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Google Chrome 5.0 Stable Released

deerawan — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:27:06 +0000

It is a good news for Google Chrome lovers. Google has released new Google Chrome 5.0. Some new features based on their Official Blog such as:

Today’s stable release also comes with a host of new features. You’ll be able to synchronize not only bookmarks across multiple computers, but also browser preferences — including themes, homepage and startup settings, web content settings, preferred languages, and even page zoom settings. Meanwhile, for avid extensions users, you can enable each extension to work in incognito mode through the extensions manager.

Our stable release also incorporates HTML5 features such as Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop. For a taste of HTML5’s powerful features, try browsing through websites developed in HTML5 such as scribd.com, dragging and dropping attachments in Gmail, or by enabling the geolocation functionality in Google Maps.

It also says that this is the fastest Google Chrome ever. This video will show you how fastest Google Chrome is

Download Google Chrome 5.0

Download Google Chrome 5.0 Offline Installer

HTC Hero: Android Based Phone

deerawan — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:27:14 +0000

HTC Hero is one of the best mobile phone ever from HTC. HTC Hero is bundled with modified Android OS to give you better experience using it. HTC Hero has been an object in several forums and websites. It is really beautiful device from the design. Most HTC Hero Accessories such as HTC Hero Screen Protector also already available. However, we will take a look at the specifications first of HTC Hero

HTC Hero

GENERAL
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 900 / 2100
HSDPA 850 / 1900 – American version

SIZE
Dimensions 112 x 56.2 x 14.4 mm
Weight 135 g

DISPLAY
Type TFT capacitive touchscreen, 65K colors
Size 320 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches
- Sense UI
- Multi-touch input method
- Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate
- Trackball

SOUND
Alert types Vibration; Downloadable polyphonic, MP3, WAV ringtones
Speakerphone Yes
- 3.5 mm audio jack

MEMORY
Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records Practically unlimited
Internal 288 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
Card slot microSD (TransFlash), buy memory

DATA
GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
HSCSD Yes
EDGE Class 10, 236.8 kbps
3G HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2.0 Mbps
WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth Yes v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port No
USB Yes, miniUSB

CAMERA
Primary 5 MP, 2592 x 1944 pixels, autofocus
Video Yes
Secondary No

FEATURES
OS Android OS, v1.5
CPU Qualcomm MSM 7200A 528 MHz processor
Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
Browser HTML
Radio No
Games Yes
Colors Brown, White (teflon coating), Graphite, Black, Pink
GPS Yes, with A-GPS support
Java Via third party application
- Digital compass
- Dedicated search key
- Scenes quick profile switcher
- MP3/AAC+/WAV/WMA9 player
- MPEG-4/H.263/H.264/WMV9 player
- Voice memo

BATTERY
Standard battery, Li-Ion 1350 mAh
Stand-by Up to 440 h (2G) / Up to 750 h (3G)
Talk time Up to 8 h (2G) / Up to 7 h (3G)

Anyway, if you want to buy other mobile phone accessories, you can visit Talkie Tech

3 Chrome Extensions to Show Alexa Rank

deerawan — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:01:53 +0000

After my previous post about alexa rank addon for Firefox, I would like to inform you about the alexa rank extensions (addon) for Chrome. Until this moment, there are only three extensions that you can choose. If you are using Chrome right now, you can install the extensions by clicking the title. Lets see them

1. Chrome SEO

This extension display not only Alexa rank but also all information related to SEO from the website you visit such as Technorati, Page rank, Pages Indexed in search engine, and more. Very recommended.

Chrome SEO

2. SEO Status Pagerank/Alexa Toolbar

It is very compact extension that displays page rank, alexa rank, alexa chart, backlinks, whois and availability.

Alexa Toolbar

3. Alexa Rank Checker

The simplest extension that display only alexa rank.

Alexa Rank

Go grabbing alexa related extensions for Google Chrome! Yihaa….

Playing with Google Buzz

deerawan — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:19:53 +0000

If you use Gmail, you must notice that there is a new product from Google called Google Buzz. It was created in order to compete with other social networking site like Twitter, Facebook, and Yahoo Meme. In Google Buzz, you can share updates, photos and even videos. Google Buzz is available inside Gmail, at buzz.google.com, on Google Profile pages and on mobile devices.

Like Twitter and Yahoo Meme, you can follow and be followed by your friends. You can only follow your friends that already have Gmail account. For your info, Google integrates Buzz in Gmail in purpose to create a big social network between Gmail users and also to enhance Gmail features so user can easily read email and do social networking activities at once. Another interesting feature is you can import stuff from Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, and Google Reader.

