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Exploring the Lives of Women at the Base of the Pyramid

2012-03-13T09:14:00.000-07:00

March 8th is International Women's Day and to mark the occasion, the GSMA mWomen Programme has released a study called "Striving and Surviving – Exploring the Lives of Women at the Base of the Pyramid." Drawn from 2,500 interviews with women (aged 16-64 in both rural and urban areas) living on less that $2 a day in Egypt, India, Papua New Guinea, and Uganda, the report looks at how mobile technology influences the way women approach health, economic development, and family relationships, and what mobile operators can do to reach more low-income women.

The report is divided into three parts; part one looks at the social, cultural, and economic factors that women at the base of the economic pyramid face in their daily lives, part two looks at the role of mobile technology in their lives, and part three looks at how technology can be used to further reach low-income women.

Some of the statistics pulled from the report show that when asked what the key benefits of mobile would be: [quoted from report]

80% reported being connected to friends and family
58% said it would be useful in an emergency
40% said it would cut down on travel time
15% believed it would help them feel secure
93% reported that mobile phones made them feel safer, while the same proportion particularly valued being connected to friends and family.
41% reported that owning a mobile had helped them increase their income or their professional prospects
85% of mobile owners reported a greater feeling of independence

The study found that despite general positive feelings toward mobile technology, there are many challenges to getting mobile technology into the hands of low-income women. Gender imbalances were a major issue, as although some women had access to mobile phones through friends or family, few owned their own mobile phone. Another major issue was technical ability, as "while 77% of BoP women have made a mobile phone call, only 37% have sent an SMS, regardless of literacy levels." Among women who were surveyed, 22% who reported not wanting a mobile phone said their reason was because they would not know how to use it.

Other concerns women listed for using mobile phones were a lack of regular access to electricity to keep the phone charged, concerns about theft, and concerns about ownership and usage costs. Furthermore, family pressure was a large influence on women's view of technology as the report states: "In addition to doubts about the cost/benefit analysis of mobile ownership, 64% of married women who do not wish to own handsets cited the disapproval of their husbands as a principle reason for not wanting to own a phone."

"Striving and Surviving" also examines how mobile operators can increase their outreach to women at the base of the pyramid by addressing women's concerns. By developing family plans and reaching out to male and female customers by highlighting security and family connectivity available through mobile technology, mobile operators can broaden their customer base while getting technology into the hands of women who need it.

An interesting aspect of the report is the Portraits series, a fictionalized account of eight women from the base of the pyramid who use mobile technology and explain how that technology fits into their everyday lives. The stories are interspersed throughout the final report, but are also collected in a separate paper called "Portraits: A Glimpse into the Lives of Women at the Base of the Pyramid." Although the accounts are fictionalized, they are drawn from the research that went into creating "Striving and Surviving – Exploring the Lives of Women at the Base of the Pyramid." The reports look at the lives of everyday women and how they use and view mobile technology.

Because the data for the report is drawn from only four countries, the GSMA mWomen Programme has made all of the research tools used to create this report publicly available atwww.mwomen.org to inspire further research.

Use these Android Apps and save Earth

2012-03-13T01:17:00.000-07:00

Green technology is one of the most adopted technologies these days in almost all fields of technology and science. Green is the word everywhere and people love this green technology to the core. These days even the apps for mobiles are made keeping green environment in mind.

Green Android Apps

These green apps are gaining massive popularity among all ages of people and especially among youth and students. These apps available on Android Market have become a source of imparting the message of saving our environment. Most of these apps are available free of cost. These apps makes your phone go green, saves your battery life, helps in calculating carbon footprint and much more.

Here is a list of 10 green apps for Android users that are creating a buzz around.

1. 3rd Whale Mobile App

This Android mobile app is a really cool one that lets you find the locations around you that offer green products. It also provides the location for fair trade shops, yoga centers, ecofriendly meetings, vegetarian restaurants, and much more. All you have to do is tap the search button in the app and you are into a greener world.

2. Eco Buzz Widget APP

The Eco Buzz Widget makes everything go green in your Android phone. It is specially made to deliver the information on climate change, best places to buy organic threads, Ecofriendly car and much more. It helps you find out locations and objects that has least impact on environment. Overall it is one of the best green apps for all green technology lovers.

3. Print Green App

The Print green app emphasizes on the sustainability in the printing and graphic arts industry. This green app lets you print green on any kind of object in your mobile. This Android app is an initiative from Chevalier International Printers which are known for their first Carbon neutral printer in Europe.

4. IAmGreen App

This green app is made to deliver the message of saving our environment by recycling cell phones. The concept says that every year millions of cell phones are used and are thrown into garbage. This garbage cell phone covers a plenty of area and also pollutes the green environment. So this app is made to create awareness among people regarding the recycling of these unused cell phones.

5. Green Mileage App

This cool green mileage app is specially developed keeping in mind the vehicle's mileage questions. This app lets you track your vehicle's mileage when you are on the move and gives exact detailed information about the mileage of your vehicle. It records each time you fill-up you tank and also determines the vehicle's MPG.

