Archive for the 'Google' Category

CrossOver Chromium vs. Firefox 3 - Javascript performance results

Monday, September 15th, 2008

An interesting thing happened on my way to the web today. While reading through my RSS feeds, I came across a story about CrossOver doing a Proof of Concept port of Chromium to CX. Interesting since the mighty “g” can’t seem to get it together for Linux. I’ve already downloaded and played […]

Google App Engine — Runs on Python

Tuesday, April 8th, 2008

Now this is truly an interesting development. Google’s just announced App Engine is sure to super-charge the Python community and convert a number of disillusioned developers of other languages in to Pythonistas. There have been lots of interesting comments floating in the blogosphere about what this could mean.
I think it […]

FreeBSD more Popular than Linux

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Google has recently released Google Trends. Google Trends compares different search terms’ usage over time. After reading a post on MDLog about Linux distribution trends I became curious about FreeBSD’s numbers in such a comparison.
So I marched over to distrowatch.com and checked out their Top 10 Linux distributions. They are: […]

GMail: Shared Folders

Saturday, October 15th, 2005

Gmail is a great mail interface. I prefer it in many ways to even outlook. There are basically two deficiencies it suffers from currently. One big and complex the other is low hanging fruit that Google should pick today, Shared Folders. I should be able to share a virtual folder with […]