Extensions Articles

Awesome New Tab Page extension: Re-design your new tabs with a Metro UI style

by Edgar Cervantes on May 18th, 2012

Google users tend to have a preference for the Search Giant’s “beautifully simple” designs. That does not mean that we can not add some spice to our experience, though. There are many ways to make the Chrome UI look good, and this extension is just one of them. Awesome New Tab Page allows Chrome users [...]


Fastest Chrome extension: Why surf the web when you can fly through it?

by Edgar Cervantes on May 17th, 2012

Fastest Chrome is easily one of the most helpful extensions I have used in a long time. It is definitely a must for anyone that works from a computer, or for those that want a faster and more convenient Chrome experience. But how exactly does Fastest Chrome make your browsing faster? This extension offers a [...]


Bing Wallpaper for Google Homepage extension: We can now have the only thing we envy about Bing

by Edgar Cervantes on May 16th, 2012

Google is hands down the most popular and helpful search engine one can find online. There is one thing that seldom drives us to go to its main competitor, though. Bing features some of the best photography in the world, displaying a different image daily, right on its homepage. And thanks to the Power of [...]


Shortcuts for Google extension: All your Google services within the click of a button

by Edgar Cervantes on May 14th, 2012

Google fans are probably taking advantage of many of the services the Search Giant offers. Why not? Most of them are free (or very affordable) quality services. And while the Google bar is very helpful, sometimes one just needs a bit more functionality. If that is the case, Shortcuts for Google is a great way [...]


Change Up Your New Tab Page with Speed Dial 2

by Ashley King on December 29th, 2011

The new tab page for Chrome is an essential part of interacting with the browser. Not only does it remember the sites you’ve most frequently visited and display those for you, but it also can display your web apps that you have installed from the Chrome Web Store. The problem with the setup that Google [...]


Flunk Your Final Exams Because of the Internet? Use StayFocusd!

by Ashley King on December 20th, 2011

The Internet is truly a marvelous invention with the sheer amount of information that can be found, but if you’ve ever found yourself up at 4AM browsing reddit or looking at cat pictures when you have a term paper or presentation in a few hours, then you need StayFocusd. StayFocusd is an extension for Chrome [...]


Gmelius Updated in the Chrome Web Store, Aims to Make Gmail Even Better

by Joe Fedewa on December 14th, 2011

Gmelius has been around for a while with the simple mission to make Gmail better. Today an update hit the Web Store that adds some new features. You can remove ads in the header, footer, and messages. You can remove the logo in the header, remove people widget, remove chat, and remove pretty much anything [...]


Session Buddy Helps Manage Your Workflow

by Ashley King on December 13th, 2011

Tabs can help multi-taskers complete jobs more efficiently and it’s likely that you have a specific set of tabs you like to have open when you’re performing a specific job. Opening these tabs individually as you switch from task to task can be a hassle, which is where Session Buddy comes in. It remembers sessions [...]


AdBlock Plus To Whitelist ‘Approved Ads’ Automatically

by Ashley King on December 12th, 2011

If you use AdBlack Plus for Chrome to block ads, you may be in for a surprise when the extension updates to version 2.0. The developer has stated on the extension’s main website that acceptable ads will begin seeping through the cracks. So what constitutes an acceptable ad? No animation or sound Loads no more [...]


Clean Up the Web with Evernote’s Clearly

by Ashley King on December 12th, 2011

Both Read It Later and Instapaper are popular services that offer both mobile and browser support for cleaning up a web page and making it available to read later, but Evernote has taken it one step further by allowing you to customize how a cleaned up page will appear in Chrome using their Clearly extension. [...]