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Google Flights: Find & Book Flights With The Cheapest Fares [Web]

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Yet another useful web service by Google, Google Flights allows travellers to search for cheap air fares for different destinations in the US. Users can also search by different airlines that are flying on different dates. To get the rates of different airlines, select your destination, and Google Flights will allow you to filter results by date, duration and price. Flight results change as you apply different filters. Furthermore, it lets you select the flight you want to book and purchase your ticket from the airline’s website. Read More

Google Search Link Fix: View Actual Links For Google Search Results [Firefox]

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Google Search Link Fix is a Firefox add-on that prevents Google search from modifying result links when clicked. Google search changes the result link to something different instead of showing you the actual URL, and this can be quite frustrating, as even when you right-click a link, you get some gibberish instead of the actual link. Google Search Link Fix disables this behavior on any Google domain, and allows you to view and copy the actual links. All you need to do is install the add-on, and get rid of this annoying behavior. Read More

MonkeyContact: Quickly Find People On Multiple Social Networks [Chrome]

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MonkeyContact, a Google Chrome app, allows you to find people by name, company, location, job function, email, or a combination of several of these. It gives you a more intelligent search with better results from popular social networking websites. Furthermore, you can find people and their contact information from Google as well. MonkeyContact comes in particularly handy for people with a large number of contacts and many different online accounts. It retrieves your contacts from all these sources, and enables you to find people through multiple search criteria. Read More

Send Me This: Email Highlighted Text From Any Web Page [Chrome]

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Want to send important text from web pages directly to your inbox? Send Me This is a Google Chrome extension that lets you highlight text and send it to your inbox with only a few simple clicks. The extension adds a Send Me This option to the right-click context menu, so when you find something interesting that might be useful later, you can simply send it to your inbox. The Send Me This options allow you to set an email address and a title for the email. All your selected text is sent to this particular email ID. Read More

Prevent Closing Multiple Tabs Accidentally With Close…Not! [Chrome]

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How many times have you accidentally closed your browser and lost all your open tabs? Closing tabs or windows accidentally without a warning message can be really frustrating, and even more so for Chrome users, since Firefox and even Internet Explorer both prompt a warning when closing multiple tabs. close… NOT!, a simple Google Chrome extension, displays a dialog box with a warning message when you attempt to close tabs/windows, whether intentionally or by accident. When you’re browsing the web or typing something important, just click the close...Not! button once to enable the extension. In case you accidentally close a tab or window, a dialog box will appear and ask for confirmation whether or not to leave the page. Read More

Colrd: Create Color Palettes And Export To Photoshop & Illustrator [Chrome]

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Can’t find the perfect color for your website design? Palette Creator is a Google Chrome app that allows you to find the right colors and shades to create a color palette. The app allows you to select colors, create palettes and gradients and save them to your COLRD account. Palette Creator easily lets you pick any color from a color picker, and shows you corresponding shades of it along with the color's Hex code, and options to find colors similar to the one you’re choosing, flip your palette, add more color panels to it, and preview your colors in full-screen mode before you save them. The app has a slick interface that allows you to easily create new colors, gradients and palettes. In addition to that, you can export these colors to Photoshop, Illustrator and GIMP. The Color, Gradient and Palette categories use the same color picker, which consists of HSL, RGB and HEX. For HSL and RGB, you will find a midpoint controller that you can use to increase or decrease the degree of hue, saturation or brightness. Read More

Pillarbox Provides You With A Distraction-Free Writing Interface [Chrome]

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Do you often find yourself distracted while writing articles or other material? Writing original and creative material requires high level of concentration and attention, and even minor distractions can cause writers to lose focus very quickly. Pillarbox, a Google Chrome extension, solves this problem by providing you with a distraction free writing interface. Pillarbox comes with a full-screen, plain interface that can help you stay focused on your work. The extension works offline as it saves your work locally, and not on an online server. Pillarbox has extensive options, using which you can modify the look of your interface according to your preference. Read More

