If you are a regular here, then you know I especially like software made clocks, weather apps and calculators. Several months back, while recently exploring the Google Chrome Web Store, I happened across a really nice looking, functional and handy calculator that is an extension to the Google Chrome browser.
It is currently carrying a Five Star rating at the Google Chrome Store and you can get it [HERE] .
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One of the hottest (most popular) Google Chrome extensions and Firefox plugins out there right now is the extension (and plugin) called attachments.me .
Before I get into the telling you more about this extension, you need to know that there are three ingredients required in order to use attachments.me:
This may sound like a lot to ask for, but once you get the ingredients together and cook this up you will end up with something special that makes your email experience very powerful and efficient.
Once you are setup, go to the attachments.me website in either Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox. The site will automatically recognize the browser you are using and will prompt you to install the attachment.me extension (or plugin). Once you install the plugin, log into your Gmail account and attachments.me will walk you through the process of making the connection between your Gmail account and your online file sharing and storage service(s), as indicated in step 3 above.
The benefits of using attachment.me is this:
Easily send, share and save your attachments to your cloud storage services. For example, if I receive an email with an important document attached, I can send, share and save that document to either my Dropbox, Box, Google Drive and/or SkyDrive account. I can even pick what folder to save the document to.
You can search for text inside your attachments, not just in the email.
You can establish rules to setup automatic filing. For example, if my brother sends me pictures on a regular basis, I can setup a rule that when an email is received from my brother and it contains pictures, attachments.me will automatically forward the pictures to my SkyDrive account and place the pictures in the pictures folder.
Attachment.me is very secure; using bank level encryption for all communications.
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If you are a Google Chrome fan, then you need to install the Calculator browser extension. It gives you easy access to a very nice looking standard calculator (with big buttons) where you can use your keyboard or mouse to input your numerical data. I have found that I use this calculator frequently, due that it is readily accessible in my web browser (where I spend most of my computing time).
This is a standard calculator with a great productivity feature: You can put the result directly into the field you are currently on with a single click. No cutting and pasting required!
When on a field, click on the calculator icon on the toolbar and you will see a basic calculator with a ‘drop’ button (if you’re not on a text field, this button is not available). When finished with the calculation, click the drop button and the value is placed in the field your were on. You no longer need to cut and paste values from your calculator.
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The browser I primarily use is Google Chrome. A feature in Chrome, that is little used and can be quite handy, is the built-in task manager. The Chrome Task Manager can provide you with details about the specific processes that are running (plus CPU, Network bandwidth being consumed, and a multitude of other options).
The easiest and quickest way I found to get to the task manager is simply right mouse click on Chrome’s tab bar (at the top of the screen) and select Task Manager. You can also get to the Task manager by clicking on the wrench
on the browser toolbar, by selecting Tools and then Task Manager OR use the shortcut keys Shift+Esc.
Chrome’s task manager is quite useful to determine what processes (i.e. tabs, extensions, etc.) is consuming the most memory and CPU cycles. This can be quite helpful when you suspect that there is an errant application or process running that is causing Chrome to misbehave.
To force a webpage or application to close in Google Chrome, select the webpage, then click End process. Sometimes multiple websites might share a single process, depending on how you opened them.
You can also right mouse click within the Task Manager Window to toggle on/off other options that may be helpful when troubleshooting.
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On many occasions, when working on a blog article (or post), I find it useful to open two browser windows side-by-side in order to quickly research information in one browser window and quickly post my thoughts or links in the other browser window. Windows 7 gives us the ability to drag a window to the sides of the monitor to make this happen; however, when using my browser (Google Chrome) there is another (easier way) that requires only two clicks of the mouse.
It is called, Dualless…
Dualless is a Google Chrome Browser extension that gives you the ability to split your browser window in two (to simulate a dual monitor setup). For example, if you have two tabs open in Chrome, by clicking on the Dualless button on the extension toolbar, you will be presented with various ratios that you can split the browser window (see below). Simply click on a ratio selection and the browser tabs will separate into two windows at the ratio you desire. To return to a full screen window simply click on the Dualless button, select the ratio of “1” and the browser will return to full screen.
So far I am finding Dualless to be an extremely useful tool when blogging (as I mentioned), researching information and for shopping on the internet.
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One of the rewards to maintaining a tech blog that has a strong emphasis toward reviewing (and testing) FREE software, is when a reader contacts you and points you in the direction of something that is good. The reader in this case, as a result of reading the past article, “Keep An Eye On This: Freemake Music Box” said this:
Today I want to share a free video converter with you. I just found it on CNET. Similar to FreeMake, but it has both windows and mac version.
Here is the product page:
http://www.wontube.com/free-video-converter.html
And their chrome extension is good to. I can convert youtube to mp3 and download youtube clips one click.
Here is the link for chrome extension:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlhcllbknkijepekbafagpbniolfcmme
I hope that will be valuable and can help others.
Please keep going on. Thanks again.
If you notice, a couple web links of interest in terms of a video converter (called WonTube) is mentioned, but the one link that I especially was interested in was the link for the Google Chrome Extension (of WonTube).
Before I get into the description of the WonTube Chrome Extension, please note that the first link he reflected is to the Windows and Mac software versions of WonTube. If you do not use Google Chrome, you may then be interested in the software version [ CLICK HERE ].
The Google Chrome Extension of WonTube is actually something I had been looking for; where I could, “on the fly”, straight from the Google Chrome browser window download YouTube videos and convert them to another video format or convert them to an audio format (such as MP3). By doing this, I do not have to exit the browser window to start up other software on the computer to perform the desired task.
The WonTube Extension, after installed, sort of threw me off due I was looking for a button at the top of the browser. Where the magic works here is when you go to the YouTube site. When you pull up the desired video that you want to work with, you will see two buttons embedded near the YouTube video title (see below for example). One button is labelled “Download Video” and the other button is labelled “Convert to mp3”. Click on your desired choice and you will be redirected to the WonTube conversion site where the conversion will (quickly) take place. Following the conversion you will have the option to download the converted result.
To the reader of the blog, who contacted me about WonTube, What’s On My PC, says Thank You… Nice find!
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Recently I was looking for a way to autohide the bookmark bar in the Google Chrome Browser. What I found is that there is no option available to do this; HOWEVER, I did find that the keyboard combination of Ctrl+Shift+B will toggle the bookmark bar on and off. What I did in my case was program (or assign) one of the buttons on my Logitech mouse to use this hotkey combination. Now, at the click of the mouse, I can toggle the bookmark bar on and off to easily access my favorite bookmarks.
Ctrl + Shift + B
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