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Google Chrome Frame. Have you seen this, have you heard about this? If not, it’s all right here for you.

Microsoft slammed it, Mozilla has come out and sided with Microsoft in slamming it. Ordinarily I’m supportive of Google’s projects, but this seems odd to me. It’s one of those things that might have looked better on paper than in practice.

Of course, my reasons are different from Microsoft or Mozilla’s. They’re saying vulnerabilities may be doubled, it may be creating a sort of browser soup, and confusing the user and muddying the internet. Sure, possibly.

What I’m going to do is defend Google against themselves. Are you ready? Here’s what I think: It should NOT be Google’s job to patch Internet Explorer or any other browser.

It’s not their browser. It’s not their browser. It’s not their browser.

It’s definitely not their job. If Microsoft doesn’t care enough to make a quality product, Google shouldn’t concern themselves. I thought that’s what Chrome was about, anyway?

You don’t see Microsoft putting out plug-ins for Mac OS X or Linux that make those operating systems behave like Windows. You don’t see Aston Martin putting their engines in Ford Explorers.

I think it’s admirable that they want to try and help people who use Internet Explorer, but the best thing they can be doing is working on their own browser.

Speaking of which, why not drop this Google Chrome Frame crap and, I don’t know, release Chrome for OS X?! You want to help people out, Google? How about releasing your browser for us Mac and Linux people instead of wasting your time on Internet Explorer.

You’re using a modified version of Apple’s own web engine anyway. The least you can do is release your browser on its engine’s native platform.

ThrottleTube

I never really thought about it until now, but I have a sneaking suspicion that YouTube throttles the download speed of some videos.

Why?

Have you ever waited as a 2-minute-length video slows to a crawl while loading, only to go to another video, perhaps 9 minutes in length, that loads almost instantly?

You go back to that 2 minute video and it still doesn’t seem to want to load.

This isn’t a rare occurrence. However, it’s not necessarily often either, and at some points in the day if I go back to that slow-loading video it may load quickly.

There should be no reason for this. All aspects of a website should load at equally the same speeds.

I’m not exactly trying to prove anything, and I’m not even sure how one would go about testing it. I do think it’s worth pointing out, though, because any sort of throttling where the internet is concerned, I believe, is quite simply wrong. Google/YouTube should know better.

Troll Trolling

I want spend this post calling out MacDailyNews as the sorriest excuse for a Mac blog I’ve ever come across.

Despite its name, they spend a great deal of time posting on Microsoft and how much Microsoft sucks. Such a post will be followed by a “MacDailyNews Take” in which they jerk off to how much Microsoft sucks and Apple is awesome.

Apple is awesome. As much as I’ve grown to dislike Windows, I still think Microsoft is awesome too. There’s room to like both, and there’s room to criticize each equally and fairly. MacDailyNews does neither, and the result is a following of the worst kind of Mac “fans” out there. The kind that would unabashedly sniff Steve Job’s farts, and God help you if you happened to catch a whiff and said “Ugh—*cough*AACK,” because that would be a clear indication of your lack of belief in His Steveness.

In today’s world, there’s so much of This vs That, that you’re expected to pick a side and the thought that, perhaps, choosing more that just one side is completely UNHEARD OF. I see this all the time in Wii vs Xbox 360 vs PS3 arguments, or indeed Mac vs PC arguments. You have to back only one of them up, and it’s damn near blasphemy if you ever show any kind of interest or support for anything other than what you’re backing. There’s absolutely no room to like more than one side in the eyes of some people.

A Linux user who loves Windows and OS X just as much? Get out of here. That’s ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as a Christian accepting that, maybe, there’s a chance there is no God?

Right? Right?

Keeping with the religious example I’ve now just got myself stuck in, being open minded doesn’t mean your faith has to be challenged. Just because you’re an avid Mac user and a big Apple fan, doesn’t mean you can’t use Windows or Microsoft products and enjoy doing so. Yeah, sometimes Microsoft makes it hard to enjoy using their products, but… Apple’s not perfect either. And you should trust a blog to draw a clear distinction there.

I realize I could simply not visit the site, but despite its overwhelming flaw and clear shittiness, MacDailyNews does offer some interesting bits of news in the Apple community. But the majority of its content is an insult to its own God damn name, and I think the internets would be better off without shit like that clogging up the tubes.

I found it on the tubes this mroing

You may know of URL-shortening websites such as bit.ly or TinyURL. Well I just came across one I’ve never heard of, purely by accident.

If you’re familiar with how is babby formed, you might catch the reference. At least, I hope it’s a reference. Because it’s a damn brilliant one: mroing.com.

Apparently they’ve been shortening URLs since 1927. Very impressive.

Streaming HD Needs to be Faster.

I’m waiting for an HD video to load on YouTube. This is unacceptable.

I discovered YouTube in 2005 around the time it first launched. It was unbelievable! Up to that point I had never seen such a thing in my life. I could find a video on virtually anything I wanted, and it was served to me fast. Good quality, fast, streaming video. YouTube has earned its places at #1.

Of course, as time goes on we expect improvements and upgrades and all that stuff. The support for high definition content being one of those things, and it is awesome to have the choice when watching videos.

But it’s too slow. And that kills the appeal YouTube originally had to me in 2005. It wasn’t the quality of the video, it was the speed at which it was served. Like I said, there was nothing like it on the internet. You had to download a .MOV or a .AVI and wait however long based on the size of the file. Once it was downloaded, then you could watch it. YouTube offered a way to watch videos as they were still downloading.

HD content on YouTube messes that up. The download speed is too slow and it can’t keep up with the playback speed. I feel that until this is fixed, it’s going to be a while before HD content on the internet is something we can enjoy.

I’m a desktop background junkie.

I love collecting desktop backgrounds. Or wallpapers. Which ever you prefer to call them. One of my favorite places to go is InterfaceLIFT.

Not only do they have an incredibly varied selection of backgrounds, they have themes and icons as well. I suggest taking a look around.

Another thing I like to do is a Google search for desktop backgrounds along with whatever resolution I’m searching for, such as “1440×900.” That way you can hit the “Images” section and find whatever you need without actually visiting any websites.

You never know what you might find. I just discovered this render of New York by doing a search for new york +wallpaper +1440×900.