First Day Review: The Google Chrome OS Cr-48 Notebook. My Google Chrome Cr-48 notebook has just arrived.
For my first day with it, I decided a good torture test would be to unplug my Windows 7 machine and see how the Google laptop worked in its place. Let’s go! Chrome, Chromium & What Is The Cr-48? Before I dive in, some background about the computer. Let’s start with Chrome. For example, in the “old days” of personal computers, you had software that you installed to do word processing (say Word), or to do email (say Outlook), or to do photo editing (such as Photoshop). As the internet evolved, programs and services written to work within your web browser emerged. Google believes so much that the web will make standalone software applications obsolete that it has developed an entire operating system around the Chrome browser.
Chrome OS is a software operating system that any one is allowed to use. The Cr-48 is a further play on words. You can’t buy a Cr-48. Comparing To My Current Computers Also, about my testing today. The Hardware & Setup. Format and clean your data with Google Refine. When we first learn how to deal with data in school, it's nicely formatted and fits perfectly into a rectangular spreadsheet.
Then when we start to deal with real data, we find missing values, inconsistencies, and for some reason it doesn't plug straight into our software. What the heck? The caveman way to fix this problem is to open Excel and manually edit everything. Some ad hoc code can often fix your problems, but still that takes time and can be a pain. Google Refine, the Googley evolution of Freebase Gridworks, can help you. Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases.
The project is open-source, and you don't have to upload your data to some other server. Watch the demo in the video below. Have you tried it out (or the previous Freebase version)? [Google via Forums] Introducing the Google APIs Console and our latest API updates. After a busy year of creating, curating, and re-organizing our APIs, we’re pleased to share that:We’re announcing the Google APIs console, a new tool to help you use our APIs in your applications and on your websites.We’re introducing a new and improved Custom Search API and the new Translate API, which replace the old Web Search API and the old Translate API respectively, which are being retired along with the old Local Search API.We’ve reorganized and rewritten the documentation for some of your favorite APIs (read more on the AJAX APIs Blog).
New Google APIs Console Improves API Experience The new APIs console helps you manage your API usage across all of your sites and apps. Initially, the console supports over a half dozen APIs – that number is expected to grow rapidly over time. Please take a look at the APIs console and get started using Google’s new APIs today. New Custom Search API Delivers Better Integrated Search Experience Retirement of Older APIs Looking Forward.