Google Chrome and Multiple Profiles

Google Chrome has always supported multiple profiles, but you had to use a command-line flag (--user-data-dir="c:\path\to\the\profile") to associate a profile with a folder where the browser will save its state.

At some point, Google added an option that allowed you to open a new window and use a separate profile, but it was quickly removed. According to a design document from Chromium's site, this feature be available again.

"The multiple profiles feature will allow the user to associate a profile with a specific set of browser windows, rather than with an entire running instance of Chrome. Allowing different windows to run as different Chrome identities means that a user can have different open windows associated with different Google accounts, and correspondingly different sets of preferences, apps, bookmarks, and so on -- all those elements which are bound to a specific user's identity."


Users will be able to associate a profile with a Google account and log in at the browser level. This is a great feature for Chrome OS, but it will also work in Google Chrome.

Google will associate each Chrome window with an identity. "On Windows (and Linux), this is accomplished with a colored and labeled menu-enabled tag at the top of the browser frame, next to the window controls. On Mac OS X, the window frame is too small to accommodate a tag; instead, we add an item to the menu bar, with a special colored background, in the same way the Windows tab is specially colored."


{ spotted by François and David.}

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Let it snow!!

I am getting to the last of my Christmas cards, and couldn't pass up on entering some challenges with this one

http://magicalmondaychallenge.blogspot.com/

http://simonsaysstampschallenge.blogspot.com/

http://craftycreationschallenges.blogspot.com/

http://fabnfunkychallenges.blogspot.com/

Gmail's Web Clips, Now With More Ads

I've never been a fan of Gmail's Web Clips, but I didn't disable this feature because it helped me keep up with news from popular sites without subscribing to them in Google Reader. The most annoying thing about Web Clips is that it mixes news headlines with contextual ads, but that still didn't make me disable this feature.

Gmail has recently started to only show ads in the Web Clips box if you don't click on the navigation arrows. If you only read your messages and don't interact with the Web Clips box, Gmail no longer shows headlines. Some of the ads are useful, but showing ads was just a way to monetize the box, not the main purpose of this feature.


Gmail's help center article explains that "Web Clips show you news headlines, blog posts, RSS and Atom feeds, and relevant sponsored links, right at the top of your inbox. Each clip displays the source from which it was received, how long ago the clip was published, and a link to access the entire story or page containing the clip. From your inbox, you can scroll through clips you've already seen by clicking the left arrow or see new clips by clicking the right arrow."

You can disable Web Clips from the settings page, but it's too bad that the feature is a lot less useful.

WOYWW!

Morning folks from a wintry N.E. Scotland,the view from my craft desk, a dusting of snow and they say there's more on the way for the weekend so will be staying put. Family will be out as usual so no time to craft. On the craft front, these are my lovely birthday cards from my crafting buddies.

Yesterday  started off  with a phone call from the other side of the world, Australia. My son Alan

Sleigh, Tatoos, and Comics, what a day!

There were 3 things in particular today that Jimmy did that I wanted to jot down for memory's sake. 

1.) One Horse Open Sleigh.  I turned on Christmas music this morning to clean the house to.  Jimmy was so cute, he suddenly got very busy and started collecting an assortment of things from his bedroom.  And then in the doorway of the kitchen he set up shop.  After a minute or two, he was ready to go.

Can you guess what he was doing?

 He was pretending to be riding a sleigh.  I think Jingle Bells inspired him.

2.)  Tale of the tattooed twosome.  Today I gave the boys a "homework" assignment.  It was really just one of Jimmy's Kindergarten worksheets copied (because Johnny wants to do everything Jimmy does nowadays).  They were working hard on it in the kitchen.  I was trying to get laundry loads done and return some phone calls.  As I came back into the kitchen, they were doing their "homework" under the kitchen table.  I thought that was cute and then left again to get some more things done.  I returned after a couple of minutes, and I could just tell they were up to something.  As they came out from underneath the table, they had marker all over themselves.  Johnny's was a pink fluorescent marker, so it didn't show up nearly as well as Jimmy's black ball point pen. 

 

I couldn't help but laugh and get the camera (although I did try to act serious enough so that they won't attempt it again).

Into the bath they went!

3.) Homemade comic.  Jimmy is at an age that is so much fun.  He has learned how to read this Fall and it has been so fun hearing him sound out words and read all sorts of things.  Lately, he's wanted me to read the comics with him in the morning.  I have to help him with most of the words, but I just love thinking about his little brain making all these connections with letters and words and sounds.  I've also loved witnessing his interests flourish now that he is beginning to read the written word.  Lately he loves to grab paper from the printer and draw drawings.  Today, these were his 2 drawings:

 

 The first one is of an astronaut, and the second one is of a comic strip he made up. 

 He read the comic to me and it actually had a dialogue!  It was about a good guy (G, or backwards g=e), and a bad guy (B).  I may just have to videotape it and try to make a mini-movie out of it :)

Mermaid

She loves her bath. She gets real excited and splashes and splashes. Kicks and kicks. I usually end up drenched (and I'm not even in the bath) by the end of bathing her!