Ok. Yes. I know. Google is starting to look like some kind of unsatiable monster. Chrome, Google’s browser, is now out as a beta version for Windows (Mac version is still in development).

1, 2… 3, I downloaded it, installed it (it took 2mn), and tested it. The speed is hardly believable. The interface is much more responsive than any other Google software.

Now, some say “Google Chrome is here to crush Mozilla’s Firefox”. It shouldn’t. But it SURELY should encourage those poor Internet Explorer users to dump the worst browser on Earth, and try something new, clean, fast, secure and stable.

Google just added another good browser to the list of good browsers! Now the choice is wide: Mozilla’s Firefox, Apple’s Safari, Opera’s… Opera, and Google’s Chrome. It’s time for Internet Explorer to bow to its audience, and just leave the scene… Stubbornness is not a quality.

Until Google’s Chrome can be extended with a choice of hundreds of plug-ins, Firefox is not yet fully replaceable. Chrome is open-source, and took a lot from both Firefox and Opera. It features many important upgrades a browser’s architecture. Let’s just hope the hypothesis that Google IS a branch of the CIA is just a paranoid supposition…

Ronald Mac Donald at his very best shape…

This blogger gathered a nice bunch of very nice business card designs (some of them are really awesome!); check his blog to see all the 70 items.

I came across this website recently, it threw me rather brutally back a little bit less than 20 years, when we frantically collected these jewels like our daily hummus ration depended on it…

Well, to my big surprise, they’re actually STILL PRODUCING it, and the Garbage Pail Kids webiste is happily promoting the series 7! You seem to be able to design your own pail kid on their site, but I haven’t played with that… yet!

An advertisement for, obviously, toothache drops based on cocaine, that were common in the XIXth century.

My life changed when I discovered Freemind, a mind-mapping software written in Java, which makes it platform agnostic (it works on all OSses with Java installed).

Its minimal interface, rich contextual menus (when you right-click on things) and very intuitive keyboard hot keys makes it easy to learn, and even easier to use.

You can plan a website, a company or a whole dictatorship without a sweat; it’s a very useful tool.

(Yosuke Ueno - Acrylic on canvas - 2008)

Slowly but steadily, Google takes care of the competition, wherever in the world; the last acquisition by the “gentle giant” is a russian contextual advertising company: Begun.

Their new toy have cost them 140 million USD. Not much of a heavy investment, Google’s quarterly revenue reaching approximately 6 billion USD!

I am not really aware of any good open source application for the platform, but there are two license-based software that deserve a close look:

iStopMotion and Dragon;

Dragon’s interface is one hell of a handsome one! Both seem packed with a handful of features; even though iStopMotion boasts a more impressive list on its website, Dragon’s features are far from being trivial, and seam directed towards the upper level professional.

I’m going to download iStopMotion’s trial for a first-hand experience of it. Unfortunately, no trial version is provided by Dragon Stop Motion.