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Google’s search box gets fractionally bigger

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The kids have gone back to school and Apple has made its annual iPod/iTunes announcement, so perhaps that will explain why Google is making a bit of a thing about the marginal increase in the size of its search box.

On Safari on a Mac I can’t see any difference, so either it hasn’t rolled out yet or it’s something that only Chrome users can see.

In any case, if I want to make the search box bigger I just press Cmd and +. In fact, that works in a lot of places in Mac OS X and I don’t really need other people making themselves look bigger by default. [Read more…]

Originally posted on September 10, 2009 @ 12:21 pm

Google Chrome OS Screenshot?

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Google Chrome OS Screenshot

Jason Kincaid shares what might be a screenshot of the upcoming Google Chrome OS. I don’t know whether this image is genuine or faked, but we can certainly see Google’s minimalistic design ethic in the layout.

Up until two years ago, Google Video offered a downloadable media player. Perhaps that will be recycled into the player app in the screenshot.

Originally posted on August 31, 2009 @ 11:00 pm

Google Chrome Adds Bookmark Sync

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Chrome Bookmark SyncConsidering Google’s push to the cloud, I’m surprised it took this long for Google Chrome to push your bookmarks to the cloud. The search giant’s browser now features bookmark sync built in with its latest dev channel build, when launched with the command-line parameter “–enable-sync”.

Naturally, synced bookmarks are associated with your Google account. The feature should be rolled out to Chrome’s mainline builds soon.

Bookmark sync is available as a plugin for Firefox, as are many other cloud-enablement features. With Google strongly pushing users toward cloud computing, expect Google to build such features straight into Chrome.

Originally posted on August 18, 2009 @ 7:25 am

Android to get Chrome browser this month

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The Android operating system ships with a built-in browser. For an app that comes bundled with the OS, it actually works quite well. Giving relatively zippy performance and sometimes even working better than other “name” browsers that enter the Android environment. But with Android now firmly planting its feet on the tablet segment of the market, the built-in browser is not keeping up, with a number of glitches being experienced by users. It’s been a big question why Google doesn’t port a version of its own Google Chrome browser into Android, which it also developed.

But finally, Google is doing something about it. Reports are coming in that Google will be introducing the first build of its Chrome browser for the Android operating system this month – possibly alongside the release of the newest Android version, Ice Cream Sandwich. [Read more…]

Originally posted on October 4, 2011 @ 1:03 pm