12 Jun 08 Google Chrome Comic Sold for $372!
The Australian’s copy of Google Chrome Comic was sold for $372. ($454.99 AU) - calculator
The seller will be donating all profits to charity.
What I wonder most is if Google will start selling their comic book as Chrome gains in popularity.
Perhaps, that was the genius, the Google Chrome Comic book got everyone interested and Google secretly may have paid easily couple million dollars for this “comic” marketing effort. (maybe not but it’s like it hits you later)
Here’s the excerpt from the closed auction:
One copy of the official Google Chrome copy book sent to bloggers and members of the press prior to the launch of Google’s Chrome browser.
I received mine late as they sent it to my PO Box, meaning it couldn’t get to me via courier.
An online copy of the comic book is available on Google here.
This is a limited edition print, and is not publicly available from what I’m aware. With Google Chrome quickly gaining marketshare, the book that launched a Google browser will only increase in value with time.
I’ve briefly flicked through the book, but it hasn’t been shared around, so consider the condition mint.
Given it wouldn’t be fair to profit from something sent to me directly, all proceeds after costs (ebay + paypal costs) will be donated to charity, split 50/ 50 between Beth Kanter and Beyond Blue.
via valleywag
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11 Jun 08 Google Chrome Now Out of Beta!
It’s an amazingly fast-start for Google Chrome to get out of beta to say the least. Google has just announced that Google Chrome is ready for real consumers on real computers by cutting off their “beta” sign from the new browser.
Since we first released Google Chrome, the development team has been hard at work improving the stability and overall performance of the browser. In just 100 days, we have reached more than 10 million active users around the world (on all seven continents, no less) and released 14 updates to the product. We’re excited to announce that with today’s fifteenth release we are taking off the “beta” label!
Yey, go Google!
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09 Jun 08 Google Chrome does DNS-Prefetching for faster Browsing!
In case you haven’t noticed, Google Chrome does load sites faster in the beginning due to its DNS-prefetching.
What is DNS-prefetching? i don t care x tend
It is a method of finding the actual IP addresses behind domain names before the user clicks on a link.
Basically, Google Chrome “figures” out every IP address of every link before you click on it.
What do you have to do?
Nothing, it’s turned on by default. I just wanted you to know that it’s there.
This clever little feature speeds up your Web browsing without you having to do a thing — it’s turned on by default. Whenever you visit a new page, Chrome examines the IP address of every link on the page, and does a DNS resolution for each. That way, when you click a link, Chrome already knows the IP address and can send you there fast.
It’s turned on by default. You can turn it off by clicking the Tools icon and selecting Options, clicking Under the Hood, then unchecking the box next to Use DNS pre-fetching to improve page load performance.
via computerworld
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