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Download Free Chrome Sticky Note Extension – Note Anywhere

lee — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:08:39 +0000

Google Chrome browser is enriched with tons of useful plugins that can be installed to ease our daily tasks. For example, I used to have sticky note software on my Windows 7 to write important notes. However, I found that it’s not very convenient as I need to launch the sticky note software especially when I do not want to close of minimize my browser. Plus, I’m actually looking for a better online sticky note which can be launched and use on any website.

Luckily, I found Note Anywhere Chrome extension on Chrome web store. The best thing I love about Note Anywhere is you can make notes on any web page and move it to any position that you like by mouse. Furthermore, Note Anywhere will save the sticky notes created by you on web pages so when you open the web pages again, the previous notes will appear automatically.

How to use Notes Anywhere

Firstly, install Notes Anywhere extension from Chrome web store and open a new tab and load a website instead of using Chrome web store page because it has been restricted to use the plugin on Chrome store as shown in the below.

Now, you will notice a yellow icon on the right tool bar. Click on it will open a new sticky note on web page. You can drag and move the notes according to your preference.

If you want to customize the options, just right click the yellow icon and select “Options”. Click on Notes Summary will list out all the locations of Notes with website address. Select on “Settings” will let you to customize the colors, font type and text size of the Note Anywhere.

You will know how many notes opened by you on that particular page by looking at the yellow badge on right side toolbar.

Conclusion:

I love Note Anywhere Chrome extension which is free and useful especially taking important notes during browsing websites. The only small issue that I found is I cannot highlight the words because whenever I point the mouse over the text, the whole note box will move with the mouse together. Other than that, Note Anywhere is performing very well and highly recommended.

Download Google Translate Extension to Translate Web Pages

lee — Thu, 19 May 2011 09:30:08 +0000

Nowadays, we search lots of information via internet and sometimes we need to know the meanings of contents we found in foreign languages. It’s a time consuming if we translate it by manually copy paste on other translation website. Therefore, I would like to introduce you a free powerful automatic Google Translate.

Google Translate extension is developed by Google team and it works perfectly to translate entire webpages into your desired language. Currently, Google Translate supports 57 languages with some languages still in Alpha mode which means in the early stages of development. Click to view all the 57 languages supported by Google Translate.

How to Install Google Translate Extension?

First of all, you must install Google Chrome browser and then download Google Translate extension here. Once installed, this extension can access data on all websites and your browsing history. It will add a tiny button on the right side to your browser toolbar as shown in the below screenshot:

Now, right-click the icon to manage the options, choose your default language and when you select Prompt automatically option, a Google Translate banner will appear on the top of page when the web page’s language is different from your Chrome options. Besides that, you can choose to enable translate automatically option and include specify languages or websites so that no more Google Translate banner will pop up again.

How to Translate Web Pages using Google Translate?

Google Translate is able to translate any web pages into any language of your choice within a few seconds and I am totally impressed with its performance. To translate the page, just left-click the Google Translate button on the right-side of browser toolbar and the page will change to new language as soon as possible. Refer to the sample page below:

Conclusion:

Google Translate extension is a simple, fast and user-friendly Chrome plugin that enhance user’s web experience. It works better than human translators and more accurate in the translation results. so, are you ready to add Google Translate extension to Google Chrome?

Google Chrome OS VS Microsoft Windows 7

lee — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:44:44 +0000

Recently, Google released their very first Chrome OS to the world and from the name itself, you know it’s similar with Google Chrome Browser but the wonderful thing is Google Chrome operating system is running the web-centric operating system and it’s only for netbook at the moment. Therefore, I don’t see new Google Chrome OS will bring any threaten to Microsoft new operating system – Windows 7.

Why Google Chrome OS Cannot Compete with Windows 7?
1) First of all, they are in different category now,� Google Chrome OS is web-centric operating system, it means that Chrome OS runs applications just like Chrome browser. The applications running on Chrome OS are organized visually on the screen just like Chrome browser. For your info, there will be no desktop and no software installed on the system hard drive.

2) Google Chrome OS cannot installed local applications and services. It just let you boot the system, surf the web and manage the data. There will be no hard drives or DVD drives, just solid state drives. So, how am I going to run my own apps or store data in hard drive? And the worst thing is when I’ve limited access to internet connection, how do I manage and access my data online?

The Good Thing About Google Chrome OS

1) The boot-up speed for Chrome OS takes only 7 seconds according to Google. (Really fast – may be it’s web-based OS)
2) Google Chrome OS is cloud oriented just like it’s Chrome browser. All the applications and data will reside on the internet and if you lost your netbook or hardware failure. Don’t worry, just log into other PC with browser and internet connection.

Conclusion:
The Chrome OS will not be available until last six months of 2010. It’s actually a good thing as I’m thinking Google Chrome OS still have lots of room to improve. If you ask me whether I will use Google Chrome OS or not, my answer is “Sorry, Google. I will not use your Chrome OS as of now because I think Windows 7 is doing better than you now” I hope to see more features in Google Chrome OS in the next final release.

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