Tag Archives: chrome

Google Thinks You’re Awesome

Posted on March 3, 2012 by W
Google Thinks You're Awesome

Google Thinks You’re Awesome if you are using Internet Explorer and download Google Chrome: I can’t say that I disagree.

Posted in Marketing, Software | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

Google Search Lucky

Posted on January 23, 2012 by W
Google Search Lucky

Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search in Google Chrome Do you want to use Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search in Google Chrome? It’s easy using the custom search engines. In Google Chrome click the wrench icon and then choose prferences next click manage custom search engines Inser the string(s) below and a name (pretty much irrelevant) and they shortcut keyword you want to use. I use > Google Search Lucky Strings Standard “Im Feeling Lucky” Search http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=Im+Feeling+Lucky SSL Encrypted “Im Feeling Lucky” Search https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&btnI=Im+Feeling+Lucky Note: I’ve stripped out all items such as encoding and referrer to keep this as clean and simple as it can be. Now you can simply type in something like > Google Docs into your browser bar and have it go to the first result – which is most likely the right place.

Posted in Mac, Software, Tech Tips, Web Development | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Use Google Chrome as a Screensaver

Posted on January 12, 2012 by W

You can use Google Chrome‘s –kiosk mode to create a full-screen screensaver of sorts. This might be good if you have a webpage or intranet page you’d like to display. Here’s how I did it for a windows computer: Create a file such as c:\screensaver.bat and add the following code. Replace with your location of chrome.exe @echo off taskkill /im chrome.exe start /wait “” “C:\Documents and Settings\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” –kiosk http://www.mysite.com rem ## run any command here you’d like after the “screensaver” finishes ## Next, set that to run as a scheduled task after the computer has been idle for 5 minutes (or however long you choose). You can then listen with jQuery / javascript to close the page when the mouse moves. Here is code that closes the page when the mouse moves more than 20 pixels. You could also bind it to a keyboard event. <html> <head> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js”></script> </head> <body> <h1>hello</h1> <div id=”log”></div> <script type=”text/javascript”> var startx = ”; var starty = ”; jQuery(‘html’).bind(‘mousemove’,function(event){ if(startx == ”){ startx = event.pageX; starty = event.pageY; }else { deltax = Math.abs(event.pageX – startx); deltay = Math.abs(event.pageY – starty); var msg = ”; msg += “distance x “; msg += deltax; msg += “distance y “; msg += deltay; $(“#log”).html(“<div>” + msg + “</div>”); if(deltax > 20 || deltay > 20){ closeWindow(); } } }); function closeWindow(){ setTimeout(function(){ window.open(”, ‘_self’, ”); window.close(); },1000); } </script> </body> </html>

Posted in Software, Tech Tips, Web Development | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Google Chrome: Disable Automatic Updates

Posted on January 12, 2012 by W

Are you tried of Google Chrome automatically installing updates? You can disable it on both Windows and Mac machines: Windows Machines Open registry editor. Locate: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Google\Update Add a new DWORD value named DisableAutoUpdateChecksCheckboxValue and set it to 1 to disable automatic updates or 0 to re-enable them. Mac OS X Open terminal and run the following command: defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0 To re-enable automatic updates for google chrome use this command: defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 1 This also works for Chromium and beta versions of GoogleChrome.

Posted in Mac, Tech Tips, Web Development | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Most Common User Agents

