HelloSign is one good example. It allows you to sign a document sent to your Gmail address and sign it from there, without the need to install any additional software. It doesn’t even lead you to another website, or app. It’s integrated with Gmail, and it works seamlessly within the Gmail interface.

HelloSign for Gmail is a Chrome extension that you can download from the Web Store. After installation, you will notice another option beside an attachment which says “Sign”, in addition to the standard ones which are “View” and “Download”.

Note: Firefox user can find the extension here.

HelloSign can open most document files, including PDF, MS Word and MS Excel.

To sign an attached document, simply click on the “Sign” button. This should bring up the HelloSign pop up window and it should take a few seconds to open and load the document.

Once the document loads, you are then given the HelloSign interface, with four buttons on top. These buttons indicate what information you want to add to the document. In addition to signature or initials, you can also add a check box, the date signed and a text box.

Drag the Signature or initials box to where you want to insert your signature on the document. This will bring up another window where you can choose how to add your signature.

If this is your first time to use the app, then the best choice would be “Draw it in”, where you can use your mouse to draw your signature.

If you wish to use your initials, then you can choose “Type in signature” instead.

If you have an image file of your signature, or have taken it with your smart phone, then there are additional options available for these instances. Simply choose “Add image file” or “Smartphone” from the menu panel.

In the screenshot below, I chose to draw my signature using the mouse.

When you’re done, you can either choose “Insert” or “Save & Insert Signature”. I found that the second option is very convenient if you want to use the same signature in all future documents, to save time.

The signature should now appear on the specified area in the document, and you can drag the box to reposition or, drag the bottom right corner to resize it.

You can now click on “Save and Attach to Email” found on the top right corner, and the document should now be ready to be sent back along with your reply.

HelloSign for Gmail is an ingenious tool for signing documents right out of the Gmail interface. It’s brilliant for people who don’t have access to a printer but need to sign a document right away. With this tool, a user saves time, energy and resources when signing and sending important documents that are also very urgent.

Image credit: Businessman sitting at office desk signing a contract with shallow focus on signature. by BigStockPhoto

For instance, holding down “Ctrl + Shift + T” (Windows and Linux) reopens the last tab you closed. Holding down Shift and then clicking on a link opens the link in the new window, while “Ctrl + Shift + link” opens it in a new tab.

Here are more navigation keyboard shortcuts for Chrome:

It takes a bit of practice (and this cheatsheet) to master these shortcuts, but it’s well worth it. Soon, you’ll find that you don’t always have to rely too much on your mouse. Doing stuff within Chrome by using only your keyboard is possible, and hopefully this article gives you a head start.

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Can’t get enough of this? We have prepared a downloadable cheat sheet for you so you can access to it when you need it.

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Since Temporary Bookmarks is a Firefox add-on, it doesn’t require a login or account for you to use it. You only have to download it from the Add-on store. After this, you can then start saving web pages into a bookmark folder called Temporary Bookmarks.

To do this, just right-click on any link in a website and select “Add to Temporary Bookmarks.” One thing I noticed is that this option is only visible when you right click a link from a web page, and not from the URL address bar.

To locate your saved bookmarks, find the Bookmark icon on the top of the browser (a square with a star inside). Click on this and go to Bookmarks bar. If you already have the Bookmarks bar visible on the top of the browser, then you should be able to find the folder from there. Look for the folder labeled as Temporary Bookmarks. You should see all the links saved here.

By default, the add-on is set to get rid of the bookmarks after one day, but you can change this setting by going to the add-on’s Preferences page. To do this, click on the Firefox menu button on the top left corner, click on “Add-ons”, and select Options right beside the name of the add-on.

Here, you can change when or what action is required for Firefox to delete the bookmarks. You have an option to delete the bookmarks when the browser closes, or choose from a number of days from one to seven. I tried setting it to remove bookmarks when I close the browser, and sure enough, the bookmarks were gone when I restarted it.

One notable feature is that you can also remove bookmarks saved in other bookmark folders. Click on the drop down beside “Remove bookmarks in” to view the complete list. If you have other bookmark folders that need cleaning up, then this add-on can help you do just that.

Temporary Bookmarks is a no-brainer solution for users who don’t want to sign up for a note-taking app, or who don’t want to store web content for too long on their browsers. It’s easy to use, and a good way to also prevent the browser from getting too congested with data. It also encourages a user to be organized when browsing the web, without having to clean up after. If you tend to pile up your bookmarks and don’t have time to organize or delete them, then this add-on is definitely a great tool for that.

Image credit: An image of a nice clock with time to bookmark us by BigStockPhoto

To start using this convenient extension manager, visit the Chrome Web Store and download Extensity.

