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Google Chrome for Mac and Linux

Google Chrome finally released a version for Mac and Linux.
http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel
Scroll down to For Mac or For Linux, and bam!

Here is what it looks like.

Chrome for Mac Latest Updates

Here are some of the latest updates for Google Chrome for Mac.
Week of Mar 29 – Apr 4

Middle-click, command-click, and “open link in new tab” should now all correctly open a new tab without tab bar wonkiness.
Starting to work on getting code coverage numbers
Added a bit of hysteresis to start dragging a tab so they [...]

Google’s Quick Search Box on Mac

Google is readying its Mac apps to gain some more market share with OS X users. This time, they are targeting a few well known apps, such as Quicksilver. Google has created their own Quick Search Box (QSB). But, the kicker is that it’s open source. Want to download the code [...]

Picasa for Mac

Picasa has been restricted to Windows-only for quite some time now. But today, at Macworld, Google announced that there is a Mac version of Picasa now available.
System Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4+
Intel CPU
256MB RAM
100MB available hard disk space

You will be able to get the same features on Picasa Mac as you can with other [...]

Google Gets Ready for Macworld

What can you expect from the Google booth at Macworld? Plenty of Mac Googlers, demo stations, and plenty of engineers.

If you want to talk to the people who actually created the software you’re using or have questions about, Macworld is the place you need to be.
Google always goes all out for a booth, so [...]

Google Mac to be at Upcoming Macworld Expo

Google finally made the announcement that they will be at the up and coming Macworld Expo.
Google will be spending the next 30 days preparing demonstrations for the 50,000+ attendees of Macworld in San Francisco.
Wish I could, it’s going to be an amazing conference.
If you’re planning on going and haven’t registered yet, use the link below [...]

Google Earth Plugin for Mac

Just a few days ago, Google announced the launch of the Google Earth Plugin for Mac [release notes].

This is a great plugin because it will now give Mac users the same functionality as Windows users, when viewing and using a Google Earth-powered application.
Recent products have seen Mac releases come later than most, but that’s still [...]

Google Announces New Mac Projects

Google has announced some new Mac projects. Here is a list of the projects:

Precipitate: Search your Google Docs and Bookmarks from Spotlight or Google Desktop.
Google Toolbox for Mac: collection of source from different Google projects that may be of use to developers working other Mac projects.
Vidnik: Record video segments using your iSight camera [...]

Google Chrome – I’m Impressed

Google launched its browse, Google Chrome, on September 1st, 2008.
It’s been 24 days, a little over 3 weeks, since then. So what have we learned about the browser?

Here are some thoughts of what I’ve had.
I have to admit, I have not been using it full-full time, all the time, but off and on. [...]

Google Chrome for Mac “Soon”

Scott Knaster, on the Official Google Mac Blog, laid out all the details as to why all of [us] Mac users were stranded yesterday after Google Chrome was launched [only for Windows].
I can’t explain it any better than Scott can, so I’m going to only highlight a few points I feel are important to this [...]

Going for a Spin with Google Chrome

So after a day of using Google Chrome, I have to admit that I’m really happy with it. A lot of people are moaning and groaning that it’s “not the next IE killer.” Okay, so what? So what if it’s not an IE killer? Does that mean you should turn people [...]

Google is Already Marketing Google Chrome

Google is…wow..man they’re efficient at getting products out the door and marketed.
After doing a few searches, we can clearly see that Google wants to get the good word out about Google Chrome. But alas, even searching from a Mac, Google AdWords will still show up — so AdWords cannot yet decipher between operating systems [...]

Google Doesn’t Hate ALL Paid Links, Just Yours

Yet another post about paid links. I know, I know, will the madness ever stop? No way! Why would we want to not have something to talk about?
Today’s topic is paid links, search rankings, and sitelinks.
I’ve known about these paid links for a long time and so has Google I’m sure. In this [...]

A Lively Bunch of Googlers

Google recently launched Lively on lively.com.
A surefire hit to tackle Second Life in the Virtual Reality industry.
But, like the AP talks about, this is part of their “latest expansion beyond its main mission of organizing the world’s information.”
So why would Google want to draw in a new crowd of users to their products? Com’n, [...]

Google CalDAV Coming….Soon?