Extensions Manager: Easily Manage Chrome Extensions, Themes & Apps [Chrome]

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Managing loads of extensions in Chrome can sometimes be a pain. Chrome, as smart a browser as it is, does not provide a very smart extension manager. Even accessing the extensions page is somewhat a long process with no keyboard shortcuts to speed it up. It’s why extensions like Megabutton are such a hit; they make accessing Chrome pages much easier. Extensions Manager is a Google Chrome Extension that provides a simple solution to managing extensions without having to visit the extensions page. It displays a pop-up that quickly allows you to enable, disable, uninstall or update extensions, applications and themes. Each item is accompanied by its details. such as name, version and description. There are also buttons for opening the extensions' homepage and options. Furthermore, you can also use the checkboxes to quickly enable or disable an extension, theme or app. Details after the break. Read More

Browsing Fun Sites At Work? Avoid Getting Caught With Boss Alert [Chrome]

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Often, we browse non-business websites at work, such as Facebook and YouTube, which are generally not encouraged. When browsing these websites, we really don’t want our boss to find out what we’re up to. Boss Alert is a Google Chrome extension that lets you add a panic button to hide website content. Once added, all you need to do is set a shortcut key that you can use any time to hide your website. With this extension, the images slowly fade away, and text is converted to Latin, making the website you're browsing almost-completely incomprehensible, so that your boss will not notice or understand even if they glance at your screen. Read More

Ghost Incognito For Chrome Automates Private Browsing

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Want to automatically open websites in incognito mode? Every time you want to browse privately, you have to enable the incognito mode manually for your browser. There are chances that you might forget to do so, and therefore, this can become a threat to your privacy. Ghost incognito is a Google Chrome extension that makes sure your added domains always open in incognito mode. When navigating a listed domain, the tab will open in a new incognito window. You can add more domains to the incognito list by clicking the Ghost button when visiting the website. To remove a domain, allow the extension to run in incognito window and click the icon when visiting the page. Furthermore, you can also remove the entire domain list from Ghost Incognito’s options. Read More

Google Correlate: Draw Graphs And View Corresponding Search Trends [Web]

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Google Correlate is a new search analytic tool from the internet giant allows you to draw graphs and search queries that follow a similar trend. You can search trends over time by drawing a curve, and in addition to that, can also download the results as CSV file. Basically, it checks which queries best mimic the curve that you've drawn. Using Correlate, you can upload your own data series and see a list of search terms whose popularity best corresponds with that real world trend. If you don’t have your own data, you can simply enter a query, and Google will show matching patterns. Just draw a graph and hit the Correlate button. Examples of usage include, but are not limited to, if you want to find out queries whose search activity rapidly decreased in May 2010 and increased exponentially in October 2010, then this is the tool that will come in handy. Read More

How To Install Google Apps On Nook Tablet

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Google Apps on the Nook Tablet are as important on any other device. If you have just rooted your Nook Tablet, you would want to need the basic Google Apps on your device, most importantly to be able to run the Android Market and download apps. Installing these apps has been made easier by Indirect, the guy who brought us the the one click root solution for the Nook Tablet. The apps are neatly packed in a folder that will replace your existing app folder in the root directory. Read More

Mingly: Stay Connected With All Your Social Networks Through Gmail [Chrome]

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Do you often forget to send birthday wishes to your contacts, or find it hard to stay connected with friends on all your social networks? Mingly, a Google Chrome extension, is an amazing relationship management tool that can provide you with the perfect solution. It simply turns your Gmail inbox into a social network by organizing all your contacts from the most popular social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, letting you stay better connected and knowing absolutely everything about your friends and the latest happenings around you. Furthermore, you can set reminders for events and view birthdays. The registration process is very simple; all you need to do is sign in with your Google account, and then connect your social networks with Gmail. Read More

