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Best Google Chrome Extensions for Images
Images are an essential part in our normal life and as well in online life. Online image hosting services or social image sharing websites have played a vital role in the widespread use of images at a normal user’s end. For a normal user, images mostly appear while the user is busy in social activity on Facebook, Orkut or My Space. Similarly if user has also joined social image sharing websites like Flickr or Picasa, images have to be dealt more frequently.
There may be situations when user needs to edit, zoom or preview images in slideshow. To deal with such situations, you need some specific tools. The tools may be desktop or working in cloud. For heavy editing of online images, you may use desktop tools but for normal editing you can use online image editors right away in your browsers. Other tweaks like zoom or slideshow can only be applied in your More >
Modify New Tab in Google Chrome with Extensions
New tab is the opening door to browse a web page. Every user creates New Tab multiple times in a web browsing session and number of all New Tabs opened may not be calculated. Do you remember how many times you create New Tab in a day? This depicts that New Tab is one of the modules of a web browser which is encountered more frequently. There have to be some methods to modify the default look and behavior of New Tab. In result, the interaction of user with New Tab can become more convenient and easy.
In Google Chrome, the developers decided to modify the behavior of New Tab as it behaved in Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Safari. The New Tab is filled with Thumbnails of the most visited web pages. A strip of Recently Closed Tab has also been placed below the Most Visited section. This conduct of New Tab in Google Chrome is strange for More >
URL Shortening/Expanding Extensions for Google Chrome
URL stands for abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator which is the global address of web pages, documents or other services. It consists of two main parts: one is protocol identifier and second is document address in from of domain name or IP. They are separated by a colon “:” and two forward slashes “//”. URL needs to be unique which may result in a longer URL as the World Wide Web is growing at an exponential scale. Also there is a tendency to pass descriptive attributes in the URL to forward different kinds of information. This may result in awful situation where URL looks ugly and can’t fit in Human Memory.
The solution produced to tackle the problem is URL Shortening which takes long URL addresses as input and outputs a unique and short URL. This short URL actually redirects you to the original web page. The URL shortening services became even more constructive with the popularity of More >
Best Extenions for Mosue Gestures in Google Chrome
Computer Mouse is really helpful for a normal computer user because it provides an easy way to navigate. It becomes even more convenient when browsing web. The user can easily select links, images, or text in a web page. Despite this functionality, there is some more juice which can be extracted from computer mouse. As a result, Mouse Gestures have been developed to provide more functionality. Mouse Gestures functionality is available as a utility for operating systems like Windows XP or they are available in modern web browsers like Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.
I will review here best available Google Chrome’s Extension which let you use mouse gestures. If you are using Mouse Gestures for the first time then it should not be More >
Change Default Tab Ordering in Google Chrome with Extensions
Tabbed interface in web browsers boost the user experience in many ways. The user does not need to switch between separate windows. All of the browsing can occur in a single window which makes shifting between different web pages more convenient. You can even browse a website and the related links in a different window while other browsing activity may take place in a separate browser window.
Each web browser has its own policy of ordering tabs. It is difficult to get accustomed with tab ordering if the user switches from one web browser to another. This is the case when someone is migrating to Google Chrome from Mozilla Firefox. Some prominent differences between the tab ordering strategy of More >
Tab Managing Extensions for Google Chrome
Graphical User Interface is meant to facilitate the interaction of user with the device in a graphical way rather than typing in a command line. GUI has got matured with overall system development of computers. A window manager is an essential part that controls the placement and appearance of windows in a GUI. Tabs were a significant inclusion in a window. Tabs allow an application to contain multiple documents in a single window. This eases the way to switch between different instances of application.
Tabs became famous when they were introduced in web browsers. The user can effortlessly navigate between different web pages. The developers have introduced different particular functions for tabs in web browser. These functions may vary from browser to browser. Google Chrome is the new rival in the war of web browsers and outperformed many web browser. It is because of its speed and spectacular tabbed window interface. Its brilliant tabbed interface has pushed developers of Mozilla Firefox More >
20+ Best Chrome Themes
Like every modern application, Google Chrome Browser supports tweaking the browser look with custom themes. You will not get tired of looking at default look every day rather you can dress up your Chrome with a theme. Google Chrome team has provided an online themes gallery which contains some nice themes but their number is low. Chrome community has developed a number of themes which actually don’t appear in the official gallery. I have collected some nice Chrome themes from different user communities and they are being compiled here. The piled up themes are in crx format which is officially supported by Chrome. This will avoid incompatibility with any future releases of Google Chrome Browser. More >
