Category Archives: Personal Media

Facebook Chat Platinum: New Way Of Experiencing Facebook Chat In Chromebook

Facebook Chat Platinum is a Chrome extension provides you a new cool way to experience Facebook Chat in Chrome or Chrome OS. As soon you install this extension, it adds a new bookmark in your Chrome Apps home from where you can access it. It provides you various chat themes and other features like:

  1. Facebook Chat Themes
  2. Boo the Dog
  3. Call of Duty
  4. Care Bears
  5. Cars: Audi, BMW, Corvette, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Mercedes, Porsche
  6. Hello Kitty
  7. My Little Pony
  8. Obama: Forward
  9. Rilakkuma
  10. TMNT: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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You can access options from Chrome’s extension settings (chrome://chrome/extensions/), in right-click menu from Facebook or in main Facebook Chat window settings menu.

Control All Your Web Privacy From One Dashboard In Chromebook

Privacy Palette lets you control your online privacy to secure your web browsing experience. It is a Google Chrome extension created for Chrome and Chromebook to regain control over your web browser. Using this extension you can clear your private data stored on your computer or browser in just a second. Don’t let online firms to easily access your personal and private browsing habits.

Install the Privacy Palette extension from Web Store. Upon installation visit Chrome’s App Home, Click Privacy Palette button and you will see the one and only dashboard for protecting yourself against all unwanted tracking, malware and advertisements etc. It also speeds-up your browsing experience.

Present time extension update provides you control over following stuff:

Chromebook Privacy Dashboard

  1. Block Ads: Ads can be very annoying. Get rid of ALL online ads! enable
  2. AdChoices: Opt-out from online behavioral advertising. manage
  3. Browsing History: Remove the list of all your previously accessed websites. clear
  4. Cache: If you visit a website, Chrome stores it in the cache in case you come back later. Clear your cache to remove traces of that website. clear
  5. Cookies: Cookies are used to record your visits to a website. Delete cookies stored in your browser so companies cannot recall your previous activity. clear
  6. Data Storage: Clear other data that has been stored on your computer. clear
  7. Downloads: After finishing a browsing session, your download history remains on your computer. Clear this list now. clear
  8. Facebook Account: Manage your Facebook account settings and change Facebook’s ad settings, privacy settings and security settings manage
  9. Google Account: Manage your Google account settings and change Google’s ad settings, security settings and your data on Google manage
  10. Secure Browsing: Enable HTTPS for every website to browse more securely. enable
  11. PlugIn Data: PlugIns that you have installed might save data on your harddrive without you knowing this. Clear this data now. clear
  12. Tracking: Change Chrome’s privacy settings and tell advertisers that you do not want to be tracked manage
  13. Twitter Account: Manage your Twitter account settings. manage

Easily Encode And Decode HTML Code On Cloud

You can easily encode HTML on cloud to show it in the HTML pages a code instead of rendered HTML. You can decode HTML to convert it back to HTML code. Some had to convert HTML code to encoded HTML so that it can me shown as code in web page and it was difficult to convert to one by one thus this free cloud app.

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Organize Your Web World By Creating Topics, Pages With Photos, Videos, Tweets, Documents & More

Organize your world of web. Create categories and topic pages including photos, videos, sharings like tweets and also documents to keep your online life well organized and share anything with anyone at anytime.

This article is on a bookmarking cloud web service called Bundlr.com. You can start simply signing in with Facebook, Google or Twitter. Bundlr is build for online curation: clipping, aggregation and sharing web content easily. Using this cloud service you can cover real-time news, wrap up an event or build a page with the most relevant content on your favorite topic.

You may bookmark the service or install its chrome bookmarklet from web store. Other than from its homepage you can install other bookmarklets like may be if you are Android user or iTunes etc.

Using Bundlr browser button, you can clip content while web browsing and each bundle has its own public webpage which you can share with everyone.

Independently Encrypt And Decrypt Text Anywhere On Internet

Unreadable is a free web service, as the name says it all it lets you easily encrypts and decrypts text independently of the transport (e-mail, Whatsapp, Facebook and co) and the platform (PC, smartphone, television, etc.). Using this awesome app you can secure all of your text and passwords.

