My Mac is Back!
Finally! After waiting for three weeks, my Mac finally return to me. Finally food will taste nice again, and i won’t wake up after hours of nightmares 
.
Ademac store charged me for the keyboard i ruined with a 270 euros glass of water, but managed to change the mother board under the Apple Care warranty. Sweet, i have to say (otherwise, who knows… maybe i would be writing from an IMac 27 inches right now… )
Now that i am back, i have a lot of articles in mind, about
- Sarajevo, Dubrovnik and Kotor (finally!)
- Google dependency
- how much time and money are related to me
- …
So stay tunes, follow me on twitter, or via RSS, and enjoy your stay!
Nicolas
Google Chrome for Mac
Yesterday was (finally!) released Google Chrome for Mac.
I had heard about Chrome for some time now, but well, i have a Mac, and at work we are behind lots of security rules that prevent us to install anything. So i never really put my hands onto it. But finally, yesterday it came out.
Another Google tool to try out… and add to my collection of everyday Web apps? (GMail, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google Reader, Google Analytics, …). Nothing sure yet.
Chrome
Let’s see.
Installation, all good. First launch, all good, all my bookmars and form entries are retrieved from Firefox, i connect to my Gmail, it seems to go a little bit faster. I try Twitter… and surprise, it cannot be accessed. But neither is it possible with Firefox, so…
I run some basic tests: counting the time to fully download a page, Chrome looks slightly faster. It is also less prone to failure and crashes: each tab runs in its own process, meaning that if one tab is blocked, you can just close the tab / kill the process. The other tabs won’t be affected. (so far, with IE or FF, if you have one problem on one tab, its the whole browser you have to close).
Google Chrome for Mac is still in beta. Extensions (plugins) are not available yet, althought i already saw plugins for del.icio.us, IETab, … Apparently, the bookmarks manager is not yet accessible, so you can’t really manage your bookmarks. But all in all, even though i’m missing my favorite plugins, i prefer Chrome.
The main reason is probably that i’m getting more and more Google-addicted… but soon enough we’ll talk about Google dependency.
MacBooks don’t like water
I might be away from this blog for some days : last Thursday i accidentally spilled some water on my MacBook and had to get it to the tecnical service. They will probably keep it 10 days, so during this period i will probably not be posting a lot on this blog…
At least nothing about Sarajevo…
But stay tuned!
