So there are two new browser experiences coming through the tubes that I thought I’d say a few words about.
The first is called Ubiquity and it is a Mozilla project. This of course means it is a Firefox experience. The purpose is to bring disparate web services together. In the here and now, we have to run around the internet lashing together the products to be useful. Ubiquity is supposed to be an effort to bring it all around. Here is a quick vid.
Now the second browser new experience is from Google. The name? Chrome. It is so cool they even made a comic about it. Unfortunately, the tech demigods have withheld a Mac version for us to beta. Though the rumor is that it is almost an alpha. But the reviews coming through are really quite good. Twitter is buzzing with Chrome this, Chrome that. Chrome is fast, why hasn’t Google done this sooner, Chrome is your new bicycle. You know those sorts of things. Well I can’t even give you a cool video of it but you’ll be hearing about it.
Here is your political reading homework though. I love this first article. It is a good push back to the “LEAVE SARAH PALIN ALONE” talk. Thanks, Roger Simon of Politico.
Here is my favorite quote:
“Fifth, we should stop reporting on the families of the candidates. Unless the candidates want us to.
Sarah Palin wanted the media to report on her teenage son, Track, who enlisted in the Army on Sept. 11, 2007, and soon will deploy to Iraq.
Sarah Palin did not want the media to report on her teenage daughter, Bristol, who is pregnant and unmarried.
Sarah Palin thinks that one is good for her campaign and one is not, and that the media should report only on what is good for her campaign. That is our job, and that is our duty. If that is not actually in the Constitution, it should be. (And someday may be.)”
I had a video here added in post from the daily show but I can only embed from YouTube so here is a different one that is funny. You can see the other one here.
The Internet is interesting. Today is an Interesting Internet folder dump day. I like to keep interesting sites in a folder. Usually it is because I just do not have time to look though the whole site and I know that when I surf away I will quickly forget the link altogether. There is just too much out there. Also, I listen to netcasts like TWiT and Net@Nite that are a wealth of great links. With that in mind we have four things to check out.
The first is a Mac App (sorry to the thousands of Windows readers we have out there). This is an extremely small application that does only what it needs to. Caffeine. I know you’ve experienced this problem. You’re watching or reading a video or article and the screen dims ever so slightly. Whether it is a DVD or just some codger railing against the voices of common sense in the world you don’t like having to revive the comp. But then there are other times when you’d like your computer to fall asleep just like normal. In fact this is most of the time. Caffeine was developed by Lighthead Software and is available on Versiontracker.com. The premise of the program is that when you click it your comp. won’t dim or fall asleep. It is a cool little coffee cup in your tool bar that for me sits for me between the Wifi indicator and Gmail notifier. Click on it and it fills up. That simple.
Then we have a site called panoramas.dk. This site is just full of pictures taken in panorama of events or of places. You can see Times Square at New Years or the top of the Eiffel Tower. Pretty cool.
Next we have The Degree of Confluence Project. This site is aimed at getting pictures taken at the crossing point of major latitudinal and longitudinal lines. Not much to say, other than I don’t have a GPS so… maybe I’ll register that for the wedding.
In similar fashion we have opentopia.com. This is just a site for the widescale aggergation of webcams across the world. I am not endorsing their content and I sure as heck haven’t looked through them all so don’t ask me which ones are cool.