We can see that Google CalDAV dates back to as early as six months ago. So where do we stand right now? The same place we stood six months ago. Waiting.

Well, if you’re not familiar with what CalDAV is, it’s basically a way to “mount” your calendar around the web. According [...]

Happy Birthday Google Gears!

“Today, MySpace is launching enhanced functionality for MySpace mail using Gears. They are using the original Gears Database API with Full Text Search to enable fast and easy search and sort capabilities. The latest build of WordPress also integrates Gears, to improve performance, and to let users manage their blogs offline. And as many of [...]

Video: Apple Mac Music Video

2008 Anita Borg Scholars Announced

Google has announced the winners for the 2008 Anita Borg Scholarship Foundation.
Here’s a little excerpt from the Google blog about the foundation and what the recipients will receive.
“The U.S. scholars and finalists recently visited the Googleplex in Mountain View, CA as part of the annual all-expenses-paid Google Scholars’ Retreat. Students attended technical workshops and discussions [...]

The Next Mahalo Daily Babe

Here’s a daily clip pick for Google Inside today. Our very own, Leora Zellman. Have a watch and see why she should be the next Mahalo Daily babe!
If you like the video, smack it with 5 stars!

Google Trademark Basics (Part I)

Let’s visit some of the Google Trademarks out there right now. Google has a few guidelines for trademark usage, slogans, and logos.
What is a trademark?
“A trademark is a word, name, symbol or device (or a combination thereof) that identifies the goods or services of a person or company and distinguishes them from the goods [...]

Google Data Flirts with iPhone

Reported on Friday by Greg Robbins of the Google Mac Team, the Google Data APIs are coming to the iPhone. The Data APIs will be coming to the iPhone via the Objective-C application development language, native to Mac OS X.
The new source files for Google Data APIs are under version 1.4 and compile without [...]

Matt Mullenweg on Wordpress 2.5

Matt Mullenweg, the founder of Wordpress, put out this screencast today. It’s a quick preview of what Wordpress 2.5 holds for all of us.
Matt claims that he had five teeth pulled this week and that’s why he sounds “bad”, but I think that’s just his “matt is sexy” voice.
This website is proudly powered by [...]

Matt Mullenweg and Jeremy Zawodny Sit Down at Yahoo!

Earlier this week, we can thank Matt for the link [and interview].

Here’s a great overview of what is going on with Wordpress.

MacBook Air Prepared for Shipping

The most recent update on my MacBook Air shipment is that it’s ready to be shipped!
Call me crazy, but I’m kind of really excited for this laptop. Some people don’t like it, but meh, fine with me. Everyone has different tastes and different needs.
I will post a review on the laptop once I’ve [...]

Official Bid on Yahoo! by Microsoft for USD$44.6bn

The confirmed rumor heard around the world. The official news that Microsoft has put in a bid on Yahoo! for USD$44.6bn. The offer, made public this morning, is Microsoft to pay $31 per share (while Yahoo! sits at $19.18 (“YHOO”) at the present time) in a mix of cash and stock. That’s [...]

MacBook Air to Ship Earlier than Expected

MacRumors.com put out a notice of the Apple.com press release announcing that the MacBook Air’s will start shipping today. I opted for the MacBook Air with the solid state drive (SSD), so it may take a little bit longer to ship mine.

MacBook Air 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 64GB SSD
MacBook Air 1.8GHz Core 2 [...]

MacWorld 2008 Keynote Continued

This is a pretty impressive Keynote by Steve Jobs.
Please note that this it not the compete transcript but rather bits and pieces, liveblogging provided by http://www.macrumorslive.com/. I have highlighted a few of the parts I think are particularly worth looking at.
9:19 am: Full Airport Extreme base station with “server grade” hard drive internal.
9:20 am: [...]

MacWorld 2008 Keynote

Steve takes the stage and let the Keynote of MacWorld 2008 begin. Live coverage at http://www.macrumorslive.com/

Google’s Master Plan

Ever think about what Google has planned for the future? Here’s a glimpse to what Google might be thinking about.

Blu-ray, Green-ray, HD-DVD, LowDef-DVD…WHO CARES?!

