The Blog of Brad
Archive for September 2, 2008
Twitter Updates for 2008-09-02
Sep 2nd
- I’m a day early… thought I was back today… oh well and extra day’s rest won’t hurt. #
- Can’t wait for the Google Chrome beta (later today… should be available late tonight) #
- MacZOT has Parallels Desktop 3 for Mac 40% off (save $30) http://maczot.com/ #
- When will my iPod Touch be able to Wifi sync with my iTunes? #
- Lots of work to do before I’m back tomorrow–still have to finish office, pack stuff, and finish domain management… #
- walking the dog… use Godaddy codes GB1, GB2, and GB3 to support @calilewis and geekbrief.tv, and save $$ on your .com purchases… #
- Done walking… When can I get my hands on Google Chrome??? Why are they keeping us hardcore geeks from it?? WHY??? #
- The Google Chrome download should be available in 20 min, at 11 AM PDT, 1 PM EDT, 3 PM my time…. But Chrome is Windows only though
# - watching the Google Chrome debriefing at http://tinyurl.com/5ojqz2 #
- Chrome from Google today; “Let’s Rock” from Apple next Tuesday… Tuesday really is a bad day for MacBreak Weekly… Google Chrome http … #
- Google Chrome is available at http://www.google.com/chrome/ #
- Google Chrome http://www.google.com/chrome/ is only a 450kb download! #
- This is my first tweet using Chrome… it’s awesome! It’s a lot faster for GMail, iGoogle, and other google stuff get it at http://www.g … #
- This is my second tweet using Chrome… get the Windows-only version at http://www.google.com/chrome/ #
- There is no mac version at Chrome(it will be available soon) but Parallels is good for the mac (save $30 today, get Parallels at Maczot.com) #
- When you go to a site that’s down Chrome will allow you access right to the Google cached version.. !http://www.google.com/chrome/ #
- Time to fire-up Parallels… Chrome is Windows only… #
- Chrome is awesome, but Wordscraper on Facebook still doesn’t work…Will Chrome stay beta forever… we are talking about a Google Product.. #
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Google Chrome-Acid3 Test
Sep 2nd
The Acid3 test (here) tests a browsers Javascript rendering ability in terms of being standards-compliant, for a reference Webkit scores 100, Opera scores 83, Firefox 3 scores 71, IE 7 scores 12, but you just get a mess (seen here), and Google Chrome (which uses the Webkit rendering engine (don’t confuse this with the browser “WebKit“, read more about webkit here) and a new javascript engine called V8-which boasts speed to kill, produces a 73 on the Acid3 test. Not bad considdering it’s the fastest to complete the test, but clearly Opera and WebKit (the browser).
@UPDATE- 9:35P
after doing some Google searching I’ve discovred that Google Chrome has scored from 61/100 to 78, this test is supposed to be repeatable, however it seems there’s some user-biased module to Chrome. My finding was that Chrome scored 73. That’s all I can say for sure.
Google Chrome-What Browser Am I Using?
Sep 2nd
A common trick web developers use is to determine which browser you are using to assure that an incompatible browser doesn’t have a bad experience on a site, or to change the formatting to suit the browser (really common for Internet Explorer 6)… anyway I’m using the recently released Google Chrome (to download it: google “Google Chrome Download”, or go to www.google.com/chrome) and I tested Chrome against one of these scripts (the site I used is located here) and found that the script showed Chrome as Safari 525.13 on Windows. More >
Google Chrome Release [UPDATEDx3]
Sep 2nd
Yesterday, September 1st, Labour day, Google premiered it’s competition in the web browser space, the web is onfire with the discussion about the radical conceptual changes Google has made to a space that’s remained mostly unchanged since 1998.
@UPDATE – 2:40 PM
The download will start around 3PM PDT/1PM EDT/ in 20 minutes as of this post. get it here. (According to 14U here)
@UPDATE – 3:47 PM
It’s clear that Chrome is not available yet, but the above link will be activated in the next few hours. You can watch the Google Chrome debriefing here.
@UPDATE – 4:35 PM
Google Chrome has been availabe for about a half hour and you can get it here.
Triple Head 2 Go Review – by Macworld
Sep 2nd
This video demonstrates how to use a computer (mac or PC) with up to 3 displays via VGA or DVI. The computer only requires one monitor out via VGA or DVI (depending on which model you choose). How this works is that all of the monitors havve to have the same resolution across the moitors (say 1440×768)… to the computer it appears that it’s one monitor at 4320×768. This device isn’t for high-performance gaming but is great for spreadsheets, office, web, etc.. just don’t try gaming with it.
