So you missed Twitter for a day? Have a long list of updates along the lines of “OMG this ice cream is fantastic!” to sort through? Fear no more, for I have the solution. Well. If you’re using Chrome. I made a little Chrome extension that filters out tweets that have no actual links in them. Actual links are ‘web’ links, not links to user profiles or hashtags. Tweets are interesting and all, and if you are keeping...

There are lots of tiny little fails out there. Here are some that I’ve found. The Digg iPhone app The Digg app came out for the iPhone to much fanfare but I wasn’t originally a fan. First off, you can only really use the app if you have a regular Digg account. If you have a straight Facebook account like I did, there is no way to login. FAIL. If you’re going to release an app to let your users use your product, don’t a...

Uninstall Firefox Install Chrome There is no step 3 I’m seriously getting sick and tired of Firefox. Chrome for Linux can’t come any faster. When even with only 5 tabs open, it eats over 600 MB, and frequently fades out to the standard “application not responding” state. It can’t even switch tabs without lagging. If I have a video playing in one tab, it frequently hangs when I switch tab, or open a new tab. P...

So what I have here is nothing fancy. It’s basically cut and paste from the Chromium site, but if you don’t want to think, just download and run, and have Chromium on your Ubuntu setup. So, on with the script: The comments speak for themselves. Basically, get prerequisites, get tools, get source, build away. This process will take awhile, so once it starts go flirt with your significant other for a bit :) The first thing you see wh...