Add smileys and colors to your Facebook Messages

Facebook as we all know is one of the best Social Networking site but it lacks animated smileys and colors while updating status and comments.

Faceplus is a Google Chrome extension which integrates itself into Facebook and changes your Facebook experience. This extension adds 30 smileys and ability to add color and BBCode to your Facebook messages (Color, Bold Italic, Underline).

Download and install Faceplus for Google Chrome

Once installed, whenever you want to update your Status, you will see a Style panel using which you can add smileys and change the colors and BBCode of your message.

The messages containing smileys will be displayed as animated in your News Feed once this add-on is installed.

Conclusion
Faceplus is a nice addon to make Facebook more entertaining.

Zoom Facebook images on mouse hover

Everyone likes uploading and checking photo albums on Facebook. Whenever a new image is uploaded by your friend interests you, you feel like watching it zoomed. To see the zoomed images you need to go to the Photo album and check it.

Facebook Photo Zoom is an extension which helps you watch the zoomed images in your News Feed itself. It is a simple, light-weight extension that integrates directly into Facebook so you can see larger images of photo albums, profile photos and more whenever you hover over a zoomable image.

Facebook Photo Zoom integrates itself in Facebook making it simple to turn it On or Off. Simple click the toggle button at the bottom of Facebook page to toggle it.

Conclusion
This is a great extension to make Facebook more interactive.

Download Facebook Photo Zoom

Know what should be read in Google Reader with PageRank for Chrome

We subscribe to many RSS feeds and Google Reader is one of the best RSS reader used widely. We tend to subscribe to multiple RSS feeds getting lots of material to be read. PostRank Extension for Google Chrome helps you find which topic matters and should be read first. It aggregates engagement activity from social networks, ranks stories based on how much engagement each has received and marks their priority.

Download and Install PageRank extension for Google Chrome

After installation you will find a dropdown for PageRank on Google Reader from where you can select the Rank of posts to be listed and read them. By doing this you are sure about reading the articles which are being discussed the most by people over internet.

You can also enable PostRank for Google Search Results, Digg, Reddit, Hacker News etc from Extension settings.

Conclusion
PageRank is a good extension to save your time reading only the articles which are most popular and relevant.

Set image as wallpaper for Google Chrome

Google Chrome has been missing the functionality to set the image as wallpaper on right click context menu. This is possible now using Set Image as Wallpaper extension for Google Chrome. Currently this is only supported for Windows machines and the support for MAC and Linux will be provided shortly.

Download and install the extension by clicking here
Restart Chrome for the extension to get enabled and start using it. Now, whenever you like an image on web and want to set it as your wallpaper just right click on the image and select Set image as wallpaper.

Clicking Set image as wallpaper starts up a new tab. Select whether you want to stretch, tile or fit the image in center of your desktop. Once done, click Set wallpaper to set the image as your wallpaper.

Additionally you can click Options to configure the extension.

Go directly to images in Google Image Search

Google Image Search is the best place to look for images whenever needed. But the way it works is irritating because you need to go through 2 pages to check the image you click. It first takes you to the website on which the image is posted and then shows the full image after clicking the link.

Using clickGOOGLEview extension for Google Chrome you can bypass the website where the image is posted and directly see the full size image after clicking it in Google Image Search.

See how it works

Before installing the extension

Open Google Image Search and search for image

Click on the image you are interested in

Click See full size image

After installing the extension

Open Google Image Search and search for image

Click the image you are interested in

Notice that the image opened in the new tab and was directly opened without going to the website from where the image comes.

To conclude, this is a great extension to fasten your image search.

Download clickGOOGLEview for Google Chrome

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Hide YouTube Video Comments in Google Chrome

YouTube is a great resource for videos and the comments a video gets is sometimes fun but sometimes turns out disrespectful or useless. Now it is possible to hide all YouTube video comments using No You Tube Comments if you use Google Chrome.

No You Tube Comments is a Google Chrome extension which hides the comments for all the videos watched on YouTube.

See it working

Start Google Chrome and open any video on YouTube and you can see the comments below the video

Now install No You Tube Comments extension for Google Chrome and hit F5 or Refresh on YouTube window to see the change

The comments are hidden when you install and refresh your YouTube window.

