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18+ Awesome Extensions for Google Chrome

Google Chrome Eclipses Firefox | 40Tech Last week, Google officially opened the doors of Google Chrome Extensions, the extensions site for the Google Chrome browser. This puts Google Chrome one step closer to being a serious competitor for Firefox 3.5, especially considering the super-fast loading speeds of the Google browser. Google Chrome Extensions launched with over 300 active add-ons, with more being released daily, and features an auto-update (in the background) functionality to avoid the constant requests to update extensions that many find annoying in Firefox. Extensions are currently only available for the latest Beta version of Chrome, which can be found here, as well as for developer versions, and have seen some success on Mac and Linux platforms as well as Windows.

After a few late nights of obsessively searching the Chrome Extensions site and testing everything that caught my eye, I have compiled a list of add-ons that may sway you to (or sway you back to, as in my case) install Google Chrome as your primary browser.

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How to Password-Protect Evernote (Updated)

This is an update to an earlier post, How to Secure Evernote on a Shared Computer, and shows an easier way to open an encrypted version of Evernote data with a simple desktop shortcut.

Secure Evernote with True CryptA few months ago, we explained how to use Evernote and TrueCrypt to secure Evernote on your computer.  This was in response to one of the loudest gripes about Evernote – its inability to natively secure your data, short of locking your user account every time you stepped away from your computer.  One of the commenters to that post, Barry, shared with us a batch file (a text file that runs a series of commands) to make this process even easier to use.  Once set up, it is a two step process: click on an icon, and enter your password.  Doing so automatically opens TrueCrypt, decrypts your data, and then opens Evernote.  The batch file even closes TrueCrypt when you exit Evernote.  Read on for updated instructions that include Barry’s batch file.  Thanks to Barry for sharing this with us.

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5 Beginner Tips for Google Wave

Google Wave logo Google Wave is still in its early stages, with most of us learning as we go.  I don’t know about you, but it seems that every day I stumble upon an easier way of doing something in Wave.  There are some outstanding Wave resources out there, such as The Complete Guide to Google Wave by Gina Trapani with Adam Pash, and Mashable’s HOW TO: Get Started with Google Wave.  But sometimes you just want some basic tips to get you started.  A few weeks ago, we wrote about How to Organize the Google Wave Sidebar With Tags.  In that spirit, here are 5 more entry-level tips for Google Wave.

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How to Create a Social Media Hub with Tumblr, Live Writer & Ping.fm

image In the quest to develop my personal brand and portfolio, to and simply create a place where all of my writing efforts across the interweb can have a single home, I came across a neat little plugin for Windows Live Writer (which all bloggers should try using, if they don’t already) called xPollinate. xPollinate allows for easy cross-posting of blog entries created in Live Writer — including posts created in the past — to a multitude of services via Ping.fm. This makes the process of creating your personal online hub a lot easier. All you need is a Ping.FM account, Live Writer and the plugin, and a blog service that makes both posting and sharing your collected works easy and, if possible, fun. For my purposes, I chose Tumblr, the microblogging/blogging platform and network, and so far, things have been running smoothly. Hit the jump to find out how to set it up.

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40Tech: Steps & Missteps in Starting a Blog, Part II

40Tech debut blog post A week and a half ago, as part of a review of the first 6 month’s of 40Tech’s life, we took a look at the technical details of starting the site, including some lessons we learned along the way.  Today, in Part 2, we look at some of the other factors that went into starting this site, and in determining what direction the site has taken so far.  As with the last post, we hope that this will help those of you starting your own site, and that the experienced bloggers out there will be interested in glimpsing behind the scenes of another blog.

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