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YouSearch: Watch YouTube Videos Without Leaving Current Page
Desktopify: Convert web widgets into desktop widgets
How to Switch On the Private Browsing Option in Firefox
ChromeMilk: Task Management tool for Google Chrome

YouSearch: Watch YouTube Videos Without Leaving Current Page

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 09:00 AM PDT

If you are a YouTube lover and prefer to work in Google Chrome, then you would like to access YouTube from Chrome without leaving your current page. Many times bloggers need to research things or Embedded YouTube Videos while writing articles. Sometimes, it becomes a bit time consuming to search for YouTube videos from different window and keep on switching the windows.

Google Chrome is providing a very useful YouTube search extension, known as You Search. YouSearch helps you to view, update or search any YouTube video without leaving your current window.

You can install YouSearch extension for Google Chrome from their official page:

1. Once you will install YouSearch, You will see the Icon for YouSearch on upper left of Google Chrome.

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2. I searched for "SEO Tutorials" and this is the result which I got

3. You can easily search for Videos or even upload it in the same way which we use for You Tube.

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YouSearch is an astounding extension for Google chrome, which will help you to save you time and increase your productivity. I am using it and found YouSearch very useful. The only problem which I faced was while I switch to new tab/ Window, the video which I was watching gone astray. So, you need to take care while switching to different window otherwise you have to start searching the video from beginning.

You might be interested in reading: Useful Google Chrome Extensions

Give a try to YouSearch and do share your feedbacks with us.

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Desktopify: Convert web widgets into desktop widgets

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 07:20 AM PDT

Many website have widgets to basically link up with other websites or even display information. Desktopify will be able to convert web widgets into desktop widgets. It allowed me to create Desktop widgets with two simple steps that is I had to paste the widget code and Desktopify can automatically create a desktop widget for me with a single click.

Great idea if you are running a web service as you can use this to create your own desktop widget and prompt your visitors to use a Desktop Widget. It is quite handy as it also allows sending updates, messages and also monitors stats for the number of people using the widget.

About Desktopify

These desktop widgets created with Desktopify are stand alone and can be used by Windows and Mac users.
It supports HTML, JavaScript and shows Flash.
It is interactive and also allows the webmaster to send Desktop alerts to everyone who has the desktop widget.

Here is a video below I have included from their website which gives a good demo of how Desktopify can be used for creating desktop widgets.

I personally liked the ease with which I could create widgets and put them up on my desktop. Desktopify also has a bookmark-let which allows creating any block of a website into a desktop gadget.

Do try it out and let me know if you like using Desktop widgets for news and views. Also if you use any other service to create desktop widgets do let us know.

Link: Desktopify

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How to Switch On the Private Browsing Option in Firefox

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 04:14 AM PDT

Private Browsing is very useful feature in Firefox. If you are not aware about private browsing in Firefox then let us quickly know what does it mean, private browsing is a feature provided in Firefox which allows you to browse the websites without saving any information of your visited websites, that is it will not store cookies,it won't save any passwords,form entries and search bar entries.

So if you would like to do private browsing ,you can do it by following the simple steps as shown below.

1. Go To Tools

2. Select Start Private Browsing ( For keyboard geeks shortcut for this is Ctrl + Shift + P

You might also like to read: Firefox Shortcuts

Firefox will give you an information which will show that your private browsing option is on and it won't save any cookies and other stuff as shown below.

To stop private browsing you just need to follow the simple steps as shown below.

Go To Tools
Select Stop Private Browsing ( For keyboard geeks the good news is that they can use the same shortcut keys which they used for enabling private browsing so for them it acts as a toggle shortcut)

If you don't want to enable and disable the private browsing option and would like to enable the private browsing option forever then there is an option which you can turn on, this will enable the private browsing option by default, whenever you will start Firefox.

I would advise you to make a portable version of Firefox and enable that option and browse the web privately whenever you require.

Here are the steps to do it:

Go To Tools
Go To Options
Click on Privacy Tab as shown below.

Click on Firefox will Combo and select and "Use Custom Settings for history" as shown below:

Select the option "Automatically start Firefox in a private browsing session" as shown below:

Click on OK and next time your start your Firefox you will be browsing in private mode.

I hope you will find private browsing useful. Don't forget to share with us , what you prefer to do for online privacy ?

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ChromeMilk: Task Management tool for Google Chrome

Posted: 05 Apr 2010 01:30 AM PDT

ChromeMilk is a great tool to manage your tasks and to-do list in Google Chrome. It is based on Remember the Milk, online to-do list and task management utility. If you are a user of Remember the Milk and want to use it in Chrome without opening the original website, ChromeMilk is what you need.

1. Go to Google Chrome extensions page and install ChromeMilk.

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2. Once installed, it will show you a small icon next to your address bar.

3. Click on ChromeMilk icon and it will ask you to login with your Remember the Milk username and pass. If you don't have one, you create one easily by click on the signup link.

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4. After you login, you will be able to see the to-do tasks list in the menu for that day. For example, I have once task which I must complete before sleeping i-e post.

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5. You can also add different task in the to-do click by click on the small "+ Add Task" icon.

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6. Click on Add Task and specify all the details of the task you have to do today or add task for any other day you want to. And it will show the task in the ChromeMilk task manager.

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7. Once you complete any task, you can change it to complete or postpone it to a later date if you want to.

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8. If you click on any task, it will take you to Remember the Milk website.

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9. Now, go to ChromeMilk options to see what other features it has. Go to Tools > Extensions > ChromeMIlk options. Or just right click on ChromeMilk icon and select options.

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10. It has many other options which you can choose as well like the popup type, icon badge (whether you want to display the icon badge or not) and reset options button.

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It's an excellent tool to manage your tasks easily in Google Chrome. If you use Remember The Milk, then this is the best extension for you to manage your tasks in Google Chrome. If you use any other tool to perform task management, kindly share with us.

Link: Download ChromeMilk for Google Chrome

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