You can easily disable Flash in Chrome. But FlashControl gives you more hands-on control. FlashControl is a Chrome extension that uses blacklists and whitelists for selectively blocking and unblocking Flash content. As the extensions defines itself – the main feature is the ability to re-block Flash without refreshing webpages.

Using Gmail search often? Google has has just made auto-complete in the search box even better. The new feature will offer better suggestions as you type, and should help you search your oceanic inbox more efficiently. Auto-complete suggestions will now include your previous Gmail searches, as well as contact thumbnails in the search dropdown next to your contacts’ names and addresses.

The British Library is set to begin a massive archiving project of 1 billion webpages from local (.uk) domains starting April 6th. The archiving project is meant to preserve digital records for posterity, and also includes public Facebook updates and tweets. It will also include eBooks and iPad editions of newspapers, among other forms of digital information.

I will say that Google+ has moved out of the shadows and is a viable social network for a lot of specific purposes. The Google+ experience is growing on me. That’s why I really liked what the Chrome extension called Replies and More for Google+ brought to my social conversations. It is a recommended install from our Best Chrome Extensions page.

Twitter has released a new version of its Android app, with a significant re-design that makes it easier to connect with the content you want to read. The new design, which is “crafted for Android 4.0+” features wider and taller timelines that fill the entire screen, giving you more content to read at a glance. It also comes with a flat, margin-less navigation bar on top, tap and hold for more options such as retweeting, and swipe edge to edge across the screen for easier navigation.

The new responsive design of the Webby Awards Winners Gallery + Archive is a roll-call of past Webby awardees. It is a showcase of the best the Web has given us in the past sixteen years, and is a perfect bow to the websites and Web services that created new standards and won the Webby Award in the process. The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, interactive advertising and online film and video.

Home gyms and personal trainers help the moneyed get up straight from their beds and hit the gym. We lesser mortals have to call on our powers of self-motivation and discipline to trudge the few miles to the gym. But it doesn’t have to be this way. With the help of free YouTube channels for home workouts, we can start our own exercise regimen exactly where our sleeping mattress ends.

With the upcoming demise of Google Reader, many new RSS loyalists have been searching for alternatives. Feedly is one of those alternatives, and it has now introduced a new version of its iOS and Android apps. The update brings a better search as well as a new ‘Must Reads’ section for recommended reading.

Pearltrees is a more natural way to process all we save and share on the web. At its simplest, it is a free web curation tool but with a completely visual interface (like a mindmap) that gives you a birds-eye view of all your interests. It is also a collaborative community that allows you to discover new stuff related to your interests.

The small fact that Photo Zoom for Facebook is on our Best Chrome Extensions page was just the first nudge. The statistical fact that it has racked up 2 million plus downloads on the Chrome Web Store was the shove. Frankly, that’s quite a score for an extension that claims to be the best way to view photos on Facebook.

Klout is now factoring in Instagram and Bing as another metric of your social-media influence and Klout score. A busy presence on Instagram, which previously meant nothing for your Klout score, can now give it a serious boost. if you’re not very active on Instagram, it could affect your score the other way. Your most popular photos will also appear in your Klout Moments.

Videos have become only easier to compile, combine, and compose. YouTube crossed over to 1 billion users just a few days ago and despite the presence of very good alternatives like Vimeo, it is the de-facto home for online videos. So, it makes sense to upload your first photo slideshow to YouTube.

Travelling in a foreign country and without an Internet connection? The new version of Google Translate for Android lets you to download 50 language to be used offline, no matter where you are. Don’t worry, you don’t need to download all of them; only download the language pack corresponding to the country you are travelling to, or the languages you most commonly have to translate to/from.

Bing has finally introduced a time filter that enables search results by time period. This has been a regular Google search feature for quite some time, but late or not, you can finally get down to distilling the fresh from the stale on Bin search, especially if you are searching for news. Filtering search results by time works the same as any other filter and includes four time range options on the search results page.

News reader and magazine app Flipboard has reached version 2.0 and includes some interesting new features. You can create your own personalized magazines, which can be either private or available to all. Creating your own magazine is easy as searching for your favorite topics on Flipboard and turning them into beautiful flippable magazines.