OK fine, I cracked. If you install my extension you can now get random pictures of dogs instead of US news on the BBC website. It uses https://placedog.net/ to provide the dog photos. Installation instructions are at the bottom of my last post. It takes...

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I think that 24/7 news is a modern-day scourge, and one of its corollaries in the UK is the overdue prominence given to US news. I use the BBC News website when I'm trying to find out what's going on, but I'd prefer that the coverage was of countries within three thousand miles. I used Copilot to help me bash together an extension for both Chrome and Firefox which simply removes U...

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In Google Docs you can "protect" a doc so that it can't be printed, shared or have text copied. For everyone except the author this is quite annoying, and so this is one way you can copy text out of a protected document if you are sent one. These instructions are for a desktop version of Chrome. Firefox will also work, but I haven't tried any of this on mobile. Load y...

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September 2008: I look forward to the first Linux build which runs Chrome as its window manager.

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Things I have learned from the AMA with three Chrome devs: about:flags – “Enable better omnibox history matching” (gives you awesomebar-like features, dev channel only)

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In my attempts to find better ways of getting long-form content onto my Kindle to read offline, I’ve mainly been using two tools: Instapaper and the Later On Kindle Chrome extension. Instapaper has great formatting, and repeated delivery works like a new iss...

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(because one more whiny blogger’s opinion can’t hurt) nice, fast. I see ad people a single google doc in an application window feels nicer than the Prism alternative masses of the standard Firefox keyboard shortcuts work find-as-you-type requires CTRL+F find-as-you-type doesn’t select links

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