Dirhael of DonationCoder created a tiny program (a single exe) that checks the latest nightly build of Google Chrome giving you the choice of downloading either a zipped version or installer of the latest Chrome browser. This program checks if the latest build has passed all the unit tests or not (to prevent wasting time downloading broken builds)

Program window:

After Check button is clicked, it shows the latest build version:

When Download button is clicked, the download starts in your default browser.

Download link to Chromium nightly updater: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?lnlr71eu9sl

Of course, you could simply browse to http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-xp/ and get the latest build (identified by its version number) instead of using this program.

Source.

Google Chrome does not yet offer customizable keyboard shortcuts. In the mean time, we can use AutoHotKey for setting keyboard shortcuts to common tasks like switching to previous and next tabs, going back and forward in the history, closing and un-doing last closed tab.

Update #1: Added code for opening a new tab by pressing CAPS key. This works even if Chrome is not open or not the current active application. If you want CAPS lock to work again, simply press Shift+CAPS. i.e., Shift+CAPS toggles between default functionality of the CAPS lock and tab opening in Chrome.

Update #2: Added Windows key modifier to single keys a, s, z, x, and c

Update # 3: Added shortcuts for paste and go. Details here.

This is what we are going to set:

and the steps to follow are:

1. Download AutoHotKey and install it if you don’t have it already.
2. Save this (or this for Vista) small ChromeShortcuts.ahk file (the contained code can be found at the bottom of this post) and place it anywhere in your computer. Double click this .ahk file.

That’s it. Now you can use all the shortcuts mentioned in the above table while using Google Chrome.

Note: You should remove --no-sandbox from line 33 of the .ahk file if your Chrome has no problems in displaying web pages.

Contents of the ChromeShortcuts.ahk file:

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Trying to use Google’s new browser, Chrome on your work computer? Chances are that not a single web page is getting loading in it.  All you see is a message having the text:

Aw, Snap!

Something went wrong while displaying this webpage. To continue, press Reload or go to another page.

Here’s how you can make Google Chrome work:

1. Close Chrome if it’s already running. Right click on Chrome’s desktop icon (create one if not present) and select Properties

   

2. At the end of the value in ‘Target’ field, paste --no-sandbox and press OK.

   

That’s it. Now launch Google Chrome by double clicking on this shortcut and watch it work.

Reference: http://chromespot.com/index.php/topic,172.msg834.html#msg834

EverNote (v2.2.1.386) is my favorite information manager. I use it extensively to maintain a record of my monthly expenses. Each note in EverNote has a URL and one can easily jump to it whether or not EverNote is already running (if it is not, it will get launched) by typing a keyword in Executor.

Right click on the title of note that you want to access from Executor and copy the note link.

Now create a new keyword in Executor and paste the copied note link in the Command field.

So to jump to my August expenses note in EverNote, I simply bring up Executor by pressing Alt+Space, and start typing ‘august’ and hit Enter.

Credit: salgud.

Remember The Milk is a free web service for managing your daily tasks.

Below are the steps to setup Executor so you can easily add a task to RTM via Twitter.

1. Add rtm as your friend in Twitter (either by clicking the ‘add’ link on rtm’s profile page, or sending the message ‘follow rtm’ to Twitter).
2. Visit this link and click on login (in the “Ready to set it up?” box). Complete the process to start interacting with Twitter.
3. Download NirCmd from here. Place nircmd.exe in any location of your choice. In my case, C:\Documents and Settings\I034708\My Documents\My Dropbox\nircmd.exe
4. Download Curl from here. Place curl.exe in the same folder where you kept nircmd.exe.
5. Add a new keyword, ‘rtm’ in Executor. Put the path of nircmd.exe in the Command field. Set Parameter as

   exec hide curl –-basic --user TwitterUN:TwitterPW --data status="d rtm $P$" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
   

   where TwitterUN and TwitterPW are your Twitter username and password.

   If you are behind a corporate proxy, modify the Parameter to add a proxy switch like so:

   exec hide curl –-basic --proxy <proxyname>:<proxyport> --user TwitterUN:TwitterPW --data status="d rtm $P$" http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml
   

   

That’s it! Now you can add a task to RTM by simply bringing up Executor box via the hotkey (I have set it to Alt+Space), and type ‘rtm’ then put a space and the task name. You can also set tasks to complete and update tasks. The command list can be found on this page.