6. Green Driving Gauge App

Next up is the Green Mileage App which is again something related to your vehicle's mileage. This green app determines your driving and provides solution and feedback to help improve the efficiency of car and make you a fuel efficient driver. It also keeps a check on your acceleration and breaking intervals.

7. GreenYou App

This cool green app developed for the Android market is capable of calculating the quantity of carbon footprint on the planet by providing the information related to transportation, housing needs, and solutions, food locations, goods and services provided for green environment and ways of saving the environment. When you are done with the calculation part, make your own Green plan by selecting various key options and see how much impact is made by you on the environment.

8. Green Sushi Selector App

Next up is the Green Sushi Selector app that allows you to find your favorite sushi available in market. This green app provides you the every key information regarding sushi and also lets you know which species is harmful to human beings as these days some sushi come from threatened fish species. This perfect green app will make your work of ordering a safe and green sushi very simple. So next time when you go out looking for a decent and non-harmful sushi, do make use of this app.

9. iGreenCircle App

This iGreenCircle app allows you to interact with people who love this green technology and have faith in improving our green nature and saving our planet. It acts as a social media where people can interact anytime from any place of the world. Using this app will help you in transferring and gaining knowledge from different people across the world.

10. Recycle Guide App

Next on the list is the Recycle Guide app that is developed to provide a complete guide for using various recycled products effectively. This app helps the environment by providing new effective recycling ideas. Now you can use this app to discover things that are available around you which can be easily recycled into useful products. Moreover, it is available free in market.

Android TV

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1. B-Movies

B-Movie is a free app available with huge variety of free legal movies and shows to watch. Each video is accompanied by a rating given by viewers. And a short synopsis. If you find a particularly interesting movie, you can bookmark it for viewing later by using the bookmark control in the top-right corner of the details screen. Switch to the Bookmarks tab to view your bookmarks. Swipe from left to right across any bookmark to delete it.

Download for iPhone Download for Android

2. Daily Motion

Daily Motion is a video sharing website where you can access millions of videos from all over the world. You can view as well as share your own videos with your friends. It allows you to discovery new and interesting content including short films musics videos and animations.

Download for iPhone Download for Android

3. Joost

Joost application has a number of videos where you can choose your favorite videos such as celebrity news, gossip, music videos, action sports, etc. You have an option to browse videos by category or joost picks. The main menu of Joost are Music, Films, shows which are again divided into two groups like action, comedy, horror etc.

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4. Spreety TV

Spreety Tv gives access to limited categories to watch full episode of TV shows online through 3G or WIFI on your iPhone. It is very simple you have to open your browse on your iPhone and typeiphone.spreety.com.. It includes NBC, CBS, etc. however it is recommended to use it in WIFI.

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5. TV.com

TV.com gives access to numerous TV shows and videos from networks including CBS, NBC, CNET and lots more. The programs works over WiFi and over 3G, I’ve used it before and it’s very good except for the fact that the video quality can be grainy sometimes.

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6. Netflix

Netflix is one of the most popular video streaming apps over iOS and Android platform. Just download this free app and you can instantly watch TV shows & movies streaming from Netflix. This is also the simplest 3G or Wi-Fi based TV app.

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7. Orblive

Orblive is an iPhone app that requires the orb video streaming server be installed. This server then streams your media through the Orblive app. The app work pretty well and is supposed to stream live TV if you have a compatible TV tuner card on your computer. Again, the files need to be in apples native (mp4) format.

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8. justin.tv

justin.tv application is for those people who wants to connected with the latest news all around the world. Means you van view live video services all around the globe using WIFI or 3G You can also create live videos and show it to any one.

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9. TWC TV

TWC TV can turn any Android smartphone or tablet into the ultimate remote control. If you are a TV customer, the FREE TWC TV app lets your Android device change the channel on your TV from anywhere and manage your DVR from anywhere, even when you are out.

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10. XFINITY TV

XFINITY TV can brings a world of entertainment in your device. Find your favorite tv shows and movies, control your TV, and schedule DVR recordings all with this XFINITY TV app.

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I would like to end the list here. These are the best application were you can watch TV on your iPhone and Android. Let me know your views on these cool apps.

Google+ VS Facebook

2012-03-12T01:00:00.000-07:00

Google’s failure at social networking front in the form of Buzz,Wave and Orkut is still fresh in people’s mind. But if internet pundits are to be believed, Google+ is about to change that mindset. Google Plus is a real breakthrough in the sense that it uses and accumulates the best of Facebook and exposes the worst of its practices. So, in way the interface and everything is very similar to Facebook, yet the privacy policies and features like Video chat are quite an improvement over Facebook.

Google have come out in the open criticizing the privacy policy of the Facebook. Google vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra even labels Facebook as sloppy, scary and insensitive toward people’s need for more control over their privacy settings. He further adds that every activity on Facebook is like a public performance. His comments are a clever marketing ploy, especially when Gundotra claims Google+is offering everything that Facebook is not.

