NEWS

Read Old Newspaper from Google News

Today, we will able to read old newspapers from Google News. This is officially announced at Google blog today (Bringing history online, one newspaper at a time).
The service allows you explore millions of news archive. Besides that, visitor will able to browse through the newspaper precisely as they were published.
Google already started their efforts working with this service since 2006 and New York Times and Washington Post is amongst the first newspaper they digitized. The good news is, Google also start blending these newspapers into the search result so you can search the old newspaper archives using their search engine.
Here is the sample old newspaper: “WE’RE ON THE MOON” - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 21 July 1969

Google Chrome - Challenges to Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox?

The latest internet browser named Google Chrome, put the challenges between current popular internet browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox.
The Chrome browser was designed to match the future generation of internet web browser with enhance graphic and multimedia support was announced in a Google Blog Yesterday.
At first, it will launch for Windows Operating System in 100 countries and the Mac and Linux versions will released after that. You can download the windows version here.
The Google Chrome is free to download. Besides that, the source code is open source so it can be modify by anyone.
Here is the basic features of Google Chrome:
Fully open source (Webkit) - enable other programmer to changes and improves the browser
Clean, simple and efficient user interface.
Multi-Threaded JavaScript execution and optimization - enable website loads faster than any other browser. Especially for AJAX based websites
Asynchronous multi processing - No need to wait for a single process to complete. That’s mean Chrome can do more than one thing at a time and allow multiple execution that allow website loads faster.
Separate process for each tab - This is useful especially for bugs. If one tab has bugs, only the data at the specified tab is loss without terminating the program (IE or Firefox can’t do this )
Less memory usage and efficient memory management
Improves bookmarking system - saves the most visited pages for fast access (this almost like Speed Dial function in Opera Browser)
More details about Google Chrome features can be found here.
Will Chrome dominate the current internet browser and put challenges between Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox? As we currently know, most people (around 60% - 80%) currently used Internet Explorer as their main internet browser with Mozilla Firefox as the second browser.
Download Google Chrome (BETA)