Prezi – Cloud-based Zooming Web-based Presentation Tool

Prezi is a cloud-based presentation software and storytelling tool for exploring and sharing ideas upon a virtual canvas. Prezi is distinguished by its Zooming User Interface (ZUI), which enables users to zoom in and out of their presentation media. Prezi allows users to display and navigate through information within a 2.5D space on the Z-axis.

Download Prezi for Chrome

Prezi is a zooming web-based presentation tool that moves beyond the constraints of traditional slides. The zoomable canvas makes it fun to explore ideas and the connections between them. The result is visually captivating presentations that lead your audience down a path of discovery.

Text, images, videos and other presentation objects are placed on the infinite canvas and grouped together in frames. The canvas allows users to create non-linear presentations, where users can zoom in and out of a visual map. Zoom out to see the big picture and zoom in to see details — a bit like web-based maps that have changed how we navigate through map books.

Features:

• Prezi is used as platform for bridging linear and non-linear information, and as a tool for both for free-form brainstorming and structured presentation.
• Text, images, videos and other presentation media are placed upon the canvas, and can be grouped together in frames.
• Users then designate the relative size and position between all presentation objects and may pan and zoom in and between these objects.
• For linear presentations, users can construct a prescribed navigation path.

Pearltrees – Place to Organize, Discover and Share everything on the Web.

Pearltrees is a place to collect, organize, discover and share everything you like on the web. Its unique visual interface lets you keep everything you like at hand so you can organize them. Collect web pages and turn them into pearls. Organize your pearls into pearltrees based on your interests. Enrich your account with Pearltrees from other community members.

Features:

• Have everything you like on the web organized in one place
• Play with pearls, they are made to be manipulated
• Share great content instantly, everything is public
• Join +200.000 other users who are sharing + 10 million pearls
• Access your account from PC, Mac and iPad
• It’s free

Pearltrees works:

• create your account
• install your chrome extension
• collect web pages with the extension
• organize your collections
• discover interesting collections
• enrich your collections
• share all of this

WebRank SEO – Alexa Extension for Chrome

WebRank SEO is another Alexa extension for Chrome. It features like Alexa Rank, Google Page Rank, Compete Rank and Quantcast Rank. You can see the Pages indexed in popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing.  WebRank SEO Google Chrome Extension as another interesting feature that you can see the website Black Links on Google, Yahoo, Bing and Alexa and you can shorten and share the links in various social networking sites and blogs.

WebRank SEO Google Chrome Extension is easy to install and use. When you visit a website than simply click on the WebRank SEO icon than a popup window is opened, in that it will show the Website Ranks and Pages Indexed, Website Back Links and many more.

FEATURES:

• Google Pagerank

• Pagerank of current tab on WebRank SEO icon.
• Reload pagerank button(pagerank will automatically updates at an interval of 24 hrs).
• Alexa Rank
• Compete Rank
• Quantcast Rank
• Traffic Graphs

• Compete  Rank
• Compete  Unique Visit
• Alexa  Daily Traffic Rank
• Alexa  Daily Reach
• Alexa  Search Visit
• Alexa  Daily Pageview Per User
•  Pages indexed in Google
• Pages indexed in Bing
• Pages indexed in Yahoo
• Backlinks according to Google
• Backlinks according to Bing
• Backlinks according to Yahoo
• Backlinks according to Alexa

Online Security Tips and Advice – Google’s ‘Good To Know’ Campaign

Google started a new resource called ‘Good to Know‘ in the Google’s website that makes learning about security and privacy even easier for internet users. Google started this in association with the UK’s Citizen’s Advice Bureau.

Privacy policies and terms of service can often be long, complex and legalistic. Goal of the Good To Know campaign is to provide people with practical guidance, like how to select a safe password or keep their online accounts secure.

The new Good to Know website builds on the commitment to explaining things in simple language. The in-depth resources are still there, but google hope a one-stop-shop resource will make this information more accessible for everyone.

Good to Know contains tips to:

• Stay safe online: Advice for staying more secure on the web and an overview of some of the security tools that Google offers.
• Your data on the web and how it makes websites more useful: An overview of ways that websites can get to know your preferences and how this makes them more useful for you.
•  Your data on Google and how it makes Google services more useful: This section explains what information you share with Google when you use our products and services and how we use it to make your experience better.
• Manage your data and what you share with websites and Google: Guidance on how you can manage the data you share online, both across the web and on Google services.

Five tips for online safety:

1. Pick a strong password. One idea you can try is to choose a line from your favourite song, film or play, like “To be or not to be, that is the question”. Then use numbers, symbols and letters to recreate it: “2bon2btitq” is a password with quadrillions of variations. The more unusual the phrase you choose the better.
2. Never reply to suspicious e-mails with your personal or financial information, and never enter your password after following a link from an e-mail that you don’t trust.
3. Look for ‘https‘ and a padlock to check that a site is secure. When you go into a branch of your bank, you recognise the official staff by their name, their uniforms and the services they offer you. Having this level of reassurance shouldn’t be any different for online banking or other sensitive services.
4. Always sign out and shut down your browser. Ever gone out for the day and left your front door wide open? Exactly. The same principle applies when you leave yourself signed in to online accounts on the computers you use.
5. Use two-step verification for accounts that offer it, like Google and Facebook. Two-step verification adds an extra layer of security to your account by requiring you to have access to your phone – as well as your username and password – when you sign in. This means that if someone steals or guesses your password, the potential hijacker still can’t sign in to your account because they don’t have your phone.[source]

PageRank Status – Free PageRank Extension for Chrome

PageRank Status is a free PageRank extension for Chrome which shows Google Page Rank and Alexa Rank of current web Page. You view rank results instantly with simple click. Page Rank Status can easily access to its features like Geo IP Location, Alexa, Whois, indexed pages and backlinks.