In recent times the objective of social networking has been to imitate real life as closely as it can. This theory has become the benchmark for all major innovations in this arena. Google+ offers a feature called ‘Circle’ that is based on a similar approach. It plays on the fact that people have different group of friends with whom they interact in different ways. This interaction is often mish mashed in the way Facebook handle things. With ‘Circles’, users will be allowed to add friends into different groups, independent of each other. This will allow sharing of data in separate and unique ways.

Google+ is the first social networking site to offer video chat. Google+ feature ‘Hangout’ allows you to have multiple video chats, similar to call conferencing with the click of a single button. This feature have created a lot of buzz in the social networking circles, so much so that Facebook is now working on its own video chat feature.

Google’s mobile operating system Android is already a market leader. Google is planning to launch Google+ on Android built phones. The mobile version will not only benefit from the fast browsing service offered by Android, but would also have the added feature called ‘Hurdle’. Hurdle will allow the users to send messages to different groups of friends in one go. The ‘Speak’ button is another excellent feature that rather looks like a rip off of the Facebook ‘Like’ button. With ‘Spark’ you can easily put up anything that interests you on your profile.

It is a pertinent question to ask that is it all a gimmick by Google to put down Facebook? Or are they really trying to innovate in the field of social networking? Google have two advantages that Facebook doesn’t, one is the overwhelming success of Android, which will help them capture the mobile market. The other is the reign of ‘YouTube’ as the most famous video based social channel.

Online Earning

2012-03-12T00:00:00.000-07:00

The internet helps to make money if you can build a website. If you are not aware how to build a website then this article can help you in this process. Here are a few points that can help you build awebsite to make money.

Try to specify the subject you want to start your blog on as it will help to attract the visitors. The niche of your website will determine the amount of money you will make through the website. You can survey the market by talking to your friends and relatives. Make sure the website your make should be on the topic you are aware of so that you keep it up dated all the time.

After you choose a topic ensure that you concentrate on looking for address of your website. When you are looking for website then it can be done through several procedures. Make sure that you find a domain that will be easier for you to keep in mind and it fits well with the subject of your website.

In order to make the website live ensure that you have a hosting along with your domain name. You can buy the hosting through different dealers who offer a good deal to you. Try to point the domain if you get a free hosting. The hosting plan is inclusive of the features that you have to make your website. Make sure that it has enough storage capacity as well as bandwidth to accommodate the traffic.

Try to look for HTML editor once you have got your own domain and hosting. You need to hire the services of a HTML editor for making the actual website. Make sure that you save the copies in the hard disk and then it can be uploaded in your web hosting while using the FTP software.

Once your website is complete then start looking for advertisers as well as affiliate links. You can use Google AdSense and promote products from other sites like Amazon and ebay on your website. When the visitors click on the advertisements then you can make money through it.

Purchase Decisions are Based on Emotions

2012-03-11T14:48:00.001-07:00

Purchase Decisions are Based on Emotions

What’s in it for Me?

As business owners, we need to remember that our potential clients or customers don’t care about what our product or service does for others, they only care about how it will help THEM!

Many business owners get caught up in promoting the features of their offerings, when they need to pay more attention to the BENEFITS.

Stop Selling the Product. Start Selling the Benefitis a very interesting blog post about how to “tie your product or service to emotion…“and uses some pretty interesting examples.

Did you ever wonder why the mannequins in stores wearing the clothes the store is selling don’t have faces?

Kia Bat hay

2012-03-11T14:22:00.001-07:00

Must See Please

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General Aslam Baig real face

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General Aslam Baig real face

General (retd) Mirza Aslam Baig, ex- COAS, gets physical with DAWN reporter when he was asked about his role in Mehran Bank scandal.

General Baig is under scrutiny by Supreme Court of Pakistan these days on his alleged role in distributing large cache of funds to Pakistani politicians to topple Benazir government in early 90s.

Pakistan by Faiz

2012-03-11T14:04:00.000-07:00

In many ways, the video below–inspired by this poem–is the precursor of this blog.This nazm by Faiz Ahmed Faiz is a perenial favorite. The layers of meaning, nuance, insight and relevance that each verse packs never ceases to amaze me.

For as long as I can remember, I would read or listen to this poem and the entire history of Pakistan would flash past me. This little experiment was an attempt to capture the images that the poem was conjuring up in my mind. Ultimately, it is my little homage to Faiz Ahmed Faiz as well as to the aspirations of ordinary

Invisible car

2012-03-11T13:06:00.000-07:00

Those of us who have been following the progress of eco friendly cars know that given the right investment, resources and know-how, EVs could replace conventional cars in the future. The going will be long and arduous, of course, since there are hurdles to overcome in terms of cost of production and performance. But with time, the world will have to change its mindset as fossil fuel reserves aren’t going to remain full. Mercedes recently came up with a marketing gimmick aimed at getting people to notice its zero emission F-Cell automobile. Word quickly traveled on the internet and for good reason: the model takes on the properties of a chameleon, blending into its surroundings using LEDs.

