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5 must have Google Chrome extensions for Bloggers

Calking Chi — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:42:29 +0000

At first, I have to say that Google Chrome is well known for its speed and has set its way to gain the market share and the current stats say that it has about 4% browser share. However, until now, it has still failed in gaining much popularity as it doesn’t have add-ons like Firefox. Although Internet Explorer tops in the browser The Unofficial King of the browsers is still Mozilla Firefox as it has lots of addons to enhance its functionality.

Google Chrome recently expanded its wings by launching Chrome Extensions center and made them available for their latest version which always helps them in gaining popularity at least among bloggers who depends on Firefox extensions. I have compiled the list of best extensions for bloggers.

Zemanta: Zemanta is the chrome extension which doesn’t require any special desciption. Once installed it sits in the Blog dashboard and expands the author’s scope of blogging by populating the relevant suggestions of text, links, images which can be used in the posts.

Blog This: Once Installed this chrome extension allows you to post the web page to blogger blog.

Chrome SEO: This Chrome extension provides various fields tools like Competitive Analysis, Keyword Research, Backlink Checks and other tools which are essential for Search Engine Optimization.

SEO Status Pagerank/Alexa Toolbar: The name itself briefs the functionality of this chrome extension, It dispalys the Pagerank and Alexa rank of the website.

Snippy: Snippy chrome extension allows you to grab snippets like images links and paragraphs with intact formatting and preserves the rich content from web pages and save them for future use.

This is our list of what we think are 5 must have Google Chrome extensions for bloggers. I think your choices might vary since there are multiple extensions available for every purpose in Google Chrome. Let us know if we missed your favorite extensions for blogging in the comments below. Thank you.

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Calking Chi — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:41:41 +0000

For most developers and web designers, they may spend much time working in a web browser window. Recently, with the popularity of Chrome browser, more and more developers are tending to use Google Chrome instead of Firefox and other browsers.

While Chrome can’t yet match Firefox’s massive extension ecosystem, more useful extensions are becoming available for Google’s browser every day. Here are my must-have extensions for the new Google Chrome user:

Brizzly. Since I am trying to better integrate Twitter and Facebook into my professional communications in 2010, the Brizzly extension, which is a Twitter and Facebook reading/updating tool, ranks as a must-have in my book.

Google Reader Notifier. Google Reader is my RSS reader of choice, so the Google Reader Notifier Extension was a natural choice for me.

html2pdf. This extension enables you to save the HTML page you are viewing to PDF. I find this extension handy when I want to save a receipt or a piece of research.

Shareaholic for Google Chrome. This extension lets you share web pages through major social media sites and other services, like Gmail and Evernote.

Google Apps Shortcuts. This shortcut provides easy access to all of your Google Apps, including Google Wave and Google Voice. You can even begin creating new email, documents, spreadsheets and presentations using this extension.

Evernote Web Clipper. We’ve written about Evernote in the past, and the Evernote extension provides the same web clipping functionality you already enjoy in Mozilla Firefox and in Internet Explorer. I use the web clipper whenever I want to capture research from the web.

Xmarks Bookmarks Sync. One of the biggest draws of Firefox for me was the capability to sync bookmarks across my home office PCs. Now with the Xmarks Bookmarks Sync extension you can have the same feature using Chrome.

Aviary Screen Capture. I take a lot of screen captures, and like the fact that Aviary Screen capture lets you capture and manipulate screen captures from within Google Chrome.

Bit.ly. This extension comes in handy if you need fast access to a URL shortener. Clicking on the Bit.ly extension launches a sidebar.

Google Similar Pages For Chrome

Calking Chi — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:51:04 +0000

One of the advantages of the Google Chrome browser is that Google is actively developing extensions for it. That’s an advantage because it ensures that users do not have to worry (that much) about data security and that popular Google services are available as extensions for the web browser. Google Similar Pages is an add-on for the Google Chrome web browser that can help users in the discovery of related or similar websites to the one that is currently viewed in the active tab of the Internet browser. This can be interesting for many users from users who like to find new websites like their favorite tech news blog to users who like to find additional temporary email services, file hosts or websites that review software.

This is usually something that can also be achieved with searches in the search engines but the extension makes the process comfortable thanks to its integration in the web browser. The extension will place an icon in the header toolbar of the Google Chrome web browser which will display a small overlay window upon activation that suggests four websites that Google has determined to be similar to the active one.

