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September 6, 2008 – 9:17 am | by eitherorneithernor
This past month, it seems to me like some most people have some new fangled thing to fall in love with. Iphones, Xbox 360s, Friendster Blogs 2.0, even New web browsers are grabbing their (and my) attention. Let’s start with the Iphones.
The launch of the Iphone 3G in Singapore certainly made waves. Reservation started a few months before and OF COURSE my parents went for it without hesitation. What do i think about it?
Well.. in my time with the gadget (I had plenty of time with it during the setup phase) I thought it ran smoothly. Navigation, however, could have been better in certain places. Overall User Interface experience was a 9 out of 10. One point deducted for not considering the fact that some users are not at all tech-savvy. Cool factor deserves a 10 out of 10. But then again, which Apple product has ever gotten less than stellar ratings for style? None. (Except the early Apple PCs?)
We (some friends and I) recently got an Xbox 360 for Julianna for her birthday!
I tabled the idea after hearing that Lee Min had an Xbox 360 that she did not want. She wanted to sell it off for cheap, and of course, resourceful ol’ me chanced upon it. At first, I wanted to buy it for myself. I was being selfish, with Gears of War and everything. Then I heard about how Julie had never had a console in her entire life. An entire life… 20 over years. No console. Now… i know her well enough to know that she has the STUFF in her spirit to be the one to guide Master Chief to victory, or to stop an Alien Invasion, or save the world or to SIMPLY manipulate Sims. How could I let such skills go to waste? So i prepositioned a good deal, and finally delivered it to her, just in time for her birthday. I think it was a good deal!
IF I did it right, then you, my dear reader, are reading the new version of my blog. YES! I am using the beta for Friendster blogs 2.0. I guess Friendster realized, albeiet after a long while, that it’s blog service required a redesign of monumental proportions to keep up with current web technology and the advent of Web 2.0. Web publishing is now smoother, easier and more intuitive thanks to Web 2.0 technologies like new Javas, backend support and Flash all scripted with advanced languages. I am happy to have migrated to a newer, better way to kep my dear audiences up to date 
A new Web browser has hit the market for PCs everywhere. Yes, Google has finally released Chrome, a minimalist web browser with mighty ambitions. Google seems to want to capture an audience that was once only fought over by Microsoft and Mozilla. I have been using Chrome and I realized that it is, in concept, the most intuitive web browser I have used.
There seems to be a conscious effort to put everything through the Google search engine. That means that you could Google your history if you needed to. If you type something into your address bar, it will display relevant search hits in your history AS WELL AS the top few hits on the Google search engine. That means you could save plenty of time accessing websites!
Also, there is an emphasis on “one-click-to-anywhere”. From a start page that shows your most browsed pages, you could jump to them anytime you open a tab. This single-click concept also extends itself to a whole host of other things like bookmarking, history access and search engines.
Stability was never an issue during my week long review of this browser. In fact, i have been using it extensively and I have not discovered any instabilities or encountered a crash yet. However, Chrome’s stability concept brings things a step further but making each tab run independently off the main browser. That means that each tab is allocated its own system resources. While that makes it a bulkier and system resource hungry browser, the tradeoff is superior stability. If one tab crashes, you can simply close that tab and continue browsing with another tab. The browser never has to be restarted!
While it still has it’s incompatibilities and performance issues with certain plugins, Google Chrome is a fundamentally stable, fast, secure and intelligent browser. Google has released this version as a Beta. I can only guess at what the proper full version will be like when it is released. Microsoft and Mozilla had better look over their collective shoulders, otherwise, Google Chrome could end up as the surprise winner in the traditionally duopolistic browser wars.
Well, I have come to the end of another post. It’s been a hairy period for me, fighing off infections and issues both private and public. It has been extremely tiring for me. I can only keep on fighting, and believing in the goodness that will eventually come.
“Technology is not key to our progress. Our spirit is.”- An Axiom of Humanity, forgotten.
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