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GNU/Linux, Google+, Social Media

Top 5 Google+ Apps For Chrome & Chromebook Users

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Google+

This is official Chrome app by Google itself. Lets you to share right things with the right people:

Circles: Sharing right things with the right people like you can put your friends in one circle, your parents in another, and your teacher in a circle by himself just like your real life.

Hangouts: Chat face-to-face with nine friends at once from your phone or your computer.

Games: Play Google+ games by yourself or against your friends. Let everyone know when you’re winning.

GplusPhotoPages

Todays theme curator text from GplusPhotoPages. The application provides you a simple list of Today’s Photo Themes on Google+ with Curators Text for copying directly into your Google+ post.

Also provides you with option of searching for multiple themes with a keyword search. Enter a word that best describes your photo and it outputs curators text for all themes tagged with your keyword. Now just copy and paste it directly into your Google+ post and that’s all.

Google+ Notifications

The application lets view notifications of Google+ activity when signed in, it doesn’t matter where you are on the web.

Google Plus Email Signature

Google Plus Email Signatures will allow you to promote your latest Google Plus status to your email signature. Automatically share your latest Google Plus updates and gain more G+ followers. Link to your Profile and enable users to +1 your latest update with the Google Plus badge email widget . This add-on works with your Google Plus account –  type in your Google Plus username and you are good to go.

Google+ Photos

Using Google + Photos app you can upload and share photos from Chrome to Google+ and keep all your photos backed up, automatically organized and ready to share.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux, Homeschool

Access Remote Linux, Windows & Mac Machines Right From Your Chromebook

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Chrome OS doesn’t allows you to run any Linux, Windows & MAC programs on your Chromebook machine provides you the power to access your Linux, Windows or Mac desktops remotely. Google Chrome Web Store offers VNC clients the connection to traditional VNC servers. Now Google Chrome has remote desktop features which you may use for accessing your desktop PC right from your Chromebook or to remotely run that rare Windows. application.

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Android/Linux, Web Services, WordPress

New Formilla Free Live Chat App For WordPress

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Formilla.com provides you a free live chat widget plugin called Formilla Live Chat, it allows you to chat with your website visitors, your visitors can ask any questions if they have or when they need any support. It provides you a new clean and user-friendly interface. Core plugin features of the plugin allows you to:

  • Begin live chat immediately. Live chat button appears on your WordPress site upon installation/activation of this plugin.
  • You can use your favorite live chat client as long as it works with Google Talk (e.g. Pidgin, Trillian, IMO, etc.) or Skype
  • You can respond to chats on the go using your iPhone, Android, or any smart phone live chat client supporting Google Talk or Skype.
  • Enable proactive chat, provides you multiple customizations, ability to setup your hours of operation, appear available or unavailable.
  •  You can add multiple users and support incoming live chats from your customers, displays an ‘Email us’ button on your site when you’re offline. And you can manage offline messages through customer inbox.
  • Keep chat history and offline emails, search from your live chat history or offline emails by customer email address, priority, status (new, read, pending, complete), flagged vs. unflagged, and also assign an item to another user of your Formilla.com Live Chat account.
  • Export your customers’ live chat email addresses to construct email marketing campaigns via your preferred tool.
  • Respond to offline email submissions directly from the Formilla.com Live Chat customer inbox.
  • Forward offline email submissions from your customers to other departments or staff directly from the Formilla.com Live Chat customer inbox.
  • Add private comments to any live chat historical record in your Formilla.com Live Chat customer inbox
  • Inbox includes the customer’s technical details such as operating system, browser, screen resolution, custom variables, etc.

How To SetUp Formilla Live Chat Plugin In WordPress?

Start by installing and activating Formilla Live Chat plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Formilla Chat and SignUp using the form given there. It just takes some minutes to setup your first live chat widget and get it on and running. After you finish registration process, your live chat widget is instantly generated and becomes available on your website for your customers to chat with you.

Formilla Live Chat page integrated within wordpress where you’ll receive and respond to chats.

