Honeycomb 3.1 is Coming

     Today is day one at Google I/O, the announcements are in full swing. Of course, some of the pertain to the Adam. What would that be? Honeycomb 3.1 was announced  that brings widget resizing, USB support galore, and much improved multitasking/task management. What is the biggest takeaway from this? It will be open-sourced for Notion Ink to get their hands on. Honey from the garden of eden tastes even better.

Is Google Trying to Make Chrome Slightly More Annoying?

     I love Google Chrome, and I don't think there is a feature that I haven't used at one point in time. Three of the most important and best features of Chrome are the omnibar, the tabs, and the extensions in order of importance. Firefox has the tabs and extensions, but Chrome excels at it. The omnibar of Chrome is the big standout feature that adds an entirely new level of usefulness. This new idea suggests that Google is thinking about giving the omnibar an auto-hide feature.

     The reason for this nonsense is to save the space. Chrome is already good at saving space, but that apparently isn't good enough. Having to mouse-over everytime I want to use the omnibar (which is constantly) could get annoying fast. The linux version of Chrome requires you to triple click to select all in the omnibar. Could this be one of those annoying feature? They can hide my address bar, but my bookmarks bar stays!

We Need Google Music

     It's a simple fact. We don't just need Google Music to have some type of iTunes competitor, but to give android some multimedia capabilities that aren't terrible. Since it is from Google, it will probably have some variety of streaming capabilities with it. No more filling up your SD card with your giant music library. This could be less convenient if you have a slow or no internet, but that is a discussion for a later day.

What Niche Is It?

Maybe I'm the only one that thinks this, but Google Sites is a weird service. You can create a nice little website to call your own. You can do a lot with it, but there is a lot missing that shouldn't be. The "share this site" feature lets you allow other people to edit or view your site, but why? Maybe it's made for people to collaborate on a website, but why would you need to collaborate on a website? 
Could a business use this? Or possibly a classroom application. I found it nearly useless for a blog (which is why I'm now using Blogger). I could make the site publicly viewable, but the comments are a completely different story. to be able to comment you also have to be able to edit the page. That is useless for me. If people are going to use this in a classroom setting I still think Blogger is a much better alternative for collaboration. Maybe it is just me.