Minority Report fans rejoice! The wait is finally over.

Introducing the awesomely cool Oblong.

Now if only Lexus gives us these set of wheels.

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My 5+ year old laptop with AMD Sempron 2800+ processor and 704 MB of free RAM could not handle the resources that Chrome demanded.   As reviewed here Chrome did show an unusual high usage of CPU power.

To summarize here are couple of disadvantages -

• High CPU usage
• No memory advantage, one of the problems with firefox is the memory leaks - there are suggestions on forums to fix that for firefox, but Chrome is still new
• No Addons - Firefox had a big advantage - fireftp is something I use almost daily and stumbleupon - well we all have to kill some time that we don’t have

still a Google fan, will keep a watch on it and wait till they bring Chrome out of beta

Adios Chrome!

Came across this video while browsing - reminded me of Nihar and Tripti - I am sure they will find this blog very tasty!

Sure it will cost $505.99.
No, why it only costs $200 in US.
Sure if you are willing to steal it!

My brown Indian bros.. here is how it works -

You walk in the funky looking iStore, pick the cool looking iPhone (8GB) after talking to the people dressed in blue iT-shirts (the geniuses as they like to call themselves, so much for being modest) at an ultra cheap price of $199.00 + $15 (7.5% taxes).

The iGenius now asks you to activate the phone with a 2 year contract, they have these orange iT-shirt dudes (don’t know what they are called) to stop you from taking the phone outside the store without activating.  You activate it at $35 and pay the first month due of $69.99/month + some million type of taxes = $81.99.  Your total so far = $330.99

aha .. freedom - or so you think.

Now either you keep paying $69.99 per month or since you are buying the phone for someone in India you decide to deactivate your contract by paying $175.  Your total my friend comes out to be = $505.99 + unlocking the phone.

Cost of owning an iPhone from US (@$1 = Rs.43) = Rs. 21,757.57  + unlocking + no-warranties + customs chori + read the confidentiality agreement that At&t makes you sign, I am sure there is something illegal about unlocking the phone.

Cost of owning an iPhone from India = Rs. 31,000 + mental peace for me

Google launched ‘Chrome’ - the google browser - and like everything else that is Google, I had to test drive the shinny new chrome the very first day it was available.

First impressions :

Its fast, its clean - its everybit Google!

Neat Features :

• No wastage of expensive browser space with a bar on top
• Tabs are just clean and works like magic (unlike IE7).
• Dragging a tab outside opens a new window
• Each tab is a process in itself so you can kill something that hangs up without affecting other tabs (i.e. if you can figure out the bad one from the list of chrome.exe)

Things that I didn’t like so much :
• Bookmarks disappear when you open a website on a tab, to access them you have to open a new tab (an extra click)
• No adons
• CPU usage (see below)
• Different processes for each tab is a neat feature, but no id for the right tab to kill, its all “chrome.exe”.

So the big question is - DO I SWITCH FROM FIREFOX or OPERA or FLOCK or MAXTHON, or SAFARI, or even IE7?

Firefox had issues with memory usage, so lets compare that. I ran Chrome, Firefox and IE7 with 4 active websites and an empty tab - here is what we see

While the memory usage isn’t bad, its not too good either. Alarming thing is the CPU usage. I don’t know if I would sacrifice 50% of my cpu usage towards a better browsing experience - when Firefox isn’t really doing a bad job at that and besides I will miss stumbling.

Surely Chrome is my default browser at the moment, lets see how long it retains the position.

A nifty new plugin from Mozilla will forever change the way you browse the web.

(Composing emails was never so much fun).

Download the alpha from http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/

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This is one interesting/silly (depends how you see it) game for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

The objective us to keep the cows from drowning using a little, red raft when they take their leaps of death.

The game has a certain level of predictability and there is a definite pattern in the jump sequences when there are more than one cows jumping across the river. It’s just that the raft, which can be moved using a finger markedly lags behind the finger movement resulting in the poor cows’ untimely demise.

A fun game nonetheless — if you’re not easily annoyed by the constant mooing :). Here’s a screenshot of my highest score so far.

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I was disappointed with the Wordpress app for the iPhone (it works alright…but not on blogs with the older WP version).

This post is to check if Posterous really delivers what it promises. :)

A random pic from my photo album is uploaded for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy!!

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Update: It works like a charm :)…the mobile blogger inside of me is very, very delighted

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