All encrypted texts can be sent by Emails, USB / CD / DVD / Bluray (stored in a file), Facebook, Google+, Twitter, … WhatsApp, ChatON, Hangouts, Hike, whistle.im, Skype. It is compatible on all popular platforms like Android (Google Play, Amazon Appstore, Samsung Hub), iOS, BlackBerry, FireFox OS, Chrome OS, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, … everything with a browser.

There many other functions this app does are:

  1. 256-bit key length
  2. Offline Availability
  3. Different languages: German, English
  4. Protection against Data analysis-tools
  5. Provides you fast and effective encryption and decryption of texts
  6. Strong symmetric encryption algorithm (Advanced Encryption Standard short AES)
  7. Platform independent The app works on the PC, the smartphone, camera, TV, etc. … everything, that has a browser;)

Usage Instructions:

You can install its Chrome Extension or use the service directly by visiting Unreadable.de

Transmitter:

  1. Write text
  2. Think out a password and encrypt the text
  3. Send encrypted text
  4. Communicate the password to the communication partner by telephone, letter or in direct conversation

Receiver:

  1. Visit www.unreadable.de or download the app
  2. Copy encrypted text into the app
  3. Enter the password and decrypt the text

Playing Old Days Super Mario Games On Your Chromebook

Mario is a popular old days video game. Mario is a fictional character in the Mario video game franchise by Nintendo, created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. Serving as Nintendo’s mascot and the eponymous protagonist of the series, it has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation. It is said by many to be the most famous character in video game history. Mario games, as a whole, have sold more than 210 million units, making the Mario franchise the best-selling video game franchise of all time.

Now this article is on Best Super Mario Games chrome app available as free download at Google Web Store. This is a selection of Best Super Mario Games Online, including Mario Flash, Mario Star Scramble, Paper mario and much more for your Chrome/Chromebook’s personalized homepage.

You can play all games directly in your browser greatest hits, cool classic or innovative Super Mario games, like Super Mario`s Adventure 1 and 2, Super Mario Flash 1 and 2, Super Mario Bros. Star Scramble 1, 2 and 3, Paper Mario World and there are many more.

Easily Manage Browser Cookies & Protect Your Online Privacy

Cookie Manager is a chrome extension made to protect your online privacy by managing your browser cookies with more control. You can add, edit and delete cookies from its toolbar. Also you can search cookies if there are many etc.

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Control & Use All Your Android Devices From Any Web Browser

AirDroid is a powerful but free cloud app that allows you to manage all your Android devices right from a web browser, your chromebook, from anywhere, from any web browser, all over the air. The application provides you complete control over your Android devices and best part is Desktop SMS that lest you easily Send & receive SMS right from your computer, you can type SMS using your keyboard giving your complete comfort with faster typing and navigation with the full keyboard and large screen.

Other features allows you to manage Files and Media. You can move photos, videos, ringtones and any other files on and off Android, all without a USB cable.

You can manage your Phone Calls, Clipboard , URL transfer. Make Calls, Contact, Share Clipboard Content across devices, push URL to Android and there are more features awaiting for you to discover them.

How to use AirDroid to manage all your Android devices from a web browser?

Step-1 First thing you need to do is visit http://web.airdroid.com/ and sign up your account. You may signup using your Facebook, Google etc accounts too. After you signup you will see a Android Home like desktop showing up in your web browser window.

AirDroid

Step-2 Now you may connect your Android devices. Install AirDroid App from Google Play, click sign-in button and login with the same account and your device will be connected.

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You can Manage your Android Apps, gets to easy app search, installation and apk export. You can see through the lens of your Android camera, front and back. Or stream the screen of your Android in nearly real-time.

Not only this much but even you can find the location of your phone. Yes you can locate and lock your Android from any browser in-case if it’s lost. Also you can wipe all its data remotely.

Automatically Move Big Email Attachments To Your Google Drive

Archiver for Gmail is a script for Google Chrome. It seamlessly analyze your Gmail inbox and moves all of the big attachments to your Google drive, you can do it in one click. It also provides you background features for automatically copying email attachments to Google Drive.

Script is easy to use. Simply install its extension (Archiver for Gmail) in your Chrome then follow the steps:

  1. Visit your Chrome Apps page and launch Archiver for Gmail
  2. First it will ask for authorization, complete app authorization by following on screen steps
  3. After completing authorization you will be seeing this scripts main page, simply click the ‘Start‘ button to begin the process.