Mercedes F-Cell model

Google Adsense VS others

2012-03-11T12:52:00.001-07:00

use your mind and change your life style

When it comes to online advertising, we all know that Google Adsense is one of the largest online advertising industry so far. If you follow their guidelines and rules properly you can make a decent amount of money from Adsense. Most of the webmasters of website and blogs mainly depend on Google Adsense for their revenue. But not all webmasters and publishers are happy with Adsense and they are constantly looking for Adsence alternatives. I have seen Google just bans a publisher account for invalid clicks or not adhering to their policies. And no any further explanations are given by Google. Yes! its ture that Google disable account who don't follow their rules and regulations. As a blogger or publisher you must have alternate revenue sources, even if you are holding an Adsense account.

One more important point is that Google will not release payments until you reach the minimum payout of $100, which may took ages to reach for small blogger's or publisher's. So, in today's post I will provide you some good alternatives ad programs that you can run along with your existing Google Adsense ads.

1. BuySellAds

BuySellAds is an online advertising marketplace where Advertisers comes together for selling and buying Advertising spaces. Bloggers (Publishers) sell their Advertising slot in BSA and Advertisers Buy Advertising slots at different blogs or websites. It has large number of potential advertisers and provides a chance to bloggers to earn decent amount of money from it. The minimum requirement to join BuySellAds is to have good amount of traffic and page views to your blog.

2. Adbrite

AdBrite is one of the best alternative to Google Adsense. AdBrite offers international publishers and non-English sites to participate in their ad program. It doesn't have large collection of ad formats like Google Adsense have, but they do offer the most commonly used ad formats like inline page links and full page ads. It has minimum payout by check is $100 by default, but you can set it to any amount greater than $5. They do not have more complex-ed terms and conditions like Google Adsence have, and are much more changes of accepting smaller publishers including blogger's with less traffic. AdBrite pays 75% of ad share and which is really good for all bloggers.

3. Bidvertiser

Bidvertiser is an excellent alternative to Adsense which offers pay-per-click (PPC) text ads and image ads. It has a good minimum click rate for publishers and provides fully customizable ads, even you can add your own CSS to ads. It also displays content related ads. Minimum payout is $10 and offers both Check and Paypal payment methods. This adsence program is best for high traffic blogs.

4. Chitika

Chitika is a pay-per-click advertising program established in 2003. The greatest benefit of Chitika is that it can be used in conjunction with Google Adsense to place ads on your blog and make a another way to earn money from your blog. There is no any conflict with Google Adsense because Chitika only serves non-contextual ads. It provides a very best advertising solutions to advertisers and publishers. It also offers customized ads formats according to your blog like Google adsence does. Minimum payout for PayPal is $10 and for Check is $50.

5. AdvertiseSpace Network

AdvertiseSpace Network is another good alternative to Google Adsense, where you can sell banner ad space on your blog to make some extra money with it. Like BuySellAds, you need to create ad zones in Advertising Space network in order to sell various banner ads on your blog. Advertising Space provides a facility for depositing payments into PayPal accounts directly. A minimum payout is $25.

6. Text Link Ads

Text Link Ads allows you to make money by selling text links and in-line text ads on your sites or blog. You can select price and sell upto 10 textual advertisements on your site, the price depending on PageRank, Alexa rank, Facebook likes and other possibly things. They offer 50/50 revenue share of all ads sold on your blog or site. Best suitable for high traffic sites with good PageRank and Alexa rank and the higher price is for each link sold on your site. Well established sites with high quality back-links can earn more money from Text Link Ads. Minimum payout check is $25 and supports Check, PayPal, or TLA Voucher.

7. Clicksor

Clicksor is one of the most popular and leading Contextual Advertising Network with over 150 thousand content websites in network and serving more than 3 billion impressions a month and a good alternative to Google Adsense. It allow you to earn through different ad formats like In-line Text Ads, Contextual Ads (banner and text), pop-up ads and more. You can share up to 60% of the revenue, depending on the performance of the advertisements and clicks. Pop-up ads seems to be annoying to users but the income we earn through these pop-up ads much higher than the other ad networks. Minimum of $50 payout of by Check or PayPal.

8. Infolinks

Infolinks is an specialized Pay Per Click Text Advertising network with premium Contextual Ads for your Website or blog. Infolinks indexes your blog content and place ads links automatically on your site according to keyword selection. Best part of this program is that you can also run infolinks ads with other advertising programs like Google Adsence. Payments are made by Wire transfer, Automated Clearing House ($400 min) or PayPal minimum $50.

9. Kontera

Kontera is an in-text advertising network program that double-underline the keywords in your site. It makes annoying to some users because ads are displayed in a pop-up window. I think it is best for the content rich blogs. Kontera is very simple in deploying ads code. If you have blog then its even more easier to add there widgets to your blog. Payments are made via Check, PayPal and Wire-transfer. Again minimum payout is $50 for Check and PayPal.

