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Chrome Next Steps: Extension API

Chrome is an amazing browser and I’m very thankful that Google released it. It has helped set the standard much higher for browsers and for what is to come in future releases of all browsers. The primary component about Chrome that I love is how fast the JavaScript engine is. It’s amazingly [...]

Google Chrome vs. Apple Safari [Beta4]

Google Chrome was launched in September of 2008. To date, Google Chrome is still not yet available for OS X or Linux version of the browser. Google continues to tell everyone “we are working on it,” yet still offers no product for these two operating systems.
Apple wanted to take advantage of Google’s sluggish [...]

Updated Google Analytics Code

PREFACE: You don’t have to upgrade if you don’t want to.
Google Analytics has updated the code you insert for tracking. But like the preface said, you don’t have to update your current code if you don’t want to.
Quickly, here is the new
[sourcecode lang="php"]
var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”);
document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’” [...]

Surf Google Earth Using the Wii Balance Board

Coming straight from VentureBeat, they discuss how a Google engineer used some open source drivers to create your very own Google Earth surfing experience.
Code Used

Google Earth Browser Plug-in
Javascript API
Google Earth API
Open source drivers for the Wii Remote

Here’s the video of how to surf.
Another great invention using conventional tools and applications. Also, another great time [...]

Google to Host YUI! JavaScript Libraries

Google has been hosting a number of JavaScript libraries already, but the collection had been incomplete.
No longer! Google’s JavaScript API hosting spot is now hosting Yahoo!’s YUI! libraries.
Now, instead of being forced to use Yahoo!’s content delivery network (CDN), you can choose between Google’s CDN and Yahoo!’s CDN. Yahoo! has their own write-up [...]