Top Chrome Extensions for Bloggers to Live Happier
Bloggers require more efficient tools and luckily, there are lots available. A good knowledge to use them properly makes our life much easier. In this post, I’m sharing my favorite Chrome Extensions. Life is really enjoying with them!
Google Chrome is the most loved browser today – I hope you all would – it is already agreed that this is the fastest browser on earth. Apart from speed, chrome is praised for its simplicity, security and all those great extensions that made it rich.
I was so addicted to Firefox till a few months ago and kept resisting when Ileane was already discussing about the top social media extensions and some really excellent tools like Digo and Zemanta for Google Chrome. Though there were some grumbles regarding the heavy CPU cycles, memory and battery power usages but who would sit behind after comparing the performance it offers? I bet you can’t resist longer if you are not using Google Chrome yet!
My intention, for now, is not to discuss whether chrome is more black or blue but to share those tools that are more sharper. Most of these extensions, you’re using already. If you are not, find here why I love them.
Never Make Those Shameful Typos Again
Sometimes, it is due to your ignorance and sometimes because you were careless – but its human nature – you can’t avoid all mistakes. You can remove some, if you make second reading, but still, how about a nice tool that will always accompany you and point out those silly errors?
The Google Chrome Extension ‘After the Deadline’ by rsmudge is great for this purpose.
On every boxes in any web page, you’ll find this ready to assist you.
You see that small green ‘Spelling and Grammar’ icon at the bottom of comment box? That’s what ‘After the Deadline’ extension does. Just click it and you’ll know where you’ve made those damn mistakes.
OK, that’s great. You will find this tool helping you in Facebook, Twitter and any webpage where you need to enter some text. Don’t forget to click the icon after you finish typing.
[Download this extension here]
Size Really Matters
How often you wish to know the dimensions? The width of your sidebar to fit a new widget – The width and breadth of image and so on. Here is a great extension that lets you to measure them. A very handy tool!
MeasureIt! by nirzoref lets you draw out a ruler that will help you get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.
Simply click and draw over any element on web page to reveal the pixel width and height values.
Capture Edit And Use Them
Especially for bloggers who write tutorials require to capture some or all of the page as image. You see some images in this post itself captured from browser. Generating images are required and you can’t always enchant Photoshop.
I often use ‘Annotation Pilot’ a free desktop application to capture a portion of screen and add annotations, then save it as JPG, GIF, PNG or in many other formats.
What if you need the image of whole web page or blog page that is longer than the height of your screen? Neither PrintScreen nor Annotation Pilot can help you. Here comes Aviary Screen Capture.
Take a screenshot of any webpage and edit it directly in your browser with Aviary.com applications. Plus convenient access to the Aviary website and tools.
This quick screen capture addon is a must-have for bloggers and designers alike! It will perform a screen capture of the visible portion of any webpage and then open the capture INSTANTLY in a basic image editor where you can do markup (draw arrows and rectangles), edit (crop, rotate and resize) and get the exact pixel colors of the image. A perfect companion tool for designers and bloggers!
Where Did I Go?
I’d thought to list the super-useful chrome extensions, but I don’t know how, the post developed more of descriptive and could not include all the extensions I’m using. Never mind, I hope this post will be useful to learn which plugins are of more use and what it is for. I plan to talk about SEO Chrome Extension for bloggers in some day.
Did you like this post? Or you think a long list would be of better use? Are you using Chrome and its extensions? Would you share some extensions that you find great to help blogging life? I’m most excited to hear from your side.
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29 October 2010 at 9:28 pm Permalink
Hi Suresh,
I’m still using firefox as my default browser but my second is chrome! Agree chrome is the faster and if firefox is slower for long time, may be I’d change.
I’ve installed After the Deadline at firefox and it is good, I assume the same for the chrome version.
I didn’t know about Aviary I use Awesome Screenshot but I’ll visit Aviary may be is better
Cheers,
Gera
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30 October 2010 at 6:12 pm Permalink
When I am using Chrome, I tend to think there is Chrome everywhere, but yes, Firefox is not a loser. Thank you Gera for the comment.
