Posted 01/27/10 at 12:00:05 PM by David Murphy

One of Google Chrome's more useful features is its ability to display recently opened Web pages and your most-visited Web pages via a little visual table whenever you open up a new, "blank" tab. For the Web surfer with a limited range of interests or for those interested in a quick way to hit their favorite sites in one go, this functionality is miles ahead of Firefox's, well, blank tab. But here's the problem: You can't actually customize anything on Chrome's launching page. Or, rather, you can only pin and subtract.

What I mean by that is Chome lacks the ability to let you pick, from the start, exactly what you want to appear on your "new tab" page. If a site happens to make its way across your "most viewed" list and you want to stick it there, you can pin said side to your page by hovering your mouse over the image until its blue configuration frame appears. You use the same process to prevent certain sites from ever appearing on this page--I'm not going to ask what those might be. Other than that, you're stuck--unless you start refreshing a particular page to the point of annoyance just to get it to appear, you have no way to actually predefine or shuffle around these sites.

The Chrome Extension Speed Dial is your solution for complete and total customization of your new tab page in Google's browser. It's not perfect, but it's a welcome addition to any Chrome-tweaker's arsenal. Find out about all its features after the jump!

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Posted 01/06/09 at 01:28:19 PM by Mark Edward Soper

Don't want to trade power and and versatility for light, thin, portability? Lenovo says, 'Why should you?' with its new Y-series IdeaPad laptops. The new IdeaPad Y series features three different models, all of which include:

• 16x9 HD screens
• Up to 500GB hard disks
• Lenovo OneKey Theater display and sound effects settings to optimize gameplay or movie watching
• Intel processors
• Up to 4GB of DDR3 memory
• VeriFace facial recognition technology
• OneKey Rescue system recovery
• Multi-touch touchpad

Optional features include NVIDIA GFX graphics and Bluetooth wireless connectivity.

To find out more, join us after the jump.

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Posted 09/28/06 at 11:26:14 AM by Michael Brown

Sling Media is now shipping several new models of their products that enable you to watch and control your TV or DVR anywhere you have web access and a PC or smartphone.

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