After a long time, I am just stopping here to say that I am active in Twitter. Apart from the updates here I am investing some time in exploring into the ever famous Ruby on Rails.

Well past two months have been a little busy workwise. Got a new manager. Preparing for the big Software conference thats happening next week, and many more things that needs no mention here. Now that we are well into the last quarter of the year, things should ease out soon.. I am hoping to do more frequent updates here.  Oh and btw, i am enjoying the touchsmart pc in the kitchen. so far so good…

Today, 5th of September, my wife and I celebrate our wedding anniversary. Its been some of the best moments of our life together. To commomerate this day, my wife surprised me with this wonderful piece of technology..

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While most of the Americans are getting back to work after the labor day (that marks the end of summer), Google blogs about its open source browser, Google Chrome with a comic that explains the whole architecture behind this browser.

I had to wait for all the morning for Google to release the download of Chrome. And yes, it was 12:00 Noon and Google Chrome site started working with a link to download. This browser is getting released simultaneously in over 100 countries and it has various language options too. I saw Hindi in there. 

Chrome uses Google Gears framework and the installation was pretty smooth with no noticeable dialogs to fillup.  The interface looks clean and as many others have noted, the tabs are above the window. There is an option to import all the settings from firefox, which is good. One of the features I like the best is the memory stats that this browser provides. You can use this to see if there is any extension or any tab that leaks memory.

For the nerds, it even has a detailed performance metric that compares with other browsers if they are open. I tried this test with opening the same two pages in Chrome and Firefox and the results are here..

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And Chrome also allows you to create application shortcuts. Application shortcuts are similar to saving links to your desktop, however, now the links open with a self contained window without any toolbars and such. For those of you who wish GMail was an app or GDocs was an app. You can now create applications for all Google products you like (Maps, YouTube, Calendar, etc) and its not constrained to Google alone, you can do this for any webpage that you like.

Well, I hope browser extensions are allowed for Chrome and I get some good extensions come into Chrome.

Enjoy downloading Chrome guys.. 

hmm.. after watching Kuselan.. its been kinda low for the past two weeks to talk about anything here..I dont want to bring the thought of that money theft now..

Happy Independence Day to all Indians out there… to all 1.2 Billion and counting people.. Lets be proud of India.

It’s Friday and we are in the theatre to watch Kuselan. Good to see the local distributors chose cinemark to screen the movie. Dasavatharam was screened here too. Alright, I’ll watch thalaivars movie and see how it fares.

Got to go…

Finally the wordpress app for iPhone is out today. I was waiting for this app to be released since I heard about this in Steve’s keynote. Well it’s here now and I intend to explore all features of this app. Testing the post with a photo from my library.

I know monday morning blues… is there a friday morning blues !! Well it happened to me today. This morning when I woke up, I was greeted by a message in my iTunes with something like this..

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The “Technology Early Adopter” part of me immediately wanted to try it. I clicked the Download and Install button. iTunes got into action immediately by downloading the iPhone OS 2.0 (About 214Mb), and backed up my current settings and installed the new version. However, when time came to activate the phone with this new software, guess what shows up.. ” AN UNKNOWN ERROR”.  uh OH….

I had to call up iPhone support to confirm that its actually iTunes server issue rather than mine. Digged up google and found there were fellow iPhone owners facing the same issue. Gave me a  sigh of relief. 

So now I am carrying a bricked iPhone and have to wait until evening when I get back home to see if iTunes server is up and activating.. Feel bad that Apple chose a wrong day to release both iPhone 3G and iPhone OS 2.0.

Like me, many of us cannot live a day without using atleast one of Google’s products. What surprises me is that, half their products are in Beta and still the usability part of those products are great. I have been one of the first adopters to many of Google Labs products. One such thing was Browser Sync.

I loved the idea to keep my bookmarks and browser history sync’d across computers. I might be researching on something during the end-of-day work hours and would absolutely love to go home, fire up the browser to see the same page open up for me.

Ever since, Mozilla foundation started rolling out the betas and release candidates for Firefox 3, Browser sync started seeing its end of days.. It was not supported for FF3. I waited until Firefox3 was officially released few weeks ago, so that I could check if Google was going to update the plugin. Well Google thought otherwise. I then jumped on to Foxmarks as my next alternative to keep my bookmarks synced.

Today, Slashdot told me that Google’s Browsersync is now opensourced. I am glad that Google did this and appreciate them for that. I for one definitely like to browse the source for this nifty plugin and keep my fingers crossed for someone to expand this with other neat features and support for future browsers.

Google’s Browser Sync Source &  Blog Post about the opensource. Time to code crunch ;-)

While this day started out to be a lazy one, I was greeted with a wonderful message from the Google Reader. Yes I spend my brushing time with Google Reader in the morning ;-). To my surprise, I saw GTalk released for IPhone. whooo whoo ! Just go to www.google.com/talk from your iPhone browser or you can go to http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/talk/ and enter your phone number for Google to send you a link to your Iphone via SMS.

I tested this out immediately with my iPhone, and what a pleasant surprise ! Loaded up beautifully and worked like a charm. Bringing GTalk to iPhone was one of the best apps that Google ported for this device. Screenshots from Google Talk here..

One more thing I liked about Google for Iphone is the icons for the home screen.. with GTalk, I got this .

Talk to you all in GTalk from iPhone..