There has been a ton of coverage lately about Blu-ray and HD-DVD (high definition DVD). A lot of people are saying that Blu-ray won the battle, but then there are other people saying that Blu-ray only won the battle, but lost the war.
TechCrunch suggests that because of last week’s CES, HD-DVD will be “joining [...]

Google Does Not Equal Perfection

Call me meticulous, call me observant, even call me OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) with websites, but one thing we cannot call Google is perfect. The screenshot below is what I just found in the Webmaster Tools area. Design is one thing I am very picky about. I’m using Firefox 2.0.0.11 on Mac OS X Leopard. It’s a small thing, but even the small things matter [to me].

Google Losing China to Microsoft

Google is indirectly losing China’s market share to Microsoft. This is happening through the Microsoft-Founder agreement announced this morning. “San Francisco (IDGNS) – Founder Technology Group, China’s second-largest PC maker, agreed to preinstall Windows Vista on laptop computers and commercial desktops, closing a loophole in an earlier deal with Microsoft that potentially exempted commercial PCs from agreements to preinstall Windows.” Google’s search engine product (which they are originally based around) is going to lose some serious market share to Microsoft’s Live.com because of the pre-installation of Windows on these new machines produced by Founder Technology Group. With Live.com taking more of the market in China — with a current population of 1,321,851,888 (as of July, 2007) — Google’s loses will be noticeable.

Apple Announces Launch Date of Leopard

Packed with more than 300 new features, Mac OS X Leopard goes on sale Friday, October 26, at 6:00 p.m. at Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers, Apple announced today. And, beginning today, customers can place pre-orders on Apple’s online store. “Leopard, the sixth major release of Mac OS X, is the best upgrade we’ve ever released,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “And everyone gets the ‘Ultimate’ version, packed with all the new innovative features, for just $129.” [Oct 16, 2007]

Google’s 9th Birthday

According to Google lore, company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were not terribly fond of each other when they first met as Stanford University graduate students in computer science in 1995. Larry was a 24-year-old University of Michigan alumnus on a weekend visit; Sergey, 23, was among a group of students assigned to show him around. They argued about every topic they discussed. Their strong opinions and divergent viewpoints

Google’s Ban on Web Directories

The recent buzz around the blogosphere seosphere has been about the recent “ban” on web directories. It has been mentioned at Webmasterworld, DigitalPoint, and SearchEngineLand, just to name a few of the places.
As a recap for you, Google has manually added penalties to many of the web directories out there. Let’s take a close look at two in specific. We will be looking at Site Sift (http://site-sift.com) and Alive Directory (http://alivedirectory.com).

Apple’s iCar in the Works?

According to various sources around the web, Apple (”AAPL“) and VW (”VLKAY“) are in talks about co-creating the new iCar.
A Volkswagen representative confirmed to the German-language paper that talks were at an “early stage,” and that Steve Jobs met with VW CEO Martin Winterkorn several days ago to discuss the concept further.
So what’s the next move for the industry? For Google? Might this be the next rabbit trail for Google to try to get a piece of the action in? Apple has been able to focus on the music industry for quite some time. Already being a leader in the computer industry, the music hardware industry only seemed like their next logical move. Now Apple is involved with computers, music (iPod), mobile (iPhone), and now an emerging entrance to the automotive industry.

Yahoo! to Take on Facebook and MySpace

Yahoo! is once again at it trying to take on the big dogs. The question that first comes to mind is, “will is be successful?” I ask that question because if you look at the first post for the Mash Blog, you can see that it’s powered by Wordpress. But wait a second, doesn’t Yahoo! already have their own blogging platform called 360? Yeah, they do…so why are they using third-party software to power their blogs instead of their own in-house software? Hit number one against Yahoo!

You can make starter profiles for your friends. Think: “first round’s on me.”
You can leave your profile open to contributions by trusted friends.
You can customize your — or your friend’s :) — profile with modules from a growing gallery of apps.

Seagate Barracuda 750GB – Now That’s Hot!

