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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Glue Firefox Addon – Share and Get Suggestions

Posted on 01. Oct, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

Internet users have lately been very occupied by this thing called social networking. Social Networks enable people to get in touch with their friends even with their busy schedules. These web sites act as a great platform to share thoughts and opinions.

Glue is a tool and actually a Firefox Plug-in, which enables you to share your opinions and tastes with your friends. It also serves as a tool to discover books, music, movies and many other things through your friends as you browse popular sites.

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Use Ubiquity to Do More with Firefox

Posted on 29. Sep, 2009 by Chinmoy.Kanjilal.

Are you really satisfied with the Firefox address bar? What it simply does is take you to a destination. Can it answer any of your queries? Can it understand basic spoken commands? Well, the answer might be no, but only till now.

This detailed guide will walk you and talk you through installing, using and enjoying Ubiquity. You are in for a revamped web experience. To start with, you need to install the Ubiquity addon for firefox or you can skip this and read on.

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5 Best Firefox Add-ons for Better Privacy and Security

Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra.

Mozilla Firefox has undoubtedly been one of the best browsers in the market. When it comes to speed, privacy and security, Mozilla Firefox has always been great. The best thing about this web browser is that it allows you to install additional add-ons according to your requirement.

You can easily find a number of add-ons which would enhance the performance of your Mozilla Firefox browser. Privacy and security has always been an issue when it comes to surfing the Internet. Although Mozilla Firefox has successfully helped us in this particular issue, there are times when we are still left unsatisfied by its performance.

And the best way to enhance the performance of Mozilla Firefox is to use add-ons. There are number of add-ons which will prove to be useful in tackling the problems related to privacy and security. Below are  a few of the best.

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