Uncluttering Your Chrome Toolbar

Chrome is becoming my choice of browser, not only that its fast and lightweight, the integration of a Chrome App Store is adding excitement to the thing. But it is not easy when you got only 1 toolbar to work with, as you add more and more extensions the search bar gets eaten up. Chrome toolbar supports hiding of extensions and re-ordering to tidy up your toolbar.

To hide the other extensions, dragging the extension area towards the right end of the browser will automatically hide the rightmost buttons.

All hidden extensions can be shown by clicking on the double arrow button.

Rearranging is also a breeze, drag extension icons around to mix them up based on your preference. 

Why I Don't Buy the Idea of Shuffling

The advent of the MP3 format made music more portable. Add the technology to support it, you have a legion of earphone/headphone addicts roaming everywhere. Back to the days of cassette tapes, Sonys' Walkman seems to be the in-thing. Then came the mini-CD players then Steve Jobs. Everybody else knows what MP3 is. Everywhere you see people sporting their own portable MP3/music players.

The MP3 player revolution introduced us to the whole new concept of playlists. Yes,  with the advent of the technology , people were given the freedom to build their own playlist and not just restricted pre-arranged songs that came along with cassette tapes and CD's. Now you can choose your own favorite songs from different artist and albums and play it over and over again without the discomfort of bringing dozens of junk CD's or tapes.

After playlist, came an even more enticing feature, shuffles. This is the lazy way of generating a random playlist from your music collection. Just dump all your music into the player, shuffle it all or do some filtering based on the genre or artist name. That's easy non stop music for you.

Blogger Now Supports Mobile Template

With the market for mobile devices increase, the need to access and view information on the web on formats that suit mobile devices is a must. I remember Wordpress already supported this format  a year back and I ended up saying to myself, I wish Blogger would do the same.  It turned out that I was not just looking enough, this feature existed way back December 17, 2010.  I was playing around in my Ubuntu box and logged in to my blogger account when a pop up box asked me if I want to turn on mobile templates, that made blogger cooler than yesterday.

The setting is at the Settings tab under the Email & Mobile settings. You simply turn it on. Assuming  you did not make any drastic changes on your template to mess it up in mobile mode,  you would not encounter any error.

Turn on the  mobile template.

The preview.

I guess I have to get moving and update all my blogs to support mobile format.