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MashLogic – Google Chrome Extension

MashLogic is an extension for Google Chrome that automatically aggregates content about high-profile terms and displays it when you hover over the term. The idea is to constantly be in the know about every important concept on every webpage

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30

01 2010

Google Chrome OS: What Does it Mean?

Google Chrome OSThe following is based on a post by Clio in its November Newsletter. Read more about Clio here.

Last week Google took the covers off of Chrome OS; the first new, significant operating system to be introduced in the last ten years; and the first to be devoted entirely to web applications. What’s significant about Chrome OS?

  • Every app on Chrome OS is a Web app.
  • Nothing is stored on your computer.
  • The operating system is the browser.
  • 10 second startup: boots in 7 seconds; 3 more to login.
  • All data is encrypted; even if you lose your computer the data is secure.
  • Supports only flash-based drives; not hard-disc drives.
  • Open-source (think Linux, but not as geeky)

In other words, Google Chrome OS is the logical conclusion to the shift away from desktop applications to “the cloud” (itself an echo of the decades-old idea of thinking mainframes and dumb terminals). But is Google too late to make a difference in the OS sphere? Only if it tries to unseat Windows. But that was never the idea. Instead, Google wants to provide the OS blueprint for

  • Netbooks: Subnotebooks can’t be weighed down with a bulky OS.
  • Cloud Computing: Who needs to store and backup data when it’s more secure in the Cloud?
  • Convergence: Your subnotebook, office machine, and phone, are merging.

26

11 2009

Happy Birthday Firefox (p.s. burn in hell Internet Explorer)

Take a minute to wish Firefox a happy 5th birthday.  Can you believe? It’s been 5 glorious years since Firefox made it fun again to get on the Internet. Sure Chrome has been a noble experiment and Safari is as elegant as Apple itself, but Firefox is the original bad boy of browsers and it can still makes a geek’s heart flutter.

Happy Birthday Firefox

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