Review

Well, it's only been out for a few hours, but already I've been putting Google's new Web browser Chrome through the paces. Want to see my first impressions? Well then keep reading!

The installation process was very quick and painless. It asked about importing from IE (for some reason it didn't recognize/ask about Flock, which is a variant of Firefox) and asked if I wanted to keep Google as the default search engine. All of the passwords and account info I had ported over seamlessly from IE.

Okay, after a couple of days of playing around with the new iPhone apps, here are my picks for the best and worst ones. So far, my picks are limited to free ones, but I will also mention a few pay ones that look tempting enough to plunk down some coin for soon.

Favorites so far:

AirMe. While it's always been possible to take a picture with the camera and e-mail it to update it to Flickr, this is the easiest way to snap pics and have them automagically appear.

I know I've seen a lot of horror stories on the Web in the past few days regarding the latest update to the iPhone; people couldn't download the updates, couldn't get new phones, couldn't activate, MobileMe was sluggish, the iPhone drank the last beer in the fridge, etc. But somehow I managed to have a pleasant experience, so I figured I'd share my non-horror tale.

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Since I haven't had a chance to update this in a while, I figured that rather than trying to make a whole bunch of little posts, I'd make one post with a bunch of the cool things I've wanted to share lately.

There are two kinds of Mac users; those who jump on a new OS release the second it's available, and those who decide to let the others test the waters for them before jumping in. Me, I've always been in the day-it-comes-out camp. So for the benefit of those who are on the sidelines, here is my initial review; a longer, more in-depth review will come soon.

I've been getting a lot of questions lately about the iPhone, so I figured I'd try and give a brief overview of all the things I love about it, as well as highlight the things I'm not so crazy about.