The main idea for this browser is speed and offline integration with Google’s cloud, allowing offline access to Google Reader or Gmail. From a memory hog standpoint, Chrome seems to hold up better against Firefox 3. Memory issues and leaks are one of my biggest issues with FF. One of the best examples of Chrome/Google Gears is the Myspace power messaging using Gears, allowing for sorting and searching of your Myspace messages using your computer, instead of always requesting the server. The end result are response times that are more like a computer application instead of a webpage. From a web surfing perspective, Chrome is very very fast.

Some other features of Chrome (from CrunchBase):

• Tabbed browsing where each tab gets its own process, leading to faster and more stable browsing. If one tab crashes, the whole browser doesn’t go down with it
• A distinct user interface that places tabs on top of the browser window instead of right below the address bar
• An “incognito” mode that lets you browse the web in complete privacy because it doesn’t record any of your activity
• A new JavaScript engine built from the ground up for speed
• Malware and phishing lists that automatically update themselves and warn you of bad websites
• A default homepage that displays your most commonly used sites and other personalized information

I’m looking forward to testing it out, but will be hard pressed to give up Firefox with its ad blocking, mouse gestures and other handy add-ons.

• Both are pretty much the same technology and interface
• To use Google Reader I need to use my Gmail Google Account
• I can’t import my contacts into any web service since most only offer Gmail/YMail/Hotmail options
• Gmail gets new features before Hosted
• Hosted is handy to create sub-accounts for my domain but I don’t tend to use this

Granted, I don’t know of any way to merge my two accounts and it’s always a pain to have archives floating in different places. Something to look into.

Rumor has it that the bite on the Apple logo was a nod to Alan Turing, the father of modern computer science who committed suicide by eating a cyanide-laced apple. Janoff, however, said in an interview that though he was mindful of the “byte/bite” pun (Apple’s slogan back then: “Byte into an Apple”), he designed the logo as such to “prevent the apple from looking like a cherry tomato.” (Source)

In 1998, supposedly at the insistence of Jobs, who had just returned to the company, Apple replaced the rainbow logo (”the most expensive bloody logo ever designed” said Apple President Mike Scott) with a modern-looking, monochrome logo.

Thanks to TechCrunch.

Got the news first from Fred. Stories on Marketwatch and WSJ.

I tested it out with a PPT file and it uploaded great, and allows for centralized sharing and collaborating.

A pitchy video: