Okay, I know that Zohner posted a few months ago about his Logitech Harmony One, but I have to add to the hype because I am a long time fan of Logitech, and I just upgraded from the Advanced model (for Xbox 360) to the 890 model
Now, on top of all of the Harmony’s hype, this model includes an RF Extender. This means that the components I don’t need direct physical access to, I can hide. I can also control my entertainment center without worrying about line-of-sight, or I can be in a different room.
Another feature that I like about this one that I didn’t have in the last one is that I can set favorite channels with customized icons. When I am in the “Watch TV” activity, for example, I have quick access to my favorite HD channels: History HD and Discovery HD.
If you love Halo 3, and would like to participate in a new style of playing, then join Halo Olympics! I just launched the site today, and we are planning a lot of exciting venues in the future.
What is Halo Olympics you ask? Well, I came up with the idea a while ago when I was taking screenshots of a multiplayer match I played online. I came across this one posted here of my character doing an arial through the air. I got the idea of creating a Halo Olympic club where we would do whacky things like Arial Jumping. It doesn’t stop there though. The amount of things we can do in Halo is only limited by our creativity, and the number of people that help.
I have been feverishly playing with Google Chrome for about six weeks now. One of those weeks I dedicated exclusively to Chrome, where I didn’t use any other browser. In that one week, I not only found out more about Chrome, but now, Chrome and I are BFFs! The only time I use the other browsers is to test web pages Iam developing. Well, and to play on Facebook, since Facebook and Chrome don’t play nice yet (more on that later). So here is a simple, watered down, not-so-short, preview of Chrome and Chromium (it’s open source counterpart). Some of this content may be a bit biased because I’ve been pro-Google since GMail was introduced, and I’m voting for Google 2008.
Okay, on with the review. After each feature review, I will also rate that feature on a scale of 1 to 10…
Our good friends at Google have been working on a browser elegantly named Chrome. This open-sourced browser boasts features that are fairly new to the browser scene. Google’s blog post introducing Chrome emphasizes the importance to starting over new with a web browser because the web has evolved from simple text html pages to rich, interactive applications. In order to better illustrate how the idea came about, and what has gone into creating this application, Google’s Scott McCloud has created a comic book available for reading here.
One of the first features they illustrate is that Chrome separates each browsing tab into its own process. Each process has its own memory and its own copy of the global data structures, thereby making it easier to maintain browsing integrity within each separate tabs, making memory management smoother and quicker, and allowing web applications to run independently from others so one bad javascript won’t crash other tabs. A tab task manager is also available so you can see which sites are using more memory than others. These are only a few benefits to having multiple processes within the browser.
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