Google Chrome’s Best Apps Tweet

Google chrome is creating history by being The Most-Used Browser in the World, according to statcounter. Google Chrome now has 310 million active users according to Sundar Pichai, Senior Vice-President of Chrome at Google Inc.

  

                                                                                         

Google Chrome Apps are also one of the success keys apart from being Fast, Simple & Secure Web-Browser. Apps are web-based applications or programs that are designed to be used entirely within the browser. These apps serve us for performing tasks like creating documents, editing photos, listening music... and many more, without having to install complicated software in your system. You can easily use them by just installing an app plug-in in your chrome browser.

Chrome provides us several free apps for entertainment, education etc... Here I am listing some of the best chrome apps of their category.

Entertainment Apps: 

TV: The first one here comes in this category is TV app. It gives you an Internet-TV experience. You can find popular TV channels of many countries like America, Europe etc.. You can probably find Indian channels like TV9, ZOOM, and NDTV etc...All you need to do is select a channel & play your favourite program in that channel.

                                                                                                     

Download this Chrome’s TV app

Picasa: It provides you fast & easy online photo sharing. You can upload your photos & videos right from your Chrome browser. Google provides 1GB of free storage for every Google account to upload your photos & videos in Picasa. So upload photos & videos, tag your friends & share with your friends using the 1GB of free storage.     

                                                                                     

Download this Chrome’s Picasa app

MagicScroll: It is a simple eBook reader that provides you unique scrolling experience. You can read millions of books from online libraries using MagicScroll .You can even upload your eBook for reading your book with MagicScroll experience. Most interesting feature is MagicScroll works with offline support and you can enjoy your reading even without Internet.

Download this Chrome’s Magic Scroll App.

AudioSauna: It is a full-featured audio workstation. Here you can apply live effects to your song. You can upload your song from your local system & add effects to your song. You can play & record songs using your computer keyboard. You can download or export your saved song as an audio file.

Download this chrome’s AudioSauna App.

Guinness World Records: Guinness Records provides the absolute entertainment that was being watched in 90 countries worldwide.  Google chrome provides you the opportunity to watch the very best of these Guinness Records through Chrome video channel. You can also create your playlist with your favourite videos of Guinness Records.

                                                                  

Download this chrome’s Guinness World Records App

Utility Apps:

Google Drive: You can access your files & share them with your friends using Google Drive. Google Docs is a built in function in your Google Drive, so you can create & edit your documents, spreadsheets & presentations whenever you want and share with your friends. Google Drive also provides 5GB of free storage for storing your files.

Download this chrome’s Google Drive App.

Boomerang: It allows you to schedule messages to be sent or returned at a later date. Just write your message & schedule your message whenever you want to send it and this app will send your message even if you are not online. It will be greatly useful to people for scheduling birthday emails, people who are communicating with people in different time zones, etc...

                                                                           

Download this chrome’s Boomerang App.

 AdBlock: This is one of the most popular Chrome extensions. AdBlock blocks ads all over the web when you are surfing the web through Goggle Chrome. So you can access your favourite websites like YouTube, Facebook, etc.. without any adds.

                  

Download this chrome’s AdBlock App.

Google Dictionary: It allows you to view definitions easily as you browse the web. All you have to do is just install this app in your Google Chrome and just double click on the word that you want to know the meaning. It is very useful for those students preparing for competitive exams like GRE, TOEFL etc...

                                                                                             

 Download this chrome’s Google Dictionary App.

Personal Blocklist:  It blocks domains or links from appearing in your Google Search results. After installing this app you can find link like “Block www.abc.com” in the Google results. If you click on that link then that link or domain is blocked from your Google results and will not displayed in the results even if you search in the Google until you unblock it again.

                                                                            

Download this chrome’s Personal Blocklist App.

Educational Apps:

Planetarium: It is an interactive sky map for exploring the stars & planets. Planetarium app makes you to feel like that you are looking at the night sky through your Google Chrome browser. After installing this app, it asks you to set your location so that you can view your screen as if you are looking at sky form your location. You can also adjust the time and your viewing location that appear at bottom of your screen to see the sky from any point around the world. You can also view a star’s or planet’s details if you point at them with your mouse.

                                                                                

Download this chrome’s Planetarium App.

TypingClub: This app helps you to increase your typing speed and accuracy. You will have 100 typing lessons and the next lesson unlocks only if you completes the current one. After completing the each test you will be given a rating for your typing and accuracy. This is very useful for those who want to increase their typing speed.

                                                             

Download this chrome’s TypingClub App.

iVocab: It is a set of free quizzes to test & improve your vocabulary skills. These quizzes mainly focus on competitive exams like TOEFL, GRE etc... All you have to do is just sign up , select a course and take a test to analyse yourself.  The quiz timer and the results generation are the interactive features in this app.

