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Google Joins Browser Wars with Chrome

 Digital Media, General, IT Industry  2 Responses »
Sep 012008
 
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Google is jumping into the browser fray with a new browser called Chrome that’ll take on both Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the open source Firefox browsers.

The beta or trial version of Chrome, which will also be an open source browser, will debut tomorrow. You can download Chrome here.

This is what Google’s VP of product management Sundar Pichai had to say about Chrome:

Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today’s complex web applications much better. By keeping each tab in an isolated “sandbox”, we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers.

Google said in a blog post that the first version would Continue reading »

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 Posted by SearchIndia.com at 9:54 pm

New Orleans is Screwed

 America, General  No Responses »
Sep 012008
 
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Ever since we read John Kennedy Toole’s brilliant book The Confederacy of Dunces, we’ve wanted to visit New Orleans.

We finally got to visit New Orleans earlier this year, about two and half years after Hurricane Katrina basically destroyed the city.

As we pulled into the Ninth Ward driven by morbid curiosity to see one of the areas worst hit by Katrina, the scars of the devastation were still very visible.

To our horror, the whole scene reminded us of a third world country we’d left behind. Not America.


A New Orleans neighborhood in early 2008

Once a colorful and vibrant city, New Orleans is an eyesore now. A blight, actually.

Most homes that were destroyed have not been restored and we found very few people in several neighborhoods.

Even at noon, the New Orleans neighborhoods we were driving through were eerily silent. And hundreds if not thousands were still living in temporary trailer homes.

Louisiana (of which New Orleans is a part) is one of the most corrupt Continue reading »

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 Posted by SearchIndia.com at 12:32 pm

Rabindranath Tagore was a Painter Too – Ugh, Ughh

 Arts  1 Response »
Sep 012008
 
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Did you know that Asia’s first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and the author of the Indian National Anthem Jana gana mana… was a painter too.

And a pretty unimpressive one at that.

On Sunday, we had the chance to view some of Tagore’s paintings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Tagore’s paintings are part of two exhibitions – The Art of Nandalal Bose (ends on Sep. 1) and Multiple Modernities: India 1905-2005 (ends on Dece. 7) – that are now running at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Even to our untrained eyes, it’s clear that Tagore’s paintings are nothing extraordinary. Nothing like the luscious oil-paintings of Raja Ravi Varma.

Some of Tagore’s paintings like Landscape (ink on paper, November 9, 1930) are ugly as hell.

With three trees (two in the foreground, left and right forming a canopy Continue reading »

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