As the U.S. presidential campaigns wind down, the whole world has been observed to follow this 2008 Election more closely than in elections past. The volatility of the world’s markets due to the U.S. credit crunch, the U.S. war against terror, and the possibility of a first black American president have all made this election the most noteworthy in recent memory.
More from AP News…
AND on a lighter note…Mario Bros. 2 theme on Level 1 of the game rendered on acoustic guitar…
Yup, Hallows Eve’s just a few days away. And as I was browsing through my RSS reader (Google Reader)…A very interesting post just came up about scream-worthy scenes from some of the SCARIEST movies ever…
The original “Psycho”. The scene that has made some really, really scared of going to the shower…
The sexiest screamer in my book, Jennifer Love Hewitt, in “I Know What You Did Last Summer”
Well, ads need to grab attention…The geniuses at http://www.trendhunter.com bring us SHOCKVERTISING…No kidding these ads were cleared from their adhouses…from downright hilarious to grossingly puke-provoking madness…
Yikes, makes me wanna just watch and NEVER buy the products…Yikes! c’,
Ok, the title of this post is downright cheesy; bordering on those DVD box covers you might see on AFDB.
Sorry about that…
Now, on to my two cents’ of what Google Chrome (aka Georgia Chrome) and how it compares to the browser-on-my-desktop-at-the-moment FireFox 2 (aka Felicity Fox) with add-ons galore .
Yesterday morning, I had a newsletter in my inbox and rss entry on GReader (that’s Google Reader) from CNET.com (by the way, gives no BS reviews) about Google Chrome Beta. Well, I trust them, so I headed to the download page of Google Chrome Beta where I was impressed by the get-to-know videos and the comic illustrations on why Google had to come up with their own browser as an idea whose time has come.
Well, needless to say, I downloaded the newest browser AND boy, was I impressed. Just as the introductory videos described it, it was clean, simple, and had a few tricks up its sleeve and ‘under the hood’. The local “techie”, whom I owe my arse countless of times, seconded my opinion about it.
Benchmarking testing on Google Chrome Beta
I had the whole morning tooling around its features. And what really got me hooked with this innovative browser is the incognito window (awesome for security freaks like me; once bitten and twice shy, may I add). I get to keep on browsing without ever being afraid of tracking ‘cookies’ and other malware from getting to my PC/workstation (I run Chrome Beta on Windows XP SP2 on an Intel Dual Core 2.0 Ghz unit with 1 GB of RAM).
I happen to have a bad habit of opening multiple tabs or windows on my FireFox browser. With Google Chrome, I am assured that if a tab or window on it happens to ‘crash’, it won’t affect the whole system. That’s another great feature about this new browser from Google, which they brag as “being built from the ground-up”.
Well, there are more great features on this browser I have yet to discover and I do still use my FireFox ver. 2 with my essential add-ons as a back-up browser just in case. Chrome is still on beta (as of this writing) and there are still some issues to be resolved such as Mozilla Firefox add-on compatibility (yeah, how soon can they be had on Chrome?) and much more to be found out by third-party testers/reviewers in the coming days and weeks.
My own two cents’ here is I like it. It’s fast, it has a clean and simple interface, the keyboard shortcuts on it are familiar (Mozilla had a hand in its development, some pundits say) and how it appears on my 15-in. LCD screen (fabulous!).
What you are about to see is a four-minute clip of Hell.
(Warning:May cause sleeplessness, indigestion, and general nausea)
I find you hot Heidi Montag but please spare us the 80’s flashback-with-leotarded-idiots-surrounding-you theme on your next music video (or ANY upcoming videos for that matter…).
I was working through my tasks for the day and I was searching for good blogs that had ‘great marketing’ written all over it.
I was definitely surprised (pleasantly so) about this ‘newly discovered’ blog/site. It had of all names, http://www.bastardly.com. And yeah, it had humor, gossip, latest pics of the great-looking lady celebs and not-bad-looking-either dude celebs.
I really had to repost this pic from that site/blog for it was a ‘great marketing idea’: lingerie on the street. We don’t see this everyday.
Whoever thought of this publicity stunt huh? It’s GREAT!
The company who did this by the way is a British chain of ‘lifestyle’ stores called Ann Summers, quite known for its line of adult accessories and apparel. As the post relates, they have been targeting female consumers recently with new lines in their stores such as Passion8, Stringfellows, and Playboy among others.
A publicity stunt for sure and mighty effective to grab attention. The models could be mistaken for street walkers in London, U.K. in the afternoon (see the comments on the original post, hilarious exchange!). See the lady in the background taking a pic on her cameraphone? Probably sending this scene to her friends (‘Look, ain’t the knickers cute?’).
Other lingerie marketers should take cue; marketing your wares are more effective if its in the flesh and done on the street c”,
My Two Cents' Worth... 
Georgia Chrome is Way Hotter than Felicity Fox…
Ok, the title of this post is downright cheesy; bordering on those DVD box covers you might see on AFDB.
Sorry about that…
Now, on to my two cents’ of what Google Chrome (aka Georgia Chrome) and how it compares to the browser-on-my-desktop-at-the-moment FireFox 2 (aka Felicity Fox) with add-ons galore .
Yesterday morning, I had a newsletter in my inbox and rss entry on GReader (that’s Google Reader) from CNET.com (by the way, gives no BS reviews) about Google Chrome Beta. Well, I trust them, so I headed to the download page of Google Chrome Beta where I was impressed by the get-to-know videos and the comic illustrations on why Google had to come up with their own browser as an idea whose time has come.
Well, needless to say, I downloaded the newest browser AND boy, was I impressed. Just as the introductory videos described it, it was clean, simple, and had a few tricks up its sleeve and ‘under the hood’. The local “techie”, whom I owe my arse countless of times, seconded my opinion about it.
Benchmarking testing on Google Chrome Beta
I had the whole morning tooling around its features. And what really got me hooked with this innovative browser is the incognito window (awesome for security freaks like me; once bitten and twice shy, may I add). I get to keep on browsing without ever being afraid of tracking ‘cookies’ and other malware from getting to my PC/workstation (I run Chrome Beta on Windows XP SP2 on an Intel Dual Core 2.0 Ghz unit with 1 GB of RAM).
I happen to have a bad habit of opening multiple tabs or windows on my FireFox browser. With Google Chrome, I am assured that if a tab or window on it happens to ‘crash’, it won’t affect the whole system. That’s another great feature about this new browser from Google, which they brag as “being built from the ground-up”.
Well, there are more great features on this browser I have yet to discover and I do still use my FireFox ver. 2 with my essential add-ons as a back-up browser just in case. Chrome is still on beta (as of this writing) and there are still some issues to be resolved such as Mozilla Firefox add-on compatibility (yeah, how soon can they be had on Chrome?) and much more to be found out by third-party testers/reviewers in the coming days and weeks.
My own two cents’ here is I like it. It’s fast, it has a clean and simple interface, the keyboard shortcuts on it are familiar (Mozilla had a hand in its development, some pundits say) and how it appears on my 15-in. LCD screen (fabulous!).
I really can’t wait ’til it is out of beta.
Great job, Google, GREAT job!
Video reviews about Google Chrome Beta from:
Associated Press Tech Video Review about Google Chrome
CNET.com Video Review about Google Chrome
Google Chrome Beta and Firefox 3 side-by-side:
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