Category Archive for 'Tips & Tricks'

GMail Alerts in Google Chrome

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011

Google has recently rolled out a new feature in GMail and Google Chrome which took me by surprise. If you use Chome and GMail (or Google Apps Mail) you may have seen a notification similar to this in your e-mail. Enabling the notifications brings a feature to online GMail that regular e-mail and chat programs [...]

The Beta Channel – Chrome 3.0

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Release Early. Release Often. That is a philosophy that can work well in some software development circles, but in others it can fail miserably. Most people, especially those who are less technically minded, expect their software to ‘Just Work’, and will complain, give up, or stop using a program if it doesn’t. And that’s where [...]

Incognito Application Shortcuts

Friday, November 21st, 2008

While playing with Application Shortcuts for the last post, I found that Chrome will not make an ‘Incognito Application Shortcut’. That is, even if you are in an incognito window when you first make an Application Shortcut, whenever you open it, your web application will be in a regular, non-incognito window.  To get around this [...]