Just a quick video made of the ChromeOS build found on the chromium.org server. It’s run on Ubuntu in a virtual machine running on Snow Leopard. Used Quicktime X to record it, which turned out pretty well I think! Not much in there yet, but good to see that parts of it are on the [...]
Having looked at many small businesses websites, I’ve compiled a list here of 5 things that many of them are doing wrong with regards to SEO. I’m not saying that SEO isn’t important, but some techniques just don’t work. So, here goes…
Having recently started working at a school where email, calendars, documents etc are hosted by Google Applications, I felt that it would be worth while incorporating these into my teaching and planning. This post describes the benefits I have found from this in the first few weeks, and will outline some plans that I have [...]
Having previously looked at the memory usage of Google’s Chrome, it’s time to analyse it’s much mentioned javascript engine, V8. Assumedly named after the engine with the same name, V8 compiles javascript to machine code, rather than bytecode to achieve greater performance. In this respect, it’s similar to Firefox 3.1′s TraceMonkey, a JIT javascript compiler again [...]
Google Chrome Memory Usage, originally uploaded by Rich Bradshaw. Browsing to about:memory in Google Chrome gives you this interesting display showing memory usage for both itself as well as other browsers running. According to the browser, this is the memory usage of the following browsers on blank pages. (Although Chrome is on the about:memory page, that’s [...]
Image via Wikipedia Google have released a section in the settings tab of Gmail called labs. This was predicted by a few blogs recently, and it seems to have come true today. The new labs section includes: Quick Links: Add links to the sidebar for any bookmarkable page in Gmail. This lets you add custom [...]