Category Archives: Chromebook

How To Auto Open MailTo Links In Gmail Compose?

Mailto is a URI scheme which defines the scheme for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) email addresses. It is used on websites, PDFs and documents etc in the form of clickable links which when clicked opens e-mail compose box in your system’s default email client (like Thunderbird & Outlook etc) without first having to copy destination e-mail address, open an e-mail client and then pasting it there. But now-a-days most people works on cloud and they don’t maintain any local email client. Hence, what they generally do is right click over the mailto link and copy the email address to use in Gmail compose box. In this tutorial we will show you how to automatically open mailto links in your Gmail compose box.

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How To Watch Your Security Cameras (Web Cams & CCTV) From Chromebook?

The tutorial is for people having their own webcam & CCTV security system based on for instance Motion or Zoneminder. You can now manage it from Chromebook or from traditional Chromium for Linux & Google Chrome web browsers. CCTV View is a Google Chrome extension which provides you a quick and easy way to watch your cameras, you can watch upto 20 webcams directly from your Chrome browser. It allows you to configure your security cameras or webcam image URLs. It can easily be accessed with one click on it’s icon present right next to Google Chrome’s address bar. Clicking the icon pops a window showing all configured cameras.

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How To Edit Almost Anything On Internet To Prank Your Friends?

Facebook likes, Twitter followers, news on New York Times, profiles, websites, YouTube views and almost anything you find Internet can be edited for fun and to prank your friends etc. Hack this page is a Google Chrome extension that enables you to edit any webpage in a click of a button. Just one click and the page becomes editable, another click and the editing turns off and then you can screenshot it to prank your friends.

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Share, Markup & Discuss Images Online With Marqueed Google Chrome App

Marqueed is a trusted and free online service for sharing and discussing about images. This tutorial is about Marqueed’s Google Chrome App with which you can easily upload and share images online using short URLs. The extension allows you to upload images with drag and drop interface, the images uploads instantly and soon it provides you a short URL which gets auto-copied to your chip board and then you can share it in your favorite IM app, social network or on email.

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Easily Keep Track Of Multiple Time Zones In Google Chrome

You can now transform your Google Chrome’s new tab page with a beautifully columned time zones of your clients, customers, relatives or whatever you like. ‘Figure it Out’ is a wonderful Google Chrome extension. The extension very beautifully displays multiple time zones you work in. It enables you to easily add time zones of your choosing in new tab screens. Thus makes it easy for you to schedule your online chats, meetings, hangouts, connect with your family and beat jetlag.

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How To Track & Undo Closed Tabs In Google Chrome?

Default tab restoring functionality has many limitations like you can only restore recently closed tabs, you cannot keep track of all closed tabs, you can browse them from browser’s history but that is a messy view and there it is very hard to find specific tabs to restore. If you have accidentally closed any tab or if you are tired of losing tabs in incognito (private) mode or whatever, now you can quickly undo them using a simple dropdown button in Chrome.

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How To Instantly Redesign Popular Google Services?

Google Redesigned is a free application available for Google Chrome & Firefox users. The extension completely redesigns all popular Google services soon after the activation. So if you are bored of default Google appearance then just add it on your web browser and the extension will automatically be redesigning your Google appearance. The extension has been appreciated by thousands of its users. The functionality is achieved by using custom CSS files which are loaded on your web browser as soon you install this extension, it provides you auto-updates, easy management and notifications for new updates.

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How To Change Your Instagram Page Color?

Now color changing hack is not just limited for Facebook and Twitter. You can do same with your Instagram account. Color Change for Instagram is an amazing Instagram app for Google Chrome users, it simply enables you to change Instagram pages color. The app is not just limited to one color but you can personalize your Instagram experience with your favorite color. The application works out of box and the Instagram color is changed in one simple click.

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Instantly Preview Links Before Clicking Them On Internet

Now you can instantly preview any links on any website simply by hovering over to it. Works great for social media and networking sites like Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Google+, where you generally see new links and short URLs and don’t know here it is going to take you, special while searching topics on Twitter hashtags and Facebook groups. It also works as a big time saver as you don’t need to do anything for previewing any link, simply hover it and it shows the preview in an instant bubble box. The bubble is as clear that you can read the content inside it or view images in larger resolutions without opening them on new tab.

SwiftPreview is a simple Google Chrome extension designed to view a customizable preview of any link on internet. You can see the website behind the link before you actually click. All previews are fast and dynamic.

It allows you to pin the preview using control key and scroll preview contents when pinned (link previews). Another good feature of the extension is that you can watch YouTube videos in preview, you can use internet wide photo zoom, Facebook photo zoom, also works in Gmail and it prevents common file types from downloading on mouse hover.

How To Use SwiftPreview Chrome Extension?

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SwiftPreview extension is very-very easy to use. Simply add it in your Google Chrome browser. As soon the extension is added, it automatically starts working but it also provides you a button on the top right corner of Chrome, you can click that button for turning the extension ON or OFF.

Switch Internet Browsing To Night Mode And Save Your Eyes From Strain

Browsing internet in dark is bad for your eyes as it makes your eyes strain. Sometimes it causes eye fatigue, your eyes gets tired and could make it temporarily harder to focus etc. Now-a-days most internet browsing devices like laptops, smartphones and tablets provides you very easy shortcuts for dimming the screenlight. For example: Android’s screen light dimming feature is accessible from top notification bar, simply drag it and you can dim the screenlight.