10. ContextWeb

ContextWeb is one of the best leading online advertising network that delivers measurable online ad performance on millions of real-time impressions every day. It not only pay per clicks but also it pays per impression. If your blog have a higher number of impressions every day, then you should must try it. They pay payments via PayPal and direct Checks.

11. AdBull

AdBull provides publishers a great way to make money from blog. They have very easy sigup process and accept new website within 24 hours of registration. They provide text links ads as well as image ads. All you have to do is just generate ad code and put in your blog pages and ads are displayed instantly. They only pay via Check or PayPal and minimum payout is $100 for both, which is quite higher as compared to other ad programs. AdBull also have a referral program in which you can refer this program to your friends and start making money.

12. Dynamic Oxygen

Dynamic Oxygen is a relatively new adverisiting program in this field. They have ads format like Layer Ads, Peeler Ads, Anchor Ads, Image ads etc based on your blog content. The best thing about Dynamic Oxygen is that they provide very excellent support, not like Google Adsense support. They pay via Check, PayPal, and Wire transfer. Minimum payout via PayPal and Check is $50. Payments are made every first week of the month.

13. Luminate

Luminate is an online image advertising program and currently the market leader in image advertising. It currently serves more than 150 million users per month and 30 billion page view per year. It display ads on images and when you mouse-over’s an image it displays related products ads, depending on the image alt tag. The minimum payout is $10 by Check or PayPal.

14. Pocket Cents

Pocket Cents is an Pay Per Click banner advertising network which provides targeted local banner advertising, online printable coupon marketing, and local video advertising services for small and medium sized businesses who are looking to handle targeted local internet marketing through pay per click ads. PocketCents is one of the fastest growing targeted local advertising network audience nearly 40 times larger and that makes them one of the top alternatives to Google’s AdSense. They charge a flat rate of 25 cents per ad click, video play, or coupon print, which makes the service very affordable and effective. Minimum payout is $10 by Check and PayPal.

15. Puxee

is also considered as one of the best alternative to Google Adsense, it allows you to make money by selling banner advertisements in your blog. It allows you to set fixed monthly price for your each add banner unit on your blog. Puxee give 75% of earnings to publishers, which is very high as compared to other advertising networks. Even Google Adsence gives only 42% of earning to their publishers and keeps the rest.

16. Direct Advertising

Direct Advertising is one of the most effective way to earn lot of extra money from your blog. For direct advertisements you need to create a separate page on your blog and share your website traffic statistics, advertising options with prices and mode of payment. I think Direct Advertising is the best and much effective way to make money from it, but your blog must have a high traffic and page views to attract advertisers.

I would really like to know which advertising networks you are currently using in your blog or website to make money, and also share your thoughts about these Google Adsense Alternatives. Please Do comment if you know any other advertising alternatives.

chrome is rocking

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41. Blank Canvas Script Handler

Blank Canvas Script Handler extension allows you customize web sites by running bits of JavaScript on pages. This supports many of the functions which are normally used in scripts. There are some key features like.

It has a built-in script editor that allows you create or modify scripts.
Shows a list of scripts running on the current page.
Easily to install the script.
kind of an unofficial Greasemonkey for Chrome, which support all the functions.

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42. WordPress Comment Notifier

WordPress Comment Notifier is very useful to the bloggers who handle more than one blog. This extension will check the pending comments on your WordPress blog and displays it as a badge or gives you a notification about the unread comment. Without opening a new tab you can reply to, Trash or mark it as spam. This extension is very handy for bloggers owing more than one or multiple blogs.

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43. Live Stylesheets

Live Stylesheets allows you to edit style-sheet on any webpage live. This extension is similar to firebug extension. This extension open a panel into the current tab where you can make all the changes in just one click.

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44. WhatFont

WhatFont is a good way to find out font styles. This extension is simple and easy to use. It allows you to find the fonts used in a webpage. You just need to hover the mouse on them. It also finds the services used for serving the web fonts.

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45. ChromePass

ChromePass displays all the passwords that has been stored for your website logins. In Google Chrome you can view the saved password one by one were as in ChromePass you will find the list of passwords in bulk. It also displays the user name and password as well as time of creation. You can export this list of username and password to a file (HTML, XML).

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46. Digg for Chrome

Digg for Chromer is an official Digg extension. It allows you to view the Digg count of any URL on address bar. It also has a random button that allows you to discover new content from the web. Easy to share any URL (Facebook, Twitter).

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47. Chrome Editor

Chrome Editor extension makes coding easier for web developers. Coding is a very difficult part of a blogger and web developer, it is also difficult to switch between browser and code editor. chrome extension allows you to edit code within the browser, for your reference you can save the code locally. There are others features too.

Mail your code to your friends.
Validate your code on the w3c website.
Share your code on twitter.
Save file to desktop lets you save any of your work out as a file on your computer so you can test in other environments.

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48. Ibrii

Ibrii extension allows you to snip of content like images, videos, text from any website. It gives the facility to decide how to share the content on Facebook, Twitter. Also it allows you to create RSS feeds for your personal Blog.

