Tag: chrome

Step-by-step guide to Connecting Chromecast from PC, Macbook or Android or Mobile Device

Karan S

Online streaming of video content in the form of YouTube Videos or Movies on different platforms is a norm these days. One of the most common and popular platforms that deals with streaming of high quality video files apart from YouTube is Netflix which of course has its counterparts as well as competition in that aspect. As regards streaming of videos online either from YouTube, Vimeo, Netflix or any other platform, initially people normally stream online from a mac or Android mobile devices by simply making use of a chrome…

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How to speed up a slow iPad

Karan S

In the event that you own an older Apple iPad : iPad 1 or maybe iPad 2 or iPad 3 or the iPad mini 1; there is a high possibility that it is not working as quickly as you prefer. Even as you may have updated the iOS to the latest available version which is free of bugs or glitches. You would have noticed that the iPad has slowed down with passage of time. At times even relatively new models feel slow in comparison to the latest ones. Fear not! help…

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Run Android apps on PC [Windows, Linux, OSX]

Tarandeep Singh

Google had been testing a tool called ARC (Android Runtime for Chrome) for Chrome OS since a while. While it ran pretty smoothly, it was in its alpha stages and was limited to select closed group members. Google has now rolled out a stabler beta to masses. You can get any Android app running on your PC whether you’re on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX or Chrome OS. ARC runs Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS thanks to Native Client (abbreviated “NaCL”). NaCL is a Chrome sandboxing technology that allows Chrome…

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Easily Manage Tabs on Chrome: Find, Switch, Preview Tab

Tarandeep Singh

Analytics have found that users use their web browser 50% of the time while they are connected to the internet. And when they do so, they have several browser tabs/windows open. If you’re like me, you have 20+ Tabs open at any moment, and Tab discovery is a mess. Once you open 15+ tabs, discoverability and switching among them becomes tedious. What if you could easily Manage tabs on your favorite browser, Chrome Easily? Lets go over some apps that help you make Tab management easier than ever. 1. Fruumo…

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SpeedUp, Boost Chrome Browsing on Android

Tarandeep Singh

Chrome on Android is the fastest and the slowest browser you can get. Fastest in terms of Javascript performance, and slowest in terms of Page scrolling, rendering. We can do only a little for the Scrolling performance, but we can definitely improve page load speeds by a factor of two or more. When on data conenction like GPRS, EDGE, 3G or 4G, poor coverage can slowdown page load speeds by far. This quick tip will help you boost page loading by upto 4-5x times and save both data consumption and…

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HowTo Make Chrome default Browser on iOS iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch

Tarandeep Singh

We love Chrome on desktops and Android. There’s nothing that beats Chrome on Desktop but there’s still a scope of improvement on mobile devices. Nevertheless, Chrome’s great bookmark and Tab syncing features make it the most attractive and useful browser in the market may it be iOS or Android. So, admit it, everyone is addicted to Chrome. Best overall browser that gets anything done fast. On Android you can set it as default browser ina single click but Apple has made it tricky, Safari would launch for clicks to weblinks…

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Get iOS like Smooth Kinetic Scrolling on Chrome, Firefox

Tarandeep Singh

After the iOS and OSX Lion evolution, we no longer like those jerky / clunky scrolls elsewhere. A Smooth scrolling vertical page is always pleasant to watch, and its good to the eyes. If you don’t like the way your Chrome browser scrolls on windows or OS X, here’s a quick extension for you that can help you get there. Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller is a Chrome extension makes scrolling webpages a beautifully smooth experience with iOS-like kinetic scroll. You get the power of controlling the mouse scrolling and smoothness, fine tune it to…

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Add Twitter search to Google Search results

Tarandeep Singh

Few months back Google announced that they would stop the Realtime search partnership with Twitter as Twitter had its own concerns. And now that Google is doing well with Google+, personal search results are introduced that leverages content from your Circles, and highlights them along with organic search results. Its a great value add to search, but not everyone is a Google+ user and not everyone likes to have personal search results. Instead, you might want to bring back the Twitter search results. If you’re among those, you’re lucky, coz…