After downloading, the Extensity icon should be visible on the add-on bar (top-right corner of the browser). Click on this and you are shown a list of extensions as well as web applications. By default, the items are categorized as either Extensions or Apps. Extensions are usually shown with icons in the add-on bar, while Apps appear as big icons when you open a new tab.

Find the extension or app that you wish to enable/disable. A grayed out extension means it’s disabled, and clicking on it once will re-enable it. Remember that this only works to enable or disable Chrome extensions.

For Apps, clicking on an app name will launch that app, just like it does when you click on it from a new tab. So if you have Dropbox installed, it should bring you to your Dropbox web directory (if you’re logged in), or clicking on Feedly will open your RSS feeds in a new tab, and so on. If you want to remove a web app from Chrome, then you’ll have to do it as you would have without Extensity.

The Extensity dialog box also provides a few shortcuts to Chrome’s extension manager menu. Click on the puzzle icon to open the menu in a new tab. This option is handy, especially if you want to delete an extension or allow it in Incognito mode – something which you can’t do with Extensity.

In addition to this shortcut, the next icon leads to Extensity’s own options, which aren’t much. One option shows the header at the top (where these shortcuts are shown) and the other whether or not to group Apps and Extensions together.

Not grouping Apps and Extensions together will show the extension/app list in alphabetical order.

The last two icons allow you to share Extensity in Twitter or rate it in the Web Store.

I’ve been constantly looking for an easier and more appealing way to enable and disable Chrome extensions for a while now, and there did not seem to be a simple enough solution — until this extension. Now, I can simply click on an icon and view all extensions that I have installed, what’s enabled and disabled, and even launch web apps without having to open a new tab.

For extension/app users, Extensity is the simplest way to keep track of all installations. Most importantly, it can be done in a clean and accessible interface that doesn’t require too much work. If you know of another way to manage Chrome extensions, let us know in the comments below.

How to Play Music in Google Drive with DriveTunes

First, install the Chrome extension for DriveTunes.

After installing the extension, open Google Drive and select the music file or files you want to play. If you want to play more than one file, then tick on the boxes next to the file name. Right click on a file and click on Open With. Select DriveTunes from the list. If you don’t see this option, then most likely the file is not supported by the app.

Upon clicking DriveTunes, a new tab will open with the files you have selected listed in the middle, and a big set of playback controls on top (Play/Pause, Next and Volume). Click on an audio file’s title, and it should begin playing. Note that a speedy Internet connection is crucial for uninterrupted playback.

A left panel provides three ways to filter what files you see in the playlist. Your choices are “Selected”, for viewing only files that you have previously selected, “My Drive”, for viewing audio files you have uploaded, and “All Music”, which should be all types of audio files in your drive or shared with you by other users. By default, you should arrive at the Selected tab.

Another method of accessing the DriveTunes window is by opening another tab or window and going to drivetunes.org. You have to be logged in to your Google account before doing this, and the web address should automatically open to your music file’s playlist screen.

Other options include a Repeat and Shuffle button on the bottom left corner, as well as a Search bar on the top right.

The last column on the right, “Plays,” indicates the number of times a file was played.

DriveTunes currently supports MP3 and M4a files. A note from the developer indicates future support for OGG and FLAC files, but not WMA due to its “proprietary nature”.

Note that you can only play music in DriveTunes; there is no added option to download or edit these files. This shouldn’t be an issue though as you can manage the files directly in Google Drive.

Streaming music in DriveTunes is a free and accessible alternative to expensive music hosting services and even other more complicated web applications. All you need is a Google Drive account, the DriveTunes extension in Chrome, and a reliable Internet connection. While file support and features are very basic, it’s a working solution to playing audio files on the go without having to install third party applications.

If you want immediate access to Slick Write’s writing tool, then you’ll need to install the add-on in Firefox or Chrome. The installation requires a restart for Firefox, but not for Chrome.

After installing the add-on, you should see a pen icon in the top right corner of the browser, but the easier way to access the tool is from the contextual menu (right-click). You can right-click at the end of the text you want to analyze, or you can highlight a portion of the text.

Click on Analyze Writing. This should open a new tab that leads to the Slick Write analysis page. The page has a few tabs on top, and there are four major areas of analysis: Critique, Structure, Flow and Stats.

The page opens to the Critique tab by default. Critique identifies flaws within the writing including double words, unnecessary adverbs, overwriting and other stylistic errors. The errors are highlighted by color depending on the type of error, and mousing over them will analyze writing errors by identifying what’s wrong with the word or phrase.

