Here is a great tool to facilitate internet research. I've installed it and currently use it. It is very simple and ergonomic. You just have to select the text you want to do the internet research on and KallOut proposes you diffrent research tools like google, google maps, wikipedia etc.
I think it worths to give it a try! Not another usless gadget ;-)
http://kallout.com/index.html
mardi 9 septembre 2008
vendredi 5 septembre 2008
Chrome one again
The last big fuss among technologists is about Chrome. The new Google browser stirs the internauts community and raises some main discussions about: (1) its functionalities, characteristics, performances, (2) its impact in the political-economical world mainly confronting it to Microsoft Explorer and Mozilla.
Considering the latest evolution of Google, it's normal that if they decide to create and launch a browser it's a nice good one. I don't want to discuss the characteristics or performances of this browser. Most of the reviews i read rate it pretty well. Even though in the comparisons with IE and Mozilla it doesn't go “jaw dropping”...
What draws my attention is that in parallel with all the evaluation, discussions and fuss around this new browser probably many people, mostly the ones who believe in the beautiful "anti Microsoft monopole" current will end up by adopting it. But what does it really mean? Weakening a giant? Maybe... but doesn't it mean, like always in the history, replacing this giant with another one at least as powerful as the previous?
My main question: We say that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". Aren't these intentions the engine that maybe the new giant Google bases it's raising on?
Considering the latest evolution of Google, it's normal that if they decide to create and launch a browser it's a nice good one. I don't want to discuss the characteristics or performances of this browser. Most of the reviews i read rate it pretty well. Even though in the comparisons with IE and Mozilla it doesn't go “jaw dropping”...
What draws my attention is that in parallel with all the evaluation, discussions and fuss around this new browser probably many people, mostly the ones who believe in the beautiful "anti Microsoft monopole" current will end up by adopting it. But what does it really mean? Weakening a giant? Maybe... but doesn't it mean, like always in the history, replacing this giant with another one at least as powerful as the previous?
My main question: We say that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions". Aren't these intentions the engine that maybe the new giant Google bases it's raising on?
Why
Since I’m at work I’m supposed to reflect on an article that I’m preparing for a brand new writing journal. That’s fun. So I decided to “worm up” my English by entering a first post in the blog.
The reason I created this blog is that I realised that I was “thinking” less and less and that I probably needed a little more order in my life. I realised that putting my thoughts on paper helped me organise and build a better reflection.
Another reason that pushed me to create this blog was to stir the “politically correct” and “fair play” opinions; to try to put some contra-weight “on the other side” and provoke some argumentations.
The reason I created this blog is that I realised that I was “thinking” less and less and that I probably needed a little more order in my life. I realised that putting my thoughts on paper helped me organise and build a better reflection.
Another reason that pushed me to create this blog was to stir the “politically correct” and “fair play” opinions; to try to put some contra-weight “on the other side” and provoke some argumentations.
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