chrome
Productivity

Get A Better Understanding Of Google Chrome’s Memory Usage

Browsers have fast become one of the biggest memory hogs on modern PCs. The reality is the web is becoming more media-rich and as a result, browser memory usage is increasing. Chrome, as lightweight as it purports to be, is no exception. While there isn’t a great deal you can do to optimise it, by understanding what’s going on under the hood, you can minimise its footprint.

Entertainment

Convert Pandora Stations To Spotify Playlists With A Chrome Extension

Chrome: If you’re a frequent Pandora user who also likes Spotify, you know that it kind of stinks you can’t get the two services working together. Pandora to Spotify Playlist Converter is an extension that makes this possible by bringing your Pandora likes and radio stations into Spotify.

Organise

SpotOn.It Adds Events From Sites You Visit To Your Google Calendar

Chrome: If you’ve ever visited a website for an event and then forgotten to plan for it, SpotOn.It for Chrome can help you with your scheduling. The app intelligently searches sites you visit for events listed and offers to add them to your Google Calendar with one click.

14 June 2013

Developer

Google Retiring Its Internet Explorer Plug-In

For companies forced to use older versions of Internet Explorer to access badly-written online apps, the Chrome frame plug-in, which modernised older versions of IE, was a handy option. However, that option won’t be available much longer: Google is retiring the product in January 2014.

11 June 2013

Security

Incognito Tab Switch Flips Any Open Tab Over To Incognito Mode

Chrome: Incognito mode is a great way to browse the web without leaving a cookie trail of data behind on your computer, but you always have to manually open up a new tab in Chrome to use it. Incognito Tab Switch gives you a toggle that makes switching easy.

9 June 2013

Productivity

Service Pages Brings Quick Access To Chrome Settings

Chrome: Most of us know about internal Chrome settings pages like “chrome://flags”, but it can be hard to remember the names for each of them. Service Pages for Google Chrome saves you from looking them up by storing them in your extensions menu.

8 June 2013

Productivity

Pearls Extension Finds Multiple Keywords On A Single Page

Chrome: Ctrl-F is one of the top keyboard shortcuts everyone should know. If you need to find more than one word at a time though, Pearls Extension helps you find everything at once.

4 June 2013

Entertainment

How To Avoid Game Of Thrones Spoilers

One of the most compelling (and harrowing) things about HBO’s fantasy series Game of Thrones is that none of the main players feel safe: anyone could be killed off at any moment. Season 1 ended with the headlining star kicking the bucket and several fan-favourites have since followed him into the grave. Unfortunately, it can be incredibly easy to have the shock deaths spoiled for you ahead of time — especially if you refuse to pirate. Here’s an app that should be able to help.

1 June 2013

Productivity

YouTube Pause Silences All Open YouTube Tabs

Chrome: YouTube Pause allows you to solve one of the worst first-world problems around: figuring out which YouTube tab you need to pause. This extension just gives you one button that silences them all.

29 May 2013

Deployment

O.T.R. Is A Private Workplace Chat App

Chrome: In the workplace, emails and chatrooms are often stored permanently, which isn’t helpful if you want to ask a colleague if they really had a sick day or not. O.T.R. (Off The Record) is a Chrome extension that creates non-permanent conversations, with messages vanishing after you read them.

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