Google just released their new web browser Google Chrome. Here’s my thoughts after using it for a few hours. Read More »

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After installing Windows Vista for the first time a few months back, I had a problem with it intensively reading and writing to my hard drives. Not only did it make me worried about the lifetime of my disks, but the sound from it was crazy. Read More »

For some time I have been getting a notification in my system tray regarding a java update. Today I decided to finally install it. Clicking through the update wizard I luckily noticed “Install Google toolbar” which is checked by default. As an experienced user I unchecked this, however there are many inexperienced users out there who doesn’t even know what a browser toolbar is, so they don’t dare to uncheck it, thus they end up getting yet another toolbar in their browser.

Browser toolbars are important for Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in order to force more users to use their services. Yet for Sun, who is paid by Google to add the Google toolbar, it will only make the users annoyed and at worst make them uninstall Java. Because of this I hope the application providers at least leave the “Install toolbar” option unchecked.