The GMail team announced that the https connection will be used by default when you login into your Gmail account. This option is not new and is already exist since 2008. So, what is HTTPS? An excerpt from Gmail’s help:

HTTPS, or Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure, is a secure protocol that provides authenticated and encrypted communication.

It is good that Gmail enable it by default from now on. But there is a drawback, using https connection is slower that using the normal http connection. But for better privacy/security protection, I guess that it is better to use https connection.

Another new feature in Google! Just notice this when I was searching something using IE8. Can’t get it to work in Firefox though. :/

ps: The video is recorded using ScreenToaster. Pretty easy to use. Will probably write a post on it in the future.

I notice that breadcrumb navigation is now showing in the Google search result. It is quite random and not all search results have it. Maybe need some SOE. Better result discovery/navigation? What do you think?

Is this a new feature on YouTube? I only notice it in one of the video that I watched. It basically darken the background when you the the light down. Maybe it is easier for the viewer to focus on the video when the  turn down the “lights”.