This really isn’t a tutorial and well the code could surely use some improvements, but I just wanted to post how I solved a certain problem earlier. The problem was that I had a list of 300+ URLs and I needed screenshots of them all. Read on to see how I did it. More
Until recently I hadn’t even realised how many Google products I use on a daily, or at least weekly basis. While I was installing the FeedBurner plugin earlier today I noticed that FeedBurner has been acquired by Google as well, and that made me have a look at my Google dashboard to see just what other Google products I use, and I was surprised by how many it is.
Obviously Google Search is one of them. Still one of the best search engines out there, and they keep adding new features and options to it which make finding what you are looking for even easier. Moving on we have other obvious products such as YouTube, GMail, Google Maps and Google Talk. For productivity and office related things I have Google Docs, Reader, Wave, Translate and Subscribed Links.
As if that wasn’t enough I use a whole bunch of products for my web developer shenanigans: AdSense, Analytics, FeedBurner, and Webmaster Tools. Then there’s Chrome browser as well which has become my browser of choice when I only want to surf around. Quite a bit isn’t it? I for one look forward to the near future (Google OS) and more distant future (Google Skynet).
I’m pretty sure that soon enough, if it hasn’t happened already, Google will know me better than I know myself. Scary.
A great commercial for Google Chrome. If you haven’t heard of Google Chrome yet then I have to wonder in what age you live.
Personally I think it’s pretty great. It’s very hard to beat Chrome when it comes to casual browsing, and it is my choice of browser for that.
Sometimes you get a crazy idea, and just sit down and make it happen in one go. And that’s exactly what happened last night. On my way home I decided that I should play around with making a Firefox extension for Upload Pie. But instead of just playing around and seeing what’s possible, I ended up finishing the first version of it. Happens sometimes I guess.
Basically what it lets you do is right click on an image and it will give you an option to upload it on UploadPie. It even copies the URL into your clipboard automatically so you can be even lazier than ever! If you want to try it out, here’s the link to Upload Pie Uploader at Mozilla’s Firefox Add-on repository.
In Japan, even the viruses are music!