PageRank Status extension supports Multi-language and with Geo IP location it shows IP address and location of the website. It is easy to use and install. When you click on PageRank Status icon it will show page rank and other information in real time. PageRank Status extension for Google chrome gets periodic updates

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Google to Open Online MP3 Store to Challenge Apple and Amazon?

Google is in negotiations with the major record labels to expand its cloud music service and also open an MP3 store that would compete with Apple and Amazon, Newyork Times reports.

According to numerous music executives, Google is eager to open the store in the next several weeks before Apple’s latest cloud music program ‘iTunes Match‘ becomes operational. It would probably be connected to Google’s existing Music Beta cloud service, which lets people back up their songs on remote servers and stream them to mobile phones and other devices.

But it was unclear whether Google would be able to close the necessary deals with labels and music publishers in time to open a full-service store.

Music Beta was announced five weeks after Amazon opened a similar unlicensed service, Cloud Drive.

Bubble Translate – Language Translator Extension for Google Chrome

Bubble Translate extension for Google Chrome is a simple translator which can translate the entire webpages or selected text to your own language or language of your choice in real-time. It as exciting features like Inline translation of text, real-time translations and dictionary, complete website translation, you can customize themes and shortcuts and popup menu and another interesting feature is there is option to Hide Icon.

You can use pop-up menu to access different functions of Bubble Translate. You can hide the icon by simply configuring the Bubble Translate. Right Click and Translate helps you to translate texts on web pages. To translate a text, select the text and right click on it then click ‘Translate selection’.

Dart – Google’s Programming Language for Building Web Applications

Google introduced an early preview of Dart, a class-based optionally typed programming language for building web applications.

Dart targets a wide range of development scenarios: from a one-person project without much structure to a large-scale project needing formal types in the code to state programmer intent. To support this wide range of projects, Dart has optional types; this means you can start coding without types and add them later as needed. Google team says that Dart will be great for writing large web applications.

Dart’s design goals are:

• Create a structured yet flexible language for web programming.
• Make Dart feel familiar and natural to programmers and thus easy to learn.
• Ensure that Dart delivers high performance on all modern web browsers and environments ranging from small handheld devices to server-side execution.

Dart code can be executed in two different ways: either on a native virtual machine or on top of a JavaScript engine by using a compiler that translates Dart code to JavaScript. This means you can write a web application in Dart and have it compiled and run on any modern browser. The Dart VM is not currently integrated in Chrome but google plan to explore this option.

The language comes with a set of basic libraries and tools for checking, compiling, and running Dart code, all of which will evolve further with your participation. Google have made the language and preliminary tools available as open source on dartlang.org.

Google Translate Service Available Google Docs

Google Docs now offers “Translate document” tool to enable Doc users cross the language barrier. Users can send documents in a specific language to anyone and have it translated into their preferred langugage by the receiver. The content can now be translated into 42 different languages, including Hindi, Arabic, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German and French.

Users can upload the documents to Google DOcs, and click on the ‘Translate document’ under the ‘Tools’ menu. The content of the page is translated in seconds into the desired language, keeping the layout and format of the document unchanged. The translated document may not be perfect, the same old problem with online translation services.

Google Docs Viewer Gets ZIP and RAR File Support

Google Docs have added support for archive file types ZIP and RAR. While you can already use the Google Docs Viewer to view over 15 different file types in Gmail without downloading them.

Now, if someone sends you a ZIP or RAR file in Gmail, you’ll be able to view its contents from within your browser by clicking on View.

This will bring up a view that includes all of the files in the archive, the file types, and the size of those files.

When you hover over the list you can activate a menu by clicking the “Actions” button. You’ll be able to View items supported by Google Docs Viewer and Print (PDF) those that google docs offer PDF support. Save to Google Docs and Download appear for all files.

ZIP and RAR archives that are embedded inside other archives also work. For example, if you have a RAR file inside a ZIP file (like in our example above) you can just click on that file to access the embedded archive.

This removes the need to download full archives when you only need to work on select items.

This feature extends to Google Docs for mobile, too. For each viewable file (including embedded ZIP or RAR archives) there is a link to view.

Download ‘Download Assistant’ Extension for Google Chrome Browser

Download Assistant for google chrome browser allows you to download links on a web page with popular downloaders such as FlashGet, FlashGet Mini, Thunder, Mini Thunder, QQ Whirlwind, eMule, Orbit, Internet Download Manager and Free Download Manager.

Supported Downlaoders include:

On Windows: FlashGet, FlashGet Mini, Thunder, Thunder Lite, QQ Whirlwind, eMule, Orbit, BitComet, Internet Download Manager, Free Download Manager, Download Master, GetGo Download Manager, Download Accelerator Plus and Mass Downloader.

On Linux: FlashGet, JDownloader, Gwget Download Manager, Aria 2, Axel Download Accelerator, cURL and Wget.
On Mac: Folx, iGetter, Leech and Speed Download.

Download Download Assistant Chrome Extension

If you select one of these downloaders as your downloader instead of Chrome’s built-in one, your preferred downloader will start automatically and download the link for you when clicking on any downloadable links. You can also right-click on such links and choose which downloader you want to use in the context menu.

You can also download all links on the page (including downloadable links and regular hyperlinks) with any downloader that supports download multiple links from the context menu.