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Bulk Player Mate: Play All YouTube Videos In Custom Playlists [Chrome]

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Do you often find yourself searching for your favorite songs or reality show episodes on YouTube, but are unable to play them in sequence? Bulk Player Mate For YouTube is a Google Chrome extension that lets you play all or any of the YouTube videos in a new tab by just selecting your favorite links. It lets users create a custom playlist of miscellaneous videos, and play them sequentially without requiring any further input on your part. Read More

W3 Launcher: Quickly Backup & Manage Your Bookmarks Online [Chrome]

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If you have lots of bookmarks saved in Chrome, you'll know how hard it can be to manage them. W3Launcher, an online bookmark manager, is just what you need, to manage and organize your bookmarks. Use this Google Chrome web app to organize all your saved websites and web apps on one screen. You can open, edit or delete any bookmark from the same page. The bookmarks are saved on the user’s hard disk and never expire from W3Launcher. Read More

Pandora Desktop Notification: Get Song Change Notifications [Chrome]

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Online radio stations and services are a great way of listening to music and discovering new artists. Pandora is one of the most popular online radio services with a whole bunch of features that makes it convenient to listen, share and buy songs. Of the many good things about the service, one is that all you need is a web browser to listen to songs. Pandora Desktop Notification is a simple, single feature extension for Chrome that gives you a desktop notification whenever a new song starts playing. Read More

Preview & Inspect Extensions In Your Chrome Browser Before Installing

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The Chrome web store may be boasting over 100,000 apps and extensions but not all of them are as safe as you would think they are. As far as security is concerned, Mozilla definitely takes its extensions and it’s repository more seriously, whereas extensions in the Chrome web store only state which permissions they will be using and it may or may not be correct. In a nutshell, when you download and install an extension for Google Chrome, the old caveat emptor applies. Extension Gallery and Web Store Inspector is a Chrome extension that allows you to inspect an extension’s files in your browser without first having to download it. It gives you both a summary overview and a detailed view of each file that the extension uses. The extension detects which APIs the extension uses and which permissions it needs. Read More

Achshar Player Is Offline Music Player And Playlist Manager [Chrome]

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Chrome allows you to play media files in any WebM format as do a few other browsers. This is a super handy feature in the event that you don’t have a media player installed but want to play a file. Granted that you can only play files in select formats, it is still useful. While you can use Chrome to play audio and video files, you can’t actually use it to manage your media library, create playlists or even loop a single audio file to play continuously. Achshar Player is a Chrome application that not only lets you manage your music files in Chrome but also allows you to create playlists and search your library by artist, album or song. The app has both an offline and online mode and allows you to loop a song or playlist to play continuously. Read More

GChat Pix: Share Images Through Google Chat Via Drag & Drop [Chrome]

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Gmail Chat is an absolutely amazing feature that lets you chat with your Google contacts without needing a desktop client. It might not be your preferred chat medium when you’re home and have the luxury to install any chat client you want but at work, things are different. At work you might not have the freedom to install any app that you want and that’s where Gmail Chat is so useful. Although Google Chat allows you to chat with any of your Gmail contacts without requiring the desktop client, it doesn't allow sending files. The only option with Google Chat is to send file as email attachment. GChat Pix is an extension for Chrome that allows you to send files through Google Chat. It uses its own server and uploads the file you want to send to it. It then pastes the link to the file in your browser window and you can share it on chat. Read More

Address Book I Need: Import, Sync & Manage Gmail Contacts [Chrome]

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Having your email contacts available offline can be immensely useful; whether you need them to compose an email offline or just to look up an address or phone number, an offline address book that allows you to access contacts normally stored in your email account can’t hurt to have around. Address Book I Need is a Chrome application that syncs your Gmail contacts and makes them available even when you’re offline. You can organize the contacts in to different groups, add contacts offline and sync them to Gmail when you go online. Read More

Chrome Remote Desktop: Remotely Control Computers Through Chrome

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You must have come across multiple applications and web services that allow you to remotely see and control another system. These applications and services are useful particularly when you want to remotely troubleshoot someone’s system. Chrome Remote Desktop BETA is a Chrome application just released by Google that will allow you remotely access a computer using your Chrome browser and Google App or Gmail ID. Implicitly meant for Chrome notebooks, it works on any system with Chrome installed; Mac, Windows, Linux etc. Read More

REM-I-CON: Remotely Control Multiple Chrome Browsers Across Systems

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Cross browser sync is a feature available in both Chrome and Firefox that allows you to sync your extensions, bookmarks and passwords on different systems. For those of you who have used it, you know that it is a great way to ensure all your important links are always available no matter what system you’re using. REM-I-CON is a Chrome extension that works in conjunction with its web service Secure Bucket and lets you remotely control multiple Chrome browsers from a single system. Using the browser extension, the service sends and implements commands to which ever browser you send it to. The commands that can be executed remotely are; closing all tabs and opening a new tab, deleting cookies, history, bookmarks and uninstalling extensions and apps. Read More

Reddit Tab Opener: Click To Open All Links On A Reddit Page [Chrome]

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The average time spent on Reddit is 15 minutes; each page has 25 links and the links are a mixture of questions, videos, articles, images etc. Whatever your interests are on Reddit, there are still only two ways of browsing the site, individually opening each link in a new tab (click each one while holding down the Ctrl key) or visiting it in the same tab and hitting the backspace key to return to the main page. Not only is it time consuming but when you open several links at once based on an interesting title, you don’t always remember what the title was and in case of images, it renders them meaningless. Reddit Tab Opener is a Chrome extension that does two things; it opens all links on a Reddit page in a separate tab and adds the Reddit title to each tab’s title. Read More

