Category — HowTo

A small but very useful post ahead.

PortableApps.com started to offer a portable version of Google Chrome for Windows. Due to the licensing terms of Google Chrome, the site offers a small application that downloads Google Chrome’s installer, extract its files and installs a portable launcher. Copy the resulting folder to a USB drive and you can launch Chrome on multiple computers without leaving traces.

Paste and Go Google Chrome

I should actually call this “Two Silly Tips”. Because, this is more simple than the normal “simple”. You get it ? These two tips are called  ”Paste and Go” and “Paste and Search”. Let’s see what they do.

1. Paste and Search

When you copy a word or a sentence from a webpage, and right click on the omnibar ( address bar ) after it, you will see “Paste and Search”. If you select this option, google chrome will automatically start a search using that word or sentence, saving you a mouse click, or a key stroke. So, next time, do not copy > paste > search, instead, copy > Paste and Search !

2. Paste and Go

This is similar to Paste and Search. Here, when you copy a URL from a webpage, and then right click on the omnibar or the addressbar, you can choose “Paste and Go”, to save a mouse click or a key stroke, making google chrome to load that page faster.

Enjoy these cool and easy silly tips !

This is a special tutorial for people who use Indic Languages, including Malayalam,Hindi,Kannada Marathi Nepali Tamil and Telugu and Arabic on websites. After reading this simple tutorial and installing a script in a single mouse click, you will be able to type in any of these indic languages, in any website, easily.

No extension or addon, you can simply drag and drop a bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmarks toolbar, and you are ready. Whenever you need transliteration enabled on your Google Chrome browser, click on the bookmarklet, start typing.

Transliteration bookmarklet is a small piece of code that you store in your browser. Once stored, you can type in Malayalam in any text box on any web-site of your choice. It works on Google web-sites as well as other web-sites.

What is Transliteration ?  A quick note

Its a simple browser based tool. Google Indic tranlisteration is a perfect example for our case. You type your Indian language using English letters, and it will automatically be changed to your language’s script. So you type “Malayalam” and it will be changed to “മലയാളം” Try it here or Watch this video, its a demo showing Hindi being used on a facebook page.

The Trick

It’s simple, I don’t know why I called it even a “trick” … okay, go to this page, drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar, Click on the bookmarklet to start typing, and then to come back to English, click the same bookmarklet again.  To make it even easier, here is the screenshot of the page which explains the installation of this script.

Type in Malayalam or Indic Languages On Google Chrome

There are different transliteration bookmarklet script for each language. Select your language from the following list, each item is linked to the page for that language on Google.

• Arabic
• Bengali
• Gujarati
• Hindi
• Kannada
• Marathi
• Nepali
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Malayalam

Hope this will be helpful for my Indian friends here. Please share this information with your friends, and start using your own language on the web !

With this post, we are starting a new section on chromestory.com, the plugin news tips and reviews section. You will see more plugin/extension/addon, whatever you call it, in coming days.

Last month or so, a visitor asked me how to use Google bookmarks on google chrome instead of regular bookmarks stored on the computer. There was nothing available that time, but now, we have a plugin that will add a  bookmarks option. When I found this plugin, I tried to find the visitor who asked me this question, so that I can email the link, and I couldn’t find it. So, this is for you, whoever asked for the plugin, sorry for not saving your email address.

Plugin Link :

Before you start installing it, a warning : Installing this plugin will remove all your existing bookmarks. So, its better to backups them before installing. I have left a note to the plugin developer, to add some kind of popup or notice before deleting bookmarks.

After you install the extension, you will get another “star” symbol, on the right hand side of your address bar, next to the go/stop/reload button. You should use that button instead of your regular bookmark icon, to add it to your google bookmarks. And yea, you should be logged in to your google accounts, to save them in to your google account.

google chrome bookmarks

This way, your bookmarks are saved on the cloud, yes, on your google account, and whenever you need it, wherever you need it, open them using google bookmarks on any browser, and when using your chrome browser, save them quick and fast, and in a single mouse click.

PS: Since this is the first plugin post, its not fully organized. I would love to hear from you, if you need some kind of format on plugin posts, what all info you need covered etc.

This is a quick video post showing how session restore works on Google Chrome. I had reported this feature from the dev version earlier. Now that this is available on stable versions, watch the video to know more about this feature. Questions ? We got comments and a forum