Ten amazing Chrome plugins for Gmail

You can love Google or hate it, but the truth is that both Gmail and Chrome are terrific products, and possibly the best in...

Add your social feeds to your email signature, with WiseStamp

Having an active social media presence can play an important role in promoting yourself or your brand, blog or website, etc. This is because the...

Block ads and prevent websites from tracking your online activity, with DoNotTrackPlus

It’s not a secret, and hardly controversial, but no sooner than you visit a webpage than it instantly starts collecting information on your behavior and demographics (e.g. location), and trying to infer your interests. If you want to block this activity, or if you merely want to know which scripts or services are tracking you, then Do Not Track Plus, a free extension for Chrome, Firefox, IE and Safari, is for you.

Backup your browser easily with BrowserBackup Pro for Chrome, Opera, Firefox and Chromium

There is is so much information that our browsers hold, that if the system crashes or if we reinstall or upgrade to a new...

Navigate browser tabs visually with ‘Visual Tabs’ for Chrome

In today’s world, having numerous open tabs in your browser is the norm rather than the exception. Which is why visually-inclined Chrome users might...

Get automatic alerts whenever your chosen topic is Tweeted, blogged, Facebooked, etc … with...

Mention is a neat little service that will track any mentions of you, your brand, or your favorite topics across the internet, including Tweets,...

Add file type icons to Gmail attachments with ‘Attachment Icons for Gmail’ Chrome extension

When you receive an email with attachment in Gmail, it shows a paperclip icon by default. Wouldn’t it be great if you can find...

Remove clutter from web pages and make them easy to read with Clearly for...

The internet is choc full of great content, but it also has a knack of bombarding you with all sorts of visual stimulation, from...

Share bookmark lists and save webpages offline, with Blinklist

Blinklist is a great free way to save webpages offline for later reading and to share them with others. You can save pages into...

Three great solutions to collaborate online: Dropmark, Online Support Tools, and Fullsync

We keep saying things like, “The world is smaller now,” and “The shortest distance between two places is now a byte'” and when it...

Two FREE URL history tools for Chrome

With all the browsing we do it’s often almost impossible to hunt down and discover one single site that was visited, say, three weeks...

Two great “Free Speech” tools for Chrome

In honor of July fourth, and because I write about my experiences and opinions, I thought a couple of free speech extensions would be...

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