The Structure tab analyzes all sentences and categorizes them into Simple, Compound, or Compound-complex sentences. Hovering the mouse over a sentence shows the type of sentence structure, along with the word count. To know more about the sentence type, you can click on the sentence to get a brief explanation.

The Flow tab is a graphical representation of the distribution of sentence type, length and word length within the text. Colored bars called meters are shown for each sentence, with a rating for each analysis. Click on a meter to know more about the statistic shown.

Finally, the Stats tab is divided into Aggregate, Phrases and Words. Aggregate is a statistics summary which includes word count, average word length, paragraph count, unique words, and more. You can further filter it down to the next two tabs, Phrases and Words. Under Words, you can see words that are repeated all throughout the text.

If you want to see all editing features, you can click on the Configure tab to enable or disable certain functions. Click on a function to know more about it. There are presets and the default one is set to Fiction, but you can click on Custom to make your own settings.

Additionally, if you want to edit the text within the Slick Write interface, you can click on the Edit tab and do it from there.

Slick Write’s vast and flexible features are perfect for creating excellent written work. It doesn’t require a lot of tweaks or steps. In a matter of a few clicks, an overwhelming amount of information is presented in an organized manner that is easily understood. Any writing task can be daunting, but not when you have this tool handy in your browser to analyze writing errors.

Do you have a favorite way to check for writing errors in Firefox and Chrome. Tell us about them in the comments section.

You will need to install the Chrome extension before opening your Google Drive account. After installation, you’ll notice the DriveConverter logo when you open a new blank tab.

Sign in to your Google Drive account and right-click on the file you wish to convert. Click “Open With” and select “Drive Converter.” This option should be available if the file you’ve selected is supported.

DriveConverter supports the following files:

Documents:

From: docx, doc, txt, rtf
To: pdf, xml, rtf, doc, docx, html, txt

Spreadsheets:

From xlx, xlsx
To: pdf, csv, txt, html, xlsx

Images:

From: png, jpg, gif, bitmap, tiff
To: png, jpg, gif, bitmap, tiff

Audio:

From: mp3, mp4, m4a, flac, wav, ogg
To: mp3, mp4, m4a, flac, wav, ogg

Upon selecting DriveConverter, the Request Permission page from Google should open in a new tab. Click Allow Access.

By default, DriveConverter opens in a new tab, but you can change this by right-clicking on the DriveConverter logo and choosing other options such as “Open as a pinned tab,” “Open as window,” or “Open as fullscreen.”

This brings you to the conversion page. The file name will be on the top of the page. A drop-down menu is located below it to choose what file type you want the file converted to. In this example, I am converting a .DOC file into .PDF, so I chose PDF from the list.

There’s an option to save the converted file in the same location in Google Drive, and you can check this before clicking on the Convert button below.

A progress bar will indicate if the conversion is successful. There will also be an option to download the converted file.

If you upload MS Excel, MS Word or any other files that can be converted to Google Docs, then it is recommended that you turn off automatic conversion during upload.

To do this, click on the cog icon in Google Drive (top right corner), mouse over Upload settings and make sure “Convert uploaded files to Google Docs format” is not checked. If it is, then click on it to deselect it.

Since this is a newly released extension, bugs and errors are expected, and the developer encourages feedback in its Chrome Webstore support page. Other upcoming features include support for more file types, as well as a batch conversion feature.

If you’re wary about security when you convert files in Google Drive, DriveConverter only accesses files that you choose to convert, and they are immediately purged from the server after conversion.

DriveConverter is a suitable alternative to third party software and other web services that need to be accessed outside of Google Drive. With its simple steps and seamless integration with Google Drive, it’s an easier and faster way to convert files in Google Drive. In case you find yourself working away from your main computer, this app is a brilliant solution.

Lazarus is available for both Chrome and Firefox. After installation, you should notice the Lazarus icon on the right corner of the text fields on any web site. If you mouse over the icon after entering information, a pop up should appear telling you that Lazarus is saving the form.

There’s nothing you need to do since the add-on is automatically enabled after installation. Lazarus acts as a backup tool for saving the things you type into a long and detailed online form.

To restore data on a form, simply click on the above mentioned icon (to the right of the text field). A pop up window should appear, showing the last information entered on that field. Note that only the most recent information entered is saved, and not others that was entered before. Simply click on the text from the pop-up to restore it back to the form’s text field.

If you don’t want to compromise sensitive information in forms and want a more secure way of restoring form data, you can set a password. To do this, click on the Lazarus icon on the right corner of a text field. Go to Lazarus Options. Under General>Security, check the box beside “Encrypt form and reqire a password to restore text.”

