We at ChromePlugins.org always try to get things which are not easily known about the Google Chrome browser. As you might be aware that there are quite a few themes available which can be dowloaded from the Official Google Chrome Themes Gallery, but there are also a lot more themes (and better looking themes) outside the official gallery as well.
I am listing some of the best super heroes based themes for the Chrome browser. Many of these themes were actually requested by users here.
Most of us who use Google Services, use more than one. Which means we use more than one extension to check our Gmail, Reader, or something else but you could also manage them under one Google Chrome Extension. And here I have two to show you.
Google Alerter
The first one, the simplier of the two is Google Alerter. It works with Gmail, Reader, Wave and Voice. It just shows the number and nothing more.
The setting are also simple and straight forward. You disable the services you don’t use, and change the update interval (the amount of time the extension checks for your new messages).
One Number
One Number is more featured and supports Google Apps, something that Google Alerter does not. The popup shows you a glimpse of your last message.
The settings are also more advanced of those of Google Alerter, but can be confusing to some.
Conclusion
Both of these extensions are great. And I can recommend both. For those that want something simple, Google Alerter is the right choice. And for those who want the most out of a extension pick One Number.
We have covered about the various video downloader extensions for Google Chrome earlier and got a good response from users. However, most of those extensions were mostly based on Youtube and did not supported other popular video sharing sites, until i came across this one.
Video Downloader For Chrome – Download From Multiple Sites
Video Downloader For All Sites is a neatly made extension which integrates seamlessly with your Google Chrome browser. The whole process of getting the download link from various popular video sharing sites is very quick and neat with minimal issues.
Once the extension installs, you get a nice browser action icon as is now a trademark of Google Chrome, clicking on the icon opens a small box in the browser itself which asks you to provide the URL of the video which you want to download. Once its supplied, the extension gets the download link from the site and provides you with a couple of video format in which one may download the file (as seen in the screenshot).
As of now, the extension supports a lot of popular video sharing sites such as Youtube, Dailymotion, Metacafe, Vimeo, Blip, Veoh, Myspace, Google Video, Sevenload, Flickr, Revver, etc.
The extension is still in its development phase, so expect a lot of improvements from the developer.
Do let us know whether you liked this extension or not by writing your thoughts in the comments below. For any support queries please refer to the extension homepage above.
We are featuring another of the most requested themes for Google Chrome, i guess this theme was requested by a lot of kids who are Pokemon Cartoons fans.
Pokemon Skin/Theme
The ‘New Tab’ page background features all the 493 Pokemon images.
Theme Creator : memoshivia
Works With : Latest Stable, Beta & Developer Builds of Google Chrome.
My younger brother being a huge fan of Pokemon really liked this theme a lot. Let us know what you think of this theme. For any support queries please refer to the download link above.
Let us know what you think about this theme in the comments below and let us know what sort of themes you guys would like to have for your Google Chrome browser, the theme developers on our Google Chrome Forum would try out.
It has been a while now since Google Chrome has been released with extensions, but one of the most requested featured add-on/extension was the IE Tab extension, i.e, opening websites in Internet Explorer while using Google Chrome browser.
This was one feature which was integrated into ChromePlus, a web browser based on the source code of Chromium (which is also behind Google Chrome). Having a “Chrome” browser with IE Tab functionality was one of the prime reasons for its popularity.
Now, IE Tab functionality is also available for Google Chrome which can be easily downloaded in form of an extension.
IE Tab Extension
It allows you to use Internet Explorer to display web-pages in your Google Chrome Tabs. There are certain websites which can be viewable only in Internet Explorer and not in other browsers, IE Tab extension solves this problem by opening those pages via Internet explorer in your Chrome Browser itself without the need to change your browser.
This extension works with the latest developer builds of Google Chrome. I am sure this extension is bound to shift a lot of users from other browsers to Google Chrome. If you need help on this extension please refer to the above link. Let us know your thoughts via comments.
Last few posts on our site has been about Google Chrome themes, and this post is also going to be about themes for chrome. This one however, is for all the Bioshock 2 fans. Bioshock 2 is the latest edition from 2K games which would be released in Feb 2010.
P.fil, our very talented theme designer made a couple of themes inspired by Bioshock 2.
Many users wanted the original Aero theme converted to the .crx format due to it being easy to install. Since Stamga didn’t have time to update the .dll format of the theme every week, he decided that it would be a good idea to remake a similar theme using many features of the .crx format.
Compatibility : Latest Developer/Beta and Stable Builds
A few guys in your Chrome Request Post had asked for some furniture related themes, well its not exactly furniture related but certainly would give a nice woody effect.
Google announced in July this year that they were working on a new Operating System, Google Chrome OS and today they released its source code and also outlined some of its features and what keeps it apart from the other operating systems.
Pricing, Release Date & Speed
Though, Google released the source code of their Chrome OS, a finished and complete Google Chrome OS would be available for the general consumers only after a year from now. It is interesting to note that Google wont be providing its OS to be downloaded for installation on any computer, instead it would run on computers with specific hardware which would save a lot of boot time by skipping a lot of hardware checking steps.
Google emphasized that they would be pushing the manufacturers to develop notebooks with larger keypads and mousepads along with better display. Although, they did not gave any pricing hints for their Google Chrome OS, but said that the notebooks would be released as around the same prices as we see today.
If the speed of Google Chrome Browser is any indication to go by, topped by the live boot up time as Google showed earlier today, Google Chrome OS would be super fast as compared to other operating systems. The project head for Chome OS mentioned a 7 seconds Boot-up time, now that’s really fast.
Google Chrome OS : Interesting Notes
Every application a web-application in Google Chrome OS : There are no conventional or traditional application in Chrome OS. All the applications are a web application, a url, a link.
It has been assumed that Google Chrome OS would be integrated with your Google Account, this would enable users to login to their computer using other netbooks which run Chrome OS.
Google Chrome browser would run faster on Google Chrome OS than on a Mac or Windows since Google has re-done the browser for its OS.
Everything Online : This is the thing which made head turns when Google first announced its Chrome OS plans earlier this year. Although, it is not clear as to what sorts of applications would be available on Chrome OS, but by the looks of it i guess it “only” suitable for people who are “online” round the clock. Every settings on your netbook, whether its notepad or wifi settings everything would be backed up in your Google Account.
Since everything is on the cloud, there are many concerns which were raised such as printer’s support and other hardware support. Google assured us that Google Chrome OS would definitely be able to print but would take a “more innovative approach’ for supporting printers.
As was announced earlier, Google said they were at present only focused on releasing the OS on netbooks, and depending on its success, they would also impart it to laptops and desktops.
Our Take
I personally like almost all the Google Products. Going by the information available so far on this new Chrome OS, i think it would be a real time saver for users who are Google savvy and use it for all the needs. If Google entirely links it with its Google Account then their might be some resistance by a section of users who are not using Google much, apart from searching. One more issue might be the security aspects, since all thing is done online using your Google Account, if by any chance the account gets hacked or you loose password or something, it can lead to disaster. I am sure security is main aspect at which guys over at Google would be looking at.
The settings are also more advanced of those of Google Alerter, but can be confusing to some.