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29 October 2010 at 11:00 pm Permalink
Thanks for this list. I like using extensions for the time they save me. I use both chrome and firefox depending on what I’m doing. There are still a few things that firefox is useful for, but I use chrome for speed.
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30 October 2010 at 6:16 pm Permalink
‘The cat is not stronger because tiger is older’ (a saying in Nepali). Firefox has some ground to stand firm, but I guess the extensions to Chrome will evolve making it capable to replace FF !:D?
As i remember, i have been commenting in “Chrome” posts about three or four times.
People use Chrome nowadays or what? LOL
I have Chrome installed but i use mostly Firefox.
Thanks for the lists of extensions though, i may try it.
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30 October 2010 at 6:23 pm Permalink
That’s right Kimi. But chrome is too weak without the great extensions. When you have right extensions, you’ll enjoy the speed of chrome!
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30 October 2010 at 10:19 am Permalink
Hey Suresh, thanks for mentioning me when you think about Google Chrome. I have some new extensions that I want to share with you. Aviary is good but for some reason it crashes or takes a long time to load, so I also keep another extension handy. This one is called Awesome Screenshot and it loads pretty darn fast. There is another extension you might want to add and I got this tip from Karen at @BlazingMinds. She told me that the Alexa toolbar is available for chrome now too. Even though SEO Site Tools give me the Alexa rank, some people say that having the toolbar installed help with your Alexa rank. Mine has been going up all the time so I can’t really say for sure but I use it just in case
Back to SEO Site tools. I noticed when I signed in to Google Webmaster Tools that the SEO Site tools logo was on the page and they must have a special relationship with the developer now, so I know that I’m sticking with that one too.
Thanks for the run down of your favorites, I think I’ll try Size really matters next.
Cheers!
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30 October 2010 at 6:39 pm Permalink
Thank you Ileane for your suggestions in new extensions. Ya, I found Awesome Screenshot perform great.
I’m noticing the gradual increase in Alexa (decreased number), and hope it will help even better after I install Alexa toolbar?
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30 October 2010 at 8:30 pm Permalink
I use Firefox primarily but I have been experimenting with Google Chrome a bit. I will have to check out these extensions!
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30 October 2010 at 8:50 pm Permalink
Thanks Kevin for stopping by and comment. It appears Firefox still is NO 1 CHOICE!
Those are some great plugins but many think of Chrome as a way for Google to monitor they web surfing patterns.
I am still firefox man for the diversity of webmaster/seo and other kinds of plugins mozilla has and although it lacks in speed and is a memory hog I still use it.
About the part with the faster load time, I can’t really express myself, but I think there were test made and Opera was one of the fastest with IE coming second (mainly because it has the majority of it’s libraries preloaded with Windows).
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31 October 2010 at 6:38 am Permalink
I don’t think Google needs its own browser to monitor web surfing patterns when almost of the sites use Analytics and other scripts from Google. I guess Google is extending itself.
IE is not much favored because, as I think, (1) it is default browser for Windows PC – people prefer better customization and (2) vulnerability – browser crash is worst experience. Its been long, if it has been improved now?
Thank you Alex for this great input.
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1 November 2010 at 11:21 am Permalink
I have also started using Google chrome few months time majorly because is faster and my firefox usually crash. I use many extension but i never use After the Deadline, thanks for the share.
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1 November 2010 at 12:41 pm Permalink
Some extensions are really life saving. After the deadline is really useful.
Thank you Biodun for commenting.
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2 November 2010 at 5:07 pm Permalink
I love to check out various cool addons and extensions , be it firefox , safari ,opera or chrome . I am desperate for checking out official alexa toolbar for chrome . Till now just feeble widget kinda badge is only launched , but i prefer using firefox for alexa toolbar
Thanks for sharing your favorite chrome addons , wil give it a shot
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2 November 2010 at 5:35 pm Permalink
That’s great Ajinkya. Do you believe using Alexa toolbar will improve ranking? I’ve read a few blog posts mentioning that and could never understand.
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2 November 2010 at 6:49 pm Permalink
Yeah dude , i do believe !