Dating back 8 months ago, I wrote an article about my desktop setup. After those 8 months, I have to say that I’m really happy with the hardware that I purchased and it’s been working great. A few hick-ups, but that’s normal with any hardware. But I do have to say that my next computer will be an Apple, without a doubt. I’m starting to look at the Mac Pro, but by the time that I’m seriously ready to buy a new desktop, they will have something bigger and better.
I received a couple e-mails from Newegg today and saw they were highlighting the 750GB Seagate Barracuda. A few years back, I remember getting the 40GB Barracudas for my friend Matt. Then I also recalled that I had the Barracudas in my current machine, but mine are only 320GB instead of the 750GB.

Before and After: Broadband vs. Dial-up

Many of us remember the days of dial-up Internet. Connecting at 14.4k, 28.8k, then 56k. Even some of you remember the days of 9600 baud or even before that, but that’s before my time — I started on the 28.8k modems; good ole’ AOL. Let’s fast forward 15 years to today, where we have DSL, cable, ISDN fiber optic, and wireless everywhere. Dial-up is not a

AdWords Editor 4.0 for Windows Released

The Google AdWords Editor for Windows has been a great tool for AdWords advertisers ever since it was created. The AdWords team has announced the release of version 4.0 of the software. New features: Mobile ads: View, add, and update your mobile ads on the new Mobile Ads tab. Campaign posting: Select and post only specific campaigns, or post all changes at once. Right-click menus: In the

Microsoft Attempts the Market with aQuantive

Microsoft recently announced that they are moving forward with the acquisition of aQuantive for USD$6.0 billion. Microsoft is feeling threatened by Google with their recent acquisition of DoubleClick, followed by the acquisition of 24/7 Real Media by Yahoo! It seems that every company is just out to purchase another company in hopes to stay on top of that industry. Microsoft wasted their money. Sure they have

Google Encourages Docs and Spreadsheets Usage

When going to Google Docs & Spreadsheets today, I noticed a small pop-up … which is really out of the ordinary for Google. So I took a look at it to see what it exactly said. As stated above, Google is starting to really encourage users to start using their document viewer/editor and their spreadsheets viewer/editor instead of the default already installed on your machine. Google wants to ramp up its usage so people get used to it a lot more. I haven’t seen any other kinds of these encouragements to use the Google products before, but it wouldn’t surprise me if we started seeing these more often. Hopefully though, not in this pop-up form because pop-ups are always annoying.

Favorite Tech Quotes

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. – Andrew S. Tannenbaum
Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? – T.S. Elliot
The telephone wire, as we know it, has become too slow and too small to handle Internet traffic. It took 75 years for telephones to be used by 50 million customers, but it took only four years for the Internet to reach that many users. – Lori Valigra
640K ought to be enough for anybody. – Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, 1981
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. – B. F. Skinner
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
- George Pompidou
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. – Anonymous
For years there has been a theory that millions of monkeys typing at random on millions of typewriters would reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. The Internet has proven this theory to be untrue. – Anonymous

Microsoft Playing Catch-up with Adobe and Macromedia

Microsoft has dabbled in the web creation industry in the past with Microsoft Office Frontpage and Publisher, but they haven’t really dug deep into the industry at all. Here they are releasing a product called Microsoft Expression Web which is geared towards students, business professionals, and well, basically everyone.
It doesn’t come at a cheap price though. Looking at the Best Buy listing, it’s running for $269.99 retail. To my surprise as well, it’s only available at Best Buy, Staples, and Amazon.com. This new application will be a direct competitor of Macromedia Fireworks/Dreamweaver and Adobe Photoshop. While Microsoft is very late in the game, they seem they have the ability to pick up the slack and actually get back into it.

Video: Lord Vader as a Day Manager

I saw this and couldn’t pass it up…it’s a bit lengthy, but worth every second of it. It’s a have-to watch.

Rand Fishkin’s Superbowl Proposal — Will She Say Yes?

The one and only Rand Fishkin from SEOmoz.org is the mysterious mysuperproposal.com. Alas, the invitation to wed Sir Fishkin is finally out.
But as a long story short, funds didn’t make it for the Superbowl ad like he had hoped, so this aired during Veronica Mars instead.

