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Even More Of Chrome’s Hidden Features

September 4th, 2008 by Jake

So by now you’ve all heard about Google’s new browser, but here are some nifty little (and some useless) things that you probably didn’t know about it.

All of these must be typed manually, they cannot be linked to with an <a> tag, as far as I’ve seen.

  • The “New Tab” page, the smart page that shows your most visited pages, can be accessed by going to chrome-internal:
  • Easter egg: Type about:internets into the Omnibox. The title of the page says “The Tubes are Clogged!”, and the page is supposed to show the old Windows screen saver of the tubes going in various directions, however it doesn’t appear to be working for me on Windows Vista. Google has a great sense of humor nonetheless.
  • As of the initial release version, 0.2.149.27, typing the following into the Omnibox will crash Google Chrome: “:%”, no quotes.
  • about:stats will produce a page entitled “Shhh! This page is secret!”, and also give you some scripting statistics.
  • about:plugins will produce a page showing you plugin information.
  • about:version will obviously display information about the browser itself, similar to the About dialog box.
  • about:memory is the same as clicking the “Stats for nerds” link in the Chrome Task Manager.
  • about:histograms will show connection times.
  • about:dns will show lots of DNS info, like precaching and access times.
  • about:cache brings up a HUGE list of your Internet cache.
  • about:network brings up a menu and a few output windows for various network tests and monitors.
  • view-cache:stats brings up what appears to be memory addresses for various things.
  • chrome-resource://favicon will display the binary data for a PNG file, presumably a favicon. The code does not change if you visit different websites before or after.

Some of these are more for fun, while others are more for diagnostic purposes. Take of it what you will.

Have your own that isn’t listed here? Let us know in the comments!

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Video Conversion Made Easy

October 23rd, 2007 by Jake

I’ve dealt with a lot of video converters over the years, a lot of which were utter crap. But recently I stumbled upon a converter that did it all, for free. I’m actually impressed that other converters aren’t as simple as this one.

It’s called Any Video Converter. No, I’m not getting paid to write this, I just wanted to tell the world that I think this is a great program.

It’ll convert to/from MPEG, AVI, FLV, or MP4. There are even advanced options for customizing size, aspect ratio, bitrate, and start/endpoints. It even works with the custom codec and unusually high bitrate used by Fraps, so I can take a 1GB game video and compress it into a 15MB MPEG-2 video for YouTube with a few clicks. And while there’s a “nag screen” after converting is complete to buy the Pro Edition (the standard version is freeware), it’s a small price to pay for a solid, working video converter.

To all the other video converters out there: Take a page out of this program’s book.

Microsoft’s Hidden ISO Mount Utility

February 2nd, 2007 by Jake

Forget Alcohol 120% and DaemonTools, Microsoft has their own virtual drive utility, and it’s free.

It’s called the Virtual CDRom Control Panel (Peraonslly, I like Microsoft Virtual Image Mount Utility, or MVIMU, more.), and while it doesn’t come with Windows by default and doesn’t look as shiny and pretty as some of their other utilities or Microsoft’s new operating system, it does get the job done (and it’s really small!). Download link and usage instructions after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »

Maxthon 2.0 Alpha (Invite Only)

July 28th, 2006 by Jake

Alright, it’s time to see who really reads these.

If you would like an invitation to the Maxthon Invited Preview, please leave a comment with a valid e-mail address (I promise you won’t get spam).

The current alpha I’m running (2.0.0.5256) doesn’t have all the features of Maxthon 1.5.x yet, but I’ll give them leniancy there because the control panel is now 100% HTML and JavaScript (AJAX, if you wanna call it that), so they have to convert everything. I’m also running IE7, which adds most of the quirks of the Mozilla engine (stuff like PNG Transparency, proper CSS rendering, native tab support, built-in security), and Maxthon is like a cherry on top of the sundae. I love it!

Anyway, if you’d like an invitation to use this and all later versions of Maxthon 2.0.x Alpha, please leave a comment. I have 10 invitations, but I’ll only give out 5 here (I’m saving the other 5 for other people). Hurry up and comment!