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...

Adblock+

Adblock+ is an extremely powerful advertising blocker Chrome extension, which not only removes annoying ads from your screen, but also allows you to define exactly where the areas that you don't want to see are. This means that you can (in effect) edit your favourite sites so that you only look at content. Adblock is another 'port' of a Firefox plugin which is extremely popular – it has been downloaded more than 60,000,000 times from official Mozilla plugin store, and so it is really one ...