Yesterday, Google launched a massive salvo in the ongoing Browser Wars, when it released a public beta version of its much anticipated browser, Chrome.

For those in the tech-world, it was simply a matter of time before the internet search and advertising giant threw down the gauntlet (again) in Microsoft’s face.

Riddled with bloatware, bugs and security flaws, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been slowly, but steadily losing the fight for dominance in the web browser battles.

Statistics vary ( see here, here and here ), but the general consensus is, Internet Explorer is on its way out. The smaller but more powerful and more relatively secure Mozilla Firefox has long been a contender for first place, and has been steadily gaining ground.

Until Google unveiled Chrome. From all the buzz surrounding it, it may fast become the browser of choice, first among technophiles, then later, the masses.

An online comic, apparently leaked from the Google team, explains the technology behind Chrome in a fairly enlightening way. So much so that I learnt a whole lot about browser structure and processes from it. Be warned, fairly geek language.

Fueled by the comic, and the buzz, I downloaded Chrome for a first look.

The Million Dollar Question: Would it become my browser of choice?

The Simple Answer: Yes. From what I’ve seen so far, a resounding yes. But not just yet.
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“BlogSpirit” is just a working title, name ideas would be helpful.

We have a functional beta ready. The inhouse feed aggregator was not going to stand up to the stress of a million blogren logging on at once, so we’re building on another open source RSS framework called Gregarius.

http://www.nodesix.net/blogspirit/

We’ll be adding the additional features with time.

Let us know what you think so far.

We have a couple of exciting announcements.. First, we’ve added subdomains to all packages except nx-Micro. Then we’re moving our blog to a subdomain, and lastly, we’re unveiling our Sandbox.

Sub-domains

We’re very excited to finally be offering our clients sub-domains on their hosting packages. Many of you have been requesting for sub-domains for a while now, but we always make sure we are able to deliver and support a feature before we offer it to our clients. So for us to be able to offer a value added service at no additional cost means we firmly believe we’re heading in the right direction.

The Node Six Sandbox

The Node Six Sandbox is a place where we’ll be putting up working versions of some of the cool projects that we’re working on in-house. Think of it as a window to our geek lab.

Node Six Sandbox Projects will mostly be web based applications. Some of them will exported for desktop use, or whatever crazy ideas we come up with.

Below are a couple of upcoming sandbox products which will be released to the general public as alpha preview versions. Please note that they are currently using production code names.

Pathfinder
A visual directory system for Uganda businesses. Powered by Flash, PHP, mySQL and massive legwork.

Design Kingdom
An online designer’s resource featuring design, visual effects, 3D animation, film, web development etc. For Ugandans, by Ugandans. Powered by Wordpress, mySQL, PHP and humans.

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