Our Verdict
If you buy what Nick Carr is deal in his bookThe Shallowsor his Atlantic article objet d’art calledIs Google make Us Stupidthen you may need to skip this reappraisal . Cruzis a Web web browser app designed for the ADHD crowd , especially if your ADHD incline to all thing socially networkable .
Cruz is three Web browsers in one : A regular , run - of - the - mill web browser app sandwiched between two smaller browser app windows that show land site you ’re connecting to as mobile browsers . The destruction event is that you may crop the cyberspace while still keeping yellow journalism on your Facebook , Twitter , or other Mobile River - enabled accounts all at the same time .
As a internet browser Cruz knead as you ’d ask any ripe internet browser to work , which includes options for tabbed browse . But I did have some issues with stream video in the mobile - sized panes that I had no job teem on my iPhone . Also , on my 13 - inch MacBook Pro I found Cruz ’s three paned browsing experience to be … well … a bother . With two mobile panelling sized at iPhone widths , the middle web browser , the one I was really surfing the Web with , was too small to be utilitarian .
Overall ( and on a larger filmdom ) , Cruz offers a unique blending of social networking and browsing all in a exclusive program , give you the exemption to keep tabs on your societal mankind a while you ’re Cruzing the World Wide Web .
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[ Jeffery Battersby is an IT Consultant , Apple Trainer , ( very ) smalltime actor , and regular contributor to Macworld . He write about Macs and more athis web log . ]
