All right, the new year is underway and rather than dwell on making lists of which rocked which category in 2009 – there are way too many categories now, forget the products – I would rather stick my neck out and make a bold/daft/reckless prediction for the best tech product of 2010.
Thanks to various manufacturers’ policies of announce-now-and-release-later, we already know that there are a number of high-profile products that will hit the stores in the new year. We are sure to get the Google phone any day now, the Apple tablet might just follow, and even if neither of them put in an appearance, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 almost certainly will. On the software side, we are expecting a new version of Win Mo and yet more flavours of Linux (and a Windows 7 service pack too, we bet), console lovers can look forward to a Project Knox-powered Xbox…in short, whatever 2010 will lack, it won’t be products. Heck, it might even throw up some new categories.
But the one product that I think will radically change tech as we know is going to be Google’s Chrome OS. The reason is (more…)
“The day broadband is down at my place, I hardly switch it on my computer.” – that’s what I said back in July and with today’s preview of Chrome OS, that’s exactly what inspires Google to work on this project. We are about to use Netbooks as NETbooks finally.
Here are a few notes from what Google revealed about the Chrome OS today:
Accept for a fewrandomtweets I had nothing much to say on the Google OS yet. But after all the buzz yesterday (Read Google Vs Microsoft, Google OS vs Windows), I see very clearly that Google announced something, people saw something else. I have read the original Google blogpost (followed up by a Faq’s today) over and over again and I see no mention of
a) This being a full fleged OS
b) Competing with Windows OS anytime in the near future, (rather bringing in a new approach to netbooks)
So if you are still unclear about what I am speaking, Google just dropped a bomb yesterday with the announcement of the Google Chrome OS. Its not that we didn’t hear about it before, but it was always believed to be an extension of Android, instead of an all new platform…
today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks.
While Microsoft boldly claims to control 96% of netbook market (along with the majority in desktop OS market); Google still (more…)
Mac users have been waiting for a Mac version of Google Chrome for a long time now. Finally a Mac version of Chrome is now available for download. However Google does not recommend downloading the Mac version of Chrome to general public.
Chrome for Mac is in its early development stage and not yet ready for general users. Thiis Mac version of Chrome is uncomplete and is recommended for developers only.
Still, if you wish to give it a try, the installation is simple and the looks of Chrome resembles that of Safari 4 to keep the Apple feel on your Mac OS. Some aspects of chrome are faster than the Safari or Firefox. But, the Flash based pages like YouTube do not work and you cannot edit the settings easily.
If you are one of those (like me) who is trying to settle in with Google Chrome as his regular browser, you would certainly like a few tweaks for your new favorite. Here are some cool hacks for the Google Chrome:
