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How To Use Windows 8 Metro Design On Chromebook?

Metro design is a special user interface consists largely of a start screen made up of dynamic tiles showing links to applications, features and extensions. The design was specially made for touch phones, tablets and laptops but now many software programs use it for styling their UI. In this article we will show you how you can easily manipulate your Google Chromebook or traditional Google Chrome browser into Windows 8 style metro design.

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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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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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Official Google Publisher Plugin With Better Adsense Display & One Click Website Verification For WordPress

Google Publisher Plugin (beta) is an officially released plugin developed by Google. The plugin enables you to use Google’s products including AdSense and Webmaster Tools with your WordPress based website.

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General process of adding Adsense requires generating snippets in from Google.com/AdSense and then pasting them into your website’s template files, digging inside PHP files if you are using WordPress or by using a plugin like Adinjection or Adinserter. But Google Publisher Plugin (beta) works very much differently from all other Adsense plugins out there and give you a new easy style of placing Adsense with a simple point-and-click user interface (UI).

The plugin also provides you an inbuilt one click website verification with Google Webmaster Tools.

How to start up with Google Publisher Plugin (beta)?

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Install and activate Google Publisher Plugin (beta) plugin. Upon activation visit your admin area Dashboard -> Settings -> Google Publisher Plugin page, click ‘Get started‘ button, login and click ”Verify’ button:

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Then you can select to preview the home page or your single post pages. The plugin will automatically add markers on page letting you know where the AdSense can get fit better. You can then select the place and click to add advertisements, you can create different placements for each page template and start displaying AdSense there.

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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Step-2

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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How To Listen Audio Books Using Your Android Device?

audio book in androidAudio books are similar to radio old shows and new podcasts where you listen to stories. Amazon’s Audible app provides you a gateway for its audio book service, drawing you in with free tasters of some of its best sellers. It’s worth downloading if you don’t have much time for reading books which you want to read or may be if you are on a long drive with tried eyes. With Audible for Android app and you can listen to audio books on the go without any kindle.

Audible.com is an Amazon company and with this app you get access to a range of 150,000+ titles from your Android device and start browsing from best sellers, classics and other categories. You can navigate through chapters, add bookmarks, enable sleep mode, variable narration speed, button-free mode. It has multitasking features for running download in the background and listening to the book at the same-time. It also lets you lets you transfer books to your devices via wifi.

Amazon Kindle device users can use this app and switch between reading-&-listening with Whispersync for Voice. Other app features enables you to:

  • Get access to inside information about author events and more
  • Access Audible mobile store and make purchases for more audiobooks
  • You earn badges and keep track of your listening habits and audiobook achievements
  • Connect to Facebook and Twitter and let your friends and connections know what audiobook you’re listening to

How To Make Ubuntu HotSpot Wifi Network Visible For Android Devices?

A few months ago we discussed about using your Ubuntu laptop as a wifi router. In other words, creating a hotspot with your Ubuntu Linux. Default Ubuntu Wifi network is not visible for Android devices, specially for devices using Android 4.1.2 versions like Samsung Galaxy etc. In that case you may give a try to ap-hotspot from the webupd8 repository for creating an infrastructure AP but here a much better universal solution who need creating detectable hotspot with Ubuntu Linux.

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Quickly Locate All Your Family Members Right From Your Android Device

life360Life360 – Family Locator +more is a powerful Android app that lets you locate all your family members and friends near your vicinity. The app works with latest GPS tracking technology, you can create groups, called as “Circles” of your family & friends and then you can easily track their locations on a private map, You can know about their safety or when they need your help. The application also allows you to chat one-on-one or with everyone within each of your circles and chatting is all free.

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Create New Faces Using Swap & Morph Feature On Android

Face Switcher For AndroidFace Switch is a fun app designed for switching two faces in order to create new ones. The app is really entertaining and gives you a great bit of fun but the fun only comes if you spend some time playing on the app. It is not very easy but if you start evolving the app it will certainly lets you crate some exciting stuff. What actually this app lets you do is swap and morph between any two faces instantly in seconds.

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Top 5 Free Web Browsers For Android Users

Chrome Browser – Google

The most popular PC web browser is also available for Android users. The browser provides all web browsing features which you get with classic chrome browser like faster web browsing for Android phones and tablets. User can sign in to Chrome and keep everything on sync so that you can share your web browsing experience and all important information, app and settings etc between your devices. And all other Google Chrome web browsing  features including private web browsing via incognito mode. The only problem you might encounter with Chrome is that it might freeze on some devices. The same problem is experienced by many Linux users, Chrome repeatedly freezes on OS like Ubuntu Linux also.

UC Browser for Android

As said by one of its users, this web browser is popular for its speed & dependability. It uses high-end compression technology rendered by a server in order to provide faster web browsing and less data usage. Its main features are:
Main Features:

Download Management – It can be used as a downloading tool. You can download multiple files, download also works in the background like Firefox and Chrome. Gives automatic reconnection if the download is interrupted etc.

Add-ons – Add-on plugins are also available for enhancing Android’s web browsing experience like add-ons for Photo Uploading to Facebook, Gesture Controller, Webpage Translator and there are more.

Auto Pager – For scrolling up on for infinite scroll pages like on Facebook, Twitter, Google and more.

Themes – You can decorate your web browser by downloading themes and wallpapers from the UC Theme Center just like you do for Chrome & Firefox or even you can use your own pictures which you have on your hard drive.

Web Application Center – You can add your favorite web apps to UC Browser.

New Image Viewer which enables you to view all photos attached on current web page are into a photo album style view.

Cloud Sync – Sync works here too. You can sync bookmarks and tabs between various devices using your Google, Facebook or UC account.

Fastest download speed of any mobile browser – Download 15% faster on 3G and Wi-Fi. Performance on 2G networks has also been accelerated.

Firefox Browser for Android

The most popular web browser among free software users is also available for Android. This free web browser gives the power of the free web in your hands and unlike to Google Chrome it doesn’t freezes on some Android devices. But that doesn’t mean it has no bugs like if you save your passwords, it would get permanently saved and deleting the web browsing history and cookies etc is of no use if you are doing that for removing your password. Instead, if you need removing you saved password first type any wring password and then click update password button visible in a pop-up. Otherwise the official Firefox for Android is fast, easy to use, & customizable web browser.

Dolphin Browser for Android

Dolphin also gives a very good web browsing experience with Android devices. It doesn’t shows freezing & saved password bugs like Chrome & Firefox. It has gives easy web browsing experience and provides you web surfing via personalized home screen, gives you voice and gesture control features and the web browser is increasingly getting popular among Android users. At present it has over 100,000,000 downloads on Android and iOS.

Opera Mini browser for Android

Opera is a popular smartphone web browser from a long time. The browser is specially been designed for the smartphones. You can set all your favourite websites on the home screen (just like speed dial add-on available for Chrome & Firefox and there is no limit to the number of website speed dial entries you add. Other traditional Opera features works same like you can know what’s happening with Smart Page. It delivers instant updates from Facebook, Twitter and the latest news. You can save web pages and read them later or for times you’re not connected to the internet. Better download manager and Opera Mobile Classic browser is also available for Android users.