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Google Chrome Extensions – Google Dictionary(by Google) and Dictionary Lookup
Today I was reading an online newspaper and one word came into my way which i was not sure the meaning of it.So naturally i was curious to know the meaning of that word and i just selected and right-click on that particular word and click the option Search Google for ” “ and got the answer in different page searched by Google.It was tedious job that I didn’t like it.So i started scratches my head and started looking for options which can make my job easy and i end up with two excellent Google Chrome extensions –
1. Google Dictionary(by Google)
2. Dictionary Lookup
These two extensions are very simple,powerful and easy to install in your Chrome browser.
1. Google Dictionary(by Google)
This extension is very simple but very popular among the users.As you can see weekly huge amount of users are installing in their chrome browser.
Once installation process is done you need to refresh the page to see the effect of this extension.
How to use :
Just double click on the word which you wish to see the meaning one small pop-up window will appear with the meaning of that word.
To know the full definition(synonyms,part of speech labels etc) and other web definition of the word or phrases you need to click on the dictionary icon on the right side of the address bar.
Why this dictionary extension is so popular?
The best and unique part of the extension is it supports translation.It support many other languages like..
– English
– Chinese
– Czech
– Dutch
– French
and many more.
This is another very simple yet powerful extension we can use for Google Chrome browser in order to get the meaning of the word or phrases.This dictionary extension is bit different from Google dictionary extension.
To view complete definition in Google Dictionary you have to click on the small dictionary icon in the right sight of the address bar but Dictionary Lookup will show you full definition of the word and phrases in the same pop-up window when you double-click on the word or phrases.
So the uniqueness of this extension is you needn’t not click some other places to know the complete definition(Synonyms,Antonyms,Part of speech labels,examples etc) of the word or phrases.With double click of the word one pop-up window will show you full definition of the word and the beauty of this extension is you can listen the pronunciation of the word like other online dictionaries.
How to configure Dictionary Lookup Extension
=> First you need to install this extension from here
=> Now go to dictionary lookup option and select ‘none’ option from Mouse lookup modifier by this you needn’t to hold ‘Alt’ key in order to view the pop-up window.
=> Next refresh those pages which already opened on your browser to see the effect of this extension.
Trust me chrome dictionary extensions will help you to be more productive and save lot of time. 🙂
Google Recipe View : Let Our Search To Be More Personal And Productive
Every time Google is coming with something more innovative and users friendly ideas and recipe view is the one of them.Google has added a new feature Recipe View which will help the users to narrow down the search results and get the desired information which they needed.
So far whenever we needed some cooking ideas or recipes from the internet we of course search in a Google or You tube.For an example we wanted to cook Indian spicy non vegetarian curry like spicy chicken curry,we used to type in the Google search “Spicy Chicken Curry recipes” and as a search result there would be many sites displayed from where we can learn how to cook spicy chicken curry.But if we want less calories in our food or less time consuming then what to do? Because normally they wont tell you how much calories they have in that recipes or how much time will that take in preparation,or Sometimes you don’t want to add some ingredients in some recipes but they have added up.So how to customize your recipes?
Filtered Google Searched Results without Recipe View
Now Google has given us a new feature in the search engine called “Recipe View” now we can filter or customize our search result with our requirements.
To experience the Google recipe view search impact just go to http://www.google.com/landing/recipes/ type in the search for recipe or ingredient box(ie,cauliflower,chicken,Apple) and hit search and you will find left hand side under Recipes “Ingredients”,”Any cook time” and “Any calories” with options to select.Now you can narrow down or customize your recipes according to your requirements.
So here is the search result which will you get.This result is more refined and perfect with the rich snippets markup.This is really awesome – Thanks to Google!!!!. By the way Recipe View feature is available for US and Japan only according to Google Blog gradually this will be rolling out in other countries also.
Top 5 Mozilla Firefox Add-ons[Extensions]
As everyone knows mozilla firefox is a safest and fastest browser in all the browser categories.Here is the statistics for usages in browser by the users in 2009 , 2010 and 2011 till now.
Source:w3schools.com
There are tons of addons available on the net for mozilla firefox which can improvise the functionality of the browser.These extensions are free to download as well.As there are lots of addons available, its always very hard to choose which is the best for you.Though its completely depends on the users choice and needs they can select one or more and add into their browser but here is a snap shot on the basis of statistics given in the site on Weekly reviewed,popularity and downloads.
1. Adblock Plus
3. NoScript
4. FlashGot
5. Greasemonkey
These are the top 5 add-ons which i got it from http://addons.mozilla.org and sharing with you.There are other plenty of extensions available for us to make our web experience better and smarter.
Let us know which add-ons did you like the most?
Youtube – Life in a Day
On July 24th 2010 youtube launched a project called “Life in a Day”-The story of single day on earth, where thousands of people around the world participated in this campaign and they uploaded the videos of their lives to youtube.Life in a Day will be a documentary film based on the real life single day story of different people around the world directed by Kevin Macdonald a Oscar Winning Director and Produced by Ridley Scott.This documentary film will be released later in 2011.
For more information on Life in a Day campaign check it out youtube channel : http://www.youtube.com/user/lifeinaday
As a part of this campaign Amit Agrawal a famous and well known blogger from India has also uploaded a documentary video on his daily routine life in Youtube-Life in a Day campaign.
Amit’s Website : http://labnol.org
How To Get The Ideas To Write A Blog Post
Finding the ideas for the blog post may be an easy task for those who are experienced and veteran in the blogging industry but this is not the case of the beginners. For beginners this part must be the toughest one because present arena of the blogging there are many quality content are already exists and meet that kind of quality will take some time and patience for them.
