Google Chromebook Available for Pre-Order on Amazon and Best Buy

Chromebook is a mobile computing device running Google Chrome OS which is developed by Google. Google Chrome OS features prominently Google Chrome web browser with an integrated media player. Targeted towards web-savvies who spend most of the time using apps and services hosted on Internet, Chromebook has minimal offline computing capability of traditional notebook computer.

Chromebook does have a few advantages over traditional personal computer though. For example, ultra-fast boot time of as fast as 8 seconds, continue to support many plug-and-play USB devices such as external drive, camera, mouse, keyboards, etc. and does not require anti-virus software due to multi-layer security architecture employed by web apps. Chromebook does not have mechanical hard disk, and is using Solid State Drive (Flash memory SDD) instead, giving it further speed advantage.

The main difference of Chromebook is that users use web apps that available from Chrome Web Store instead of install traditional programs. With the emphasis on web apps, the availability of Internet connection is paramount to Chromebook. As such, several Chromebook models has built-in Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity to ensure there is connectivity to the Internet anywhere. There is also a special keyboards with buttons for opening and controlling multiple browser windows, and Web search button that replaces the Caps Lock key.

If you’re interested to get a Chromebook, it’s now available for pre-order at Amazon.com

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How to Force Google Chrome to Open Link and Pop-Up in New Tab

Occasionally Google Chrome web browser will open links and pop-ups in a new window instead of new tab within the same window with tab containing originating web page. Unlike IE and Firefox which have options that can be set to open pop-ups and links in new tab in current window, Chrome web browser does not have such convenient control option.

As a result, Chrome will obey HTML code of target

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Download Google Chrome 12 Final

It seems like Mozilla Firefox development team has tough hill to climb in order to beat Google in its own game, that’s rapid development cycle. Google Chrome development team has worked hard to move their popular Google Chrome browser to stable version of 12. The latest stable version of Google Chrome 12 has included lot of new features, enhancements, security updates, improvements and increased stability, such as hardware accelerated 3D CSS and a new Safe Browsing feature.

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How to Delink Gmail and Google Apps Email to Open In Same Browser

Gmail and Google Apps have always been two separate entity for many people who uses Gmail as personal email account, while Google Apps serve as business or company email account. Previously Gmail and Google Apps are running two different system architectures and cookies, allowing users to simultaneously login to Gmail and another email account based on Google Apps on two different tabs within same browser window.

Good thing does not last long though. Google started to migrate all Google Apps hosted accounts to Gmail and Google Account platform. While the transition allows Google Apps users enjoy more services such as Google Voice, Blogger, Picasa Web Albums, and ability to sign in directly from Gmail homepage instead of having to go to custom Google Apps domain URL, it also means suddenly users lose some capability, including convenient mentioned above – it’s now impossible to login to Gmail and another Google Apps email account at the same time.

To end user of Google Apps after transition, both Gmail and Google Apps accounts now appeared linked. When user signs into one account, all existing Gmail, Google Account or Google Apps accounts on the same web browser will automatically switch to the newly logged in identity. Likewise, when logout, all Google Account, Gmail and Google Apps account in all tabs and windows of same web browser will automatically logged out.

In reality, the Google Apps and Gmail accounts are not linked, and remain separated. But as Gmail and Google Apps now using the same standard Google cookie to keep user signed in information after transition of Google Apps, the ability to login to both Gmail and Google Apps in parallel is lost, as the cookie will overwrite each other.

Google has probably anticipated the problem that will be faced by Google Apps users who have undergone transition, and has rolled out Multiple Sign-Ins feature which allows users to login and use multiple Google accounts at the same time within the same browser (on different tabs, of course).

The mutliple sign-in works for Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Sites, Google Docs, Google Code, Google Reader, Google Finance, Google Voice and Google Profiles. To enable multiple sign-in, just visit the multiple sign-in option and sign in with your main Google Account to turn on the feature.

Once multiple sign-in is enabled, click on your name or email address and select “Sign in to another account” to login to another Gmail or Google Apps account. The newly logged-in account will automatically have multiple sign-in support enabled. In fact, you can login to more Google Account as you wish.

My Digital Life has step-by-step guide on how to enable multiple sign-in of Gmail and Google Apps accounts.

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Download Google Chrome 9 Stable With Plugin-Free 3D

After two month of releasing Google Chrome stable 8, Google Chrome development team has continued to upgrade the stable version of Google Chrome to 9. The latest stable version of Google Chrome 9 has been improved with several features, stability and bug fixes.

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Export Delicious To Google Bookmarks Official tool launched

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Google has launched their Official migration tool to export all delicious bookmarks and import them into Google bookmarks. Previously We had discussed about How to backup delicious bookmarks, and also 6 Alternatives to Delicious, now Google bookmarks has officially launched the export tool to export bookmarks from your delicious account to your Google bookmarks account.

So basically what makes to Google to offer this migration tool is that, recently Yahoo admitted that they are closing down the delicious service and looking out for buyers. So this made many other social bookmarking service to offer their own migration tool to export from delicious to their own service.

