i have a list of apps that i need to forcequit and, from time to time, that list changes. perfect excuse to manage a single array! however, my strings with spaces aren’t passing as i’d like them to. here’s the simple script:
when i generate verbose feedback, i’m seeing each app in question quit EXCEPT for those with spaces. on a mac, in the command line, i have to type the following to forcequit word and chrome:
but i can’t seem to find a way to paste the correct syntax into the array to get these applications to quit as the others do. in the above script example, the result just says:
“+ for i in ‘”${apps[@]}”‘
+ killall ‘Microsoft’ Word
No matching processes were found”
It’s a simple problem, but that doesn’t stop it from bedeviling some computer users: What do you do if you buy a new computer and want to easily move all your old bookmarks over to the new one? In this video how-to, we’ll show you two ways to export bookmarks and then upload them into a browser on your new machine.
Using Chrome, I start by going to that browser’s bookmark manager and clicking Organize. I then export my bookmarks to an HTML file, choosing where to save it. From there, using email, file-sharing, or a thumb drive, I can bring my bookmarks over to a new computer.
There’s an even easier way using Google Chrome. Just sign in when you use the browser. That way, whenever you’re signed into Chrome on any machine, your bookmarks will travel with you.
Glu Mobile to Present at 25th Annual ROTH Conference
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Glu Mobile Inc., a leading global developer and publisher of freemium games for smartphone and tablet devices, today announced that its Chief Financial Officer, Eric R. Ludwig, is scheduled to present at the 25th Annual ROTH Conference in Dana Point, California on Monday, March 18, 2013 at 1:00 p.m. Pacific time (4:00 p.m. Eastern time).
A live webcast, as well as a replay, of the presentation will be available on the company’s investor relations website at http://www.glu.com/investors.
About Glu Mobile
Glu Mobile (NAS: GLUU) is a leading global developer and publisher of freemium games for smartphone and tablet devices. Glu is focused on creating compelling original IP games such as BLOOD & GLORY, DEER HUNTER, FRONTLINE COMMANDO, GUN BROS, and SAMURAI VS. ZOMBIES DEFENSE on a wide range of platforms including iOS, Android™, Windows Phone, Google Chrome, and MAC OS. Glu’s unique technology platform enables its titles to be accessible to a broad audience of consumers globally. Founded in 2001, Glu is headquartered in San Francisco with a major office outside Seattle, and international locations in Canada, China and Russia. Consumers can find high-quality entertainment wherever they see the ‘g’ character logo or at www.glu.com. For live updates, please follow Glu via Twitter at www.twitter.com/glumobile or become a Glu fan at www.facebook.com/glumobile.
BLOOD & GLORY, DEER HUNTER, FRONTLINE COMMANDO, GUN BROS, SAMURAI VS. ZOMBIES DEFENSE, GLU, GLU MOBILE and the ‘g’ character logo are trademarks of Glu Mobile Inc.
Media & Investor Relations: ICR, Inc. Seth Potter, 646-277-1230 ir@glu.com
Google and Mozilla are tinkering with adding audio visualization and privacy to individual tabs in future versions of their browsers.
The audio visualization feature has been incorporated into both Chromium and the “Canary” build of Google’s Chrome browser, according to The Next Web .
Since introduced as part of Google’s Chrome development process in 2010, Canary has been a bleeding edge version of the browser—a place to experiment with features before testing them in the development channel.
So that means that it may be some time before the visualization feature—which allows you to see if the web page to a tab is playing or recording audio—appears, if ever, in a future version of the browser.
CloudMagic is growing up. This super-speedy search service debuted a few years ago and over timehas evolved to offer some very useful features, including Facebook and Twitter search. Now, though, CloudMagic is making some of its biggest changes yet, including the ability to integrate your personal search results with Google’s global Web results. And the company is no longer offering unlimited searches for free, a move that may alienate some users. However, 50 free searches a month will suffice for many; the unlimited searches of the Pro subscription costs $5 a month.
CloudMagic’s core search tools work the same as always: you sign up for an account, and link the services you’d like it to search. It supports a huge range of services, including AOL, Box, Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, Gmail, Google Apps, Google Talk, GMX, Hotmail, iCloud, Mail.com, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Microsoft Office 365, MSN, Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Twitter, Windows Live, and Yahoo.
