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View Full Size Wikipedia Images In The Same Page [Chrome]

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Wikipedia is easily one of the most popular sites online and while most people are there for a quick overview of a topic or perhaps just to get them jumpstarted on a paper. Wikipedia isn’t doesn’t just give you the bare details; the community that writes these articles and builds the database add additional media like pictures, graphs, charts, tables etc. wikipedia image preview is a simple but useful extension for Chrome that allows you to view images on Wikipedia in a fast and simple way. Normally, when you click an image, it opens in the current tab with a whole lot of clutter around it, but with this extension, the image blurs the text and is displayed over the same page, without any text or other content around it. The extension instantly pops out the full-size images in a light box preview. In addition to that, the background color for the image can either be set to white or black. Read More

Highlight Text To Search On Google, YouTube, Wikipedia & More [Chrome]

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Select Search, a Chrome extension, provides you with quick search options on popular engines, and can save a lot of time when you have to search the same term on multiple websites. With it, you can search Google, Wikipedia, Twitter with only a click or two. In addition to that, you can add other popular search engines to the pop-up and quickly search Google Images or YouTube for selected text. All you have to do is select some text on a website, and a tiny pop-up will appear with Wikipedia, Google, Twitter and Google Image search options. The pop-up is also active on text fields and is fully customizable. Users can add various popular search engines to the bubble, change the number of columns, transparency and more from the Select Search Options. Read More

Learn New Words & Improve Vocabulary While Browsing The Web [Chrome]

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Language is something that evolves every day. Occasionally it might devolve to make room for things like YOLO or BRB but for the most part, a language is a collection of coherent words that have some meaning to convey. Once of the best ways to improve your vocabulary is to read a lot. For people who prefer to read online articles instead of grabbing a novel or even the latest edition of Reader’s Digest, increasing your vocabulary and learning new words might be slightly challenging since the language and writing is meant to be comprehendible for masses and not just people who have rich vocabularies. Online content tends to be informative or instructive such that people understand what is being said and it goes without saying that you can’t use big words and still hope to cater to a larger audience. PowerVocab, a handy Chrome extension, helps you learn new words and build an impressive vocabulary. After you've installed the extension, a button is added in the browser's toolbar that allows you to view words in a pop-up. Each word comes with pronunciation, definition and example uses. At the top of the pop-up, you will find a Get Next Word button. When you've read the definition and have learnt a word, simply click this and a new word will be displayed within the pop-up. Read More

Waveface Brings Together Your Photos & Notes From Multiple Devices

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In today’s digital age, we use several devices to capture and save information that we come up with or come across. We use our phone cameras to capture images, and our computers, phones and tablets to jot down notes. There are several web services available that help us keep this information in sync and available across multiple devices. However, most of the time, such services are either a part of a larger service (like Facebook) or too laden with features that many users might simply not require (think Picasa or Flickr). For the minimalists amongst us that need just one stream of all their notes and photos readily available across all their devices in a simple interface, there is Waveface. Read More

Symform: Shared Cloud Backup Solution With 200 GB Free Storage Space

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Cloud storage services are nothing new to the world of technology anymore, and every other day, we see a new entrant in this rather populated market. With so much on offer, it becomes hard to decide which of the many offerings is something new, and not just a replica of something already popular (they’re more than a lot out there). With that in mind, we found Symform to be something different from the lot – not just in what if offers, but also by how it works. Symform is a cloud-based data backup and storage solution that offers up to 200GB of free space for all your precious data, complete with a Windows client that is essential to use the service effectively. Read past the break to find out more. Read More

Get Notified Of Important Tasks With Location-Based Reminders [Chrome]

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Android phones and the iPhone have very smart reminder apps that will remind you of a task when you reach a certain destination. While the stock reminder app in iOS has this feature, for Android you have to download an app that has it. The feature is useful on phones but reminders are even better if they are given when you’re on your desktop when you have your work open in front of you and you can get to those reminders sooner. Geo Notepad is a Chrome app that is a location based reminder and mimics the functionality of reminder apps in smartphones.  It allows you to define multiple locations from Google Maps and save them to your browser along with different notes/reminders. Once your arrive at the location and are online, the app will pop up your reminders. It works as a background app and will start running when your launch your browser. You will not need to click any buttons and manually check for reminders. Whenever you access your laptop in a particular area, for which you’ve saved reminders, the notifications will instantly pop-up. Note that you will need a Wi-fi connection or any sort of internet connection for Geo Notepad to work, as estimated location is calculated by detecting the longitude and latitude of your current location via whichever router you’re connected to. Read More

MediaPlus: Resize, Pin & Add Effects To Images/Videos On Any Website [Chrome]

