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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

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

Check My Links: Find Broken Links On Any Website [Chrome]

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Check My Links is a useful tool that scans all links that crawl through your webpage, and finds broken ones. This simple, but useful chrome extension, is primarily developed for web designers, developers and content editors. So, when you're editing a page with a large number of links, wouldn't it be rather useful if you could quickly check all the links and find broken ones? The extension works by scanning all links on a webpage and checks each one for you. It highlights links into two different colors, red and green, with broken one being red, whereas green links are the valid ones. Read More

TimelineRemove: Hide Facebook Timeline For All Profiles [Chrome]

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Facebook timelines have been met with a mixed response. People who hate it are generally concerned about the items that will be pinned to your timeline for everyone to see unless you remove the ones you’d rather forget about. Aside from the embarrassing implications of timeline, many users have taken cover photos as a great way to express their creativity. That doesn’t mean everyone is now happy with the timeline though. If you don’t like the new Timeline feature on Facebook and want to view profiles in the old style, then TimelineRemove is the perfect Chrome extension for you. This tiny, but handy tool disables the new Facebook timeline feature and restores the classic look, without changing the timeline behavior for other visitors of your Facebook profile. The extension basically works by hiding the timeline, so you can view your own and others' profiles in the old style. TimelineRemove works automatically once installed, and a button is added to the toolbar that lets you toggle the timeline on and off, whenever you want. Read More

ClickBoard: Create Notes & Export To Google Docs [Chrome]

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ClickBoard, a Chrome extension, is a one-click web clipper that lets you copy selected text, page title, URL, image links etc, to the clipboard and save them as notes in a compact pop-up for later use. These notes can then also be exported to Google Docs with only a click or two. With it, you can create, manage and organize notes with a simple interface that allows you to add tabs, so that your notes never get mixed up with other ones. ClickBoard automatically saves selected text along with the URL and date. Moreover, you can sync and export notes to Google Docs in various formats, such as Spreadsheet, Plain text and HTML. The extension also gives you the ability to star and choose specific folders when exporting notes to Google Docs. ClickBoard offers users with two themes and layouts, where you can view notes in a compact version or an expanded one, depending upon your preference.  Furthermore, you may search and print notes directly from the pop-up. Read More

Bookmarks Suggester: Search Bookmarks Using Keyboard Shortcut [Chrome]

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One of the great things about Chrome is its minimal design. It altogether does away with a separate search and URL bar and compounds them in to one even though other browsers still have the option to separate them. While Chrome’s Omnibar amasses both the address and search bar, it doesn’t let you search your bookmarks and for that you have to open the bookmarks manager. Bookmarks Suggester is an extension for Chrome that adds a search bar to any webpage when the Ctrl+L shortcut is used. This simple search bar then allows you to quickly search through all your bookmarks. The shortcut moves the focus to a new text field that suggests all matching bookmarks when you type in a query. You can then navigate through these results by moving up or down the list. Hitting Enter will open selected bookmarks in the current tab, while hitting the “+” button will open the selected search result in a new tab. In case there are no matching results for the term in your bookmarks, you will be redirected to Google. Read More

AutoPatchWork: Auto-Load Next Pages On Search Results & Websites [Chrome]

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AutoPatchWork, a Chrome extension, automatically loads the next page of a website and inserts it at the end of the current page. After installing the extension, simply scroll down a webpage and the extension will load the next page of the current website at the end of your current page. AutoPatchWork eliminates the need to navigate to next pages on websites, such as Google, Yahoo! and other search engines. The extension works by pulling results from all pages and displays them under the first page. This process is repeated whenever a webpage ends. AutoPatchWork is a handy extension that makes it easier to scroll through websites without having to click the next button over and over again. Read More

Row Highlighter For Gmail: Highlight Conversations On Mouse Hover [Chrome]

