Archive for September, 2008

Is Google Chrome shiny gold or cheap tinplate?

Sep 29th

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The hottest, or rather shinest, web app today seems to be Google’s Chrome Web browser. But all that glitters ins’t gold. For starters a very strange EULA states that any data you exchange with a site when using Chrome is the property of Google!!! This post isn’t being processed using Chrome; that’s for sure.

Also Chrome is a teeny-weeny bit unstable on Vista. So I took the coward’s way out. And run it from my Microsoft Virtual PC Windows XP SP3 with IE8 Beta trial machine. And even there I don’t run the Chrome installed version; but the Google Chrome More >

Is your Windows got the Terminal Slows?

Sep 15th

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Ok, so I’m a bit slow and stupid (it ain’t my genes; I seemed to spend most my childhood out cold Evel Knievel style doing what is in hindsight silly stunts). But late discovery or not, virtualization has come as a boon to me. It lets me begin testing software and services for this column without causing my computer to suffer a bad case of the terminal slows.

On Windows XP (or Vista), use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 SP1. This really neat PC emulator can run just about every released consumer flavor of 16-, 32- and 64-bit Windows beginning with Windows95 More >

What Powers Your Web Browser

Sep 8th

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I encountered a really interesting article Under the hood, a quick look at the Trident, Gecko, Webkit and Presto/Electra browser engines at Neowin.

Before you read this article do try and guess which engines are used in which browser. Then check out this under the hood unbiased, brief overview of each engine, plus a historical background and the browsers they power.