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Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions
Dec 9th
Google chrome released the extensions platform yesterday. This was a great success and has proved extremely popular. Today i have spent some of my time trying some of them out. So far there are nearly 1000 Extensions already posted on the platform but quite alot of them are not really worth the time looking at. So i have been taking the time to shortlist my top 10 Google Chrome Extensions.
10. CoolIris
Meet Cooliris, the 3D Wall that speeds up search on Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and more. Enjoy the richest way to view photos from Facebook, Picasa, and even your own computer. On our infinite 3D Wall, you can effortlessly scroll though thousands of images and videos in seconds without having to click from page to page.
The 3D Wall – CoolIris
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9. Google Wave Notifier
Displays number of unread Waves in your Google Wave account or your Google Apps Wave account.
The extension allows you to :
– See unread waves without opening Wave in a popup.
– Access to a specific wave directly from the popup of the extension.
– Choose icons you want to see from different sets of icons.
– Specify your preferred refresh rate.
– Specify your Google Apps domain if you’re using Wave with Google Apps.
– Open Google Wave with navigation, contacts and search box hidden if you want.
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8. Google Mail Checker
Displays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox. You can also click the button to open your inbox. Simple but yet the most popular of all the extensions so far with over 100,000 installs. Very handy little tool for gmail users.
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7. AdThwart
AdThwart drastically reduces the number of annoying and invasive ads you see. This makes browsing the web less taxing on both your computer and your sanity. The included filter list, EasyList, is continuously updated by the community and AdThwart uses the latest version. So you can just install and forget it. Great extension to reduce the ammouint of adverts you see while surfing the web.
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6. StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon helps you discover great websites that match your interests. Simply click the Stumble button and see the best websites. There are over 500 topics to choose from, and, the more you use it, the better your recommendations become!
Current Features: Stumbling, Rating, Sharing, Reviewing
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5. iMacros for Chrome
Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work. Macros is your Swiss Army knife for Chrome. It was designed to automate the most repetitious tasks on the web. If there’s an activity you have to do repeatedly, just record it in iMacros. The next time you need to do it, the entire macro will run at the click of a button! With iMacros, you can quickly and easily fill out web forms, remember passwords, create a webmail notifier, and more. You can keep the macros on your computer for your own use, use them within bookmark sync / Xmarks or share them with others by embedding them on your homepage, blog, company Intranet or any social bookmarking service as bookmarklet. The uses are limited only by your imagination!
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4. Facebook Adblock
Remove adverts from Facebook and Facebook Lite. Simple but effective. Theres not much really to write about it other than it does the job! Its so much more pleasant surfing facebook without all the irritating adverts crowding around it!
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3. Bit.ly (shorten, share, and track your links)
Shorten and share links with bit.ly. Preview the full URLs short urls point to.
Launch the Bit.ly Sidebar with the click of a button. Preview long urls beneath short urls before you click them.
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2. Facebook for Google Chrome
This is an Extension which lets you read your Facebook news feed and wall. You can also post status updates.
The only problem is it wont work on ubuntu, yet it is deemed a popular extension.
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1. Chromed Bird
My favourite of all the extensions at the moment, the ultimate twitter extension! Plenty of features for anyone to use.
* Follow your friends timeline and navigate through older tweets;
* Tweets caching to avoid hitting Twitter’s API rate limit;
* Compose, reply, and RT tweets;
* Create short URLs;
* Track read / unread tweets;
* Notify user whenever new tweets arrive.
You can carry out any normal twitter task without having to visit the website.
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So there you have it, my top 10 extensions for google chrome so far. The above list is in no particular order although i find “Chromed Bird” the most useful to myself. I welcome your comments on what you think of them and if you think ive missed something out let me know. Have fun playing about with them, i know i am!
Facebook Privacy Plan
Dec 9th
Facebook have been planning to change their privacy settings for a number of weeks now, this has been long overdue. All facebook users will have seen last week a letter from founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg that let everyone know about the plans for the changes, and now the day has finally come. The privacy settings are ready for the update!