                                                                                                

Download this chrome’s iVocab App.

Bio Digital Human: It allows you to explore your body in 3D. This is unique Chrome’s app that allows knowing more about human body. You can explore & examine each every human part through this app. You can also check some diseases and their effective areas in your body and also the symptoms. The 3D view of the body is the most interesting part in this app.

                                                                                        

Download this chrome’s Bio Digital Human App.

 

Daum Equation Editor: It allows you to create & edit your formulas easily & quickly. It is easy to write a formula in this app as it provides all the math & scientific symbols with just a click. You can also change the size and layout of your formula. You can save your formula in either as a text file or an image file in your pc.

                                                              

Download this chrome’s Bio Digital Human App.

Game Apps:

Angry Birds: This one of the most popular games all over the world. The game starts with a small story to take revenge on the green pigs who stole the Bird’s eggs and the updated version of Angry Bird’s has more than 400 game levels to play. All you need have is little logic and skill to clear each level. The next level of the game unlocks only if the present level is completed. Most interesting feature in this app is, it is offline supported.

                                                               

Download this chrome’s Angry Birds App.

Battlefield: It is a free online multiplayer game with interactive graphics. This game takes you to a realistic world through its graphics. You can customize your weapons, you can create your player in game and you can be a lead in your game. Just try this, you feel awesome for its graphics.

                                                                         

Download this chrome’s Battlefield App.

Cut The Rope: The game is all about feeding the little monster, Om Nom with a candy. The little monster Om Nom arrives to your system in a box and each box is a different level.

The outstanding graphics and game playing mechanisms are the key features in the game.

                                                             

Download this chrome’s Cut The Rope App.

Poppit: It is old classic game but still it is made interesting. All you have to do is to pop the group of 2 or more same coloured balloons until you clear entire screen.  You can earn some gifts & some powers during the progress of the game. You can challenge yourself with   easy, medium & difficult levels.

                                                                        

Download this chrome’s Poppit App.

Other Useful Apps:

Full Screen Weather: It is an interactive weather with a user friendly UI. It is having Google maps like interface so that you can view the world and check out the weather condition. You can search a city or place and Full Screen Weather allows you to view the updated weather conditions of that city or place.

                                                                    

Download this chrome’s Full Screen Weather App.

WordPress.com: It provides you an easier, faster and interactive blogging experience. All you have to do just signup and create your own blog or site of your own theme. It provides an interactive UI for blogging and it also provides 3GB of free storage for your pictures that you uploaded in to your blog.

                                                                          

Download this chrome’s Full Screen Weather App.

Turn Off The Lights: It provides you unique video watching experience. All you have to do is just install this app and click on the bulb icon that appears beside that URL box in your chrome browser then you will start experiencing your page fading to dark by highlighting your video. You can also adjust the dimness of the page and this app supports for multiple video sites.  After watching your video, click on the bulb at the URL another time to make your page normal.

                                                                                     

Download this chrome’s Turn Off The Lights App.

Dropbox: It is a free cloud service that allows storing your files in a secure way. You can have your files back anytime, anywhere by using your Dropbox app. You must install this app in your pc to start using it. It provides you 2GB free storage area for your files and you can get an extra 500 MB for every referral.

Download this chrome’s Dropbox App.

Gmail Offline: It is a Gmail app built to support offline access to the mails of your account. After installing this app you can read your mails without any network access. You must synchronize your account to start using this app. This app automatically updates your mails if once you are connected to a network.

                                                                                                   

Download this chrome’s Gmail Offline App.

Try using some of these Google Chrome’s Apps and make your browsing experience better and easier...

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The 3D Revolution....Whats in store for us?!! Tweet

Hey!! This is my first post on Technomaniacz! In-fact its my first ever post. So please forgive me if you notice any minuscule sign of inexperience and please forget if there are bigger ones. To be modest, I presume there'll be many. But lets keep my memoirs aside and we'll get to the reason why I'm indulging in this cumbersome job. Recognize the bloke in the picture below?

I would say he was the one who revolutionized the way movie makers saw the 3D technology and its application in mind-boggling movie making. Yep!! Its James Cameroon himself folks!

After his movie "Avatar" hit the screens in 2009 and kept the box-offices all over the globe rigging for the next 12 months people began to see 3D as a new but worthy addition to their movie-watching experience. Consumer Electronic Giants like Samsung, Sony, LG and the lot tried to cash in on this new craze and soon announced an array of products that had Stereoscopic technology as the driving component in them, including the Blu-ray discs and players.

