Introducing Chromebook

During the Google I/O 2011 Day 2 Keynote, they announced the launching of Chromebook this coming June 15, 2011 in the first seven countries – USA, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and the UK. Chromebook in other regions will be available soon.

It is not a laptop, not a computer as well but gives you access to the web. With the current trend of mobile and cloud computing, Chromebook is just appropriate to web users. It is also optimized for educational, business and government institution use. And, you can get this at a monthly subscriptions fee at $28/user for businesses and $20/user for school. This fee includes technical support and hardware warranty.

With millions of Chrome users around the web, migration to this system is easy since it uses the powerful Chrome browser itself, with lots of new features, to manage and go around the system. Now, I am planning to get one for educational and business use. Chromenotebook is simple, fast, and secure which makes it less of a burden in managing it if you’re not that techie.

Visit the official Chromebook website for more technical details.

Whois Tool: My First Google Chrome Extension

Finally, I was able to explore a little of the Google Chrome Extension development. Basically, if you know web development (HTML, JS, CSS, etc.) you’ll surely find it easy to do your own Chrome Extension.

The tool I created is a simple Whois tool. The extension directs you to the GoDaddy.com Whois page if you want to know the registry entry of the current page you’re viewing. So, if you’re using Google Chrome browser, download and try my simple tool.

For those who want to publish your Chrome Extension, you need to pay a one time Chrome Extensions Gallery Developer Registration Fee of $5.00 and after that you can publish any number of extensions.

Click this link if you want to start learning on how to.

OneComics: How Microsoft OS transformed to Google Chrome OS?

Here’s a cool and interesting comic by an Italian cartoonist, Federico Fieni. Some says that this comic predicted the future of the upcoming Google Chrome OS, how Google to challenge Microsoft’s Windows in being the dominant operating system.

Image Credit: Frederico Fieni 2008 via OneComics

Using the Microsoft’s Windows OS logo, the Google cartoon character crumpled it and turned it into the Google Chrome OS logo. Interesting!

[ via Mashable ]

Google Chrome OS Announced

Announced earlier Wednesday, Google made a clear challenge to Microsoft by announcing their new project — creating a new operating system, the Google Chrome OS. After launching Google Chrome browser last year, having it lightweight, secured and fast; now, Google Chrome OS will try to take your operating system experience in a different level. As it is an open source project, Google aims as well to deliver lightweight, secured and portable OS which targets to be ported to netbooks which is going popular in the market and of course desktops.

Note that this is not the official screenshot of the Google Chrome OS.
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Google Chrome Beta

Why is everyone over with the new Google Chrome (beta) Browser? Is it that it’s a new thing to play with? Perhaps, and yes I am over with it too right now. Over my Plurk timeline, I see updates from my friends saying that they are enjoying and impressed with the performance of Google Chrome, espcially the speed. I, too, am impressed with it with its sleek design and currently greatful to use it.I have downloaded Chrome since it went live for public download. I also referred some friends to try it out. Majority says that they are playing nice with Google Chrome but few says they’re much comfortable with Firefox. “I will wait Google Chrome to release its verson 1. Will wait until they fix some bugs during the beta version.” as one of my friends asserted. Fine, then.

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