Today, facebook plans to start asking all 350 million of its users to review and update their settings as they have now make a simple interface in which you can decide on your privacy settings. This has been done to make it easier for the users. (The old ones really were quite complex) it’s also all about encouraging them to share more stuff publicly by letting them choose an “everyone” option each time they post something. Using the everyone option is a key thing for facebook, alike twitter whos posts are entirely public they encourage people to use the everyone option to help the use of real-time search, where both are now integrated in Google. Although it has many times more users than Twitter, to date, most Facebook data remains private and, hence, inaccessible to search engines. We’ll see how that starts to change after today.
Friendster To Be Sold For $100 Million
Dec 5th
Friendster the ultimate prehistoric internet social networking website, which predates Facebook and MySpace in the social networking space was founded in 2002. But it quickly lost ground to other social networking sites in the United States. Friendster is now mostly used in Asia where more than half of its registered 100 million users are from.
Friendster will be sold to an Asian company that do not wish to be identified as the information inst actually yet public! But how bigger risk are they taking by spending all this money? It is estimated to be sold for more than $100 million in a deal set to be announced by the end of the month.
TechCrunch, an industry blog, said in July it valued Friendster at $210 million, a small proportion of Facebook’s estimated $10 billion valuation.
Friendster, like Facebook, has been struggling to find an effective monetisation strategy. The firm rebranded its main website on Friday targeting a younger audience! China’s largest Internet firm by market value at $35 billion, was among the short-listed bidders, while Facebook also showed interest but was turned down due to competition. Friendster holds five U.S. patents related to social networking according to the United States Patents and Trademarks Office.
Facebook Redesign Again
Dec 1st
This is the third Facebook homepage design in the last 12 months. Some users have been randomly selected and were automatically changed to this new view, we will keep you informed as to when yet a release date is set for this. Nobody knows when the new design will launch yet, i was lucky enough to have a friend that had his facebook changed over to test the new design and i have some screen shots below showing the new changes, hopefully this will help you to see their plans and what they want to add to facebook in the future.
Looks quite similar? But it really isnt, features include: Notifications, requests, and inbox are prominently displayed next to the Facebook logo. Chat remains on the bottom. They have also opted for placing the search box in the middle therefore making more searches, this is in the running to be more like twitter. If you look on the current homepage design, you’ll find the updates of all of your friends, but yours isn’t constantly there, reminding you to update your old, outdated status. There’s a new border around the main content. It separates your left-hand navigation and notifications from your Facebook news feed. And finally i have to show you an extra image of the new quick inbox access, It gives you direct access to your most recent messages without leaving the homepage, which should increase engagement.
So what are your views on the changes, i think they look great and will add extra ease to the use of the social networking site. The only thing i am not looking forward to is the 500 Different groups that will be expressing their hate for the new layout saying “1 Million Members To Get The Old Layout Back” (If your one of those, its not going to happen so don’t bother), maybe they should remove groups that have been joined from the news feed. Anyway, lets not look at the negative, most sensible people that read a blog post and are interested will support me in saying that this evidently should improve the service overall.
More New Images Above , Updated At 8PM GMT.
[WARNING] NEW FACEBOOK WORM
Nov 23rd
According to one of AVG’s bloggers, the worm spreads as users that are already logged into the social network click on the suggestive photo that is being placed on their walls by infected friends.
Here’s how it works:
On your wall the thumbnail of the worm’s infective page is a link to the page.
The worm’s objective, of course, is that others viewing the victim’s wall will click the link, and as they are logged into Facebook, the worm will spread through peoples walls and continue to irritate the population of facebook, displayed is an image of what to look out for.
THE TECHNICAL STUFF:
This Is known as a CSRF attack.
A sequence of iframes on the exploit page call a sequence of other pages and scripts, eventually resulting in a form submission to Facebook “as if” the victim had submitted a URL for a wall post.
While this attack seems to cause more embarrassment than it does damage to your computer or account, it also seems like one of the easier ones to fall for since all it requires is one click to join the app. Just try and avoid this one.