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If your Gmail inbox is ready or near explosion with unread items it’s about time you got to tackling your inbox. With the recent Gmail redesign, many things changed and the color scheme for the web service is now dominated by grays and blacks. While the colors are light they make it somewhat difficult to discern the between the rows and rows of read or unread messages you might have your mouse hovering over. Normally, when we hover our mouse over messages in Gmail, a simple hand cursor appears over each row. Wouldn’t  it be much better if the rows were highlighted and we could easily tell which message we were about to select? Gmail Row Highlighter is a pretty useful extension for Chrome that adds some colors to the e-mail conversations in Gmail, so that you can easily identify them. Read emails are highlighted with a yellow color, while unread messages are highlighted in a green color. These colors can be customized from the extension’s options. You can also specify a color for when your mouse hovers over a message. Read More

Drag & Resize YouTube Video Player To Any Resolution [Chrome]

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Videos on YouTube are available in several different resolutions, anything from 240p to 1024p. While a video may be available in as many as 5 different resolutions, the player itself can only be resized to three different size; the normal default size which is the smallest, the larger size that takes up most of the top half and pushes comments down being the medium size and full screen which isn’t as much of a ‘size’ since it takes up all of the screen. For viewers on rather large or relatively small screens, these player choices don’t offer much flexibility. Video Resizer For YT is an extension for Chrome that provides seamless video scaling, and allows you to resize the video player on YouTube to any size. Once you’ve installed the extension, hover your mouse over the black background, and drag to resize the video to whatever size you want. As you resize videos, the resolution changes accordingly so that you don’t have t change it yourself. Read More

Get Attachment Icons In Gmail Based On File Type [Chrome]

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Wouldn’t it be great if you could view the type of attachment an email has? Attachment Icons For Gmail, a Chrome extension, improves the way you search emails by giving you a much better view in general of what's coming in with your emails. With it, you can easily know what kind of attachment an email has. The extension adds specific icons for each file type, instead of the generic paperclip. The type of icon that is added simply depends on the kind of attachment an email consists of. The icon is added right next to the date in each email, as well as the mail headers, and in case an email consists of multiple attachments, then the icon of the last attached file is used. Read More

WebView: Save Content From Web As Refreshable Clippings [Chrome]

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WebView extension for Chrome allows you to save parts of websites as clippings in a custom tab. This tab includes all important images, text or other content that you cut and save from different websites. The extension is somewhat similar to newspaper clippings, and helps users save interesting parts from websites for later viewing. After the extension is installed, a scissors button is added to the toolbar, which can be clicked to select content from webpages. Once an area has been selected, it is then saved in a new WebView page. Moreover, content can be refreshed and minimized. Details past the jump. Read More

Collect Notes & Information Online, Access It From Any Computer [Chrome]

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Often while we browse the web, we need to jot down notes, copy text or save parts of a webpage for later use. Clipping Note, a Chrome extension, is a useful tool for collecting notes and information from the web. With it, you can also create multiple notebooks and categorize your notes accordingly. Once you’ve made your notes, they can be accessed from any other computer or shared with others. The extension requires a simple sign up, after which you will be able to create and save notes online. Read More

Unload Inactive Tabs After A Defined Period Of Inactivity [Chrome]

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Chrome is fast gaining market share and there are several reasons behind its popoularity. Unlike Firefox which has been around much longer than Google’s browser, is favored by developers, and has an extremely impressive hub of add-ons that make it all the more useful, Chrome is popular among users with simpler needs. Its clean minimalist interface means just about anyone can use it to its full potential. While both Chrome and Firefox are impressive browsers, they are both guilty of leaking memory. Leaving a Chrome or Firefox window running on your otherwise idle computer is not something you want to do. With Chrome, if you even have one too many tabs open, the browser begins to slow down. All your tabs, although useful, in the long run drag down your system resources.  TabMemFree is a handy tool for all those who work with a bunch of open tabs and forget to close the ones they are done with. This Chrome extension basically reduces memory and CPU consumption by unloading tabs. It does this by forwarding the tab to an empty page. When you focus the unloaded tab next time, the extension forwards this tab back to the original page i.e. it reloads the tab. Read More