After playing with my google home mini for a few days I decided I needed a chromecast (I have appletv, roku boxes, and an old android tv box, but none work woth the google home. nice box. the chromecast. setup on the tv (complete with ice-lolly splashes from olivia) the Read more…
You can get the ios style ‘scroll down and release’ or ‘pull to refresh’ feature in google chrome or safari on osx by installing a simple extension. go here https://github.com/weetidy/Pull-to-refresh-for-Chrome-and-Safari and download the file as a zip. the extracted file contains two folders. click on the crx file in the Read more…
This one is pretty cool :) in chrome or safari on osx simply highlight the address you want to find a map for right click the highlighted address click on ‘show address in google maps’
If you have the official twitter app installed on your mac then you can tweet any selected text from chrome or safari with two clicks! select the text you want to tweet. right click on the text click ‘tweet’ :)
This will show you how to delete duplicate and stale old bookmarks in chrome. The extension checks each of your bookmark links and if the page responds, the bookmark is kept, if the bookmark returns a 404, or not-found error, then the bookmark is removed! bookmark sentry is the extension Read more…
This will show you how to enable google instant in google chrome browser. if you dont know what google instant is, then go to google.com and start typing in things. thats google instant =) it works slightly differently in chrome you can enable it in chrome thus: goto the spanner Read more…
This is an excellent extension for google chrome that will give your chrome source code view syntax highlighting when you view source.It supports bash files; css files; javascript files; xml files and a whole lot more. Html source is already highlighted if you right click and view source, but this Read more…
Flash player on my mac makes it run hot. purely because it uses 100% cpu when ever its loaded. this will show you how to delete it. flash is not really needed now, and if you do need access to a site with flash then you can use chrome which Read more…
Ive been using chrome for mac dev build for a while now, its stable enough, and has themes and extensions. it doesnt look as good as the beta for the mac, which integrates nicely with the snow leopard UI, but there is a theme available that will fix that. as Read more…
keeping chrome firefox and safari synced is hard. browser wars are good. and bad. now with the launch of a dev build of chrome for the mac and linux there is now a decent choice of fast browsers on mac. one problem is how to keep all the data synced Read more…