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  Google’s Chrome Web Store offers a variety of themes for Chrome , which include background images for your new tab page and custom colors. Even better — you can create your own theme in just a few minutes. This official Google app allows you to quickly and easily create a custom Google Chrome theme, complete with a custom background image and color scheme. You can even share the themes you create. Getting Started We’ll be using the My Chrome Theme app from Google for this – click the link and install it from the Chrome Web Store. It will appear on your new tab page, where your other installed Chrome apps do. Choosing an Image The first thing you’ll need to do is choose a background image for your new tab page. You can either upload an image file or capture an image from your webcam. If you’re uploading an image, you can choose a personal photo or any other type of wallpaper image, such as one of the images from our 100+ wallpaper coll

After a wild CES 2013 event, the rumors, hearsay and speculation is back on. If Samsung didn’t impress you enough with the products and services they launched, then maybe the latest back-fence talk will make you turn your eyes towards the Korean behemoth. Yes, we’re talking about yet another little wonder of technology that might soon land on the market, “begging” you to buy it. Galaxy Note 8.0 seems to be the name of this possibly upcoming slate from the company residing in Samsung Town. If this is a rumor, why are we treating it seriously, someone could say. Well, for a number of reasons, but problably the biggest of them is the following. Samsung’s fierce battle with Apple I am not a fan of Apple, nor am I a fan of Samsung and frankly, I think it’s pretty dangerous these days to be loyal to a certain company, when there are soooo many products being launched, day and night. But I really like the battle between them, I love to see how they try to engage in technolog

We previously featured a list of tips for keeping your hard drive healthy and running for a long time, and as promised, we will now feature some of the best tools for analyzing and, if needed, repairing your drive . Although SSD drives don’t have as many problems as traditional HDDs, they can still benefit from some level of optimization. We will not go into defragmentation utilities, as we already featured the best tools for this, and today we will be taking a look at hard drive managers, benchmarking tools, health analyzers and repair tools. These utilities will help you monitor your drives on a software level and they will let you know when something is wrong. Monitoring and Benchmark Scanning your drive for errors is the first thing you need to do. There are lots of utilities out there that verify each sector of your drive. A hard drive’s worst enemy is to have bad sectors . These will slow your drive to a crawl and depending on what sectors are affected, it ca

It speaks volumes of the fame achieved by the game that for many people, Temple Run is pretty much synonymous with gaming on handsets and tablets. It has been almost a year and a half since Imangi studios (and Keith Shepherd and Natalia Luckyanova in particular) unleashed a game in which you controlled a character whose only job was to run. And run. And run. Why? Well, because you had stolen an idol from an ancient temple and were being pursued by vengeful monkeys. Weird? Well, the world did not think so. The game has been downloaded more than a hundred million times on iOS and Android and spawned a whole genre of gaming called “endless running,” not to mention dozens of clones. And now it has a sequel. Temple Run 2, to its credit, does not mess with the formula that made the first game a massive success. You still end up running endlessly. You are still guilty of having grabbed an idol. And you are still being chased by monkeys – all right, just a single, but giganti

Losing your smartphone is something that you all fear. It contains all your personal data, contacts, pictures and it has access to most of your online accounts. You can imagine how frustrating losing the device can be. Although there are more than one apps that allow you to completely wipe your phone or locate it, they operate over the Internet, as is the case with Lookout Mobile and Carbonite. AirDroid 2 is the app that will allow you to find your phone via the GSM network, thus making it harder for someone to conceal the device, even when the Internet connectivity has been disabled . The latest version of the app allowed users to control their phones from any browser, and with the latest upgrade of the app, it can be used as a great security measure. AirDroid 2 brings your phone to your browser The app was in beta testing until recently, and although the app is not yet available on the Play Store, you can still download and install it on your smartphone. O

Facebook has decided to follow the steps of Skype and introduced a great new feature for iPhone owners within US. In order to gather even more percentages out of the whole Internet, Facebook has implemented a free-calling feature into the iOS Messaging application, which will allow owners to easily make calls from within the system. The new Facebook calling feature, available at the moment only for US-based iPhone owners, relies on the classic VoIP concept of delivering the message. The system works pretty neat and it takes users only a couple of steps to set up a live conversation. Facebook Free-Call System: A small piece of the puzzle In order to make a phone-call using the well-known social service and to avoid direct carrier charges, iPhone owners can simply launch the dedicated Facebook Messaging application, open a conversation with a partner, tap the “i” icon in the upper-right corner and go for a “”Free Call”. From point on, a pop-up message will arrive on t

CES 2013 was full of water-proofing and water-resisting technologies for gadgets. We saw at-least four different companies promising water-proofing solutions for smartphones, in addition to multitude of cases and gadget accessories. None of them amazed us more than the HzO WaterBlock technology which protects the gadgets from water, humidity and other liquids. For the uninitiated, HzO WaterBlock is like a transparent shield, which is a coating of bonded molecules that seals the internal components of electronic devices. As you can see in the video demo below, it works inside out, even with the back panel open and batteries exposed. The person at HzO booth carelessly immersed the coated Samsung Galaxy smartphone into a bowl of water, a bowl of Bud Light beer and even into a bowl of Powerade! They use a proprietary machine to coat their magic solution inside and outside the smartphone. This involves a lot of work and hence, they plan to work with the manufacturers di

