Google’s been pushing its Chrome browser for a while now, and there’s no question that it’s one of the fastest, simplest web browsers around, if you’re a Windows user anyway. But it doesn’t have all of the features you’d expect from a fuller fledged browser like Firefox yet, such as stable support for plugins and extensions.

Rose’s involvement definitely adds some star power to a service that has been growing in popularity.

Though all the browsers are designed to provide users a fast browsing experience; little tweaks here and there can go a long way in increasing the speed of browsers. As attractive an option as it seems, truth be told, in order to make whatever changes we need to improve the speeds of our browsers, we will have to compromise with original registry..

PDFs, the file format often used for “official” documents and typically opened with the frustratingly slow Adobe Reader, are starting to get much more manageable, thanks to companies like Scribd and Docstoc, which make them embeddable, and Google, who has built its own web-based PDF viewer into Gmail and Google Docs.

The Internet giant’s geniuses are working on software that’ll help get electric cars juiced without stressing out the electrical grid.

While the Google-backed Android mobile operating system will surge to 14% of the global smartphone market in 2012 — ahead of the iPhone, as well as Windows Mobile and BlackBerry smartphones.

This is Adobe’s new notification platform built on AIR. Get alerts right on your desktop whenever a story receives 2000 Diggs with Adobe Wave.

PhotoSketch is an internet-based program that can take the rough, labeled sketch on the left and automagically turn it into the naff montage on the right. Seems unbelievable but as the video shows, it works.

Despite its embroilment in a copyright lawsuit with Apple, tiny Psystar said that it plans on licensing its controversial Mac cloning technology to third parties.

In the time it takes your computer to boot up, you can probably make some toast or a cup of tea before the thing is ready to use. In the near future, you may not even have time to check your watch.