Once access has been granted, CloudMagic then begins indexing your accounts, which can take some time if your accounts are sizable. It took several hours to index a Gmail account containing thousands of messages, but only a few minutes to index a newer Twitter account. You can begin searching right away, but waiting until the indexing process is complete will deliver more accurate results.
CloudMagic displays your own personal results in an unobtrusive box that appears alongside Google’s Web results.
The service is still available as it has been in the past, as a browser extension for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, an add-on for Internet Explorer, and a mobile app for the iPad, iPhone, and Android devices. The browser extensions and add-ons appear as simple search box on any relevant Web pages; if you surf to a page that doesn’t support CloudMagic, you don’t see the box. You can move the search box around the page if it’s in your way, and you can minimize it to a corner, too.
You enter your keywords in the search box, and CloudMagic goes to work, instantly (and I do mean instantly) displaying results as you type. The results appear in a column that appears below the CloudMagic search box as soon as you begin typing. Results are organized by source; if you enter a search string while on your Gmail page, you’ll see results from there, but you also can scroll down to see results from your other accounts, like Facebook and Twitter. In CloudMagic’s latest iteration, the results are as accurate as speedy as they have always been.
What’s new about CloudMagic is how you can access its search results. It is no longer limited to displaying results in its own search box. CloudMagic now lets you see your personal CloudMagic results when conducting Google searches. This feature, which is available using Chrome, Firefox, and Safari with the browser extension installed (except Internet Explorer) works whenever you enter a search query in Google. CloudMagic displays …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at PCWorld
If you aren’t using Google Chrome yet, you should be. When it comes to browser speed—and especially JavaScript performance—Mozilla and Microsoft can’t compete with Google. But Chrome can go even faster if you’re willing to make some adjustments under the hood.
To help with that effort, we’ve gathered for your consideration a few of our favorite free Google Chrome. Experience the power enhancements they provide, and in a few days you’ll wonder how you ever survived online with a bare-bones browser.
If you’re a more-advanced power user, you can dig into Chrome’s experimental options that use your CPU and GPU to optimize your Web browsing. Those options are buried in an obscure Chrome menu to prevent casual surfers from accidentally borking their browsers, but we’ll describe where the options are and how they work. Speed freaks unite!
Power extensions
If you don’t already have the latest version of Google Chrome installed and running properly on your system, take those preliminary steps now. Afterward, open the Chrome Web Store, and you’ll see an overwhelming array of Chrome apps for augmenting your browser with games, music players, and social networks. The extensions we’ll focus on here are designed to make Chrome leaner, meaner and more efficient.
(Phys.org)—Opera will ditch its web browser rendering engine called Presto and instead will switch over to WebKit in a planned 2013 phase-out. The decision was announced this week. WebKit is the rendering engine used in Apple’s Safari and Google’s Chrome. According to the announcement, “Opera will make a gradual transition to the WebKit engine, as well as Chromium, for most of its upcoming versions of browsers for smartphones and computers.” …read more Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
That said, with this particular $100-plus investment, you’ll want to look before you leap. Whether you’re opting for a straightforward Office 2013 installation or the multi-PC, cloud-connected ubiquity of an Office 365 subscription, there are four potentially crippling gotchas to consider before you plunk down your hard-earned cash. I’ve also identified a supposed gotcha that you can actually ignore entirely.
1. Your computer may not run Office 2013.
Unlike Office 2010, Office 2013 does not work with Windows XP or Windows Vista. Yet the latest data from NetApplications shows that roughly 45 percent of all Internet users still rock those two aging operating systems. If you’re part of that sizable horde, there’s absolutely no reason to buy Office 2013—it won’t work on your system. And because an Office 365 Home Premium subscription simply lets you install the latest version of Office—Office 2013, again—on up to five PCs, you’ll want to pass on that as well.
2. Other computers may not run Office on Demand.
Office Web Apps offer basic functionality, but nowhere near as much utility as Office on Demand.
One of the big draws of an Office 365 subscription is Office on Demand, a full-fledged, Internet-streamed version of the productivity suite that Microsoft calls “Your Office away from home.” And it really, truly is—if the host computer meets the suite’s fairly stringent requirements. As with local installations of Office 2013, Office on Demand plays nice only with PCs running Windows 7 or 8. It also requires the PC to have a fairly modern browser: Internet Explorer 9 or later, Mozilla Firefox 12 or later, Apple Safari 5 or later, or Google Chrome 18 or later.
