August 11, 2010

Switching to Chrome

I have been a longtime fan/user of Mozilla Firefox, though over the last couple of years it has become more and more of memory hog. I have tried to use Safari, and tried Google Chrome a while back but they never had the plugin support I was looking for.
The other day with the purchase of a new MacBook Pro for my birthday I decided to give Google Chrome another try. I was glad to see that it has come a long way on the extension front that it once lacked. I was impressed enough with the available extensions that I even switched my work computer over to Chrome. I am hoping that I can stick with it and banish Firefox from all of my machines, I will try to revisit this post and give further pros and cons in the coming week.

December 27, 2008

Twitter and GreaseMonkey Bliss

As many of you know I use Twitter quite often, maybe a little too much even. Most of this I can give thanks to TwitterFox since it is always there.
But along with TwitterFox, I still visit the actual twitter site from time to time and when I do these GreaseMonkey scripts spice it up a bit and make it a little more usable.

Interceptor – This GreaseMonkey script lets you see where all of those TinyURL links will actually take you, helps so that you dont get Rick Roll’d or Goatse opening in your browser.

Twitter Friend Name Suggester – When you have many friends this will help auto-complete there name when you are trying to reply to them.

Twitpic Preview – I really don’t use this one that much as most people I know post links to their sites rather than to the images. But when they are posted this will give you an image preview when people post images on TwitPic

Twitter Live Update – This one is pretty neat. It will auto load new tweets when you you are viewing Direct Messages, Replies, Etc.

I am sure there are plenty of other Twitter GreaseMonkey addons out there, but so far these are the ones that make my Twitter experiance much more enjoyable.