So from then on there was a wild rush from different makers of 3D TVs to grab and control this new market. Samsung and Sony introduced Active 3D technology for 3D Home Entertainment. 

But the consumers who got hold of these flashy TVs were in for a wild shock!! They were supposed to wear heavyset glasses that easily burned a big hole in their pockets. The glasses needed frequent recharges [How could anyone accept this!!] since they worked on batteries and cost INR 3000 on an average.

Soon the spurt in sales that was expected by Samsung and Sony fizzled out. People struck to normal Full HD LED or LCD displays. Just when things began to get difficult for 3D Home Entertainment, LG came up with a wonderful cost effective solution in "The LG Cinema 3D" range of smart television.

Now this is where the confusion arises for a consumer willing to spend his/her hard earned money on a worthy 3D TV.

Today's 3D entertainment dilemma!

Go for the Samsung Smart TV or LG Cinema 3D?!! [We'll leave Sony because it is costlier than Samsung though both use the same Active Filter Technology for 3D Rendering and isn't suitable for an average Indian middle class customer]

The comparison Now.....This is Samsung Smart 3D TV and its 3D glasses...

Now this is how 3D works out in this TV. The eyewear used has infrared or bluetooth sensors with which it connects wirelessly to a 3D LCD TV or 3D LED TV. When the screen shows 3D content, it alternates between two versions of an image. This is done by having a pair of LCD shutters in the eye wear which switch ON and OFF alternatively making sure that only one of them is ON at any given time.

In active technology, however, the two image versions are not displayed at the same time, and there is a tiny lag between the two images. When the images alternate on the screen, the glass lenses alternate between being opaque and transparent. So when the right eye receives input for an image shown on screen, the left eye does not receive any input.

This happens at a very high speed, as a result of which the brain does not have time to perceive a flicker in the images. As the closing and opening is timed in sync with on-screen images, each eye views only one version of the image. A stereoscopic sync connector is plugged into an infrared (IR) emitter. This emitter transmits signals to the 3D glasses using active lenses. This helps the lens synchronize with 3D content on screen.

Manufacturers have started incorporating this technology in their television units only recently. This is because most of the older plasma and LCD television models had low refresh rates as a result of which this technology could not be employed in them.

Refresh rate is the speed with which a screen replaces images and when this is low, the viewers will be able to detect a flicker when they use these glasses. But in most of the latest television models, the refresh rates are high and viewers can enjoy a great 3D experience.

The Main drawback of this method is the Image Flickering. This can easily cause headache and nausea and the heavy glasses can make your nose deeper. That might affect the girls seeing that they don't want their facial complexion altered.

And the cost which is the main factor. The Basic active 3D glasses for Samsung model starts at INR 1300 [Refresh rate of 120 HZ] and climb upto INR 5000 based on their refresh rate. How can an Indian family of 4 and above afford this??!

Now this is where LG exhibits its commonsense. This is LG Cinema 3D TV and its passive polarised filter glasses.

The Pink thing above [Urgh!] will win any girl's heart. Its a passive 3D glass that you get with LG Cinema 3D.

The colorful array of glasses that you see below are not sun glasses but they are passive 3D glasses again!! Cool!! Aren't they?! This is where LG Scores above Samsung and here is how they achieved it.... 3D TVs employing polarization are used with polarized glasses, whose lenses filter light waves that are polarized in a specific direction.

Unlike Samsung Displays LG developed this display that is capable of polarising in two ways.

Only light polarized in a way compatible with either lens is allowed through each of them, as a result of which, each eye perceives only one set of images. The images are then processed by the brain in the same manner as it does for real life images. The working is similar to Theatrical 3D exhibition which is cheap.

One advantage of polarized glasses is that image details and colours shown by them are similar to that of real life 3D content. Polarized glasses offer viewing experience that is among the best in different 3D technologies. Another advantage of using these glasses is that they are relatively cost effective as they make use of passive technology.

With polarized glasses, users can also conveniently shift between 2D and 3D viewing experiences.

And the Cost?!! Well if you have just INR 100 bucks then pay a trip to our very own Ritchie Street, Chennai, where you'll find these in even better designs and more attractive colours. OR just pay a visit to your nearby multiplex and watch a 3D movie. Keep the glasses with you as a memorabilia if the movie is good or do the same to compensate your money if its a bad one [Do this at your own risk].

Therefore I'd rather go for the LG Cinema 3D (4X" costs around INR 90,000) than a Samsung Smart (4X" costs around INR 85,000 plus INR 5000 or more for those uncomfortable looking glasses).

So folks I hope this post comes in handy when you plan to buy your very Own 3D Entertainment system. 

Adios for Now....! 

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