The Chrome Browser is Great - But don't you wish there was an easy way to email a link to a website?

Anytime you are viewing a webpage on the internet, you are using a browser. We all have our favorites and so do I.


Over the years, I have used many including the following: Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, Konqueror and many other smaller editions.


For many years, my favorite was Mozilla Firefox. Last year I switched to Google's Chrome browser for much of my browsing. Like Firefox, Chrome is standards based, secure and very very FAST. Chrome wasn't perfect and I really missed some of the extras that Firefox offered. My biggest quip was the lack of an easy way to email a link to a webpage I was viewing. Sure, I could copy the link, open an email and paste the link into the body etc.... but what a pain compared to Firefox. With Firefox, you could just click an icon or do a File - Send... There was nothing like that for Chrome.


Eventually I figured a way to create a custom bookmark to do it but even that lacked finess.


Which brings me to three extensions for Chrome introduced quietly last year. I say quitely because no one seems to know they exist.


All of these extensions are easy to install in Chrome and are highly rated.


The most highly rated are provided by Google itself. The extension allows you to email a link,  from within your browser, to either your default email client or to gmail.

• This extension adds an email button to the toolbar which allows you to email the page link using your default mail client or Gmail.
• This newer extension makes Gmail your default email application and provides a button to compose a Gmail message to quickly share a link via email. Perfect if you only use gmail in a browser.
• This third party extension offers a couple of extra features and allows you to email the link to your email client OR gmail. The newest of the three, this extension also allows you to send the link by clicking a button on the toolbar OR from the right click context menu using your mouse.

Just this one add-on means I now use Google Chome browser nearly 90% of the time.

Flash Video won't play on your iTouch, iPhone and iPad? It's easy to do if you know how!

One thing I noticed right away when trying to play many web videos using my iPhone. It just wouldn't play Flash Videos using Adobe Flash.... Many sites use the format and it just would not play on my iOS devices.....

I didn't have to look far and the solution is both easy to use and inexpensive.

Skyfire is well known as a browser vendor for Android based smart phones and iOS devices like iTouch, iPad and iPhone. It has extended the features of that browser and came out with a new app that would allow users to play flash video on their iTouch, iPhone and iPad devices.

Skyfire VideoQ to the rescue. 4 bucks and your in business. Check it out.....

Best Video Player for the MAC (Second Best for Windows)

In a previous post, I bragged up SMPlayer as the best Video Player for Windows. What about the MAC?

I recently built and tested a Hackintosh computer and was able to test a variety of video players. Choosing the winner wasn't at all difficult.

I tested out the following video players for the MAC OSX:
DivX
MPlayerX
NicePlayer
ELMedia Player
VLC Media Player

Perhaps it was my familiarity with it but, to my mind, the best video player for the MAC just happens to be my second favorite for Windows..... by a mile, it has to be the VLC Media Player.

One of the great things about VLC is that it has versions compatible not only with Windows and MAX OSX but with many Unix, Linux and BSD versions.

Another bonus... It's not JUST a media player. Check it out.