Chat widget installed on your wordpress site upon activation of Formilla.com Live Chat plugin.

Chat Customer Inbox. View chat history, search and respond to offline email submissions, etc.

Configure options for your chat widget such as proactive chat, hours of operation, and email notifications.

For further usage questions refer to this link.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Easily Create, View, Edit & Share Drawings Right From Your Web Browser

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AutoCAD 360 is a powerful Google Chrome app you may use for viewing, editing and sharing DWG drawings directly from your web browser via AutoCAD WS web and mobile application. The application is a free software, userfriendly and lets you easily sketch and draft. Also enables you to quickly create, view, edit and share drawings without any advanced CAD expertise.

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Chromebook, Facebook, GNU/Linux, Social Media

Adblock Plus Is Available For Facebook Users

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Adblock Plus allows you to remove all Facebook ads, annoyances etc for enhancing your experience and making web browsing fast. Facebook Customizer, a Google Chrome app offering Adblock Plus allows you customize your Facebook experience by stripping down all unwanted and disturbing ads and other annoyances. Using this app, within just two clicks you can hide all 21 unwanted elements from Facebook sidebar and also from your newsfeed section. It takes you back to the old Facebook you once loved, showing you only status and other updates, shares from your friends.

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Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Enrich Email Experience By Embedding Shared Content Right Below Emails You Send Or Receive

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You easily or you can say automatically enrich your email experience by auto-embedding shared content right below your emails. Iframely for Gmail allows you to watch embedded videos, view images and read articles directly in your Gmail. Works same as oEmbed works in WordPress.

How it works ? After you open your gmail account, this app automatically searches web links present inside incoming mails and then everything gets visual. It ignores all emails you get from marketing bots etc and shows only content from real humans not by bots.

Another useful function this chrome app provides you is when you compose any email, it automatically detect photos in URLs which you are sending to your friends etc and it puts an image inside your emails for convenience of your peers.

It works same on embedding videos, sound and more but don’t worry it does not autoplay any videos and disrupt your productivity. You may click to open if required. The application is powered by Iframely Open Source API and is secured by http://iframely.com/qa.

GNU/Linux, Technology

Easy Terminal Commands For Installing Adobe Flash Player In Ubuntu Linux 12.04

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Adobe flash player allows you to browse multimedia content online like videos, animations , some flash games and other rich media content etc etc. It supports almost all operating systems like Linux, Mac, Android, Mobile OS, Solaris etc. You can easily install in your Ubuntu Linux, right from terminal by following few simple steps given here.

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Chromebook, GNU/Linux, Technology

What Makes Chromium Different From Google Chrome ?

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Google Chrome is built upon Chromium open source project, Google chrome is packaged and distributed by Google officially. In-short Google Chrome is a commercial and closed source product by Google which is based on open source Chromium project. Chromium, being open source is mostly used by Linux operating system users. For example: Chromium is available in Ubuntu repositories and one can download it from Ubuntu Software Centre, it maintained by Ubuntu developers and goes through their stable release and update process, same thing happens with other Linux distros and this makes Chromium more compatible for Linux based operating systems.

Another key difference between Google Chrome and Chromium is chrome is red where as Chromium is blue in color ;-) You should know that both web browsers share majority of code and features, only a few minor differences makes them a little bit different from each other.

Chrome & Chromium

For creating Chrome from Chromium, Google uses its source code and adds following features:

  1. In-built print preview and print system
  2. Google name and a different logo trademarked
  3. In-built PDF viewe with proprietary license and code
  4. Auto-update and tracking system called GoogleUpdate
  5. Integrates Flash Player with proprietary license and code
  6. Opt-in option for users to send Google their usage statistics and crash reports

By default Chromium only supports Vorbis, Theora and WebM codecs for the HTML5 audio and video tags whereas Google Chrome supports these as well as AAC (patent-encumbered) and MP3 (formerly patent-encumbered). Although there are more differences but these are the technical ones which affect user user experience.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Some Common Web Browser Errors And Their Meanings

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Phishing (Web Forgery) & Malware Warnings: No matter what web browser you are using, it regularly downloads a list of dangerous websites and when you try connecting to a website on this list, the error is displayed.

