised by the results.  Read more  New Eye-Fi SD card sends photos straight to Evernote Posted by Lori Grunin Got an Eye-Fi Wi-Fi enabled SD memory card and an Evernote account? The two are now compatible, letting you shoot pictures with your digital camera and have them automatically sent to the popular archival service.  Read more  The top 5 Gmail themes and add-ons Posted by Josh Lowensohn Out of curiosity we pinged Google to see if the company would release usage numbers on the recently released themes and Labs add-ons in Gmail. To our surprise they did. Find out what they are.  Read more  Everything Facebook Facebook crowns top apps Posted by Rafe Needleman At this week's FBFund event, Facebook bequeathed five $250,000 awards to top Facebook apps from a group of 25 finalists. The company picked five and so did we. Read on to find out what our picks were.  Read more  CNET gets Facebook Connect Posted by Rafe Needleman Got a Facebook account? Webware, along with the rest of CNET, now works with Facebook Connect, the social network's new system for letting users log in to third-party sites with their log-in credentials.  Read more    Related Newsletters Stay informed on the tech topics that matter to you most CNET offers a wide variety of newsletters on everything from tech industry news to the latest games and gear. Browse the entire list now. Manage newsletters More Webware  Webware RSS feed  The Webware 100  About Webware.com
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