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How to Enable and Use Auto Fill Forms in Google Chrome

If you’ve used Internet Explorer Auto Fill Forms feature that fills out all the forms on the internet web pages automatically. You don’t have to enter the details everytime. On many registration forms, you have general details such as Name, phone number, address, occupation details and many more. So these kind of stuff can be filled out once and can be reused every time to fill out the forms using the Auto Fill forms feature present on the browser.

How to Enable Auto Fill Forms in Chrome ?

Open Chrome.

Click on

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How to Import Facebook Birthdays, Facebook Events into Google Calendar

Already we had talked about the Automatic Facebook birthday wishes sender app named ‘Autobudder‘ that posts the birthday wishes automatically to facebook friends exactly at 12 clock. Now if you’re not comfortable using the Facebook app because as it authorizes your profile information to access the app, you can alternatively use this app named ‘FBcal’ that actually exports the facebook friend’s birth dates and imports them into Google calendar or Microsoft outlook or any other application like Apple iCal, Sunbird, Live calendar etc.

FBCal is a simple app that actually exports your Facebook friend’s birth dates and imports them into Google calendar, Outlook, iCal, Sunbird or Live Calendar, what ever you choose. So just use FBCal, import them into Google calendar, set the alerts and Google calendar will remind you forever.

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Google Chrome Website Launcher with Single Keystroke or Hotkeys

Do you have a set of websites which you visit regularly ? and visiting them by typing the specific URL is again a long boring task and time consuming. To avoid this, we do have bookmarks. But again here is a add-on that does the work even more faster and simpler than the bookmarks. You can launch your favorite websites in Chrome with single keystroke or using hotkeys. Just by pressing any letter, you can open a website in Google chrome browser.

Sitelauncher extension for Google chrome offers you a super fast, slick and clutter-free method to open sites that you regularly need access to. Simply press Ctrl

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Alexa toolbar extension for Google chrome

Alexa ranking system is a service that displays the internet most visited websites, including top sites, their traffic stats and also ranks the website based on other factors. So generally these Alexa ranking can be checked out using their webpage or their own toolbar which provides a good amount of information. After quite some time, people started hating these Alexa toolbars on their browsers, so here is a simple Alexa toolbar add-on that sits on the corner of your browser and displays all the needed information about any website you visit.

Bloggers and Web masters consider this Alexa rank of their websites as a benchmark and work towards getting better alexa rank for their websites. On the past, we had also discussed about 5 Easy ways to boost up your Alexa rank. Generally, if you have a good amount of visitors or traffic to your website, then you can get good alexa rank. Check out, How to drive free traffic to your website.

Alexa Traffic Rank extension for Chrome displays the alexa information of any specific website when you visit. With one single click on the extension icon, you can get quick and easy access to a site’s Alexa Traffic Rank and sites linking in. Also it shows the traffic compare to other sites on the Web.

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Integrate Google Docs into Your Existing Document Folders with URL Shortcuts [Google Docs]

We've featured a few ways to get Google Docs to sync to your desktop, but if you'd rather not use extra software, reader Sweens offers a very simple solution: Just save links to them in your Documents folder.

It won't sync automatically, but if you only use Google Docs for a few things here and there, it's hardly a pain:

Like most people, I have my document folders organized by category (e.g. personal finance, business, taxes, etc.). Working with Google Docs can be frustrating because you have to maintain two different document repositories.

Instead, try dragging URLs from your browser into the appropriate desktop folder. Voila, your Google Docs are integrated into your current filing system.

It's an insanely simple tip, and we're surprised we didn't think of it before. With just a few clicks, you can keep those cloud-based documents organized just the way you like them on your desktop. Do you have a different way of keeping your online and offline documents organized? Let us know in the comments.

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How to Save Search Results in Google Maps, Wikipedia

December 27, 2010

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You can easily save the search results of Google maps . Already we had talked about saving Google maps for offline use, this time if you’re looking out for some places and wanted to save it for repeated use, then you can use this tiny free tool that allows you to save what you search on Google maps and Wikipedia.

Google Maps Save Search Results is a tiny software that allows you to save the search results into a text or HTML file. You can simply download and install it. Once you’ve installed, there are options such as how many results to limit the number of results display. So give them and start searching using the search box inside the tool.

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I’m Feeling Lucky About Google Gravity Trick (Source Code Download)

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Fancy messing up or hacking the Google homepage? Or hate Google so much that you want to throw Google around? Now you have a chance. Thanks to a programmer named Ricardo Cabello who coded a script named Google Gravity. Works perfectly in Google Chrome, it allows every components on Google homepage to fall down and be able to move freely.

To perform the trick of Google Gravity, just do the following:

Visit http://www.google.com/.Make sure that Google Instant is off.Type in Google Gravity into the search box.Click on I’m Feeling Lucky button.Move the mouse.

Note that the trick works best in Google Chrome and Safari, but appears to be working only partially in Firefox, and not working in Internet Explorer.