Phishing Error

Certificate Error: SSL certificate error or security certificate error indicates problem with HTTPS encryption. It comes only when you try accessing website using HTTPS.

SSL Error

404 Not Found: The error is displayed when you try accessing a web page which is not present anywhere. The error shows up on wrong URLs or when you type incorrect website address.

404

Unable to Connect: The error comes when your browser successfully contact its DNS servers and identifies that there should be a website but it did not get any response from the servers when it tries to connect. Usually happens when your internet connection is down.

unable to connect

Server Not Found: The message is dsplayed when your web browser could not find the website you’re trying to access. Sometimes when you mistype a web address or when you try to connect to any website which doesn’t exist, or when your DNS server is down, or may be your firewall, proxy, or due to some other misconfigured settings.

server not found

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Powerful Multiple Gmail Account Checker For Chromebook

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Earlier we discussed about Gmail Offline chrome app that allows you to automatically synchronize all you Gmail messages and then you can read, write, search and do more with your Gmail messages, all offline. We also discussed about popular Official Gmail App for chrome. Now this tutorial is on another cool chrome app called Multiple Account Checker for Gmail. As clear from its name, the app allows you to read all your Gmail and Google Apps emails from one tab so that you can reduce your tabs and save memory.

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Android/Linux, GNU/Linux

How To Use Your Android Device As Wireless Router ?

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You can easily use your Android device, may be your Android Phone as an ad-hoc wireless router. HotSpot allows you to use your Android phone or tablet as a temporary router, this way you can connect your devices with each other. The app is easy to use, all you have to do is install the app from Google Play then get started by following given steps.

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Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Popular Racing Games For Google Chrome & Chromebook

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Here are a few popular games you can play in Chrome. The post includes various popular car racing games, popular motocross, skating and truck wars etc.

Downhill Jam

You can ride your skateboard down the busy streets of the city avoiding obstacles and collecting bonus on your way.

Motocross Nitro

American Racing 2 3D

Traffic Talent

Need for Speed World

SKiD Racer

 

Android/Linux, Homeschool

New Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines App For Your Android Device

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Now you can easily listen to overpopular summer hit “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke in your Android Device. Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines Nebulosa Software App allows you to enjoy the soundboard of “Blurred Lines” by Robin Thicke feat. t.i. & pharrell. You can enjoy this worldwide hit, play its best parts, video, set it as ringtone or as notification (SMS) etc. It is optimized for tablets too.

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Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Best Google Chrome Desktop Apps That Works Offline, Outside From Your Web Browser

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Here are some of the best chrome apps from various categories like office, weather, cloud, sharing, bookmarklets, games etc. All these chrome apps can work offline and/or right from your desktop area, outside from your Google Chorme web browser.

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Android/Linux, Chromebook, GNU/Linux, Technology

Listen To Google Play Music Instantly From Anywhere Using Any Device

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Google Play Music is Chrome app by play.google.com. This application allows you to play your music instantly anytime from anywhere. You can keep up to 20,000 songs on Google Play and you can listen to them easily using web or any android phone or tablet even when you’re not connected and all for free.

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Chromebook, GNU/Linux

How To Read Google Play Store Books Offline On Chromebook & Other Devices?

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Google Play Books is a chrome app by books.google.com. This app allows you to select from over 4 million books vailable on Google Play Store and you can take away your favorite ones with you and read them offline on your Chromebook.

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Chromebook, GNU/Linux, Technology

Turn Off Screen Lights While Watching Videos On Chromebook

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Turn Off the Lights is an amazing chrome app, works both on Google Chrome & Chrome OS. This app increases automatic focus on video you are watching and gives you better experience by turning off the screen lights i.e. it darkens all screen areas excluding video thus provides you better video watching experience in just one click. Clicking again returns the page to normal.

