Yes it's smaller.
I don't really have anything more to say about it, but as I usually post something derogative about the newest Apple hype, I wasn't going to let that stop me.
On second thoughts, yes I do have one thing to add...I'm not really sure I like the idea of a seven inch tablet, be it the Google Nexus, the Kindle Fire or whatever. I have to admit, I'm with the late Steve Jobs on this one when he suggested it was too big to be a phone and too small for a tablet.
Anyhoo, now that it's out it will probably ignite a massive market for 7 inchers, and it may even eventually make 10 inchers look big and bloated for most folk.
We'll see.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
I am sick of Chrome Instant
I love to Google.I love the way it has become a verb and so it should be as it's definitely an action word. However, I hate the new auto-complete feature known as Google Instant.
For the uninitiated, Instant is a feature that allows Google to 'fill in' the rest of your search before you even type it, based on what you have searched for before, and what others have searched for.
So you might be looking for the Carsales website for example, and you type "car", and sales gets added in at the end without you doing anything. Fine (and rather handy) for the times it gets it right but sometimes extremely annoying when you were actually going to search for "cartography".
I am not a touch typist and therefore when I type I spend the majority of the time staring at the keyboard as I type and then occasionally lift my eyes towards the screen to double-check spelling, typos etc. So it maddens me no end when I am typing into the Chrome address bar, and what I have typed is now been deemed by Google Gods to be something completely different.
For example, today I typed "Canterbury Council" and got "Canterbury Council elections, who to vote for". Not what I was looking for.
It's usually worse when you are trying to type a short word such as "spa" and before you look up you hit enter. Then when you do look up at the screen you realise you have googled "sparklebox" (huh?)
It seems to be a problem relating to Chrome Instant, not Google Instant. At least with Google Instant the suggestions appear below the box and you need to actually select the choice. Chrome just replaces the result automatically.
By the way, I did read the other day that it has caused a bit of a problem in France, when it suggested the French word for "crook" at the end of a search for an Insurance Company name, and also 'prostitute' after a politician's wife's name search. Whoops.
For those interested here's the link to the "how to's" for disabling the feature
How to disable Chrome Instant
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=177873
How to disable Google Instant
https://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&form=bb&answer=186645
For the uninitiated, Instant is a feature that allows Google to 'fill in' the rest of your search before you even type it, based on what you have searched for before, and what others have searched for.
So you might be looking for the Carsales website for example, and you type "car", and sales gets added in at the end without you doing anything. Fine (and rather handy) for the times it gets it right but sometimes extremely annoying when you were actually going to search for "cartography".
I am not a touch typist and therefore when I type I spend the majority of the time staring at the keyboard as I type and then occasionally lift my eyes towards the screen to double-check spelling, typos etc. So it maddens me no end when I am typing into the Chrome address bar, and what I have typed is now been deemed by Google Gods to be something completely different.
For example, today I typed "Canterbury Council" and got "Canterbury Council elections, who to vote for". Not what I was looking for.
It's usually worse when you are trying to type a short word such as "spa" and before you look up you hit enter. Then when you do look up at the screen you realise you have googled "sparklebox" (huh?)
It seems to be a problem relating to Chrome Instant, not Google Instant. At least with Google Instant the suggestions appear below the box and you need to actually select the choice. Chrome just replaces the result automatically.
By the way, I did read the other day that it has caused a bit of a problem in France, when it suggested the French word for "crook" at the end of a search for an Insurance Company name, and also 'prostitute' after a politician's wife's name search. Whoops.
For those interested here's the link to the "how to's" for disabling the feature
How to disable Chrome Instant
http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=177873
How to disable Google Instant
https://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&form=bb&answer=186645
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