Allow Google and Disney to guide you through a dark and mystical Kansas circus in Find Your Way to Oz, the latest Google Chrome experiment featuring elements of the upcoming film Oz The Great and Powerful re-created for the web in immersive 3D.
Like all Google Chrome Experiments, the project pushes the boundaries of HTML5 web technologies like WebGL and CSS3 to create interactive, animated online environments. Disney and Google Chrome teamed up with Unit 9, a digital media production company that specializes in storytelling through new technology, to take some aspects of traditional filmmaking and apply them to the Find Your Way to Oz project.
As you launch the experiment, the scene pans like watching a film, and the view can be controlled with arrow keys like a video game. Pretty incredible to see what the “open web” is capable of! Read the technical case study to find out how engineers, developers, and visual artists worked together to create this cinematic web project.
AppMenu QML 1.4 (Plasmoid Script) This plasmoid shows a menu of the installed applications, similar to Lancelot but much simpler. The purpose of the simpleness is to have a faster plasmoid which also loads faster. The plasmoid also has a list of favorites and you can search applications by application name. There are “Lock Session”, “Leave” and “Switch User” and other similar buttons. Other features:
– the number of visible columns can be changed (between 1 and 4);
– the favorites section can be hidden;
– the favorites list can be locked;
– the size of all visible icons can be changed;
– closing and opening the menu remembers its state (configurable);
– change launcher icon;
– configure which “leave” buttons are shown (or show none at all).
The plasmoid can be completely manipulated with the keyboard only except for the buttons at the bottom wich must be clicked with the mouse. The menu can be browsed with the arrow keys and PageUp and PageDown, a favorite can be added with the + or = key and removed with the – key, to search an application by its name, just start typing the name.
This plasmoid is entirely written in QML + JavaScript.
Note: this plasmoid requires KDE 4.8.0 or higher. For correct resizing of the “Leave” buttons, KDE 4.9.0 is required.
Bugs I don’t have control over (because of limitations in Qt or Plasma):
– make configuring the plasmoid’s icon more elegant by showing the current icon on the button that launches the “Change icon” dialog and by removing the text field holding the icon’s name (only possible when KConfigXT finally supports Icon)
– provide a command line to open/close the menu
– add “Recent Documents” section (below Favorites?); there is no Plasma DataEngine for this, so I cannot do it
– allow to modify the ordering of the “leave” buttons (must find a way in
KConfig XT to do this)
changelog: version 1.4 (2013-01-14):
– reimplement the search using a PlasmaCore.SortFilterModel so that it is faster (there is however a lag on the first search because the model must then be loaded; the other possibility would be to load the model at startup of the plasmoid, but IMHO Plasma loads already slow enough)
– add PageUp and PageDown support in the menus
– reimplementation of the “Leave” toolbar
– fix bug: when an app which is also a favorite is uninstalled (e.g. at the transition KMail -> KMail2, KOffice -> Calligra, OpenOffice -> LibreOffice, when the user switches from Firefox to Google Chrome, or from Konqueror to Rekonq, … or when the user uses Chakra Linux and updates a bundle), at the next restart of the plasmoid only this entry will be removed from the favorites list instead of uncleanly failing to load the entire favorites list
– add option to have “Sleep” (Suspend to RAM) and “Hibernate” (Suspend to Disk) buttons
– specify a preferred width of the plasmoid and have the minimum width smaller than this
– update translations (by their authors)
If you own an Android-powered smartphone or use the Google app on your iOS device, it’s a good bet you’ve fallen in love with Google’s voice-powered search. It works freakishly well.
What you may not know is that you can enjoy a similar experience on your PC. All you need is Google’s Chrome browser.
And that really is all you need, because it turns out Voice Search is built right in. Just head to Google.com, then click the little microphone on the right side of the search field. (Needless to say, this will work only if your PC has a microphone. Most laptops do; most desktops don’t, unless you have a Webcam.)
The feature is also available in Google Maps, though it doesn’t extend to other Google properties like Calendar, Gmail, and YouTube.
Google Chrome does a lot of things well, but it’s not the greatest when it comes to mouse-wheel scrolling.
Indeed, you may have noticed that when you turn your wheel, the page lurches up or down in “steps,” instead of scrolling smoothly. This isn’t the end of the world, of course, but certainly the experience could be better.
