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Google Chrome for Mac is Out to Steal Safari Users

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Finally! Google has released the first official beta of Chrome for Mac. If you’ve been waiting for this for such a long time, you’d waste no time and download it to see how Google’s controversial browser works on your Mac.

So, what’s so exciting about Chrome for Mac, anyway?  Well, if you’re like me who has been alternating between using Mac and Windows and you fell in love with Chrome on Windows the moment it was released, Chrome for Mac will give you the same feeling.

Google takes the whole Chrome for Windows experience to give us Mac users the same if not faster, cleaner and simpler browser. Chrome for Mac has the Omnibox feature, so say goodbye to the browser address bar and the search bar of Safari. You may now enter URL on or do a web search on one browser bar.

In addition, the several Chrome themes were also brought along, although I’m really looking forward to more Mac-optimized Chrome themes in the future.

But most importantly and perhaps what matters really is Chrome for Mac’s speed.  Google claims that Chrome for Mac launches so fast that there’s hardly even time for the application icon to bounce in the dock. And Google was not kidding about it. Indeed Chrome for Mac knows what “fast loading speed” really means.

Alright, enough of the blabber. Stop reading now. Check out the attaced  video showing how Chrome for Mac works or better yet download the Beta version on your Mac and experience using Chrome for Mac yourself. But before you do that, you might want to say goodbye to your Mac’s Safari browser first. You might not use it again.

Originally posted on December 8, 2009 @ 4:41 pm

A Day in the Internet

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As ever more sophisticated search, subscription, recommendation, and social graphing tools personalize our online experiences with individually-tailored content at the risk of tunnel vision, as the speculative fiction of the Daily Me comes closer and closer to our day-to-day realities, we sometimes lose sight of just how big the Internet really is. Encircling the globe like the World Serpent of ancient Norse mythology, this enormous and untamed beast of fiber and code enables us to create more knowledge in a single year than generations of our ancestors did throughout the last six millenia of recorded history.

Just look at a typical day on the Internet, as illustrated in the following infographic.

A Day in the Internet
A Day in the Internet

Funny that this infographic should compare blogs to the New York Times. After all, the Old Grey Lady of news herself now looks like a hip Web 2.0 hybrid, combining a very large group blog with a very classy social network.

(Via Adam Pash.)

Originally posted on December 10, 2009 @ 9:15 am

Go Red with Google on World Aids Day

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December 1 is World Aids Day. And to commemorate this event Google is higlighting a nice short video featuring cases of AIDS victims who are on their way to recovery, thanks to the valiant efforts of the global movement to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. This movement coupled with a scientific breakthrough which made HIV/AIDS a preventable and curable disease. [Read more…]

Originally posted on December 1, 2009 @ 3:51 am

Roku Adds 10 New Free Channels, Sans YouTube

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What use to be a mere gadget that allows geeks to watch Internet TV on their computers is now a full blown Internet media provider. I’m talking about Roku, which has successfully expanded it’s set-top box business to release an iTunes-like store for Internet content channels.

And to kick off with its business of delivering Internet content to its set-top boxes Roku has added 10 free channels to give its users their fix of  Internet-to-TV content. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 23, 2009 @ 1:32 am

Dolly Parton Promotes IE8, What Say You Kenny?

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Yeah Mama! She’s one of the most popular singer who is now a mega-millionaire, thanks to her golden singing voice – Dolly Parton. And look what she’s up to now, endorsing Internet Explorer 8, the latest money-making venture from one of the richest company ever known to mankind. Worst, she’s promoting it on YouTube, one web giant’s online property which is struggling to make millions until now. There’s got to be some conspiracy here. [Read more…]

Originally posted on November 13, 2009 @ 4:52 pm