Do you have to write the same text multiple times per day? For instance when replying to business emails, writing blog posts or commenting on them on the Internet. If that is the case you might have considered using tools that let you create text shortcuts that you can simply paste into your texts to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 4
GTools+, Display Google Bar On All Web Pages
If you are a heavy Google user you may like the Google bar that is displayed on top of all the Google properties. The bar links to several Google properties and displays notifications about new messages or posts on Google+. It furthermore contains a share link if Google Plus is used, and a link to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 2
MuteTab For Chrome Lets You Put An End To Background Tab Sounds
Maybe you can relate to the following experience. I was watching a video on my computer and heard background noise in the background. First I thought that the video had been recorded with those by accident, but they were still there after I paused the video. I checked the open browsers and their tabs, one [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 8
Block All User Comments On Google Plus
When you are spending time on Google Plus you will eventually come upon comments made by users which you would prefer not to see or read on the site. While it is easy to remove those users from your own stream, for instance by removing them from your circles, it is not possible to remove [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 7
G+me for Google Plus, Better Google+ Stream Collapsing
The stream, that’s basically all the messages that people write that are in your circles, provided that the visibility includes you on Google Plus. I’m personally not that happy with the way the stream is displayed on screen. Sometimes, you see so many comments under a message that you have to scroll multiple pages to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 9
Control Google Chrome With Your Mouse With Smooth Gestures
Unlike Opera, Google Chrome does not support mouse gestures by default. This input method is probably not at the top of Google’s priority. Chrome users who would like to add mouse gestures to their browser can do so by installing an extension like Smooth Gestures. The extension adds default gestures to the browser that work [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 5
Surplus For Chrome Lets You Use Google+ From Anywhere
Up until now the only way to share a web page, story or information on Google+ was to open the Google+ website to do so. That’s not overly comfortable, especially not so if you are not having the service open all the time in your browser tab. The new Google Chrome extension Surplus changes the [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
- Comments: 8
Google+ Photo Zoom Extension For Chrome
I’m slowly getting the hang out of Google+. The coolest feature by far in my humble opinion is circles to group users and get filtered news streams. One thing that I think is missing are update notifications for your circles. As it stands now, you need to click on each circle stream to see if [...]
- Author: Melanie Gross
- Comments: 6
Brighten Your RSS Feeds with NewsSquares
Not all RSS readers are the same. Indeed, some are far more useful than others and deserve to be pulled from the pack. One such reader is NewsSquares, a Chrome app specifically catered to the interests of news readers. While still in the final beta stages, NewsSquares is a great way to browse your various [...]