Spring Break
New-age site seeing
Ryan Gibbons and Glen Pfeiffer
Issue date: 9/4/08 Section: Verve
The genome has been built by a team of 50 musicologists, who have dedicated almost 30 minutes per song to classify each according to 400 different characteristics. This ensures that when you type in a band like the Spice Girls, you also get really cool artists like Britney Spears or N*SYNC. You can even listen to Pandora on most new cellphones -- including the iPhone -- with either Sprint or AT&T.
Google Chrome
Currently, 98 percent of Web users utilize either Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari to browse the Internet. This Tuesday, Google entered the playing field with a Web browser of their own -- Chrome.
Chrome will offer features such as a "Privacy Mode" that prevents all of your browsing history from being saved to your computer (a feature that became popular first on Safari) and a "speed-dial" function that brings up a list of your top nine most visited Web sites when you open a new window. The main benefit however, according to Google, is increased speed running Javascript-based Web applications.
And why do you care about that? Because, in the future, the Internet is expected to be much more heavily infused with such Javascript-based Web applications -- think of these as programs that run via the Internet instead of on your computer itself.
For example, do you know how when you send a message on Facebook, it doesn't open a new page anymore, just a box?
That's because it's not your average Web site anymore, it is like an application. And Chrome is designed to run these types of functions faster ... once they are more common on the Web, that is. Meanwhile, go ahead and download the free beta version, currently only available for Windows at www.google.com/chrome.
Columnists Ryan Gibbons and Glen Pfeiffer can be reached at verve@collegian.com.
Google Chrome
Currently, 98 percent of Web users utilize either Internet Explorer, Firefox or Safari to browse the Internet. This Tuesday, Google entered the playing field with a Web browser of their own -- Chrome.
Chrome will offer features such as a "Privacy Mode" that prevents all of your browsing history from being saved to your computer (a feature that became popular first on Safari) and a "speed-dial" function that brings up a list of your top nine most visited Web sites when you open a new window. The main benefit however, according to Google, is increased speed running Javascript-based Web applications.
And why do you care about that? Because, in the future, the Internet is expected to be much more heavily infused with such Javascript-based Web applications -- think of these as programs that run via the Internet instead of on your computer itself.
For example, do you know how when you send a message on Facebook, it doesn't open a new page anymore, just a box?
That's because it's not your average Web site anymore, it is like an application. And Chrome is designed to run these types of functions faster ... once they are more common on the Web, that is. Meanwhile, go ahead and download the free beta version, currently only available for Windows at www.google.com/chrome.
Columnists Ryan Gibbons and Glen Pfeiffer can be reached at verve@collegian.com.
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