OneLouder's TweetCaster is fun, flexible, and full of fantastic features.

You can spend weeks trying out highly rated Twitter apps to find your favorite for Android. I know, because I've done it. Yet it's worth sampling some alternatives to Twitter's own app in search of a great-looking Twitter client that's just as rich in features, if not more so.

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Most Twitter apps worth the name serve the most basic of functions, but a handful of them support multiple accounts, themes, and user-defined options. Some take things even further and tie in Facebook, widgets, photo fil... [Read more]

Google+ photo editing offers a variety of customizable black-and-white conversion options, including color filters that simulate the behavior of screw-on filters that attach to cameras. The technology is based on Google's Native Client.

Google wants a Web that looks very different from today's. Instead of more or less static sites, perhaps spiced up with a new comment popping up on your Facebook page, Google wants Web apps that are indistinguishable in performance and sophistication from native programs like high-end games or Photoshop.

But Google faces a tough choice: What's the best way to get to that future?

The promise of the route it's trying to take, a technology called Native Client, shines in the sophisticated online photo-editing tools for Google+ that launched this month. The problem is that Native Client isn't sitting well with other browser makers, at least one of which prefers an alternative called asm.js. And without other support, Native Client makes a poor candidate for the Web standards that Google wants to see prevail.

Google plays a long game: It's willing to invest for years in projects it believes the world will eventually come to apprec... [Read more]