Technology Speed Track

(Last update on September 7th, 2009 for Snow Leopard)

Many thanks to Richard Cavell for this very details instruction: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=de17cb633331c3cf76cee5e1c9d19175&t=1192296

Release notes/changes for 1.4/1.4.1

• fix to force close on mobile sites when double tap zoom cycle goes back to the “all the way out” setting
• double-tap/triple-tap anywhere on a page to zoom
• setting to change triple tap delay value in advanced settings (so the lower the setting, the more responsive double-taps are, but the quicker you have to get your triple-tap in!)
• setting to change double-tap behaviour, between the existing zoom cycle, and also now just a simple zoom out only setting (so if you want to just keep it simple, and have double-tap to zoom in, triple tap to zoom out,
  the latter will be the setting for you). How many zooms this will result in per cycle will depend on the page you’re viewing.
• change to double-tap zoom cycle behaviour - now zooms ALL the way out to give a true page overview, and also introduces an intermediate step between page overview and 1:1 zoom (this is a nice level for sites with
  big fonts, eg. aintitcool.com)
• click title bar (or top of screen) to bring down the address/search bar
• click top left of screen to go to home page. Click it a second time when on the home page to exit the browser completely (or double-click from elsewhere).

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Yahoo! has officially released the beta version of Yahoo! Messenger 10, the next generation Yahoo! Messenger. Among the new features in Yahoo! Messenger 10 is enhanced video calling in high definition and full screen, new “Updates” view with latest friends’ updates from Yahoo!, Flickr, Twitter and more, and ability to change preferred language with just a few clicks.

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Synaptics TouchPad is one such pointing device that supports multi-touch. Most of the Synaptics TouchPad hardware devices do support multi-touch, which is implemented at software driver level as Synaptics Gestures. In fact, Synaptics had a commercial video titled “Things You Can Do With a Gesture” to promote new notebooks with Synaptics Gestures.

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Most Synaptics TouchPad can support multi-touch gesture capabilities, which normally depends on software driver support. However, default official driver for Synaptics TouchPad device on most notebook and laptop does not enable these Synaptics Gestures features, instead locking them, probably due to marketing purpose.

There is a modded driver for Synaptics TouchPad that enables multi-touch gesture functions. After installing the mod driver, Synaptics TouchPad settings should now show options to enable Momentum, ChiralMotion, Two Fingers Gesture and Three Fingers Gesture. However, on some version of Synaptics TouchPad hardware, Two Fingers Gesture and Three Fingers Gesture may not be available even with the modded driver installed.

Two Fingers Gesture allows user to enable two finger scrolling feature which is included on newer version of Apple MacBook, allowing user to use two finger motion gesture on the whole surface of touchpad to scroll horizontally and vertically instead of have to move to virtual scrollbars on the edge of the trackpad.

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Now you can apply for theme for Google Chrome only if you are using its Beta, or Dev version (v3.0.195.3 and above). You can see all the themes gallery through here or below.

Its pretty easy to change channels. Here is steps, straight from Google Chrome help pages.

1. Download and run the Google Chrome Channel Changer (http://chromium.googlecode.com/files/chromechannel-2.0.exe).
2. Click the circle next to the channel you want to get updates from.
3. Click Update to save your choice.
4. Click Close.
5. In Google Chrome, click the wrench menu and choose About Google Chrome.
6. Click Update Now to install the current channel’s release.
7. Restart Google Chrome.

Remember to backup your data before doing this.

• Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default
• Windows Vista: \Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default

Note: If you encounter the error “update server is not avalaible (error 3)”, try to uninstall and reinstall it; if it’s not fixed, try to download Google Chrome from official website. (In my case, I downloaded installation package from filehippo.com)