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Hidden Chrome Features on CR-48

After having playing around with ChromeOS on the CR-48 netbook (which I’ve blogged about before), I’ve found a few more interesting tidbits that let you dig deeper into the system.

tl;dr

  • Experimental Features/Flash Drives: chrome://flags
  • Nicer View of Memory Usage: about:memory
  • Hilarious Pranks: about:crash
  • Wi-Fi Troubleshooting: about:network
  • Manage Extensions and Apps: chrome://extensions
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Posted by Calamitous on Dec 31, 2010

Chrome OS on the CR-48: It Has Developer Bits!

So for anyone out there who is not already insanely jealous of my good looks and/or impeccable fashion sense, you should know I was one of the recipients of a CR-48 netbook in Google’s free giveaway.

A full review is forthcoming (sneak preview: it is awesome), but here I just wanted to share a couple quick things I found that turn ChromeOS from an interesting toy to a usable developer’s tool.

tl;dr

  • Process Manager/Task Manager: Shift-Esc
  • Shell/SSH Client: Ctrl-Alt-t
  • Developer Tools: Ctrl-Shift-i
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Posted by Calamitous on Dec 19, 2010

Name The Next Budd

It’s that time again…

Take the Survey:

Name that Budd!

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Posted by Calamitous on Nov 21, 2010

Zombie Songs

For all those times when you’ve been thinking to yourself “Man, this would be the perfect situation in which to play a zombie song,” I’m glad to say modern independent musicians have stepped up to fill this gap:

Further zombie song recommendations are welcome in the comments.

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Posted by Calamitous on Sep 22, 2009

A More Effective Name

A quick note:

If you are:

  • Using Rails
  • Using RSpec
  • Have just discovered the incredible joy of named scopes

…restrain yourself, by any means available (up to and including physical violence) from creating a named scope called “public” or “private.” The reasons for this should be fairly obvious.

Really, whoever ends up cleaning up behind you will appreciate it.

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Posted by Calamitous on Aug 18, 2009