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Undo closed tab in Chrome
Aug 13th
Of course you can use Control+shift+T to undo closed tab but it takes more time and you don’t get much control if you closed multiple tabs and want to open any one of them.
Sexy Undo Closed Tab solves your problem here. It provides you a list of tabs you recently closed. There is also a search feature for the tabs you can find or if you don’t have to patience to look for the tab in the list.
This extension is similar to Trash Can extension which provides the same functionality but does not have the search feature.
You can download Sexy Undo Close Tab for Chrome here. and Trash Can here.
Take.fm–A beautiful Movie torrent site
Aug 13th
Those who do pirate movies know how unassuming every torrent site is. They are very boring and browsing these site for movies is not much fun.
Take.fm is a new way to download movies. It is a more visual and fun way get the movies you want.
Take.fm is a new site and it does not have a huge collection of movies but it is growing. You can browse for movies by release date, genre, or popularity and there’s a search option as well. RSS feeds are provided for new releases and newly added torrents.
Hovering over a cover will give you info about the movie and tell you what rip it is -
Blue Ray DVD rips as well as DVD rips are available. The quality is movies are high because they are tested by the community members.
The info about movie is given along with torrent file information, movie review and movie recommendations.
This site is not illegal because -
The torrent (metadata) files that we host do not contain data that might be copyrighted in any way. No copyrighted and/or illegal material is hosted by us. It is therefore not possible to hold us responsible for the material that is being spread using this service.
According to Take.fm developer -
We don’t have to get used to a third-rate user experience just for dealing with torrents. I tried to build a website that I – and hopefully all the torrents community – would enjoy using.
Happy Pirating. Arrr!
Google is going to churn Chrome updates faster
Jul 24th
Google is not satisfied with the speed at with it’s browser Chrome is being updated now… so it is further increasing the speed of at with Chrome would be updated. Google is going to release a stable version of chrome every six week. With this the version numbers and features that every version would get insignificant.
Google has given various reasons for this update –
- Shorten the release cycle and still get great features in front of users when they are ready
- Make the schedule more predictable and easier to scope
- Reduce the pressure on engineering to “make” a release
Under the old model, when we faced a deadline with an incomplete feature, we had three options, all undesirable: (1) Engineers had to rush or work overtime to complete the feature by the deadline, (2) We delayed the release to complete that feature (which affected other un-related features), or (3) The feature was disabled and had to wait approximately 3 months for the next release. With the new schedule, if a given feature is not complete, it will simply ride on the the next release train when it’s ready. Since those trains come quickly and regularly (every six weeks), there is less stress.
So is this a good think or not?? I don’t think so… Google could always release minor updates as necessary like Firefox does – 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 — instead of jumping from version 4 to 5 to 6 without any major changes or added features.
This is entirely different from what other browsers or software do… Google has asked not to read too much into the pace of version number changes…. people do care about version numbers.
Somewhere around next year you would most probably be using Google Chrome version 20 or version 25 ;D
