Finally we have our first look at Chrome OS, Google’s own answer to our operating system needs. They are trying to revolutionize the way we look at our system and they asked themselves how they should do it. They practically trashed everything that we used to know as an operating system and started from scratch. It appears to people that Microsoft and Linux are the greatest competitors and Mac and the others follow their lead, but we must keep in mind that once in a while somebody can come up with an elegant solution to our needs.
Many people think that Chrome OS is the one that will make it. But the team at Google is a little skeptical about their success, they even stated that it’s a little funny that Chrome is mentioned as a competitor to Microsoft or any other, they are still away from the launch, and it’s still not stable enough to run without a virtual machine like VMWare or VirtualBox in Linux.
Some of you might ask what the fuss is all about anyways. Well they did rethink the whole system, maybe even a little too much. Do you all remember the simple days when we used to watch movies on our computers and listen to music, hang out doing some writing like I’m doing in this article? Yeah, I know, you are all still doing it like that right now. They think it’s no longer needed the way it is and that the whole system can be based on the web browser you own, and can you please guess on which browser they think, well none other than their own homegrown Chrome.
As it’s becoming clearer, the whole operating system is not just open source, but basic, minimalistic. You can use it to look around on the net, listen to music, watch videos where ever you want or check your mails, chat, send and receive files, share and care. But that’s it. You are limited to browsing and no programs on your PC. To be fair if you know what you are doing you can make your applications into a web site, but it’s very complicated.
So, how do they expect to win over the people. The easiest answer would be that the system is more of an idea for the web books or net books used for browsing around while you are not at home. For that they are perfect, not using too much RAM or HDD memory. The files that Chrome is planning to use is “stateless”, it’s not on your machine, it is only on the internet, ready to be used whenever it’s needed.
hey look nice, but if you don’t see the login screen or the screen with the menu which you can activate with clicking on the chrome icon in the left upper corner, you will think it’s just Chrome browser in Windows.
So what else is changed. They have the same effect as all new operating systems, to drag a program to the side of the screen and make it attached there and automatically compress the other active window to share the screen at the same time. There are some effects for closing applications like the chat or reminders or minimizations. But I could talk about the minor adjusts they did to the almost perfect Chrome browser.
To honest, it’s a great idea. To make the browser the center of your PC space, automatically being on the net when you start up your system, but many of us are more use to the old-school system, where we can install, remove, modify or copy files, burn disks, encode or just be left alone sometimes.
So bravo for the Google team, they have shown their innovative spirit and dedication to a new way of looking at the world. I admire every attempt to improve something that is becoming more of a tradition than a standard. Google has lived up to it’s name and created something that nobody expected. We must pay our respects to these guys because they are always ahead of the competition.
There are some marginal errors in the thought of all our stuff being away from our sight, feeling unsecure about the safety of the server that stores the files etc.
Anyways we need to congratulate on the idea and the effort these guys are doing, because it’s the future, maybe with some compromise but nonetheless it’s what awaits us.
For more sneak preview about Chrome you can visit the links below:
Friday, November 27, 2009
More about Google’s Chrome OS
Top 10 Cell Phones
Apple iPhone 3G 16GB (Black) Cell Phone
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BlackBerry Storm Cell Phone
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LG Vu TV (CU 920) Cell Phone
With the sleek and stunning Vu by LG, you can see the world in a whole new light - check out crystal clear TV, web, pictures, or videos on a large, intuitive touch screen. Get the utmost in mobile entertainment with a music player, 2.0 megapixel camera, video share and Bluetooth capabilities. You can go anywhere or do anything with just a simple touch.
LG Dare Cell Phone
This handset will surpass your expectations with a large 3-inch touch screen that recognizes your handwriting and gives you tactile feedback. Zoom in closer to find a 3.2 megapixels camera/camcorder with a Schneider-Kreuznach lens for outstanding image quality, and advanced features like face detection. Of course, the Dare sounds just as good as it looks with a music player and Bluetooth stereo.
