Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/11
Often while researching, I have a zillion pages open in Chrome. Mentally I have the right search texts in my head, but finding back the really relevant tabs can be a pain. That’s where the Chrome extension Search Plus comes in handy which used to be called FullSearch.
To quote a via FullSearch: Search Any Text String Across All Open Tabs In Chrome review :
The extension allows you to search for text in all open tabs at once, and shows a list of search results right in the pop-up. Moreover, clicking any of the results takes you to the particular tab with the highlighted text.
From the Search Plus extension page:
The Search Plus is a Chrome Extension App.
It helps to find the tabs you’re looking for from all opened tabs regardless of window, and you can manage the found tabs easily and quickly.
It works like a charm.
Highly recommended!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/24
Just saw that Google Flights was introduce: for searching and booking flights online.
It needs some more work (see below), but it is a great start for a couple of reasons as compared to any of the competition I have seen:
- A much more intuitive and clutter-free user interface
- A blazingly fast response (SFO – AMS: response in about a second, all others took at least 10 seconds)
Try the user experience for yourself. A few things I liked:
- In addition to selecting preferred airlines, you can select preferred Airline Alliances
(they share miles anyway).
- Shows flight duration and allows you to sort on it
(ideal for business passengers)
- Shows if you can have WiFi
(for geeks like me)
- Uses hint-panes when you hoover the mouse over certain areas to fill in more detailed information
(like the airline that operates the flight, or the stops you make).
- Shows a graph with fare-rate over time
(so you can pick days with lowest fare more easily; the sweet spot for SFO-AMS seems to be 2-5 day trips that include a saturday/sunday night).
Some things they need to work on:
- You can search from USA to destinations outside USA, but not vice versa
(for instance, it finds SFO – AMS, but you are not allowed to enter AMS – SFO).
- You can enter IATA airport codes, but not ICAO ones (like EHAM)
- It is not included in the Google – Products list
(right now you can go from Flights to Web search, but not the other way around).
- It always starts with a departure in SFO
(it would make sense if you can select your faviourite departure airport; I live about 10 minutes from AMS / EHAM).
- It always starts with a departure date 16 days from now
(The last link is pun intended: it tests the Google search cache for refreshing pages that calculate information).
–jeroen
via: Flights from San Francisco – Google Search.
Posted in Google, GoogleFlights, Power User | Tagged: airline alliances, aviation, booking flights, business passengers, day trips, departure airport, departure date, eham, flight duration, google, google search, iata airport codes, lowest fare, preferred airline, preferred airlines, sweet spot, transportation, user interface | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/11/02
Just found out about Sound Search Engine | SoundJax.com. It is nice for sounding sound effects.
Anyone who knows other sound search engines or search phrases that are good in finding sound effects?
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/10/18
It seems quite a few people cannot access their GMail, but are able to access Plus, Contacts, Calendar, etc.
Only when accessing GMail, they get this:
| We’re sorry, but your Gmail account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes.If the issue persists, please visit the Gmail Help Center »Try Again Sign Out |
It happened to me about 90 minutes ago.
After doing the obvious (making sure I have a fresh browser without plugins, logged off the Google account, cleared cookies, restarted the browser, have Google send me a new 2 factor login code to my phone), I followed the GMail Help Center link, then filed a ticket at the please let us know link.
Hopefully this gets resolved soon…
–jeroen
Posted in GMail, Google, Power User | Tagged: error 500, gmail account, google, inconvenience, software, technology | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/10
With more and more stuff being linked together in the cloud, getting hacked becomes increasingly more simple.
This time, it involved Amazon, Apple and GMail, some good knowledge on how the system works, and social engineering to sound trustworthy.
The goal was to get access to a 3-letter Twitter account, the collateral was someones digital life.
Lessons to learn from how Mat Homan got hacked:
- Make local backups often
- Use two-factor authentication
- Don’t have all your devices on “wipe from the cloud”
- Don’t bind your primary accounts together on the clouds
- Have distinct reset accounts for your primary accounts
- Make your primary accounts use a distinct name
Applause for Mat for coming forward on this. I know lots of people that wouldn’t.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/20
It runs on OS X, Windows and Linux:
JAuth is a reference desktop client for the google authenticator. Intended
as an alternative to the iPhone Google Authenticator app and similar.
And it comes with installers in addition to source code.
Interesting.
–jeroen
via: mclamp/JAuth · GitHub.
Posted in *nix, Apple, Google, GoogleAuthenticator, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/13
Finding out which Chrome tabs make noise (I opted for the MuteTab extension)
Restarting your browsers retaining the opened tabs. Chrome does this automatically upon update, but there seems to be no manual automatic way other than this:
- Change your options to Reopen the pages that were open last
- Close your browser
- Restart your browser
- Resetting your Reopen the pages that were open last back to what is was
Not nice, but it works.
–jeroen
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