[Video] Google is Darth Vader
A 3-minutes video provide everything you need to know about Google. The conclusion is Google = Darth Vader! This video seems overact the dangers of Google.
How about Microsoft, which Star Wars villains should it be?
A 3-minutes video provide everything you need to know about Google. The conclusion is Google = Darth Vader! This video seems overact the dangers of Google.
How about Microsoft, which Star Wars villains should it be?
Last week, Google announced the Nexus One phone. It is exciting news for consumers in Singapore, as we are lucky together with UK, HK and USA in the early adopter country list. I guess most of people have seen all the great things of what Nexus One can do, including turn-by-turn navigation, astonishing LCD screen, sexy and yet elegant design, super smooth UI and more.
Despite all good things you have heard, there are still a few points you need to aware of before placing order for your new Google Nexus One.
1. Only 190MB out of the 4GB space is allocated for Android Apps
The Nexus One allots only 190MB of its overall 4.5GB of memory for storing mobile apps, a tiny fraction of the app storage available on the Apple device.
source: GigaOM
This really depends how huge the file size of each apps. If each of the Android apps is around 10MB, then you could only get 19 apps installed on your phone. That would be quite miserable situation for such an advance smartphone. However, on Google side, they said they will address this issue and in near future allow the app storage on external flash card.
Google has this advertising agency behind brilliantly created an interesting 4 minutes short advertisement video of Google Chrome Features. It looks definitely like a Common Craft explaining things in Plain English video; however they took a step further by conveying the message with motion and without any dialog.
We love Google; Google loves our information even more. Recently, Google has gone one step closer into our digital life. Google introduced their latest service, public Domain Name System (DNS). Web surfers might come across DNS this word, but don’t actually know what it means. Here a simple explanation of DNS from Google and why is it matter.
The DNS protocol is an important part of the web’s infrastructure, serving as the Internet’s phone book: every time you visit a website, your computer performs a DNS lookup. Complex pages often require multiple DNS lookups before they start loading, so your computer may be performing hundreds of lookups a day.
Times when I troubleshoot the network and need to manual edit the DNS, I found myself having problem remember DNS server IP, common one such as Starhub ISP or OpenDNS. But Google has brilliantly chosen the easiest IP could be remembered – 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
If you don’t know how to change your DNS, you can check out this instruction – here. You can choose to either set it on your OS or inside the setting of your router.
It is not surprise to see Google announced their own programming language, since they already have so many world-best programmers. The features and style of the syntax of this language, just like what Techcrunch mentioned, it is a combinations of Python and C++.
Quoted from their official web site http://golang.org/. GO is said to be simple, fast, safe, concurrent, fun and the most it is open source! It is distributed under a BSD-style license.
An official Go programming video, highlights that the compilation speed of GO. It is really quite terrible compilation waiting time. I was facing the similar in my early career. However, now I’m lucky, my development now is only concern about PHP and Python.
I have been using Google Wave for almost a month. I met some new friends, having some sort of collaboration on wave. Google Wave to me looks like the combinations of Google Group and forum style. I haven’t really looked into the opportunity of developing widgets or robots for Wave.
Attended the last Singapore Google Technology User Group, found out quite a lot geeks in Singapore still haven’t got their Wave accounts yet.
I still have 7 invitations left, not much. Anyone who want to try out just leave comments, write your email address on the email field (not the comment field if you don’t want to get spam).
If you have blog, please spread the word of my blog in any form. Just in case the response is overwhelming, the invitations will then be given out to the creative one or with link back to my blog.
UPDATED: The deadline won’t be far, until this coming weekend 08 Nov.
UPDATED: 08-Nov-09: 7 Google Wave Invitations have sent to @Matt Sunday, @Patrick, @international helper,@cho,@Horse, @威, @ww. I will keep sending out invitation to those commented in this post if I have extra invitations.
UPDATED: 10-Nov-09: 30 Google Wave Invitations had sent out. Wait for next round invitations!
