It’s been just a little over a year since the mystical Blue Systems started sponsoring development of ReKonq. Blue Systems is second only to the KDE e.V. in platform investment, sponsoring not only numerous core applications, but multiple distributions as well. ReKonq has come a long way since 0.9.2 (May 2012) and with the help [...]
Lenovo Enters The Chromebook Game, Lends Credibility
ThinkPad X131e Chromebook The Chromebook is now officially 2 years old, with the original model CR-48 officially long-in-the-tooth and left behind. After the initially testing period of the CR-48, Samsung and Acer have made their best, and different efforts at selling the platform for outrageously low prices. Since the release of Samsung and Acer’s latest [...]
Chromebox Review: A Ketchup & Salt Affair
Foreword I recently had some time to become intimate with everything Chromebox. Powerbase contributor Sean Catlin was nice enough to surrender the device to me for a while so that I could figure out the absolute best way to rail on it in the span of 2500 words or so. I’m joking, actually. My intention [...]
Is Google Burying Firefox With User Agent Strings?
What’s The Story? I’ve been using Google Chrome for Linux since it was first made available. I use Gmail, Google Docs (now Drive), Google Plus, Google Adsense, Google Analytics, Google Music, and many more. I am the original owner of an original CR-48 Chromebook, having received mine way back in Dec. 2010. I promote Google [...]
Chrome For Android Update Not Working On Custom ROMs
UPDATE: Further reports seem to indicate that the problem isn’t the ROM, but the actual device it’s running on. Devices with official versions of ICS such as the Nexus S or Galaxy Nexus can run Chrome no matter what ROM they have installed, but devices which don’t have an official version of ICS but are [...]
Google Screenwise: Your Privacy Is Worth $25.
“If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, eighty-five percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated.” – Orwell, 1984 Google’s new program “Screenwise” aims to watch your browsing habitats in an unlimited and unmitigated fashion for [...]
Chrome For Android Beta Released, Torments Gingerbread Users
It’s been blogged about, hinted at, and begged for, and now finally it’s here: today Google has released Chrome for Android. Unfortunately, it probably doesn’t run on your phone. In a move that’s more disappointing than surprising, Chrome for Android currently only works on phones and tablets running Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich”, the latest release [...]
Google Chrome Getting a Terminal Soon!
In a message at src.chromium.org, the open-source parent to Google’s Chrome browser, user Rginda posted the following: Log Message: Initial landing of Screen, Terminal, and VT100 classes. Some of this code is based on Cory Maccarrone’s html terminal, developed internally in Google as part of a different project. Thanks to Cory for allowing us to [...]