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49. RemindMe

RemindMe No one like to miss important task, it is better we set a reminder about the task and work to be done later. Chrome extension remindme allows you to set up reminders while browsing. You can synchronize the reminders between computers using chrome built-in “Synchronize MY Bookmark” functionality. You can set the reminder for a specific time or work to be done later.

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50. Google Dictionary

Google Dictionary everyone are not master in any language. Sometime or the other they will be in need to dictionary. This Google Chrome extension allows you to find the meaning of any word or phrase with in the web page. You just need to double click on the word and a small pop up bubble will display with the definition. International words are automatically translated to your choice of language.

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51. Facebook Notification Checker

Facebook Notification Checker help you to say connected with your bloggers and friends easily. Once you receive a new Facebook notification the extension will notifies in red icon. It also notified for any new message or friends request.

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52. AddThis

AddThis is most popular services for bookmarking and sharing. This extension allows you to share, bookmark. Print or translate pages or article quickly. You can share to more than 200 website including Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Google+, StumbleUpon and so on. Using this extension you can also email webpage to your friends and family.

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53. TwitterBar

TwitterBar extension enables you to post to twitter from Google chrome toolbar directly. The URL and titles is automatically entered to the text-box. URL is auto shortened when you post to twitter. By clicking the option button you can change the URL shortener.

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54. Chromed Bird

Chromed Bird is one of the awesome extension that enables you to post anything without logging to your twitter account. You can add or remove timeline tabs. Also create a custom search query that gets updated automatically.

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55. WiseStamp

WiseStamp extension enables you to share your social profiles and promote information you care about in every email you send. This looks professional. It enables you to create multiple signatures. It also adds social Profiles like Facebook, Google+, Twitter, LinkedIn, Skype, Gtalk etc to your email signature.

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56. Drop.io

Drop.io lets say you are browsing some Google Images and you click Drop All ImagesDrop.io extension will upload all the images to your drop. You can access them easily when and where you wish to. Drop.io extension creates a new drop or else you can set a single default drop.

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57. Chrome Chikitizer

Chrome Chikitizer last few years shortening URL has become more popular. Google Chrome has introduced an extension called Chrome Chikitizer. Chikitizer means Tiny. This extension helps you in shorten the URL directly from your chrome browser.

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58. Split Screen

Split Screen extension helps you to split browser viewing panel into two separate panels. You can enjoy browsing two websites at the same time by using this extension giving to dual view in your browser.

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59. TPGoogleReader

TPGoogleReader this extension is excellent for a Feed geek. When a website has a new feed, the icon will turn orange. You can click to a popup menu and see the list of feeds available and than click on any one feed you wish to read in Google Reader. You can read as well as subscribe the feeds. The number of Feeds unread will be displayed in your Goole Reader account.

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60. DayHiker

DayHiker is an extension which reminds your daily task. Remembering the task and daily work routine is very difficult. DayHiker is an extension for Google calendar where in you can manage your schedule, task and daily routine work on the toolbar from your Google calendar. It has an alarm clock which helps you to manage your time effectively.

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I hope you buddies like all these above Chrome extensions and this is the third part of the Google Chrome extension series. I would also like to know your experience about these extension in the comments.

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21. Internet Explorer Tab

IE Tab is the most popular and robust extension for Chrome browser that displays web pages using IE within the chrome. It supports ActiveX controls, SharePoint and more. It is very simple extension for Google chrome that enable you to use ActiveX controls and test your web pages with different versions of IE (IE6, IE7, IE8, or IE9).

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22. SEO Site Tools

SEO Site Tools is the most comprehensive SEO Tool for browser, it pull more metrics from more sources, including social media reactions, it also enhances common tools like Google Webmaster and Yahoo Site Explorer tool with links anchor text and page-rank. Even no-follow link highlighting, pop-out ability and color themes. It also has ability to disable right-click scripts and provides you lot of information about websites such as.

Domain listing and compete.com data.
Suggestions for your site.
Google index date and PageRank.
Linking to page and domain from Yahoo.
External Web page information.

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23. META SEO Inspector

META SEO Inspector is a most powerful Chrome extension for web developers that need to verify the description tag of a site to follow the Google Webmasters Guidelines and SEO. But it can be very useful to whoever is curious about page contents that are usually not visible, but can reveal interesting site properties. Alerts are displayed when the meta data is not within certain ranges, for example when the description tag is too short, or too long. There are links to info-sites ( mainly SEO-oriented ) pointing to the exact page about the site you are visiting.

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24. Validity

Validity extension allow you to quickly validate your HTML documents from the address bar. Just click the icon in the address bar to validate the current document without leaving the page. It shows list of validation errors in the tool tip and the details can be seen in the console tab of Chrome's developer tools. You will also have an option to use your own installation of the W3C Validation Service.

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25. Color Picker

Color Picker extension mainly designed for experienced web developers who need to pick colors from any web page and see color changes on their website without the need of any other applications. This extension helps web developers to easily find the elements or tags on the page that they want to change the color of their websites.

