Friday, September 5th, 2008 I’ve played with Google Chrome a little bit, it seems slightly faster than Firefox or Internet Explorer, but that could just be because it’s new and it seems fatster to the human mind.
My problem with Google Chrome, though, is that there are no add-ins (a.k.a extensions). I am a heavy user of Firefox add-ins. Without Adblock Plus, Googlepedia, Last Tab, Better Amazon, Download Statusbar, and Foxmarks, I would be totally lost!
They will come out with extensions eventually:
“We don’t have that in the beta today, but we definitely plan an extension API,” or application programming interface, Sundar Pichai, a Google vice president of product management, said at the Chrome launch event here Tuesday. “It is one of the things we will get to next.”
.. but until they do, I can’t stand to use it daily.
In other Chrome news, it’s interesting to see what browsers Chrome is actually hurting.
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 Good news: Gmail now (soon) shows the number of logged in sessions that you have open. You can even log sessions out remotely. This is great news for people who use Gmail frequently but are afraid of the security risks.
If you are anything like me, you probably sign in to Gmail from multiple computers. I, for example, occasionally sign into my Gmail account from a friend’s house when I need to check an important email. Usually I remember to sign out, but every once in a while I wonder if I really did. Now I no longer have to wonder.
Gmail Blog: Remote Sign Out
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Monday, June 16th, 2008 
Google Favicon, Revisited – The Goolers are still trying to find the perfect favicon. I think most of the options look good, and I don’t think they’ll ever be able to please everyone.
Google Monitoring ISP Throttling – Google will be creating a tool to help consumers detect if their ISP is throttling their internet traffic.
“We’re trying to develop tools, software tools…that allow people to detect what’s happening with their broadband connections, so they can let [ISPs] know that they’re not happy with what they’re getting — that they think certain services are being tampered with,” Google senior policy director Richard Whitt said this morning during a panel discussion at Santa Clara University, an hour south of San Francisco.
HotHardware: Google To Develop ISP Throttling Detector
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Saturday, May 31st, 2008 
Google now has a new favicon (the icon that appears next to the URL in your web browser) – it’s a lower case, blue “g.” The new one seems to be more “hip” and web 2.0-ish. The old “Big G” was very recognizable – brand recognition might take a hit because of this new change …
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008 
I’m really impressed w/amazons selection of DRM free music. I’ll still use iTunes for my player, but amazon is my new store
Kevin Rose via Twitter
It’s great to see that people are slowly realizing how the iTunes Music store locks you in to iPods for the rest of your life. Amazon (and many of the up-and-coming alternatives like Napster) is cheaper, has non-DRM MP3s, and works with more players (including iPods). They have a special downloader program that will directly import the songs to your iPod, or (my preference) you can download the mp3 file directly. Why would you not switch?
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