Google Data » Koh Kim https://googledata.org Everything Google: News, Products, Services, Content, Culture Thu, 19 Mar 2015 22:49:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.5 Preparing for basketball madness with the Chrome Web Store https://googledata.org/google-chrome/preparing-for-basketball-madness-with-the-chrome-web-store/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=preparing-for-basketball-madness-with-the-chrome-web-store https://googledata.org/google-chrome/preparing-for-basketball-madness-with-the-chrome-web-store/#comments Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:00:00 +0000 https://googledata.org/?guid=e8df5341eb235c9538629a079292826d National Bracket Day where millions are frantically filling out their brackets and preparing to follow their favorite teams' bids to the national college basketball championship. Luckily, I can use apps from the Chrome Web Store to help me follow the tournament like a pro.

Whether you're a loyal fan of your alma mater or college basketball powerhouses, you can get the most current news, scores, videos and photos all in one place with apps like FanFeedr and LockerPulse.



If you're watching multiple games at once, don't miss an upset with Are You Watching This?! Sports. This app shows you a scoreboard of all games you care about happening right now. You can also create personalized TV channel lineups for local cable and satellite TV providers that are automatically adjusted to your time zone.



You can even relive some of the best plays of the tournament with photos delivered by the Sports Illustrated Snapshot and create your own channels around your favorite college basketball teams.

These are just a few apps to help you stay on top of your games and bracket. You can find these and more sports apps in the Chrome Web Store or learn how other Google products can enhance your game experience on www.google.com/collegebasketball2011.

Posted by Koh Kim, Associate Product Marketing Manager
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/preparing-for-basketball-madness-with-the-chrome-web-store/feed/ 0 Appy Holidays from the Chrome Web Store https://googledata.org/google-chrome/appy-holidays-from-the-chrome-web-store/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=appy-holidays-from-the-chrome-web-store https://googledata.org/google-chrome/appy-holidays-from-the-chrome-web-store/#comments Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:30:00 +0000 Holiday collection.

If you are looking for last minute holiday gifts, try Gilt for Chrome. Within the app, you can find the latest designer fashion items on sale and search for specific items and sizes like “men’s shoes size 11.”



I also recommend Amazon Windowshop. You can use the app to browse through millions of products in a slick way. For example my cousin really likes cupcakes: a search in the app shows me cupcake related products organized across categories like books, groceries and clothing, helping me find unique gifts.



For those of you still planning your trip home, check out Hipmunk. Hipmunk sorts all available flights to your destination by “agony” -- a mix of price, duration, and number of connections. You can see all the flights that meet your needs in a single view.



Finally, if you are late like I am in sending holiday cards, I suggest checking out Stupeflix Video Maker. In the app you can select a theme (my favorite one is “Celebrate”), insert pictures, text, and music, and create a free 60-second greeting that you can email or post on YouTube and Facebook. Or, you can simply create beautiful photo slideshows with DropMocks and comemories.

There are hundreds more apps to discover at the Chrome Web Store.

Happy Holidays!

Posted by Christos Apartoglou, Product Marketing Manager
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/appy-holidays-from-the-chrome-web-store/feed/ 0 New Chrome Extensions by Google https://googledata.org/google-chrome/new-chrome-extensions-by-google/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-chrome-extensions-by-google https://googledata.org/google-chrome/new-chrome-extensions-by-google/#comments Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:30:00 +0000 gallery that we're keen to share with you, including new official extensions for Google Calendar, Google Docs and YouTube.

For those of you with busy schedules, the new Google Calendar extension lets you easily check your Google Calendar for upcoming events and add new events from the websites you visit. For example, if you see an icon with a green plus sign on sites like Facebook or Evite, you can add the event to your Google Calendar. It will also show a map if it detects a location associated with the event.



The Web Clipboard extension allows you to copy and paste text and images easily with the Google Docs clipboard. This means that all the web content that you copy and paste is stored in the online clipboard so you can access it quickly and easily across multiple browser windows.



To stay on top of your favorite videos, YouTube Feed notifies you whenever new videos are available in your YouTube homepage feed. You can directly access videos that your friends uploaded, rated and liked right in your browser.



And there’s more! Other Google extensions like Blog This, Google Calendar Checker and News Reader have been updated with new features like enabling special characters in blog posts, support for multiple calendars and custom news feeds.

