Google Chrome Revisited

Ok, so I’ve been using Chrome for quite sometime now and it’s time for me to jot down my negative feedbacks regarding this browser. Although I have grown fond of using this browser because of its simplicity, there are still other features that have disappointed me. Well, it is still BETA so I hope they will make changes with them soon. And … I hope it won’t be forever called BETA just so it will be used as an excuse for some of its deficiencies.

1) Obvious fact that there is no plugin support for now, it would have been nice to have the same plugin that Firefox has that disables all Flash embedded unless you click to enable and view them. This saves loading time which is a serious problem… Continue reading

Google Chrome Out

Oh man! As if 2 browsers waging against each other isn’t enough, we have another one on board the browser wars. Google Chrome is finally out, Google’s very own internet browser. What’s nice about this browser is it maximizes your whole screen and does away with those useless icons and stuffs. What I really need visible in a browser is the menu bar, the address bar and the status bar. The browser does look weird with its UI interface because you don’t see a menu bar here. The menu items that you see in the other browsers are all clamped down in the 2 icons on the upper right side of the browser, just beside the… Continue reading

Google set to introduce its own Web browser

Wow I didn’t see this one coming. From the Reuturs website, “Google Inc is set to introduce on Tuesday a new Web browser designed to more quickly handle video-rich applications, posing a challenge to browsers designed originally to handle text and graphics”. It’s going to be called Google Chrome and Google had officially confirmed this. One of its new features is a Javascript Virtual Machine called v8 which was created for the purpose of speeding up Javascript code. Considering that lots of websites (and especially Google) are heavily using AJAX (they are a great help by the way), this would be put to good use.

This new browser’s address bar comes with auto-completion features known as “omnibox”. It was said that… Continue reading

Google VS Cuil?

Cuil (pronounced Cool) recently launched and is the newest entry into Google’s list of competitors. I immediately checked it out and tried its technology. Before doing the search, the page shows that it has indexed more than a billion pages. Impressive, but I think Google also has the same, could be more or less but pretty sure a lot. Once the search results came out, I think that I like Google’s layout more, aside from the fact that people have gotten used to it, the results are presented in a better way than Cuil does. That is what made Google also stand out over Yahoo and Microsoft, not counting still how fast Google displays results and more… Continue reading

Google YouTube API Retrieving Video Feeds From YouTube Using Java

To retrieve list of video feeds from a user from Google, include the init() method from this post. Then use the method below to get the title of the video and the URL. This sample code retrieves the video feed list of the logged-in user. To retrieve the list of video feeds for other users, check the user guide.public static Vector getUserVideos() throws Exception { URL feedUrl = new URL(”http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default/uploads”); VideoFeed videoFeed = service.getFeed(feedUrl, VideoFeed.class); String title = videoFeed.getTitle().getPlainText(); List videoEntries = videoFeed.getEntries(); Vector vect = new Vector(); YouTubeVideoProperties ytvp = null; if (videoEntries.size() == 0) { System.out.println(”This feed contains no entries.”); return; } for (VideoEntry entry : videoEntries) { System.out.println(”title=”+entry.getTitle().getPlainText())… Continue reading

Google Android - Hello Android sample

Android has finally been released by Google and has been making headlines around the dev community. I believe it will be a strong competitor against the Symbian OS and its applications. Currently, Android supports only the Java language, but maybe later on other languages will also be supported. To get your SDK, go here.Every language always has sample codes provided to help the developer get started and it’s no different with Android. I’m placing a post on how to get started to help developers because I had a hard time actually running a simple hello world application. My desktop PC is running under windows os, once you get the SDK extract it to anywhere… Continue reading