Posts Tagged ‘Google Chrome’

Google I/O day 1 – WebM, Wave and Chrome Web Store

Image by erikeldridge via Flickr

The Google IO conference began today, and several announcements were made this morning.

Google has open-sourced VP8 video codec and rolled it into a projected called WebM. This change will help browsers finally standardize on an open video format to replace Flash video on the web.
Google Wave is now available to everyone, including [...]

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AuctioneerTech Firefox add-on collection

This entry is part 5 of 3 in the series Fixing Firefox

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Wednesday’s post showed how a simple extension called Weave can synchronize your Firefox passwords, bookmarks and other preferences between computers. That’s all fine and good, but what happens when you are installing a fresh copy of Firefox and want to install all your favorite add-ons and plugins? Do you write down your list [...]

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Google announces Chrome OS

Yesterday, Google finally announced what many were expecting – a full-on operating system to compete directly with Microsoft Windows. What is somewhat less expected is that they are using their Chrome product instead of their Android platform as many anticipated.
The Chrome OS will be the Chrome browser on top of a Linux core. The operating [...]

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Skyfire browser for Windows Mobile and Symbian

As I was browsing my daily news feeds this morning, I came across an article about Skyfire.
I got my Treo 700wx based on Windows Mobile 5 in November of 2006. Its coolness lasted for several months, but I started wanting for more when the iPhone and Windows Mobile 6 came out. The biggest missing pieces [...]

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