U-Blog 7

Apple showed off their new Macbooks yesturday. The show was a letdown to a lot of fans. There had been lots of rumors going around that Apple would introduce a sub-$1000 notebook that would better compete against the Microsoft market. Another letdown was the fact that the LCD screens on the new Macbooks and Macbook Pros were glossy. Consumers seem to prefer the matte finish rather than the reflective nature of a glass screen. There really weren't any specific announcements that were surprising. No price cuts, no new and improved Macbook Air. Besides the Macbooks, everything else was just revamped with more storage space and more RAM.

U-Blog 6

I recently came across a site called Photosynth.net. It is a site where anyone can take pictures of a place and upload them together. Doesn't sound that unique does it. Well, it is. Once the pictures are loaded, the site will read the meta data and examine the photos and the positions of the objects in the picture. What it does after that is pretty amazing. It creates a virtual 3D atmosphere of the place you visited, using your pictures. One person took pictures their trip to the Taj Mahal. You can view his photos and see what he saw, at all the places and positions he took the pictures. You can even walk up to the front and side of the beautiful building. I appologize if my explanation is too vague or hard to understand. Head over to the site to see first hand what I'm talking about. You will have to install the web app that allows you to view the 3D photo albums.

U-Blog 5

This week I downloaded Google's new browser Chrome. I was hyped because everything that Google has put out to the public has been very useful and innovative. After messing around with Chrome for about 2 hours, I had some impressions on its performance. The first thing I noticed was that it was faster than Firefox for most websites. But when I went to pages that were very Flash oriented, I noticed Chrome would start to bog down and even freeze up. I came across several bugs and reported them to Google. I know it is only a Beta, but I've never had to report any kind of bug for public Firefox Betas. I was sorely disappointed by Google Chrome. Hopefully, Google will take notice of the complaints and reports and use them to bring out a true IE8-killer.