Hey what's up guys, I'm ThioJoe, and today I've got a bunch of really cool chrome extensions
that I'm pretty sure you've never heard of, because this list is made up of extensions
that all have less than 1000 ratings on the Chrome Web Store.
So it's not like these will be the cliche ones you always hear about.
And at the end if you're interested, I'll put a link to another video with even more
extensions from before.
But anyway I guess let's get started.
First up, this one I know is going to REALLY come in handy, it's called "Printliminator".
This is for all those times you went to print out a webpage, but it ends up looking terrible
because so many things on the site clutter it up, or mess up the formatting.
With this, it lets you simply click on different assets on the site, and removes them, so they
won't be there when you go to print.
This is also useful if you want to take a screenshot of a website and want to remove
annoying stuff like all the social media icon links, or want to remove sensitive information
before printing or screenshotting as well.
Lots of awesome uses here.
Next up, number two, is called Rescroller, which lets you customize the scroll bar for
Chrome.
This could be good for both visual and practical reasons as well that I can talk about.
It works pretty simply, you just go to the extension, then choose different options for
how it looks, like width, color, the fill of the scroll bar, if it should have rounded
corners, and even if you want it to change when you hover over it.
But besides that, I think this extension should be helpful to anyone who has a really high
resolution monitor.
For example, maybe you have a 4K monitor, so the scroll bar seems smaller compared to
the rest of the screen.
With this extension, you can just adjust the scrollbar size, so it's bigger, and easier
to click on with bigger screens.
Or maybe even the opposite, where you're on a small screen, and you want the scroll bar
to be smaller, who knows.
I'm sure you can think of other ways to use it.
Alright, number 3 is a pretty cool one.
It's called "Fontface Ninja", and it simply tells you what different fonts are being used
on any website.
But not only that, it will give you links to where you can download that font to use
yourself, whether it's a free font, or one you'd have to buy.
How it works is you click on the icon for the extension to activate it, and the first
thing you'll see is the entire list of fonts on the site.
But the cooler thing is you can over over any text on the site, and it will show a little
pop up saying what font that specific text is using.
Plus it will tell you everything from the current font size, the vertical and horizontal
spacing, and even the font color.
Here's another neat thing, if you click on the font in the list, it will open up a text
box so you can try out the font, and resize it to see how it looks, and then theres a
link to a site where you can buy that font if you want.
So if you've ever wondered how a certain site got their text to look that way, now you'll
know.
Number 4, this is actually a pretty well known service, but I don't think many people realize
there's an extension.
And that is Wolfram Alpha.
If you're not familiar, Wolfam Alpha is a site that is basically, the ultimate calculator.
Not only can it do pretty much any mathematical calculation ever, but you can also ask it
information about almost anything.
This includes information about chemistry, music, physics, geography, sports, computer
science, history, yea pretty much everything.
So for example, you can type in "Apple Nutrition" and it will give you everything you've ever
wanted to know about apples.
Or even you could do something like, "Suns path New York", and it will literally tell
you where the sun will be at what time.
Or something simple like, "How long until new years".
Again, there are just so many things it's capable of, there's no way I could even begin
to go through them all, so you can just use the extension to search for anything that
comes to mind, and it can probably tell you more.
Ok, number 5 is dead simple, but so useful.
It's called "New Tab Draft", and it just turns any new tab you open into a blank notepad
basically.
This is great for any time you want to write something down real quick, and dont want to
have to open up notepad, or microsoft word or whatever.
You just click a new tab, and there it is, a big blank space where you can type.
And on the left side you can see you can create a new blank note, so you can separate everything
out if you want to.
And it does appear to save all your notes, it's not like it deletes them when you close
chrome, but if you do want to save them as a file, you can click the gear, and hit "Save
Draft", or just hit Ctrl S, and it will save your note as a text file instantly.
And here's a really cool thing it can do also.
If you type in a mathematical equation, such as 5 + 5, then hit enter, it will give the
answer.
This is awesome if you have to do a few quick calculations, and want to be able to keep
track of them all.
