Thursday, September 4, 2008

chrome - the review

there have been many reviews of chrome already, from WSJ to CNET etc. My key observations
1. the Most visited page is quite useful, although copied form Opera's latest releases - they have had this for a while.
2. it is fast with apps such as google maps etc. for other pages, the difference is not noticeable
3. i do use yahoo toolbar and this does not support it - yet.
4. where is the breakthrough google! at least cant see it for all the sites i have visited so far.. they should have created 2-3 demo sites that would be added to my fav's that would truly differentiate chrome from the pack.
5. do like that it's open source.
6. business model: by merging search in address bar, you are most likely to use default google engine (than type another Or change preferences). Got that.

i dont know why i'll not move back to firefox.. google, few more days, give me that compelling reason, otherwise i am loyal to firefox..:-)

=D

free wi-fi at the airports

read this today:

most paid wi-fi providers don't block images. to go to regular web sites: instead of going to www.freemobile411.com Go to www.freemobile411.com/?.jpg and the site loads! i.e. without paying for the service.

will try next time i am at one of these wi-fi zones.

-D

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

blog using google chrome

yep, its faster.. so far so good..

Google's browser

is out, get your's at google.com/chrome

reviews to come in a few days..