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Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions

Post last modified:October 20, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google announced a new Text-to-Speech API for Chrome extensions.With the new API,users just need to add “tts” to your permissions and it is easy to change the rate, pitch, and volume. In addition to the main API, Google also introduced the TTS Engine API which allows developers to implement a Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine.Users that have Chrome on Mac OS X or Windows, or those using Chrome OS, should be able to use the native client voices immediately. Linux users will have to download a voice from the Chrome Web Store.

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200 million chrome and 40 million google+ users

Post last modified:October 14, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

In a press release from Google, CEO Larry Page said that “Google+ is now open to everyone and we just passed the 40 million user mark. People are flocking into Google+ at an incredible rate and we are just getting started!”
And the three year old google chrome browser hits the 200 million users. According to Net Applications,in September Total market share of google chrome is 16.20%.

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Google chrome overtake firefox before the end of the year

Post last modified:October 1, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

According to Web analytics company StatCounter,Google’s Chrome Web browser could become the second most popular browser before the end of the year.And in September 2011 show that Internet Explorer has 41.7 percent market share,Firefox has 26.8 percent of market share and Chrome’s market share is 23.6 percent.

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Google chrome beta 15.0.874.24 and 15.0.874.21 released

Post last modified:September 23, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

The Google Chrome team released a new beta version of chrome 15.0.874.24 for Windows, Mac, and Chrome Frame and 15.0.874.21 for Linux.what’s new in this new chrome beta?

A new Reredesigned New Tab Page.
Javascript Fullscreen API is now enabled by default.
Chrome Web Store items can now be installed inline by their verified site .
Omnibox History is now an additional sync data type.

Reredesigned New Tab Page features:
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Google chrome 14 stable released

Post last modified:September 17, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

Google just released chrome 14, a new stable version of its popular browser. what’s new in this chrome 14 stable ?

Two new technologies:

Web Audio API.
Native Client.

For Mac OS X Lion users:

New Lion’s overlay scrollbars.
support for Lion’s full-screen mode.
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3 New Google chrome features

Post last modified:August 11, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

1.Instant Pages

Google announced that the google’s instant Pages is on by default in the latest stable version of google Chrome. This means that the webpage will load much faster than before.

2.Print Preview

long waited print preview feature is now avalable in the latest chrome for windows and linux users.

3.The omnibox

Now omnibox matchs pages from your history.
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New icon for google chrome

Post last modified:April 3, 2011
Post category:Tech News
Post author:Manikandan

The fastest growing web browser google chrome gets a new icon.Currently the new icon is avalable in its dev channels.The change in google chrome is the 3D, logo being replaced by a 2D version.
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Default google chrome installation path

Post last modified:December 14, 2010
Post category:Useful Tips
Post author:Manikandan

In Windows XP it will be installed in

C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome

Local Settings folder is a hidden folder, to see hidden folder go to tools -> Folder Options -> View tab -> and make sure show hidden files and folders is checked.

In Windows Vista it will be installed in
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How to download google chrome Standalone Offline installer

Post last modified:December 7, 2010
Post category:Useful Tips
Post author:Manikandan

To download google chrome Standalone Offline installer, go to below link

http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?standalone=1

This version of Google Chrome available from the above link may not auto-update to future browser releases. Make sure to check back often to download newer releases.

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Google chrome DNS Issue

Post last modified:February 7, 2014
Post category:Windows
Post author:Manikandan

Google Chrome is one of the fastest browser.In google chrome The DNS prefetching feature is used to load web pages faster.But it cause some problem for most users. Sometime users get a error message

“The webpage at http://www.somedomainorwebsitenameabc.com might be temporarily down or it may have moved

permanently to a new web address. Here are some suggestions: Reload this web page later.”

To solve this issue follow these steps.

1.Open Google Chrome.

2.Click Spanner icon located on the right side of the browser.

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