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Official Google Search Results Domain Blocklist Chrome Plugin

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 03:28:28 +0000

Ben Vanik sends in some great news; Google has officially released a Chrome extension that allows you to ban certain domain names from your search results. If you don’t know why this is good news, consider when you search for something like “best diet pills” or anything starting with the phrase “how do i…” leading [...]

Dead Easy Image and File Sharing with Drag and Drop onto Your Browser

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:13:58 +0000

drag2up is a Chrome and Firefox addon that allows you to drag and drop files onto any text field in your browser window at which point drag2up uploads those files to image or file-sharing services in the background and then instantly inserts URLs into the text-field for you. Example Usage Let’s say I want to [...]

Chrome Dev Adds Support for ICC v2 Color Profiles

Riyad Kalla — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:47:53 +0000

Grant Gochnauer sends in news that Chrome Dev (the development branch of Google’s Chrome browser) just added support for ICC v2 Color Profiles. You can enable the new functionality using the –enable-monitor-profile command line argument when launching the Chrome browser, for example: C:\[PATH]\chrome.exe --enable-monitor-profile Let the graphic folk out there rejoice, you now have another [...]

AreWeFastYet – Popular JavaScript Engine Performance Compared

Riyad Kalla — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:20:19 +0000

I recently became aware of the site AreWeFastYet via a tweet from jQuery’s creator, John Resig. The site is a Mozilla-maintained property that benchmarks the most popular JavaScript engines against each other using both the WebKit SunSpider and Google’s v8bench JavaScript benchmarks every day. The JavaScript engines benchmarked are: Mozilla’s JavaScript Engine (black – labelled “moz [...]

Firefox 4 Adding GPU-Accelerated Graphics Rendering

Riyad Kalla — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 03:30:40 +0000

Firefox 4 will be delivering GPU-accelerated rendering for graphical elements via the Direct2D APIs on Windows, among many other new features like a new tab layout, new look and feel for Windows and new privacy features. Currently at Beta 4, Firefox 4 has had GPU-acceleration in the code-base, but it has always been disabled by [...]

HTML5 Drag and Drop Upload and File API Tutorial

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:15:32 +0000

Update #3: Using the techniques outlined in this article I have rolled out and initial release of imgscalr.com. Feel free to download the JS source (it is heavily commented) and take a look at how it was rolled out. Unfortunately the required File API support is only in Chrome and Firefox currently, Safari gets it [...]

Apple Loves HTML5 – As Long as You Use Safari – FAIL

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:40:19 +0000

Grant Gochnauer sent in a great little tech tid-bit this morning; Apple has launched an HTML5 demo site to show off the flexibility and power of HTML5 in light of their total rejection of Flash as the medium to deliver next-gen rich web content. Unfortunately, as soon as you try and do anything on the [...]

Funny Opera Browser Speed Test

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 28 May 2010 15:14:53 +0000

I suppose Google put together a Rube-Goldberg “speed test” of the Chrome browser and Opera decided to 1-up them with what I found a hugely entertaining and funny “Opera Browser vs a Potato” speed test video. A lot of what I found to be gold about this video was that it’s more like an SNL [...]

YouTube Mass-Video Upload Still Buggy

Riyad Kalla — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:20:48 +0000

The screenshot above shows a “failed” video upload from Chrome to YouTube that was actually successful blocking 3 other pending uploads. I’ve actually never used the mass/multi-video upload capability of YouTube in the last 2 years and had it work for me seamlessly. Before the new Flash-based uploader, the older semi-Web-2.0 mass-upload form had incredible [...]

CrossOver Chromium, first impressions

Ray Gomez — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:25:46 +0000

Like all internet enthusiasts, I was ecstatic to see Google release a new browser. Unfortunately, like all *nix enthusiasts, my heart dropped at the sight of “Google Chrome (BETA) for Windows” and no sign of a corresponding Linux or Mac version. Fortunately, the good guys over at Codeweavers released a version of Chromium (the codebase [...]

Google's Chrome Browser Process Model Explained

Riyad Kalla — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:12:08 +0000

Marc Chung has posted an in-depth analysis of Google’sChrome Browser process model. Why this is interesting is because the new process model in Chrome is one of the most powerful aspects of the browser, allowing it to render JavaScript-heavy web applications much faster without blocking the entire browser process hung in a render loop (something [...]