The iPod Nation

With the release of Google’s Android yesterday, there have been several Tech experts who believe that Google’s Android is better than the iPhone. One went as far as to write up 11 reasons why the Google Android will beat out Apple’s iPhone. Dan Grabham of TechRadar wrote an article giving those 11 reasons. Check it out and tell us what you think:

11 ways Android will kick the iPhone’s ass

Start quaking in your boots, Steve. Or support some more stuff, up to you

So Android has arrived with the announcement of the T-Mobile G1. The HTC-manufactured phone certainly has a few nice touches, despite its lack of multi-touch (and with T-Mobile’s particular variant, no accelerometer).

But while this particular handset might not be the technology king to beat the iPhone, the potential’s there. And the OS looks super-hot. Here’s why Android can make its presence felt and could really threaten the iPhone.

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Google has officially released Gears for Safari for Apple Mac OS X users. This download, which is available at http://gears.google.com, will allow Mac users to access Gears-enabled sites such as WordPress, Zoho office, the new Youtube uploader, and Google Docs while using the Safari web browser. The minimum requirements for Gears to be installed are Tiger 10.4.1 or Leopard 10.5.3. Google released the following statement on their official Google Mac Blog:

When you install Gears, you’ll notice that it’s composed of 2 components: an NPAPI plugin which lives in “/Library/Internet Plugins” and an InputManager. Gears needs to load first thing upon browser startup, for cases in which the first page loaded into the browser is from the Gears offline cache. NPAPI provides no mechanism for loading that early (it only provides support for loading plugins the first time a page specifically includes them) so we needed a small InputManager to do the work for us.

For browsers other than Safari that use the WebKit engine, we’ve provided a really simple mechanism to allow them to load Gears into their program without using the InputManager. Fluid is one example of a 3rd party browser that supports Gears this way.

On the Mac, Gears desktop shortcuts are actually small applications that are designed to open the website in the same browser they were originally created from. This means that if you created them from a Fluid app they’ll open in that same place and if you’ve got multiple versions of Firefox installed on your machine the shortcut will open in the right one.

- Geoff

[Source: GoogleMacBlog]

I am pretty sure many Mac users have been wanting to try out the new Google Chrome on their Macs. Unfortunately, this report isn’t about how you can PERMANENTLY Google Chrome onto your Mac. But CodeWeavers, the company that created CrossOver for Mac, has just played with the Google Chrome and taken out of it the Chromium, the freely available source of Chrome, and taken the Google Chrome into a Mac. Along with creating a Mac version of Chromium, they also created a Linux version as well. Both are available for download. It is important to remember that this is not a native version and for the most part, Mac users will not use this as their primary internet browser. The program is really just for fun. There are still some bugs with Chromium, such as the slow start up time. But if you’re a Mac user and you want to try Chrome out, Chromium is the way to go!

- Geoff

[Source:Technologizer]