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.

​The music streaming app Pandora first unveiled its Premium service last month, but rolled it out on an invitation-only basis. Pandora Premium is finally available for US listeners today.

​Most video and design work takes place digitally these days, but developers are constantly dreaming up new ways to improve on the wealth of software already available. These tools showcase new combinations and features that could make video and graphic design increasingly mobile and accessible.​

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.

Hemingway is a simple web app designed to help writers write simpler copy. You can't save documents, share them, organize them or comment on them. You just paste in your text, follow its advice, and copy it to get it out again. But it's very effective.

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.

A new website, Terms of Service; Didn't Read, compares and evaluates terms of service from across the web.

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

Deep Shot makes it possible to transfer simple computing tasks between devices simply by taking a photo of the computer screen with a smartphone's camera.