Chrome Extensions

Mappy

Mappy is a Google Chrome extension that integrates with Google maps to give you fast, direct access to a map of the first address you encounter on a webpage. It is extremely fast, efficient and (as it was made by Google as a sample Chrome browser extensions) error free. Many of the addons that we have begun to see for the Chrome browser are about taking 'steps' out of the process of data retrieval for users. With Mappy, we can see that Google recognizes many people go to a website, find a...

Google mail checker

When Google first announced that it was opening up Chrome to developers so that they could create extensions for the browser, they also included a few examples of the possibilities that would be on offer. These included several extensions that they had coded themselves, including one for adding a website to your RSS reader and a Google News checker. Their Google mail (Gmail) checker extension was also one of these 'first wave' of sample plugins. It installed instantly, and inserted a small re...

Google News top stories

Another of Google's first 'sample' extensions was one which showed off a couple of the capabilities of the plugins, but also added a useful function to news junkies everywhere. The Google news top stories extension is very simple – it adds a button to the top right hand corner of the Chrome browser, and when this is clicked it brings up a box which lists the current top five News stories taken directly from – you guessed it – Google News! As you can see, all of the stories have a little p...