Google Docs, Google Recipe Search, Google Chrome PDF plugin, Google Maps, Android...
Google Docs, Google Recipe Search, Google Chrome PDF plugin, Google Maps, Android...
The Chromium team recommends using this "magical incantation":
@Soul of a Robot: Hey, that's really neat!
@Veriath: There's no easy way to activate this yet. There will probably be one in the next stable version of Chrome, though.
@Gabriel: It's a Microsoft thing. Windows 7 manages memory in a more efficient way. One of the improvements is that the window render is deleted from RAM if you need memory and you keep the window minimized, for example. So the peek preview will only show an icon - Windows doesn't have the preview image anymore. Just…
@APer3Caper: I think it's annoying too, but it's good to have as an option, right? I mean, Firefox and Opera have it! And you can disable it (or not enable it) if you want to.
@Efreak15: Did you switch from XP/Vista to 7? I did, and a similar thing happened: I get more battery life now than I did a year ago!
@RenRen: "Man cave"? Carnivorous plants in your lair? Zombie attack readiness?
@Michael Scrip: I feel the same way. I'm really impressed with what Microsoft has done to Hotmail, but I just can't convince myself to use it. I have been avoiding Hotmail like the plague since always, so it's hard to change this behavior.
@hahn: Crap, it's true! [beta.swype.com]
@dch200: Adding words to the dictionary is extremely easy: just type the word and press space and boom, it's on the dictionary. Adding e-mails is somewhat more complicated, and the video above explains it best.
Guys, before you use Swype, you should watch some of their instructional videos on capitalization, word correction, double letters and the like: [www.youtube.com]
@SNForrester: Android phones are Google phones. You should have stopped believing in your mobile privacy ages ago.
@dch200: About the pop-up selection, you can just ignore it and use it when you're done typing by double-tapping. Here, watch this.
@jarch3r001: Then you should watch this. Capitalization is done brilliantly on Swype.
@Xorlathor: Shapewriter is available for the iPhone, and SlideIT will be available soon. This seems to be Swype's decision, not Apple's.
@myrkron: SlideIT has support for more languages than Swype or Shapewriter, but it's not free. I guess you only have a 30-day trial before you have to buy it. Shapewriter and Swype are both free.
@asim0v: Based on this interview, I guess they don't think the stock Android keyboard is crap:
@RedZeppelin: "Is the differences in page loads between browsers really that important?"
@cory7: Exactly. I used Opera for years when I had to use a dial-up connection. Opera was the best: I could disable images with the click of a button, and it loaded pages faster than IE or Mozilla at the time. And now it has Opera Turbo, so it should still be great for slow connections.