Experiencing The New Google Chrome

I’m so excited when I heard there’s a new browser on the net, and it’s Google’s. Yeah, Google Chrome looks like an interesting browser when I see it on its site.
I’m gonna write down my own experience with The New Google Chrome (Beta).

• The Installation

For me the installation quite straight but rather “annoying”. Why it’s annoying? Because it’s an online installation, so I have to connect to the internet if I want to install Chrome.

• First Impression

After successfully install it on my laptop. I directly try it. And when I see the browser, I was so shock and fall in love with its simplicity. So clean and neat. The color is ease in the eye. Looks like I don’t open any browser but only a site.
And it’s so fast.

• First Use

Without knowing the feature just yet, I try it like an ordinary browser. I type an address and press Enter, “boom” it’s said DNS error. I don’t know why but right now I cannot produce the bug again.

• “Omnibar”

The address bar also provide as search bar. We could directly type in our search term or address at that bar. When first time using it, I don’t know how to change the search engine. Apparently we have to right click and choose Edit search engines and make one of the search engine to default and then we could searching using that search engine. Which is the entire process is less quicker compare to Firefox. Well maybe I don’t know how to change the search engine quicker. Any help? I will find about it later.

• Bookmarks and History

At the first glance there is nothing special for the history except for the good looking timeline history.
The bookmarks is good looking too. The first time I use it, I cannot find the bookmarks bar except if I’m in a new window, tab or new incognito. Looks like there is option for that (didn’t see it at the first place :p). We could always show the bookmarks bar (CTRL+B).

• Odd Appearance on Checkbox and Radio Button

Looks like the checkbox and radio button inheritance the same shape to me which is not good. Google should fix it on the next update.

• Orange Focus Rectangle

Like Safari did, Google Chrome has a focus rectangle but in orange which is less visible then Safari’s (blue one).

I’m looking forward the next update to Chrome. And I’ll write more about Chrome based on my experience. That’s all for now folks.

Pidgin 2.5.0 New Custom Smileys. Advantage or Disadvantage?

Since the first time I use Pidgin, I fell in love with it. It so simple and light yet powerful. And there are the portable version too for Pidgin.

I was so excited when Pidgin release version 2.5.0. I found one function that attract me immediately. Pidgin 2.5.0 has custome smileys, so I could put my own smiley there. Awesome isn’t it.

I try it directly and it works perfectly for me. I put some custome image and put a shortcut for it.
For example like this image : and I put “unknown” as the shortcut (without quote).
But what happen if I type the shorcut five times? It should be like this.

And could you imagine what happen if someone or you type the shortcut hundreds of time or even thousands?
Pidgin 2.5.0 Custom Smileys. Is it advantage? Or disadvantage? Thanks to my friend I realize it directly. It surely annoying if you have to receive so much image especially for dial up connection or limited broadband connection.

Well then, if you found your chat window going to load images, just close it and it will cancel the process and your chat window will be fill with the shortcut text.

So is it advatange or disadvantage? It’s up to you and Pidgin

Trying W.Bloggar

I’m trying to write from w.bloggar right now. It quite simple and straight and it has a portable version too ^_^. We could even post to multiple blog at once.

Using this w.bloggar we could write our post offline and publish it next time we go online. I found about this w.bloggar from wordpress site and there are many more about blog client you could find in there.

It’s all thanks to the simple guide from blog-well.com

Independence Day

Today is the 63th independence day of Indonesia. What does it means? More Discount at Plaza or Mall? It’s a holiday? A lot of event on television? Games around your neighborhood ? Or something we memorize as an important moment in our life? Or it just an ordinary day like the other day?

To some people maybe it means nothing, but to some people it means they could live until today to celebrate it. To me it means, I have to do more for the better Indonesia. Happy 63th Independence Day Indonesia. ^_^

PS: Congratulation for the gold at Beijing 2008.

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games

Beijing 2008

I’m so sad because I cannot watch the olympic games occurring now at Beijing. Am I dreaming? Looks like not. T_T .

Not even a single private channel at Indonesia broadcast the games live. Thats so sad. Well what can I say. ^_^ But I heard the public channel own by the government broadcast it. Maybe I should try to find the channel.

Another Blog From Mobile Phone

I’m writing another blog from my mobile phone (last time I’m writing from my K750i).

It’s easier to write using P1i because:
1. The screen is bigger than K750i
2. I got qwerty keyboard

So here is another blog from my mobile phone.

My New P1i

Last week, finally I got my new P1i (thanks to my big sister. God Bless U). I was so excited when receiving this phone since I’m a big fan of Sony Ericsson (and wish I could have this phone). First impression P1i looks awesome and it fit well in my palm. Here is my current desktop.

I’m going to post more about My New P1i. ^_~.

How Fast Your Fingers

Another day my friend (my business partner too) told me about this web sites http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/

I tried it and this is what I got. Not bad I think (although my friend could type more than 80 words per minute. Oouch). Maybe you should try it too. Have fun. ^_^

Opening First Store

My wife and I decided to open an online store especially kids stuff like books, education games, etc. We are going to make it !!! . Please stopping by at kidsandstuff.multiply.com everyone

Firefox and World Record

Congratulation for Mozilla and Firefox for breaking the World Record (more than 8 millions download within 24 hour). I’m proud to be the part of your Download Day, and thanks for the “certificate” so I can show it off.