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Extension of the Week – Click&Clean

August 15, 2010 by TheAppleGoogle Leave a Comment

Click&Clean is a great extension for Chrome that cleans all your browsing data, cache, cookies and removes all traces of your browsing history. The extension is quick, easy and really efficient. The extension is developed by HotCleaner and works like a charm.

Extension of the Week – Chromey Calculator

July 30, 2010 by TheAppleGoogle Leave a Comment

Chromey Calculator is a powerful calculator for Google Chrome. It is extremely customizable and is really impressive. It combines the power of Google and Wolfram Alpha to give accurate results.

Extension of the Week – Virtual Keyboard

July 21, 2010 by TheAppleGoogle Leave a Comment

Virtual Keyboard is an extension developed by Google which can be downloaded from the Chrome Extensions Gallery. The extension features an onscreen keyboard which pops up automatically wherever typing is required. It features a complete keyboard with support for a lot of symbols.

Extension of the Week – Woot

July 8, 2010 by TheAppleGoogle Leave a Comment

Woot is an online service that sells one item at a time. It is a great concept and unlike Amazon or eBay that sell millions of items per day, Woot selects a particular item and displays it on the website. Just one product a day. Amazon liked the idea and decided to acquire Woot.

Extension of the Week – ChromeVis

July 1, 2010 by TheAppleGoogle 1 Comment

ChromeVis

Google recently added an accessibility option in the Chrome Extension Gallery which helps make the web more accessible. The category has loads of extensions featured under it and one has been developed by Google itself. The extension is dubbed ChromeVis and helps people with low vision access the web easily.

Extension of the Week – Incredible StartPage

May 20, 2010 by TheAppleGoogle 1 Comment

Google Chrome is an incredible browser with enormous capabilities. Extensions further extend its functions and make it a better browser.

Though it is a powerful browser, it still lacks in features. Chrome arranges your most viewed sites in order with a screen-shot of the site along with the name written below, which is quite boring and dull.

Today’s extension serves to that purpose and would enhance your Chrome Start page. Incredible StartPage completely changes the way your start page appears. It puts up a notes area to the left which allows you to take quick notes and send them to your friends via Gmail or even upload them to Google Calendar.

Extension of the Week – Picnik

May 10, 2010 by TheAppleGoogle 1 Comment

Picnik is an online picture editing tool which allows you to tweak an image to your hearts content, all on the web. Recently, Picnik was acquired by Google and since then the Google team is working along with the Picnik team. Picnik even has a Google Chrome extension which works extremely well.

The Picnik extension works on just about any page with images. Suppose you go to TheAppleGoogle’s homepage and tap on the Picnik icon, Picnik would pop up and display all the images located on the page. You could now select an image and command Picnik to head over to the Picnik editing page. Picnik would quickly open up its editing page with the image you selected ready to be edited.

Extension of the Week – Untiny

May 2, 2010 by TheAppleGoogle 1 Comment

Every week we highlight an extension which would enhance your experience with Google Chrome. This week’s extension is Untiny. A very handy application for everyone. Tersely done and beautifully put, this extension is to the purpose and very useful.

With the help of this you could quickly and efficiently change a shortened URL to its normal form. You just need to put the shortened URL and hit the Extract button and it would immediately reveal the shortened URL’s destination. Shortened URL’s are sometimes a pain and could lead you to malicious websites which could infect your computer, especially if you are on a PC.

Getting a sneak peak of the complete URL would help you further make your decision. Though the Chrome version is not feature rich, compared to the Firefox version, it works good. It supports almost all major URL shortening services. Go ahead and Grab it.

Extension of the Week – Google Mail Checker

April 14, 2010 by TheAppleGoogle Leave a Comment

Google Mail Checker is a neat little extension for Google Chrome. It lacks features but fulfills its purpose well. It displays the number of unread mails in your Gmail Account. To start using Google Mail Checker, you need to log into your Google Account from your browser. After logging in, the extension automatically detects that you are logged in. The Gmail icon becomes bright and ready for use.

The icon spins and displays the number of unread emails in your account. It is compatible with Google Apps for Domain which makes it flawless. Well, flawless doesn’t seem to be the right word for it. It does have a few setbacks. It does not have its own login system and does not automatically log you in when Chrome is fired up. Occasionally, it does not show up a notification as soon as the mail hits your inbox. It takes a quite a few seconds. You could not have a pop up preview of your mail which takes it a few steps backward.

A good thing about this extension is that, clicking on it pops up your mail on a different tab rather than the one you are currently using. If you are not logged into your account, the icon would turn grey and would display a question mark .When you receive a new mail, the icon spins and puts up a notification. When all is said and done, it is a very handy, nifty little tool which always keeps you connected with your mail. Google Mail Checker Plus is also available which removes some of the flaws mentioned above.