Protable Chrome Updates Speed (Oh Yea)

By The How-To Geek, 11:00 AM on Wed May 27 2009 

Windows only: Fresh on the heels of the Google Chrome 2.0 release comes an unofficial portable version from German blogger Caschy—who put together the last portable version of Chrome.

Like before, you can simply extract the setup file to a folder on your drive and run the ChromeLoader executable to launch the regular portable application, or IncognitoChromeLoader.exe to open a new private browsing mode window. The application is completely self-contained in the folder, so if you are running a previous portable version you can simply copy the files over top to upgrade—just don't copy the Profile folder since that contains your user settings.

Portable Google Chrome is a free download, Windows only. The download page is in German, but the application itself will work in English. For more fun with Chrome, check out how to drag tabs from Google Chrome over to Firefox, and vice-versa.

Portable Google Chrome 2.0.172.30 Beta (English Translation) [Caschys Blog via gHacks]

How to Separate your Data and Operating System

May 27th, 2009 at 9:28 am By Gina Trapani via smarterware.org

Gina wrote: Last week I downloaded and installed the Windows 7 release candidate (free for anyone to use till June of next year) and the whole process was much easier because I've got my PC's hard drive well-partitioned.

I've got to be conversant with many operating systems, so right now I'm triple-booting XP, Vista, and Windows 7 on my PC (not to mention using OS X on my MacBook Pro). This is definitely overkill for non-tech writers, but I do think it's a good idea for power users to separate their data onto a standalone partition.

This morning at Lifehacker I ran down exactly how to do that, and what the benefits and drawbacks are. Here's the full article: How to separate your data from Windows on a standalone partition.