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5 Excellent Chrome Extensions to Manage Your Google Accounts

Posted on 17. Mar, 2010 by Umar.Anjum.

I am an avid Google fan. From its search engine, to Gmail, to Calendar, I have used many Google services and have always noticed Google’s motto of improvement in action. Nowadays, the Google product I use most is Chrome. I like how quickly it responds to my actions and how it takes less time to load up webpages.

Recently, I started searching for Google-related Chrome extensions. I cannot think of a more fitting way to use Google’s services than through its very own browser. I came across many extensions, picked out the best 5, and decided to share them with all of you.

If you are looking for a Chrome extension for any Google product (from Gmail to Voice, from Reader to Gtalk), take a look at my list below, read each entry, and see which extension best suits your needs.

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How To Access Google Services in Chrome with One Number

Posted on 08. Mar, 2010 by Umar.Anjum.

Google is constantly trying to better their products. To enhance the functionality of their internet browser, Chrome, Google has released a number of extensions that complement the browser. Many of these extensions integrate many of Google’s existing services into Chrome. For example, there is a Google extension for Gmail which places an icon in the address bar showing the number of unread messages. A similar Google extension exists for Google Reader.

These extensions are quite helpful for a person who is using one of these services. But if somebody is using both services, then installing these extensions can create an unwanted clutter in the address bar.

Recognizing this, a third-party developer has combined the functionality of these extensions, added a few more functions, and created what is called One Number.

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Top 5 Safari Plugins

Posted on 04. Mar, 2010 by srikanth.

Safari has been one of the best browsers in the market, known for its speed, rich look and feel and standards support. Safari allows you to install plugins in order to customize your experience with the browser.  The following are my five favorite plugins that take my browsing experience to the next level.

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Top 5 Google Chrome Extensions

Posted on 20. Jan, 2010 by UzEE.

About 16 months ago, Google took the world by surprise, when it announced its intention of launching a web browser of its own. Touting it as the web browser for the next generation, Google made several innovations and modifications to the architecture and style of the existing web browsers.

Google Chrome is based on the Webkit layout engine, which is known for its excellent rendering speeds. Besides that, Google introduced a number of other features and enhancements such as the JavaScript processing engine V8, and insanely fast loading speeds along with other improvements such as sandboxing and private browsing mode for improved security. Even though Chrome had all the ingredients for a perfect browser, it still lacks when it comes to add-ons or extensions.

While Google Chrome is still no where near Mozilla Firefox when it comes to extension support, there are still some pretty good add-ons out there which can greatly enhance your browsing experience. Here’s my list of the top 5 extensions that are a must have if you are a Google Chrome user.

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How To Recover Stored Passwords from Opera, Firefox and Chrome

Posted on 30. Nov, 2009 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

Browsers are really becoming more and more user friendly with loads of features to take our browsing experience to new heights.The password wand, the password vault or whatever the name be, is an integral part of any browser nowadays. A browser without a password manager feels extremely dull.

The password storage feature allows us to login into any website without entering login details manually. This comes in very handy as entering login details, specially in cyber-cafe is not at all secure.

Now, lets say you visit a site after a long time and suddenly want to know the password you used to login. The password is there in the password manager, but it does not allow us to see the password. Or, say you forget the master password somehow.

In these terrible situations, we  can use password recovery tools for various browsers. These password recovery tools come in very handy and are totally safe and legal.

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Create Your Own Toolbar with Conduit

Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Aminul Islam Sajib.

Do you have a website or blog? What things do you constantly do to stay in touch with your readers and make readers stay in touch with your site/blog? You provide an RSS feed, you create a twitter account and several other things.  Well, now you can easily create your own toolbar.

To help you create an awesome and useful toolbar for your own community, Conduit is here.

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Discover New Websites with iWeavr

Posted on 02. Nov, 2009 by Aminul Islam Sajib.

Every Internet surfer has their own preferences. For instance, I don’t really go to websites or blogs related to cars, pets, churches or religions. What I’m interested in is technology, gadgets, fictitious stories, news and a few other topics.

Most of us enjoy finding new websites and articles about the things we are interested in, but it can be hard to find these new articles.  We often get stuck in the rut of going to the same websites over and over.  What if you had a handy tool that would allow you to find some similar websites to the page you’re currently browsing?

Well, here comes today’s topic: iWeavr. iWeavr is a nice browser-bookmarklet that will help you find similar websites to the one you are currently browsing.

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Zotero Helps You Easily Manage All of Your Internet Research

Posted on 26. Oct, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

Finding the required information from Internet for a research project is never as irritating and time consuming as collecting and managing all the information you find. Suppose that you are looking for some information on the Egyptian Pyramids. Then how would you collect and catalog your information?

You would follow the conventional way of copying it and pasting it into a document or text editor. This whole activity can get confusing and isn’t always the best way to manage your research if you are working on a large project. Under such situations, Zotero proves to be a very useful tool and its offerings seems to be incomparable.

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