A click on the button at the Google main website for instance suggests Yahoo, Bing, MSN and Wikipedia. It is sometimes the case that some of the suggestions are not as similar as they could be. Google could for instance improve the suggestion for their homepage by removing MSN and Wikipedia and adding two search engines instead.

It would also be nice if there would be an option to display more than four suggestions for similar pages. Google Similar Pages is an extension for the Google Chrome 4 web browser. It is available at the official Google Chrome extension website where it can be installed directly.

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Google Chrome OS netbook details leaked

Calking Chi — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 08:56:54 +0000

Google’s upcoming Chrome OS was previewed last month at the Google Head quarters. As the OS development advances, Google has already started tapping netbook makers for Chrome OS netbooks. IBTimes reported that Google had sent out requests for proposals and contacted hardware manufacturers with netbook specifications and design. Unless Google says it officially, we will still count these specifications as speculation.

As per IBTimes, Google Chrome OS netbook will incorporate Nvidia Tegra platfrom, possibly Tegra 2 expected next year, and ARM design CPU. The Chrome OS is x86 architecture compatible but will support virtualization only on select devices. Furthermore, this Chrome OS netbook will sport 10.1 inch TFT Multi-touch display that would be HD ready. Yes, you read it right that the netbook will support multi-touch.

For storage, 64GB SSD would be offered and rest will be relied on Cloud-based storage which the user will have to choose, obviously. Packing 2GB RAM, the other features include Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth, USB ports, Ethernet port, integrated webcam, audio port (3.5mm), multimedia card reader, etc.

This netbook is rumored arrive in holiday 2010 season at a subsidized price of $300 (Rs. 14,400 approx.) in U.S. It’s possible that Acer would be the first one to roll out this netbook after their bold claims. Nevertheless, at the subsidized pricing, the rumored netbook features sound too good to be true.

Google Chrome History Manager

Calking Chi — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:01:39 +0000

Google Chrome’s web history manager displays a neat list of visited websites sorted by date with options to search for specific pages using the search form at the top of the screen. The listing can get very crowded as the Chrome browser records the access of every page on every domain that the user has visited. Especially forums and other websites with many different pages fill up the history listing with no option to hide specific entries or domains from the display.

History 2 is an extension for the Google Chrome browser that offers a different approach to displaying the web browser’s history. The biggest difference between History 2 and the default history manager is that the former sorts the history entries by domain.

That coupled with the option to collapse all history entries of a domain make the history manager more comfortable to work with especially if domains are listed with dozens or even hundreds of visited pages.

History 2 can display the history of the last six days or the whole week. There is no option to go further back than that which is something that the developer should consider improving so that all of the history is displayed in the history manager.

The only option to search history entries that data back to more than seven days is to use the original history manager of the Chrome web browser.

History 2 is an extension for the Google Chrome 4 web browser which can be installed directly at the official Google Chrome extension’s site.

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Chrome Speed Crushed By New Opera Browser

Calking Chi — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:02:03 +0000

If you go by conventional thinking Internet Explorer 8 is the slowest of the current web browsers, followed by Opera, with Firefox in third place, Safari taking the silver and Google Chrome leaping ahead in first. Time for a rethink.

Opera has announced v10.5 of its browser this week in an ‘alpha’ format (read: this isn’t even beta yet, casual users stay away). Despite this, however, it represents a potential game changing update for the company.

According to the respected benchmark of suites run by specialist site betanews.com Opera 10.5 not only boosts the speed of its web browsing performance, but jet propels it to speeds in excess of anything we’ve even seen from the beta and developer versions of Chrome.

To put this into some context Betanews uses a benchmark whereby the speed of Internet Explorer 7 is classed as 1.0 using Windows 7 making all other browsers results relative to this. Consequently, IE8 scores 1.55, Opera 10.2 5.85, Firefox 3.5 11.12 (3.7 alpha 13.29), Safari 4 20.83, Chrome 22.5 and Opera 10.5 24.5.

This is a monstrous turnaround and is also backed up by a stylish redesign of the interface which makes us think why oh why has Opera not classified this v11.0. Where more stable versions of Opera 10.5 can go from here, nobody knows!

So Opera 10.5 represents a real twist in the tale. How will other browser developers respond? Well, can only rub our hands with glee at the prospect of finding out.

Chrome Extension “Blog This” – Easy Blogging from Chrome

Calking Chi — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:12:26 +0000

“Blog This” is a Google Chrome Extension from the Blogger team which helps you post to your blogspot blog from Chrome, with a single click.

