As I start off this week many of you have written me asking about other extensions. A friend who reads the articles, knowing how I use my computer, suggested I put in more extensions than I had originally planned. So, today I will continue by showing you the Chrome Browser Extensions I intended to. However, I will add some more that I had not initially planned. This also means that although I started listing them in alphabetical order that is no longer the case. Enjoy!
First today is “Annotary” which allows you to click the icon and save the page to read later online at Annotary.com. There is also much more. You can use an electronic highlighter which comes built in to highlight anything on the page. You can add a note regarding your thoughts on the article. I really appreciate and enjoy using this note taking feature. When I am reviewing articles for items to write about I use it to add my thoughts about the things I read and want to share with you. There is more so check it out.
Next, “Boomerang for Gmail” has several interesting features. The main is that once you give it permission to access your Gmail account it will let you send the email at a later time. You can choose a time limit, i.e. hours, minutes or a future date/time to send an email. Programs like Outlook and Thunderbird already have this built in; however, Gmail does not. This is a free add in but there is a limit of 10 messages per month. If you have more than that you can choose to pay a monthly fee.
This one is for very specific users, the ones who use KeePass as their password keeper called, “CKP – KeePass integration for Chrome.” This basically allows users of KeePass to add the password capability into Chrome for quicker access. That way you do not have to open the stand-alone program to get to your site passwords but only use the link for CKP. I have written about KeePass several times over the years so check for it on DoubleClicks.info.
This next one may be very useful for some yet useless to others. Pretend you have a webpage you are reading with several valuable (to you) links on the page. You would like to keep a list of the links only. You do not need the graphics, write up or ads that are also on the page. Enter, “Copy Links” which does just what it says. After you install the extension, go to a page you want the links from, click the “Copy Links” icon. It gives you several choices of what to copy, you click and nothing happens. At least nothing that you can see. But if you use the paste controls on your computer it will paste all the links that were on the page. No additional text just the plain “http” address without graphics, etcetera.
Keep those emails coming and I will see you for the next few weeks with some more Google Chrome Extensions.