The curiously named but very cool Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller makes it better. This Chrome extension gives you control over the smoothness and acceleration of mouse-wheel scrolling. It works with keyboard scrolling, too, if that’s your thing.
Once installed, simply refresh the page or tab you’re already viewing; you should notice a difference right away. (You can also restart your browser to make it active on all open tabs.)
Lately I’ve noticed that whenever I play a YouTube video on my PC, it’s jerky. Choppy. Call it what you will—it’s really frustrating.
Semi-expert troubleshooter that I am, I did what I always do when experiencing a problem inside my browser: I tried a different browser. Specifically, I switched out of Chrome and into Internet Explorer.
And what do you know? Silky-smooth YouTube video. Google Chrome, j’accuse!
After a little research into the issue, I discovered a fix—one that worked for me. Your mileage may vary, of course, because each system and situation is different, but it’s definitely worth a try if you’re plagued by the same choppy playback in Chrome. Do this:
At one time or another, we install too much stuff. And who can blame us? The Internet is one big playground with lots to install and play with, and we eventually forget that too many installations can slow down and eventually crash our system. One key to a smooth healthy running computer is to keep it as trim as possible, with as little bloatware as possible. Enter Toolbar Cleaner (free) to make that task really easy.
As the name implies, Toolbar Cleaner…well….cleans your system of toolbars. But it actually goes further than that; it also cleans your browsers of other items such as plugins and extensions. It also provides another service, which is to clean up your Windows start-up menu.So don’t think it is a one-trick pony. It is capable of more than you might think.
But one thing at a time. First you need to install the program, which will literally take only a minute due to the installation file weighing in at 1MB. But a word of caution: During the installation process, the app will try to change your browser homepage as well as install something called an “anti-phishing domain advisor” (more on that later). You can easily bypass these by unchecking them before proceeding, but an unalert user with their eye on something else at the time may totally miss it. So concentrate on the installation; otherwise, you will have something else to uninstall later.
When installing Toolbar Cleaner (or any software), be very cautious and make sure that you don’t accidently choose these two options. Unless you really want them, check them before proceeding.
When it is ready to go, fire up Toolbar Cleaner and you will immediately be presented with two tabs. The first tab, called “Browsers”, will show you all he toolbars, extensions and plugins that you have installed. he app supports all the big browsers such as Firefox, Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer. Simply study the list, decide which toolbars, extensions and plugins you want removed and tick the boxes next to them. Then, making sure the browser is closed first, click “Remove Selected Toolbar(s)” and watch the progress bar methodically remove your choices. Then simply restart the browser and see if they are gone.
To paraphrase Forrest Gump, printing Web pages is like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re gonna get.
Well, okay, if you preview the pages first, you’ll have some idea—but there’s a good chance you won’t like what you’re gonna get. That’s because most Web sites are packed with ads, banners, graphics, and other clutter that don’t always translate well to the printed page. If nothing else, you can end up with lots of extraneous pages, which wastes both ink and paper.
Google Chrome extension Print Friendly & PDF lets you print smarter. Specifically, it strips out the ads and other clutter, formats the page for optimal printing, then gives you the option of removing individual elements you might not want. Oh, and true to its name, it lets you bypass paper altogether and print those pages as nicely formatted PDFs instead.
I was going to use PC World as an example, but it turns out we already give you a pretty junk-free printout. So click over to this Gizmodo page instead (Ctrl-click the link to open it in a new tab), then click Chrome’s Print option (Ctrl-P).
Starting with version 25 of Google Chrome, browser extensions installed offline by other applications will not be enabled until users give their permission through a dialog box in the browser interface.
At the moment developers have several options to install extensions offline—not using the browser interface—in Google Chrome for Windows. One of them involves adding special entries in the Windows registry that tell Chrome that a new extension has been installed and should be enabled.
“This feature was originally intended to allow users to opt-in to adding a useful extension to Chrome as a part of the installation of another application,” Peter Ludwig, Google’s product manager of Chrome Extensions, said Friday in a blog post. “Unfortunately, this feature has been widely abused by third parties to silently install extensions into Chrome without proper acknowledgment from users.”
In order to prevent this type of abuse, starting with Chrome 25, the browser will automatically disable all previously installed “external” extensions and will present users with a one-time dialog box to choose which ones they want to re-enable.
