Review: Apple MacBook (2015)

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

While the MacBook does have some compromises (some of them glaring), there is no doubt that most of its features aren’t just here to stay, we can expect them to permeate the rest of Apple’s notebook and possibly even their desktop line. 

The new 12-inch Apple MacBook with a Retina Display is the latest in a long series of notebook innovations by Apple. It follows boldly in the footsteps of the PowerBook Duos, the transparent clamshell iBooks, the Titanium PowerBook G4 and its parent, the MacBook Air.

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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)

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)

‘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 24^th 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