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This has been a long process, but has been having some great progress! I was given a Macintosh IISI, and it came with a network card in it, so logically I wanted to hook it up to the Internet, but here is the catch, it has no web browser, so what can I do to get one on it? Well, I have been finding the answer, and now I'm ready to start sharing the process!!!

To start here is what I have to work with. I have the Mac, and I can use floppys in it. I have good floppys to use, and a USB floppy drive for my computer. A down side to this is that the only other computers I have are all Windows PCS, I can and have installed *nix distorts on them to work with other programs, but I have had very little success with that, and recently I have had success with the windows machines. On the Mac I have system 7.5 and TCP support which is crucial.

Skip two years of failed attempts at getting anything on the beast, and leaving it for a time then trying again. I have finally gotten it to do something. To clarify a but on the situation, I have tried this exact method before, and not succeeded. But this time it worked! I have my speculations for what I did right this time.

So here we go, this is what I did to get part of the way to a web browser on my Mac.

First, I looked around the Mac to make sure that there was no way to get to the terminal as I have previously discovered. Once I varified that, I thought about making a script, so I messed around with that feature, but got no where since it still didn't do networking. I then formatted a floppy on to Mac to a dos format, put it in my windows computer and put fetch3.0.hqx on it, I have tried to extract hqx files on my PC and failed many times, but my Mac has StuffIt extractor on it luckily, so I thought I would try that program to extract it (I have tried this before, but I thought I would again). I extracted it into a folder for fetch on the hard drive, and surprisingly it worked! I was very excited that it did! After that I was able to run fetch, an FTP program, and I was super pleased since I have never gotten this far before.

I have had the Mac on the network at home before and pinged it from another computer, but I didn't have fetch then. So my next step is to redo that, and with fetch, hopefully get it into a FTP server. I have one I will try, but if it doesn't work, I have another plan for a local one.

Keep checking for updates, this is getting somewhere!

Chrome Canary is an early release of the next Chrome Browser, it is designed to accompany development, and to mainly be used by developers. Google Themselves say that Chrome Canary "is not for the faint of heart" and "Be forewarned: it's designed for developers and early adopters, and can sometimes break down completely." However, they also say that it is full of the latest and the newest features.

Chances are, that if you are reading up on the newest web browsers, you are probably save enough to install and try Chrome Canary your self to find out if you like it or not, so you can try it and make up your own mind on it. But if you would like my opinion on it, keep reading.

What is it like to use a product in an early release form?

Early release products can be great, they have the latest features, they have new bells and whistles. When toying around these can be great, but on the down side, they can also be a hassle. If you are expecting the new bell to always work, or to always be there, then Chrome Canary is most likely not for you. They update it almost every day, and this can mean that those pretty bells can disappear Now, if you are using it to have the latest features, and are comfortable with it randomly breaking, then maybe it is a great option for you.

Personally, I have been using Google Chrome for a long time, and I love it, the thoughts of being on the front lines reporting bugs thrills me, and makes me want to help all I can. Also, I like bells, and I am okay with them not being there tomorrow.

This can apply for any beta release of a product, not just Chrome Canary.

Why does it exist?

That would have to be asked to the dev team of Google to get a proper answer, but on their site they say its for developers, so one can assume that its for developers, and people who want to experiment. They list one reason for someone to use it as new integration, so if you had software that worked with browsers, such as plugins, this would be great for you. I am using it to tell you all about it, and also to do some testing for Google.

What are the new features?

There are many small features under the hood. But one of the more obvious features is auto updating, and updating nearly every day. If they find, and fix an issue, they will push down a new updated version.

One thing I find interesting, is that it is more like Google Chrome was when it started, by that I mean that it is slimmed down, back in the day when I first started to use Chrome, it was the fastest web browser, because it was slimmer, and Canary is just that.

Conflusion.

Chrome Canary is the latest easy to use and install internet browser from Google, it has new features, and it is faster. It will be more prone to crashing since its still in development, and it could have totally different features from one day to another.

Personally, if you are interested, want a new browser, want to see the cutting edge, and are okay with the risk of it crashing, use Canary. You can always have both installed to try them out together.

In this post, I will be showing you how to create a small program to backup your files, and how to make this program run on a schedule.

This is an instruction for windows machines (I can post one for Unix machines later if requested).

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