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If you want to take full control of videos, images and other media on your favorite webpages, then MediaPlus, a Chrome extension, is just the right tool for you, as it lets you move, resize, turn lights off and maximize images and videos to full-screen. The extension adds multiple controls in a slick toolbar under each image and video. With it, you can move, resize and pin media content on pages like YouTube and Facebook. You can also maximize media content to the whole browser window or pop it out. Furthermore, you can add various effects to images, such as sepia, blur, glow and more. Darkening area around videos and watching them without any distraction is also made possible. MediaPlus makes it possible to customize embedded Flash videos on any website. Read More

Remove Clutter From Google Reader & Hide Left Sidebar [Chrome]

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The new Google Reader  design hasn’t been received well. While the old layout wasn’t the most stunning way imaginable to present your feed, it didn’t need the cosmetic changes that Google made to ensure all its services and their interfaces blend well together. The new interface seems to be cleaner and incorporates the black Google bar well but Google Reader is still pretty cluttered. Google Reader Readable, an extension for Chrome, provides users with an extremely minimal interface for focusing purely on Google Reader articles. The extension is specially useful for people who tend to get distracted by sidebars and other content on Google Reader. It works by removing clutter and displaying articles in a neat and clean layout. Moreover, the left navigation panel only appears when you hover your mouse over the area, keeping it hidden so you don't get distracted while browsing RSS feeds. Read More

Auto-Detect, Subscribe & Launch RSS Feeds In Google Reader/ Feedly [Chrome]

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TPGoogleReader is a Chrome extension that automatically opens unread items from Google Reader in new tabs and marks them read. The articles are opened in full-version and the number of unread feeds is also displayed on the extension’s icon. This Chrome extension makes reading and subscribing to feeds an easy and pleasant experience. TPGoogleReader lets you specify the number of unread items it should open in tabs which prevents an explosion of tabs in a single window should you have something close to 50 unread items in your feed. The extension also offers users with icon click functionality, which allows you to open the pop-up on a single click, open Google Reader on a double-click and open unread items on a triple-click. The icon-click actions are fully customizable and can be changed from the extension’s Options. Moreover, you can toggle between the automatic or manual mode, and open one, five, ten, twenty, fifty or all unread items at once. As the tabs are opened for the unread items, the unread item count on the icon is automatically decremented in the toolbar. Read More

Browse Internet In 3D Using Mozilla Firefox 11 [Tip]

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Not everything on the internet is there for productivity – sometimes you just do things because they’re fun, and because you can do them. Firefox browser has never been my personal favorite when it comes to picking the best (it’s just a personal preference for Chrome – I don’t have any facts to back it up with), but Firefox 11 came with a very intriguing aesthetic tool that is pure fun to play with, even if not that useful. Most of the seasoned Firefox users should already be familiar with the rather extensive Web Developer tools that come with Firefox, but with the 11th iteration of the browser, Mozilla has included an experimental 3D browsing view, enabling you to explore the internet in 3D! Read on to find out more. Read More

Control Grooveshark, Pandora & Other Music Playback From Chrome Toolbar

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Unity Player is a Chrome extension that allows you to control music for various popular services, such as Pandora, Grooveshark , Google Music, SoundCloud and more. With it, you can control music from multiple sites from one handy pop-up. Now you no longer have to be worried about whether you're playing music in Pandora, Grooveshark or any other service, as you may easily pause, skip, rewind, thumbs up or check out the cover art from the pop-up in your toolbar. Another great feature of the service is that you can quickly focus the current site that is playing your song by clicking the album art cover photo, and if you start playing music from another source, the current one will pause itself as the new one starts. Read More

View Time For Any City & Probable Activity At That Time [Chrome]

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Time zone converter lets you find out the current time for different cities across the world in a unique and interesting way. This handy chrome extension is customizable and you can add as many countries as you like. To add a time zone , simply enter the City name along with the Country name and hit Enter. As you do this, the country and city will instantly be added to the pop-up list, and will always be displayed. For instance, if you add San Francisco as a city and United States as a country, the time and the activity (is at office, is sleeping etc) for the city will be displayed in the pop-up. Google can also be used for the same purpose, but if you're short on time and frequently have to view different time zones, then Time zone converter provides you with a more simple way. Read More

View Desktop Notifications For YouTube Video Playback [Chrome]

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Chrome is a web browser (and sometimes it tries to be an operating system), and while its speed and clean interface is what comes to mind when you ask what makes it so good but there are more features to it that developers love taking advantage of like the built-in desktop notifications. There are a ton of extensions available that will notify if you have new email in Gmail, if you a new song is played on Pandora or if one of your Google contacts signs in. Now Playing Pop-up For YouTube is a tiny but handy extension for Google Chrome that notifies you every time a new song on YouTube is changed. The title of the song, along with the artist’s name, is displayed as a desktop notification. So, whenever you're listening to a playlist or channel and working online at the same time, you will be able to view the song and artist’s name in a pop-up. The nice thing is that the notifications are displayed even when you're visiting a different site or the Chrome window is minimized. With it, you can always keep track of the songs that you're listening to, and if you don’t really like a song, you can quickly change it by looking at the title instead of waiting for it to start. Read More

