Open Chrome in Incognito Mode by Default

Requires modifying a couple of registry keys:
http://phasma.binarycore.org/?p=incognito

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\chrome.exe\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe\" --incognito -- \"%1\""

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ChromeHTML\shell\open\command]
@="\"C:\\Users\\USERNAME\\AppData\\Local\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe\" --incognito -- \"%1\""

Chromium OS Live USB

I've been inspired by this lifehacker article to give Chromium OS (a non-Google version Chrome OS) a try on an out-dated Gateway.

I'm using the Chromium "Lime" build available here.

I'm using these steps to burn the image to a USB drive.

Update: While I was able to get a build working on my modern HP laptop, it was an epic fail on the ancient desktop. It's probably just as well since it's PIII, 256 RAM probably wouldn't have been able to handle Chromium OS anyway.

Javascript Pretty Print in Chrome Dev Tools

This is one of several reasons why I develop my javascript in Google Chrome.

PDF Viewing Options in Google Chrome

Google Chrome comes with its very own PDF viewer. However, as of the date of this post, this viewer cannot display most forms of embedded PDF annotations:

Currently, we do not support 100% of the advanced PDF features found in Adobe Reader, such as certain types of embedded media.

For a workaround, use the URL/address bar to navigate to "about:plugins"--you can also reach this screen from Options >> Under the Hood >> Content Settings >> Plug-ins >> Disable individual plug-ins...

From here, you can disable the "Chrome PDF Viewer" plug-in. Chrome should then download PDFs instead of attempting to open them.

Optionally, if you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, you can enable the Adobe Acrobat plug-in which will display embedded annotations correctly.

User Agent Switching with Google Chrome

I prefer the Chrome development tools to Firefox/Firebug for development, but found myself forced to use Firefox just so I could use the User Agent Switcher plug-in. Fortunately, Chrome allows user agent switching albeit from the command line. All Google tools rock the command line, because Google is old-school like that.

To mimic the iOS Safari browser, construct a shortcut with the following path:

C:\Users\{user}\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/528.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile/7A341 Safari/528"

Update: Nevermind, I guess.