http://www.geekrant.org Wed, 03 Sep 2008 06:20:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Initial impressions of Chrome. Don't mind the interface, but did we really need another non-OS-standard Close button? Seems to periodically pause, doing something under the hood. At first I thought half my tabs had crashed. Renders nicely. Has problems playing YouTube videos. Embedded clips don't display. On Youtube itself, it says "Video not available", ... http://www.geekrant.org/2008/09/03/chrome-initial-impressions/ Google launches its own web browser, Chrome, sometime today. Beta for Windows initially. Sounds good though. Google blog announcement. Amusing comic explaining what it is. (thanks for the prompt, Tony) Separate tabs in separate processes? Love it. (I'm still having problems with The Age's video player; even after a remove/re-install of Firefox and Flash. ... http://www.geekrant.org/2008/09/02/google-chrome-coming-soon/ I've been getting an extraordinary amount of spam bounce email. One mailbox got thousands and thousands over the weekend, and I know I'm not the only one. Which means of course that my address is being used in vain by some git of a spammer. Unfortunately my spam detection software isn't so ... http://www.geekrant.org/2008/08/19/spam-bounces/ http://www.geekrant.org/2008/08/12/rss-feed-fail/ Trying to make location descriptions parseable in Google Maps (eg for putting in Google Calendar)? Include the state and country, even abbreviated, so it doesn't default to DefaultTown, USA. And put the human-descriptive bit of it in parenthesis. After the computer-parseable bit of the address works okay. So even though the locals ... http://www.geekrant.org/2008/08/11/gmaps-parseable-locations/