Football Extensions - Advertising Opportunities

Do you have a website that you want to promote?

You can register for for the advertising campaign for the football extensions.


Reach up to 21000 page views (7000+ unique visitors) per month when you sign up for this advertising campaign.

Complete StatCounter.com page view statistics are available upon request.

Here are the packages:
US $4 for 1 month
US $9 for 3 months
US $29 for 1 year

This picture shows where your ad will appear. It can be for any or all the teams (Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool, Spurs)

Your text or image (350*60 px) ad will be displayed on the front page of the extension with a link to your site that opens in a new tab

Please email chromext.dev@gmail.com if you are interested.

Gmail Notifier

I mentioned some possible improvements that the Google Mail extension needs to have in my previous post. Now, I have found a new extension that brings all the improvements to life.

Gmail Notifier

When you get a new mail this extension actually pops up a small window on the right bottom corner immediately. This is extremely useful for when you want to know exactly when you receive an email.

One Extension To Rule Them All

My previous post on twitter extensions has resulted in a few users commenting about the effectiveness of having a single extension where users can select which twitters to follow instead of many separate ones.

MarcusT has kindly pointed out some ways I can make this possible. Now I have to admit I did not originally want to make a single "super" extension so I never delved deep into the documentation to solve the challenges.


So I'm going to see if I'm interested enough to undertake a this challenge. I already have other extensions I have thought of, so I will see how that goes as well.


My stats show the other stand-alone twitters have been downloaded about 500 times in 3 days. Also, I'm getting a reasonable amount of returning visitors, showing that people are actually using these extensions.


Just for some fun here are the most popular twitters that people have used:

1. CNN
2. TIME.com
3. Lady Gaga

In the meantime I want to thank patorjk, gavin m and MarcusT for their suggestions. :-)

Where to publish your extensions?

If you are a chrome extension developer you may want to know where else it is possible to publish your creations. Of course the first place is at the official place. Here there is an easy-to-navigate interface ready to take in all of your projects.

You will need to make your entire extension folder into a .zip before uploading it to Google. Also you need to upload some screenshots (or videos) of your extension in action.

The second place is Chromeextensions.org. Here your extension needs to be approved first before being displayed - a process that takes more than a week! But the good thing is that once approved your new extension goes on the front-page and will get many potential users. Infact some of my extensions had more users within the 2 days of being published on Chromeextensions.org than they had in the week of being on https://chrome.google.com/extensions .

New football team - Tottenham Hotspur

Hi guys based on two requests (one through email and one through the comments in the blog) I have added a new football team chrome extension.

Here it goes:

• Tottenham Hotspur

Feel free to request for other teams.

Twitter Extensions

This week I have been up to making some of the most popular twitters accessible via google chrome. These popular tweets include:

News:

• CNN
• The New York Times
• TIME.com

Comedy:

• The Onion
• Stephen Colbert
• Conan O'Brien

Artists:

• Lady Gaga
• Katy Perry

Sports:

• NBA

Others:

• Oprah Winfrey
• Bill Gates

The latest tweets can be accessed almost instantly by clicking the icon.

Here is an example of the CNN twitter extension. You can get all the tweets by a single click.

I have around 40 more popular twitters to add. If there is any particular you want, you can request it in the comments.

Football Crazy

New - Advertising Opportunities on this extension. Read this blog post.

You have probably wondered why I have not updated this blog for a few days now. The reason is a good one. I have been busy building some football (or soccer) extensions. It has taken me about one week and I am quite happy with the results. So here are all the extensions for your favorite teams.

You can see up-to-date fixtures, results, table and latest news all in one place

If you want me to make an extension for another team just request it in the comments.

Enjoy!

• Manchester United
• Chelsea
• Arsenal
• Liverpool
• Tottenham Hotspur

Google Calendar Checker - Review

This extension is a busy person's friend. Indeed, it pops up your Google calendar in a new tab with a click of a button. Here you are presented with various tools to help plan out every half hour of the day.

Need that important meeting checked? This extension is for you!

The improvements I see is that the calendar have a quick display when I click the button so I don't need to navigate away from the tab I am working with. This way I can simply quickly check my calendar without disturbing my work. I hope this can be taken into consideration in the future.

Google Mail Checker - Possible Improvements

The Google Mail Checker extension is a useful tool for conveniently checking your email. You can click on the icon and be taken straight to your inbox which opens in a new tab. The icon displays the number of unread messages in your inbox.

There is, however, a minor bug which fails to update the Unread Messages icon after you have read those messages. This can be annoying as immediately after reading an email and "checking" your email you still get the icon telling you that you have Unread messages.

You can fix it by simply clicking the icon and updating the unread messages. However it would be nice that have a dynamic updater so that after reading all the messages you would feel satisfied that it is all done.

Chromey Calculator - Extension Review

This extension is a very versatile tool, helping you get almost any mathematical result.

It is connected to the powerful Google and Wolfram|Alpha calculators.

For example, typing 10! gives you 10 factorial which is 628800.


You can even immediately calculate 100! = 9.33262154 × 10

^

¹⁵⁷


Overall this is a great extension for all math lovers.

Chrome vs Firefox

Among the top giants of browser market I prefer Google Chrome over Firefox. Here is why:

1. Faster cold start  - On my PC Chrome takes only 1 second to launch after I have just turned on my PC. However, I have noticed that Firefox usually takes around 4-5 seconds.
2. Streamlined look - I enjoy the minimalist design of Chrome that focuses on the webpage rather than taking up useless space. Also the interface is more aesthetic.
3. Ease of making apps, extensions and themes - Chrome has a much more intuitive extension development facility. There are a lot of room for flexibility as well.
4. Less memory hungry - Chrome does not make your PC freeze when you open many tabs. This has happened many times when I used Firefox.
5. More stable - Generally I have experienced less crashes and better debugging for errors with Chrome.
6. Better sense of humor - Google as a company creates awesome accessible tools and Chrome is one of them.

The Chrome Marketplace

This exciting new store will open in late 2010 according to Google. Here developers can publish apps, extensions and themes for users to buy or download for free.

If you are selling your app, the minimum price tag is USD 1.99. Google will take 5% of your earnings as well as a 30 cent surplus.

The Chrome Web Store

How to create your own Chrome Extension

It is simple to create and publish your own chrome extensions if you know some basic html, css and javascript.

1. Create a Google Chrome Extension Developer Account.
2. You need to pay $5 to be able to upload your extensions on the google site.
3. A "Hello World" program here is a good place to get an idea of how a chrome extension works.
4. Read the documentation here to learn about the feature chrome supports.
5. Also see some source code examples.

After these steps you should be all set to develop your own extensions and put them up for the world to see.

Top Chrome Extensions

Google Chrome is one of the latest to hit the browser market. The state of the art browser first released in 2008 has grown to become the 3rd most popular web browser with a market share of almost 10%.

Like its contender - Mozilla Firefox - the browser boast a wide assortment of extensions that add extra functionality (similar to Firefox add-ons).

Here are some of the most useful Google Chrome Extensions:

Mail Checker - This adds a button near your address bar from which it displays the number of unread emails and takes you to your mail when you click the button.

My IP -  Allows you to easily and quickly see your IP address online.

Google Calendar Checker - Easily see the time left to your next meeting or event. Click the button to open the calendar.