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I’m falling for Chrome

posted at 7:20 am

I’ve resisted Google Chrome over the last year, primarily because it hasn’t been extensible. Well, that’s all changed. I’m running the development version of Chrome, Chromium, on my Mac, and starting to add extensions to it. (You can’t add extensions to the “official” Mac beta.) The speed is incredible, and makes the formerly nimble Firefox feel like it’s got a boat anchor attached to it. If you’re frustrated with Firefox, Chrome is an increasingly good option for any platform — Windows, Mac, and Linux. Try it out.

Street View launches in a lot of South Carolina

Posted at 5:30 pm / tagged: , , , / 3 comments »

Google Maps apparently launched Street View in a bunch of new places, including South Carolina. People are having a lot of fun with Street View, and rightfully so. It’s really awesome, if not a tad outdated: the Street View of parts of the College of Charleston campus, for instance, shows a parking lot that has been a construction site for the last year and a half.

Here’s my last downtown apartment — this one is within the last year or so, as those cars are my old roommates’. I can’t get my first downtown apartment — they didn’t get onto all of the side streets downtown with the Street View car, apparently. It’s still neat, though — it’s fun to try to guess the dates on these things. It’s also fun to chase the USF truck down Calhoun Street.

All in all, it’s fun when we get cool stuff like this because it usually takes a while. :) What do you think of Street View?

Thoughts on Cuil, In Pictures

Posted at 12:24 pm / tagged: , , , , / 4 comments »

Apparently some former Google folk decided they could do search better. Enter Cuil, which is becoming a synonym for fail.

ROC for Fail

UPDATE(S):

Also, if you find this story worthy, please give it an ol’ Digg. :)

Google Creek?

Posted at 6:18 pm / tagged: , , , , / 6 comments »

Was browsing through the City Paper’s excellent blog and caught this potentially amazing news for tech in the Charleston area — could it be? Could Google expand into Goose Creek? That’d sure be a great alternative to the current stable (or lack thereof) of jobs that a computer science student wishing to stay in the area could take…