Facebook's engineers like Google's WebP and want Mozilla to build support for the image format into the Firefox browser.

Google hopes to speed Web performance with the image format, which can do the job of both of today's major graphics formats, JPEG and PNG. Facebook began testing WebP support in April.

And now it looks like the powerful company has become Google's biggest ally in the effort to promote WebP. Mozilla is deciding whether to reverse its earlier opposition to WebP, and Facebook programmer Bryan Alger on Wednesday encouraged Firefox developers to do so in a comment on Mozilla's WebP bug tracker Wednesday:

I am the Facebook engineer examining the adoption of webp as a serving format. We are very excited about the new format and keeping a close eye on the community to monitor adoption. It is entirely likely we will be serving webp images in some capacity in the short term after we address user complaints from our limited testing. It goes without saying, we would love to see webp support coming to Firefox soon.

WebP currently is supported in Chrome and on Android. When Opera Software makes its shift to the Blink browser engine on which Chrome is based, that browser will also support WebP.

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This app currently offers the fastest and easiest way to browse Craigslist from your mobile device. The primary advantage to using an app over the mobile Web site is the ability to set alerts. Instead of setting a reminder to look through listings for the items you want to buy or sell, an alert will do the work for you.

If you don't have the Mokriya Craigslist app, install a copy on your Android smartphone or tablet. The icon for the app will just say "Craigslist."

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You've probably heard that regularly changing your password is an important part of protecting your personal information. Even more critical is choosing a password that is difficult to crack. Intel aims to educate and hopefully inspire users to create safer passwords with their just-announced Password Win contest. 30 first prize winners will receive McAfee All Access 2013 and three grand prize winners will be given Intel Ultrabooks.

Intel spreads stronger password awareness with new contest.

Entering is easy. Head to Intel's official sweepstakes page and input a password that you think is difficult to crack. Intel will then tell you how long it would take hackers to discover it.

I confidently entered a 10-digit password with a mix of uppercase, lowercase, and special characters, only to find that it would take just over three minutes to crack. You will then receive tips about the importance of using a mix of characters; but the real takeaway is that "Increasing your password strength is more about length than it is complexity." In other words "I drank Groelsch @ Disneyland's tea cup ride" is like 1,000,000,000 times stronger than f0^rG%5Tu4. Intel also stresses the importance of using multiple pas... [Read more]

The latest update to Microsoft Office addresses a number of critical bugs with the program and offers new integration with Office 365, Microsoft's next-generation Office suite for both the Mac and Windows platforms. The update is available either through the Office 2011 AutoUpdate utility, or from the updater's Web page as a 113MB download that will bring the latest version of Office to 14.3.4.

If you have not yet installed any updates for Office 2011, this update requires that you have Service Pack 1 installed, so some people may see two consecutive updates for Office available through the AutoUpdate utility.

The update is available via Microsoft's AutoUpdate utility, or can be downloaded from Microsoft's Web site.

With this update, the Office 2011 license is now available as a subscription, matching the offerings of Office 2013 for Windows. This service gives the suite greater integration with Microsoft's SkyDrive and SharePoint cloud storage solution for sharing and collaboration of documents, and more compatibility with other aspects of its Office 365 service.

Android users who employ the TWC TV application will soon have far more functionality available to them.

Time Warner Cable announced on Tuesday that the upgrade to its Android application will deliver access to more than 4,000 On Demand TV shows and movies. The app will also allow for out-of-home access to some On Demand programming and live TV viewing over a Wi-Fi connection. Time Warner Cable says mobile users will have access to over 1,100 On Demand shows and movies and live television from "a dozen or so" news, sports, and entertainment channels.

Time Warner Cable, like other television providers, has been making a play for the mobile space by offering access to its programming through smartphones and tablets. This latest update, which works on Android devices running Android 2.2 or higher, is the next step in that. However, in order to access the larger number of On Demand programming, users must be in their homes and connected to a Time Warner Cable Internet connection.

Time Warner Cable hopes to have the update available in the Google Play marketplace on Tuesday. In addition to the major programming upgrade, the app will come with improvements to its TV guide.