Chrome to Windows Phone

Here’s a great little addon for pushing web pages and clips from Chrome to Windows Phone…

Chrome to Windows Phone 7 follows in the tradition of Chrome to Phone, Fox to Phone, and Chrome to iPhone, and does much the same thing. Click it when you’re on a page you’d like to send to your mobile (directions, coupons, what have you) and you’ll get a ping on your phone to open it up. Copy text from anywhere on your system, and you can send that, too, to your phone.

Chrome to Windows Phone 7 requires both halves of its name, and is a free download on both platforms.

via Lifehacker

Google Chrome’s second birthday

Nice illustration to celebrate the 2nd anniversary of Google’s Chrome Browser

In August 2008, JavaScript was 10 times slower, HTML5 support wasn’t yet an essential feature in modern browsers, and the idea of a sandboxed, multi-process browser was only a research project. All browsers have come a long way in the last two years and the web has become much more fun and useful.

via Google

Transfer your current Chrome page to your iPhone

This is a genius addon for sending the link to your current Chrome page to your iPhone, very useful if you’re trying to find directions and transfer between machines…

This extension brings Chrome to Phone for the iPhone! Chrome to iPhone lets you sent a link to your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad with one click. Set-up instructions (very simple) are inside the extension and will open after you install it.

via Google Chrome extension gallery.

Rapportive supplementing contact details into Gmail

Nice little addon for Gmail users, replaces the adverts with useful contact information for each emailer…

Rapportive is a plugin for Firefox, Safari and Chrome that adds a sidebar to your Gmail messages, inserting data pulled from Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and elsewhere, as well as giving you room to take notes on your contact.

via Gizmodo

Reader Plus for Chrome, making Google Reader awesome for widescreen monitors

I’m loving Reader Plus for Chrome, first of all it fixes one of my bug bares about Google Reader, that is takes up way too much vertical space on pointless rubbish, this addin supports complete customisation including the ability to add and remove many features

Enhance Google Reader by adding missing favicons, fixing missing images in enclosures, better unread counter, better viewing on wider screens, fullscreen, preview, colored list view, filtering, multi columns display, jump top bottom, close entry, fit height, open in background tab, read by mouse, share news on Facebook, Twitter, Instapaper, ReadItLater, mark all as read, simple advertising remover, replacer items for comic strips, automatic translation, and more….

If you’re a Chrome/Google Reader junkie, this is highly recommended

via Reader Plus

How to enable Aero Peek in Chrome to preview tabs in Windows

Here’s a great tip from the geniuses over at Lifehacker, now you can enable Aeropeek in Windows 7 so you can get preview of each tab rather than each Window (much like ie8 supports)

If you want to enable it, all Chrome builds (including the stable build) will let you add the flag –enable-aero-peek-tabs after the quoted path in the shortcut on your desktop or in your taskbar (if you hold shift when you right click you can go to properties and add it there).

This is very handy if you’re anything like me with one window but lots of tabs open at once.

via Show Chrome’s Tabs as Separate Aero Peek Thumbnails.