6 Cool Google Chrome Extensions For Gmail Users - Flock. That doesn’t mean it’s perfect. There’s always room for tweaks and modifications, and Chrome users have an endless lineup of extensions to use for that purpose. Not all of them are cool, but the ones listed here are! Google Mail Checker and Mail Checker Plus Although Gmail is easy to use and generally functional in all the basic ways that a user needs, it can’t notify you that you have mail if you don’t have Gmail currently open in your browser.
You could always have a Gmail browser window open, but that’s not a great way to stay productive! Google Mail Checker and Mail Checker Plus solve this problem by adding notifications to Chrome. When you receive mail, the Google Mail Checker icon will show a number hovering above it, that number being the amount of new email in your inbox. Mail Checker Plus adds a number of features on top of that including a pop-up notification with sound and an email preview. Social Gmail Better Gmail Still, Gmail’s interface isn’t entirely without clutter.
10 Must-have Google Chrome Extensions - Flock. The nature of my writing and consulting work means I spend a lot of time working in a web browser window, so I am always looking to maximize my productivity browser-wise. Recently, I made the switch to the latest Google Chrome beta for Windows because I was looking to take a break from Firefox and wanted to try Google’s latest browser developments. While Chrome can’t yet match Firefox’s massive extension ecosystem, more useful extensions are becoming available for Google’s browser every day. Here are my must-have extensions for the new Google Chrome user: Brizzly. Since I am trying to better integrate Twitter and Facebook into my professional communications in 2010, the Brizzly extension, which is a Twitter and Facebook reading/updating tool, ranks as a must-have in my book. Shareaholic for Google Chrome. Google Apps Shortcuts. Evernote Web Clipper. Xmarks Bookmarks Sync. Aviary Screen Capture.
Bit.ly. Html2pdf. Google Reader Notifier. TooMany Tabs for Chrome. 11 Things You Need to Know About Google's Chrome OS - Reviews by. The world's number one search provider has opened its operating system project up to the world. Here's what it's all about. Before today, Google's Chrome Operating System was an exciting idea that offered far more questions than answers. That changed today. We now know much more about what the company is working on and have even seen it in action. For those who weren't able to make it out to Mountain View today, here are 11 important things you need to know about the Google Chrome OS. It's not Available Yet Today Google launched only the open source development project.
This means developers and third-party partners (including hardware manufacturers) can download, compile, and install the code. There's more, like the fact that whatever you see now probably doesn't represent what the shipping product will look like in 2010, and the fact that Google doesn't seem to have a hardware driver plan (though they did promise that Google Chrome OS will print).