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26. Image Cropper

Image Cropper is an Chrome extension that helps web designers to crop any online images on the fly and save them as PNG format. This extension especially useful for those who need to crop online album photo for IM thumbnail. It can also crop any css background images for any HTML element.

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27. Picnik

Picnik extension for Chrome lets you easily edit the images of any online web site. Not only edit but allow helps you in taking snapshot of any website but also you can edit and share with Picnik. This extension offers some great features like.

Right-click on any image to edit it in Picnik.
Screen captures either the visible page or entire height page.
Access from right-click context menu, Tools menu, or toolbar icon.
Quickly edit, annotate, and share the images you find on the web.

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28. MeasureIt

MeasureIt extension allows you to draw out a ruler that will help you get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

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29. Pixlr Grabber

Pixlr Grabber extension allows you to select the entire webpage or custom space to take a screenshot of the page. You can also upload to a web services so that you can share it publicly. The main draw back is its speed, since Chrome just supports canvas in png the images created gets quite large and takes a while to process.

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30. Domain Availability Checker

Domain Availability Checker extension quickly check for availability of a domain from your toolbar. It is prefect for designers/developers. This extension fully supports IDN Domains encrypted with PunyCode for safe transmission.

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31. Snippy

Snippy extension allows you to capture snippets of web pages, images and links and save them for future use. Snippy saves the captured snippets on your browser. If you want, you can decide to upload them to Google Docs and shared with your friends.

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32. LastPass

LastPass is an free online password manager and Form Filler extension that makes your web browsing experience more easier and more secure. LastPass extension also available for Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera.

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33. iMacros

iMacros extension automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitive work like visiting the save site every day, uploading images, remembering password, filling forms. Automatically download and upload images, files or entire pages. It also has the features to downloading PDF and flash and image blocking function. It can automatically read data from a website export to CSV file. Web developers use iMacros for web performance testing.

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34. Chrome Flags

Chrome Flags extension displays a country flag indicating the location of the websites you're visiting. This extension also displays information about the website's servers, owners, traffic and trustworthiness.

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35. Shareaholic

Shareaholic is an all-in-one social extension for Chrome that provides easiest way to share interesting articles on Social sites like Facebook, Twitter, Email, Gmail, Plus, Reader, Bookmarks, and more from within the browser. Shareaholic offers following features:

Save time and improve your productivity.
Optimized to load instantly without slowing down Google Chrome.
Keeps your bookmark bar nice & tidy.
Makes all your shared links across all your networks searchable in one place.
1-click access to your favorite URL Shorteners (goo.gl, bit.ly, su.pr, etc).
Ability to sync extension settings across multiple computers and browsers.
100% secure and no any REGISTRATION REQUIRED.

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36. Frame Two Pages

Frame Two Pages extension allows you to merge the active tab and the previous one into a frameset. Once you click on the extension's icon, the current tab will be merged with the previous one (on the left) into a frameset with two columns (frames) or rows (options offer 3 buttons: rows/columns/ad_hoc). They will be ordered in the same way as the tabs (left, right). In other words, your physical screen will be split into two areas.

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37. Chrome Sniffer

Chrome Sniffer extension will help developer to inspect and detect web application framework and JavaScript libraries present on browsing website. The detected framework will be displayed on the address bar. Currently, this extension can detect more than 100 most popular CMS and JavaScript libraries, and more will be added in the near future releases.

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38. Session Buddy

Session Buddy is a flexible session management extension that allows you to easily save, edit, and restore your browser sessions.

Quickly save the current session from the Session Buddy interface or from the right-click menu on any web page.
Flexible restore options allow restore of sessions into the original set of windows, a single window, or the current window.
Automatic capture of your 10 most recent sessions is especially handy for recovering a session after a browser or system crash.
Name and edit your saved sessions with ease.
Populate a session from a simple list of URLs.
Export a session to text or CSV format (more formats in development).
Control the types of tabs that Session Buddy recognizes.
Keyboard shortcuts make working with sessions a snap.

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39. Google Reader Notifier

Google Reader Notifier gives you a notification of unread and new post. To view the unread post you have to just click on the icon near URL bar. Click on the Title and select “open Google Reader” from the menu to go to Google reader.

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40. Untiny

Untiny extension is for safe browsing, everyone feel afraid of opening a shortened link, Fear of have any virus attack, but Google Has launched Untiny extension. You just need to just enter to the shortened link and press extract button and the original link will be displayed.

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Google Chrome Extensions For Web Developers And Bloggers

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1. WebRank SEO

WebRank SEO is similar to Alexa Traffic Ranking. It shows more SEO information about the website like traffic graphs, social statistics, and pages indexed and backlinks. A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tool for competitive analysis and website analysis. Just by one click you can see your competitors.

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2. IP Address

IP Address extension allows you get your find your IP address with just one click whenever you want.

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3. Chrome Toolbox

Chrome Toolbox give additional functionality that makes your browser looks better. It saves the field information, play videos in standalone player and magnifies images. Most useful feature is saving the form data and making it available even if page session expires. There are lots of customization options available in this chrome toolbox.