Google Buzz Inside Gmail

Using Google Buzz is so easy. In Gmail, you can access Buzz by clicking Buzz under Inbox. Google really give attention to the simplicity and user friendly interface of Google Buzz. I’m sure that you will not be hard to use it. If you don’t have your profile picture set yet, you will be directed to Google Profile to upload your photo. Here is the awesome video about Google Buzz features

Firebug for Chrome and Firefox

deerawan — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:26:36 +0000

As a website developer, Firebug is the most useful add-on. A lot of things you can do with it such as

Inspect and edit HTML
Tweak CSS
Visualize CSS
Monitor your network activity to see how many files loaded
Debug and profile javascript
Quickly find errors
Explore the dom
Execute JavaScript on the fly
Logging for JavaScript
and more

Let me show how to install Firebug on Firefox and Chrome.

If you usually use Firefox, you can easily install it. Here is the step
1. Go to this link from your Firefox Browser
2. Click download
3. Firebug automatically be installed into your Firefox

Firebug is also available for Chrome but it is the lite version. Here is the step to install it for Chrome
1. Go to this link from your Chrome Browser
2. Click Install on that page
3. Firebug automatically be installed into your Chrome

Hope this post is useful for you. ^_^

Google Chrome on Mac

deerawan — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:51:01 +0000

Google Chrome is already available for Mac OSX. It is still beta version but you can try it to feel the power of Chrome runs on Mac. Google really works hard for it to create simple interface design, integrate beautiful OSX-style animations and effects to make satisfying browsing experience. Google try to make Chrome a native application for Mac. How about the speed of Chrome on Mac? Google claims that the speed is really fast like what they said in this quote

— there’s hardly even time for the icon in the dock to bounce! -Google

Chrome on Mac

As you know that Mac has already great browser, Safari. I think Chrome will try to take over some Safari users. But as a smart user, you can decide what your favorite browsers to use, Chrome or Safari. You can compare the features. Chrome now supports extensions like Firefox. I don’t really know much about Safari plugin or add-on instead of its awesome speed.

Alright, here is the great video that show you about Chrome on Mac.

If you want to try the beta version of Chrome on Mac, you can download by clicking this link below

Download Google Chrome Beta Version For Mac

The Power of Google Chrome Extensions

deerawan — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:18:29 +0000

If you are Mozilla Firefox freaks, you must know about Firefox Add-On. Now, Chrome has it but it is called Extensions. To use Extensions, you have to use the latest version of Google Chrome. The version of Chrome I’m using now is 4.0.xx. You should update if you are still using under mine. Anyway, many extensions are available and can be categorized based on functionalities such as

Alerts & Updates
Appearance & Functioning
Language & Translators
Music, Videos & Photos
Other
Social & Communications
Tabs
Toolbars & Bookmarks
Utilities
Webmaster & SEO

You should check official Chrome extensions website to download cool extensions there. Pick one of your desired extension and just click Install.

Chrome Extensions - Install

Below is my screenshot using extension for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It is very beautiful

Chrome SEO - Extensions

I will post more about Chrome extensions in the next few days. So, stay tuned here.

2 Tips in Google Chrome to Search Text

deerawan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:29:12 +0000

When you want to search a text in Google Chrome, there are two simple tips that you can do. First, you select the text and right click then choose “search Google For blablabla”.

Chrome Searching Text Tips No 1

Let’s see the second tips

The second one is dragging the text to omnibox. Omnibox is a place where you type the url address. The step is select the text, hold it and drag it to Omnibox.

Google chrome will find the text in your default search engine automatically. So, hope these tips are useful for your Chrome daily use. ^_^

Bingle : Bing and Google

deerawan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:19:16 +0000

Two most famous search engines now in one page. It is Bingle. By visiting this site, you can get two searching results one from Bing and one from Google.

Bingle - Main Page

Bingle - Search Result

Enjoy!

Google Chrome : See Memory Usage for Each Tab

deerawan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:04:57 +0000

In this post, I would like to share a very useful tips when using Google Chrome. As you may know that Google Chrome separates each tabs as different process. So, if you want to know how many memory usage for each tab in Google Chrome, here is the way.

1. Go to at right top in Google Chrome Window

2. Choose “Developer” => “Task manager”

Google Chrome - Memory Usage

Google Chrome - Memory Usage Window

There is a shortcut for easy and faster access to open this memory usage window. You just need to press SHIFT + ESC on your keyboard. Hope this tutorial is useful for you.