Friday, September 25, 2009
ChromePlus - Enhanced Version of Chromium Brow
Do you love using Google Chrome but wish that it had some extra features built in? Now you can still enjoy all of that Chrome goodness and more with ChromePlus.
Curious about what those extra features are? They are: Double click tab to close page, Mouse Gestures, Super drag (new tab creation for links and text search), IE tab, & Download tools supported in context menu.
Installation
ChromePlus is easy to set up and like Iron Browser it installs to the Program Files area. Here you can see the install path if you are installing ChromePlus on Windows XP. If you are installing ChromePlus on Windows Vista, then your install path will look like this:
“C:UsersAsian AngelAppDataRoamingChromePlus”
But you can easily change the install directory in Vista to this:
“C:Program FilesChromePlus”
Note: Make certain to select the “Start Menu” shortcut creation while installing…the only one selected by default is for the “Desktop”.
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Once you have completed the quick and easy setup, you will see the following window. ChromePlus will give you the opportunity to customize what information is imported and to make it the default browser.
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As you can see, ChromePlus looks identical to Chrome except for the ChromePlus Icons. The “Home Button” is displayed by default, so do not be surprised to see it there.
Notice the ChromePlus Icon at the end of the “Address Bar”…
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Curious about which version you have installed? In the “About Window” you will be able to see the Chromium build used and version of ChromePlus that you have installed. Definitely good information to have.
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Menus
Like Chrome, there are the two menus accessible in the upper right part of the browser. The “Page Menu” is identical to Chrome…
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But the “Tools Menu” has some differences! There are two extra commands here…“New IE Tab & Check update”. Notice that the “Sync my bookmarks…” command is available in ChromePlus.
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Options
You can see that there is a new tab area available in the “Options Window” as soon as you open it. The “Basics Tab” area has the same options as Chrome…
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The “Personal Stuff Tab” area is also the same…
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You may or may not want to deselect the first three options shown under “Privacy” in the “Under the Hood Tab” area depending on your personal preferences.
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Here is the remaining part of the “Under the Hood Tab” area.
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And now for the extra tab! In the “ChromePlus Options Tab” area you can choose to use double clicking to close tabs instead of using the “x”, what you would like to do with the “Super drag & Mouse Gesture” features, if you want auto updating enabled, and create a customized URL list for the IE Tab feature.
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If you are curious about “Configuring mouse gesture actions”, this is what your window will look like. The drop down menus make it very easy to set up your own personalized set of mouse gestures (very nice!).
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Want to build that custom URL list? Just type or paste in the URL and click “Add”.
Note: The “scrunched up” button is the Delete Button…it did not want to display correctly on our example system.
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IE Tab in Action
Want to open a New IE Tab? Use the Tab Right Click Menu to quickly open a new blank one.
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Or open the current page in an IE Tab by clicking on the ChromePlus Icon.
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Notice anything different? Look at the end of the “Address Bar”…one nice little Internet Explorer Icon on display. You will always be able to tell which type of tab that you have open based on the “Address Bar” Icon.
Right Click in the webpage itself and look at the Menu that you have access to. Look familiar?
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And now for the Download Tool support. You can see the extra services that are supported, but to use them you will need to have them installed to access them in the “Context Menu”.
Menu Photo Credit: chromeplus.org
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Conclusion
If you love using Google Chrome, but really want or need the IE Tab integration and other features, then ChromePlus is just might become your new default browser!
Links
Download ChromePlus (version 1.2.4.0)
Works On: Windows XP – 7
Installed On: Windows XP (32 bit), Service Pack 3
Monday, December 29, 2008
Re-Size Photos using Image Resizer PowerToy
Today's digital cameras take great, detailed photos but the images are often too large to easily send. If you want to email these pictures and publish them on your blogs, having smaller file sizes is preferred.
The Image Resizer PowerToy for XP has been around for several years and does a great job of resizing an image by right clicking it.
After right-clicking and choosing "Resize Pictures" you get an easy to use menu for making an image larger, smaller, or a custom size.
As an example this image came directly off a digital camera and as you can see it is half a Megabyte - having several photos this size can start to add up in a hurry. By making the image smaller we save a lot of space.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Yahoo introduced its Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta, the next version of a popular IM software for Windows. This new version has a whole new look and feel, along with some great new features that make it well worth the upgrade.
In Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta when you paste a YouTube video URL in chat window, your friends can watch the video clip inline without having to visit the YouTube Website.
You can easily share photos from your Flickr.com account, or save photos shared with you directly to Flickr.
Another useful feature - if you are going Offline, you can configure Yahoo! Messenger 9 to forward all the Offline IM message to a your mobile number as SMS text messages.
You can have your incoming Phone In or free PC calls forwarded to another number like your mobile, home or office phone, even if you’re signed out of Messenger (Phone Out account required). Plus there’s a new way to get voicemail. When someone leaves you a voicemail in Messenger, an email is sent to you with an MP3 of the voice message attached.
To download the latest version click here.
http://beta.messenger.yahoo.com/
Yahoo! Messenger 9 is only available for Windows XP and Vista. A localized Hindi version of Yahoo! Messenger 9 is also available for Indian users.
Here’s a brief video that demonstrates the new features of Yahoo! Messenger 9.0:
The new Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 also offers localized versions in six new markets: Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, India (Hindi), and Vietnam. With these additions, Yahoo! Messenger is available in 25 international markets.
