Web Applications

Following the news that Google+ is closing its doors after the disclosure of a security flaw that exposed the private data of nearly half a million users, let's take a stroll down memory mews to revisit six other times Google ended products or services, rightly or wrongly, for good or for ill…

Unlike Twitter, Mastodon's messages are distributed across independent servers with their own communities and rules. But it's just one example of this new breed of website which makes up the fediverse, which may just buck the trend of locking content behind walled gardens like Twitter and Facebook.

Twitter Lite offers all the key features of the social media platform​, but takes up less than 1 MB of your mobile device's storage. It also loads faster, is more resilient on shaky mobile networks and incorporates a data saver mode.

People diss Twitter for its triviality, but give me lunch tweets and lighthearted nonsense over pitchforks, death threats and endless opinions any day, says Gizmag's James Holloway.

Everyone is familiar with Google's flagship services, like Search, Gmail and Maps. Even blue-sky projects like its Loon Wi-Fi balloon and self-driving cars are well-known. But there are a swathe of remarkable Google services that many people just don't know about. Here, we look at 10 of them.

Google Cloud Print is a service that lets users print from web-connected devices from virtually anywhere in the world with an internet connection. So how exactly does it work? Here's a look at setting it up using either a standard printer connected to your computer or a Google Cloud Ready printer.

Some TV manufacturers have joined forces to form Smart TV Alliance, which aims to encourage one standard for Smart TV apps.

Online mobile service, Qipit, converts photographs of documents taken on a camera phone into high contrast, easy-to-read digital copies that can then be stored or shared online.

June 25, 2007 Here's a website that turns the cookbook upside down to suggest recipes that use the ingredients you've already got. Type in what's in your cupboa