GTalk Contact Notifications: Get Chrome Alerts For Online Gmail Contacts

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Gtalk, Google’s messenger application, gives you desktop alerts whenever one of your contacts signs in, you can opt in or out of these alerts. Similarly, if you sign in to chat via Gmail in Chrome, you can opt to get Chrome alerts for whenever some one IMs you. What you can’t do is get an alert when someone signs in. This is a slight drawback that means if you’re waiting for someone to come online,  you will need to keep revisiting your Gmail tab to check their online status. GTalk Contact Notifications is a Chrome extension that gives you Chrome alerts whenever one of your contacts signs in and is available for chat. Read More

YouTube Ratings Preview Shows ‘Like Bar’ On Video Thumbnails [Chrome]

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Have you ever clicked a video thinking it was interesting because of the thumbnail preview and it turned out to be either boring or useless or both? Just as you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, you shouldn’t judge a video by its thumbnail and it is precisely why YouTube has a like bar. The like bar serves to tell users if a video is good or bad but the problem is you don’t see the like bar until you click on the video. Search results only show you the number of views for a video and you probably think, so many views can’t be wrong. YouTube Ratings Preview is a Chrome extension that lets you see the like bar on the thumbnail of a video in both search results and suggested videos, so you know if a video is worth watching or not. Read More

Search YouTube Without Closing The Current Video [Chrome]

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YouTube is an endless source of videos, both entertaining and educational. Regardless of what you watch on YouTube, you always look for more or related videos. While YouTube does suggest related videos based on the video you’re watching, you still search for more yourself and that’s where it gets annoying. As great as YouTube is, if you want to search for videos when you’re already watching one, you have to either open YouTube in a new tab or stop watching the video to search in the current one. YT Background Search is a Chrome extension that lets you search for more videos on YouTube in the same tab that you’re already watching a video in, without having to navigate away from it. It lets you search YouTube in the background; the video you’re watching continues to play and the tab is split into two, the upper panel is dedicated to search and search results while your video continues to play in the lower panel. Read More

World Clocks: View Time From As Many As 400 Cities [Chrome]

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Whether you travel a lot or have to frequently talk to clients in different time zones, remembering how far ahead or back the time is in a particular city is, is never easy and calculating it is often frustrating. There’s the added drawback that you don’t know which country observes daylight saving time and which doesn’t. Chances are, somewhere out there, there is a genius who has come up with a way to unify time worldwide and he’s locked in an asylum. Until there is an easier way to remember time for different cities, World Clocks is a Chrome application that might help. The app opens a separate window with 6 clocks from leading world capitals which are added by default. You can add or remove a clock from other cities and view either digital or analogue clocks. Read More

History Plus: View Chrome History By Date, Domain And Time Slot

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Despite being a Chrome fan, there isn’t any denying that the Firefox History Manager is better. While both browsers save the same information as you browse web pages, Firefox actually lets users browse their history using different aspects of that saved information; you can filter history by date or by domain but Chrome just won't let you do that. Better History was a Chrome extension reviewed a while back that allowed you to sort pages in time slots but the extension only sorted the pages you visited post installation. History Plus is a Chrome extension that sorts your entire browsing history by date, time slot and by domain. Page visits to the same domain are listed in a hierarchical order. You can search history and filter results to show only pages visited today, yesterday, the previous week or last month. You can restrict it to showing only 100, 250, 500 or 1000 results when you search your history. Read More

Select To Highlight Text On Web Pages & Share via URL [Chrome]

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A highlighter, whether for a webpage or for a hardcopy is possibly one of the most common things out there that everyone uses. There really is nothing special about being able to highlight a portion of a web page but every one in a while you will find something that makes the whole process either easier or simpler. Yellow Highlighter Pen For Web is a Chrome extension that allows you to highlight text on a web page and choose the highlight color from a small color palette that pops up when you mouse over the selected text, it generates a URL that you can share directly on Facebook and Twitter or copy and paste to emails and chat windows. Read More

GrooveBud: Remotely Control Grooveshark From Your Phone [Chrome]

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You may have come across a lot of extensions that let you control Grooveshark across different tabs in both Chrome and Firefox. Previous for Grooveshark & Google Music was a recently reviewed extension that let you control music playing on both Grooveshark and Google Music across tabs and windows but what beats all such similar extensions is being able to control Grooveshark from your phone. GrooveBud is a Chrome extension that allows you to remotely control Grooveshark; you can skip to the next or previous song, pause/play songs and control the volume all from your handset. Read More

Gmail Attachments To Docs: Save Files Directly To Google Docs [Chrome]

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When you receive an attachment in Gmail you have the option to either download it or view it in your browser/Google Docs (where the format is supported). The view option is convenient if you would rather read a document and see if it’s important before saving it to your hard drive but lets say you don’t have time to view a document and don’t want to save it to your hard drive either. The simple answer would be to get back to that email later when you have time, alternatively, you can save it to Google Docs so you don’t have to skim through your email and find it again. Gmail Attachments To Docs is a Chrome extension that lets you save attachments directly to Google Docs without viewing or downloading them. Attachments are sent directly from the Gmail interface. Read More

Play Previous Song In Grooveshark & Google Music Playlist [Chrome]

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For a true music junkie, no one site or one music collection is enough, there’s always the need to find more music, listen to the good old stuff and give something unusual a try. Grooveshark and Google Music (still available in the US only) are two different services for music fans. Grooveshark is a great place for streaming music and Google Music is a great way to take your music with you everywhere. A whole host of extensions for both these services are available but Previous for Grooveshark & Google Music is a Chrome extension that works across both. The extension is simple; whether you’re playing music on Grooveshark or Google Music, it will let you switch to the previous song. It works across tabs and across windows. Read More