Click the button to open Blogger in a new application window. The new post is pre-populated with a link to the web page you’re on, as well as any text you’ve highlighted on that page.

This will be really helpful for anyone using blogspot to blog from. Well, me being a wordpress fan, should look for a new wordpress “blog this” extension ?

Install the extension from here

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Top 50 Google Chrome Extensions You should Download

Calking Chi — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:13:53 +0000

The official Google Chrome extension gallery will take a little more time to open up, so we decided to put up a list of the most useful Google Chrome extensions that we have covered till now. We also decided to throw in some other Chrome extension which we haven’t written about to make the list a comprehensive one.

For your convenience we have segregated the extensions into several categories for easier browsing.

Bookmarking & Session Management

Read It Later Extension – Quickly add content to your Read It Later account in one click.

Bookmark All Tabs Extension – Allows you to bookmark all open tabs at one, allowing you perform maintenance and then reopen it again later.

Delicious Extension – Quickly Bookmark a webpage to your Delicious account.

Chrome Session Saver Extension – Allows you to save all the open tabs as a session and open them up later.

Google Bookmarks Extension – Adds a Google bookmarks button which displays the bookmarks from your Google Bookmarks account in a dropdown list.

Blogging & Developer Related

Allow Right Click Extension – Allows you to perform right clicks on webpages which have disabled it.

Pagerank Checker Extension – Similar to the Pagerank Checker for Chrome which we had covered earlier, however, this one adds a icon in the toolbar.

IE Tab Extension – This extension will allow you to use Internet explorer rendering to display pages in Google Chrome.

XML Tree Extension – Adds XML rendering support to Google Chrome.

Proxy Switcher Extension – Allows you to quickly switch between proxy servers in Google Chrome.

Chrome Window Resizer Extension – Allows you to quickly resize the current window to match your browsing experience.

WhoIs Checker Extension – Allows you to quickly check details about the current website you are viewing.

Auto Reload Extension – Auto Reload webpages after certain time intervals.

Web Developer Mini Extension – Shows you some useful options which will come in handy for web development.

iMacros Extension – Record and Play macros in Google Chrome to quickly perform repetitive tasks.

NoFollow Link Checker Extension – Checks and highlights nofollow links on the current webpage.

Communication & Chat

Gmail Checker Extension – Allows you to view the number of unread emails in your Gmail account.

Google Talk Extension – Extension to access Google Talk quickly and easily in Google Chrome.

Facebook Chat Extension – Allows you to quickly find online friends and chat with them in Facebook.

Image, Music and Video Extensions

Aviary Screen Capture Extension – Capture webpages and create quick screenshots with this extension.

YouTube Video Extension – Extensions which will allow you to download YouTube videos in Google Chrome.

Nimbb Webcam Video Recorder Extension – Record videos from your webcam and quickly upload it to Nimbb.

Mini Last.fm Extension – Puts the control panel of Last.fm player on your toolstrip allowing you to play music without launching Last.fm website.

Cooliris for Chrome – Enjoy photos and videos slideshows in 3D.

Tasks, Notes & TO-DO List Management

Google Tasks Extension – Provides a quick way to access and manage your Google Tasks account in Google Chrome.

Stick Notes Extension – This Extension will allow you to create Sticky Notes in Google Chrome.

Google Calendar Extension – Displays the latest events from your Google Calendar account in Google Chrome toolstrip.

Google Notepad – Allows you to quickly create notes in Google Notebook.

Things To Do – Replaces the new tab page in Chrome with a TO-DO list you can manage and edit.

Password Management

Super Chrome Pass Extension – Allows you to create and manage passwords in Google Chrome.

Lastpass Extension – Access your Lastpass account from Google Chrome and manage all your passwords.

Quick Password Generator Extension – Created passwords you can remember for several websites by using a base password.

Social Networking

Facebook Notifications – Displays an alert whenever new notifications are available for your Facebook account in the toolbar.

Chromed Bird Twitter Extension – Follow your Twitter account easily in Google Chrome.

Twitter Extension – An excellent Twitter extension for Google Chrome, which allows you to follow your friends and quickly update your account.

Twitter Share Extension – Quickly share any website link on Twitter with this extension.

Feedly for Chrome – An excellent Google Reader replacement, Feedly allows you to read your feeds in a much better way.

Google Wave Checker Extension – Displays the number of unread waves in your Google Wave account, and allows you to quickly launch the wave website.