These are just a few extensions that enhance your experience with Google products. With more than 8,000 extensions to choose from in the gallery, you can find the right extensions to complement your favorite Google products.

Posted by Koh Kim, Associate Product Marketing Manager
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/new-chrome-extensions-by-google/feed/ 0 New Featured Extensions https://googledata.org/google-chrome/new-featured-extensions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-featured-extensions https://googledata.org/google-chrome/new-featured-extensions/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000 gallery, and from now on we plan to update you regularly on new additions to our recommended extensions.

Here are a few new extensions in the Featured section:


Layers allows you to overlay content like sticky notes, images, videos, tweets and even maps over any web site. You can drag and drop your content anywhere on the page. You can also share and discuss whatever you add to the site with your friends across social networks.


The Postrank extension for Google Reader helps you stay up-to-date on the news and posts that matter. The extension aggregates engagement activity such as tweets, comments and votes from over two dozen social networks and ranks stories based on how much engagement each story has received.



With the Ozone extension, you can get suggestions from fifteen different sources like Google, Amazon, your bookmarks, Gmail, YouTube and more. As you type in the Ozone search box, you can see the suggestions change in real time.



Highlight to Search is a new official Google extension that allows you to search keywords by highlighting instead of typing them into a search box. When you highlight words within a web page, you'll see a magnifying glass icon appear below the highlighted keywords. Clicking on the icon or the keywords allows you to search easily from the search box that immediately appears.

These are just a few of the new featured Chrome extensions, and you can find many more in the gallery.


Posted by Koh Kim, Associate Product Marketing Manager
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/new-featured-extensions/feed/ 0 Use Chrome like a pro (Now for Mac!) https://googledata.org/google-chrome/use-chrome-like-a-pro-now-for-mac/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=use-chrome-like-a-pro-now-for-mac https://googledata.org/google-chrome/use-chrome-like-a-pro-now-for-mac/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:00:00 +0000 (Cross posted on Official Google Mac Blog.)

Two months ago, Chrome team members shared a list of their favorite extensions on the Official Google Blog. This time around, we asked Mac aficionados on the Chrome team to share with us the extensions they like the most. Below is a list of their favorite extensions.
  • Google Voice - Make calls, send SMS, preview inbox and get notified of new messages right in your browser (US only)

  • 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.

  • iReader - View news stories and other articles in a very easy to read, clutter-free, scrollable display.

  • Google Dictionary - View definitions easily as you browse the web, similar to using ⌘-Option-D in other Mac applications.

  • delicious bookmarks - Integrate your bookmarks with Google Chrome with the official Chrome extension for Delicious, the world's leading social bookmarking service.

  • Instachrome - Collect articles from around the Internet to read them on the web with Instapaper.

These are just a few extensions to help our Mac users enhance their web browsing experience and address the most requested features. There are more than 7,000 extensions to choose from in our Google Chrome Extensions gallery, so you’ll be sure to find the right extensions for you.

Posted by Mike Pinkerton, Staff Software Engineer
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/use-chrome-like-a-pro-now-for-mac/feed/ 0 Google Chrome Extensions at School: Get more done! https://googledata.org/google-chrome/google-chrome-extensions-at-school-get-more-done/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-chrome-extensions-at-school-get-more-done https://googledata.org/google-chrome/google-chrome-extensions-at-school-get-more-done/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:38:00 +0000 Official Google for Students blog, we have been highlighting extensions that help students stay connected with friends or research and write papers. For the last post in the Google Chrome Extensions at School series, we will showcase extensions that can help you stay on task and make the most out of your time.

Posted by Koh Kim and Meredith Papp, Product Marketing
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/google-chrome-extensions-at-school-get-more-done/feed/ 0 Google Chrome Extensions at School: Research and write papers https://googledata.org/google-chrome/google-chrome-extensions-at-school-research-and-write-papers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-chrome-extensions-at-school-research-and-write-papers https://googledata.org/google-chrome/google-chrome-extensions-at-school-research-and-write-papers/#comments Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:45:00 +0000 Official Google for Students blog, we highlighted extensions that help students stay connected with friends and family. Check out today's Google Chrome Extensions at School for extensions that can help you research and write papers for any class.

