Even though it changes every month and people constantly complain about the lack of privacy, Facebook is engrained into most people’s lives. With the help of some Google Chrome web apps and extensions, you can tame the social media beast and add or remove things you don’t like.
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2 Must Have Facebook Extensions For Google Chrome
By | October 16, 2011 | 2 Comments
3 Chrome Extensions To Help You Write Better
By | October 15, 2011 | 1 Comment
With a show of hands, how many people think they suck at writing? Everyone is insecure about what they write. The truth of it is, you learn as you go. Sure, you can go to school and learn the proper way to write, but it’s like math. Once you know the basics, you will rely on outside help to make you seem like you know what you are doing.
All of the below links are to Google Chrome apps and extensions from the Chrome Web Store. Many applications like MS Word or Open Office have some of these features built in, but not everyone used those apps to write. And if you are using a web-based word processor/ text editor application, you may not have any of them.
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How to Tile Your Tabs Easily in Firefox
By | October 2, 2011 | 3 Comments
There are a lot of cool extension in the Firefox add-on library. Many are wildly useful, but come in under the radar and don’t gain popularity. Tile tab is one of these add-ons. Simply put, Tile Tab lets you fit multiple tabs onto your screen without multiple instances of your browser being open.
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How to Integrate Google Reader and Google+
By | August 25, 2011 | 3 Comments
Like many of you, I use a lot of Google products. It’s hard not to – they’re usually useful and free. To date, nearly everything Google has released has been a game-changer in its field. Earth, Maps, Gmail, Android, and countless other tools have each raised the bar for what we expect out of software, particularly on the web. When Google released Google+ a short while ago, that left many of us “power users” wondering if/when it would be integrated with Google Reader, the fantastic RSS feed reader. There have been a few plugins/extensions/etc released by third parties with the aim to fill this gap until Google makes it official, but so far the best of the bunch seems to be RSS Share for Google+ and Google Reader. It connects the two services so seamlessly that it’s easy to forget that it’s an addon.
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FeedSquares Lets You Read Your RSS Feed In A Visually Pleasing Way
By | August 10, 2011 | 1 Comment
If you are a Google Reader user, you will know that its interface is dull, and kind of…boring. FeedSquares aims to supercharge your Google Reader experience by providing a visually pleasing interface for you to read your RSS feeds.
FeedSquares is a Google Chrome extension that shows your Google Reader feeds in a beautiful feed wall. Each square on the wall represents a single feed and the first image from each feed is used as the background for each square. The result is a visually stunning photo wall.
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3 Great Tools To Boost And Improve Firefox Performance
By | June 14, 2011 | 1 Comment
Mozilla Firefox is probably one of the best browser today although other browsers like Google Chrome are picking up fast while Internet Explorer is trying to retain its place by releasing improvements to the browser constantly. The main reason people switch from Firefox over to other browsers like Google Chrome is its high memory usage. While Firefox is the most flexible browser – you can do almost anything via extensions, it is also hugely memory consuming. Leave it running for sometime and it will start leaking memory. Worst scenario, it crashes the computer.
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Need to Send/Receive SMS From Your Chrome Browser? Try Texty [Android]
By | April 8, 2011 | 2 Comments
In the past I have written about the Android app TalkMyPhone which created a dummy Jabber.org account to allow you to send and receive text messages from your computer, bypassing your phone. This app was a little cumbersome to use as it had to be activated manually each time you wished to use. I recently came across a new app that is much simpler to use and has an easier interface. The app I am talking about is Texty and it works by installing itself on your Android device and connecting with an extension in your Chrome browser. In this article I will describe how to install and use it.
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InstantFox Makes Searches From The Address Bar A Breeze [Firefox]
By | March 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
Ever since Google launches instant search, there have been plenty of addons and extensions that attempt to emulate the behavior either in the search bar or address bar. Some of these extensions not only successfully created the “instant” effects, some have even added more features to make it better. InstantFox is one such extension.
InstanFox is a Firefox extension that allows you to perform instant search for several sites directly from the address bar.
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Taskforce For Gmail Converts Your Emails Into Tasks, And Helps You To Stay Organized
By | March 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Ever receive an email that reminds you of a task that you need to complete? What do you do then? Open another tab, load the to-do list site (perhaps Google tasks?) and add the task into your to do list. What if there is a simpler way to convert your emails into tasks and manage them right within your Gmail? Yes, Taskforce is the one that I am talking about.
Taskforce is a Gmail extension that convert your emails into tasks and allows you to manage your tasks right within your inbox. It’s a handy tool to help you stay organized and save you time from toggling between different tabs and sites/applications.
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Integrated Gmail: Use All Google Applications From Within Gmail
By | March 5, 2011 | 1 Comment
Google provides internet users with a number of valuable services. These services include Gmail, Reader, Calendar, Maps, Analytics, and many others. Often we find ourselves using many of these web apps simultaneously. The result is a huge clutter of browser tabs between which we are constantly jumping.
Here to tidy up that situation and provide a neater way of using those Google service is a tool called “Integrated Gmail”.
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