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Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Some Of The Best Google Chromebook Apps That Works Offline

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Here are some good chrome applications which you can use on chrome and chrome os even without an Internet connection. Using these cool apps you can do some useful tasks like transcribing any audio, access your windows desktop remotely, customize images, manage your emails offline, play your old desktop games like solitaire and more.

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GNU/Linux

Google Chromebooks: Should You Buy One Or Not?

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You might be using Google Chrome Web Browser from past several years. Now this useful browser comes separately installed in a slim, light but solid and goodlooking laptop. It is both stylish and efficient machine for web browsing.

Don’t Compare Chromebook With Traditional Laptops Instead You Should Compare It With Google Chrome Browser Installed On Some Other OS

Chromebook is an efficient machine for web browsing purposes and for performing online tasks but at the same time if you are compare it with old classic laptops then it has many limitations like you cannot play movie files locally, you cannot install or use any traditional software like PhotoShop.

Chromebook

Chromebook Provides You Less Hard Drive Space But That’s More Than Enough For Installing Chrome Apps

It provides you a little space hard drive but that’s more than enough for installing and using Google Chrome apps.

If you like storing data files locally then Chromebook is not for you. Chromebooks are cloud based machines made specially for web browsing and hence you are expected to use Google Drive for storing all your files and now when purchase a Chromebook you get to 100 GB additional Google Storage for 2 years which without Chromebook costs you to $120.

Use USB Ports: Local Data Storage Is Not A Big Problem

Chromebook provides you USB ports so you can attach local storage devices and store files you don’t want to be stored on cloud.

It is Made For Working Online So Gives You Very Few Limited Local Features

There are more online services, utilities & softwares etc than installing things locally. Now you can do everything online.

Chromebook provides you most features for doing all online work including basic tasks like sending e-mail, sharing on social-networking services, streaming video, listening to music are all available on a Chrome OS device.

Chrome Looks More Appealing Now

Now-a-days Chrome looks a lot more appealing, recently it launched an update of Chrome App Launcher for desktop which makes it look like a Mac, Linux and Windows application launchers.

Simpler & More Useful Keyboard

Chromebook’s keyboard is much more simpler like there are no old function keys (F keys) but has many new functions i.e. buttons which we do need like volume & brightness control etc.

Why You Should Buy A Chromebook ?

Yes you can buy Chromebook if you are always connected to Internet and require a secondary laptop i.e. Chromebook for accessing Internet.

Chromebook is of-course not a bad choice but a choice of new world of cloud. So you should buy Chromebook if you spend most of your time working online. Now chrome is not just limited to browsing sites but you can play with various useful applications available free at Google Chrome Web Store.

Why You Should Not Buy A Chromebook?

If you are not always connected to Internet and need a laptop for programming tools, keeping local backups, playing media files locally in a media player, using Office-type applications, playing games that installs up on your system so you can play them without huge data costs, you require using programming tools, running local servers, photoshop and so on etc etc for installing and running all those software which are not Google Chrome App or Extensions.

Now-a-days most of the services are coming with Chrome apps and Android apps so it is not as limited as it looks like.

Is Chromebook A Right Device For You ?

Chromebook & Chrome installed on some other OS works same and looks same. It doesn’t mean that Chrome browser running on Chromebook works faster than Chrome browser running on some other OS. But at the same time Chromebook opens-up (or you can say starts-up) much faster than any other OS, even starts up faster than Linux like Ubuntu & Debian etc.

Finally if you are still confused then download latest Google Chrome Web Browser, check out its new application launcher that works right from your desktop, visit Google Chrome Web Store and browse apps. And that’s all what what you get in a Chromebook plus advantage of quick startup and including disadvantage of running things locally, otherwise working on Chromebook is same as working on a Google Chrome browser installed on some other OS.

Imagine your desktop with only Google Chrome, its App launcher and icons, that’s what all you get in a Chromebook.