Month: May 2011

Chrome OS: all web, all the time

As you might have noticed, the guys at Google have released (well, not released, they’ve just publicly shown it for the first time; Chromebooks are coming out on June 15) Chromebooks, which are netbooks that run the Chrome OS.

Chrome OS (official site)

More about the actual computers later; the interesting part about the computer is its operating system. Chrome OS is a completely web-based operating system; it’s nothing but Chrome, Google’s web browser. That’s right, the only application on the computer is Chrome.

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Follow hathix.com on Twitter

Good news, news hounds, tech junkies, and lovers of the elephant: you can now follow hathix.com on Twitter – @hathix. Or just click on the button above the post.

Here’s what I’ll be tweeting on:

  • New blog posts
  • hathix.com news
  • Small tech news that doesn’t make it into a blog post
  • Minor reviews that don’t make it into blog posts
  • Random musings about developing software

Sound interesting? You can follow me to get all the updates, or if you don’t have a Twitter account you can just bookmark my page and view my tweets from there.

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Buy hathix.com shirts, mugs, and other stuff

Foreword: I’m allowed a shameless plug every so often, aren’t I?

Good news: I’ve created an official hathix.com store on CafePress where you can buy

The official hathix.com shop sells shirts, gifts, and more
Some of the stuff you can buy from the hathix.com store (hathix.com/store)

official hathix.com gear:

  • T-shirts for men, women, and kids
  • Hoodies for men, women, and kids
  • Caps
  • Tote bags
  • Mugs
  • Clocks
  • Water bottles

So far I only have 6 designs, but more are coming soon. A design works on any item in the store.

Love the elephant? Grab yourself something from the store today (it’s at hathix.com/store).

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Can’t get enough Angry Birds? Play it online

Playing Angry Birds 1-1
A red bird crashing into a structure, killing a pig in the process

If your phone’s battery keeps dying on you because you spend all your time playing the wildly popular mobile game Angry Birds (or if you’re too cheap to buy Angry Birds), you should be pretty excited about this latest development.

You can now play Angry Birds online here. Here’s what you need:

  1. A decent browser (more on that later)
  2. Adobe Flash (sorry, iDevice users)

As the URL (chrome.angrybirds.com) might hint, Angry Birds works best in Chrome. I’ve tried it on several browsers and here’s what I’ve found:

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Microsoft buys Skype

Skype logoMicrosoft has bought the popular IM/voice chat application Skype (well, not just the product, the whole company) for $8.5 billion, making it Microsoft’s largest purchase ever. I find that a little funny since Skype actually made a loss of $7 million last year.

But, when you think about it, it makes some sense. Skype has 663 million user accounts (of course, not all of them are active) and about 8 million paying users – obviously not very many, but it’s still some.

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Bing: the little engine that… couldn’t?

If you’ve bought an electronic device in the last year, you’ll notice that Microsoft is hawking its search engine Bing more than I hawk my products. (On a totally unrelated note, download Cabra, my free and open-source flashcard program.)

That’s all well and good, since you’re allowed to advertise, but Microsoft really goes to the extreme:

  1. Microsoft signed a deal with Blackberry so that Bing would be the only search engine available on Blackberrys.
  2. My sister bought a new computer and was offered a free song download if she searched with Bing.
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Forget flash drives with Dropbox

I’m sure this happens to a lot of people: you have an important file on your flash drive and you need to hand it in, print it out, or take it somewhere else. Only problem? You lose your flash drive. It’s happened to me far too many times.

So that’s why I decided to eschew flash drives and emailing stuff to myself and use the power of the internet.

I found Dropbox, which lets me access my files from anywhere as long as I have an internet connection. I don’t even need a flash drive any more; I can just store everything I need on my Dropbox account.

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