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Android/Linux, Chromebook, GNU/Linux, Homeschool, Technology

Control & Use All Your Android Devices From Any Web Browser

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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.

AirDroid 2

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.

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Pearl Tree: Elegant Visual Tool To Mind Map Stuff Across Internet

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Pearltrees is an awesome cloud service good to mind map links. It is a place where you can collect, organize and share everything you like on the world wide web. It is a free webservice where you can share all your interests in one place. It provides you easy visual interface and its community lets you discover amazing stuff related to your interests and passions

Features:

  1. Have everything you like at your fingertips all the time
  2. Access your pearltrees from anywhere: desktops, tablets and smartphones
  3. Keep everything you like: web pages, photos and notes from any app
  4. Browse your favorite things blazingly fast
  5. Discover interesting new stuff in your areas of interest
  6. Collaborate on your favorite topics
  7. Share all of this!
Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Automatically Move Big Email Attachments To Your Google Drive

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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.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Automatically Fetch Your Favorite News Topics On Chrome

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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.

News You Like 3

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.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Best Offline Application To Take Notes In Chromebook

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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.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux, You Tube

How To Automatically Play All YouTube Videos In Full HD?

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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.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

New Offline Chromebook Task Manager That Syncs Google Tasks

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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.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux

Extend Chromebook To Access Desktop Apps Which Requires Windows Through Web

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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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Chromebook, Facebook, GNU/Linux, Google+, Social Media, You Tube

Jump To Your Favorite Facebook & YouTube Section In One Click

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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.

Chromebook, Homeschool, Web Services

Easily Bring iOS 7 Home To Your Google Chromebook

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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.

Chromebook, GNU/Linux, Web Services

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

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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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Android/Linux, Chromebook, GNU/Linux, Technology

Terminal Emulator And SSH Client For Chromium & Google Chrome

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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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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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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.

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Top 5 Black & White Themes For Chrome & Chromebook

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Here are some of the best Google chrome themes with mostly black and white color used in them but they all are beautiful and used by a vast number of Google chrome users world wide. Each theme provides you a different taste and style like Slinky Elegant is designed to be smart and simple, Charlotte Ronson looks classic, Vince is a unique concept in fashion, offers you a complete line of luxe staples with clean lines, rich fabrics, and intricate,Tiësto is one of the most well-known and biggest artists in electronic music.

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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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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