I came across a post earlier that is way cool. With a simple insert of the text/html Data URI into the browser address bar, you can turn the Chrome browser into a full-on text editor with bells and whistles. The best parts are that you can save it as a bookmarklet, so anytime in the future you want to turn your browser into a text editor, you can with one click.
These are some very interesting stats provided by Online Graduate Programs. Some aren’t too shocking such as people don’t like waiting for a website to load, and often abandon the site if it doesn’t load fast enough. For example, 50% of mobile users give up if the page won’t load after 10 seconds.
Google finally gets to step into the realm of iOS web browsing. I am very happy about this! Google’s web browser, Google Chrome is now available in Apple devices such as the iPhone and iPad. It’s in the App Store now, just search for Chrome.
If you’re like me you love Instagram and often times find yourself checking your mobile device to check out Instagram. But when I am on my desktop, sometimes I don’t want to fiddle around with my mobile device (in my case iPhone4S). So checking Instagram on my desktop would be pretty sweet to be able to do.
Microsoft created a new video about how fantastic the latest version of Internet Explorer is, and I have to admit, it’s very funny. They really capture the essence of the past, where if you were like me, you seriously disliked IE; although I never uninstalled it off anyone’s computer. It’s a funny idea that I might have to pull on someone that doesn’t know any better now that I have seen this.
The definition of collusion is a “secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, esp. in order to cheat or deceive others.” One might say that tracking your online activities unbeknownst to you is collusion. Some may say it’s a stretch, but no matter what, consumer privacy on the web is one of the most important and hot topics that has been around since the early days of the Internet.
In some nice music to my ears, for the first time Google Chrome web browser has gained additional momentum and passed Mozilla Firefox to secure the spot for the second most popular web browser in the world. Internet Explorer still has the biggest stake in the browser market but their value continues to drop, although in November it has plateaued a bit, probably due to IE9 which so far is the best of the IE versions.
This is a funny story, well mostly for me but i’ll share. I use Chrome daily and for the most part have switched over all my activities to Chrome, although I still enjoy using Firefox from time to time and am a bit forced to use IE to cross-check coding and to see what other users see, since IE is still used globally.
The Google Chrome Team made a funny video for Angry Birds which is voiced over by Rovio developers Peter Vesterbacka, Jaakko Lisalo and Serdar Soganci. The video highlights some of the great things about the Google Chrome browser which makes gaming so much better on Chrome than on other browsers.
I am still going through all the in’s and out’s of Google+ since it launched, learning everything, experimenting, etc. One thing I just learned as I was testing some code across browsers was that G+ is not supporting Internet Explorer 7.
This is very cool. Google has something called Chrome Experiments where developers are experimenting with Chrome using Javascript, HTML5, WebGL and other coding languages to create some really cool stuff. For example, my favorite - Google Gravity. Try it out for yourself here.
Today W3C unveiled the brand new (currently unofficial) logo of HTML5.
HTML5 is the next version of HTML that is getting a lot of media recently, most notably for moving away from flash video support to HTML5 video support. As I previously discussed here about IE being the ‘leader’ of HTML5 support, HTML5 is still years away from being fully released and supported by all modern browsers.
Google Labs is introducing a new tool for users called Google Body Browser. No, this is not made for the TSA ;P It is a new browser experience from Google that you can use to explore the human anatomy via your web browser.
It’s still in Beta testing, so I came across a couple of bugs but overall, it seemed to work well and seems revolutionary in learning the human anatomy in a new way vs. traditional text book or web paginated imaging.
via rockmelt:
We’re often asked how we came up with the name “RockMelt,” so we thought we’d tell the story here. Although our name might make you think of volcanoes and lava, we’re not big geology buffs.“RockMelt” was the result of a three-week long brainstorming where we came up with names we liked, tried… continue reading
It’s always interesting to know how companies come up with their names/brands.
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If you haven’t heard by now, there is a new social browser that will be released soon to the general public called Rockmelt. It’s by invitation only currently. You can sign up