(direct link)

The Apple and Cisco Battle

As it was the talk of the town on Wednesday, Apple released their new iPhone. Shortly after releasing the iPhone, Cisco stepped up and hit them with a lawsuit. …Cisco’s consumer arm Linksys had released a product called the iPhone earlier than Apple, and that the trademark name “iPhone” had been owned by Cisco for several years already… According to the article by DailyTech.com, judges may rule it

Apple iPhone iPod Released

This one I couldn’t pass up writing about. At the MacWorld Expo taking place right now in San Francisco, Apple unleashed their much-anticipated iPhone. Here are a few of the available features… WiFi 802.11b/g Cingular’s EDGE Data network Bluetooth 2.0 with EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) Running on OSX Visual-detection software Built-in Advanced Sensors iPhone’s accelerometer detects when you rotate the device from portrait to landscape,

Product Review: Adobe Photoshop CS3

I was recently invited to join in the beta of CS3 so I decided to download it and give it a shot. So here are my two cents on what I think of the new version of Photoshop.

Adobe Web Bundle Review

I recently purchased the Adobe Web Bundle package. I am quite amazing by this product package. I was looking around for the Adobe CS Suite package and then realized that Adobe had acquired Macromedia not too long ago, so I went ahead and looked for the Macromedia Studio package.
Sure enough, I found the Studio 8 package. I bought the Macromedia Studio MX 2004 a few years ago and I was decently impressed by it. I’ve never been a fan of creating tables by hand; they simply do not interest me. So whenever I needed a table done, I would whip up Dreamweaver MX 2004 and get it done.
Another cool product was Fireworks MX 2004. I used this product mainly for exporting jpg files into HTML that I didn’t want to code. That’s not to say I didn’t care about how the code looked, it purely meant that I needed to get the job done quickly for a quick preview or something and I didn’t care how the code was written.

Phishing for Google

Google has a well known product called Google Enterprise Appliance which lets you run “Google” yourself — for your own site. The vulnerability, which follows a similar exploit in the Google appliances from last year, has not been exploited to anyone’s knowledge, a Google spokesman said in a statement. There was a nasty bug found in the appliance which let attacks happen more easily by inserting HTML or JavaScript

Enhancing your Reader experience

There have been numerous releases to help enhance your Reader experience so it’s a more enjoyable one. Here some links that will help you: Google Reader Notified for Mac Gordita Google Reader Optimized Controlling Reader with a Cell Phone Reader button for the Google Toolbar Thanks Mihai

Apple Tries Click-to-Call

We already know that Google did not stop the use of Click-to-Call, so on that note, here’s a little story about it. Apple has started to use the Click-to-Call platform to test it out and see how effective it is for generating more sales.

Mac Love

Google doesn’t just use the “Goobuntu” operating system, they also love their Macs. They can’t seem to get enough of those Macs. They love them so much, they launched a special blog site just for Mac related stuff. http://googlemac.blogspot.com/ is the site. With Google’s mission statement, “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” it means business. With applications on Mac, Windows, Linux, that basically covers the vast majority of the computer industry. For those still using Windows 95 — or even *shiver* Windows 98 — sorry, you’re out of luck. Windows 2000 and Windows XP (soon Vista too) are the only supported operating systems right now.

Google Search With Easy Setup

Jim Dalrymple wrote up an article on Macworld about his experience with the Google Mini. Was it easy to setup? You bet! It took me about 30 minutes from the time I cracked open the packing tape on the box to the time I did my first search. It was almost too simple—for a while, I wasn’t sure I actually finished the complete setup. I am impressed with how quickly the box was setup. We all know that Google Search packs a lot of power and it’s nice to see the company is able to bring that to small business users in such an easy-to-use box.

The Praetorian Mad House

I talked about it a little bit, but I never got around to posting the pics and all the specs of my new computer that I built mid-July. I’m finally getting some time to talk about it and what it entails. It’s quite the beast. Here are the specs of the system below.

Google + Apple = Eric Schmidt?

Many rumors have been floating around that Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt might be joining Apple’s board. As Google released an office product designed just for Macs, it’s going to be interesting to see how it turns out with these rumors to see if Google and Apple might be seeing a partnership anytime soon or even in the future at all.

GMail to Google — Time to be Notified

Google has replaced their Mac version of GMail notifier with a product called Google Notifier which now integrates both Google Calendar and GMail together. The Google Notifier is an application that shows you alerts in your menu bar, so you can see when you have new Gmail messages or upcoming Google Calendar events without having to open a web browser.