Chrome Plated Internet

Google Chrome is coming – tomorrow if the reports are right (US timezone though!)

What is Chrome?  Google’s answer to Internet Explorer and Firefox to put it in a nutshell.  It is pretty big news actually – too large to know the implications of this move at this stage, but the entry of a new, major internet browser is going to give a lot of IT people kittens I’m sure.

You can read more about it here, and a comic by Google about the decision, and the process they went through is available here, or as a downloadable pdf.

We’ll watch this new release with interest!

Keeping up with the Web

The web is a very dynamic place, with some web pages changing by the day, hour, or even minute. Constantly typing the in address of each of the sites you want to check (or at best clicking on a bookmark for each one) quickly becomes a chore.

There is a better way, as this short video details.

PicLens

Another new development in the world of Web 2.0

This add-on for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari (ie it works under Windows and OSX) is a way of presenting images and videos in a new way that makes searching through a stack of images and videos very quick and easy.

It is using a similar concept to Cover-Flow in iTunes (and on the latest iPods) to present the images / video thumbnails that you can then zoom in on to get the higher resolutions.

Hard to explain in words – so watch the video and see just how powerful the web is becoming!

As an added bonus, you can also use PicLens to view directories of your own images.

Check out http://piclens.com/demo/ and http://blog.cooliris.com to learn more.