BlackBerry Pearl 8100 Cell Phone
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Palm Pre Cell Phone
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HTC Touch P3450 Cell Phone
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Nokia N97 Cell Phone
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Thursday, November 26, 2009
Weekly IT Events Digest
New IT Events are coming:
International investor & start-up forum ELBA - Moscow, Russia
Started: 27-November-2009
“Bor” Holiday Hotel
Moscow, Russia
In the most popular near Moscow “Bor” holiday hotel of the RF Presidential Property Management Department you may occasionally run into and talk with someone from the guru Runet at the International Forum of Internet projects and investors, and you also may be lucky to personally receive the award from Alexander Plyuschev himself.
Entrepreneurs World Cup
Started: 26-November-2009
Earls Court Exhibition Center
London, UK
The Entrepreneurs World Cup will be host to only the world's BEST speakers and biggest names in the field of Internet Marketing, Sales, Leadership and Wealth Creation. Everyone of our speakers will bring you researched, tried and true, real life techniques they have applied to reach the incredible level of success they have reached today.
The UK Computer and Video Games Industry - seminar in London, UK
Started: 17-February-2010
London, UK
The Computer and Video Games industry in the UK is now bigger than music and movie making, and some of the world's best known titles such as Grand Theft Auto and Tomb Raider, have emanated from development houses in the UK regions.
Affiliate Marketing Training in London, UK
Started: 01-December-2009
BSG House, 226-236 City Road
London, UK
Program affiliation of a well managed, can play a key role in marketing strategies and can provide double-digit increases in sales. However, affiliate marketing, using a website to drive traffic to another is often overlooked by advertisers, because although the principles are clear implementation can present problems.
Complete SEO course in London, UK
Started: 02-March-2010
Highlander Ltd
London, UK
SEO is a day full practice workshop aiming at online retailers, web executives, webmasters, administrators and agency accounts of the campaign managers who want to understand what SEO is and how to plan and implement a SEO campaign for your own website using internal resources or through the involvement of an agency.
Gilbane Boston 2009 Conference
Started: 01-December-2009
The Westin Copley Place
10 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02116, USA
As the lines between content technologies continue to blur, the business implications of their strategies for content must be very clear. You need to turn web content from an integrated platform for customers, partners and employees. You need to understand which outlets social media fit their general content and communication channels. And we must keep down the cost of content management and delivery in ways that do not reduce your company's ability to innovate and grow.
UKOUG Conference Series Technology & E-Business Suite - Birmingham, UK
Started: 30-November-2009
ICC
Birmingham, UK
The UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) has announced its E-Business Suite Technology Conference will be the first event in the UK to launch applications of fusion. To celebrate this, UKOUG is running a drawing for a chance to win up to 10 free passes to see the demonstrations of exclusive application of merger and assist the next event, worth over £ 2,500.
nextMEDIA Toronto Conference
Started: 30-November-2009
Design Exchange
234 Bay St
Toronto, ON M5J, Canada
nextMEDIA is an event two days of intensive networking, learning and development strategies and attracts top executives from the advertising, broadcasting, television production, media buying and interactive agencies.
Developing a Manageable Social Media Strategy - workshop in London, UK
Started: 03-December-2009
CCT Venues
London, UK
This workshop demonstrates the free software, websites and services to help you communicate successfully. You'll learn practical tips and advice to help you overcome obstacles and develop a strategy to put your organization at the forefront of effective social media. The Internet is no longer optional. Also no longer a place for the listing of the websites or broadcast messages. The social network is about conversations and relationships, and if your organization is not there to listen and talk that is being lost.
Adobe Captivate 4 Getting Started - Training Course in London, UK
Started: 04-February-2010
Highlander Ltd
London, UK
Captivate Highlander 4 introductory training is a blended learning solution which combines our 2 days instructor led 4 Getting Started Captivate training course, with 6 months access to our Learning Management System (LMS), as support forums, glossary Captivate exercises and samples, online support and learning from others.
Travel Technology Europe 2010 - London, UK
Started: 09-February-2010
Earls Court
London, UK
Europe’s leading event dedicated to providing innovative and integral technology solutions to decision makers in the travel industry.
IMS 2009: Business Solutions for a Digital World - London, UK
Started: 01-December-2009
Olympia Grand Hall
London, UK
IMS provides a forum for IT, marketing, business and professional information management advice to find the corresponding unlimited educational content and to compare the solutions under one roof.
IMS provides the perfect platform for those interested in content management solutions, search and Web 2.0 technologies. Co-location on-line information of the sample will consist of an exhibition, conference, seminar program floor show attracted over 9,000 visitors from 70 countries worldwide.
