Monday
May112015

Spruce up your email with GIFs using Giphy for Gmail

Looking to add some spice into your emails? Giphy wants to arm you with tons of animated GIFs for your Gmail messages. The Giphy extension is free and it lets you easily insert GIFs into your emails. Once you’ve installed the extension, you’ll see the Giphy rainbow icon in your Gmail composition window. From there you can select which popular GIFs you want to add to your message.

Source: Cult of Android | Download: Chrome Web Store (Free)

Monday
May112015

Google debuts Chrome extension meant to get user feedback

Google wants your help to develop its Chrome browser further. The company introduced a new Chrome extension called Chrome User Experience Surveys. You’ll be getting occasional pop-up surveys about your experience when something unusual happens in your browser, for example for a notification or malware warning. Google promises though that they won’t spam you with pop ups. It’ll show no more than two surveys per day and a total of four surveys per week. It should also just take you around two minutes to answer each survey.

The company claims they aren’t tracking browser history with this extension. That this extension only gets your feedback and you will remain anonymous. If you’re feeling generous and want to help Google out, you can download the extension now.

Source: TechCrunch | Download: Chrome Web Store (Free)

Monday
May112015

‘The X-Files’ to make a comeback in the US in January

The X-Files ended its original run in 2002. Now, we’re just that much closer to the comeback as Fox announced the debut of the new six-episode “event series.” The X-Files, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, will be coming back on Sunday, January 24th in the US. It’ll be debuting after the NFC championship football game and then it will be moving to its Monday 8PM time slot.

We’re hoping it makes its way here because we can’t wait for this classic to make a comeback. This short series comes from the original mastermind Chris Carter. We aren’t sure about the details yet but we’re willing to bet there are aliens.

Source: The Verge

Monday
May112015

Google Play celebrates the last episodes of AMC's Mad Men with retrospective and free episodes

With one episode left to go, the saga of Don Draper and his Mad Men crew is coming to a close. Spanning 10 years and various changes in the stylish and definitive drama about the golden age of Madison Avenue advertising creatives, is being celebrated on Google Play. A retrospective section can now be viewed on Google Play with the very first Mad Men episode available for free. The full seasons are also discounted for anyone interested in owning Mad Men. 

AMC is running a Mad Men marathon starting on Wednesday May 13th at 6.00 PM Eastern time which will culminate in the finale on Sunday at 10 PM Eastern time.