Tech for Lunch!

Genius Professional Driver is a small software that prevents you from wasting time trying to understand why your computer is slow or suddenly freezing when you install a new device…

What does it do? It backs up and updates the drivers of your computer and suggests new ones…

It will automatically download the latest drivers for the PC like… video card, sound card, network card, modem, digital camera, mouse, keyboard, etc.. It also removes the unused drivers.

Another nice thing for people who re-install their PC regularly… It allows you to save your drivers to an .EXE file. Very useful when re-installing a machine… it accelerates the process!

In short, it takes control of the management of your drivers so that you no longer need to deal with it.

If you are interested, you download it online by clicking on the following link.. Right here!

There is a free trial, test it!

It was approximately 10 years ago that Google became the search engine we all know today. It was not always the way it is right now, but the philosophy was there from the beginning.

Google has put up a really cool timeline that any fan will find very interesting. You’ll find a plethora of facts about Google’s history, many that you may already know, but certainly many that you may have missed. My personal favorites are the list of all the logos that graced the Google Homepage over the years and the screenshots of the many variations of the homepage.

I remember back in 1997-1998 when I first used Google and became hooked in no time because the results were so much more accurate than the other search engines. I used to be a Metacrawler fan because it allowed to search multiple engines using a single query. Back then, when you were searching for something, you usually had to try a couple of search engines before finding what you were looking for. When Google came along, it quickly became a one-stop shop for most of my queries. Things were even clearer when Google was added to the Metacrawler list of engines. Google’s results always came out on top and with the most accuracy, so just like many interner users, I ended up just going directly to Google to search.

Since then, Google has added an enormous number of features, bought software and made it its own etc.. Google is even a verb and is used to describe avid users: “Googler”. We have certainly come a long way from th Beta iteration.

As I was writing this, I thought I would give a quick visit to Metacrawler and found that it’s pretty good on the results. I used to take a long time to get results because it kept waiting for slower search engines, but it seems to be much much faster now. I think I just might use it more often when google doesn’t return what I’m looking for the first time.

If you haven’t been hearing about Google Chrome all over the place since september 1st, then you probably didn’t go on the internet since because that’s all everyone is talking about.  Just like every other blog out there, this is our mandatory Chrome post ;-)  Google Chrome was released in beta yesterday and has already received quite a few reviews.

Chrome, is Google’s new Open-Source browser, which has been in the works for the last 2 years now. It combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.  It offers many features that are very interesting.  Here’s a quick list of new features:

• One Box for Everything: Web search. Web history. Address bar. Suggestions as you type. One unified box serves all your browsing needs at the top.  You simply type in that box and results begin to appear as you go.
• New Tab Page: Every time you open a new tab, you’ll see a visual sampling of your most visited sites, most used search engines, and recently bookmarked pages and closed tabs.  I like this feature very much.
• Application Shortcuts: Use web apps without opening your browser. Application shortcuts can directly load your favorite online apps
• Dynamic Tabs: You can drag tabs out of the browser to create new windows, gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs however you wish — quickly and easily.
• Crash Control: Every tab you’re using is run independently in the browser, so if one app crashes it won’t take anything else down.
• Incognito Mode: Don’t want pages you visit to show up in your web history? Choose incognito mode for private browsing.
• Safe Browsing: Google Chrome warns you if you’re about to visit a suspected phishing, malware or otherwise unsafe website.  That’s not really new, but it’s implemented directly in the browser.
• Instant Bookmarks: Want to bookmark a web page? Just click the star icon at the left edge of the address bar and you’re done.
• Import Settings: When you switch to Google Chrome, you can pick up where you left off with all the bookmarks and passwords from your existing browser.  That’s also a vey common feature, but it would have been silly to leave it out.
• Simpler Downloads: No intrusive download manager; you see your download’s status at the bottom of your current window.
• V8 Engine: A better, faster and more robust Javascript engine, designed by the guys at Google.

Giving Google Chrome a test run is certainly the best way to see and experiment with all the features and the somewhat different interface.  The approach and presentation are excellent but there are naturally some things missing right now.  Keeping in mind that this is still a Beta version, there are some applications and sites that simply do not run with Chrome. Toolbars and plugins are also not available yet, so functionality is limited for power users.

If you are still using Internet Explorer, giving Chrome a try in something you should really go ahead and do because you are probably not surfing as fast and as easily as you should.  If you are a Firefox user, then it all depends on what your surfing habits are, but it doesn’t hurt anything to give Chrome a try anyway!  I’m sure that many features in Chrome will get their Firefox plugin equivalent in no time, but the speed of a browser is pretty difficult to replicate in a plugin.

Chrome is built with Google Gears, so there should be version for all platforms eventually.  Right now, it’s only available for Windows.