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Astrid, the powerful to-do list manager, has flexed its way into Gmail. The newest version of this popular Chrome browser extension now integrates with Gmail and gives users the ability to remember and manage the things they have to complete.

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For those of you thinking of getting a Chromebook but not sure how it works, here is a piece of news. You can now test the functionality of Chrome OS in your Windows system. That is as good as it gets!

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Features

• YouTube Links: These links are opened by the default application managing YouTube videos.
• Google Maps: These links are opened by the Google Map application and hence with a single click you can have the map on your device screen. [click to continue...]

Search engine giant Google has enhanced capabilities for its offline Gmail web app for Chrome by adding a settings page and providing better attachment functionality along with keyboard shortcut support. Offline email support is great for users who need access and respond to emails even when not connected to the internet. It is to be noted that Google had unveiled the new offline Gmail in August and Google has already built like functions for Calendar and Docs apps. [click to continue...]

The game,Plant Vs Zombies, is being played by people of all age irrespective of their intellectual level. This is quite addictive and the day I was asked to write a review about this, I decided to give it a shot and at the end of the day the article was delayed by 4 hours. Not because I was wondering what to write about but I lost to keep a tab on time as I was additively playing it for about 2 hours before I was asked by my proofreader to submit it as it was time to wrap up all days work. [click to continue...]

How many times, wrong typos in your email have caused you embarrassment? Would not have it been better, if just like smartphone’s auto-correction technique, you can auto correct spellings in your Gmail. ezAutoCorrect for Gmail is a Chrome extension which will correct some of your most common spelling mistakes. Although the dictionary is limited as of now, the extension corrects some of your most common spelling mistakes. One of the great features of the extension is that it no longer requires input from you. This effectively rules out right-click dictionary for your typos. [click to continue...]

In a move which I believe will propel the sales of ChromeBooks, users of Chrome browser now will be able to access Gmail even when they are not connected to the internet. Not only this, similar offline capabilities for Docs and Calendar are expected to arrive in coming weeks. For using Gmail and other facilities offline, users need to first install separate individual offline-access apps from the Chrome Web store and add them to their Chrome browser. While the Gmail app is known as Gmail Offline, Docs and Calendar will have their separate offline access apps.

Before this change, users could access Gmail and other services of Google only when they were connected to the internet. Users can read and write an email when they are offline. They can also see as well as edit calendars offline. Though offline editing of Google Docs does not work as of now, users can view their spreadsheets offline. The changes were anticipated ever since Google came up with ChromeBooks during its I/O conference held in May. [click to continue...]

The latest buzz in the social networking world is Google+. The social networking site by Google has been launched just over a month and ever since its launch it has seen a huge success and the number of users for the site has been increasing by leaps and bounds. Computer Programmer Zane Claes has come up with a Chrome extension called StartG+ which helps users to add several features to Google+. The extension helps to easily import photographs from Facebook(FB) and post from Twitter and FB.

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While a number of questions have been raised regarding the security of the Chrome OS, a security researcher demonstrated a preview as to how an extension can be exploited to hack Chrome. The extension known as ScratchPad offers diverse range of permission which makes the Chrome vulnerable to attack. Matt Johansen, a security expert at WhiteHat Security that in the upcoming BlackHat security conference he will demonstrating as to how browser extension can be exploited to hack Chrome. Johansen first performed the work on Google’s Cr-48 laptop, but he said that the extension can effect any device running on the Chrome OS.

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