What did I do with my Google Chrome today?
Posted on September 4th, 2008 by Richard Catto 691 views
I’ve created application shortcuts on my desktop to directly launch gmail and the admin dashboard to this blog. Chrome brings those special windows up in an even sleeker format, discarding the Address Bar.
I created a custom search engine to search my own blog. All I had to do was right click on the Address Bar, click ‘edit search engines…’, click the Add button and fill out three fields: Name, Keyword & URL. The search URL for this blog is http://capetownnews.co.za/search/%s. The %s is a placeholder for the search terms.
You can search this blog manually by typing in http://capetownnews.co.za/search/search terms. That URL structure works for any WordPress blog with fancy permalinks enabled.
But in Chrome, I don’t have to type that long URL out. All I gotta do is type ‘cape search terms’ then select ‘Search Cape Town news for search terms” from the drop down list and hit enter, and my blog is automatically searched for those terms using the built in WordPress search functionality.
I’ve been using Google Chrome all day in lieu of my usual web browser, Firefox 3, and I’m pretty much hooked now.
Tags: Google Chrome, web browser
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Google Chrome, it’s a whole new ball game for browsers
Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Richard Catto 881 views
Wow! Where do I start?
I downloaded the brand new Free Open Source Software Google Chrome web browser (it launched today) just a few hours ago, and I am simply blown away by it!
DOWNLOAD it now and come back and read this article using Chrome.
READ Google’s comic book overview of what Google Chrome is all about. Some of it is quite technical because it is instructive about the underlying software architecture that makes Chrome a whole huge step forward in the browser game.
Google has produced video demonstrations of each new aspect of Google Chrome, which must surely soon become a rival for the number one web browser.
It is FAST, it is slick, it is smooth, it is clean. So very very clean.
It’s actually quite hard getting used to such an uncluttered and clean interface.
Not everything works yet. Songza produces fuzzy text. The YouTube progress bar does not show the downloaded part.
It does not have any plugins or toolbars.
But it is a new toy and you should play with it and see it for yourself, so I’m not going to write a mini-review of it here. The objective of this article is simply to encourage you to go get it today!
Then come and write your own review of it in the comments.
Tags: Google Chrome, web browser
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