Chromium OS Running on iPad [Video]

We reported you yesterday about the the 17 years old hacker, who ported the Chromium OS on the iPad, we showed you only a screen-shot about that, today I brought you a video showing the Chromium OS running on iPad. It's not the best performance demo and is all too brief, but it does show touch sensitivity functioning.

For those of you who don't know this hacker, his name is Hexxeh, he has been playing around with Chromium OS builds for months. also he developed many builds since Chromium OS source was released, and Google itself acknowledged his work.

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Chrome OS Ported to iPad with Flash Support

A web developer and hacker called Hexxeh, has successfully ported Chromium OS on the iPad, Hexxeh is 17 years old, he is well-known developer and hacker in the Chrome field,  for now we only have one screen-shot for that feat success, the image showing Chromium OS running on iPad. For those who don't know the Chromium OS, it is the open source version of Chrome OS.

In case you have any doubts about the above image being real and not another Adobe Photoshop trick, you have to now that Hexxeh has been playing around with Chromium OS builds for months. also he developed many builds since Chromium OS source was released, and Google itself acknowledged his work.

Chromium OS is a fast operating system, it's characterized by supporting HTML5 and Flash. Till now we don't have any further information, but we expect to catch more details soon. Finally I have to say it worth trying specially if you have jailbroken iPad. [via Gadgedsdna]

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Google is Planning to Release 60x Faster Chrome 7 to Hit IE9 and Firefox 4

In case you are living under a rock and don't know yet, last week Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 9 beta with full hardware acceleration of all HTML5 content, improve canvas speed. Also Mozilla has released Firefox 4 beta last month with Panorama feature and more. So, Google is planning to Release Chrome 7 to hit back at IE9 and Firefox 4.

Well, Microsoft's IE9 is still in beta, so we can't judge on it now. According to Neowin, IE9 still wins in canvas speed demos but Chrome 7 is greatly improved over previous versions. Also, take in mind that Chrome 7 is in early stages and not released yet for non-developers but it promises to show up to 60 times speed improvement over the current version of Google Chrome. The new version picks the best API graphics with support for Windows XP, Vista, 7, Mac OS and Linux.

This video was showed by Google in a series of demos, showing ranging from a aqurium to 3D walls of photos. The demo really shows what can you do with 2D accelerated APIs in chrome.

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Google Launches Chrome 6 on it's Second Birthday

Today, Google is celebrating the second birthday of it's Chrome web browser with the release of new stable version of Chrome. Google Chrome officially hits version 6 bringing and even cleaner and simpler user interface and increased speed and performance. Remember that it was just two years ago when Google surprised the world by announcing a new browser, and now they are in a real browser war.

The new version of Chrome brings form autofill features, means you don't have to type in again and again that ridiculously long email address you now regret choosing. It also brings extension and autofill synchronization, meaning that your autofill data will remain the same from desktop to laptop to notebook.

Download Chrome 6 for Windows / Mac / Linux

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Google Chrome Brings Webpage ScreenShot Tool?

Do you want to save information founded on a website? Let's have a look of what you can do With. There are many ways, You can save the Webpage which creates a local HTML copy on the computer system, save specific elements, copy and paste text. But how about the screenshot tool ? Well you can turn the web page into an image By using Google Chrome web Browser.

It creates just one file with all the information of that page including scripts and other dynamic elements that are not saved in a local HTML copy.
The extension places an icon in the Chrome address bar after installation. Just press on it and many options will appear to take a screenshot of the visible area or the whole page.
[Source: Chrome]

Google Chrome for Mac & Linux has been Released

Google announced with A new Chrome stable release for Mac & Linux. It incorporates HTML5 features such as Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop.

Today, we’re bringing all this beta goodness to the stable channel so that it’s available to all Chrome users. We’re particularly excited to bring Chrome for Mac and Linux out of beta, and introduce Chrome’s first stable release for Mac and Linux users. You can read more about the Mac and Linux stable releases on the Google Mac and Chromium blogs respectively.

New Features:
- ability to synchronize browser preferences across computers
- new HTML5 capabilities
- a revamped bookmark manager

By the way I like this video about Google Chrome Speed:



To Download Google Chrome for Mac & Linux users, navigate your browser to Google Chrome Website and Click on Download.