Google Chrome

Google entered the fray with nothing more than a simple search engine - but it revolutionised the way we think of the internet. Since then, the company has grown exponentially. With the onset of Gmail - a revolution in online email - Picassa, Google Earth, Google Maps, among many other products, Google is a household name.

One of the biggest advantages to Google's products is that every single one is free - their advertising schemes provide enough revenue to allow them to release everything for free.

And so, the newest entry in the world of Google betas is their browser - Google Chrome. You can check out the Google blog entry here, and if you just can't wait you can grab it here.

I could bore you all with all the technological workings, but I won't - just know that it's fast, secure, and so far I haven't been able to fault it. It's far better than Firefox or IE (or ) in my opinion. It's even open source - so the entire development open source community has free access to it as a base for future projcts.

Check it out if you haven't already.