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Chrome OS - first impressions (with screenshots)

Last Thursday, Google offered the world a first peek at its upcoming new operating system Chrome OS (Dutch, English). Perhaps more importantly, it released the code as open source. Even though Chrome OS is not expected to hit the market for another year, within hours someone had built an image that you can run on VMWare or VirtualBox. The image is widely available through p2p-networks, so I decided to give it a spin.

(Of course, since it's a precompiled image, it's impossible to tell whether it has been tampered with. Some malicious hacker may have slipped in a key logger or whatnot. Chrome OS requires you to log in using your Google credentials, so you may want to create a new account to make sure your real account stays safe. That's what I did, anyway.)

I fired up VirtualBox and created a new machine. I gave it 1GB of RAM and told VirtualBox we'd be running Debian, the distro Chrome OS is based on. I pointed VirtualBox to the image, and started the machine.
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Disable Twitter's new tweet notification bar

Twitter recently introduced a new tweet notification on it's home page. A yellow notification bar will tell you the number of new tweets that have popped up in your friends' timeline since you last refreshed the page.

If you're a Firefox user like me, and you find the new notification bar distracting, it's quite easy to get rid of. Just find your user style sheet (it's called userContent.css, and it's located in the chrome folder inside your Firefox profile folder), and add the following lines of code:

@-moz-document domain(twitter.com) {
	div#new_results_notification {
		display: none !important;
	}
}

If userContent.css doesn't exist, just create it. Restart Firefox, and the notification bar should be gone. You will still be able to see your unread tweet count in the page title, though.

(I wrote about userContent.css (in Dutch) when it was first introduced in 2005)

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