Here are some key ideas which i found from my experience i would love to share with you guys with the hope that you will like it.
1. When your question became a solution : This is very true when comes to finding any idea about anything.Lets take example of writing a unique blog post.you put your whole energy in finding what should i write then suddenly one idea sparkled in your brain(left brain 🙂 ) why can’t i write on this “How to get the idea for blog post”.That’s it ..you got it !!!
2. Brainstorming : This is a very powerful technique to getting ideas or finding solution for any concern.Mostly this technique will give you a positive and innovative results.
3. Getting clue from other blog or content : Just imagine you are breaking your head for your blog post and you are getting nothing coming to you.Try sometime not to put pressure on your brain,better start reading other blogs on the same niche which you have and may be you can get some idea from them to write something new for your blog.But here i would like to advice you please get just idea from other content or blog post please don’t ever duplicate those contents on your blog.This is violation of the webmaster guidelines.
4. Let Your Mind Free : Always a great idea will come in a free mind so let your mind free like a bird.Let it go wherever he wants to go.Don’t be misunderstood on this(Let it go wherever he wants to go) because right now your mind is inside the sphere of search of blog post so your whole concentration would be on your topic itself.
5. Be Sharp and Watchful : Ideas are everywhere only thing is you have to have very sharp and watchful.Be always sharp,active and watchful ideas will come to you without any hassle.
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Content Farms: A Threat to Quality Content
Its been always a headache for any search engine company to detect and prevent webspam from their search results and now content farms became another headache for them.Since Google is a most used search engine on the net, so its a big challenge and huge responsibility for them to provide safe ,useful and informative results for users.
Now a question arises here “what the hell this content farms is? ”
Content farms is thousands of low quality and uninspired contents which is written for just to drive more traffic out of that make lots of money.Because these contents are based on the highly searched niche or keywords so they get good rank and appears in the front page of the search results.
Recently Matt Cutts has written in the Google official blog about the new Google Chrome extension which is going to help the users to prevent from the web devil such “Content Farms”.
How this new Chrome extension will help to prevent from the content farms?
As Matt Cutts has written in the Google blog
Today we’re launching an early, experimental Chrome extension so people can block sites from their web search results. If installed, the extension also sends blocked site information to Google, and we will study the resulting feedback and explore using it as a potential ranking signal for our search results.
Source:The Official Google Blog
As Mr Cutts has mention in the blog and ask the readers,writers,blogger and all those internet users to block those sites using the new Chrome extension,which they think that is a content farms sites.
Install Google Chrome Extension from here : Personal Blocklist By Google
How To Drive Traffic To Your Blog Using WiseStamp Browser Addon
There are lot of smart ways to drive more traffic to the blog and WiseStamp browser addon is one of them.I would say this browser addon is one of the best for users which can allow us to customize the email signature with their latest tweets,recent blog post,Facebook status,eBay items and many more.
It gives us the facility to add many social services and profiles like facebook,twitter,Linkedln,Yahoo,Gmail,AOL,Hotmail and many more.Once you install and added this addon in your browser automatically it will insert your customized signature in your outgoing mail.Have a look…
How WiseStamp drives more traffic on your blog ?
As plenty of social networking applications supports this addon and many of them you must be using it so all the latest activity will be shown and sent through your outgoing mails everyday.This will bring many organic visitors on your blog on daily basis.So i think this is the smart way to drive more traffic on your blog.
How to Install WiseStamp browser addon ?
Installing wisestamp in the browser is a very easy process.Before i proceed i would like to mention here Wisestamp addon will support almost all the well known browser.
1. Go to the website http://www.wisestamp.com/ and click on Install
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4. Once addon installed in the browser it will ask to restart the browser.
5. After restarting the browser WiseStamp preferences window will pop up.A small window will ask you whether you would like to have a quick tour – that depends on you either you can click start to quick look on this tour or just close this small window.
6. This is the configuration part here we can customize the signature and feed all the required data.We can also insert the picture left before your signature.
7. Once you done feeding all the data in required applications and services then you are done.
8. Now you try composing any mail … amazing perhaps this is right word came out from me perhaps yours too 🙂
I liked this addon so much what about you ?
NetSetMan 3.2.1 :A Smart Network Setting Manager
What is NetSetMan?
Well this is a 2383kb software (which is not so big file) but reduces your more time and effort in order to configure same network settings multiple times on your computer.This is a tiny and smart network setting manager which can configure and save 6 different network profile at the same time.
How it Works?
Once you download it from the website and install in your computer-with one click Smart utility window will pop-up.
Here you can see 6 tabs on the top the window where we can create 6 different profiles(In the non commercial version there are few limitation) according to your need.All the setting will be automatically saved in the separate file(settings.ini).
Network setting manager will automatically finds out all the LAN and WAN connection which can be seen dropdown menu.So now we can configure the LAN/WAN and save the profile.
WiFi Management:
Like LAN we do configure wireless through WiFi management utility.First you need to select the WLAN adapter from the dropdown menu.Then on the top of the Network Setting Manager of NetSetMan Click->Tools->WiFi Management
Now we can refresh and select the network if any security is enabled feed the Key in the appropriate key box and save the settings.Here make sure Wireless Zero connection in XP and WLAN autoconfig in Vista and Win 7 is running.
There are lot more feature you can find in commercial version of NetSetMan.Overall you are going to love this software.
Supported Operating System: Windows 2000,2003,XP,VISTA and Win 7(32bit and 64bit)
Download it Free from here
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