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Google's "Chrome" Treatment Shines |
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Written by Site Admin
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
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What is it about Google that drives these guys to create some of the most innovative tools around? I mean, come on people! You really need to stop one-upping Microsoft once in a while! First it was Google Docs. I now run an entire non-profit, collaboratively, on Google Docs. Though it still has its weaknesses (the word processor lacks a layout view) it is sufficient to facilitate a small workgroup's collaborative communications. Now they've done it again with "Chrome." I am now running the (ha-ha) Beta version of Google's latest foray into the web browser space (using it to write this, as a matter of fact), and I am flat-out floored. I used to think Firefox was the cat's meow. Not any more. Internet Explorer? IE is stale, bloated, and slow and it sucks up screen real estate like Trump sucks up New York skyline. (Can someone please explain to me why Microsoft won't let me turn off parts of that screen-stealing tab and menu bar?) Firefox? Nice. Very nice. But not Chrome. I love Firefox for pure extensibility, usability, and speed. Firefox makes Internet Explorer look like a Chevy to Mozilla's Accura. But Chrome... Ahhh... What can be said about Chrome? If IE is the Chevy, basic transportation from point A to Point B, and Firefox represents the Accura TL, bells, whistles and speed, Chrome is the Porsche Cayenne. Chrome is utilitarian, yet born from a pure-bred lineage. |
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iPhone Apps: A Seismic Shift in Software Design |
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
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iPhone purists will openly pout and stomp their feet at the mere implication that the iTunes App store is doing something truly revolutionary. On one level, they would be right. Those of us who were comfortable hacking our iPhones, “jail breaking” them or “unlocking” them and adding a nifty little tool called “Installer.app” against Apple's wishes, know that on the one hand the iTunes store is "old snooze." Installer.app let iPhone owners download and install applications (most of them free, by the way) for nearly a year before Apple saw the profit... er... "the light..." and decided to unleash the App Store on the less-geeky, more timid masses. On the other hand the iTunes store has so legitimized the process of creating new apps for the iPhone that there is little doubt what was a steady flow of new tools on Installer.app is about to be a veritable Mississippi style flood on iTunes App Store. In the span of less than a week the number of applications available has exploded from 550 to more than 800. It is hard to imagine that the number of applications will not explode in the coming weeks. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 17 July 2008 )
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Global Crisis, Entrepreneurial Response - Part II - Creating Telecommunity |
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Friday, 11 July 2008 |
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By Steve Pearl, President, HomeFront Corporate Services, Inc. In part I of this series we got mighty depressed. We looked around, foretold the future, and saw grim realities bearing down on all sides. The ripple effects of recent hyper-inflation in crude oil and at-the-pump costs are still on the horizon as we grapple with the impact on food harvesting, packaging, transport, and distribution. That says nothing about the way this will all come home to roost in construction materials that are based on oil and infrastructure materials such as asphalt. If all we did was wallow in doomsday scenarios and did nothing to address these problems we’d be wasting your time. You don’t come here to see us whine. You come here to get wise counsel about how to apply technology and organizational leadership tools to grow your company and respond to new challenges, both external and internal. If the last installment was about the wake-up call, sounding the alarm bells, and getting people to anticipate the disaster to come, this installment is about taking the first steps toward doing something about it. This installment is about steering the Titanic before we find ourselves sitting on top of the iceberg... |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 11 July 2008 )
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