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Sep
14
According to Don Reisinger at TechCrunch, Apple is projected to sell 1 billion Apps quicker than 1 billion songs.
Steve Jobs recently indicated that over 100 million downloads of apps have already been recorded, with 70 million in August. At this rate, 1 billion will occur sometime in 2009, within a year of the app store opening. Songs reached that landmark in its second year of existence.
Why are apps more popular? Aren’t there more iPods and other portable MP3 players out there? Songs can be played on PCs and Macs too. With the hundreds of millions of computers and portable media players owned by people of the planet, why are apps, which are restricted to the iPhone and iPod touch (the number of these sold are a mere fraction of computers and media players) more popular?
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Sep
14
Google’s Chrome captured the browser world headlines this week as the fastest browser with a bunch of cool features.
Chrome was released as a software Beta, and according to Google, is only the beginning. They are relying on feedback from the user community moving forward. Another popular browser, Mozilla’s Firefox has relied on the community for long. Combined, these two browsers control roughly 25% of the browser market share. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is clearly #1.
The blogosphere has come out with a list of features they would like to see on Chrome and Firefox, like the one here. The problem I have with lists like these is that everyone wants to see new features. In this process, the existing features are overlooked, and are not maintained. The existing features have to be made more secure and performance-tuned.
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Sep
12
In addition to other features in Gmail labs introduced recently, there is one feautre which I like the best – the default ‘Reply to All’. How many times have we replied to an email only to realize we forgot to reply-all ?
Check out this, and other features on the official Gmail blog
Sep
5
After a couple of days of heavy use of Google Chrome, the annoyances have started.
Having a link in the page’s HTML source ending with a special character causes the while browser to crash. So much for only the tab crashing.
The bigger and more annoying issue is the fact that I have received the blue screen of death (BSOD) on 3 ocassions. The message seemed like there was an IRQ conflict. Something to do with IRQL not equal. The only thing common to all 3 occurances is that I was using IE and Chrome simultaneously. And both had some sort of media being played – either YouTube videos or forced video ads. At least on one occasion I was listening to Pandora.
I also noticed that Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer has become slow and sluggish after installing Chrome. Go figure.
This is the first post from my mobile phone.
Sep
2
So, I managed to snag Google Chrome 8 minutes before noon PDT (the official release time). The link was live, and I downloaded it in a flash. Currently, people are reporting that the server is under extreme load and they are not able to download it.
Initial thoughts:
- The installation imported my bookmarks automatically without my permission. It only notified me. I’m disappointed with that. If it was a confirmation, it didn’t follow the usability standards.
- The browser opened up quick, unlike most others which take time.
- The rendering of pages was quick, but the fonts on many pages were not smooth – they had jagged edges and were a strain to read. I checked sites like cnn.com, cnbc.com and even Google’s search engine. I’m using Windows XP SP3, on a Dell Latitude D820 with a resolution of 1280×800
- It was a bit difficult to find the task manager built-in to the browser.
- The Acid 2 test passed. The Acid 3 test failed, with a score of 61/100.
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Aug
28
TechieLife is one year old
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TechieLife turned 1 on 28th August. It has been a quiet year, with only one post – on why the iPhone was a hype phone. The article generated a lot of views, but not many comments (I’m rather disappointed with that). Since then, Apple has release the iPhone 3G, which is so much better. Despite the reports of problems with the 3G service and third-party applications crashing, the iPhone 3G is the best celll phone ever to hit the market.
