The Battle of the Browsers will revive again as the new contender joins in. If you think that we have enough Internet browsers as it is, think again. Google is not going to let Mozilla and Microsoft take all the glory for themselves.

Google Chrome is ready to be released from Google’s arsenal of fast apps on September 2, 2008. This new browser from Google is designed to be fast, simple and clean, just like the Google Homepage. The philosophy behind the development of this new browser is to make things clean and simple, take away all the unnecessary stuff and let the user do the important stuff like browsing, chatting and sending emails. Google Chrome gets out of the way so you can surf the Internet or write those emails. Most of the components in Chrome is from Mozilla Firefox and Apple Webkit, but will remain open-source, and participation from community to help build this new browser is encouraged.

From Chrome’s official blog:

Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.

Google also takes the road less traveled in introducing their new app - this time they have used comics in introducing their new open-source browser. Not very typical way of introducing a new app but indeed very unique. The comics about Google Chrome can be found here.

For now, Google Chrome is available only for Windows but time will only tell when there is going to be a version for Linux, which I am willing to wait patiently. As for the number of choices that we have for browsers, all I can say is we can’t have too many browsers. Tell that to web developers as they have another browser to test their sites on.

Author’s Note:

I will update this post once the browser is released. I will also include the link to the download site as well.

Download Google Chome for Windows XP/Vista here.

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The US swimming team has made history in Olympics with Michael Phelps winning his 8th Gold Medal defeating Mark Spitz’s 7 Gold Medal record since 1972.

23-year old Michael Phelps consistently performed his best during the 2008 Olympics, proven by record-breaking speed at different swimming events. Eight times a winner, Phelps finally broke Mark Spitz’s record which remained untouched until now.

Phelp’s winning events include:

400 m individual medley 4:03.84 World record
4 x 100 m freestyle relay 3:08.24 World record
200 m freestyle 1:42.96 World record
200 m butterfly 1:52.03 World record
4 x 200 m freestyle relay 6:58.56 World record
200 m individual medley 1:54.23 World record
100 m butterfly 50.58 Olympic record
4 x 100 m medley relay 3:29.34 World record

Congratulations to Michael Phelps!

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It is now official that Hans Reiser, the brains behind the popular filesystem ReiserFS, had admitted to killing his wife Nina Reiser, by leading the policemen to his wife’s body days before facing the court for his sentence.

The said body of Nina Reiser was found buried in 4-feet by 4-feet grave in Redwood Regional Park, less than a mile from Hans Reiser’s home, and was identified through dental records, jewelry and clothing. Nina was believed to be strangled by Hans Reiser leading to her death.

The discovery of the body was part of the deal that might reduce Reiser’s conviction from first to second degree murder.

Source: cnn.com

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This morning, one of our servers experienced downtime and the Ev1 servers datacenter support is unreachable, not by phone nor by site.

Then we got this email from the company’s CEO, Dougls J. Erwin:

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This is a little snip from YouTube when Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer was thrown with eggs by a protesting student in Budapest.

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was thrown with eggs in BudapestBallmer was giving a talk titled, You Can Change the World, to Hungarian university students when someone from the audience stood up, demanded that Microsoft should return money it has stolen from Hungarian people and threw eggs, right in front of Ballmer’s face. Ballmer scrambles for cover as he dodges the eggs, and luckily, he still has a clean face when stood up from behind the podium. Read the rest of this entry »

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You have heard about Singapore’s plans to build 100Mbps broadband network, you ought to know that Malaysia is not going to let Singapore get all the glory.

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If you think 10Mbps residential line connection is PWNGE, then wait till Singapore completes its 100Mbps national fiber network by year 2015.

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Apparently, Microsoft means serious business when it puts its $44B of its money in exchange for Yahoo’s cooperation. The software giant just won’t take no for an answer.

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Epicedit.com made a little study to see how many users use photo editing software such as Adobe Photoshop and how many of those users bought a legal copy of the software. Read the rest of this entry »

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If you are interested in Google domains, services or search operators, then get the Google Cheat Sheet. This PDF file contains the extensive list of thing that I am sure everyone wants to know.

Download the cheat sheet PDF here or view the screenshots:

Cheat Sheet Page 1

Cheat Sheet Page 2

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