Posted by Koh Kim and Meredith Papp, Product Marketing
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/google-chrome-extensions-at-school-research-and-write-papers/feed/ 0 Tip: Just the text, please! https://googledata.org/google-chrome/tip-just-the-text-please/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tip-just-the-text-please https://googledata.org/google-chrome/tip-just-the-text-please/#comments Wed, 15 Sep 2010 20:00:00 +0000
This happened to us so many times while building Google Chrome that we added a special shortcut to do just that. Alongside the common Ctrl-V keyboard shortcut for "paste", Google Chrome supports a similar shortcut, Ctrl-Shift-V, for "paste as plain text". (And it’s Command-Shift-Option-V on a Mac.)



You can use this shortcut in any rich text editor (like Gmail's compose window, or when writing in Google Docs) to strip out all the presentation from the original source and just paste in a block of text.


Posted by Peter Kasting, Software Engineer
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/tip-just-the-text-please/feed/ 0 Google Chrome Extensions at School: Staying Connected https://googledata.org/google-chrome/google-chrome-extensions-at-school-staying-connected/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-chrome-extensions-at-school-staying-connected https://googledata.org/google-chrome/google-chrome-extensions-at-school-staying-connected/#comments Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:55:00 +0000 series of blog posts about cool Chrome extensions that can make life easier for students. These include extensions that helps students keep in touch with friends and family, research and write papers, and be more productive during the school year. Check out the Official Google for Student blog to read about today’s extensions that help students stay connected with friends at school and those back home.

Posted by Koh Kim and Meredith Papp, Product Marketing Team
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/google-chrome-extensions-at-school-staying-connected/feed/ 0 More ways to find the right Chrome Extension for you https://googledata.org/google-chrome/more-ways-to-find-the-right-chrome-extension-for-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=more-ways-to-find-the-right-chrome-extension-for-you https://googledata.org/google-chrome/more-ways-to-find-the-right-chrome-extension-for-you/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:00:00 +0000 launched several categories of featured Chrome extensions to help you find the right one. Today, in addition to updating these pages with new extensions, we are also launching more categories to enhance your web experiences in News and weather, Photos, Productivity, Search tools and Social.



If you have a busy life online and offline, extensions in the Productivity category can help you be more efficient and productive on the web. With Start! or Incredible Start Page, you can customize your New Tab page to quickly access your favorite sites. Extensions like StayFocusd and Time Tracker can help you keep track of your time spent on various web sites.

Chrome extensions can also help you view, edit and share photos and images easily. You can take screenshots of web pages using Awesome Screenshot and Webpage Screenshot. You can also transform your favorite photo sites into slideshows with iSlide or scroll through images on an infinite 3D wall with Cooliris.

For those who use social networking services like Twitter, Facebook and Google Buzz, there are extensions to help you stay connected with your family and friends. With Shareaholic for Google Chrome or AddThis, you can share web pages to your social networks, email and blogs. For Twitter users, TweetMeme to retweet any article you find on the web. There are also full-featured Twitter extensions like Chromed Bird or Chrowety that allows you to follow and send tweets, retweets and direct messages from your Google Chrome browser.

I hope you enjoy these new categories of extensions. We are working to make the categories in the gallery more dynamic so you can easily find the Chrome extensions you want.

Posted by Koh Kim, Associate Product Marketing Manager
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/more-ways-to-find-the-right-chrome-extension-for-you/feed/ 0 Become the ultimate sports fan with Chrome Extensions https://googledata.org/google-chrome/become-the-ultimate-sports-fan-with-chrome-extensions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=become-the-ultimate-sports-fan-with-chrome-extensions https://googledata.org/google-chrome/become-the-ultimate-sports-fan-with-chrome-extensions/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:30:00 +0000

The Are You Watching This?! Sports extension alerts you when games get interesting via colored icons, so you know when to turn in. It lists the scores, news and TV listings for many professional and college sports in the US.

For those who need an edge in your fantasy sports leagues, there are a few Chrome extensions that can help you improve your fantasy team fast. Pickemfirst Fantasy Sports works with Yahoo!, ESPN, CBS and many other fantasy sports websites. This extension brings you news, stats and blogger opinions about all the players mentioned on the web page currently displayed in your browser.