Google Reader Checker Extension – Displays the number of unread items in your Google Reader account, and provides one click access to launch your Reader account.

Digg Count Extension – Displays the number of Diggs the current webpage has received.

Utilities

AdBlock+ Extension – Allows you to block ads in Google Chrome.

AdSweep Extension – Block Ads in Google Chrome with this handy ad block extension.

FlashBlock Extension – Just like the Greasemonkey script BlockFlash, this extension will allow you to block Flash on webpages.

Inline Google Search Extension – Allows you to search Google in an inline window.

Cleeki Extension – Cleeki is similar to IE8 accelerators and allow you to perform several actions when you select text.

Mouse Gesture Extension – This extension will allow you to use mouse gestures to perform several tasks. Download Mouse Gesture Extension.

Open PDF in Google Docs Viewer Extension – Allows you to open PDF links in Google Docs Viewer.

Click & Clean Extension – Provides a toolbar icon for one-click deletion of your browsing history, download history, cookies and other browsing data.

Animated Weather Extension – Displays you the current weather in your city.

We will keep this list updated so that you can always fall back on it whenever you want to install Google Chrome Extensions. Do feel free to tell us the most useful Google Chrome extensions according to you.

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How to Download and Install Google Chrome Extensions

Calking Chi — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:53:37 +0000

The Google Chrome Extensions have finally arrived and you can download Google chrome extensions and add extra functionality to the speedy Google Browser. Extensions let you customize Google Chrome with features you like, while keeping your browser free of clutter that you don’t use.

Google Chrome extensions

However, though I was running the latest updated version of Google Chrome on PC, I was unable to install any Google Chrome Extensions. I got this message “Extensions are not yet supported in this version of Google Chrome. Please download the Beta Channel of Google Chrome to install extensions.”

Well it seems to use Google chrome extensions, first you need to download Google Chrome Beta, which works only on Windows Vista/XP SP2+. This Beta version will let you preview the latest features, give early feedback, and keep getting Beta updates, however, they warn you can only have one version of Google Chrome at a time.

So I went ahead and installed the Google Chrome beta, and tried the new functionality. There are lots of extensions to choose from. I tried downloading a few, but most of them have major warnings associated with them, which scared me away.

When having seen this article, I guess you may have the thought to have a try. Yes, remember download the latest Chrome browser of Dev version before installing the new extensions.

Google Gives First Look of Its Chrome OS

Calking Chi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:33:49 +0000

Google today has released their Google Chrome OS – or operating system – as Open Source under the name Chromium Open Source Project. You might have already read in the past month that Google is working on a operating system that makes use of the core of the Google Chrome web browser, Linux and then some. Most interesting for users who have followed the project from the beginning is the announcement that the development from this point on will happen in the open so that releases of the operating system (including its source code) will be made available for download in a similar fashion as it is done already for the Google Chrome web browser.

But what’s so special about Chrome OS? The Google blog mentions three aspects that distinguish it from other operating systems:

First, it’s all about the web. All apps are web apps. The entire experience takes place within the browser and there are no conventional desktop applications. This means users do not have to deal with installing, managing and updating programs.

This means that Chrome OS is storing all data in the cloud. Many web applications handle data in this fashion already, think about Gmail, blogs or photo hosting websites for example. Privacy advocates on the other hand might find this problematic depending on the privacy and security regulations.

Second, because all apps live within the browser, there are significant benefits to security. Unlike traditional operating systems, Chrome OS doesn’t trust the applications you run. Each app is contained within a security sandbox making it harder for malware and viruses to infect your computer. Furthermore, Chrome OS barely trusts itself. Every time you restart your computer the operating system verifies the integrity of its code. If your system has been compromised, it is designed to fix itself with a reboot. While no computer can be made completely secure, we’re going to make life much harder (and less profitable) for the bad guys. If you dig security, read the Chrome OS Security Overview or watch the video.

Chrome OS implements some security features like sandboxing to secure the operating system and data from taking harm. The operating system is also checking its code on every startup to verify the integrity. Would be interesting to know how this affects boot time. Most of this is already available in today’s operating systems or by using third party software like Sandboxie.

Most of all, we are obsessed with speed. We are taking out every unnecessary process, optimizing many operations and running everything possible in parallel. This means you can go from turning on the computer to surfing the web in a few seconds. Our obsession with speed goes all the way down to the metal. We are specifying reference hardware components to create the fastest experience for Google Chrome OS.

This does sound interesting but there are already other options to boot a computer in a significantly lower time than today’s average.

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