Posts from — January 2010

We already know that Google has increased their offline advertising efforts. Here is another example, this time from Paris, Metros and Railway stations.

Here is an ad spotted in one of the most busiest metro stations “Châtelet”.

News and Image from europe.globalthoughtz.com

Google Chrome Extensions Gallery

Google Chrome Extensions gallery has now more than 1500 extensions ! Congratulations, Google chrome team, and all developers out there !!

Here is what an extension is, Google’s Own words ..

Extensions are little programs, created by developers, which add useful functionality to the browser and to the websites you visit. Some provide you with alerts and notifications, others let you easily access your favorite web services from icons next to your address bar, and there are lots more.

Now, a short video explaining how to use Extensions

Are you using the stable version of Google Chrome ? If you are, I am sure that you were waiting for this release of Google chrome, version 4, with Bookmark Synch, Extensions, and much more !

There is a long list of new features

• Extensions
• Bookmark sync
• Enhanced developer tools
• HTML5: Notifications, Web Database, Local Storage, WebSockets, Ruby support
• v8 performance improvements
• Skia performance improvements
• Full ACID3 pass, due to re-enabled remote font support (with added defense against bugs in operating system font libraries)
• HTTP byte range support
• New security feature: “Strict Transport Security” support
• Experimental new anti-reflected-XSS feature called “XSS Auditor”

Have you checked if you are using the latest version of Chrome ? If not, here is how to do it. Also, start playing with extensions too ! Stay tuned to chromestory.com for the latest and greatest addons.

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There are number of gmail checker plugins for different browsers. Chrome also has couple of them. But here is an extension for gmail, that does some pretty smart stuff.

Gmail Checker Plus, has some cool features.

- 10 different icon sets, choose your favorite!
- Mail preview window
- Delete, archive, spam, star and mark as read functionality
- Google Apps support
- Mailto-links open in your Gmail or Google Apps Mail account
- Monitor all your labels

The mail preview window is my favorite feature. If you look at the picture here, you will get a good idea about how this works. Instead of just viewing the number of unread emails on your inbox, this window actually helps you reply, mark read or mark that email spam.

You can select how the plugin windows should look like. Change colors of the icons depending up on your taste. See them in action in the image below.

Now, go ahead and install this extension and play with it ! Install it from here … and dont forget to leave your feedback in comments !

chrome_language

Starting with Google Chrome developer channel release 4.0.288.1 and beta channel release 4.0.249.64 for Windows, an internationalization (i18n) framework for Google Chrome Extensions is available and enabled by default.

This will help developers to use different languages for their extensions. To localize the extension manifest, extract all user-visible strings into message catalogs, and define the default locale.

Are you a developer  ? For instructions on how to do this, and for more details, see the documentation.