Jon Henshaw » google http://jon.henshaw.me Spending entirely too much time on the Internet Thu, 07 Jul 2011 15:07:31 +0000 en hourly 1 Not Minimalist, Not Minimalist, Not Minimalist, Minimalist http://jon.henshaw.me/not-minimalist/ http://jon.henshaw.me/not-minimalist/#comments Fri, 07 May 2010 05:04:36 +0000 Jon Henshaw http://henshaw.me/?p=820 When you search, you don’t want to be distracted. You want to submit a query and hope you get some good answers. Minimalism can help you accomplish this. It can keep you from being distracted, and can quickly walk you through the process. There’s only one major search engine that’s doing it, Google.

Yahoo!, Not Minimalist

Yahoo! Home Page

Bing, Not Minimalist

Bing Home Page

Ask.com, Not Minimalist

Ask.com Home Page

Google, Minimalist

Google Home Page

]]> http://jon.henshaw.me/not-minimalist/feed/ 2 How to Update Google Chrome Extensions on Google Chrome for Mac http://jon.henshaw.me/how-to-update-google-chrome-extensions-on-google-chrome-for-mac/ http://jon.henshaw.me/how-to-update-google-chrome-extensions-on-google-chrome-for-mac/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:38:42 +0000 Jon Henshaw http://henshaw.me/?p=789 I was able to start using Google Chrome for Mac exclusively once they started supporting Chrome extensions (aka plugins). One thing that puzzled me at first was how to update the extensions. There’s really no way–as of the time of this writing–to see if updates are available for your extensions. Firefox has a built in system that will automatically check for updates, and then it will alert you. But Chrome for Mac leaves it all up to you.

As this howto video shows you, it’s actually pretty easy. It doesn’t provide a lot of user feedback to show that it’s happening, or that it was successful, but it works. I’m sure that in future builds they’ll work on the usability for that.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYPU8PituPs

To check for updates on your extensions in Google Chrome for Mac, click on the menu item Window and then on Extensions. A new window will appear with a list of all of your extensions. Click on the Developer mode link and then click on the Update extensions now button. You won’t see much happen, but if there are updates, it will update the extensions in the background.

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