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Showing posts with label Browsers. Show all posts

5/11/14

Best Google Chrome Extensions 2014

Earlier we have shown you some of the best Google chrome extensions, In this article we would like to show the best Google Chrome extensions of 2014. We all know that Chrome is the second most widely used browser, as the number of users keep on increase, Developers are getting themselves busy in bringing up new and innovative extensions to Google Chrome.


Right from blocking ads via Adblock (you can download adblock plus here) to estimating the Carbon Footprint, Google Chrome extensions are very useful to get our work done, without even moving to other web page.

Best Google Chrome extensions 2014

1. Scribe Fire

Scribe Fire is  very useful for the bloggers. This full-featured chrome extension   integrates with chrome browser and allows you to put a blog post quickly and easily.This extension allows you to delete, edit and update posts from chrome browser and is compatible with almost all popular blogging sites like Wordpress and Blogger.

DOWNLOAD | Scribe Fire

2. Silver Bird

This Chrome extension gives you full access to your Twitter feed, without moving away from the site you are currently on. You can check your tweets,upload a picture and even see what’s trending.


DOWNLOAD | Silver Bird

3. Unfriend Notify for Facebook

Unfriend notifications for Facebook, is a chrome extension that updates users every time when someone unfriends them on Facebook.

DOWNLOAD | Unfriend Notifiy for Facebook

MUST CHECK : Best Facebook Tips and Tricks 2014

4. StumbleUpon

This chrome extension allows you to stumble the webpages you like, easily with one click.


DOWNLOAD | StumbleUpon

5. Bugmenot Lite

No more having to create accounts just to access articles or web pages. Bugmenot Lite allows users to bypass the login of the websites that asks the users to register before accessing any information from that website. One click and login forms and autofilled with anonymous information. This is why Bugmenot Lite is my favorite chrome extension.

DOWNLOAD | Bugmenot Lite

6. LastPass

Online security is a big worry, but remembering all your different passwords can also be difficult. This Chrome extension stores all your passwords and log-in details and signs you into sites automatically. Your information and passwords are encrypted and decrypted locally on your computer to keep it safe and LastPass cannot access your information.

DOWNLOAD | LastPass

7. Android Desktop Notifications

This chrome extension pops-up a little notification in your browser every time you receive one on your phone, making it a tad easier to go an hour without glancing down at your Android smartphone.

CHECK OUT: How to Increase performance of Android smartphones


DOWNLOAD | Android Desktop Notifications

8. Gmail Offline

A pretty self-explanatory extension, GMail Offline literally makes all your Google Mail content available when you’re sans connection. This is great if you need to check back over some dates and vital information on the go, but obviously you won’t be able to send any new messages until you reconnect.

DOWNLOAD | Gmail Offline

9. Wolfram Alpha

Wolfram Alpha is a very clever service, with a deep knowledge in everything from maths to food – and now it’s available with a click. Simply press the button in your status bar and the world’s knowledge is in your hands.

DOWNLOAD | Wolfram Alpha

10. PanicButton

This chrome extension allows you to hide all your tabs with a single click. All these hidden tabs will be saved in a different folder and they can be retrived or restored back again with one click on the button.

DOWNLOAD | PanicButton

11. Carbon Footprint for Google Maps

Often find yourself deciding not to drive to work in the hope of lowering your carbon footprint? This chrome extension calculates the estimated amount of CO2 emissions given off on a selected route through Google Maps.


DOWNLOAD | Carbon Footprint for Google Maps

ALSO CHECK: Protect Google Chrome Browser with Password

12. Awesopme New Tab Page

Customize your new tab page with this stylish Chrome add-on. Add, remove and re-arrange widget tiles, apps and web pages to suit you and optimise your web browsing. Kinda like Windows 8 for your browser.


DOWNLOAD | Awesopme New Tab Page

13. Add to Amazon Wish List

Feverishly building your list for Santa? This chrome extension simplifies the whole process, making it easy to add any item from Amazon to your Wish List. You can even add an extra comment – quietly reminding your mum that you will not be happy unless you get a PS4 for Christmas.

DOWNLOAD | Add to Amazon Wish List

14. Evernote Clipper

Evernote is a great tool for creating a digital scrapbook of content – be it pictures, videos or just text. This handy extension clips parts of a website and then lets you add tags and pop it in one of your notebooks. Pure online efficiency.

DOWNLOAD | Evernote Clipper

15. Buffer

Posting on Facebook and Twitter can be a great way to ensure lots of people read your content and see your witty tweets. However there is nothing worse than someone who tweets 15 links in five minutes. Buffer is a great way to spread your posts out, say one an hour, while also letting you plan them out in one go, leaving you with much more free time. Which will inevitably be spent scrolling through your Twitter timeline.


DOWNLOAD | Buffer

ALSO READ: Some Best Google Chrome Extensions


We hope you like these Chrome extensions. If you have any trouble in installing these extensions please feel free to comment below...:)

5/2/14

Top 17 Best Google Chrome Extensions

According to Stat Counter, Google Chrome is the second most widely used browser worldwide. Clean interface,easy syncing with mobile devices and swift performance made Chrome a popular and user friendly browser. Chrome Browser also has plenty of extensions available on Chrome web store. Here is the list of 14 best Google Chrome extensions that might be helpful to all Chrome users.


Top 17 Best Google Chrome Extensions

1. Hover Zoom

This indispensable plug-in displays a full size version of whatever image you hover the mouse over. Works on both thumbnails and text links, and if it's an album you can scroll through the pics with the arrow keys. Absolute game changer.


DOWNLOAD | Hover Zoom

2. Hola Better Internet (formerly Hola Unblocker)

No more 'This video is not available in your region' messages. This stops region blocking between various countries and territories.