To conclude, this is a good add-on incase you do not like to read the comments on YouTube videos.

Visualize the tabs using thumbnails in Google Chrome

Earlier I had written about 3D effects to Firefox Tabs with FoxTab which gives Firefox tabs a totally refreshing and 3D look.

Google Chrome has come up with a similar extension named Visual Tabs which can make navigating though tabs easier and fun. Its not as powerful as Firefox Tabs for Firefox but a good add-on to have for Google Chrome if you love 3D thumbnails.

Using Visual Tabs for Google Chrome you can:

1. Navigate through the tabs easily with the help of thumbnails

2. Navigate through the tabs by scrolling your mouse

3. Change the background color of the window which displays the thumbnails

Start using Visual Tabs for Google Chrome

Start Google Chrome and Install Visual Tabs extension for Google Chrome

As soon as the extension is installed you are ready to start using it. Just click the icon for Visual Tabs next to the Address Bar in Google Chrome to start.

You can switch between the background colors by clicking the color you want of the available six colors. Lets see how White and Yellow looks in the background.

To conclude, as said before this add-on is a real treat for people who love their tabs in 3D views.

Google Similar Pages

Ealier I had written about finding sites similar to the one you are browsing using Firefox add-of named Similar Sites.

It happens that we enjoy the site and are interested in more similar pages  on the web. The first thing we do is Google it but not always lucky with the query to get the perfect results. Google Similar Sites extension for Google Chrome helps you here. Using Google Similar Sites you can preview and explore the sites which are similar to the one you are browsing.

How to use Google Similar Sites

• Open up Google Chrome and Download and install Google Similar Sites extension 
• Once you have installed Google Similar Sites you will see an icon for the same next to the Address Bar in Google Chrome.

• Start browsing the site you are interested in and click the Google Similar Sites button to get recommendations from Google on similar sites. For testing lets use www.addictinggames.com a site dedicated for online flash games.

Google Similar Sites is still in its beta. For some sites which are new to the internet you might get result "No similar Sites found".

To conclude Google Similar Sites is a great extension if you want recommendations on sites similar to your interests.

Take advantages of Google URL Shortener

I had previously written about Google URL Shortener which can only be used with Google Toolbar and Feedburner.
Interestingly there is a new extension for Google Chrome with which you can use Google Shortener URL to reduce the length of your current URL.

Click here to download Google URL Shortener for Google Chrome

If you do not use Google Chrome then you can use Google URL Shortener using the following link:

http://gaigalas.net/lab/googl

IE Tab extension for Google Chrome

There are certain webpages which do not render properly in Google Chrome and you end up switching to IE to view such pages. But with IE Tab extension for Google Chrome you can view such pages within Google Chrome using IE's rendering engine. Isn't that cool!!! It means now you no more need to leave Chrome to view such sites.

You can download the IE tab extension for Google Chrome from this link.
Open the URL in Google Chrome Beta and click "Add to Chrome" button

Note that extensions are only supported in Google Chrome Beta version as of now.

After you install the extension you will see an icon for IE Tab next to the address bar in Google Chrome. Click the IE Tab button icon and type the URL in IETab Address bar whenever you want to see how a webpage appears in IE.

This extension is really useful for developers who test cross browser compatibility for their web applications.

Google launches 300 extensions for Google Chrome Browser

Google held an event in Googleplex in Mountain View to showcase the new Chrome extensions. Google Chrome extensions list has already reached around 500 now. Google also showcased how easy it is to build a Google Chrome extension as two of its developers developed a Chrome extension from scratch during the presentation in not more than 5 mins. The extension build was not a basic but displayed a Gmail message window with the current page's link.

This is quickly attracting users and the developers. Chrome extensions are so easy to build because they are nothing else but a webpage which almost every developer is familiar with.

Currently Chrome offers pretty nice extensions like:

DotSpots
Connect blog posts, links, photos, videos and docs to any text on the web or into your social stream for all to see.

Shareaholic for Google Chrome
Share, save, or email the page you're visiting using services like Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Google Reader and over 80 more.

StumbleUpon
Discover the best of the web!

Google Translate
This extension translates entire webpages into a language of your choice with one click. By the Google Translate team.

You can check more extensions at this link