Google Chrome is a Windows application. So its not that easy to get it working on OSX. But if you want to test it as bad as me, its worth the work.

So, what do you need? Well OSX 10.5 and 1-2 hours of free time.

First you need the offline installer of Google Chrome:
http://gpdl.google.com/chrome/install/149.27/chrome_installer.exe

You will need to install the MacPorts-Package for OSX 10.5:
http://www.macports.org/install.php 

You also need to be the admin (which usually means that you know your username and password)

Download the Chrome installer to any folder. Then open a terminal in the same folder.

Now the fun begins. Type in the following commands into the terminal:

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH (press enter)
sudo port install wine-devel (press enter)
sudo port install winetricks (press enter)
sh winetricks riched20 riched30 (press enter)
winetricks riched20 riched30 (press enter)

wine chrome_installer.exe (press enter)

A Chrome window should ask you to start Google Chrome and then you will see the first time the Google Chrome browser… but this time its not usable. So you will need to get back to the terminal and do the following:

(press ctrl-c to stop Google Chrome)
wine "/Users/[yourname]/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/
[yourname]/Local Settings/Application Data/
Google/Chrome/Application/
chrome.exe" --new-http --in-process-plugins (press enter)

Alright the last command didn’t work, right?! Well the path to the “chrome.exe” depends on your username and the language of your OSX (eg. “Application Data” is in german “Anwendungsdaten”). You will need to figure this thing out yourself.

And thats it. You got the Google Chrome browser running on your OSX.
You can always run it again, by opening a terminal window and typing the following:

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH (press enter)
wine "/Users/[yourname]/.wine/drive_c/windows/profiles/
[yourname]/Local Settings/Application Data/
Google/Chrome/Application/
chrome.exe" --new-http --in-process-plugins (press enter)

Of course, a terminal script for this commands is handy.
You can speed the whole thing a bit up by installing X11 2.3.0

In conclusion, I have to say this solutions works, but its very buggy. Absolutely too bad integrated to use it as your normal browser. Using Windows emulation is a much better approach if you want Chrome for your normal browsing. I tried it with VMWare Fusion, and its nice to use.

Please leave a comment if it works for you. If its not working, dont expect too much help from me as I am no expert on all this Wine stuff. I am impressed on myself that I got this thing working :)

yesterday we did the final work on chosr.com, in the evening we released it.

There is a button to login as a demo-user, so you can try it without registering.

We worked hard for weeks on this project and hope a lot of people will like it … but even if everyone hates it, it was worth it for our personal use :)

I am now working on the future of chosr. We do alot of research on integration of webservices (want to see a peek of the possibilities ? try the youtube search), and usability, as people without Quicksilver-Concept-Expirience have big problems getting into it.

Guess this will be the last post for a while on chosr. I created a blog for the chosr-Team: blog.chosr.com

Has no contents at the moment, but we will soon begin to talk about Tricks you can do with chosr, the technoligies behind chosr, reactions of users and the research we are doing to get more features than just bookmarking and searching.

Have a nice day,
Julius

I made a video of some more detailed footage:

So what is the concept, that made me believe we need one more homepage on the internet. Basically its Quicksilver. Think that makes sense? I dont know… but personally I am already a junkie.

Currently I am building up a startup with a few people around this new homepage. The homepage is closed at the moment but we are hurrying to open it up.

Here is our preview-video (with power-user-usage!):

I dont want to tell you too much about the concept, but you will be able to superproductivly manage your bookmarks. You will be able to integrate any website, which has a search-functionality. You will be as happy as we’ve been, when you open chosr for the first time on a windows-machine^^.

At the moment, I am using Quicksilver for all my local-application related stuff. And chosr for all my online-applications/websites/researches. Great feeling for me. Hopefully for you too, when its released.

Anyone who wants to become a member, just contact me: eckert.julius@gmail.com

http://code.google.com/p/monomate/source/checkout

I don’t know if anyone has done this before, so I thought I should share how you can post to FriendFeed using QuickSilver:

Write the script

Open “Script Editor.app”
Copy and Paste this script

using terms from application "Quicksilver"
  on process text ffd
    my growlRegister()
    tell application "Keychain Scripting"
      set ffd_key to first Internet key of current keychain whose server is "friendfeed.com"
      set ffd_login to quoted form of (account of ffd_key & ":" & password of ffd_key)
    end tell
    set ffd_title to quoted form of ("title=" & ffd & "&link=http://friendfeed.com/")
    set results to do shell script "curl -u " & ffd_login & " -d " & ffd_title & " http://friendfeed.com/api/share"
    
    growlNotify("Message Sent", ffd)
  end process text
end using terms from

using terms from application "GrowlHelperApp"
  on growlRegister()
    tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
      register as application "ffd" all notifications {"Alert"} default notifications {"Alert"} icon of application "Script Editor.app"
    end tell
  end growlRegister
  
  on growlNotify(grrTitle, grrDescription)
    tell application "GrowlHelperApp"
      notify with name "Alert" title grrTitle description grrDescription application name "ffd"
    end tell
  end growlNotify
end using terms from

Save the script at
~/Library/Application Support/Quicksilver/Actions/ffd.scpt

Relaunch Quicksilver (popup QS, press cmd+ctrl+Q).

Your FriendFeed-Account

Open “Keychain Access.app”
Create new Entry (cmd+N)

Keychain Item Name: http://friendfeed.com
Account Name: Your FriendFeed-Username
Password: Your RemoteKey

Try it out

Popup QS. Press Period for Text Editor. Write something. Press Tab for next Selector. Type ffd. Press Enter.
Thats it. If anything is unclear, leave a comment.

This is a good solution. But I personally like using FFBoosta with its QS-Plugin better as I can assign a Trigger.

I just updated my FriendFeed-Productivity-Client FFBoosta.

Added functionality to publish new text-messages directly to FriendFeed. I hope I can use this to replace my Twitter-usage, which is too slowly updated at FriendFeed.

UPDATE: At the first start of FFBoosta, you are asked for Account-Informations. After you have done that, you need to refresh the feed. Menu: Feed->Refresh. Keyboard: R.

I hated Twitter and all these noisy services for a long time.

But I guess everyone has this week moment when he wants it. Personally I use Google Reader to share my blogs and commenting is a bit tricky - at least, very unproductive. A good solution is FriendFeed, with its commenting features. After my signup, it was a short way to twitter.

I had to click too much to add Comments. FriendFeed doesnt know, what I have read and what is new (integration with Google Reader, is a bad idea!). There is a power-user-tool missing !

Learn more about FFBoosta after the jump…

The solution: FFBooster. Now I can checkout updates with Quicksilver. Post to Twitter with Quicksilver. And Growl notifies me about all my actions. Commenting in FriendFeed is pretty efficient and I dont need the mouse any more.

I am pretty new to FriendFeed and I just use the functionality I need at the moment. On the screencast, you can see how I use it. If you are using it in a different way.. or you have a feature you use very often, not supported by FFBooster.. have any suggestion how to make my life with friendfeed (possibly your life too?) better.. let me know in the comments.

After some good feedback I decided to make MonoMate an OpenSource project.

I use code.google.com as the projects host. The license will be GPL v2. I have never started an OpenSource Project, so if you see any problems with the license or have some expirience to share - let me know!

I will modify my version of the source a bit, wait for some comments/mails and then publish it. The project itself is already there at

http://code.google.com/p/monomate/

When the source is available I will post a notification here.

With the release of MonoMate, SimpleTODO becomes OpenSource.

I did not only converted and cleaned the source to work better with MonoMate, I also fixed some bugs, improved the layout and added the possibility of highlighting your tasks with a colors.