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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.
Microsoft selling 7+ Windows 7 copies/second
Jul 24th
Windows 7 is no doubt a really awesome operating system… it’s faster, sleeker, looks cool and is productive also. Windows 7 is the best Windows operating system yet. And apparently people too have realised it. Microsoft has reported in their quarterly report that Windows 7 has hit 175 million licenses sold which means they are selling more than seven copies of Windows 7 per second and 20 million copies per month. The figures are very encouraging and impressive considering that it’s only nine months since Windows 7 was released. As of today – Windows 7 is now running on more than 16% of all PCs worldwide.
This is not going to slow down anytime soon because most of the companies are still waiting for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 before they upgrade to Windows 7 which is further going to increase these sales figures.
This figures clearly say that Microsoft and Windows is still in the game and are not planning to go anywhere for a long time.
[via Windows Blog]
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