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4 YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and gives multiple suggestions to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow grades web page based on three predefined rule set. It offers suggestions for improving the page’s performance, summarizes the page’s components, and displays statistics about the page.

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5. AdBlock

AdBlock extension is used by those who wish to block ads. The Ads get blocked automatically on website pages which are recorded in an internal database. It updated with additional features to the filter automatically.

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6. FlashBlock

FlashBlock extension blocks flash content on webpages automatically. You can manage a whitelist of allowed websites via a configuration panel. It helps with lowering memory usage, reducing CPU cycles, Each flash element is being replaced with a placeholder allows you to load only selected elements on a given page.

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7. BuiltWith

BuiltWith extension is used to help developers and designers to discover the technologies which are used on the pages to decide what is best for your work. It will help you to find out what a website is built with by a simple click on the BuiltWith icon. It includes widgets, analytics, framework, advertising, standards (XHTML, RSS), hosting software. BuiltWith is a web site profiler tool. Upon looking up a page, BuiltWith returns all the technologies it can find on the page. BuiltWith’s goal is to help developers, researchers and designers find out what technologies pages are using which may help them to decide what technologies to implement themselves.

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8. IE Tab

IE TabYou can use this extension to see your site in IE within chrome.

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9. Awesome Screenshot

Awesome Screenshot helps in taking screenshot of selected area or entire page. It allows you to access your data; even then it only accesses your screenshot data and shows the warning even if extensions do not access any private data.

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10. SEO Status

SEO Status Displays the Google PageRank and Alexa Rank of the current website. The PageRank and Alexa rank do not rely on a third-party website to gather its data, but retrieves it from Google and Alexa directly. When the button is clicked, it shows more data such as an Alexa traffic graph, ranking number, and useful tools for the avid webmaster.

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11. SEO SERP Workbench

SEO SERP Workbench extension is used to find out about your website or blog ranking in Google. Track and monitor your website and your competitors search engine (UN-personalized) keyphrase rankings. Includes ranking change notifications.

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12. Official Facebook Extension

Official Facebook Extension also called a Social Network Notified, alerts and notifies any user whenever anything interesting happens on Facebook. One can be logged into the site all the time without leaving a browser window and hence Facebook users can now rely on this extension to alert them when anything happens such as if someone comments on their wall or posts, invites them to local events, posts to group page, send a friend request and also sends a new personal message etc.

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13. SEO for Chrome

SEO for Chrome extension which was originally called Chrome SEO, provides easy access to Search Engine Optimization Tools that can help you with competitive analysis, keyword research, backlink checks, page rank Checks and other daily SEO tasks. It will prove highly beneficial for SEO who works on Google Chrome browser.

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14. Resolution Test

Resolution Testallows to change the size of the browser window to test web pages in different screen resolutions. It includes a list of frequently used resolutions as well as a custom option for you to input your own.

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15. Speed Tracer

Speed Tracer is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. Like when you open any web page and it takes time to load or takes time to respond. What does exactly happens inside the browser. Many of them found it difficult to tease out the problem. I am happy to announce that Google has added a new tool to Google Web Toolkit called as Tracer It enables the developers to identify and fix performance problem in their web applications. This extension enables developers to get a better picture of where time is being spent in your application. This includes problems caused by.

Javascript parsing and execution.
XMLHttpRequest callbacks.
Layout.
CSS style recalculation and selector matching.
Network resource loading.
Timer fires.
DOM Event handling.
Painting.

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16. Pendule

Pendule tool is so similar to Firebug. You can just press mouse button and inspect the element. Pendule displays linked and embedded style sheets of the current page in a new tab. Like the Web Developer Toolbar, it can serve as a catch-all extension for web designers.

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17. Aviary Screen Capture

Aviary Screen Capture tool is used to take screenshot of the visible portion of any webpage without installing or downloading anything. It also allows you to edit any web page directly in your browser. Some of features listed below.

Grab color information from the page.
Rotate, Resize, and flip your capture.
Save to desktop, or edit in other Aviary apps.
Captures instantly.
Screen capture of the visible portion of all web pages and images.
Add visual notes like arrows, text and highlights to your capture.
Crop your capture.
Smart select and move of captured elements.

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18. Chrome Sniffer

Chrome Sniffer will help web developer to locate and display any CMS (Content Management System) and JavaScript library running on current browsing website. An icon will appear on address bar indicates the detected framework. You will get to know what source site is using.

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19. Lorem Ipsum Generator

Lorem Ipsum Generator gives you an easy and convenient way to generate dummy text for your design mock-ups. It generates random “Lorem Ipsum” text. The purpose, is to use less amount of code and help the developer done their job faster.

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20. PlainClothes

In a few conditions you might need to change the entire styling and just get to see the content on the web page. PlainClothes is one of the most renowned extensions. It allows you to remove CSS style and see the content being presented. With the help of this extension you can unstyle the webpage. This will automatically override all the web pages to default color scheme. It will display with black font a links will be underlined with blue color and violet color with unvisited and visited links.

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