An easy going blog of everything and anything technology.
Aug 12 2009
Like most other geeks, I love anything to do with space, especially when its technology and space!
Here is a fantastic video showing how Hubbles Ultra Deep Field works and some of the resulting images from this technology.
If like me your a star gazer, then its well worth a watch;
Aug 07 2009
I gave my quick impressions of my new Palm Treo Pro a while ago now but wanted to follow up with a few notes of the browsing experience. When I switched to the Treo Pro I also switched browser from Opera Mobile to Iris Browser, a lightweight webkit based browser.
Since the switch I haven’t looked back and for a number of reasons. First off when I say lightweight I mean incredibly so, even with multiple tabs open only a fraction of the memory when compared to Opera Mobile and at no loss of performance or in anyway reducing the experience. The rendering is fast, probably the fastest I have experienced of the non server side rendered browsers. This coupled with the better HSDPA signal when using the Treo Pro mean that I am using my device for more and more browsing.
One of the other interesting points to note is a recent update to version 1.1.9 has changed the way certain sites are displayed. When visiting m.facebook.com or google.co.uk/reader I now receive the iphone version of these mobile sites, which is a far better experience that the standard mobile versions of these sites. I hate to say that I’m grateful to Apple for giving the web masters of these sites an excuse to build a custom version for the iphone but in this case its a real bonus.
All of the above points are really making a case for me switching to the Treo Pro from my trust HTC Diamond on a permanent basis.
Jul 08 2009
We’ve loved Google Chrome for its speed, sure its missing a whole bucket load of features compared to Internet Explorer 8 and has no extensions like Mozilla’s Firefox but its architecture and speed make it a lot appealing to me compared to the rest.
When Google announced Chrome, there was a fair amount of speculation that it was the start of the project which could be aiming towards a browser operating system, a instant on way of accessing the web and making use of the many excellent web applications available now.
Well yesterday Google confirmed what we believed to be so and announced Google Chrome OS.
“Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.”
I think this is a real game changer, with the project being open source, netbook manufacturers once again have the opportunity to provide lower cost netbooks without the hassle of having to make users learn a new operating system like Linux and with the backing of a company like Google. Not only that but Googles pledge to make it ARM compatible is fairly major in itself, with ultra high efficient ARM chips running at 1Ghz like the Qualcomm Snapdragon, you open up all sorts of all day battery devices.
Its some very interesting news and I personally look forward to seeing the fruits of this challenge.