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How To Easily Identify & Use Fonts From Any Website?

Earlier we have discussed about grabbing and using colors from webpages. Now, today we will be explaining you the technique of grabbing font families from other websites. Suppose you visit a website and you like used fonts, font family, font color & font size and want to use the same on your website too. You can easily decode the font, copy and use it by following a few steps given here.

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How To Use Your Own Facebook Notification Sounds?

Facebook Notifications simply informs you when any new action is takes by the people related to you. For example: Facebook place a sound whenever a new chat message arrives. Other notification works the same way like a notification sound for photo your are tagged in or any new posting on your timeline.

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Easily Hide, Save, Pin Lock Then Restore All Google Chrome Tabs In One Click

While working on many Google Chrome tabs, most of the people minimizes the browser instead of closing it. Bookmarks are also a quick way for accessing favorite websites. Sometime back we have discussed about Session Manager, the app which enables Google Chrome users to save complete sessions of multiple tabs  & and windows opened up in web browser so they can easily access them next time in same condition as they have left before.

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Receiving Android’s WhatsApp And Other Notifications On Laptop

Android Desktop Notifications is an awesome app which works same as advertised.  The app enables you to receive your Android notifications on your Google Chrome or Chromium browser. You can use it on your desktop, laptop or enevn on your Chromebook for connecting your Android device with your computer’s Chrome browser. It works with all popular messengers, like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Google Hangouts and hence you are stay informed even when you are busy working on your computer.

For using Android Desktop Notifications you will be having to install Android Desktop Notifications Chrome Extension on your browser and install its Desktop Notifications Android App on your Android phone or tablet.

After installing the apps:

Step-1

After installing its Android app on your smartphone it will randomly generates a code. Now you will be having to enter that code in the settings of this extension in order to start receiving notifications.

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Now from its apps settings on Android, turn on the desktop notifications and select and enable the apps for notifications as shown in the given screenshots:

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Step-3

Finally, your browser is ready to receive notifications from your android device:

You can also enable ongoing notifications like downloads progress and timers etc and set it to send both text and content as notifications to your chrome browser 6

You can also enable ongoing notifications like downloads progress and timers etc and set it to send both text and content as notifications to your chrome browser.

 

Google Chrome App To Prevent Spelling & Grammar Mistakes On Internet

Grammarly is a Google Chrome app which prevents you from making spelling, grammar and punctuation mistakes while writing anything on Internet like writing your emails, posting any text on social media, while using any notepad extension on Chromebook or whatever. The application marks auto marks all mistakes using a red squigly line like Word Pads and other office programs.

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Screencasting Desktop From Google Chrome Browser, Great Solution For Chromebook Users

Screencasting your desktop, web browser and webpages is now very easy and you can do it right from your Google Chrome browser. Yes, Screencastify is an awesome chrome app we have tested and passed for this tutorial. It does what it says, best for YouTube channel owners. Some reviews say that the app doesn’t works for Windows8 but who cares, Windows8 users have many other options and the important thing is that it works with Chromebook where you don’t have much options.

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Easily Promote Your Blog, Latest Post & Social Links On Every Email You Send

WordPress Website Email Signature – by WiseStamp is a chrome app that lets you promote your WordPress blog’s address, recent post and social links on every email you send using a customizable signature template and it does that automatically. To start first install WordPress Website Email Signature – by WiseStamp in your Google Chrome’s web browser.

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Top 7 Essential Google Chrome Extensions

Here are some good Google Chrome extensions that most Chrome/Chromebook users would like giving a try. Like all internet users at some point require capture screnshots of web pages, may be the whole page or any portion, annotate screenshot, blur sensitive info etc. Video Downloaders are very popular and useful for all internet users, not only videos but sometimes you need downloading other files; may be the song file which is autoplaying on any website in background. Sometimes you need sending something from your Chrome to your mobile device so what app should be used then. When you like saving anything in your pocket so that you can read it later. And finally, all Internet users like sharing things on social media, so what extension should be use for social sharing purposes? Which is the best one? Ofcouse the one which is fast, covers all popular social networks and is easy to use.

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Easily Download All Files Present On Any Webpage

Download Master is an awesome Google Chrome app that lets you download all or selected files linked to any webpage. Using Download Master you can very easily download all images, videos, PDF, doc or any other kind of file linked on the webpage you are browsing.

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Offline HTML5 Based Image + Vector Editor For Chrome & Chromebook

Sketchpad 3.3 is a powerful image & vector editor that can work offline in your Google Chrome browser. The editor is built in HTML5. Using this chrome app you can experiment with images by painting new elements into the composition, you can add notes, you can manipulate graphics, you can overlay text on anything, move backwards and forwards in time infinitely through changes you make.

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Top 5 Markdown Editors For Google Chrome & Chromebook

Here are some good editors you can use for writing text, creating notes, copy-pasting important text from web pages or whatever online or offline. Like md everywhere is an ofline editor that works directly from your desktop and enables you to write ‘Markdown’ texts anywhere. Another good app Drive Notepad, this application works with Google Drive. With Drive Notepad you can view, edit all types of text documents right inside your chrome browser. Also it includes syntax highlighting for many scripting and programming languages. Other apps include Memo Notepad, an easy editor for writing your quotes and notes, Quick Note is a fast and sleek desktop notepad app, Writebox is an offline distraction-free text editor.

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