Tweetbeat Firsthand brings in recent tweets from people and organizations mentioned in the page you're looking at. With this extension, you can see what players, coaches, sports bloggers and commentators think about upcoming matchups.

If following sports online is not enough for you. StubHub's Event Ticket Finder helps you find last-minute tickets to your favorite sports events right in your browser.

These are just a few extensions to help you stay on top of your game, and you can find many more in the Chrome extensions gallery.


Posted by Koh Kim, Associate Product Marketing Manager
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/become-the-ultimate-sports-fan-with-chrome-extensions/feed/ 0 Six ways to find the right Chrome Extension for you https://googledata.org/google-chrome/six-ways-to-find-the-right-chrome-extension-for-you/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=six-ways-to-find-the-right-chrome-extension-for-you https://googledata.org/google-chrome/six-ways-to-find-the-right-chrome-extension-for-you/#comments Sat, 15 May 2010 00:00:00 +0000 gallery has been like a treasure hunt for me. Over the last few months, I've spent hours checking out new extensions and discovering cool ways to keep up with the latest news or find better deals online. I'd like to share with you some useful extensions that I came across in six easy-to-use pages for web development, blogging, shopping, sports, fun and Google applications.




I always love finding a bargain online. For all of you who also like to shop smart, these extensions can make online online shopping faster and easier. You can track an item's price history with the Camelizer extension or complement your bargain hunting with extensions from Amazon, Woot! and eBay.

We also have extensions dedicated to fans of sports from around the world. You can track live scores and commentary on cricket, rugby and Formula 1 with extensions from ESPN. If you want an edge in your fantasy sports leagues, the Pickemfirst extension brings you news, game statistics and commentary of pro sports players currently displayed in your browser.

Besides sports and shopping, these blogging extensions can help you write better blog posts and share web content more efficiently. You can quickly post to your blogs at TypePad or Blogger. You can also get contextual suggestions of related articles, images, links and tags with Zemanta. After the Deadline offers an extension that automatically checks your spelling and grammar (while optionally checking for cliches and double negatives!)

In addition, we made it easier to find the extensions for Google applications you frequently use. These include extensions to preview Google Docs or to check your Google Calendar directly from your Google Chrome browser.

For those of you who want to complement Google Chrome's developer tools to create a customized development environment in Chrome, there are web development extensions such as viewing PHP documentation, creating random dummy text or testing your page at various resolutions.

Finally, if you want to play a prank on your co-workers or take a 5-minute break with a game, there are quite a few fun extensions to brighten up your day.

I hope you enjoy these pages. There are more than 4,000 extensions waiting to be discovered in the gallery. Happy hunting!

Posted by Koh Kim, Associate Product Marketing Manager
]]> https://googledata.org/google-chrome/six-ways-to-find-the-right-chrome-extension-for-you/feed/ 0 Keeping Track of the World with Chrome Extensions https://googledata.org/google-chrome/keeping-track-of-the-world-with-chrome-extensions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=keeping-track-of-the-world-with-chrome-extensions https://googledata.org/google-chrome/keeping-track-of-the-world-with-chrome-extensions/#comments Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0000 erupting, stunning and unveiling news! To keep myself from drowning in the news flood, I found that using a few Chrome extensions can help me keep track of it all.

If you're a media enthusiast like I am, there are many Chrome extensions that can help you stay on top of your favorite media sites. With the Financial Times extension, you can quickly browse the financial and economic headlines. At the same time, you can keep up with the latest in politics and art with the NPR extension. A neat feature is that you can also listen to episodes of "All Songs Considered" and other NPR programs. Fan of cricket, Formula 1, or rugby? ESPN has extensions that give you one-click access to top headlines and live scores while you browse the web.



For those who prefer using Google Reader to manage your news feeds, you can quickly preview subscriptions in a pop-up using the Google Reader Notifier extension. Interested in a particular story? You can open your Google Reader in a new tab or go directly to the article.

Sometimes I want to see all of my content in one, easily accessible page. Feedly organizes your content from your favorite sites and services such as Google Reader, Twitter and Flickr into a stylish, magazine-like start page.

These are just a few extensions to help you stay in the know, and you can find many more in the Chrome extensions gallery. You can also check out this video to see some other features you can add to your browser.



Posted by Koh Kim, Associate Product Marketing Manager
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