Must-have Extensions for Google Chrome

A comprehensive list of the best Chrome extensions and apps that will help you do more and also enhance your web browsing experience in Chrome.

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This story, Must-have Extensions for Google Chrome, was originally published at Digital Inspiration on 19/08/2013 under Google Chrome, Software

How To Enable Two Finger Tap For Right Click In Windows

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The context menu, the menu that appears when you right-click on a file/folder or anywhere on desktop or Windows Explorer (File Explorer) is one of the most used features of Windows. The context menu is usually accessed by clicking the right button on a mouse or by clicking the bottom-right area of a trackpad (some […]

Access FTP Servers Using Your Native File Browser

FTP, short for File Transfer Protocol, is one of the most common protocols for transferring files. You’ll use HTTP while browsing the web, but FTP while communicating with a file server. Normally, you’d use an FTP client for this. Especially when you work over FTP a lot (e.g. web developers), it pays off to use a specialised client that supports favourites, synchronisation and improved batch transfers. We’ve listed some of these at our top Mac and Linux software pages. While there are a huge number of good FTP clients out there, sometimes you can get by without installing any third-party...

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Access FTP Servers Using Your Native File Browser

FTP, short for File Transfer Protocol, is one of the most common protocols for transferring files. You’ll use HTTP while browsing the web, but FTP while communicating with a file server. Normally, you’d use an FTP client for this. Especially when you work over FTP a lot (e.g. web developers), it pays off to use a specialised client that supports favourites, synchronisation and improved batch transfers. We’ve listed some of these at our top Mac and Linux software pages. While there are a huge number of good FTP clients out there, sometimes you can get by without installing any third-party...

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A Tool To Remove SkyDrive Folder From Windows 8.1 Explorer Navigation Pane

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The SkyDrive service has been deeply integrated into the newest version of Windows operating system. Windows 8.1 lets you use SkyDrive as your default location to save documents, provides offline access to SkyDrive files, and allows you automatically upload photos and videos from your camera roll folder to SkyDrive account. To help users quickly access […]

How To Organize Your Research With The Power Of Google Drive

There are certain advantages to using Google Drive for your research work. It's free and available from everywhere of course. Everyone with a Google account has it by default. Tied to your Google account, it gives you a range of collaboration options. It only gets better from here as you can use the Research tool to power all your probes and quests.

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Find the Number of Files From a Google Drive Folder

Google Drive lacks many basic features. For example, it's not easy to tell how many files are in a folder. Here's a way to do that:



Method #1: convert and download



1. right-click a folder

2. click "Download"

3. you'll find the number of files after waiting a few seconds. Sometimes, Google doesn't show the number of files and you should try again

4. click "Cancel".

If Google doesn't show the number of files, there's another way:



Method #2: move to



1. open the folder

2. repeatedly scroll down until you reach the end the folder. You can use the End key

3. select all the files using Shift+A

4. click "More" and "Move to"

5. click "Cancel".



"Move to" doesn't count the files from subfolders.

There's another option for folders with less than 500 files:



Method #3: folder view



1. open the parent folder

2. ctrl+click the target folder in the main view

3. you'll see the number of files in the page that opens in a new tab. This only shows the number of files if the folder has 500 files or less. If the folder has more than 500 files, you'll still see "500 items". That's a limitation of the folder sharing feature, which only includes the first 500 files from a folder.

Method #4: the Drive app



Probably the best option is to install the Google Drive app and quickly find the number of files of each Google Drive folder. If you use Windows Explorer, right-click the folder and select "Properties".

{ Thanks, Sushubh. }

How To Uninstall HP Quick Start (Start Menu)

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Ever since the first glimpses of Windows 8 were shown back in June 2011, PC users have been complaining about Microsoft’s decision to drop the Start menu and replace the same with Modern UI-style Start screen. While Microsoft has restored the Start button in Windows 8.1, it helps you switch to the Start screen and […]

Result Details - a Google Search Experiment

There's a new Google experiment that annotates search results with information about the sites. Most of the information is obtained from Wikipedia articles, but there are a few exceptions.



Here are some examples. Click "Wired (magazine)" next to the search result URL and you'll read an excerpt from the Wikipedia article about Wired. Google also shows if the site is a Webby Award winner.

If you click the similar link placed next to the Google Voice blog, you can read some old information about GrandCentral, which was acquired by Google in 2007. The information is not obtained from a Wikipedia article.

The panels that show result details are quite useful and help you find more information about a site before visiting it. Unfortunately, the site needs to have a Wikipedia article, but that will probably change if the experiment becomes a standard feature.



