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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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How To Use Custom Background Images In Google Plus?

Now you know Using Custom Background Image On Your Google’s Home Page In Chrome. This tutorial is on a similar Google Chrome extension that enables you to use a custom background in your Google Plus page and this is not just limited to Google Plus home but with this cool extension you can set images for G+ background, +1 button, share button, notification and also the bell.

How to start? Simply add Custom Google Plus Background in your Google Chrome browser or Chromium. Now after installation you can use it from the extension drop down menu added next to address bar.

How To Use Custom Background Image On Your Google’s Home Page In Chrome?

Instead of seeing that white background on Google, you can use your own background image. Custom Google™ Background is a Google Chrome extension that lets you do this very easily. The extension lets you select any image for the background of Google. You can do this simply by uploading your image from local drive, by entering an image URL or by searching 500px.

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ResumUP To Know What Else You Need For Achieving Your Career Goals

ResumUP is a web service designed to show who and what you need to know for achieving your career goals. It generates a step by step career path based on your professional aspirations, network and experience helping you to achieve your career goals.

You can easily start by visiting its website Resumup.com and proceeding via Facebook or LinkedIn account or you can sign-up directly by your email or you can install its chrome application and use your Google Account.

How To Play Music Using USB Pendrive On Chromebook?

Songist is a free application that works both on ChromeOS & Google Chrome browser and allows you to play songs stored in your USB stick. Using this app you can play music offline using a simple USB drive on your Chromebook. Other chrome users may also use it for playing music stored on their hard disk drive.

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How To Collect & Share Videos Directly From Your Google Drive?

Pixorial Video allows you to collect, share and tell stories with your videos directly from your Google Drive. It allows you edit and share videos which you have uploaded to Google Drive. It makes sharing more fast and easy and lets you bring all your videos in the cloud. You can add new videos to your library: mobile, digital, vintage, and even videos from your friends.

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Powerful Offline Reddit Client For Chromebook Users

Reditr – The Best Reddit Client is a desktop based Chrome application developed for Reddit with an intuitive column design with fast browsing. The application allows you to view multiple subreddits at once via column interface, view one subreddit in great detail via stream interface, you can instantly reply to any message or post you see without leaving the page, provides you with automatic draft saving feature so you never lose what you’ve typed on Reddit again.

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Easily Upload, Share, Backup & Sync Photos To Google+ Via Offline Chromebook App

First thing you should know is that this application works only on ChromeOS. It will not work on regular Google Chrome or Chromium browsers installed on other operating systems. So for Chromebook users, Google+ Photos is an application made by Google for uploading and sharing photos to Google+ easily from Chromebook. The application also works offline and keeps all your photos backed up, automatically organized and ready to share

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How To Analyze Your Google+ Social Performace & Get Insights?

+Analytix is a Chrome extension that provides you a very easy tool for analysing your Google+ performance like it provides you the insights about +1’s, resharing, number of comments and views.  The application is really very easy to use. Simply add it in your Chromebook or your Google Chrome web browser then launch it. It instantly opens up a new page were you can type any Google+ profile URL and grab the insights.

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Top 3 Services To Create Your Own Google Chrome Theme

This tutorial is on three easy webservices that allows you to create your own Google Chrome themes visually in a few clicks. Using these apps you can create your theme in your colors, styles using your images. This way you can add a personal touch to your web browser and share custom Chrome themes with others.

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Beautiful Chromebook App To Create & Export Small Stories

My Story Editor is a nice lightweight app for Google Chrome. The application lets you create and export your stories. Ever wished of telling a simple, interactive and illustrated story with your friends, My Story Editor lets you do that in a few clicks.

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Magisto: Easily Make, Edit & Share Videos Defining Any Moment Of Your Life

Magisto is a free web application that provides you video editing features and you can automatically create and edit videos then share them with others. Just select videos and photos, add your footage, select your filters, music etc and it’ll do the rest. Best for vacation montage as said by Abigail Naidu, one of its happy user. (Check out more of its reviews here) It turns your content into beautiful edited movies, complete with music and effects, in minutes.

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Advanced Cloud Text Editor With Multi-Language Speech Recogniser

Dictanote.co is an advanced Rich Text Editor with Multi-Language Speech Recogniser. You can add it in your Google Chrome browser and start using its advanced rich text editor with inbuilt powerful speech recogniser features. It provides you faster and much improved speech recognition engine which which you can actually write much faster than your normal typing.

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Automatically Enlarge Images To Full Size By Hovering The Mouse Pointer

Hover Zoom is an awesome Google Chrome extension that completely changes your web browsing experience. Hover Zoom automatically enlarges the Thumbnails image to full image size without loading a new page in a lightbox effect. The extension works in all websites including the popular networks like Flickr, Amazon, Google+, Facebook and more.

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WordPress Markdown Offline Editor For Chromebook Users

Platen, is beautifully designed WP Markdown Editor for Google Chrome users. It is a desktop app that lets you write and publish posts to any WordPress blog, you simply need to give your blog’s URL and login credentials. So what features it provides you? Using Platen you can create content, excerpt, tags, and categories. And the limitations are: you cannot define slugs, you cannot set featured images, you cannot use custom fields, you cannot change your privacy settings and many other things. But you are getting all basic features you need while creating new blog posts and about limitation, they keeps it light and fast. It’s just 1.83MB app with a beautiful layout and themes.

