Here’s a quirky re-design of the Google homepage, it has the original first impression and colour scheme but is a lot more modern and sophisticated. It only works with google.com, this took me a while to get to as it kept redirecting me back to google.co.uk just to warn you. Here are some screenshots:

To get this simply paste the code below into the address bar while at google.com.

Code:

I was surfing the net today when I came across this on Google Maps, does Google not support Chrome with Maps? I was using the ‘basic html’ version because our internet was slow, if you want to see this go to:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=d&t=h&output=html&mid=1254836062

http://local.google.co.uk/support/bin/answer.py?answer=16532&topic=1499

I downloaded version 4.0 of Google Chrome for Ubuntu a few days ago and found it brilliant. It’s available in 32bit and 64bit and best of all everything I tried worked, Flash, Chrome themes, downloads, fonts, extensions… The list is endless. It doesn’t use wine either which means that it looks a whole lot better.

Google have announced their new operating system, named Chrome OS. It has been said to include a range of features and due for release mid way through 2010.

Unlike most OSs, Chrome OS like most Google products is very much web-based using online apps like GMail etc.

“Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.” Officical Google Blog

Google are going to be facing tough competition with Windows XP holding the majority of netbook OSs and Intel developing their own lightweight OS. I know I am looking forward to seeing what Google can make of it, tell me what you think with a comment below.