How To Install Android Market & Google Apps On Kindle Fire

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The Kindle Fire Gingerbread tablet is for sure on fire! Earlier we covered a guide on how to root the Kindle Fire and that has paved the way for what may be endless possibilities for the awesome tablet. Google Apps along with the much important Android Market, have now been ported to the tablet, making sure that the device is a huge hit amongst Android fans, and possibly hope to take on the iPad 2 considering the price difference. However, Google Apps and the Android Market can now be installed on the tablet and we’re here to show you just how you can do that! Of course, credits to Jolleyboy over at XDA-Developers for sharing his method with us that seems to be working out quite nicely. Read More

WhatsNextUp: A Personalized, Intelligent Entertainment Aggregator [Web]

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Visiting loads of different websites to find something interesting, such as a new movie, music, book or game, can be quite tiring, and requires a lot of effort. WhatsNextUp is a brand new web app that makes things simpler by letting you find exciting things that are just perfect for you. The content it offers you is based on the things you already like. WhatsNextUp monitors user behavior on sites such as Facebook, and gives users a personalized browsing experience. It brings you the latest movies, music, games and all kinds of other events. You no longer have to jump from one site to the other to find your favorite content. Read More

Scrollbar Of Contents Generates Clickable Headings On The Scrollbar [Chrome]

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Going through an entire article to find the information we’re looking for isn’t just a waste of time, it’s downright boring. The quick solution would be to read the headings in an article but the best way would be to try a table of contents (if available). Wikipedia articles are one of the most structured articles you will find online but sadly not all content gives as comprehensive an overview as it does. Scrollbar Of Contents is a Google Chrome extension that can help you out. It works by generating clickable markers for all the headings on a website, and places them proportionately on the scroll bar. It especially comes in handy when navigating through long articles, or when you cannot find a specific heading at first glance. Furthermore, you can minimize, hide, or show the markers using keyboard shortcuts, such as minimize/maximize (Shift-Alt-M) and show/hide (Shift-Alt-N). Read More

Amazon aStore Arts, Crafts & Sewing Makes Shopping For Materials Easier [Chrome]

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If you're passionate about arts and crafts, and love creating items such as paintings, cushions, dresses, lamps etc, then Amazon aStore Arts, Crafts & Sewing is a Google Chrome app that you might come to appreciate. This aStore has products for arts, crafts, beading, drawing, painting, fabrics and much more, letting you find all your supplies in a one-stop shop. The official Amazon website also offers a category of arts, crafts and sewing, but it is much more time consuming to actually find the respective department and then your desired category. The aStore offers a quicker and easier way to access the products you love, eliminating the need for a lengthy process. Just go to the aStore, buy all your favorite items, and let your creativity run loose! Read More

Duplicate Content Allows You To Detect Duplicate Content Online [Web]

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Duplicate content on your website can hurt your website’s Google ranking, and can be a serious issue with respect to copyright violations as well. Duplicate Content is a web app that can help you detect similar content on two web pages. It is especially useful for web developers and bloggers who are interested in seeing similarity between two sites. It is a simple, online service that lets you check the extent of duplicity between two webpages by comparing the text as well as the HTML markup of both pages, and shows a comparison between the HTML, standard and smart text. You can also embed the duplicate checking code on your own website from the said web app. Details after the break. Read More

What’s New In Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich [Feature Review]

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Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) was revealed by Google and Samsung at an event in Hong Kong this October and as expected, this most eagerly-anticipated update to Android brings a lot of new features as well as enhancements of existing features to the world of smartphones, in addition to merging the previously separate phone and tablet versions of Android. Personally, we would call it nothing short of groundbreaking and beyond our expectations. First announced at Google I/O 2011 keynote back in May, Ice Cream Sandwich has been long anticipated to be the most major update to Android till date and now that we have had a look at it, we completely agree with Google’s claim. Don’t agree with us? Just read on and see for yourself! Read More