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This Chrome extension stopped the browser killing my computer

May18
by on May 18, 2015 at 8:06 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, chrome, extensions, Google, the Great Suspender

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Last week, my colleague Owen wrote a compelling piece on why he’s breaking up with Chrome, but while I understood his reasons, I wasn’t quite ready to split. That’s why I was delighted to discover The Great Suspender. The Chrome extension solves one of the biggest complaints about the browser – that it gobbles up memory, forcing your machine to slow to a crawl and sending the fans into overdrive. It does that in a really simple way: Suspending tabs that you’re not using until you return to them and reactivate the process. You can whitelist commonly used sites to…

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LG G4 to go on sale globally starting this week

May18
by on May 18, 2015 at 6:02 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Mobile

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LG confirmed today that it will begin selling its new flagship G4 Android phone across the globe this week. The device will first become available in Hong Kong, followed by Turkey, Russia and Singapore. The leather-backed G4 will also arrive in major markets in Europe, North America, Southeast Asia, Middle East, Africa and South/Central America over the next month. LG hasn’t yet announced pricing, but has said that it will vary by carrier and market. In a hands-on test, our own Ben Woods found the G4 offering a refined experience — particularly in terms of camera capabilities and usability —…

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Here’s the first trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs biopic

May18
by on May 18, 2015 at 4:44 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Film

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Universal Studios has released the first trailer for Steve Jobs, the biopic produced by Aaron Sorkin starring Michael Fassbender in the lead — and it looks like it’s going to be intense. Directed by Danny Boyle of Slumdog Millionaire fame and based on the biography by Walter Isaacson, the film also stars Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak, Jeff Daniels as Apple CEO John Sculley and Kate Winslet as former Macintosh marketing chief Joanna Hoffman. The too-short trailer gives a sense of how tense things might get, but you’ll have to wait until October 9 to see what Sorkin and Co.…

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