Remove Gmail’s New Icon-Based Toolbar & Bring Back Text Buttons [Tip]

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Google made a number of changes to Gmail, which included a modification to the toolbar above conversations, where the text was replaced with icons. While some people liked this change, others felt that the text allowed them to easily distinguish between the different buttons, and it was easier to identify each button’s functionality. Lots of people will be quite happy to know that Google has included a tiny feature in Gmail's settings, which allows you to switch back to the toolbar with text instead of icons. Users can either select the icon-based toolbar or switch back to text. So, all those who want to go back to the old style, simply change the options from the Settings and enjoy browsing Gmail. Read More

Schedule & Queue Messages For Facebook, Twitter And LinkedIn [Chrome]

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You‘ve no doubt come across apps and extensions that allow you to manage Facebook and Twitter accounts at the same time. With the recent change in Twitter’s API, some of you might just be in the market for a new app or service to manage both your Twitter and Facebook feed. GrabInbox is a Chrome extension that works in conjunction with a web service. It lets you manage your Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn feed and also schedule status updates and messages. It allows you to choose what type of activity you want to monitor for each account and gives a single dashboard to view it all.  The scheduling options let you schedule messages for a later date and time. GrabInbox lets you easily share any webpage that you browse across your social networks. You can queue links and schedule posts for a later time and date. After you install the extension, a button is added right next to the URL bar. GrabInbox allows you to post the same links on multiple sites without having to open several tabs. You may add Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin accounts along with Facebook Fan pages. Read More

Custom News: Get Latest Updates From Your Favorite Websites [Chrome]

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Custom News is a Chrome extension that lets you read social, political and world news in an interesting way. It works by retrieving content from various popular websites, displaying them in a pop-up, and letting you find everything you are interested in by organizing it all in one place. You will find seven different categories in this pop-up, including News, Politics, Fun, Gossip, Sports, Economy and Technology. Custom News is a highly configurable tool that lets you add your own websites by simply entering a URL and clicking Add. The Custom News button also displays the number of new posts right in your toolbar, and lets you view new ones with ease. Read More

Switch Tabs & Launch URLs Without Exiting Full Screen Mode [Chrome]

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SwiftClick provides you with a new way to switch between tabs when you're working online in full screen mode. This handy Chrome extension has been developed particularly for people who don’t want to exit the fullscreen view to change tabs, or go to a new website. After you’ve installed the extension, simply press the mouse scroll wheel to access a preview of all your open tabs in a new page, or navigate to a new website by hovering your mouse over the top of the page to display a URL bar. You can also switch between tabs by using the ctrl+left mouse click. Read More

Get Multi-Use Clipboard In Chrome With Drag & Drop Support

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Want to quickly paste multiple items from the clipboard without having to switch between tabs over and over again? Browser Clipboard enhances the copy/paste functionality within Chrome by providing you with a panel that can hold multiple copied items at the same time. This Chrome extension displays a panel at the top of the page, and all you have to do is select text or images and drag them to the panel. When you start dragging items, the Browser Clipboard panel appears at the top of the page, and items can then be dropped onto it. After items have been copied to the browser clipboard, they can be dragged and copied to any other page. In addition to that, the context menu can be used as an alternative for copying text or images, and a double-click in the browser clipboard creates a new item. Read More

PageEdit: Edit Any Website Within Chrome & View Changes Instantly

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PageEdit is a powerful WYSIWYG editor that lets you edit any HTML page in Chrome, and allows syntax color highlighting in source editing mode. The extension makes it easy to edit webpages and view them directly in the browser. PageEdit can particularly come in handy for web developers and designers who want to test or experiment with their own websites. Once you’ve installed the extension, click the button right next to the URL bar when browsing a webpage, and a toolbar with extensive options will be added to the top of the page. PageEdit also offers users with settings for the skin and toolbar options. The skin can be set as default, Office 2003 or v2 from a drop-down menu, whereas the toolbar can either be set as default or basic. You will notice that the basic toolbar offers you with fewer editing options as compared to the default one. Read More

PopList: Temporarily Save & Manage Tabs For One Time Use [Chrome]

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Do you often bookmark random webpages just so you can open them later and not necessarily because they are important or useful? If so then it’s likely your bookmarks bar is a messy one. Reopening previously visited webpages is considerably easier if you sync your browsing history but it is still time consuming to have to go through it all to find the page you were looking for. If this is the case then, PopList is a Chrome extension that is a fast and simple solution to bookmarking content on the web just for the sake of reopening it later or on another system. It brings together fast one-click saving of webpages that are instantly added to a pop-up. When you click the Add option, the title of the page is automatically added to the pop-up. The saved pages can then be accessed by clicking their title. You should note that once the saved pages are opened through the pop-up, they are removed from the list. PopList works by letting you bookmark webpages both for personal or professional purposes, without cluttering the bookmark bar. Read More