Thats because the toolbar absorbs all the data and thats how alexa ranking is analyzed ! But not with alexa widget because , it just displays data and not collects .According to my experience , the change in alexa rank is first observed in toolbar and official alexa blog stat page and then in widget which we put on our blog .
Thats why there are some blogs with poor alexa rank but with explosive traffic whereas some with less traffic but with praising alexa rank ;D depending upon the visitors !
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2 November 2010 at 8:03 pm Permalink
That must be correct. Thanks a lot to educate. But, like – I have a blog, and I have alexa toolbar – now, alexa can collect data from my toolbar, but will it be significant because its one person when ranking is based on thousands. Let me make myself clearer, if I have toolbar and I browser lot of sites, it will be beneficial for those sites, but is it true that I will improve my website ranking because I have alexa toolbar installed?
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3 November 2010 at 11:34 am Permalink
Oooo. I really like that MeasureIt! extension. Thanks!
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4 November 2010 at 7:30 am Permalink
Hi Suresh
Thanks for such an informative rundown on Chrome. I have been hearing all the techies talk about it on Twitter. As a complete technophobe I tend not to join in these conversations lol
You have given a great explanation though that is easy to understand. Thanks for sharing.
Patricia Perth Australia
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4 November 2010 at 8:34 am Permalink
Don’t need to be techie to learn about some nice tools and using them. Life is much happier with right tools than heavy toils, isn’t it?
Thank you Patricia for joining this ‘techies talk’
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I am a Firefox lover like you once were before. And after reading your post, I think I’ll really give chrome a try. Those extensions you mentioned are really what I need. Thanks for sharing.
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12 November 2010 at 8:49 pm Permalink
Thanks Andrew for the comment. One more interesting thing, now it has been to test for RockMelt? This appears to be more useful for bloggers!
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12 November 2010 at 8:09 pm Permalink
I’ve been using Chrome for a week now (after being a FireFox fan for 3 years) and I love it. It’s built very smart because it loads each of the extensions as a separate process, so the chances for it to crash are very small.
I’m already using the measureit extension but now I’ll install the other two. I like shareholic as well. great extension for quick and easy sharing in all social networks
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12 November 2010 at 8:58 pm Permalink
Yes Omer, as chrome runs each tabs and extensions as separate process – it can be a benefit and a problem at the same time. When I am browsing a few sites, it lets me fastest experience and its good. Working with number of tabs and a few extensions enabled can be problematic sometimes.
I’m now waiting for RockMelt browser. Let’s see how it experiences.
btw, did you change your avatar? You were more closer in previous one!
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12 November 2010 at 10:28 pm Permalink
I did change the avatar
Do you think the previous one was better?
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12 November 2010 at 10:43 pm Permalink
Oh, OK, the current one is more sexy and previous one was more identifying.
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12 November 2010 at 11:13 pm Permalink
thanks
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Fantastic tools. The second one is one I have been looking for a long time, but since I had no idea what to look for (didn’t know how to phrase the term), I couldn’t find it. Thank you very much.
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26 November 2010 at 6:43 am Permalink
Hey!, I can send you an invitation to download RockMelt if you are interested. Just add me http://facebook.com/shkhanal as friend and drop one message.
Thanks for the offer Suresh. What is RockMelt? Isn’t it a new kind of browser or something like that? I heard its going to really change (or maybe even revolutionize) web browsers and how much they can do.
By the way, I have added you to facebook. Though I am not big on facebook, but I just started building a fan page for my blog a few days ago or so.
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great tool. i already use this tool and found it very useful for bloggers …
You could also check out MediaPlus for Chrome. MediaPlus lets you move, resize, download, magnify and do more with media content like flash movies, images, games, HTML5 videos, etc.
Available at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/emaamodndfmmmcjepfigalbjjjemadom
More info – http://nparashuram.com/projects/flashresizer.html
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8 September 2011 at 7:06 pm Permalink
Thank you Chromer for you input.
Google Chrome is good but I most prefer to Firefox because you can access easily all the web browsers, my friends here are most probably use Chrome but still I love Firefox.