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Easily Prevent Duplication Of Tabs In Google Chrome

Prevent Duplicate Tabs, a Google Chrome App. that tells everything from its name and that all what it does. The extension closes old tabs and also prevents you from opening new ones. Tab addiction is something that most web surfers have and many a times people don’t even remember what that have opened thirteen tabs back.

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Colorblendy: Instantly Multiply A Couple Of Colors Offline In Chrome

Colorblendy is an offline Google Chrome extension which quickly installs in your Chrome browser and lets you mix two different colors and obtain the code of third color just like you do in Photoshop but here the app is made only for mixing up two different colors and nothing else.

To start simply add Colorblendy app in your Chrome. As soon it installs, the extension adds a new icon in Chrome’s App’s home. You just need to click that icon and Colorblendy opens up its page where you can very easily mix up colors both by codes or color picker.

Transform Your Google Chrome Home & New Tab Page With 3D Speed Dial Bookmarker

Speed Dial [FVD] – 3D New Tab Page is a speedial app for Chrome that also syncs between your Chrome and Firebox browsers. The extension transforms Chrome’s New Tab with new FVD Speed Dial which is a beautiful bookmarking manager, you can add the URLs and it will automatically retrieve the thumbnails and beautifully organizes your bookmarks, with Custom backgrounds, custom dials, organized groups, and most visited websites. It transforms the Apps page into a sidebar which you can manually show or hide on new tab’s speed dial page.

The app is easy to use and configure. Simply add it in your Chrome browser and as soon you add it, it itself transforms everything and your get a whole new ‘New Tab’ page with faster web browsing experience. Note: Your Chrome might restart several times after this app is installed. If you also use Mozilla Firefox the you can install FVD Speed Dial with Full Online Syn and do online synchronization between Google Chrome & Firefox. Other than this you can change background color, image, use Widgets for FVD Speed Dial, Themes for FVD Speed Dial and more.

Best Google Chrome Extensions For Faster Web Browsing

Session Manager: Sometimes bookmarks are not enough specially when you need a website or webpage exactly as you left like when you need back your half-written post/article with your account logged in. Here your can use Session Manager, a powerful Google Chrome extension. Add it in your Chrome browser and then for using it simply hit cardboard box icon next to chrome’s web address bar. Now Session Manager will ask you to Save the web page you’re running. All webpages you save are time stamped so that your can easily return to the version of your work in-progress at any time. All login screens and configuration menus are skipped and you get to your page exactly as you left it before.  It sounds trivial, but for those of us that bounce between multiple web apps and interfaces. It is a big time-saver.

SearchPreview: All what this Google Chrome extension does is, it simply adds a thumbnail screenshot at the left side of all Google search results showing. The screenshot shows the snapshot of the website listed in your search results. It becomes more useful if you are finding the website you accessed before but did not bookmarked, the thumbnail of that website will help you jog your memory.

Stop Autoplay for YouTube: Its name makes everything pretty much clear. Yes, the extension stops YouTube videos from playing automatically. There are various other extensions that allows you to do same but we have chosen this extension because it is a bit different and straight forward. This extension not only stops autoplay but it still pre-buffers the YouTube video. This thing makes the extension more useful for the users with slow internet connection.

Send from Gmail: By default Ubuntu uses Thunderbird, Windows uses Outlook, it depends what operating system you are using.The extension is for Gmail users. After you add this extension in your Google Chrome browser it will open all email links on internet in your Gmail not on Thunderbird or Outlook etc and hence there is no need of copy-pasting email addresses between webpages and your Gmail compose box. Other than this, the extension also adds a button for creating email message when clicked, it uses the page title as the subject and selected webpage text and link address as the message.

AdBlock – Yes it block ads on web pages. The extension strips out most of the advertisements from majority of website and provides you a clean, faster web browsing experience with less data usage.

If you also know about any good Google Chrome extension that offers a better browsing experience then feel free to mention it in the following comments.

Box: Another Web Service Providing 10GB Of FREE Cloud Storage

Box provides you free 10 GB cloud storage and makes it easy for you to access and edit files, share content, and stay connected with your team from anywhere on any device. It works with your Google Account. You can install it its Chrome App from Web Store. First it asks you to provide required permissions and then you create your Box account passwords and you are redirected to your Box cloud accountwhere you can use your space, manage your files etc.

Important Feature:

  1. Put any kind of file online, then share it with just a link
  2. Invite others to share an entire folder of files
  3. Collaborate via comments and task to get things done
  4. Get Box Sync to keep your computer files synced to the cloud
  5. Take your files on the go with Box for Mobile for Android, iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows
  6. Plus, Box OneCloud is our ecosystem of apps where you can annotate, e-sign and do more with your favorite productivity apps.
  7. With Box OneCloud apps, you can open and edit Box files with other apps installed on your device
  8. Save content directly to Box from more than 50+ compatible apps