Some changes…

Designs, Programming, Site, Software • 2 comments

Okay, first thing’s first: The site’s wider width. I’ve thought about elevating my web standards to something else. So, yeah. I now think that 800×600 is crap. It’s 2008, for crying out loud! Everyone has at least a 1024×768 resolution by now. Heck, I have people running their monitors the highest capable resolution. For now, I’ve increased the width of the site (I mean, every page on this site) to about a hundred pixels more, and if it goes well, I’ll try getting flexibility on them. Although 900 pixels is already enough to view it.

Second, I’ve kinda read about the tags versus categories debate in a while, and yeah, I’ve been using my tags as categories for a while. (Or categories as tags? I dunno, it’s very confusing.) So now, I’m putting both tags and categories a place of their own. I’m in the verge of putting the tags on each post.

And last, WordPress 2.7 (dubbed Coltrane). I’ve upgraded it from 2.6 last night, and its panel interface is fantastic. The amount of engineering (and by that I meant the web design and development) they’ve put in there must’ve been very significant, yet excruciating at the same time. I mean, I really can’t help looking at it over and over again. I’m thinking I’ll be getting some inspiration from this. (Not copying the code — that’ll be really bad — but the ideas, the design of the interface, etc.)

Oh yeah, I’ll also be adding several things in my portfolio soon. I’ve done some designs during these gut-wrenching months — and take note, I’ve been doing them during exams, projects at school, things like that; a bit idiotic move, if you ask me. Not that many though; people aren’t outsourcing enough projects to me. (Jay, where’s my next project?! Haha)

09.08

[Google] Chrome shines for me.

Normal, Software • 3 comments

Ever since last week, I’ve seen this sentence looming around the Internet. At first, I thought it was a pun for an old April Fool’s joke that I’ve never heard of. (I’m obviously a fan of Google’s April 1st webpages — remember Google Gulp?) After reading some articles, I learned that Google Chrome is actually a real web browser, and it’s initially available as a beta software for Windows. As an OS X Leopard user, I kinda held back because there’s no Mac version, until I saw a couple more good reviews. And so I restarted my computer and booted to Windows, just to try it out.

For a beta software such as this, it works well, honestly. Wait, so that’s why they say it “shines for them!”

It’s been my default browser for Windows, and it’s like a new experience all over again. Most visited webpages (just like Opera’s, except more practical for me), Gears integrated (great for doing WordPress posts and pages while your Internet connection craps out on you), Incognito windows, and more things that you would likely see in other browsers are in here.

It’s fast too. I’m not going all scientific here, but it definitely feels faster than the Firefox I have in OS X. Even if Chrome has its tabs as separate processes, and that would probably mean more required memory, it’s still smooth as silk. Maybe it’s because of their new Javascript engine — yes, I’m a sucker for Web 2.0 apps.

Okay, so if you are open to other perspectives of web browser religion, or if you’re just curious, then give it a try.

Oh, some fun facts:

For some reason, it always crashes when I opt to shutdown while Chrome is open. No biggie, though; you can just ignore it.
There are fun “about” pages in Chrome. Try about:internets and admire the view.
There was a controversy concerning the EULA of Chrome. A part of that agreement says that they will own everything that you create using that browser — blog posts, forum replies, documents, everything. Fortunately, they’ve fixed that part hours after the discovery.

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[Google] Chrome shines for me.