After setting a password, the pop up should now prompt to enter a password before you can recover data on a form.

Lazarus does not save passwords for log in pages. However, this can be enabled by going to the Options page. Under General>What to save, check the box beside “Save passwords”.

On the same page, you can exclude certain websites from using the add-on under Disabled Sites. You can also do this by clicking on the add-on’s icon on a text field and selecting “Disable Lazarus on this site”.

This is also where you can specify how many days to keep the saved forms (it’s defaulted to 10). Forms can be kept until a maximum of 14 days.

Note that this add-on does not currently work in WYSIWYG mode in Chrome, as declared in the add-on’s information page. It also does not save data from a drop down menu with pre-loaded lists. Only text that you manually type in is saved automatically, as soon as you finish typing and move on to the next field.

Some forms may require confidential information, like Social Security numbers, Credit Card details, to name a few. If you don’t plan on putting a password, then it is highly recommended that you use this add-on only on your own computer and not a shared one.

If you are keen with filling out forms online, then Lazarus is a great preemptive tool to prevent data loss and having to type it all in again.

After installing the add-on, when hovering the mouse pointer over a tab, you’ll immediately notice a drop-down list of recently visited sites. The list is in descending order, with the most recently visited page on top.

Although Firefox has its own way of showing you the browser’s history details, this add-on makes the task a lot more simpler and accessible. This eliminates the need for going to the browser’s “History” page in the menu bar.

To view a tab’s history, simply point the mouse on the tab. The drop-down list should appear and disappear when you move the mouse away from the tab. If a tab doesn’t have history yet, the list displays the title of the current tab’s web page.

This can be disabled from the add-on’s “Options” page. To go there, click on the Firefox bar on the browser’s top-left corner and click on “Add-ons.”

Find “Tab History Menu” on the list and click on it. Go to “Options” and uncheck the box  beside “Display current page title in history menu”.

To open a previously visited website, simply hover the mouse over the tab and click the link from the list. You should be able to view the page on the current tab.

Note that the contextual menu (right-clicking the mouse) does not work when clicking on links from the tab history’s drop down list. The only way the links open is by using the current tab.

You can navigate between previously visited pages from the tab list. The current page is indicated by the dot on the left side of the page’s title. A left and right arrow serves as the usual “back” and “forward” controls that is seen in most browsers.

The add-on also saves visited links within a page. For instance, if a page has a table of contents to jump to certain parts within the same page, then the add-on remembers this as a separate history item despite the fact that the links are on the same page.

In the example below, the Wikipedia page for Dreamsong has several jump links, and these are all listed on the tab history drop down. However, this might be confusing because only the page’s title appears on the list. In the example below, the list shows the same title page several times, but does not indicate what part of the page it leads to.

Tab History Menu is great for lengthy and detailed browsing sessions, most of which apply to research and document-writing tasks. While bookmarking tools can assure that a user won’t ever lose a webpage, this add-on takes that guarantee even further by providing a more accessible way of coming back (or forward) to previously visited sites.

How do you keep track of a tab’s history? Do you know of any other tools to accomplish this? Let us know in the comments below.

LinkClump is a Chrome extension that allows the user to open two or more links in one go.

After downloading the extension, you can now use LinkClump to open multiple URL links. To do this, you’ll need to hold down the right mouse button, then draw a box around the links you want opened.

A tiny number appears on the bottom right corner of the selection box to indicate how many links will be opened.

As soon as you release the mouse button, all selected links will open at the same time. As a default, the links open in new tabs, but you can change this (and other controls) in the extension’s Settings page. You can also find a short guide in this page.

After highlighting the links, you should now see these links open in a new tab within the same browser window.

To access the extension’s Settings page, click on Chrome’s control icon located on the top right corner of the browser then go to “Settings -> Extensions”. You should see the options window as shown below. To start changing settings, click on Edit under the Actions section.

Here, you can change controls such as using the middle or left mouse buttons to activate selection, or opening links in a new window instead of in a new tab. You can even customize the highlight color used.

LinkClump does more than just open multiple links. It can also save links as bookmarks or copy them to the clipboard. To do this, you’ll need to go the Settings page again and create a new action by clicking on Add Action. Here, you can assign other mouse buttons and different colors for a new action. Under the Actions section, you can choose Bookmarked or Copied to clipboard.

Remember that activation buttons cannot be the same for two different actions. If you entered a choice which is already being used, then you’ll be prompted to pick another one.

Bookmarked links will appear in Other bookmarks>LinkClump. Bookmarks are grouped in folders so it’s easier to track them.

