Amazon continues to be an innovator in the cloud computing universe. This spring Amazon recently announced and released their CloudDrive and CloudPlayer services. Being an Amazon customer, I decided to give it shot this past week and uploaded a few personal MP3s to the CloudDrive and then used the CloudPlayer to listen to my MP3 files using CloudPlayer for the Web and the CloudPlayer for Android. Bottom line, this is as simple as it gets and works.
I also tested the CloudDrive and CloudPlayer on Windows, Mac, ChromeOS machines and using Chrome web browser and it all works in a consistent cloud-like manner. This is a step in the right direction for the future cloud-based, online everything world. As a side note, the streaming CloudPlayer for Android works nicely also. I was quite surprised at the Android App.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Saturday, April 09, 2011
Chrome OS has new UI Behaviors
Since last December 2010 when I first received my Cr-48 Chrome OS notebook, I have been requesting a capability to allow switching between Chrome browser window instances without requiring a keystroke or plugin. After four months, the Chrome OS team finally implemented this enhancement as a new UI widget in the upper right-hand corner of the Chrome OS interface. It works very nicely and allows me to switch between browser windows without touching the switch window key. Good job folks!
Additionally, I noticed a new Chrome browser behavior in the most recent Chrome OS update. When I double-click on a word or phrase within a web page, after a few milliseconds, a search icon popups up near the highlighted text. When I click on the search icon, it opens a new browser tab containing the search results page as if I searched for the highlighted text in Google Search. Now this is really practical and very efficient. I can't wait until they put this in the general Chrome web browser release for all platforms.
Keep up the good work. I think Chrome OS is maturing very well. All my Adobe Flash issues appear to be resolved with the last few updates to Chrome OS and the Flash Player 10.2, sandboxing, and other features that are not active. The major areas I see that need to be enhanced prior to general release this summer are chromoting and Java support. I haven't seen much activity on the chromoting and Java support would be icing on the cake.
Additionally, I noticed a new Chrome browser behavior in the most recent Chrome OS update. When I double-click on a word or phrase within a web page, after a few milliseconds, a search icon popups up near the highlighted text. When I click on the search icon, it opens a new browser tab containing the search results page as if I searched for the highlighted text in Google Search. Now this is really practical and very efficient. I can't wait until they put this in the general Chrome web browser release for all platforms.
Keep up the good work. I think Chrome OS is maturing very well. All my Adobe Flash issues appear to be resolved with the last few updates to Chrome OS and the Flash Player 10.2, sandboxing, and other features that are not active. The major areas I see that need to be enhanced prior to general release this summer are chromoting and Java support. I haven't seen much activity on the chromoting and Java support would be icing on the cake.
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