Google Chrome Heats Up Browser Wars
The Browser Wars are heating up, and it’s not a two-horse race. Sure Opera’s essentially been an also ran for years, but Apple’s Safari has been scarfing up market share with it’s insidious installation tactics and entrenched iPhone base. Now our benevolent overlords at Google have launched Chrome, a new open-source browser with some innovative design. Chrome promises to bring an end to crashing all of your browser tabs and windows for one misbehaving script or plugin and improved memory management. Google has launched it all with a comic starring engineers, designers and developers introducing their intriguing new baby and explaining what sets it apart from the crowd. Hit the jump for some initial reactions.
Dropclock: Badass Screensaver
Dropclock is a fancy new screensaver available for both PC and Mac. It displays a clock comprised of numbers being dropped into water in slow-motion. The download is a little large for a screensaver, but it is quite cool.