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Add Google SSL Search Provider to Firefox Search Box

Google supports search over SSL secure connection, where user can enjoy end-to-end encrypted search solution between local computer and Google’s server. Secure Google Search channel helps protect search terms and search results pages from being intercepted or sniffed by malicious hackers or proxies.

To search with Google over SSL secure connection, users can manually visit https://encrypted.google.com. However, the Google Search search provider which comes with Mozilla Firefox does not use Google over SSL URL as default search provider, for both search and search suggestions.

Firefox users who want to use Google SSL Search can download and install the following add-ons which install one of the following search providers that default to using encrypted Google SSL Search URL to perform searches and provide type-ahead search suggestions securely.

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How to Add Enrypted Google SSL Secure Search Provider to IE

Google has added support to search over SSL secure encrypted connection, where user can enjoy end-to-end encrypted search between local computer and Google’s server. Secure Google Search communication channel helps protect search terms and search results pages from being intercepted or sniffed by malicious hackers or third-party proxies.

To search with Google over SSL secure connection, users can manually visit https://encrypted.google.com. However, the Google Search search provider which been added to Internet Explorer (IE7, IE8 and IE9) through Windows Internet Explorer Add-ons Gallery does not use Google over SSL URL as default search provider, for both searches and search suggestions in the IE search box.

To force the IE built-in search box to use Google SSL Search, just following the trick in the guide below to install and add a search provide that default to using encrypted Google SSL Search URL to perform searches and provide type-ahead search suggestions securely.

In IE, click on the “Down Arrow” at the end of the search box, then go to Find More Providers…. Alternatively, visit directly to URL of http://www.ieaddons.com/searchproviders.

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Control Flash Content in Google Chromes With FlashControl

Many designers tend to insert some flash animation contents such as flash intro, flash advertisements, flash fun games, etc to make their website more attractive and interesting. However, many visitors to the website might not buy the idea. Users might find the flash contents on the site annoying and disturbing. To get rid of the flash element from appearing in the website, Google Chrome offers users a filtering option via its flash content filtering extension, namely FlashControl.

FlashControl is a free browser extension for Google Chrome that allows users to have control over the flash contents by blocking the Adobe Flash players from loading the contents. With this extension installed, users will find there is a control panel to each flash player embedded in a website. Users can turn on/off the buttons on the control panel to allow/disallow the flash player from functioning. By default, FlashControl blocks all flash contents from running on a site. Users can control manually using the control panel to enable the flash contents. FlashControl also offer users the option to identify certain websites that allow flash contents. Users can add these websites address to a whitelist so that the browser extension will not block the flash content from these sites.

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How to Enable Google Instant on Chrome for Mac [Video]

I am quickly becoming a Google Chrome convert for Mac and have it set as my default browser on all my systems and platforms. I like the cutting edge features of the dev builds, but I'm not ready to plunge into the Chromium nightly builds for a default browser.

With the release of today's version 8 for the Dev builds, I was upset to see that Google Instant was not available for us Mac users. So I did some homework and found out how to enable it in the Dev build for Mac. Here's how:

1. Open Chrome and go to about:labs and enable at least one feature. (I enabled tabbed settings.) Then restart Chrome to apply the settings, then Quit Chrome.

2. Open /Users/YOUR-USERNAME/Library/Application

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Shorten Link with Google URL Shortener at goo.gl Website

Google URL Shortener is a free service from Google which shortens the long URL or link location into a shorter form. The shorter URL with lesser characters is important for micro-blogging service such as Twitter which has limitation on number of text that can be posted in a single tweet.

Google URL Shortener has been used in a variety of Google products since its launch in December 2009, though users can only utilize the Google URL Shortener indirectly through Google services which incorporates the URL shortening feature.

For example, initially users who want to shorten the URL with goo.gl can only do so via Google Toolbar to share a link, or through FeedBurner’s Socialize to post feed items to Twitter. The Google URL Shorterner has since been integrated into many other Google products including News, Blogger, Maps, Picasa Web Albums, and Moderator, but there is no way to generate the shorten URL based on goo.gl directly from a website, until now.

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Download Google Chrome 7 Beta

In order to develop next generation of Google Chrome 7, the Google Chrome development team has released its Google Chrome 7 beta. This beta release is targeted at users who like to use and help refine the latest features of the Google Chrome 7. Similar to the stable version of Google Chrome 6, the Google Chrome 7 beta also uses the Webkit layout engine and application framework.

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Google TV Looks Like the Real Deal in Bridging the Web-TV Divide [Video]

If it works as smooth as it looks in this preview video, Google TV could provide the kind of seamless web-on-TV experience many have been looking for: Dedicated apps, a Chrome web browser, easy picture and music viewing, and more.

Google TV was announced in May, but the only evidence of how it could work was provided in a simple stage demonstration, and a cartoon-styled video. It seemed like a really web-savvy DVR, perhaps, or maybe a set-top box that had a little more Google juice.

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