Google’s Chrome identifies itself as Safara 525.13?
Just one little thing I noticed gazing at my statistics I noticed chrome is appearing to be safari but in version 525.13, some kind of a Google joke? click the thumbnail above to see…
and all those google blog subscribers that are coming from google blog spot… why not subscribe to this blog? Aren’t I as good as Google???? :(
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Picasa 3.0 Beta Release
It seems google is currently on a big software rollout, chrome yesterday, picasa 3.0 today and googles phone android is not long away either.
So whats new in picasa 3.0? Why should you upgrade?
There’s a brand-new feature called "name tags" in Picasa Web Albums that helps you quickly label all the people in your photos, so you can organize and share your photos based on who’s in the picture. Name tags uses advanced technology to automatically group similar faces together. That way, you can quickly label all the people you care about in your photo collection. Once you’ve labeled your photos, it’s then a snap to do things like create a slideshow with every picture of you and your best friend, or easily share party photos with everybody who appears in that photo album.
They have completely overhauled things like photo collages and slideshows, giving you more creative freedom over composition and layout. Not to mention a brand-new movie maker that can blend photos, video, webcam capture, and music to create customized movies that you can easily share on YouTube.
Theres heaps of other features that i havent listed here, but for more information Click here and head over to googles photo blog.
Download Picasa 3.0 HERE
Chrome Is Now Available!
Chrome has now hit the streets so run over here (sorry, only xp and vista users at the moment) to grab a copy and let me know how you like it. This is googles new browser making its mark on the web as i posted about yesterday, for more information check it out on the google blog here.
Possibly The First Firefox Killer? Googles New Browser Hits The Streets
CHROME!
Chrome is googles new release, new web browser, "Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated "sandbox", we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers."
The browser is set to be released in beta over the next 12 hours, will the internet die in the process from mass downloading? Maybe if enough people read this blog..?
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USB 3.0 – Not To Long Away
No doubt alot of people know what usb is, that is, Universal Serial Bus. Currently on version 2.0, are you ready for the next version of this ubiquitous interface? USB 2.0 (otherwise known as USB Hi-Speed) boosted the original 12Mbps data rate to 480Mmb/s over eight years ago, and now USB 3.0 (dubbed USB Superspeed) is set to multiply that bandwidth tenfold.
USB 3.0 connectors and cables will be 2.0 compatible as well, but you won’t be able to maximize your bandwidth unless you’re using a USB 3.0 cable with Superspeed devices and ports, but at least plugging a 3.0 cable into a 2.0 port won’t blow up your PC.
USB 2.0 cables worked off of four lines – a pair for in/out data transfer, one line for power, and the last for grounding. USB 3.0 adds five new lines (the cable is noticeably thicker), but the new contacts sit parallel to the old ones on a different plane, as opposed to being adjacent to them. This means you’ll be able to differentiate between 2.0 and 3.0 cables just by looking at the ends.
So apart from speed you ask what other benefits is version 3 going to give me?
- Faster transfers – USB 3.0 SuperSpeed will be 10 times faster than the 480Mbps limit of the version 2.0 meaning transferring 27gb would only take 70 seconds providing your disc can write data that quickly.
- Faster charging for appliances – The power output will be bumped up to about 900miliamps compared to 100 milliamps for version 2.
- More Power Efficient – USB 3.0 abandons device polling in favor of a new interrupt-driven protocol, which means non-active or idle devices (which aren’t being charged by the USB port) won’t have their power drained by the host controller as it looks for active data traffic. Instead, the devices will send the host a signal to begin data transfer. This feature will also be backward compatible with USB 2.0 certified devices.
