Category: Chrome

Chrome extension to Share on Google plus pages

Download ‘Share on Google Plus Page’ Chrome extension

128For Google+ page owners, sharing web content on their Google plus pages will become simpler.

For sharing web pages as one of your Google+ pages,  there was no simple way to do directly.

You need to copy the URL, switch to your own Google+ Profile, then to the desired page and then share from there.

 

This extension makes it simpler. You need to setup your pages to this extension for the first time.

1. Install the extension Share on Google Plus Page and click on the extension icon.

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2. Click on ‘Define my Google+ pages’ button.

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3. Provide you Google+ page id’s and names (upto 5 pages – in addition to your own Profile), and Save it.

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4. Now you will see the page names in the select button

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5. Use the combo box select button to switch among your Profile and Pages.

- You have to select the "Share on Google+" field to start sharing the web page.
- You DON’T need to publicly +1 the page to Share it on Google Plus.
(though it says ‘You publicly +1′d’, you actually don’t)

You can circle me or my blog’s Google+ pages.

Please pass your valuable feedback / improvement ideas for this extension as a direct message.

Print to PDF option in Chrome

I noticed the new (for me) feature in Chrome to Print a webpage to a PDF file, when I was really in need of such a thing.

I had an e(g)mail to be saved as a document, so I clicked “Print” from gmail, and tried to take screen print and put it to a word document, but the “Print to PDF” function saved my time.

Btw, I hate to use the Microsoft XPS file format.

Print to pdf

P.S I am running Chrome version 13.0.782.14

Chrome Labs : Chrome Instant

Chrome Version 7.0.529.0 canary build has the Labs feature “Instant” which Makes the address bar load urls as you type.

Update: about:labs has moved to about:flags in Chrome

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After Google Instant, Youtube Instant, iTunes instant, now Chrome Instant is ready.

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For the sites, that you have visited already, you will see the sites directly loading, before you press enter (after typing the url).

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If you want to try this, Download and install Chrome’s Canary build (auto updated every week).

Disclaimer: Google Chrome Labs is a testing ground for experimental features that aren’t quite ready for primetime. They may change, break or disappear at any time.

Chrome Labs : Browser options in a tab

Google Chrome has a labs tab (about:labs), where Chrome developers test few Labs features. One of those is Side tabs. I don’t prefer to use Side tabs. Not sure if this will be promoted in Chrome.

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The newest labs feature is Tabbed options (chrome://options), which is available now in Canary Build (Download), that brings the Browser options in a tab and makes it easier to configure the browser. (By default, Chrome opens a popup window with the options, just like any other browser).

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If you want to try this, Download and install Chrome’s Canary build (auto updated every week). You can install this version of Chrome in addition to the version you are already using. Once you install, type about:labs in the address bar, to choose the labs features you want to use. Labs feature is also available on Chrome Version 7 and above.