Google Chrome is a new web browser from the number one company in search engines, Google.

That being said, is it worth your time to check out?  The “browser wars” that spawned during the Netscape/Internet Explorer days was an ugly time on the Internet as websites fought to figure out how to make themselves look good in both.  This problem still crops up somewhat with Firefox/Internet Explorer/Safari/Opera/Flock out there.  The good news is Chrome is written on the same base code as Safari, so it shouldn’t be too hard for webmasters to get their sites working with this one.

An unusual move here at StarterTech, I’m embedding a screencast of the new browser in use from another site.  This was created by Mark ‘Rizzn’ Hopkins whom I work with over at Mashable.

Mark did a good job of covering the pros and cons of this new tool, but overall it looks promising.  I have been using it for most of the day with little to no problems.  Will it replace Firefox in my life?  For now it won’t due to a lack of addons that I use on a regular basis, but I will be using the two in conjuction when I can.

I will say if you are still just using Internet Explorer, please change.  It is by far the worst browser, and you need to check out alternative browsers for sure.  You could certainly do worse than Chrome, and we will be revisiting this subject as we gain more experience with it.

Have you tried it yet?  What are your thoughts?

Normally we don’t do news type stories here at StarterTech, but this one could impact every facet of your Internet browsing experience.

When we explained How To Pick A Domain Name, we mentioned how there werea lot of extensions to pick from.  While “.com” is always the most desirable, big businesses may soon be getting their own extensions that will be unique to them.

According to the TimesOnline, these new “top level domains” will be expensive, costing anywhere from $100,000 to $500,000.  This may seem insane, but don’t be surprised if you start seeing “.microsoft” and “.apple” domain names popping up.

The interesting news is that they will also be allowing “non-Latin” scripts to be used in domain names for the first time.  So far they are planning to support Chinese, Japanese, Arabic and Cyrillic, so this will be a massive increase to the number of domain names that can exist in the world.

As if finding a domain name wasn’t already difficult enough, now you have an endles snumber of options to boot.

We have discussed out love of the Firefox web browser before, but now we know for sure that Firefox 3, the newest version of the program is set for release on June 17th.

To celebrate this release, Mozilla, the company behind Firefox, is going to try to set a world’s record for the number of downloads for a piece of software in a 24 hour period.  There will be lots of new features that will make it well worth your time to do the upgrade, but why not go ahead and join in history by making sure to download it the first day?

While there are many social bookmarking options out there, (del.icio.us, StumbleUpon, amongst many more) most people still like to have their bookmarks saved on their physical computer, myself included. The largest hassle with this is if you have multiple computers, say at home and at work, it can be a nightmare remembering which computer has which bookmarks, and always making sure that that you have your latest favorites on each.

This is where bookmark synchronizers can come in extremely handy. While there are many of them out on the market, my hands-down favorite has to be Foxmarks.  As the name would imply, this is a tool built only for the Firefox web browser, but as we have said before, it is the one we highly recommend everyone use.

The system is fairly simple in that you download a small additional piece of software for your browser, known as an “extension”.  This, like any other extension, is just a small item that will help your Firefox do more tricks and helpful tasks, thus extending its functionality.  To download the extension visit their page on Firefox’s site here.

What happens is once you’ve installed it, you will be asked to set up an account, just like you would any other service.  Once done, it will make a copy of your bookmarks and upload them to a central computer, a server, in their system.  You then will go to the second computer and download the extension again.  The difference here is that instead of creating an account, you will sign in to the one you created on the previous computer.  Once you have signed in, you will be asked if you want to upload what is on this computer and replace what is on the server, or if you want to start merging them what is on the server instead.  You want to start with what is on the server as this will simply merge your two sets of bookmarks, the other way will overwrite what you already saved.

Once you have gone through this process once, you will never have to do anything again except occasionally wait for them to finish syncing before you shut down Firefox, but it will warn you whenever this happens.  From here on out, the extension will automatically detect when you have made changes to your bookmarks, upload them again to the server, and when you go to the other computer, it will automatically download the changes.  Your bookmarks will now be constantly merged so they will look exactly the same on every computer you add this to.  You can do it for home, work, your laptop, any computer that you own.  I do, however, recommend you never do this on a computer that is accessible by users other than yourself as it would give them access to all of your bookmarks as well.

It’s a brilliant little system, and something all of us here at StarterTech use all of the time to sync across all of our systems.