Nuno Silva

The Couple: Content and Marketing

“content is king but marketing is queen and the queen runs the household”.

Today a friend passed me the above quote and i found it excellent.

We can think that we have the best content in the world, but if no one knows about it, that content will not have the expected success. Exactly what exists in certain houses were the man thinks that he is the one in charge but actually is the woman that rules.

29 Sep 08 | General | Read on | Comments (0)

Firefox Commands

Like Google Chrome (see Google Chrome Commands), Firefox always have had about commands.

about: - Firefox version information.

about:blank - shows an empty page.

about:buildconfig - show Firefox build information (compiler and parameters used).

about:cache - Cache information of your Firefox. if you use about:cache?device=memory you’ll get detailed information about cache memory. if you use about:cache?device=disk you’ll see detailed information about cache in you hard drive.

about:config - A list of properties to tune your firefox. In once talked about this command in Firefox 3 is not caching content.

about:credits - A list of contributors that help made Firefox.

about:mozilla - just some text taken form the “The Book of Mozilla“:

“Mammon slept. And the beast reborn spread over the earth and its numbers grew legion. And they proclaimed the times and sacrificed crops unto the fire, with the cunning of foxes. And they built a new world in their own image as promised by the sacred words, and spoke of the beast with their children. Mammon awoke, and lo! it was naught but a follower.

from The Book of Mozilla, 11:9″

about:plugins - a list of all plugins currently installed.

about:robots - shows a humorous page with robots (Thanks omi for the contribution).

08 Sep 08 | Web | Read on | Comments (3)

Google Chrome Commands

Google Chrome, like FireFox, has special commands, the about: commands, to show relevant information about the browser.

Here are some of them:

about:cache - Every single url that you visited.

about:dns - A list of used DNSs and response times.

about:histograms - Some text histograms with performance measures.

about:internets - Shows the tube screensaver of windows in the tab. The title shows: “Don’t Clog the Tubes!”.

about:network - shows url information about the current request(s) you are making.

about:memory shows how much memory google chrome and each tab that is open is using. If you have other browsers open it also shows their memory consumption.

about:plugins - a list of all plugins currently installed.

about:stats - a list of statists of the browser. Just a bunch of counter and timers. In the top you can read: “Shhh! This page is secret!”. Google guys have a sense of humour.

about:version - current version information featuring a big google logo (like we didn’t knew that chrome belonged to google).

And finally the “piece of resistence” and my personal favorite,

about:crash - crashes the current tab and shows the sad smile:

06 Sep 08 | Google, Web | Read on | Comments (3)

Google Chrome Review

Chrome

Before i start, let me just say that the only browsers i use are firefox (THE Browser) and IE (just to check if the pages that i develop appear correctly and work). So, in advance, i’m sorry if i point some feature in google Chrome that already exists natively in other browser.

Yesterday i finally got access to Google Chrome Download Page, some time after the anouncement made on google’s official blog. The expectation was high and Google didn’t disappoint.

First, the installation is very quick. I went to http://www.google.com/chrome, Clicked the big blue button, downloaded a setup file, and chrome was installed in no time. Simple, quick, straight to the point.

First thing i noticed: The speed!!! The browser loads in a flash (not like firefox that, at least in my computer, takes a little time to load). When i started to browse some pages, i was astonished with the load speed.

Like google explained in the google chrome presentation comic book, chrome uses one process for each tab. This has several advantages. The ones that i best remember are:

If a page crashes, only that page is closed, not the browser;
When we don’t need a page, the process of that tab is closed and the memory allocated is released.

After this i decided to explore the developer suport that the browser offered. Well, i was amazed because chrome is only a beta and already has several features that are really useful. All of this without installing any plugin.

The dom inspector makes me remember Firebug. Can inspect every element and, at the same time, travel through the dom and see the styles aplied to each element. Yes, we already have this feature in firefox using firebug, but in chrome this feature is native, thats the beauty of it.

For javascript i found a console and a text mode debugger. I didn’t spent any time exploring them. Maybe one of this days i’ll take a few hours to explore this tools.

Finally two features that are really handy (at least for me):

native language corrector (it has some bugs, but this is only a beta, i give a discount).
element inspector in the right context menu.

Google Chrome surprised me. Fast, Simple, Lite. Can be both a browser for the common internet user, has it can be a browser for a developer. Google exceeded my expectations and proved, once more, to be a company that studies the market and knowns what the users want.

Chrome is going to be a first choice for now on. I’m official Chromed!!! I hope that future releases bring more and more new features to help improve even more this browser.

Download Google Chrome at http://www.google.com/chrome

03 Sep 08 | Google, Web | Read on | Comments (38)

Google Chrome

google Chrome

This something that was being expected by (almost) all the internet community for some time now. Google has finally decided to release it’s browser.

It’s name is Google Chrome and, by what i could read in the comic book that was made to introduce the browser, it’s an open source browser that promises to take internet browsing to the next generation.

According to Google’s Blog, the first beta should be released today in more than 100 countries.

While you wait for the beta, i suggest you read the 39 pages comic book to be aware of the improvements Chrome is supposed to bring.

Here is a picture of the browser look and feel:

Download Google Chrome at http://www.google.com/chrome

02 Sep 08 | Google, Web | Read on | Comment (1)

The Guy

My name is Nuno Silva and I am the author of this blog. I am a Computer Engineer and have a passion for game development.

So, in this blog you find especially things about the web, game development, software, my personal projects (Orion's belt for instance) and, sometimes, just crazy things that pass through my head.