Day 2 of Google I/O (pictures)
On day two of its annual developer's conference, Google sheds light on the future Chrome.
SVP Vic Gundotra gets the party started
SVP Vic Gundotra kicks off the day two keynote while sporting a snazzy pair of Google Glass specs.
Sundar Pichai talks Chrome
SVP of Chrome Sundar Pichai dishes news about Chrome.
310 million users
According to Pichai, after launching only 3.5 years ago, Chrome already has 310 million active users.
Tab-syncing
For those who use Chrome on multiple devices, syncing of open tabs is a godsend.
Sync browser history across devices
What's more, even if you've closed a tab on one of your devices, you can reopen it on another via synced browser history.
Chrome for iPhone
Starting today, Chrome for iPhone is available in the App Store.
Chrome for iPad
And of course, the iPad gets Chrome too, bringing "silky smooth" tabs, syncing, and a nifty tab overflow solution (left-right swiping) to the megapopular tablet.
Clay Bavor takes us through Google Apps
Clay Bavor, Director of Product for Google Apps takes the stage to dish on the cloud-based collaboration platform, as well as on Google's Dropbox-like product Google Drive.
Drive across platforms
Google Drive is now available across the major computing platforms, plus Chrome OS.
Drive's advanced OCR technology on iOS
Bavor demonstrates how a user can pull text out of a registered mail receipt, add it to a database (somewhere in the cloud) and make it searchable, all using Google Drive's OCR technology. He later goes on to show how baked-in Google Goggles technology can do the same with images.
Google Docs goes offline
Starting today, Google Docs lets you edit your documents while offline. Changes are saved locally, then synced when you reestablish a connection. Unfortunately, though, this is only available for Documents, and not Spreadsheets or Presentations... yet.
Apps for Drive
Taking a peek at some of the apps available thanks to Google Drive SDK 2.0
Chromebook
Another look at the newest Chromebook, Google's and Samsung's low-cost, mostly Web-based notebook computer.
Chromebooks hit Best Buy stores
Chromebooks will soon be hitting Best Buy stores across the U.S., making it a lot easier for the masses to adopt (or completely ignore) the nascent OS.
Urs Holzle introduces Google Compute Engine
SVP of Technical Infrastructure Urs Holzle unveils Google Compute Engine, basically a cloud-based supercomputer that runs in a software compartment.
Cores for your apps
With Google Compute Engine a developer can access over 770,000 cores worth of computing power to a specific app.
Native Client
Pichai demonstrates how a first-person shooter takes advantage of Native Client, Google's sandboxing technology, which lets programmers bring their C and C++ code to Chrome.
Parallax via HTML5
Joanne Fillion and Aubrey Anderson show off a stunning Cirque du Soleil browser app created completely in HTML 5. With an integrated webcam, a user moving his head side to side, would trigger CSS to move HTML elements around giving him a sense of parallax.
Chromebox giveaway
If all the Nexus swag wasn't already enough, everyone in attendance is also receiving a Chromebox.
Glass demo: Behind the scenes
To close out the keynote, Sergey Brin gave attendees a behind-the-scenes look at yesterday's death-defying Google Glass demo. Not only that, he treated them to an encore.
The eagle has landed (again)
And just as it did yesterday, Glass-powered Google+ hangout in the sky ended with high-fives all around.
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