“I like to run Chrome/Chromium with some command-line switches or flags enabled. On Windows, you can create a shortcut and set the parameters you want in its properties; on a Mac, you’ll need to launch it from the command line every time. Well, not anymore :)”
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Procrastination
BlackSheep, protect yourself from Firesheep sniffers
BlackSheep is a Firefox addon which detects and informs you if any users in the network are running Firesheep, the Firefox addon which got quite some media attention over the past few weeks. Note that this offers no real protection, as BlackSheep will only inform you. The best protection still is not to connect to …
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GameBoy Emulation in JavaScript
mod_pagespeed
“mod_pagespeed is an open-source Apache module that automatically optimizes web pages and resources on them. It does this by rewriting the resources using filters that implement web performance best practices. Webmasters and web developers can use mod_pagespeed to improve the performance of their web pages when serving content with the Apache HTTP Server.” — By …
On Plex/Nine
About two months ago Plex/Nine, the most awesome Mac Media Center solution for OS X out there, was released. The release was an entire overhaul of the Plex/Eight code and basically had — featurewise — nothing new to offer (heck, even some stuff that worked before didn’t work anymore!). However, this release got me very, …
Tweet Nest and Instagr.am, sitting in a tree …
Last month I’ve set up Tweet Nest, a browsable, searchable and easily customizable archive and backup for your tweets, at https://www.bram.us/tweets/ in order to have a local archive of all (*) my tweets. More recently I’ve started using Instagr.am, an instant photos sharing app for the iPhone (with Twitter, Facebook & Flickr integration). Now, what …
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Hyperdock
“Hyperdock adds long awaited features to your Dock: Select single application windows just by moving the mouse on a dock item, use mouse clicks to quickly open new windows and many more.” — Another handy feature are the Window Previews: hover over any item in the dock, and it will show you the app’s windows …
Mac OS X Visual Git Clients
Looking forward to see this batch of second generation (*) visual Git clients to be released any time soon: Tower, Gitti and GitMac. (*) To me, first generation Mac OS X Git Clients include GitX, GitBox along with the helper app OpenInGitGui Somewhat related: Cornerstone2 (Visual SVN Client) was released recently. Great app which I …
AlphaBaby
My kids love to play with the computer. Unfortunately, they also have the habit of renaming my hard drive to “axlfkaj”. So, I wrote AlphaBaby [which] lets even infants and toddlers have fun playing with the computer: Every time a key is pressed or the mouse is clicked, a letter or shape is drawn [on …