Links that are copied to clipboard will appear as the full URL address of each link in plain text.

You can also apply filters in opening links. Under Advanced Options, you can specify a word that will exclude or include a link to be opened.

Lastly, you can also disable LinkClump for certain websites. You’ll need to enter the sites under the Blacklists section in the Settings page.

This extension is extremely useful to those who need to open lots of links at any given website. If you’re looking for a fast, efficient way to open links in the fastest way possible, then LinkClump might just help you with that.

To save highlighted text in Firefox, download the Save Text to File extension and start using the feature right away. Highlight the text you want to save and right click on it.

Click on the option Save Text To File. This should bring up the extension’s menu with all of its options.

First you can rename the file (the default is set to Highlighted Text). This is a must if you’re planning to save multiple files this way. In the example below, I renamed the file to “Ice Fishing” which is the main topic of my research.

The next option is to specify the directory where you want to save the file. This can be anywhere on your hard drive.

The next few options are for inserting additional information about the file such as date, the source URL and whether or not to add this in the beginning of the text. You can decide which one works best for you, but if you’d rather just save the text, then you’ll need to uncheck the boxes to disable all or any of these.

The last option is the saving method: this asks whether you want to create a new file or append it to an existing file. Unfortunately, the append feature did not seem to work. This appears to be the same for other users, as I’ve come to know from reading the comments in the Add-on’s Firefox page. As a workaround, you can choose to add the date and time to the saved file name so you’ll know which file was most recently saved and therefore has the added information.

When you have all settings in place, click on Save. A pop-up on top of the browser window should appear indicating where the file was saved and the actual file name. You can close this by clicking on the x mark to the right.

Remember that the saved file is in the .txt format, so any word processor or note-taking software should be able to open it. You can use Notepad or Microsoft Word in Windows. In MS Word, you’ll need to specify to open All Files in the Open File dialog box so that the file is visible in the list. A saved text file (with all options checked) will look like this in Word:

Save Text To File is great if you want a quick and easy way to save highlighted text into a file. It obviously has a few bugs (unable to append to existing file), but it’s a good start if you want something that will help you gather information for important pieces of writing that you might be doing.

One thing to remember about SendTab is it’s not another bookmark saving/sharing app. It doesn’t save a link to be retrieved later. Instead, it sends and receives a link in real time and immediately opens it in a new tab within the browser.

The first thing to do is to set up and install the extension on all devices and add them to SendTab’s network. If you intend to use it between several computers, then you’ll have to install the extension for Chrome or the bookmarklet for Firefox.

The next step is to register to the SendTab network. Go to www.sendtab.com and register. Registration only requires a user name, password and email address and needs only to be done once. Upon registration, you will be prompted to give a group name for your SendTab network, along with a name for your first device.

The device name is usually the location such the couch, your office or anywhere that device is accessed. Once you are done, you can now start adding more devices to include in your SendTab network.

To add your devices, click on the icon on the top right corner of your browser. Clicking on this for the first time will give you the Connect button. Click on this to go to SendTab’s login page. Enter the group name you have assigned to your network when you registered, along with the password.

If you are accessing SendTab from a second device, you’ll need to add that device by assigning a computer name. Under the field “Where are you right now?”, you can indicate the location from where the device is accessed, and it will automatically be called by “browser @ location”. In my case, I named the computer Office, so the computer name will show as “Chrome @ Office”.

You can also install SendTab for Safari and follow the same instructions to add the device into your SendTab network.

Once all your devices are set up, you can now click on the add-on icon while inside a webpage and click on the computer name that you want to send it to, or you can click on All Devices to send it to all devices within your network.

The page automatically opens after a few seconds on the receiving device. You don’t have to do anything else, just wait a few seconds and it should pop up on a new tab.

SendTab also stores a history of sent and received links, and this is easily viewed by clicking on the add-on icon and clicking on History.

You can also download the iPhone and Android apps from their respective stores if you want to take it further into your mobile devices.

The add-on requires Firefox to be restarted after installation, so make sure to do this before using it.

Once the add-on is installed, a tutorial page should load with short but helpful instructions on using the add-on for the first time.

There are two things you can do straight from this page: remove the toolbar buttons (the + and – signs on the top bar), or customize the placement of the buttons anywhere within the browser.

Other ways to enable zooming is to hold down the “Ctrl” key while scrolling the mousewheel up and down. Scrolling up zooms in, while scrolling down zooms out.

If your mouse doesn’t have a wheel in the middle, you can hold down “Ctrl” and then press the “+” or “-” sign on the keyboard.

To get an idea of how much you are zoomed in or out, you can hover over the magnifying glass icon on the bottom right corner. This should show details about the current page you’re on.