Google's algorithms that associate pages with entities and Wikipedia articles are not perfect. The result details for google.ca are really funny:

To try this experiment, install a cookie manager extension like "Edit This Cookie" for Chrome, go to google.com and change the value of the NID cookie to:



67=p2QqiMkeBvGpTUoMlME_QMwGVE9LaS3h9FlO1p0kyVOCg9NVW8uNwAKALJalAfhHJweQdt7KDWjpv6P_1vsE-EGlABKpxK8PRUbwwQm2QBm9rZ3rARFBz6lCKcp2KF_x

If you use "Edit This Cookie", don't forget to click "Submit changes". Delete the NID cookie to opt-out from the experiment.



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How May Browser Tabs Do You Have Open Right NOW? [MakeUseOf Poll]

Last week we wanted your opinion regarding a new endeavor we’re considering: A MakeUseOf magazine. We really appreciate all your insights, comments and ideas, and of course, the time you took to vote in the poll and make your opinion known. Out of 620 voters in total, these were the poll’s results: 1 person (!) would be willing to pay more than $10/month for a magazine subscription; 2% of the voters would be willing to pay up to $10/month; 10.5% think a magazine is a nice idea, but would not subscribe to one; 16% don’t like the idea at all;...

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Chrome for Android's Find in Page Icon

Chrome for Android has a "find in page" icon that's easy to miss. When you type some keywords in the omnibox, you can tap the icon highlighted in the screenshot below to find the matches from the currently loaded page. If you tap to the left of the icon, you'll search the web.

When you tap the "find in page" icon, you'll see the same interface that's available when you use the "find in page" feature from the Chrome menu. Use the up/down arrows to see the next/previous match, tap the yellow bars from the scrollbar to go to one of the matches or use the special "find in page" scrollbar.

Even if you close the find bar, you can easily open it again from Chrome's menu. The nice thing is that Chrome remembers your keywords and the current match.

Get Inspired: 10 Amazing Nature Photographers To Follow On Instagram

With 130 million users and counting, the world has never seen such a tsunami of photography aficionados. Well, the world has never had camera enabled smartphones and the appetite to voraciously devour pictures of slippers, saucers, reflections, shadows, and of course, the ubiquitous cat. All in the multi-hued and filtered beauty of Instagram. And you expect me to draw out ten amazing nature photographers who are snapping the beautiful world around us with more care and creativity than the rest of the other 130 or so million? I emerge all googly-eyed from the exercise after being struck by the flair...

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A YouTube Experiment Removes Ads

YouTube's experiments add new features or tweak the interface. Here's an experiment that does something unexpected: it removes the ads. After changing your cookie, you'll no longer see ads on the homepage, in search results, next to YouTube videos.



This screenshot shows an ad at the top of my YouTube homepage:

When enabling this experiment, the ad disappears:

This also works for the in-stream video ads and the Homepage Roadblock ads. It's not clear why YouTube added this experiment. Maybe they want to see how people use the site if there are no ads.



How to enable the experiment? If you use Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari or Internet Explorer 8+:



1. open youtube.com in a new tab



2. load your browser's developer console:



* Chrome or Opera 15+ - press Ctrl+Shift+J for Windows/Linux/ChromeOS or Command-Option-J for Mac



* Firefox - press Ctrl+Shift+K for Windows/Linux or Command-Option-K for Mac



* Opera 12 - press Ctrl+Shift+I for Windows/Linux or Command-Option-I for Mac, then click "Console"



* Safari - check this article



* Internet Explorer - press F12 and select the "Console" tab.



3. paste the following code which changes a YouTube cookie:



document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=oKckVSqvaGw; path=/; domain=.youtube.com";window.location.reload();



4. press Enter and close the console.



To go back to the regular interface, use the same instructions, but replace the code from step 3 with this one:



document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=; path=/; domain=.youtube.com";window.location.reload();



Obviously, there are many ways to hide or remove ads, so if you want to do that, there are better options than relying on an experiment that might no longer work at some point.



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Google Tests Desktop Sub-sitelinks

A few months ago, Google's mobile search site tested sub-sitelinks. "The links shown below some of Google's search results, called sitelinks, are meant to help users navigate your site. Our systems analyze the link structure of your site to find shortcuts that will save users time and allow them to quickly find the information they're looking for," explains Google. The expandable sub-sitelinks go deeper and send users to some popular subsections of a site.



The same sub-sitelinks are now tested by Google's desktop search interface. Sub-sitelinks are only displayed for navigational results. The experiment makes the top result a lot more prominent and shows snippets and arrows next to the regular sitelinks. The homepage title is bigger and Google uses the card layout.

Click the arrows to see the sub-sitelinks.

