Archive for September, 2008

Top 10 Ways to Use Dropbox

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

10. Share IM client settings on multiple computers.

For anyone that uses Pidgin, Gaim, Miranda, etc. on multiple computers, this could be a godsend. It’s just a pain to maintain a few different sets of usernames and passwords/protocols/options on different computers.

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My Humble Impressions of Google Chrome

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

As I’m sure you all know, Google has created an international holiday for geeks across the world with the release of Chrome, a potentially revolutionary browser. I’ve been using it for the day, and I’d like to offer my very humble thoughts on it so far.

First off, I think we all need to realize that this is a VERY early release of a huge project for Google. I have no doubts that it will receive tons of critics based on bugs, missing features, and generally things that Google will obviously be fixing as the project matures. The last thing I want to do is point out the obvious shortcomings (limited bookmark management, few options, no progress bar for page loads, etc…guess I pointed them out anyway), because these things will be coming soon. Google’s, while perhaps a bit optimistic and overconfident, is not stupid by any means. So whatever you say about Chrome, please don’t go and complain about the lack of things that are almost certainly on the way. Or else you’ll annoy me. That’s right!

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