Blog Index for May 2014

Chrome will become a new application distribution platform for any operating system - over time

(Fri May 09 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) What if a browser-based application can act in a desktop computer the same way as any regular application? Typically, browser based applications stay within the browser, and are launched inside the browser, while regular applications are launched through the regular desktop menubar or file system browser. Typically these worlds don't meet, but what if they did?

Ra - not just the Sun God, but a mighty fine programmers editor for Chrome for editing local files

(Wed May 07 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0300 (Eastern European Summer Time)) I like my Chromebook (an Acer C720) because it's lightweight, slim, the battery lasts forever, and the performance is great. It's a wonderful machine on which to browse the web, run Gmail, Google Docs, etc. But there are several things I do frequently that is keeping me using my Mac desktop computer. The potential for freedom using the Chromebook is beckoning, but these use cases keep me chained to the Mac.