Here's a video:

To try this experiment, install a cookie manager extension like "Edit This Cookie" for Chrome, go to google.com and change the value of the NID cookie to:



67=bmHw1iFJSvWl2_5KKxRfyyqHcge-1Ki-6j033efhbbojYKHEFKmAUPx-XYe2dHQi0a8mu_CqdbVH5ir0J4ZNKv7QXl_uftc7XY7Mx5UXge1RRKNpmH6Q-q9v-gfYfsbZ

If you use "Edit This Cookie", don't forget to click "Submit changes". Delete the NID cookie to opt-out from the experiment.



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YouTube Tests New Music Cards

YouTube experiments with a new format for the music artist box. Now it looks more like the Google Knowledge Graph card, it has more pictures, more songs, a list of related artists and a list of albums. Click an album and you'll start a playlist with all the songs from the album. Click a song and you can listen to all the other songs from the artist's playlist. Who needs Google Play Music All Access when you have YouTube?

Here's the existing layout:

There's also a new YouTube Mix interface that looks more like Google Music's radio feature. It's still a playlist, but it no longer shows numbers, there's an "up next" section, a "next video" button and the end of the list has a fading effect which suggests that there are other songs, but they're not yet displayed.

How to enable the experiment? If you use Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari or Internet Explorer 8+:



1. open youtube.com in a new tab



2. load your browser's developer console:



* Chrome or Opera 15+ - press Ctrl+Shift+J for Windows/Linux/ChromeOS or Command-Option-J for Mac



* Firefox - press Ctrl+Shift+K for Windows/Linux or Command-Option-K for Mac



* Opera 12 - press Ctrl+Shift+I for Windows/Linux or Command-Option-I for Mac, then click "Console"



* Safari - check this article



* Internet Explorer - press F12 and select the "Console" tab.



3. paste the following code which changes a YouTube cookie:



document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=CvMBBZAh_fw; path=/; domain=.youtube.com";window.location.reload();



4. press Enter and close the console.



To go back to the regular interface, use the same instructions, but replace the code from step 3 with this one:



document.cookie="VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=; path=/; domain=.youtube.com";window.location.reload();



{ Thanks, Yu-Hsuan Lin. }

3 Secret Ways To Use Hashtags You’ve Never Tried Before

Six years after Chris Messina first introduced the hashtag, it’s taken over the Internet and is used in Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Google+, Flickr and other places. The basic purpose of a hashtag, of course, is to find a list of all posts about a certain topic. We have already told you why hashtags are key to reaching a wider audience and how to use hashtags effectively on Twitter. You can also use services such as Tagboard to search hashtags across social networks. So I thought, why not take it out of the Web services that already integrate it, and apply...

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Faster Spell Checking in Google Docs

Now it's easier to check the spelling of a Google Docs document or a Google Slides presentation. Just click the Tools menu, select Spelling and review each spelling suggestion. You can click "change", "change all", "ignore" or "add to dictionary". After performing an action, Google locates the next spelling mistake, so you don't have to manually find it.

Until now, you had to right-click each spelling mistake and select one of the options. Google Docs flags the mistakes with red underlines, so you can still fix them manually.



"The updated spell check lets you check the spelling of your entire document or presentation at once, instead of having to resolve misspellings individually," explains Google.

8 Legal Uses For BitTorrent: You’d Be Surprised

To many people, BitTorrent is synonymous with piracy. This isn’t true — BitTorrent is certainly used for piracy, but it’s also used for many legal things. If we banned BitTorrent tomorrow and removed it from the Internet, many organizations, businesses, and content creators would have to scramble to replace it. Like HTTP, which your browser uses to communicate with websites, BitTorrent is just a protocol. You could use your browser to download pirated content, just as you could use a BitTorrent client to download pirated content, but that isn’t the only possible use. Sure, let’s face it — BitTorrent is...

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Google Drive's Desktop Shortcuts

Google Drive has a new promotional message that suggests users to install the desktop Drive app and "access your Drive from a folder on your computer."

After installing the app in Windows, you'll get 4 desktop shortcuts for Google Drive and 3 of its web apps (Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides). Google's mostly silent installer doesn't ask if you want these shortcuts. I think it's impolite to clutter people's desktops with 4 shortcuts without even asking if it's OK.

The same shortcuts are also added to the start menu / screen:

The shortcuts for Docs/Sheets/Slides let you create new documents/spreadsheets/presentations from your browser. Chrome users can already install apps and add shortcuts to the new tab page or the app launcher. Sure, you can easily delete the shortcuts, but you shouldn't have to do that.

5 Message Boards To Chat With Fellow iOS Gamers

For some people, gaming on iOS is just a casual pastime. They jump in, play some Candy Crush or whatever the latest craze is, and move on with their day. This is fine, as the device is suited perfectly to such a method of play – many of the games are aimed at casual players. But there are also some hardcore games out there, and plenty of gamers who enjoy playing them. For hardcore iOS gamers, connecting with others can be quite enjoyable. That’s where message boards come into play. They are a great place to find like-minded iOS gamers...

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