Google recently vowed to make more frequent the end-user’s trysts with a new version of its Chrome browser. But for some, stable browser builds are rather vapid and the prospect of one every six weeks even more so. Google has now released the highly unstable Chrome Canary Build for such denizens of the bleeding edge. “We plan to update the Canary Build more frequently than the Dev channel, with riskier changes, and usually without a... 

Google Voice.  Situation: It’s a pretty awesome competitor to good ol’ Skype, especially when you use its crazy powers to forward calls from your magical number to physical locations all over the world.  I, for one, use Google voice to get into my own apartment.  Ringing me up on the ol’ call box in front of my condo complex calls my Google Voice number…  Read More →

I’m often surprised by what people find popular in the world of freeware and open-source applications, let alone Web apps. It’s tough to use the comments on Maximum PC’s website as an official barometer, as they don’t take page views, click-throughs, or raw downloads of whatever apps I/we recommend into account. Nevertheless, judging by the wrath, boundless joy, and heavy presence of spam-filter-nose-thumbing-signatures... 

It’s been a busy week for BitTorrents! I’ve showed you how to download them, how to tweak the heck out of a great program you can use to download them, and how to remotely access your BitTorrent downloads through Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox . You, young padawan, are now fully grounded in the ways of the torrent. But you are no Jedi yet… The final…  Read More →

I don’t care what you use BitTorrent for. I don’t even want to know. What you download is your own business. That said, don’t even think about coming in the comments with a “omg check out this awesome freeware Pirate Bay scanning app it helped me download all the copies of My Little Pony in like no time whatsoever.” Not cool. Now that the semi…  Read More →