September 2008 Blog Posts
I have just released the first beta of GO Contact Sync tool (G stands for Google and O stands for Outlook ;) - this was previously announced as Google Contact Sync.
So, the features are:
Synchronizes your contacts between Microsoft Outlook and Google Mail.
Supports contact categories and contact photos.
Multiple sync options to suite your needs.
Automatic sync (on an interval)
Accessible via system tray
Here's what the settings window looks like:
This beta will expire on 31st of December 2008. This doesn't...
As you may have already heard, Google has released their own browser - Google Chrome. It's a beta at this stage, but what's there now is quite impressive: the main thing that cought my attention is the way they're handing JavaScript. Essentially they are compiling JavaScript into machine code, which yeilds a much faster performace.
So, i've run some javascript tests and was amaised by the results: Chrome performed about 30 times faster than IE and almost 2 times faster than Firefox 3!
Javascript performance comparison
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