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Well, here we are. More than four years after launching, Switched and DownloadSquad are unfortunately being closed. I've been thrilled to work at these two sites that have expanded tech coverage beyond the usual gadgets and social networks to cooking, culture, design, art and more. It's been humbling to work with these incredibly dedicated and talented teams of writers, and it would have been ...

Unless you've been sleeping under a rock, or in a tent outside the Googleplex with an "I LOVE SCHMIDT" banner, you hopefully know that Firefox 4 supports restartless add-ons, or in developerese: bootstrapped extensions. Unfortunately, however, the process of converting an existing add-on into a restartless wonder is far from simple. A few months ago, back when the Firefox 4 beta machine really ...

Mozilla's been playing around with interface changes in Firefox 3.7 for a while -- there's the updated default theme and built-in glass support (which made a very brief appearance and has yet to return). In yesterday's nightly build, another UI option appeared: a simple right-click allows you to move your tabs to the top of the browser window. If you've been looking for Opera or Chrome-like, ...

6. Windows 7 Yeah, sue me -- while I'm by no means a Microsoft cheerleader, I am a huge Windows fan. 2009 saw the release of, dare I say, the best operating system ever made. Sales figures of both the bundled-with-new-PCs and boxed standalone versions have been massive, blowing all other competitors out of the water. Software support is great, the Superbar is awesome... I'm hard-pushed to ...

Go figure that little search engine company founded in a garage was just voted to be the most powerful brand in the Brandz Top 100 list. Some of the defining factors to get onto the list include innovation, leadership and of course finance. Google, no doubt, is currently off the scales in all categories. The Most Powerful Brands list ranks General Electric and Microsoft behind Google, which was ...

As I've been warming up more and more to Firefox, it's hard for me to resist giant lists of summarized Firefox extensions, and this one looks pretty comprehensive. I've never seen this "Quick Online Tips" blog before, but I found their list of "50 Best Firefox Extensions for Power Surfing" linked from Fark, which in my book means it has to be worth a gander. One thing that ...