SharePoint 2010 Launch - Event in London, UK
Started: 04-December-2009
Institute of Directors, Pall Mall Business Centre
London, UK
As leading experts in the field have been working closely with Microsoft, the evaluation of the first pre-releases, as part of the exclusive, invitation only Test SharePoint Partner Program.
Be the first to learn SharePoint 2010 can help your business!
The International Arab Conference on Information Technology in Sana'a, Yemen
Started: 15-December-2009
Sheraton Sana'a Hotel
Sana'a, Yemen
The International Arab Conference on Information Technology (ACIT) is a technique of specialized scientific conferences. It performs regularly in the Arab homeland. All his organs emerge from the Faculty of Computer and Information Society (CCIS), stemming from the Association of Arab Universities. This conference is considered the official scientific conference for CCIS. Zarqa Private University in Jordan has been selected for permanent residence for its General Secretariat.
IT Reliability Executive Roundtable - Mexico City, Mexico
Started: 07-December-2009
The Four Seasons
Mexico City, Mexico
Global Executive roundtables are private and one-day intensive sessions in emerging markets for corporate executives at the strategic level (usually MD and higher) and senior government officials in the technology segment. The sessions are limited to small groups of selected participants who are interested in discussing and benchmarking strategies and accepted methodologies for implementing a complete IT infrastructure reliability of the system under his command. The sessions are led by the Global CEO Reliability & T Business Continuity Specialist Matthew Davis, and focus on real world performance in a corporate environment or government.
3rd Mobile Commerce Summit Asia 2010
Started: 24-March-2010
Manila, Philippines
3rd Mobile Commerce Summit Asia 2010
“The Futuristic Exploration of Next Generation Mobile Commerce Services”
Event Overview:
The changing landscape of consumer lifestyle is one of the biggest factor in the evolution mobile commerce in the world. The fast pacing transition of payment services and systems, which are often viewed to be the “umbilical cord” of the whole financial services ecosystem that links all stakeholders; telco, banks, retailers, technology/solution providers and consumer together.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Download Google Chrome OS Beta Released Publicly
The Google OS promises that the Beta will be a ground for improvement on the final retail release. They intend to bring a fresh face to the world of operating systems, and if anyone can do it, Google can.
Although for years there has been multiple open source operating systems based upon the Unix/Linux code, this new found OS intends to bring you a chance to try something new, with ease, and innovation.
Google has yet to fail at impressing it's fans with it's products, such as the Chrome browser, which is blazing fast, open source, and creative. Gmail still stands as one of the most efficient web based email clients available. The Android mobile operating systems has began a new frontier in mobile operating systems, and intends to directly challenge the like's of Blackberry's RIM OS.
So what more can Google do, but step up to the plate as a challenger to Microsoft? Well there is a lot it will need to do to every actually be a threat to the Windows operating system. For years variants of Linux have been free, but little opposition to Window's ease-of-access platform. Also in the modern age, the majority of software and applications are developed for Window's based PC's, and running variants on virtual machines or emulators for Unix-coded operating systems can prove challenging for many.
For the Beta, ComputerWorld wrote: "To run the Chrome OS build, users must launch a virtual machine client, such as VMware's Workstation, or for the Mac, Fusion, then install Chrome in a new virtual machine. VMware offers free 30-day trials of both Workstation 7 and Fusion 3 on its site. The free VirtualBox, a Sun-hosted open-source virtual machine, does the trick as well, users said on the file-sharing sites." So in fact, they intended it to be distributed to the masses, and see how it's received amongst the community.
There are no "official" directions as to how to run the OS in a virtual machine, although many users already will know how. If you are one whom does not understand the workings of a virtual machine, VirtualBox is a free program which works wonders for such a task.
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
If anyone is interested in giving it a run for it's money, you can download the torrent directly here from ET, from my account. Try it out, if you feel the urge, and let Google know any suggestions or bugs you may find. They need your input, and hopefully, they'll be successful in this venture, so the monopoly of operating systems is no more.
Video Link
To download the Google Chrome OS Beta Image, Simply go to this link:
Extratorrent Link:-
http://extratorrent.com/torrent/2155246/Google.Chrome.OS.VMDK.2009%7BExtraTorrent%7D-0b5c3n3.html