10 posts tagged “google”
Due to mailing my self addressed envelop so close to the deadline and the usual while supplies last line, I was worried that I might have missed out on getting some GMail stickers. So I'm really happy they arrived.
Also having to get a $4 international reply coupon these free stickers started to get expensive.
As you can see I got the unicorn sticker (of course).
Having got EEEBuntu running on my EEE PC (more to come on that) I had to put the GMail logo on the lid.
Thanks GMail for the stickers.
Now I'll have to get some more stickers for my EEE PC.
I uninstalled Chrome on one of the machines I use and had a laugh at the dialog box that appeared. Maybe they have a coder that has been dumped too many times. Either way Chrome you might come across as being needy or trying to hard. Just try being yourself you'll find someone special.
It's not you Chrome, it's me.
The deadline to get yourself some GMail stickers ends February 14th, 2009. I don't know where I was to have missed the news. I thought this was the kind of stuff Twitter was supposed to find for me. Fail Twitter, fail.
So this evening's project is to rush over to the Post office and get an international reply coupon for the good folks at GMail and hope they still have some left.
I just hope I don't get the unicorn one.
Thanks to tools like StatCounter and Google Analytics I'm able to see what the traffic has been like over the past year here at Grantalias.
Since the crazy traffic spike from last year it's been pretty quite around the old blog. Though it has been consistent numbers.
Unfortunately all the top visited posts are from 2007.
That a side, I did make the explore page three times for the following posts! That was pretty exciting!
Google has released themes for GMail. Is this really a value add or just window dressing of one of the best web based mail systems out there?
What's your favorite? Personally I like Night Shade, but I do like Terminal's retro look.
Unless you have a life and could care less about computers you should just skip this post. For the rest of you, let's talk about the new browser from Google called Chrome.
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Each tab is it's own process so no more losing the whole browser when a tab takes a nose dive. Like when you've been writing a post on VOX for a few hours and haven't saved.
- It's based on the open source Webkit browser so it's supposed to be fast and reliable.
- Google has a comic to explain the benefits on Chrome. I know it doesn't have anything to do with Chrome itself, it's just cool.
- There is a task manager so you can see what Tabs are stealing resources and kill that one Tab. There is also a "stats for nerds" where you can really drill down in memory usage. Nice touch.
- Incognito mode to cover your tracks when surfing online.
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It upchucked when I tried to have a PDF open in a new window, totally freezing my machine. Hard reboot required.
- It seems Firefox is not the only one to have some issues with playing embedded Flash video.
- No plug-ins... for now. There are some Firefox extensions I can not live with out!
- The Chrome logo looks like a Pokéball
- One of two computers I installed Chrome on did not import my bookmarks. A very tedious task to enter them manually let me tell you.
- It doesn't seem possible to add sites to a white list for the pop-up blocking.
- I can't send a link to an email client by right clicking and saying send to email. I have to old school copy and paste.
- A real deal breaker for me is that the Google search box that is present in both Firefox and Internet Explorer is absent in Chrome. You have to open a new window or tab, but on the other hand you can do a Google search in the address bar.
But I'm really looking forward to seeing where Chrome goes and what new features Google implements in subsequent revisions.
EDIT - Additional
According to StatCounter, Chrome reached 1% of browser use on sites they track (I use them here on grantalias.vox.com) on it's first day of release. That's quite some numbers. I'd like to see the numbers over a longer period of use.
The downside of doing a post a day here on VOX (besides the time drain and eye strain) is that having so many posts it's getting more and more difficult to find stuff on it. I'm very into referencing my old posts but I've been less than consistent in my tagging and organization of my posts and assets.
I now find myself using Google to search my VOX because I know that there's a post somewhere but I just can't find it.
OMG, I just broke the internet... I accidentally searched on google for a period "." I should have listened to Jen.
If Google is known for their clean interface, you should have seen what it looked like in November of 1998.
Happy birthday Google. I'm feeling lucky.
On iTunes Canada the free single of the week is a Flight of the Conchords song. I've only caught the end of one episode but it looks funny.
Reminds me a bit of Tenacious D, not the music style but the comedic band thing.
So get you iBut to iTunes and get a free, DRMed song. Because we all know we're never going to buy anything from iTunes.
But if you have, pray to what ever deity you worship that they never break you music like Google Video did to their video downloads.
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