I love Google Chrome. So much so that I even use the nightly builds on my MacBook Pro. On my Windows machine, it’s Google Chrome 4.0 beta all the way. It’s extremely fast and efficient. But it’s getting faster. The latest build, Chrome 4.0.223.16 brings a 30% speed boost compared to previous versions. Now again, Chrome is already fast so a 30% boost in this sense is roughly a couple tenths of a second. You’re not going to notice it like you...

Before we really get your hopes up, we need to stress that this process isn’t exactly “download – click to install – enjoy”. But if you’re running any distro of Linux, I’m assuming your at least a fairly versed in getting down and dirty behind the scenes of the pretty UI into the heart of your machine. And that’s a good thing because that is exactly what it’s going to take to get this unholy union to kiss and make up. ...

The “Open” movement rushing over the digital market place is hitting the mobile marketplace particularly hard. Android is a perfect example of this. Announced back in November of ’07, Android took it’s sweet time in ’08 and early part of ’09 turning into the OS that many had envisioned. Now as we are beginning to look at the end of ’09 and start of ’10, Android is singing a much different tune. Can you see what Android has...

Well if this isn’t ironic — Linus Torvald, the founding father of the Linux kernel made a not so small admission Monday at LinuxCon calling the current fruits of his labor “fat & bloated”. The once svelte and task limited OS has grown over the years as people demand more and more features from their OS. The expanding waistline is starting to turn Linux into an open source Windows, or so they claim. However, there is hardly cause for concern...

While some of you may still be chugging along on Chrome 1.0, or, if you’re like me running a beta build of 4.0, the announcement of version 3.0 becoming officially declared “stable” will have multiple meanings. For some, it will be time for a big update. For others, it will be old news. Regardless of which category you fall in to, Chrome has accomplished quite a lot in the year (plus a few days) that it’s been available. With dramatic speed...