Archive for Chrome

Chrome and Safari in perfect harmony

I had an idea that I wouldn’t install Google’s Chrome browser on the workstation. The idea was to stick with Safari for as long as I could, to keep the install clean.

Two things made me install Chrome:

  1. I needed an alternative browser for work.
  2. I missed my Chrome Web Apps.

Number 2 made me install Chrome this morning, and a few hours later I have found harmony in the two browsers. It’s really quite simple.

Chrome is for work. (Gmail, Docs, Reader, research, inspecting code and so on.)

Safari is for consuming. (Browse the web. Period.)

Both are open on my desktop right now, and I think this will work out great.

Fullscreen as a productivity booster

Usually when I write a blog post on a computer I do so in a text editor. I prefer software like OmmWriter, WriteRoom and Scrivener, rather than full-fledged word processors like Pages, OpenOffice or Word. In fact, I could go on about why that last one is a trojan from Hell, but that’s a completely different matter.

OmmWriter (my most recent favorite when it comes to text composing) shares one thing with WriteRoom and Scrivener: It has a fullscreen mode. It also does one thing better than the other two, and that’s automatically shutting off Growl, the notification service most diehard Mac users find indispensable for interruptions during the day. Smart thinking there. Continued →

Webapps and the cloud are changing software forever

There are 4 programs I launch every morning when turning on my computer:

  • Chrome, my web browser of choice.
  • Tweetie, my Twitter client of choice.
  • TDHmail, my email client which is actually Google Apps for the domain tdh.me.
  • Facebook.

These stay open throughout the day, and all are standalone applications, although the latter two could just as well have been running in any web browser, and Tweetie could be replaced by Twitter’s web interface. Continued →

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