All New Gadgets Updates

For you Chrome browser fans that are also iPad users, since it won't look like Google will release a version of Chrome for the iPad anytime soon, there's iChromy. iChromy is an app that looks and feels like the Chrome browser with tabs on the top of the screen and an omnibox that will allow you to perform searches as well as enter URLs. Pages can be saved and read offline, as well as they can be sent to other third party applications like Facebook, Twitter, Instapaper and Diigo. Diigo is the creator of iChromy.

There are, as expected, some features that are missing from this tablet browser that others have such as the ability to set a web page to the homescreen. The speed and stability of iChromy, however, work pretty well which is useful for tabbed browsing. iChromy reloads tabs that need to be accessed dynamically to avoid memory issues with having multiple browsers open. The app is currently free but Diigo, the developer says that they will release a premium version of the app, with more features in the near future.

Search engine giant, Google has announced that '+1' is here and can be used by websites. +1 is Google's sharing system and what's interesting is that when a user clicks on the +1 on a page or an ad, that page becomes priveleged in relevant searches performed by their Google contacts. Google's already rolled out the +1 feature to websites like Rotten Tomatoes, Reuters and Best Buy, as well as to Add This, the service that consolidates all the various social networks in one application that you can add to your website. Other Google properties like YouTube, Android Market and Blogger will also have the +1 feature. The tab will appear right next to the Facebook 'like' tab and Twitter's 'tweet' tab.

Webmasters are welcome to add the +1 feature to their sites. To read more on that, click here. The whole point behind this feature, according to Google, is to allow easier sharing of content, as well as have more relevant search results. This second part, of course is a huge bonus for webmasters and is an interesting turn of events where users directly have some responsibility in relevance of search results.