google chrome set to get a new extension manager

Google Chrome have been revamping many of their settings and preferences pages. As Google Chromium is the browser on which the more stable chrome is based on, the latest and greatest (and worst!) usually lands on chromium first. The latest to make landfall is the new Extensions manager or settings page. Currently, it seems to maintain most of the previous…

customize google reader to use the screen width

Google Reader is the probably the chosen RSS reader for many of you. One of the issues for me while using a wide-screen monitor was that the text in the post would never stretch to make use of the wide monitor that is available. It pretty much uses around 650 pixels before word wrapping. This is especially annoying if you have a…

3 quick tips to get more out of google search

Many of us use Google search many times a day to find, scour and research anything and everything under the sun many a times a day.  Here are a few easy tips to improve on those search queries without having to learn and remember any of the complex search syntax… 1) Fill in the blank with an asterisk (*) Using…