Chrome Extensions are here

Maybe you are using IE Explorer , Firefox, Safari, or Opera. Now with some chrome extensions you may want to use a faster, safer, easier browser with some awesome updates. Try these ten easy to install extensions.

Update your Chrome browser to 4.0 429.30 (To find version - About Google Chrome, under the wrench)

1 Docs PDF Viewer - Automatically previews pdfs, power point presentations, and other documents in Google Docs Viewer.

2 Send from Gmail - Makes Gmail your default email application and provides a button to compose a Gmail message to quickly share a link via email. No longer launch outlook.

IE Tab – This is fantastic for developers, display web pages using IE in a tab

4. Google Sidewiki - Contribute and read helpful information next to any webpage.

5. Google Quickscroll - Quick Scroll lets you jump directly to the relevant bits of a Google search result on the bottom right part of the screen

6. Bookmark Sync – Using any computer in the world you can now have your bookmarks synchronized.

7. Stumble – Random web site browsing

8. Google News – Why watch the news when you can get the news here – top 5 Latest stories

9. Google Calendar – Faster way to launch your calendar

10. Similar Pages – When you are on a web page, see if there are any very similar to the one you are viewing

Real Time Streaming on Google Finance

Ever since Google launched real-time and streaming quotes on Google Finance last year, Google has been receiving requests from users how vital that up-to-date information has been. Especially in today's volatile financial environment, current information can be the difference between a seizing an opportunity and missing it. Today, they have taken a big step towards improving access to current financial information: streaming financial and market news on Google Finance.

Streaming keeps information fresh

Streaming real-time quotes eliminates the 15- and 20-minute delays often associated with pricing data. Streaming the quotes keeps information on the page up to date, without having to reload. In addition they will be streaming news as well. You will see stories appear on Google Finance as they develop minute by minute, throughout the day.

Google Upload Documents Video

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History of Google Video

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Improved Management of Documents

Recently Google improved the ability to browse and select multiple documents to be uploaded into your Google Docs. This was a need that is greatly appreciated and was definitely needed.

I was pleasantly surprised when they expanded document management features today with the export all of your documents, spreadsheets, presentations and PDFs from Google Docs into a Zip archive.

LANSA Cuts Cost of IBM i Web Enablement with aXes

Yesterday I read that LANSA has released a new version of aXes. We have had the pleasure of playing with a beta version of the product and have been very pleased. For those of using RAMP, I strongly suggest you jump on this approach vs New Look. It is much quicker for development and the speed of feature delivery by LANSA is almost Googleish.

LANSA is clearly leveraging the best of the open source world and incorporating those features into aXes.

Below is a before and after shot of the IBM i Main System Menu.

Google Docs 'widely used' at 1 in 5 workplaces, survey reports

Walter Riker pointed out this article in Computerworld.

By Patrick Thibodeau

September 16, 2009 08:40 PM ET

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Computerworld - Microsoft Office enjoys near total dominance in the workplace, but it could be getting a serious challenge from Google Docs, a new survey by market research firm IDC suggests.

The study's main finding is that about one in five respondents reported that Google Docs is "widely used" in their workplaces -- though possibly as a compliment to Microsoft Office.

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