Archive for 2009
Two key pieces of Google’s effort to make Chrome a more competitive browser fell into place on Tuesday as Google released beta versions of the browser for Mac OS X and Linux.
Tuesday’s software release is a version of Chrome that had previously been available only as developer preview software for Mac and Linux machines. “It took longer than we expected, but we hope the wait was worth it,” product manager Brian Rakowski said in a blog post.
Macs are widely used, if not as common as Windows machines, and there’s been some demand in tech circles for the Mac version of Chrome. Linux, while less widely used among ordinary computer users, has importance of its own: it’s the foundation for Chrome OS. That’s the browser-based operating system Google hopes will be popular on Netbooks starting next year.
According to the Chromium development calendar, the beta versions are scheduled to graduate to the next level of maturity, “stable,” on January 12. Chrome for Windows graduated out of beta almost exactly a year ago.
I blogged about Google Wave on how this service would make things easier for us users to collaborate on some projects. With that in mind, Google has given me Google Wave invitations to give away, so if you wanna have your own Google Wave then please do leave a comment with your Gmail add. This is a limited time offer and I will only take the first fifteen people.
The long wait for Karmic Koala has ended as Ubuntu 9.10 has been officially released by Canonical Ltd today.
Some of the features of the new Ubuntu release will include:
- better integration with cloud-computing environments, and the simplification of cloud creation using open-source tools on Ubuntu Server Edition.
- faster boot
- seamless netbook support
- taking advantage of kernel mode setting to make the boot process and virtual terminals shinier and snappier
- a pretty default theme for your desktop.
Download Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala here
Just when people are settling in to iPhone 3G S, Apple has previewed the upcoming iPhone 4G.
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iPhone 4G Features
• Titanium and Glass.
• OLED screen
• 3G
• GPS
• Front camera for iChat
• Removable battery
• 3.2 Megapixel camera
• Video
• 32 GB
The tentative release of the iPhone 4G will be around Mid 2010.
Today the interwebs is dominated by news and excitement surrounding the official launch of Google Wave.
In a nutshell, Google Wave is a real-time communication platform. It combines aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, web chat, social networking, and project management to build one elegant, in-browser communication client. You can bring a group of friends or business partners together to discuss how your day has been or share files.
As of this writing , I am hoping to receive an invite from my fellow Google users.
Click this link for an in-depth, complete guide about Google Wave
With the advent of Google announcing that Chrome will soon have browser extensions, Google made the upgrade Chrome without us knowing. Now we can enjoy the new themes and I am personally impressed with it’s speed.
If you have not installed Google Chrome yet, I encourage you to do so. Download Google Chrome 3 now!
Canon EOS 7D Features
- 18.0 megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor.
- Dual DIGIC 4 image processors.
- 100% viewfinder frame coverage with 1.0x magnification.
- 1080p HD video recording at 24p, 25p and 30p with drop frame timing.
- 720p HD video recording at 50p (50 Hz) and 60p (59.94 Hz).
- 480p ED video recording at 50p (50 Hz) and 60p (59.94 Hz).
- 8.0 frames per second continuous shooting.
- ISO sensitivity 100 - 6400 (expandable to 12,800).
- 3.0-inch Clear View II LCD screen with 640 x 480 (921,600 dots) resolution.
- new 19 point auto-focus system
- new 63 zone colour sensitive metering system
- built-in Speedlite transmitter
- Magnesium alloy body.
- Popup flash
Reviews about Canon EOS 7D with sample shots
Google Chrome now officially supports browser extensions, meaning that Chrome is well on its way to offering the sort of extensibility that made the Firefox web browser a power user’s dream.
Firefox fans accustomed to tricking out their browser with dozens of extensions have long bemoaned Chrome’s inability to offer the same sort of extension support.
For now extensions will only work in the Windows release, but the Chromium blog promises that extensions will eventually arrive in the Mac and Linux builds as well.
Chrome still has a ways to go before it reaches Firefox’s level of add-on success, but hopefully, now that extension support is beginning to look official, developers will begin building more powerful tools.
To get the developer releases of Chrome you’ll need to download and install the dev channel release. Once you’re running the dev build, you can install extensions from Google as well as third-party developers.