Written in Google Chrome

September 3rd, 2008

I don’t recall when Firefox was first announced, I imagine it probably wasn’t a big event and was a gradual thing as it developed into the browser we know (or knew, since we’re now on 3) from its origins.  Not being a Mac guy Safari only came onto my radar a couple of years ago, well after it’s launch.  So I was really interested when I heard about a new ‘big’ browser, by big I mean mainstream, by mainstream I mean that it wasn’t just put together in someone’s garage. 

Google Chrome

I only found out yesterday that Google were even working on their own browser, from what I’ve read I’m not the only one.  So with 24 hours up my sleeve I decided straight away that since so far I’ve been pretty happy with Google products so far I would install it, besides if you’re going to web design you need to be across all the browsers and with Google behind Chrome I can’t imagine it failing too much.

So this morning I am typing this from an extrememly streamlined and fast Google Chrome window which has already imported all my settings from Firefox (there is a lot of Firefox in here I’m fairly certain). 

Since I haven’t been using it for more than fifteen minutes the system hasn’t identified my must frequented sites that will show up on my start page, but I look forward to that :)  Also there are no plugins for it yet, I don’t think…?  I’ll have to go look.

One of the other things that got my attention straight away is the way that Google explains Chrome: via comic book! 

Dudes, awesome!

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Iron Man sketch brewing

March 30th, 2008

I didn’t get the chance this weekend to draw as much as I had hoped, actually I barely got the chance to throw a couple of outline lines down, but I did work on sargedesign.com’s refit. I’m building it as a portfolio site and using a Wordpress theme to do so, unfortunately I have to completely gut the theme and rebuild it. By the time I finish it it should be a pretty sweet theme.

But I’m going to do something here that I wouldn’t normally but it may interest you to see the process. Here is the sketch of Iron Man that I’m working on, the pose may change the surroundings will definitely change but it gives you an idea of where I’m going:

Rough sketch of Iron Man

No podcat today either, maybe later in the week.

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