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Chrome 14 vs Firefox 7 vs Opera vs IE9 Benchmark

Tarandeep Singh

There was a time in Browser wars when every performance test was Owned by Chrome or Opera. Firefox continues to dominate the market share with Chrome trying to fill the gap. Firefox 7 is released and its back to re-capture those early days when it used to be among the leaders. Lets see how they bechmark against each other for various tests: Test system: Tests were conducted on Core i7 Macbook 6gb DDR3 RAM, Windows 7 & OSX Lion. Matrix: A Relative matrix has been used to make graphs easy…

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Identify Browser Tab with Sound [Chrome, Firefox]

Tarandeep Singh

You are getting bugged by one of those tabs that has that random music or an ad playing, and while hunting down your 100s of tabs, you can’t seem to find the one. And it gets worse when you re-open your browser in office and that tab starts signing the song you were playing last night. The new Chrome extension does he right things: Mute Tabs. Mute Tabs Mute Tabs looks on to all your open tabs for the audio violator, and puts a musical icon on it, makes an…

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Get SMS, Incoming Call Alerts on Chrome [Android]

Tarandeep Singh

Its easy to miss important phone calls, SMS just because your phone is lying away from your work area. You can of course take control over Android phone via Gtalk, but what if you just want it for important phone calls, sms? MightyText (formerly Texty) has created an android app that can push notification to your Chrome browser whenever a new sms arrives or you receive a phone call. The SMS is fully synced (two-ways) between the android device and the chrome browser. The part we love about MightyText is…

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Install Chrome on iPad

Tarandeep Singh

iPad’s mobile safari browser is pretty good but it d0esn’t support tabs from the Chrome browser world. However, a neat app brings Chrome, Tabs on iPad. iChromy brings Chrome to iPad, well sort of, giving the goodness of the tabs sitting nicely at the top of the screen. It also saves space by making address bar also act as a search bar, just like chrome. It saves space and easier to use. iChromy also includes a built-in ‘read later’ function just like Instapaper and other sharing options. iChromy is available for Free…

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Chrome SPDY Protocol Speeds up web by 2x

Tarandeep Singh

Google had started testing a new protocol for the web that would directly give a speed boost by 2x to the existing HTTP web infrastructure. Google has, quietly, made the necessary upgrades to its webpages to support the new SPDY protocol reducing the page load time of Chrome for pages on its own servers by a stunning 50%. In effect, Google sites should load much faster in Chrome than in any other web browser. SPDY incorporates features like multiplexed streams, request prioritization and HTTP header compression. To demonstrate the productivity. To be…

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IE9 vs Chrome 10 vs Firefox 4 Benchmarks

Tarandeep Singh

The browser wars has always brought good stuff for us: All new set of features and significant speed improvements. And when we talk about speed, we trust Benchmarks more than anything else. But relying a single benchmarking technique is risky, and that’s why we execute all popular benchmarking tools before declaring a winner. IE9 vs Chrome 10 vs Firefox 4 Benchmark Platform: Windows 7 32bit on a Intel i7 Macbook Pro, 4GB RAM. We are not testing 64bit since IE9 has poor performance on 64bit as it still uses older javascript engine,…

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Sync Chrome, Firefox Tabs / Sessions across Computers, Android

Tarandeep Singh

Synchronize Chrome Tabs, Session across Multiple Computers, an end to all problems. We all happen to use multiple computers and hop all the time. Even if you don’t, its not hard to lose track of last session when there are 30+ tabs, and you are about to open more. Google Chrome provides ability to sync bookmarks, form autofills, extensions, themes, preferences, out of the box but there’s no support for saving Tabs from current session. Its time for your to save your Chrome Tabs, Session and sync to the cloud…

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