It’s all about thin clients on a grand scale

We definitely seem to be heading back around the thin-thick cycle except this time it’s going to be on a massive scale … and includes the consumer market. The technology has evolved so much recently that we now have all the same benefits and far less of the negatives of “thin computing” from 15 years [...]

Chrome task manager

At the risk of seeming obsessed with Chrome (I’m not really!), here’s one of the best features of Google’s new browser … each tab runs in a separate process and you can look at memory/cpu usage & end non-responsive processes in the browser task manager – much like you would with applications under windows.
Hit Ctrl-Escape [...]

Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts

As with all browsers there are some keyboard shortcuts in Chrome which can help make us a bit more efficient. I don’t remember that many shortcuts, so better to pick a few really useful ones than try and remember them all! This isn’t an exhaustive list – just a few that I use all the [...]

Performance boost with Google Chrome?

Here’s an interesting article from Hamid Shojaee, founder of Axosoft. At work we use their OnTime software extensively to track Bugs/Defects/Feature Requests/Incidents – and even as a simple project management tool.
Their web client is probably the best web client I’ve ever used – the experience is scarily like using a native windows app. If you [...]

Chrome mania

A lot has been written this week about Google’s recent foray into the browser market. Been using Chrome for a week or so now and have to admit that I like it a lot. I’ve always been an IE user and over the last couple of years I’ve tried Firefox, Safari, Opera – I tried [...]