Best Chrome Apps for Productivity
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Best Chrome Apps: TOP 20
Google Chrome is the second most popular browser among the users. This browser have thousand of useful and beautiful extensions. By now, I’m sure you’ve heard of Google’s new Chrome Web Store and some of the great apps you can find there. Google Chrome Web Apps store have lots of amazing and awesome Apps. Designers and developers are also very happy to find apps which are related to the web design and development.
Today, our focus will be on best Chrome apps as there are many useful apps in Google Chrome web store and if you dig further you will find some awesome apps to take advantage of.
I’ve dug through the Chrome Web Store to find 20 really great Chrome apps that aren’t just links to existing apps, they’re either specifically a Chrome app or optimized for Chrome. So, without wasting any time further, please take a look at the list.
I hope this stuff will be highly useful for you and you use these apps and make things easier.
1. Hootsuite
It’s a Social Media Dashboard, that is as powerful as TweetDeck. It brings all your Twitter, Facebook updates & more networks, plus monitor real-time search and track results in the app.
Features:
Drafts and Scheduling- Pre-schedule updates and automatic drafts saving of message.
Statistic Reports – Track click-through using built-in URL shortener plus export analytics reports.
Multiple Social Networks-For Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, foursquare etc.
Geo-search – Search locally to build business and/or find the conversations in your area.
2. Flixster
One of the best app for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry, is now available in the Chrome Web Store.
Reviews and trailers of movies and much more-Use your keyboard to browse opening and top box office movies.Get up-to-date showtimes for theaters in your area.Watch high quality trailers for over 10,000 blockbuster and indie films.
Read critic reviews from Rotten Tomatoes & audience reviews from Flixster. Discover movies ready to take home in our DVD catalog of over 50,000 movies
3. Aviary’s Image Editor
Aviary’s Image Markup runs lightning fast even on the slowest connections. Image Editor Markup is the perfect tool for editing images, resizing, cropping, rotating, and other simple editing tools are at your fingertips, this all makes great results and sharing in no time at all.
Features:
30 plus Editing options like layering.
Blending and magic wand selection of the image which is quick.
Finally its all for free.
4. NYTimes
The NYTimes app for the Chrome Web Store is a sophisticated HTML5 application that leverages advanced browser features in order to give a unique and compelling reading experience that can be read either online or offline.
Features:
Beautiful Design with Clean style Text and Large, beautiful photos.
Fast and easy keyboard navigation.
Offline reading capabilities (text only).
Keeps you informed all the time with breaking news alerts.
5. TweetDeck
It is one of the most popular Chrome apps available at the moment—they actually built the app like it should’ve been built for Chrome, unlike so many other apps.
Features:
With real-time streaming in browsing.
A simplified interface and multiple social network support.
6. Chrome Bird
Chrome bird extension just keeps you up to date with twitter. Chrome bird displays to click on and access your Twitter account.
Features:
Browse tweets from a specific user directly inside the extension.
See all your tweets in an unified timeline. Follow your timelines (including @mentions, lists, DMs and favorites) and navigate through your tweets.
Create and Preview shortened URLs before clicking them.
Track read / unread tweets and Notify user whenever new tweets arrive.
7. Springpad
It’s a free application that makes it quick and easy to take notes and save anything you want to remember in one place – from tasks and lists to products, places, movies, recipes and more. Everything you save is automatically synchronized and instantly accessible on the web and your phone.
Features:
Take quick notes and tasks to capture ideas and information,
Save and access your stuff on the Web and from any Android and iOS device.
Use the web clipper and Chrome extension for more ways to save on the Web.
Easily add tags, flags and alerts Set reminders for anything you’ve saved, finally you can share your stuff with friends and family.
8. Weebly -Website Builder
Its for those who want to design their own website with no coding knowledge. Weebly is the easiest way to create a free website, blog or online store. The fastest web browser, Chrome provides the best experience for using Weebly today.
Features:
Weebly login has been integrated so that you don’t need to sign-up or log-in if you’re already logged in to your Google account.
Using a simple drag & drop interface, build your site in minutes and choose from hundreds of professional designs.
9. Read Later Fast
Read Later Fast saves web-pages for you that you can read later even when offline.Currently, it is an early-beta version and everything is saved locally.The company has plans to integrate it with Diigo, Dropbox, box.net, Google, Delicious, Evernote, Instapaper, ReaditLater in its future versions.