The much awaited (and delayed) smart watch of the year 2012, Pebble , will finally be shipping to the Kickstarter backers starting January 23rd 2013. At its press conference at CES 2013 in Las Vegas, the Pebble CEO publically unveilled the smart watch and we got to play around with the watch enough as you can see in the gallery below. The ePaper smart watch was a runaway Kickstarter success in 2012, with over $10 million in pledges from 85,000 backers across the world. The watch missed multiple shipping dates due to delays in production, resulting in furore from the backers. Being a backer myself, I heave a sigh of relief to know that Pebble will be shipping soon. Having seen and held the watch from close quarters, I feel more than happy to have waited this long! Eric Migicovsky confirmed that Pebble will be shipped in the order they received pledges from Kickstarter backers. He also unveiled the packaging for Pebble, which looks gorgeous and meticulously planne

Probably as we speak, at CES, Canonical officials are in intense talks with OEMs and carriers from all over the world. And I really believe that they will manage to see devices with Ubuntu Phone inside. It might start with countries from the developing world, but to be fair,   At CES 2013 , we managed to find the Canonical booth where Ubuntu Phone , the latest mobile OS, was being presented. The guys at Canonical were very knowledgeable and presented us with a detailed demo of Ubuntu Phone OS , but didn’t let us play with it. It has enough appealing features that we have recently discussed. And probably it’s just about time that the iOS-Android lead would be seriously challenged. We all know there are improvements that could be done to these two, so if Google and Apple won’t provide almost perfect mobile operating system, it will always be room for others . Ubuntu Mobile or Ubuntu for Phone bets on the fact that users want a gesture-controlled operating system. This n

There was a time when cropping a photograph was considered the height of image editing on a handset. Then along came Instagram with its array of filters and suddenly everyone was editing every other picture they took by just a touch here and a tap there. Mind you, it DID begin to get monotonous after a while as similar apps came into play, all essentially doing the same thing, and differing only in the number of filters and effects offered. Which is why we love PIP Camera . For while it does continue Instagram’s tradition of letting you add effects to your images with minimum technological and financial (yup, it’s free) fuss, it also goes beyond the “shoot-it-filter-it-share-it” mania that has gripped most of the image tweaking apps out there. And it does so by adding a picture in picture effect to your images – the PIP stands for pic-in-pic, for all ye into abbreviations. The app is a 30.2 MB download, and once installed lets you place your photographs (eithe

Every frequent flyer’s worst nightmare is to have their baggage lost by the airline, and this fear is well placed as thousands of pieces of luggage are misplaced each year and it takes a long time for them to be found and returned to their owners. The biggest problem is that when a baggage is misplaced, the airline has no idea where it ends up, therefore, the time required to find it, and then the time required to return the baggage adds up to quite a while. Although there is not much that can be done in regards to lost baggage, you can speed up the process by knowing where your luggage is at all times. For this, you need a baggage tracker . When you think about it, there are not that many methods of tracking your luggage, and these range from the very simple to the high tech. Today we’ll show you a few ways to track your lost baggage . Use a tag Sometimes, something as low tech as a tag with your name and contact information is all it takes to get your bag

This year at CES we’ve seen wonderful and intriguing technology being presented, by large companies such as Huawei, Intel, Sony, LG and plenty others. While the event itself has followed the same tradition, there were some mentions which sparked our imagination. We are talking about amazing projects, which push the limits of evolution one step forward and make us wonder what will the future have in store. Today, we’ve decided to linger a bit more on this specific category and present the most interesting technology and the most futuristic projects unveiled at CES 2013. The list is long, categories are broad, but we assure you that everything below is more than eye-catching. Awesome Technologies Introduced at CES 2013 Samsung 3D OLED HDTV with Multiple Views Couples will have to find other reasons to fight now, as Samsung introduced a TV so smart, that it can simultaneously render 2 channels without messing with the viewing experience. In a few words, the high resolu

Wireless technology has come a long way in the last few years, and this is due to the adoption that mobile devices have received and to the increasing demand of consumers for faster and more reliable wireless connections. Today’s wireless standards, although pretty fast, are not even near to multigigabit speeds . At CES 2013, a presentation by Wilocity showed us the future of Wi-Fi, where these speeds are possible and wireless streaming of big files will be done in the blink of an eye. The new standard will be widely available in the following year, which means that by this time, next year, anyone will be able to transfer files with speeds up to 7 Gbps wirelessly. Tri-band Wi-Fi presented by Wilocity and Qualcomm The tri-band technology represents the result from combining the 802.11ac standard with the new 802.11ad standard that uses the 60 GHz spectrum. The resulting chip is based on the Qualcomm VIVE chip, but gives users the possibility to use all of three existi