Now it will automatically copy all your big email attachments (1 MB or bigger) to Google Drive and label your incoming emails based on the attachment size.

The script also saves a HTML copy of the whole email thread and makes you free to delete each email containing big attachments (this can be even done automatically). All messages containing relevant attachments will be labelled, so that you can index your inbox even better.

Automatically Fetch Your Favorite News Topics On Chrome

Now you can easily set up Chrome to fetch and show you the news on topics you like. There is no need to visit Google News and click same Filters every time when you can read them in just one click right from your Chrome’s home.

Follow the given steps:

Step-1 First thing you need to do is visit Google Web Store and add News You Like app in your Chromebook or on simple Chrome web-browser.

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Step-2 As soon it installs, you will see its icon on your Apps page and also on your desktop app launcher (if you are using it). Click the icon and it will redirect you to a news on various topics with tabs as filters. By default it shows you news on some predefined topics including your country, Google and Chrome etc. NEXT step is to add your favourite news topics.

News You Like 1

Step-3 Click the ‘Settings’ button, you will see a lightbox over lay with various text fields. Now type names of news categories you like and click the ‘Save’ button.

News You Like 2

That’s all. Now you can read your favourite news anytime by clicking News you like icon from the apps page or directly from your desktop app launcher.

Best Offline Application To Take Notes In Chromebook

Quick Notes provides you the easiest & quickest way for taking notes in Chrome. Great for Chromebook users. it is as quick and slick as the best desktop note-app. It is designed for lightweight note-taking. You can use it as a simple notepad, scratchpad, clipboard or for making your Todo lists.

  1. Quick to add and edit ~ Add note in the app or from right-click menu
  2. Quick to access ~ One-click to access your notes
  3. Quick to search ~ Instant search for all notes
  4. Sync to cloud and access your notes anywhere

How to install and setup Quick Note?

Its very easy. Add Quick Notes in your Chrome browser. It will automatically add its launch icon on Chrome.s app page. As soon you click that icon, you will see you note page where you can type your notes. You can add notes from any web page by using its right click menu option.

Kindle In Cloud: Read Kindle Books Offline In Your Chromebook

Kindle Cloud Reader allows you to read Kindle books right inside you Google Chrome browser.Great for Chromebook as also programmed to work offline. It is an official web app from Amazon that lets you read your Kindle books, instantly. Not only this much but customize the look font and also you can write notes, make highlights and add bookmarks. Then you can view all of your notes etc from other Kindle reader apps too.

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Zoho Docs: Fast, Easy & Free Cloud Based Document Management Service

Zoho Docs is an online cloud based document management web service provides you all features and services you get in other online and offline office suites like MS Office, Libre Office and cloud based Google Docs etc. You can start using the service for creating documents in seconds.

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How To Automatically Play All YouTube Videos In Full HD?

By default, for switching any video to HD mode you have to click settings icon (present at the right bottom side of playing video) and then you can set video Quality to HD. This tutorial shows you you how to turn all YouTube videos to play automatically in HD mode.

Follow the given steps:

Step-1 Install Auto HD For YouTube™, a Google Chrome app.

Step-2 Now a small HD icon will come visible in the address bar on YouTube video pages where the extension can act.

Step-3 Check it by playing any YouTube video.

That’s all about its working. Auto HD For YouTube™ is one of the best ways to make video watching experience awesome. It also allows you to customize the video quality and size of playing video to ensures that you get the right settings on all your YouTube videos.

Main Features:

Faster Video Loading: Videos stream faster because you will no longer need to change quality settings.

Auto HD: All videos viewed on YouTube will automatically load in HD. No need to manually change it every time you watch a video.

Auto Widening of video: Videos load automatically in in the wide mode settings, making it easier to watch videos on larger screens.

Completely Customizable: You can set the quality of video to load in and the size settings and it will be loaded accordingly each time.

New Offline Chromebook Task Manager That Syncs Google Tasks

Google Tasks Offline is a Chrome app that allows Chromebook and general Chrome users to use a cool offline task manager that syncs up with Google Tasks. It works both offline and online as a Google Task Client which is unaffiliated with Google.