You can also change the text and link colors of a specific site. To do this, you can right-click on the glass icon on the bottom and select Site settings. Click on the color box beside Text and choose your preferred color.

To change text and link settings for all websites, select “Global Settings” instead from the same context menu and clicking on the Colors tab. This would override any setting you’ve set for a single site.

There are also more things you can adjust under Global Settings like forgetting settings for websites not visited in a specific amount of time (one, three and six months and one year). You can also make the add-on forget the settings when Firefox closes.

Under the Zooming tab, you can select the zoom method: Full page or Text zoom. Full page Zoom adjusts both image and text sizes, while Text zoom adjusts the text only.

Some websites may not work with NoSquint due to the way they’re structured. For this, you can go to Exceptions and add an Exception Pattern that fixes the problem. It’s a bit technical, so I highly recommend thoroughly reading the Help section.

Having used this extension for a while now, I find that it is indispensable especially for websites that use small print. It also helps that there is more than one way to zoom in and out, so it’s always accessible with either keyboard or mouse. With an add-on as easy to configure and easier to use, you’ll never have to squint at web pages again.

NoSquint

Image credit: Magnifying glass

Once installed, you’ll need to register for an EverSync account. You can do this by clicking on either of the EverSync buttons found along the top menu bars of the browser.

In Chrome, the button drops down and provides you with a Login or Register button.

In Firefox, click on Sync Bookmarks and a dialog box opens with a Login and Register buttons.

You only need to register using one browser, and you don’t have to do it for both. Registration requires only your email address and a password. Registration allows EverSync to store your data in their servers, so your bookmarks are stored in the cloud and safely backed up.

Syncing Bookmarks in Firefox

In your Firefox browser, click on the Sync icon again. In the drop down, click on Sync Bookmarks.

A dialog box will open. There are three ways you can do to start syncing bookmarks: Merge, Upload and Download. If this is the first time you’re going to use EverSync, then merging server and computer data is the best option.

This setting is chosen just once, and will become the default action the next time you sync bookmarks. If you want to change the sync method, you can always go back to this page and change it accordingly.

Syncing Bookmarks in Chrome

Chrome has its own bookmark syncing feature, and this has to be disabled for EverSync to work. To do this, go to “Settings -> Advanced Sync Settings”. Change the drop down from “Sync Everything” to “Choose what to sync”. Uncheck Bookmarks from the list below. Click OK.

You are now ready to enable EverSync. Click on the Sync icon and click Start Synchronization.

A similar menu should open and prompt you to select from Merge, Upload or Download. To make syncing between Chrome and Firefox work without losing data, be sure to always choose Merge.

As a precaution, EverSync automatically backs up your bookmarks and saves it in its server even if you haven’t done so. The number of bookmarks saved is indicated on the bottom of the sync settings dialog box. If, at any time, your bookmarks disappear, go to this page and click Restore bookmarks.

Remember that uploading and downloading options will overwrite what you’ve already saved in the server. If you upload your current bookmarks, it will erase all previous ones you’ve synced and retain only the ones you have at the time of upload. The same goes with downloading.

Once you have sync settings set up in both browsers, you should be able to see your bookmarks in either browser. When you add a new bookmark in Chrome, it should automatically appear in Firefox too. If not, you may need to refresh the bookmark page, or click on the EverSync icon.

The installation is pretty straightforward, and immediately leads you to the login page for networks. The tutorial is also clear and self-explanatory. The Chime button is accessible from the browser’s add-on bar on the top right.

On the Setup page, Chime detects networks that you’re already signed in to. To sign in to other networks, simply click on the button. This opens a new tab for that network’s login page. When you’re done logging in one network, you can go back and repeat the same for other networks in the list. When you’re done, hit Continue.

This leads you to the main Chime page, where tiled logos for networks are lined up on the left column, with its contents to the right. On top, clicking on “All Notifications” will show content from all networks you’re logged in to.

To filter the feed, click on a network’s logo. There should be an indicator bar on top letting you know that it’s filtering the feed according to which network you selected. Clicking on more than one network will add to the filter, as shown in the screen shot below. To un-filter a network, simply click on it again.

By default, desktop notifications are enabled. This is a pop up box that appears on the lower right corner of your screen when you have new notifications. To disable this, click on the gear icon on Chime’s main page to go to Settings. Uncheck Show Desktop Notifications.

The Settings page is also where you can add or hide networks from the left column of your feed. Icons that appear with a check mark means they’re already added, so clicking on them will remove it from the main page. On the other hand, even networks you’re not signed into may still appear on the main page by default. You can simply click on these to hide them. The changes are immediately shown as you make them.

