Extensions Articles

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. [...]


Unofficial Android Market Chrome App

by Donovan Leiber on July 31st, 2011

If you want a quicker way to access the web version of Android Market from your Chrome Tab then Chrome-Apps.info has you covered. All their app really does is provide a bookmarkish link to Android Market, but with the success of Android, I figured this could be a popular little offering. I’m not sure why [...]


Windows Start Menu Rethought For Chrome

by Donovan Leiber on July 30th, 2011

Do you have a ton of Apps an Extensions without a simple way to organize them? That’s one area where the Windows Start Menu is something Microsoft makes that I miss. Thankfully, the folks at Visibotech have made an extension called AppJump that organizes your apps and presents them with an app launcher. You can [...]


Google Docs, Box.net, Dropbox, Picasa, Twitbook, Facebook & Others Get a Chrome Friend In The Cloud

by Donovan Leiber on July 29th, 2011

If you’re a user of any of the following services, you’ll want to continue reading: Google Docs, Box.net, Dropbox, Amazon Cloud Drive, Windows Live SkyDrive, SugarSync, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr, Min.us, Twitpic and more. That “and more” thing had to get you, because you’re undeniably a user of SOME kind of service. That’s right, continue reading. Install [...]


Is That Amazon Offer A Good Deal?

by Donovan Leiber on July 28th, 2011

It’s not always easy to determine if something is a good deal. We can base an “offer” on what we think the product or service is worth, but how about historically speaking? Is it currently priced higher than normal? Should I wait for the price to come down? Is it at an all-time low and [...]