Features:
It is a single function app focuses on offering super easy and fast
way to save pages for read later, online/offline.
It also Improves browsing by avoiding too many tabs and the technology.
It is an early beta version and more iterations are to come.
10. Sports Illustrated Snapshots
This is a neat app for some visual good-ness offering ten great photos from the sports world, all selected by Sports Illustrated editors and published every morning. You can even get sports scores, access your SI account and get in-app extras.
Features:
Add a Team- Allows you to follow teams to receive articles, photos, etc.
Tabs- for each major sports.
Login-Use Google or Facebook account to save “My SI”.
“My SI”-View all your teams in one window.
Extras-Swimsuit Bodypainting, The Year in 100 photos Best of 2010,etc.
11. Picnik
Picnik is photo editing awesomeness! The whole tool kit is there from basic fixes to professional quality effects to touch up tools. Add some fun from our selection of fonts, fun shapes and stickers.
Features:
§ With a click you can create a snapshot of your current web page and open it in Picnik for easy editing, annotation and sharing.
§ Do the same for all the image on the current page — just pick the image from the dynamic hot list and then edit, annotate and share with Picnik.
12. Mibbit
This software tool is an application which makes it easy for you which enables you to chat with thousands of IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks which serves more than half a million users at a single time.
Features:
You can extract chat histories, favorite channels and other data available securely at any time.
This tool works on games consoles and some smart phones.
13. AdBlock
If you were a previous Firefox user before turning into Chrome, you’ve probably installed this plugin in Firefox. As a Google Chrome extension, AdBlock brings its advertisement blocking technology to Chrome to make your browsing experience a pleasant one.
Features:
Awesome speed.
Intuitive blacklisting wizard.
14. Feedly
It is an excellent resource and accessing it via Chrome is beyond convenient. “Feeding” all manner of different blogs, site updates, you-tube channels and even deviant art users into one convenient page, organizable via different tags with an easy to use interface.
Features:
Everything connected through the browser is brought up by logging into your feedly account and just clicking on the icon to take you straight to the page.
A fast and stylish way to read and share the content of your favorite sites. Provides seamless integration with Google Reader and Twitter.
15. Fiabee
Fiabee for Chrome is an app that lets you intuitively manage all your files distributed across your many devices, directly from the web. You can specifically select which files you want to synchronize from your devices and store onto the others.
Features:
Access and search your files even when you’re offline in all of your devices.
Send files to your Android with a simple drag&drop in your Chrome Browser.
Select Files you wish to be synchronized automatically.
Google Docs integration: view your MS Office files and PDFs directly from the app.
16. Bonus
This is an awesome Retro style game for chrome. It is a paid game, costing $4.99.
Features:
It’s a addictive quick gameplay, easy to pop in and start having fun immediately, and can continue from your last saved game
Compete with other players online via the high score table.
17. Trillian
Trillian is a communication app which allows you to chat simultaneously with almost every popular chat clients like say fb chat, Google Talk, Aim, My Space, Windows Live, Jabber etc.
Features:
It allows you to synchronize with Trillian for Mac, Windows, iPhone, blackberry and Android.
This even allows for simultaneous login.
18. Crackle
Crackle streams full-length of blockbuster movies and TV episodes to your computer, all for free and on demand.1000’s of movies and television episodes –daily updated with latest content.
Features:
Action, comedy, crime, horror, thriller and sci-fi.
High-quality streams up to 480p.
All content is free and on demand which is available in US, CA, UK and AU.
19. Google Translate
If you work with foreign-language sites, this Chrome app is a must-install. It lets you translate a page in a language of your choice. This extension also tells you if the main language of the page you are browsing is different from the one you’re using for Chrome.
Features:
The Beta channel version of Google Chrome that will automatically detect when the content on a page is not in your default language and drop down a menu bar to ask whether you want to translate the page.
On Beta, you can turn off translation on a language by language and site by site basis. The option to disable the translation bar completely is currently only available on the nightly builds of Chromium.
20. Cooliris
It allows you to view and interact with photos and videos found at Google Images and YouTube. Its the most stunning way to browse photos and videos from the Web or your desktop.
Features:
Effortlessly scroll an infinite “3D Wall” of your content from Facebook, Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and hundreds more.
It allows for faster scrolling and searching of these images and videos as well as creating an interactive 3-D viewing wall with in the Google Chrome browser.
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