Google Chrome has just fronted a new extension called Chrome Speak; a text reader for web content on the Google Chrome search engine. This will read highlighted text out loud. Whether from sheer laziness, bad eyesight, or just a desire to have a text reader on your browser, it is an interestingly accurate feature. You [...]

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Security researchers Nicholas Carlini, Adrienne Porter Felt, and Prateek Saxena reviewed 50 popular and 50 random Chrome extensions from the official Chrome Web Store for security vulnerabilities and discovered that 27 of the 100 extensions “leak all of their privileges to a web or WiFi attacker”. These 27 extensions account for a total of 51 [...]

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I think it was last year when Google first mentioned that they would add remote desktop capabilities to Chrome OS and the Chrome web browser. Yesterday Google released a first beta version of Chrome Remote Desktop, an extension for the Chrome browser on the official Chrome Web Store. Google points out that the goal of [...]

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I personally do not have the need for a web based screenshot solution like Webpage Screenshot for the Google Chrome browser. The core reason for this is that I use a desktop application – Snagit – for the task which allows me to take screenshots in any application and not only in Chrome. Sometimes however [...]

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I have to admit that I’m not playing games on social networking sites like Facebook or Google Plus. To be honest, I’m annoyed by status messages that contain gift, bonus or game information. Thankfully though the networks have improved filtering so that those information have been reduced to a minimum in recent time. Still, I [...]

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When you have a YouTube account, you can do more than viewing, uploading and commenting on videos. One of the things besides that is the ability to subscribe to other YouTube users and to make friends on Youtube. This among other things informs you whenever those users are active on YouTube. You can be informed [...]

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You can save lots of money with coupons. As a webmaster, I have to buy and renew domain names and web hosting on a regular basis. Take the popular domain registrar Godaddy for instance. A new .com registration at the registrar sets you back $9.99 currently. If you use a coupon, you can register the [...]

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I find it rather difficulty to spend time on all social networking sites that I have an account for evenly. The three dominant social networking sites that I use currently are Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus. I never got the hang of LinkedIn and do not use localized social networking sites. If I would add [...]

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Google Related is a brand new extension by Google for its Chrome web browser. The extension acts as a browsing assistant displaying related news and contents in a small bar at the bottom. This process itself is automatic. The related information that are displayed on the toolbar at the bottom of the browser screen are [...]

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