Google Chrome Developer Tools
April 15th, 2010 | 1 comment
The Google Chrome web browser is extremely fast and has pretty much become my primary browser. It has some developer tools baked into the browser similar to the Firebug addon for Firefox. I still tend to gravitate to using Firebug for heavy duty stuff, but the tools in Chrome are good enough that I find myself breaking out Firefox less and less for Firebug. If you are feeling geeky, or want access to some of the newest developer tools for Chrome/Webkit, you can run with the Dev Channel build. It is the most cutting edge build of Chrome, so you always…
digg AdBlocker now in Google Chrome Extensions Gallery
February 3rd, 2010
I have taken my digg AdBlocker script I originally made for greasemonkey and have made it available for Google Chrome users. Install the digg AdBlocker extension for Google Chrome here: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gclmekogkkggoehdimnceffmboanpibn Check out the source here: http://tdupree.com/chrome/digg_adblocker/chrome_digg_adblocker_source.zip
Hacker News OnePage now in Google Chrome Extensions Gallery
February 3rd, 2010 | 2 comments
I finally got around to cleaning up my Google Chrome version of Hacker News OnePage. You can install it for your Chrome browser over at the Google Chrome Extensions gallery. Install Hacker News OnePage for Google Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/plldnnbdlbgbiknjebohmlggcbicghlj Check out the source code: http://tdupree.com/chrome/chrome_onepage/chrome_hn_onepage_source.zip
Hacker News OnePage for Google Chrome
September 16th, 2009 | 1 comment
EDIT: Check here for updates to the Google Chrome Hacker News OnePage extension. Google just recently released Chrome v3.0, and the developer builds in the dev channel now have extensions turned on by default (no need to append –enable-extensions to the exe target). The extensions system for Chrome is getting nicer and nicer (just check out chrome://extensions in your Chrome browser). I have a working version of Hacker News OnePage that I have tested with dev channel build 4.0.206.1. I assume that it will also work fine with the new 3.0 stable release if you have extensions enabled. Install Hacker…
Google Chrome Extensions Update
July 10th, 2009
EDIT: Check here for updates to Hacker News OnePage A new update to Chrome brought a better packaging system for extensions, but also broke all the extensions packaged with the old system. So here are the new Hacker News and Digg extensions that will work with chrome. Hacker News OnePage (install): Provides users with the ability to browse Hacker News articles and comments without leaving the page. source – manifest Digg AdBlocker (install): Removes ads from digg. source – manifest
Chrome Extensions
June 1st, 2009
Update (7/10/09): I fixed the extensions to work with the new update to Chrome, find them here. Today I decided to convert some of my Greasemonkey Scripts to Chrome Extensions. I converted my Digg AdBlocker, Hacker News OnePage, and Hacker News Comments scripts. It turned out to be quite easy, I barely had to change anything to get them running as Chrome Extensions. I packaged them using the python script Google supplied, so they are easy for anyone to install. To use the extensions, you first need to be running the dev build of Google Chrome, you can get it…
Google Talk gets SMS… again…
December 11th, 2008
A while back Google added SMS capabilities to the Google Talk client built into Gmail, but it was a bit buggy so they took it away. Yesterday they announced they again added the feature. The Google talk client in Gmail is getting more and more robust, especially with the addition of video chat a month ago. While all of the new features are really nice, it does leave me wishing that they would add them to the dedicated desktop app or at least to the pop out Gtalk client (which I could then wrap in an Adobe Air app or…
Securely browse your Gmail
May 16th, 2008 | 4 comments
Ever looked at your address bar while reading your email in Gmail and noticed that the page wasn’t encrypted (“http” and not “https”)? Google sends you to a secure page to login, but by default sends you to an un-encrypted page to view and send emails. I’m not too sure why they do this, but there is a simple hack around it. If you want to always browse your e-mail with high-grade encryption (AES-256 256 bit), a more secure encryption than most banks use, just change you Gmail bookmark to point to https://mail.google.com/mail/. You will be sent to a secure…