Google has announced a handy new feature for Gmail: HTML5-based desktop notifications for new mail and chats. At the moment it only works on Chrome, but the company says it’s working to make notifications standard on all browsers.  To turn the feature on, click on Settings in the upper right corner of Gmail, scroll down [...]

If you have that constant urge to check Facebook after every few minutes, switch to Facebook Desktop and never launch the browser again. Facebook Desktop is a light-weight client that sits in your system try, like any other messenger software, and will alert you as soon as some new activity happens in your Facebook stream. [...]