So yea, really simple, and really awesome.
Moving on, Number 6 is an extension made by Google themselves, called "Password Alert".
And it's actually a security extension meant to let you know if you are getting phished,
meaning you typed in your password somewhere you shouldn't have.
How it works is if you're on any website, and you type in your Google password on any
site besides Google, it will warn you what you just did.
So if you type in your password into a site that might look like Google, it will tell
you, Google job dummy, you just had your password stolen because this wasn't a Google site.
So it doesn't stop you from getting phished, because it's not tracking every website you're
going to, just tell you after the fact.
But at least in that case, you know to change your password immediately.
Now one thing to keep in mind, if you use your Google password for any other sites,
which you should NOT be doing, it will warn you if you log into those sites, because you
did type in your Google password, it just happens to be the password to that other site
as well.
But again, don't reuse password, you should know this by now.
Ok number 7 is also password related, but it's a bit more useful day to day.
This one is called "Show Password", and like the name suggests, if you go to type in a
password so it's blocked out with astrisks, you can hover over it to reveal it.
You might be wondering, well why the heck would I want to do that?
And I'll ask you this, how many times have you gone to type in your password, and especially
if it's a long one, you feel like you just hit a wrong key while typing it.
So what do you do?
Of course you go and delete the whole thing and type it in again, and hope you don't type
it wrong a second time.
Instead, if you think you hit a wrong key, you can just hover over the blanked out password,
and look, then maybe only need to hit backspace once and fix one letter, instead of typing
it all over again.
Yea it might not seem like it will save a ton of time, but if you do this pretty often,
you'll be glad you had it.
Alright next up, this one is pretty fun mostly, but also useful to anyone who might be a developer.
It's called "WhatRuns", and it can tell you all sorts of information about what software
and frameworks were used to build any website.
So let's go on some tech news website Ars Technica, and see that hmm, looks like they
use Ruby on Rails for the web framework.
Plus it shows you stuff like what programming languages are used, what kind of web server,
what they use for analytics, and it looks like even wordpress among others.
Let's take a look at YouTube even.
It tells you what kind advertising they're using, which is Adsense obviously, and they're
using the Polymer Javascript framework.
Interestingly, YouTube actually looks pretty simple, they don't have a ton of different
frameworks and addons and widgets, probably because everything is custom build I'd assume.
This one I think is good if you're just curious about building websites or already do it.
Ok got a couple more, number 9 is "Clipboard History".
This one is pretty straight forward, it just keeps track of things you've had on your clipboard
in the past.
So whenever you copy something new, you can access what was there before by clicking the
extension icon, where it gives you a pretty comprehensive list.
It shows you what was there before and when you added it to the clipboard, and if you
want to swtich between things, you just click on them.
Then on the right next to each one there are options to favorite them, view the entire
text if it was really long, and even store them on the cloud, which uses Chrome's cloud
API, so it's stored on Google's servers, and only accessible to your Google account logged
into Chrome.
Of course if you want you can disable it from tracking the clipboard by disabling monitoring,
and you can hit the trashcan to clear all the history, but it won't clear what's currently
on the clipboard, probably because that's controlled by windows.
Still pretty cool.
Alright, finally we have an extension called "VisualPing", which is also related to a website,
and it's a service that basically lets you monitor websites for changes, or a section
of a website, and then will notify you if it does.
With the extension, you can either choose to have the website's server do it, in which
case the free version lets you check once or twice a day, or let your browser do it
and check as often as you want.
Of course the difference is if you use your own browser, you have to keep it running,
and you'd have to be sitting in front of the computer to see the notification right away.
Whereas if you use the cloud, it will check whenever, and email you a notification when
it happens.
You can probably imagine some good uses for this, like maybe there's some product out
of stock you want to buy, you could use this to keep track if it comes back in stock.
Or you're just waiting for some website to update with new information of any kind, in
that case as well.
I think you get the point.
So yea, that's it, 10 cool chrome extensions I doubt you've heard of, except maybe a couple.
If you know of any other cool ones, let us know down in the comments.
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