New Chrome version

I updated Chrome after reading on techcrunch about the new version.

New Gmail features

Gmail is switching to https by default.
Also, there are some other cool features I found out about just now: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/about_whatsnew.html. You can also buy storage starting from 5$/year for 20GB that is shared between Docs, Gmail and Picasa (higher packages have a proportional price, so no discounts there). Imagine sharing all your photos with everybody. [...]

Opera version checking

Seems that the new Opera release (version 10) is having problems with specifying its version. Some websites detected the first character in “10″ and assumed it to be Opera version 1 (talk about dumb checks). So the solution was to keep the version at “9.8″.
full story at sitepoint

Google Earth Becomes Google Water

Google Earth just hit version 5. Among the new features are:

the ocean floor is now available instead of the blue thingy
you can now see older satellite images of a particular place (we now have the 4th dimension)

More info on the new Earth version on G blog, including a video. Or go straight to the download [...]

Google’s new favicon

Ever wandered what success is?
It’s when everybody blogs about you when you change your favicon.
So here are the ones I know of:
Later edit: post on google blog