You can gracefully stop Windows processes using the Stop-Process command let. For example, to stop Chrome: Stop-Process -Name Chrome Or to stop it by ID. To locate the ID of a process, use get-process: get-process Chrome You can then use the -ID operator to stop the process: Stop-Process -ID 6969 Kill is a command that all Mac and Unix admins know. It’s similar to Stop-Process, except it’s anything but graceful. And you use the -processname option to stop a process: kill -processname calc
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Deploying and Managing Google Chrome: The Rough Guide
The following is a post from the most excellent Nick McSpadden. It is very well written and I am proud that it is the first article published on this site using the new submissions page. Looks like it’s time to change the banner from my Notes from the Underground, er, I mean, Field, to just Notes from the Field! Greetings! This is a sort of follow-up to my guide on managing Firefox, this time focusing on managing Google Chrome. I’m working on current Chrome version 18 (which just today got updated to 19), and I don’t know for sure how far back this will work, but I think anything higher…
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Customizing Chrome for Mac
Yesterday I mentioned that Google Chrome is now available for Mac OS X. You can customize the screen that Google Chrome uses for Mac OS X. To do so, open the https://tools.google.com/chrome/intl/en/themes/index.html. Here, you’ll see a list of the available themes that you can use. Select a theme, and then, once selected, click on the Apply theme button below the theme. Viola, you now have a sexy new interface for Chrome!
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Safari 4 Beta
The Safari 4 beta has been posted on Apple for awhile and there are people talking about it on the interwebs. So my turn. But rather than wax poetically about browser wars, which seems to be what everyone else is doing, I’ll constrain the conversation to the Safari 4 beta, which you can download from here. If you haven’t moved into tabbed browsing yet, then after you install the upgrade you’re likely not going to notice much of a change. When you open Safari it will look a little like it always looked, with some minor enhancements to the GUI – notably the little picture of a bug in the…
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Google Chrome Comic Book
I’ve not bothered covering Chrome much on my site because I’m pissy about not having a Mac version of the browser. But, I do find it amusing that Google made a comic book for it: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/