Posted on January 3, 2012 by W

Have you ever wondered what Most Common User Agents are? Often times people will post a list on their site, which soon becomes outdated. So, I decided I would create a list of the Most Common User Agents, which is dynamically generated and updated, and use data from my own website to keep the list of user-agent data up to date – which means the list stays up to date as new browsers are released, and is in effect a highly accurate representation of the most common useragents. Below you will find a table showing the most popular / most-used UserAgents and percentage of visitors who had that user-agent when they visited the site. And, as of May 2012 this page should now be even more dynamic. Your user agent is: CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html) percent string system user_agent_string_md5 2.1% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0 Firefox 11.0 Win7 64-bit 40f5c04c54958ba0460a64081f29a468 1.8% Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0) IE 9.0 Win7 64-bit 7793979e70bb01e23833a4f7789d7a63 1.4% Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/534.55.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.5 Safari/534.55.3 Safari 5.1 MacOSX f1bafdfb54b455c9118c2e4657381e41 1.4% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.2 Firefox 10.0 Win7 64-bit 80364097c709ac2bf9708bc61c87ee62 1.3% Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_3) AppleWebKit/534.53.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1.3 Safari/534.53.10 Safari 5.1 MacOSX 510ab906ad9b4e4326a80eda5f8e593e 1.1% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0 Firefox 11.0 WinXP 32-bit 51e701868884b9334a36c003b7fba3af 1.1% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:9.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/9.0.1 Firefox 9.0 Win7 64-bit b9b67149893cf58ea98c6d61dc5cbb5c 1.1% Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.162 Safari/535.19 Chrome 18.0 Win7 … Continue reading →

Posted in Tech Tips, Web Development | Tagged , , , , , , , | 5 Comments

Diff previous versions with Dropbox and Google Chrome

Posted on September 18, 2011 by W

While Dropbox does an excellent job of keeping track of versions of files, it doesn’t make it easy to compare the different versions – until now. DropboxDiff, a Google Chrome extension by Victor Shih, does an amazing job of allowing you to compare versions of files stored on dropbox, with the diff program of your choice. The screenshots on the extension page were a little small, so I decided to post a few of my own below. Get the free extension here.  

Posted in Software, Tech Tips, Web Development | Tagged , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Chrome Extensions Directory

Posted on August 26, 2011 by W

Windows: chrome_root\Application\chrome_version\Extensions\ Example: c:\Users\Me\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\6.0.422.0\Extensions\ Mac OS X: /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Extensions/ or ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/ Linux: /opt/google/chrome/extensions/

Posted in Mac, Tech Tips | Tagged | 1 Comment

Google Lucky Search URL

Posted on March 17, 2011 by W

The URL for a Google’s “I’m Feeling Lucky” search is: http://www.google.com/search?i&q=%s You can replace the %s with your query. This is especially helpful when creating a keyword search in a browser. As a related note, you can do an automatic image search with this: http://www.google.com/images?&q=

Posted in Tech Tips | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Bigger Gmail Compose Box

Posted on November 26, 2009 by W

A Gmail Compose Resize Extension for Google Chrome Details: Have you ever wanted a larger compose box for gMail? especially when using g-mail to reply to a conversation? I give them credit, most times when composing a new message or using it in full-screen mode, it does well. But if you’re like me, about 80% of your conversations are replies. And that is, after all, what is great about g-mail, right? The awesome threading capabilities. So why doesn’t g-mail support a resizeable compose box? You are stuck with a fixed size, of about 260 px, even in the Chrome browser!!! A browser that is know to let you resize text boxes by default! Well, I don’t know the answers to these questions, but they are frustrating, so I’ve written an extension for Chrome (or Chromium) which allows you to specify how big you want that box to be, and then it automatically resizes it (it make take a few seconds after you hit reply to fully grow). Update: As of 2/7/2012 I’ve written a newer, and more updated extension download it here Download the extension here: Bigger Gmail Compose Box It has an options page, which you can access by going to settings (wrench icon) and then extensions. I have also added in auto-update for this extension. I’m really quite pleased with it and wanted to share. Let me know what you think. Having trouble? Didn’t know that Chrome allows extensions? You probably need to upgrade to the latest version. … Continue reading →

Posted in Software, Tech Tips, Web Development | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

greasemonkey – google images relinker (v 2.0)

Posted on August 26, 2009 by W
greasemonkey - google images relinker (v 2.0)

I really like the google image relinker script for greasemonkey, but sometimes when there’s a hotlink protection or something else funky, you just want the original google images link. i updated this greasemonkey image re-linker script so that it relinks the images, but also provides links to open the original link (both in a new tab, and in a new window) Download the script: google_image_relinker_v2_00.user.js.txt (rename to just .js) google_image_relinker_v2_00.user.js (right click and save as) Greasemonkey scripts can be used with chrome or firefox

Posted in Web Development | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment