How to Launch Chrome Apps Directly from the Toolbar

Google Chrome is one of the best browsers in the market. For some months, it have been the number one browser in terms of use, having overtaken Mozilla Firefox and giving a superb competition to Internet Explorer.


A part of credit for such success goes to the extensions and applications available for the Chrome Browser. The noble idea of extensions was popularized by Mozilla and it was so effective that Chrome also followed the same path and extended its extensions and applications base beside the classic ones. The extensions are accessible from the new page tab, and basically (in most cases) are shortcuts to various applications hosted on the web.

The only problem is that most of the times Apps for Chrome gets mixed with available extensions and usually after Installing Apps on Chrome, we don’t remember using them. Also we get accustomed to using extensions and having to go to the new tab page (to start a app) may seem strange.

Thankfully, AppJump solve the problem, enabling us to launch any application without leaving the toolbar extensions.

A very good idea that also serves to organize them, and a mini-control panel from which we can add groups, disable applications or even get rid of them altogether. Automatically, this extension goes on to become one of the most interesting one of the year due to its usefulness and ease of use.

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How Google Chrome Extensions Are Beneficial For College Students

Now more than ever college students rely on the Internet to get their work done.  From online college courses to researching term papers and getting online help with math homework, the Internet is a crucial central part of the college students learning experience.   Google Chrome is an excellent Internet browser that students can use to take full advantage of their online learning experience.  Besides being the fastest Internet browser for most web surfing scenarios, Google Chrome also offers a wide range of free open source add on tools, called Chrome Extensions;.  Here is a list of some of the best Google Chrome Extensions for college students.

StayFocused

While the Internet is a great tool for connecting with peers, professors and experts, it can also be a real time drain when time is spent unwisely.  The StayFocused app helps you focus on important tasks on the Internet without getting bogged down with constantly checking your friends’ Facebook status or going through endless Reddit posts.  This app works by limiting the number of minutes per day that you allow yourself to stay on any particular site that you program in.  So, for instance while you may want to be able to spend unlimited amounts of time at websites assigned by your professor, you can limit your daily time to sites like Reddit to one or two hours.

Diet Diary

One of the biggest lifestyle changes for students leaving home for college for the first time is the change in eating habits.  As a full time student with a limited budget, it can be difficult to keep healthy eating habits at college.  The Diet Diary extension can help you keep track of what you eat on a day to day basis, and also help you track your ideal weight and set goals for yourself to help you achieve your weight and healthy eating goals.

Open Library Book Search

If you are looking for a good read but do not have the money to spend on the latest best seller at the corner bookstore, the Open Library Book Search extension may help you find a good read at a great price – that is, free!  The extension searches the openlibrary.org database to find books that are free to read.  This is a great extension whether you are doing research for a term paper or just trying to get a juicy bit of fiction to read between classes relax a bit.

RapidMailReader

College students often find themselves with multiple email accounts assigned and used for different purposes.   Besides your personal email account, you also may have a high school account, any other special purpose accounts you may have set up for product or social site registration and now a student account from the college which requires regular checking.  RapidMailReader is a Chrome extension that allows you to converge up to ten email accounts together to read at the same time.  This is a great time saving app since it removes the necessity and confusion of having to check all of these accounts individually.

WordStash

WordStash is a Chrome extension designed to help you learn anything you need to learn based on flash cards.  The app allows you to create a blank flash card based template and then enter in your own custom questions and answers.  This is a great extension for studying for tests or just quizzing yourself on information you want to remember later.

Utube Trends

Utube Trends allows you to search YouTube for the most popular videos in a specified country.  With the massive amount of YouTube videos uploaded every minute, this app is a great way to quickly find and share the best of what YouTube has to offer.

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How to find the Largest Files on Your Computer?

Do you know how to find the largest file on your computer? There are a couple of ways to do this. In Windows 7, the new search functions allow you to find files of a particular size and then sort them.

Use Windows Explorer

To find the largest files on your computer using Explorer, open Computer and click up in the search box. When you click inside of it, a little window pops up below with a list of your recent searches and then a add search filter option.

Go ahead and click on Size and then you’ll get another menu with a couple of options:

Go ahead and pick something like Large, Huge or Gigantic otherwise you will get a list of way too many files. If you just want to see larger files, I suggest choosing huge or gigantic. Then just press enter without typing in anything else.

You’ll start getting a list, but it’s not sorted yet as you can see above. To sort it by size, you have to click on the little options button:

From there, you can to select Details view. Then you will see the size column and be able to sort by size.

Here’s the final list of files on my computer sorted by size. This is the easies way since it’s built right into Windows and you don’t have to install anything. It also has enough options so I can see just the largest files on the computer.

If you’re not running Windows 7, then you can use a third-party program. One such program which I know is TreeSize.

You can download TreeSize Free from here:

http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

Once you install it, go ahead and run it and you’ll see a window like this:

The program will automatically start to scan the C drive and you’ll see in realtime as the sizes of the directories are calculated. Once it has finished, the blue progress bar will disappear and you’ll be able to see the largest folder by size.

You can then expand out the folders and see the largest files in each folder. With this program, it’s still not possible to instantly see the largest files on the entire computer, just the largest by folder. Still it’s a really useful app and it’s not hard to find the largest files quickly because those tend to be the largest folders also.

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Programmers Quotes and some others

UNIX is simple. But It just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.

-Dennis Ritchie

Before software can be reusable, it first has to be usable.

-Ralph Johnson

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

-Fred Brooks

It’s hard enough to find an error in your code when you’re looking for it; It’s even harder when you’ve assumed your code is error-free.

-Steve McConnell

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are sure, and the intelligent are full of doubt.

-Bertrand Russell

If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in..

-Edsger Dijkstra

You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic; You cannot have both at the same time.

-Bertrand Meyer

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third works.

-Alan J. Perlis

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

-Bill Gates

The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time.The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.

-Tom Cargill

Programmers are in a race with the Universe to create bigger and better idiot-proof programs.
The Universe is trying to create bigger and better idiots.
So far the Universe is winning.

-Anon

Theory is when you know something, but it doesn’t work.

Practice is when something works, but you don’t know why it works.

Programmers combine Theory and Practice:

Nothing works and they don’t know why.

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Run Android apps on Windows

Most Android-based smartphone users would agree that they would prefer testing an app before downloading it to their phone. The reason behind this is usually to avoid unnecessary space hogging apps. Some users might also wish to play some of the cool mobile games available for the Android platform on their PC i.e. on a larger display. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how can your favorite Android apps on your Windows-based PC using a simple and free software called BlueStacks.

BlueStacks is an app player for Windows, which can play Android apps faster than it can run on a phone and that too, on a full-screen. The app includes 10 pre-loaded apps and one can add up to 26 more apps of their choice. Favorite apps can be pushed directly from the phone onto the PC using an Android app via internet route. Download and install the software for Windows from the URL ‘www.bluestacks.com’. The software is nothing, but a simple virtual Android operating system, which simulates an Android phone or UI. It uses the desktop PC’s resources such as the processor, the internet connection, mouse, keyboard and the audio card. The installed folder located on the PC contains the necessary files for its use, namely the kernel, data, system, boot and storage (the SD card). The BlueStacks Android (Gingerbread) virtual machine creates a hardware environment with a limited amount of storage (around 363 MB) for installing apps and 262 MB of SD card storage space.
 
Once BlueStacks is installed, the application will be running the Android operating system in the background and you will see an icon in the system tray area and a widget will be running on your screen. A single click on the widget will reveal the Android system apps installed in it. Click on the apps and enjoy them on a large screen. Additional apps can be installed from the BlueStacks website by signing in using your Facebook account details. To get to this page, all you need to do is click on the BlueStacks widget, scroll to and click on the app icon/shortcut ‘Get more apps’. A website will open up where you can login using your Facebook details. Once logged in, simply click on the ‘Subscribe’ button for the available apps (in the Featured Apps section) and they shall automatically get installed on your system via the internet. The ‘Could Connect’ link on the same page will highlight a special 9-pin numerical code which needs to be entered on your Android phone running the BlueStacks Cloud Connect app (download it from the Android Market for free). Once done, you can push apps from your phone to your PC by simply selecting multiple apps and syncing it.

That’s it! You can now enjoy all your favorite apps from your phone on your Windows desktop PC.

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