The Chime main page and pop up notifications will show which network the update is from, along with a few lines of content.

Other than the pop up and main page, you can also quickly view the number of notifications from the Chime button from the add-on bar on the top right of the browser. If you prefer to have a fixed reminder for your notifications, this option makes more sense. When you’ve viewed all notifications, the number disappears.

Chime’s helpful aggregation is great for keeping tabs with all your networks. The extension notifies you of new updates only, and therefore helps you determine whether or not you need to actually log in and access a certain network. For anyone who wants minimal yet powerful ways to get notified, Chime is an excellent choice.

To get started, download the add-on Save to Google Drive from the Firefox Add-on web page.

After installation, you should get an icon on the top right corner of the browser and a smaller one on the add-on bar located on the bottom. If you don’t see this, press “Ctrl+/” or go to “Menu -> Options” and click on “Add-on Bar”.

If you’re already on the web page where a link to a file is located, then you can go ahead and click on any of the Save to Google Drive icons. If not, navigate to the download page that shows the link first.

The icon will show a popup box with two options: “Add to Queue” and “Analyze this page for links”. Add to Queue is used when you copy a link and paste it into the text field above it. If you don’t want to open a new tab or window for a link, you can right click on a link and click “Copy link location.”

If you want to download more than one link in a page, you can select “Analyze this page for links” to get a list of all links. You can then select the ones you want to send to Google Drive.

After selecting files, you can now go to the add-on’s “Login” tab to log in to Google Drive.

You should see the files in the My Drive folder.

If you don’t see the files, it might still be in the queue. To check this, go back to the add-on pop up box and click on the “Queue Status” tab.

The add-on also lets you turn off notifications of login and save failures as well as setting the default action for right-clicking on the icon on the add-on bar.

To see a list of previously analyzed files, you can go to the “Analyzed files” tab. Here, you can add more files than previously selected to add to the download queue.

Note that some conditions must be met for the add-on to work properly. Links should be direct from the source and are publicly accessible. There also is a 25 mb limit for each file download.

Provided these requirements are met, Save to Google Drive is a brilliant add-on for saving files in the cloud and on-the-go. Whether it’s for sharing with others or for your own use, it can work wonders for saving time and hard drive space.

After downloading the extension, you’ll get a Thank You page and an illustration of how to find the Font Changer icon in your browser’s menu bar. This will be located on the top right corner of the screen. Click on it to start customizing text for either all websites, or a specific one.

The first drop down lets you select Global, Custom or No Settings. Global Settings applies the changes to all websites, regardless of the site that you currently have open. Custom Settings, however, will only apply the change to the specific site that is open on the same window. To clear or disable the extension without removing it, you can select No Settings.

The second drop down would be for choosing the font face. You’ll need to check the box before making a choice. All fonts are loaded from Google Fonts, so if you know the name of a specific font, you can type it in the search bar that appears when clicking inside the drop down.

A small question mark icon points to the link of Google’s web fonts where you get to preview all fonts in a specified size and type.

The next two drop downs changes the font style (normal, italic or oblique) and font weight (normal, bold, bolder, light, lighter). Again, you’ll need to check the box first before making any selection.

Lastly, you can set a font size value. By default the font size will be set to the website’s values, but you can change this by putting in a number for increasing or decreasing font size. This is great if you find a website’s fonts too small to read, like Facebook.

All changes made immediately reflect on the website, and when you’re happy with your changes, you can click on Done.

Font changes are seen in all parts of a website, including ads, chat boxes, text fields and buttons.

Font Changer is a great way to play with a website’s typography, making it just the way you want to view it. However, there are some features I find it lacks, including the ability to choose more than one type of font for different text elements in a page just for contrast. Changing to simple fonts look fine, but using decorative fonts is sometimes a bit too overwhelming. Overall, the extension works well without having to do anything other than select choices from a drop down box. It’s free to use and makes plain, unattractive websites look better and more interesting.

Open a new tab or window and go to https://www.rollap.com to register a free account. You can use your Google, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo or OpenID account to sign up.

Enter the log in credentials for your selected network and allow access to rollApp in the next page.

You will then be guided into adding a cloud storage service to link to your rollApp account. Select the service from the drop down and click Connect.

You should get a confirmation that your rollApp account is now linked to that service. In my case, I chose to connect my Dropbox account.

Note: The add-on might require you to allow pop-ups, in which case a tutorial on doing so will be available to you should your settings have pop-ups disabled.

