Slowly but surely, my tech life gets more "Googley".
I spend my days coding using GWT (Google Web Toolkit) using the Google Eclipse Plugin. I will be going to the Google I/O 2010 conference, including Google's Boot Camp. Gmail is my main source of contact for email and instant messaging (my gmail email address is my username on every IM network that I use)...
And now, with Google Buzz, the big G woos me away from Facebook by integrating social networking with the nerve center of my online communication.
But wait, there's more!
I am writing this post using Chrome - Google's web browser. During its development, I have installed (and subsequently uninstalled) Chrome many times. This is the first time I have found Chrome to be more than a curiosity. Even before the rise of Apple's Safari, I have been a fan of the WebKit rendering engine (back then, it was called KHTML). So, when Apple built Safari off the Konqueror core, it quickly became my default browser -- until yesterday.
Google's build of WebKit seems more responsive than Apple's and Google let's me add extensions (like ad-blocking) to my browser without hacks or other unsupported coding. In short, I am finding Chrome to be the best of Safari (smooth, standards-compliant rendering) plus the best of Firefox (supported plugin architecture).
Could I get any more "Googley"? Only if my next phone runs Android OS.
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Steven, The google friend
Submitted by eric (not verified) on
Steven, The google friend connect to my gmail account worked for this. (I didn't realize you were asking folks to logon here yesterday.)
I have been using Chrome as my primary, or nearly primary browser on Windows (XP), Linux (Ubuntu) for a number of months and recently on OS X (.6). I have been using Firefox and Safari (not IE), I still like them and use them moderately often, but am doing more on Chrome.
Thanks for logging in Eric!
Submitted by Steven on
Thanks for logging in Eric!
I am testing integration between Google Services and Drupal (which runs this site). I was trying to set it up so a local account is made on new log in (which was surprisingly harder than it should have been).
Still using Chrome here, and I've only had 1 problem so far. I think I have a work around for it, and I will post about it once I test it more.
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