I downloaded the Facebook v2.0 application onto my iPhone this lunch time. While I haven’t had too long to play with it first impressions are VERY good.
This is a definite improvment and worth downloading! Much of the functionality of the Facebook.com website has been added to the application which in v1.x was very basic and did not allow you to do much at all.
Highly recommended.
While users of bluetooth headsets may think they look good and while they are useful in vehicles they have to realise that using then while walking down the street does make them look crazy while talking to themselves
Why is it so difficult to resize a picture? I have several photo editing applications on my PC and none of them have an obvious resizing option. In fact the only way I managed to do it in the end was to use the export functionality in Picasa. Things should be easier than this.
Exporting in Picasa
I’ve never really paid attention to tropical storms and hurricanes before but since this week has seen them become newsworthy as they line up over the Atlantic I thought I would check out the website of the US’s National Hurricane Centre.
I have no idea if this is normal or not but i’ve noticed that Tropical Storm Hanna will be paying a visit to the UK in the middle of next week…. Could be interesting.
The never ending rain and the fact the past 7 days have been spent cat sitting mean I’ve had a while to play around with various bits of software and generally spend my time surfing the internet. The most interesting thing to emerge over the past week though is Google Chrome.
While I can’t (I’m not a great writer) and won’t offer the most comprehensive of reviews I thought I would note down some of my own personal experiences of using the browser over the past few days.
The thing that strikes you first and foremost is speed. Opening and closing the browser is on my machines quicker than Firefox 3. There’s not much in it but there is a noticeable difference. Stability does not seem to be a major issue as I have yet to witness the browser crash.
The interface is clean and leaves a lot of room for the actual contents of the window keeping toolbars to a minimum. I especially like how the status bar fades in and out depending on whether or not it has any useful information to show.
However there are a handful of issues that at this moment in time are stopping me from using the browser and keeping me tied to Firefox. Scrolling appears to be one of the areas causing me problems. So far as I’m away from home this week my sole machine has been my laptop. Hence I’ve been using the track pad an awful lot to navigate the web. But for some reason scrolling up on the track pad does not work at all. Scrolling down works (although the scrolling speed is set much too fast and I end up missing loads of content) but considering I read a lot of blogs from the bottom upwards this is a bit of a show stopper.
My other main problem is ads. Ad Block Plus on Firefox is a must have extension for me and it works so well I often forget it is there. While using GMail in Chrome the ads just jumped right out at me and took up vital screen real estate. Will Google ever fix this? Ad revenue is a significant part of their revenue stream.
So at the moment Chrome does look promising. I just need those few bugs ironing out before I will actually consider making the jump.
I’m off work this week, and with my next trip away not until late Novemeber this means I have a lot of time to kill.
After getting some much needed exercise running around the countryside this morning I decided I would spend the rest of the day keeping up with news regarding Hurricane Gustav and the looming transfer deadline in the Premier League. It’s been interesting keeping up with them both.
My method of choice for finding out the dealings in the transfer market has been a live blog on the BBC Sport website. I also enjoy reading these, especially as they accept input from texters. It’s a great big conversation centred around the news.
Keeping up with Hurricane Gustav has been made slightly more difficult just because of the sheer number of sources of information to choose from. In the end I resorted to Sky News on the TV while keeping half an eye on Twitter in the background, although Twitter seemed slightly more distracted by the goings on the Republican National Convention.
A few years ago I remember watching the news while Katrina struck New Orleans and the flooding began. The level of information available was no where near on this scale. I think this is definitely one of the ways the new media has made the world that little bit better…
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