Google Update Chrome. Again.

Well, dunno about you but this is really bugging me now. Build 1025.152 roles across the ether.
Details here.

Have Google lost the plot? More outages…

Have Google lost the plot? More outages…

 

 

 

 

Struggling with the vast array of Google‘s suite of SaaS products is complicated enough.

Their habit, though, of making changes that seem I’ll thought out or counter productive isbecoming more and more difficult to understand.

Two Chrome updates in a matter of days causing huge amount of data to be downloaded across corporate networks, primarily due to the dynamic URLs that make caching the files impossible.

Now we have FOUR consecutive days of disruption on their primary product, Gmail.

FOUR days?

And a lacK of options too!  Why can’t I disable the Gmail Flash attachment uploader in Chrome?  I can in IE8!

¿What is going on?

Windows 8, Hands On (Part Two)

Last time we installed Windows 8 and got to the first start up screen.
Now we need to take a closer look and see what’s different from Windows 7.

Windows 8, Hands On (Part One)

Well, here’s a change from my normal Apple fixated life.
The new Microsoft Windows 8 operating system was released to the public as what the software giant refers to as a Consumer Preview.
But what is it like…

iOS 5: First impressions

Well, after the issues of getting the iOS update onto my iPhone 3GS, was it worth the struggle?
Along with some cool extras the are the inevitable missing features and application errors. Pus some odd behaviour.