Google Chrome: Extentions At Last

Ok I know its been a while since I last wrote a blog.  But what with Christmas and stuff I have been really busy 12 hour  shifts are horrible. Anyway enough about me and on to what this post is actually about.

Google have finally realised a version of their browser Google chrome which allows the use of extensions. Now im fully aware that extensions have been available for a while for the browser but that the feature had been set to off as default. This is the first time that it has been enabled for all and the extension system seems to be working great.

In my opinion the lack of extension support was one thing that was holding chrome back, I can now see myself using it more often as I have already dropped internet explorer completely. I had only been using it for sites that didn’t like Firefox which is becoming a very rare problem nowadays.

I’m currently running the latest beta version which is 4.0.249.30 and having updated from a few builds ago and so far all seems to working as you would expect still running quick and no crashes so far. You can download it from filehippo here

Facebook

Recently I have really gotten into facebook now i have had an account or two for a couple of years now but never really had much to do with it.

However recently i have been finding new applications to play with and its just taking away my time. funnily enought the current most popular one or so it seems farmville i tried but wasnt a fan off prefering farmtown instead.

Saying that im totally addicted to restaurant city, my farm and something called status shuffle. I’m also increasing my geographical knowledge with another playfish app called geo challenge.

So I’m using facebook far more than i ever thought i would. I still don’t see me ever having a twitter account thought  i can see its place for business and celebs but for the everyday normal person? Why!

Invisible music festival

Now some of you may know that Im a big fan of spotify which is an ad supported streaming music service.

Well the people at http://www.invisiblefestival.org/ have come up with the idea of holding a music festival by giving people playlist links.

They say

What is the Invisible Festival?

The Invisible Festival is an online virtual music festival, hosted by you but soundtracked by us. It’s the world’s only 100% mud free, crowd-free, rain-free, tout-free, queue-free, free-free virtual festival.

The whole point of this is to raise money for cancer research uk through donations and i personally think its a great idea and a real intresting idea for using spotify.

Check them out at

http://www.invisiblefestival.org/

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/

Mobile Phone Directory – Remove Yourself

Some of you may of heard of the Mobile phone directory going live next week well here’s a way that you can remover your self and in effect make your mobile ex directory.

Removal is recommended by the BBC – see link below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/8091621.stm

The Directory of Mobile Phone numbers goes live next week in the uk
All numbers including those belonging to children will be open to cold calling and the general abuse that less scrupulous telesales people subject us too.

To remove your number you can go here. (you need your mobile phone with you to do this, they text you a code)

http://www.118800.co.uk/removeme/remove-me.html

You can remove your number from this list, and tell all your friends – especially those with children who have mobile phones.

Hope this helps some of you out.

UPDATE

Looks like they have taken it down for the moment. I will update as soon as I notice that its back.

UPDATE 2

The site is still down

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/8148463.stm

Looks like its to make things work better.

I do wonder if it will actually get launched.