3. Google Dictionary

Double-click any word for a definition of it.


DOWNLOAD | Google Dictionary

4. Tab Wrangler

Automatically closes unused tabs after a period of time (but saves them in case you suddenly need them back). Because face it you're never going to get round to watching that 12-minute Vimeo video.

DOWNLOAD | Tab Wrangler

MUST CHECK:  Set password for Google Chrome Browser

5. avast! Online Security

Really good, free browser security that among other things warns you about sites with a bad reputation.



6. Readability

Hit 'Read now' and distracting webpage clutter will melt away leaving you just with the crucial text.

DOWNLOAD | Readability

7. Minimalist for Everything

And if you really hate internet noise, slim down webpages even further with this extension.


8. Adblock Plus

Disables adverts on all webpages and even blocks those you find on YouTube videos. You can set it to allow them on the specific sites you want to support (most free sites are funded by ad revenue).


DOWNLOAD | Adblock Plus

9. Stay Focused

This can block or limit the minutes you spend on time-wasting websites. Bit of a novelty, but good for the very easily distracted.

DOWNLOAD | Stay Focused

10. Magic Actions for YouTube

Functions include auto-playing YouTube videos in HD, one-click cinema mode and one-click screenshots. YouTube is already pretty user-friendly, but this kicks it up a notch.



11. No Scroll Bars Please

If you use the mouse wheel to scroll, then why waste valuable screen space on scroll bars? This hides them.


12. FromDocToPDF

Yep, a free PDF converter.

DOWNLOAD | FromDocToPDF

13. The Great Suspender

Suspends tabs you're not currently using so they take up less CPU (Apple has worked this principle into its latest Mac OS).



14. Cloud To Butt Plus

Replaces the word 'cloud' with 'butt' everywhere. Most amusing when you forgot you installed the thing.

DOWNLOAD | Cloud To Butt Plus

15. Select and Speak

You Select a word and your PC will read it out!

DOWNLOAD | Select and Speak

16. Web Timer

Shows the amount of time you have spent on each website.


DOWNLOAD | Web Timer

17. Do not Track me

This extension prevents the websites from tracking your search queries.

DOWNLOAD | Do not Track me

We hope you like these Chrome extensions. If you have any trouble in installing these extensions please feel free to comment below...:)

4/25/14

Bypass Waiting time and Ads while Downloading Files on RapidShare

Time is always precious for all and no one likes to waste time by waiting, to download  files, softwares, movies etc. Some websites like RapidShare, MegaUpload etc keeps the visitors  (who are not premium users) to wait for 20-25 secs before the download starts. This could be frustrating, i know that because even I'm one among them.

In this article, I would like to share a method using which you can bypass waiting time and ads that pop up while downloading files from RapidShare and many other such sites.

How to Bypass Waiting time, Ads and Pop-ups while downloading files.

Skipscreen is an Add-on, available both for Chrome and Firefox that allows you to bypass waiting time and also to bypass ads and helps you to download files quickly.Apart from RapidShare,this addon supports many such websites including 4shared,Megaupload,Mediafire,Hotfile etc.

Step 1: Download & install Skipscreen add-on from the below link.

DOWNLOAD | Skipscreen (for Firefox)

 DOWNLOAD | Skipscreen (for Chrome)

Step 2: Once Skipscreen add-on is installed, restart the Firefox browser.

Step 3: Go to Tools >> Add-ons in Firefox. From Extensions tab, Select the Skipscreen add-on and Click on Options as shown below.


MUST CHECK:  How to Bypass SMS Verification Online for any website

Step 4: Skipscreen preferences window will open and from that window you can turn off or on skippers for several websites as shown below.


That's it! Now you can download files from RapidShare, Megaupload,4shared,Hotfile,Mediafire etc.without wasting your time and free from ads..:)

4/20/14

How to protect Google Chrome Browser with password

Now a days internet is everywhere, and people can surf the net using various browsers like Google Chrome,Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer etc. Out of all the browsers existing, Chrome and Firefox are widely used.

If you are the only user of your computer, then no need to worry about browsing history,settings and all, but if it is a shared system you need to take necessary precautions to keep your private data safe.One way to protect your settings and stuff is by protecting your browser with a password. Unfortunately no browser will provide a setting to lock your browser with a password.

In this article, we describe a procedure and an extension using which you can protect your browsing history and other private information by setting password to your browser.

ChromePW

ChromePW is an extension for chrome users to protect their browsers from others.It allows the users to lock the browser with password.


How to Setup Password Protection to Chrome Browser?


Step 1: Download and install ChromePW extension. You can download ChromePW from below Link.

DOWNLOAD | ChromePW

Step 2: Once the installation is complete, it displays a message as shown below indicating that the installation was successful. Before using it you need to make some configurations. Click on OK to move to ChromePW setup.


Step 3: To make ChromePW extension work on Incognito mode, you need to tick the check-box as shown below.


Step 4: Now it moves you to another window that contains FAQ's (Frequently Asked Questions) related to improving the security of the browsers along with the answers. If you want you can save all those FAQ's and answers. If you are not using a Windows Operation System, then select the appropriate Operating System from the drop down as shown below.


Step 5: Once selecting Operating System is completed, click on Next and you will see Extension security settings. It has 4 widgets and each of them have some settings.

Step 6: Now, type the password twice as shown below and you can also enter a hint word, which would be helpful in case, when you forgot your password. Click on Save to turn on Password Protection. You can set automatic lock for your browser, so that it will automatically lock your browser with the password protection.


Step 7: You should enable security mode so that it protects Chromepw extension from being terminated by the task manager.


Step 8: You can also block websites from this extension and you can reset this extension settings and password by clicking on Reset button.

If you have any problems while installing this application, please leave a comment below.