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”

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).

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!

Chrome OS X

This is posted from Chrome OS X 4.0.202.0 with f-in flash support! If de.li.ici.ous makes a plugin for this I’m throwing Firefox out the dock.

Browser Wars 2009

In 2009 there are several excellent browsers fighting for a user base in the world of OS X. The contenders are diverse and confusing. The newbie Chrome stands to win or loose it all. There can be only one system prefered browser, who will it be?

Wich one do you like for this?

More Google Stuff

Google I/O keeps on truckin and new stuff and old new stuff keeps popping on my reader radar. As I result I made “The Wall” site simply by adding this thing from Google Web Elements, kinda cool and also kinda 1998 but what the heck huh? Also this nifty maps thingie. Very handy for “I live here” statements.

The One To Rule Them All?

Will this replace everything? Or will it act as a hub for everything? Will it change the way people communicate? Only the future and Google knows.

I want Android on my Mini v10 Netbook to!

Just saw this sweet little video from Dell that shows of the Dell Mini v10 running Ubuntu, Ubuntu Netbook Remix and friggin Google Android! I want one with touchscreen asap!