After the first week playing around with Google’s browser and a few things caught my eye:
- I’m not sure the idea of putting the tabs on the top improves anything in usability terms, but it doesn’t bother me either. I guess it’s more like a design statement to make a difference than a real improvement.
- Sometimes I have some font rendering problems issues (I already submitted a bug with that).
- The lack of plugins is an issue, I need my Delicious extension and Greasemonkey scripts while others have other needs, that’s the beauty of extensibility (this is Firefox’s turf) that is lacking on Chrome, .
- I like the security and stability of having each tab, and each plugin, running in their own process, which can be confirmed using Process Explorer:
This is something Firefox still is behind, even the 3.1 version shares the same process (Internet Explorer 8 will also handle a tab as a separate process).
- I much prefer the darker colour scheme of the incognito window than the default (minus that icon with dude in a raincoat), it’s much more sober and less annoying than that XP style blue that comes by default.
Theme support would be nice but a handful of colour schemes other than “baby blue” would be nice.
- Lots and lots and lots of eye-candy! Everything is smooth and sleek: the animation while opening a new tab, the search results that appear in the scroll bar, the resizable text boxes, and so on. Everything’s is smooth an
- It’s fast.
For now I’m impressed but I still need a Linux version, because the current option ain’t a decent alternative.
Technorati Tags: google, firefox, ie, chrome
I’m not very happy with the current hosting of this blog: the platform is becoming a bit outdated, looks like no activity going on over there (I don’t like “dead” services) and the it’s becoming a bit too slow for me. I have paid hosting with lots of storage and traffic available, and with a fully customizable Wordpress installation available with just one click.
So sometimes, many times actually, I wonder why don’t I migrate to my own host, or at least to Wordpress.com, and end this once and for all. Probably because I have to buy a new domain, I don’t think I could fit a tech oriented blog like this under temujinphoto.com, and importing all the posts from one blog to the other won’t be an easy task.
My other blog, the one less geeky than this one, had a facelift.
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The latest incarnation of deviantART, one of the largest online artist communities, is out but this release, like all the others throughout the years I’ve been there, is more focused on “sleekness” and having a cool interface than adding real features.
deviantART still is missing the point in a few important issues: crappy RSS support or no API or similar among other things.
There’s no way to embed deviantART elsewhere, I can’t put my messages or my contacts photos on my Netvibes, I can’t put deviantART News on my Google Reader, I can’t use data via a public interface to create things like a desktop uploader or a cool mashup. In other words: deviantART is closed, outdated and monolithic and is clearly missing how the Internet is evolving, and a fine example of that is their FAQ item #335:
Are RSS feeds available?
to be updated……….
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Managers and many other marketing or management people tend to use buzzwords a lot, more often than it should be, and web 2.0 probably is the most misused of them. Whenever that happens, and if the reference article is way took long to read, there’s a little simple way to explain what web 2.0 is about, with the added bonus that already paves the way to what’s web 3.0, which will probably include Mahalo-like search engines or “intelligent” FriendFeed services to filter and create a context to the huge amount of information things like Facebook or Twitter flood us everyday.
Explaining Web 1.0, Web 2.0 & Web 3.0 [Resourceful Idiot]
Technorati Tags: mahalo, friendfeed, twitter, web20, facebook
Many has been written about Android, Google’s new platform for mobile applications, lately and the Java community is no exception. To catch up here’s a small reading list, most of it regarding Dalvik, Google’s tweaked Java virtual machine used in Android:
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For some weeks I’ve been trying out two of the most popular micro blogging tools around: Twitter and Pownce (anyone needing an invite just head here), but from the very first day with Pownce I noticed one major problem: the lack of a public API. Why is this important? Because it lets other programs connect to your application. Again, why is this important? Because let’s other people work for by implementing an endless list of applications, Twitter got this right and now has an endless list of tools and mashups (just like flickr or del.icio.us).
Now that Pownce finally has an API lets see how it stands against the competition, but for now Twitter is definitely the way to go.
Technorati Tags: microblogging, twitter, pownce, del.ico.us
This is an excellent idea and should already been tried a long time ago: webcasts for the portuguese .Net community by portuguese developers.
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I was just trying to register myself at a website, but I’ll got was this grown man’s error. I guess there’s some work ahead.
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