November 14, 2012
If you’ve installed Chrome plugins, you’ve probably seen a warning that they can access your data on all websites, your tabs and browsing activity, or even all the data on your computer. This warning can be scary, especially if you’re installing a simple browser extension that looks harmless. Unfortunately, the way web browsers and web pages work means that extensions must ask for quite a few permissions to do simple things.
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November 7, 2012
Occasions to give and receive gifts happen throughout the year. Likewise, you have the whole year to craft your own wish list and collect gift ideas for friends and family. But do you have a good place to manage your gift list? If you regularly shop at Amazon, you probably have at least one wish list with them. Amazon wish lists are actually very cool because you can add comments to each item, set a priority, and keep several public and private lists.
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November 2, 2012
If planning is too much of a bother, try out a Chrome app (which directs you to the main web application) like Mapnificent. Mapnificent shows you areas you can reach with public transport in your city in a given time. Based on just that information, you can decide where to live, work, and thus save money. Mapnificent visualizes the data on an overlay on top of Google Maps. Let’s see how.
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November 2, 2012
If you're like me, you've long looked for and failed to find the perfect Chrome theme. It might exist, somewhere out there in the densely populated Chrome Web Store, but I never did find it. So I made my own. With "My Chrome Theme", a free plugin from Google, you can upload your own photos, choose your own color scheme and even share your personal theme with anyone. It's quick, and you'll finally have the theme you were looking for.
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November 1, 2012
One of the hardest things about conducting online research is sifting through so much noise to get to the good stuff. I think a large part of Google and Bing's never-ending effort to improve search results is to remove a lot of that noise and to offer searchers quality sites with quality content about the topic they are searching for. If you think about it, that's a tall order.
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October 31, 2012
Streak is a powerful Gmail project management add-on for Chrome. It comes with templates for many different types of projects, for example customer support or event planning. In Streak, projects are called pipelines. You can add boxes to your pipelines, fill the boxes with information, e.g. incoming and outgoing email, comments, people responsible etc., and track the progress of each box.
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October 30, 2012
If you take a walk through MakeUseOf.com, you will come across many a reader either asking or discussing the best way to watch YouTube and its ocean of videos. Granted that YouTube is the Mecca for video watchers, but it is crowded, chaotic, and cacophonic. More often than not it doesn’t make for the best of viewing. As I like to explain YouTube annoyances – if the clutter of ads doesn’t get you, the cataract of comments will. And these are just two of the irritants on YouTube.
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October 29, 2012
Onscreen rulers are important online tools. Web designers use it to keep everything pixel perfect and lay out things symmetrically on a webpage. Ruul is neat little online ruler that’s available for Chrome. It is listed as a developer tool on the Chrome Web Store, but I think you can spot a few more uses for it because it comes with some little touches wrapped in a simple package. Let’s look into some of its features.
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October 27, 2012
Use your computer's media keys to control Pandora, Google Music, Grooveshark or any other major online music player in Chrome – regardless of whether you're using Chrome right now or not. Whether you're a Mac user wanting to use your media keys for something besides iTunes or a Windows user wanting something to do with those buttons included on your keyboard, try Chrome extension Unity Music Media Keys.
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October 26, 2012
While it is always advocated that you compare prices and discounts across multiple online shops, it is also true that some of the best deals can be had on eBay. After all, (with due apologies to Amazon) it is the great online bazaar of our time. With all the jostling that goes on eBay, you need an extra edge. Don’t miss a deal with the eBay Extension for Chrome.
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October 25, 2012
Are you sick of constantly seeing words you hate on the web? Replace them. Whether you hate profanity with a passion or want to rid your browser of every unnecessary acronym, the Chrome extension "In My Words" lets you customize the web by replacing any word with another. It also makes for a pretty great prank, if you use it properly. It's elegant, but also useful for a variety of reasons.
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October 23, 2012
Being a blogger and an editor there was one feature I missed. Firefox has a default image properties feature that gives you the basic dope on any image on a webpage. It is as easy as right-clicking on any image and selecting View Image Info. It is not even an add-on. Strangely, Chrome lacks this feature, or let’s say that Chrome’s Inspect Element isn’t actually user friendly and is lacking when it comes to straight-up information. So, I guess it's time to run to an extension.
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October 22, 2012
Read Later Fast has come riding back into the frame and I am happy to say that its second innings is going just as well as its first. Nearly 300,000 satisfied users and not a bad word between them is always a clue that this extension is worth a tryout in your Chrome browser. Read Later Fast has also been recommended by our readers and so is featured on our Best Chrome Extensions page.
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October 20, 2012
imgur is a fantastic way to share photos for many reasons. It loads extremely fast, is easy to use, and does not have all the restrictions that some other photo sharing sites have. There is a reason that the picky folks at Reddit use imgur as their go-to place for sharing the latest memes and other awesome photographs.
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October 19, 2012
Extensions and add-ons serve a singular purpose. They are at the end of the day meant to make our lives easier. They are productivity tools. But you may ask yourself, how much of it can I add by saving a few clicks here and there when I want to enlarge a thumbnail or zoom into a picture’s larger version? Well, that depends on your browsing habits. Hover Zoom belongs to the class of Chrome extensions that help to enlarge photos with a mouse-over.
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