Some of its great features are:

Hotkeys: For scrolling and editing
Autosyncing: All your actions are auto-synced to your Google Tasks.
Provides Subtasks: Works just like Google tasks, tab and untab to set the level.
Manual One Click Sync: You can press sync once only to force a sync manually.
Multiple List With Easy Management: You can create multiple to do list on the same page. Filter system on the lower left will allow you to concentrate on one list
Access Everything Without Active Connection: There is no need of internet connection to edit your tasks, you can do so offline and they will get synced next time you are connected to Internet.

How to use the Google Tasks Offline?

Install its Chrome Extension here, it will automatically adds a new bookmark on your Chrome’s App Page which when clicked directs you to the Offline Task Manager.

Extend Chromebook To Access Desktop Apps Which Requires Windows Through Web

Google teamed up with nGenx for launching a solution for Chromebook & Chrome OS users to access any desktop app still requiring Windows through the web. nFinity Browser provides you an IE8 user experience, settings, & accessibility; browsing without any limitations.

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Jump To Your Favorite Facebook & YouTube Section In One Click

Facebook Quick Links and YouTube Quick Links are two popular webpages people use for quickly accessing various features and sections of Facebook and YouTube. You can set these pages as home page, new tab page, default page in order to get  to news feed, messages, calendar, events, photos, search, pages and videos etc in just one click. In the same way YouTube Quick Links page provides you direct links to popular videos, news, music, sport, games, movies, tv shows etc.

Facebook Quick Links

Facebook links to news feed, messages, calendar, events, photos, search, pages and videos. One click Facebook links right from your web browser.

YouTube Quick Links

Youtube links to popular videos, news, music, sport, games, movies, TV shows. Facebook and twitter.

Easily Bring iOS 7 Home To Your Google Chromebook

Yes now you can easily convert your Google Chrome home (i.e. new/empty) into an iOS 7 home by following few simple steps given here:

Step- 1 First of all open your Google Chrome browser, click wrench (customzie & control) menu present on the top right corner of Chrome, now click ‘Settings’

Step-2 On settings page scroll to ‘On Start Up’ sub-section and select radio button: Open a specific page or set of pages.

Step-3 Now click ‘Set pages’ button and add this URL – http://www.ios7home.com/

This is an awesome fun website that brings IOS 7 to your chrome, a customizable website with IOS 7 having style, App Store, Games, and a lot more. It gives you a feeling like you are using one of Apple devices not just a Chrome browser or Chromebook.

Looks even more nice when your Chrome is on fullscreen mode, Press F11 for fullscreen and enjoy working new Apple environ. As a starter, simply click and hold on a second on any app icon then let the fun begin.

You can also try IOS 7 Home Chrome App

Enjoy all what you used to do on IOS 7 devices:

It lets you enjoy all what you used to do on IOS 7 devices. Like you get multiple screens and you can navigate through them using keypad or mouse, you can enter app edit mode, you can activate apps by clicking, hold on and move apps between screen pages, reorganize or delete any app then double click or ESC and deactivate edit mode.

Customization options and settings:

It also offers you customization options and settings, click the settings icon and explore IOS 7 home settings, change wallpaper, export and import settings and also you can add any website you want to your iOS7 Home.

Also offers an App Store:

IOS 7 Home also offers you an App Store where you can find all popular sites from all categories like games, social, news and others.

Using the app store you can install whatever apps you like adding to your iOS Home.

How To Easily Collect & Organize Snippets Across World Wide Web?

Snippez is a website snippet collector that a lets you save website snippets and organize them. You can use the service by logging in with your Google account (no seperate Registration). The website will ask you to login with your Google Account. Click the button ‘Login with Google’ allow permissions. This will login you to Snippez dashboard where you can add, edit & organize your collections.

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Terminal Emulator And SSH Client For Chromium & Google Chrome

Secure Shell (SSH) is a cryptographic network protocol for secure data communication, remote command-line login, remote command execution, and other secure network services between two networked computers that connects, via a secure channel over an insecure network, a server and a client (running SSH server and SSH client programs, respectively).The protocol specification distinguishes between two major versions that are referred to as SSH-1 and SSH-2.

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

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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