Google In The Sky With Diamonds

So Chrome OS is just around the corner, Chrome is a very nice browser and GDrive seems to be near a launch alongside the OS. Net result? Soon I will be living in the Google Clouds and possibly have a much less “OMG MY HARDRIVE BROKE AND EVERYTHING I HAVE EVER DONE ON MY PC IS GONE!” moments. The future is trusting your data vendor people.

“Living is easy with in-the-cloud backup AND eyes closed to privacy issues”

FlashForward is more like LameForward

The “new” hit series this fall is apparently FlashForward. I watched it for about 20 minutes and decided on the following:
It sucks.

The reason is simple. It’s a tv show that was 100% guaranted created like this:
Producer guy – We want to make a show that’s Lost + 24.
Network guy – Done.

And thus FlashForward was born and odly enough watching it will make you FlashBackwards to the mysteries of Lost and the intense suspense of 24 all while making you NauseateForward towards the nearest toilet.

New Blog

So I started a new blog, yes it’s lame I know. I started it because I wanted to have a pure dev/tech blog and make this blog more about random stuff. Here is the site itself:

Stuff And Tech

Also I like blogspot much better then wordpress. So far anyways.

HTC Hero Review (finally!)

Since august I have  been sporting the HTC Hero Android smartphone. Ever since I got my grabby gagdet hands on the device I have been itching to write down my 2 cents on the thing and now I’m finally writing it, I’m late to the party I know, but there are a couple of reasons I ended up writing this late. Reason number 1. was that I wanted to write it based on the firmware update that HTC released shortly after release that made the whole user experience drastically better by making everythin faster. Reason number 2. was that in order to aply this update I had to use a windows PC and I did not have this handy until recently. Ok, here goes my review:

Finally I review the HTC Hero (because I knew you where holding you’r breath)

Minor Major Rants and stuff

Just some stuff that’s been on my mind:

Office Live

So Microsoft has launched Office Live which is supposedly their answer to Google Docs. I have tested it for about 5 minutes and I conclude that it is worthless. You need a plugin to be able to edit documents, wich 1) I don’t want and 2) defeats the purpose of online documents in the first place. With Google Docs I just need a browser and the net and I’m all good. If I have to download plugins everytime then I’m back a square one, a online webfolder would be just as much “office live” as that.

Suddenly I remember why I don’t use Office anymore

HTC Hero Update

You need Windows to update you’r Android phone. This is fail in so many many ways. I will someday update my HTC Hero, I have no idea when this will be.

Google Wave IE Quickfix

I’m really looking forward to Google Wave, in the meantime I was delighted to read that Google has fixed the “IE problem” for hopefully everyone by making a plugin that gives IE the power of HTML 5. Check out the blogpost and kudos to Google for fixing IE (hopefully).

HTC Hero review update

Seeing as the HTC Hero Norwegian update has arrived I will wait with my review until I have installed and tested this. As a quick note I will say that to require Windows OS to update a Android based phone is FAIL on a large scale.

From one Google Account To The Next

These last past weeks I have been running a project called: “Changing Google Accounts”. I’m changing from the lame name+nick@gmail.com email to name.lastname@gmail.com instead. The change has gone quite smoothly thanks to a bunch of small tricks and hacks. Here are some of them that I haven’t forgotten already:

Gmail:

• Activate POP3 on you’r old Gmail and import all your old mail from the new one (takes time!)
• Add your old gmail as a sendmail option in you’r new account
• Forward your old gmail mail to your new one
• Use a filter with is:unread in the “Has the words” field and mark those as read

Google Reader

• Export you’r old feeds and import them in your new one

Google Docs

• Select all you’r items and share them with your new account (buggy!)
• Change ownership (more buggy!)

Google Calendar

• Share your calendars with your new account

Those are the ones I have so far. As for ALOT of other google account stuff I’m kinda struggling trough it. Tasks is spanking new (but still nice) so I’m just copy pasting. Google Sites should work with sharing. All in all the transition was smoother then I had feared and I’m regretting that I didn’t change accounts sooner.

Adventures in modern browsing

So finally Google Chrome for OS X (in very alpha release) got flash support, thereby making it actually usefull as a web browser. After a couple of days (and several hours) of use I have some things to say about it.

All hail the mighty Google Chrome Browser!

Quake Live For Mac

Finally Quake Live is available for Mac. It works very very well and I’m sitting on a crappy 2.0 Ghz Macbook with intel GMA 95 integrated graphics (I do have 4 gigs of RAM tough). It is nice to se a gaming company that pushes the envelope on what is possible with a “web-browser” game (it requires a custom plug-in). Also with more and more nice web-based games like Heroes of Might and Magic Kingdoms (cooming soon I hope) and Battlefield Heroes I can add games to my list of “it lives in the cloud” systems.

This has no category

And the reason is that categories are kinda lame. Tags are more free and with several of them you are more likely to cover the subject more accuratly then one single category. I shall try to remove categories from my blog asap.