Google Chrome

For a while I have used Mozilla Firefox as my browser, Internet Explorer is rubbish. It crashes all the time and runs really slow. I was happy with it, but after I changed my email account to Gmail, I discovered all the wonderful products Google offer. So I decided to try Google's internet browser, Google Chrome and it is brilliant. You can change the theme of the browser, and just now I'm using a Cath Kidston theme, all pink and flowery. And I just discovered the newly released extensions to the browser. Here are my top extensions.

• Web Of Trust - It rates the safety of sites, and stops you landing on dangerous sites.
• Chrome Bird - A tab drops down and you can work your Twitter account without leaving the page you're on. It alerts you to new tweets too.
• Google Mailchecker - Just like Chrome Bird, an icon next to the address bar alerts you when you have new mail, and one click opens up a tab with your Gmail.
• Dayhiker for Google calender - Another tab drop, with your Google calender events to hand.
• Tab Menu - A tab drops a vertical list of the pages you have opened to skip between tabs quicker and close them with one click.
• Chromepad - A notepad  in a drop down tab to write notes on, saves finding a pen and paper.
• Xmarks - It saves all your bookmark so you can access them from any computer by logging in. Good if you use more than one computer like me.
• Feedly - My absolute favourite. It grabs all the sites you subscribe to, and the blogs you follow, and puts them on one page that looks like a magazine cover. It's a fancy Google Reader. 

I can't understand why people plod on with Internet Explorer when there are so many more options out there. It took me a while to realise that there were other option, so if this blog opens even just one person's eyes to the wealth of choice out there, then my good deed for the day is done.