Chrome Extensions

Sogou Cloud Chinese Pinyin

Sogou cloud Chinese pinyin is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to enter Chinese characters inside text boxes using the pinyin method (as opposed to writing each 'stroke' of a character). The extension itself works to synchronize the visibility of the Sogou cloud pinyin input bar across all tabs of the browser. You can see an example of it in action here: As it is in its first iteration, it is quite basic, however it seems to have a wide range of vocabulary stored already, and ...

BlockFlash Plus

BlockFlash Plus is a Google Chrome extension which disables Flash and Silverlight animations and videos in your browser's webpages until you say otherwise. In terms of advertisement blocking, this is a little more 'brute force' than the Adblock+ Chrome extension we looked at previously, however it is just as effective. Whenever you open a webpage with a flash animation or silverlight video, they will automaticaly be neutered until you click on the 'play' button which will be inserted into th...

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...