Once you get the confirmation, you can now access the cloud service in another tab or window within Firefox. This time, with the add-on installed, you’ll get a pop-up with options to open or download a file when you mouse over a link. In the example below, the link is found on my Dropbox folder, and is an XLS file named Invoice. To open the file, click Open. A new window should pop up informing you that your file is being accessed.

Clicking on Open will trigger the add-on function and open a new window where the file is shown in an online document viewer. In this case, the file was opened using LibreOffice.

The add-on not only allows for viewing content from a number of file types, but also lets you edit and save other versions of it. The add-on supports a large number of files including Microsoft Word files, spreadsheets, photos, and even zip files.

It also works on other download links from any web page. Simply hover the mouse over the link and you should still get the same pop-up options.

Although using the add-on may seem simple enough, there are a few rules to remember. First, ensure that pop-up is enabled in Firefox, since links opened using this app need to do so in a new window. Second, when you go idle in your browser for 10 minutes, the add-on disconnects from your cloud storage account, in which case you would need to reconnect to continue using it.

If you don’t mind going through these steps, then rollApp File Opener will definitely save you more time next time you access files online. Although it’s not exactly as user friendly as one would want, it’s a doable process that ensures long term convenience and is definitely worth the effort.

On the next page, enter your Pocket user name and password. Click “Authorize”.

This should get you to the next page which confirms that you’ve authorized the extension. Now, you should have a little Pocket icon on the top right corner of the browser screen. Unread articles are shown in red.

Clicking on this icon now brings up the Pocket link pop up. From here, you can open, add to favorites, or archive the links. Hovering over the bottom right corner of each article item brings up the appropriate buttons: Favorite, Archive and Delete.

Click on the gear icon on the top right corner of the pop up to access the extension’s Settings page. Here, you can change how the toolbar button functions. By default, clicking on it opens a pop up window with all unread Pocket links in a list. You can then click on a link to open it on a new tab.

However, you can also change the setting so that it opens all links at the same instance. You can also choose whether it opens in other tabs or in a new window. To do this, check the box beside “Open unread links in tabs”. If you want the links to open on a new window, put a check mark beside “Use a new window”.

Other settings such as archiving and refresh rates can be adjusted from this same page. You can also limit the number of links to show, with a maximum of 1000 links. It’s important to note that the extension only loads unread links, so anything that you’ve recently read or opened from any other device will not be loaded into the pop up list. Additionally, archiving an item from the pop up list will mark it as read.

In addition to opening existing links you’ve saved in Pocket, this extension also lets you add new links – either by the plus sign button on the pop up menu, or by context menu (right-click) option “Add Page To Pocket”.

For those who value Pocket as a productivity tool, this extension is a great way to experience the same convenience in your browser window. Your saved articles do not have to only be available on your phone or tablet – but also from your browser’s menu bar. With its superb Pocket integration, this extension provides the convenience of a mobile app right inside Chrome.

Download Everbot for Gmail add-on from the Firefox Add-on website. There is no need to restart after downloading it.

You should get a new tab that will walk you through the rest of the process. Under Step 1, click on Connect to to authorize the add-on to access your Gmail account.

On the pop up page, enter your Gmail credentials and click Sign In. Click on Allow access on the next page after signing in.

Next, you’ll be redirected to another sign in page for Evernote. This time, enter your Evernote user name and password. On the next page, click on Authorize.

Once done, you are taken back to the initial start page under Step 2. Click on Read the Manual.

This takes you to a short tutorial on how to use the add-on for specific functions, such as forwarding an email to an Evernote account. You may now close this window and start accessing your Gmail inbox.

Open another window or tab and log in to your Gmail account. Go to the inbox and choose which email you want to send to Evernote.

There are two different ways to send emails. Look for the button that says “Send to Evernote”. One will be located on the top right corner of the email body, and another one on the email header. Clicking on the header button sends the entire email thread, while clicking on the one within the email body sends only that part of the thread. Any images, and other attachments in the email will also be sent to Evernote as part of the email content.

To insert a note or notebook in a new email message, click on Compose. This brings up the New Message window, and below it there should be a link that says Insert Evernote notebook/note. Click on that.

A pop-up box lets you input a name for the note and which notebook to send it, along with adding tags and comments.

Once done, click on the Insert note/notebook button. You should see a link for the note in within the email composition. When ready, click on Send.

Evernote’s cross platform appeal, along with its collaboration with numerous other apps make it extremely usable. Everbot for Gmail is no exception. With a tool like this, it’s now possible to get Evernote functionality without having to leave Gmail or open another window to access Evernote’s web or desktop app. If you’re looking for ways to organize and share your notes from Gmail, this add-on is definitely a wise solution.