What's up welcome to MyTechMethods and in this video, we're going to go over my top
9 best Google Chrome extensions, I couldn't quite decide on 10 so I'm going to go with
9, so I'm assuming you already have google Chrome, if not, you can go to Google.com/Chrome
and get the free web browser so you can get these awesome extensions.
So let's dive into right into this list in no particular order starting off with Streamus,
if you're a music lover this is like a dream, this allows you to stream music in the background
in Chrome on demand music, it's like having Spotify for free while you're browsing the
web with Chrome so let me show you how it works.
Once you install it, you're going to see this Streamus icon over here it's an 'S' icon in
the top right of Google Chrome, so click on it.
So let's say I want to add a song, let's say I want to listen to a song right now on demand,
I'm going to click this search icon button right here and then I'm just going to search
for my song that I want to listen to, so we're going to search for some Danny Brown, so right
here it gives you the search results and this is actually using YouTube to play the music,
so these are all the results from YouTube and right here it's usually the first result,
if you search the song name and the artist name you usually find in the first couple
results.
so this is the song I want and let's just say I want to play it right now, I'm just
going to hit the play button and now it's playing in the background on Chrome, so it's
playing now if I want to shut it off, sorry Danny, when I click this 'S' icon I'm going
to pause it, it shows you here if it's in blue it's playing.
So you can add it to our list here.
So I can just go in here and just create playlist, I can add different songs to it, add it to
my list, I can click this 'Add' button and bam and now when this song is going to be
over playing, it's going to automatically be playing this song and I can shuffle it,
I can add as many songs as I want to and another cool thing about this is you can actually
search for it in the address bar, so right up here if you just type in Streamus and space,
hit the 'Space' bar its going to go into Streamus search mode, now I can search for songs right
from my address bar, so if I want to add Danny Brown Dip, I can just search that and bam
it shows up, if I click on it, it automatically starts playing it in the background, awesome,
awesome extension, that is called Streamus, so definitely get that, by the way all the
links to these extensions will be on a blog post on my website, that link is right in
the description below, so check that out.
Now moving along, this next extension is called 'Magic Actions for YouTube'.
If you watch a lot of YouTube videos, this is going to be your best friend, it adds a
plethora of features to your YouTube Watching experience, so here we can go down, that's
got some key features, got 'Auto HD', so you can make videos autoplay in 1080p or whatever
you set it at, it's got instant control over volume by scrolling, so let's check this out,
I'll show you some of the features.
So if I'm on a YouTube page, if I click anywhere outside this video, it's going to put the
video in this nice little area here that's surrounded by blackness, so it darkens out
the exterior environment and all you have in focus is the YouTube video and when you
want to exit out of there, you just click on it again.
Also another feature it has is the scrolling option, so if you hover your mouse over the
video, you can lower the volume and increasing the volume by scrolling your mouse.
So these are the buttons Magic Action has under the YouTube Video Watch page, when you
have it installed and you can like take snapshots of YouTube videos on that current frame, you
can change the filters, you can put it on repeat to loop the video and if you click
on the 'Settings' button, it will open up all your settings when you go in here and
you can customize everything, you can enable 'Autowide', enable 'Cinemas', 'Speed Booster',
'Stop Autoplay', it's got all kind of customization options for YouTube, so if you like watching
YouTube videos, definitely pick that up, that's Magic Actions for YouTube.
This next extension is called Pocket and Pocket is a free web app that lets you save anything
across the web, so if you stumble upon a blog article that you want to save for later, it
lets you put that all in the pocket app, all you have to do is click the Pocket button,
is what it looks like, when ever you're on the web page and it's going to save that web
page to you Pocket, so if I open Pocket, it's going to show you everything that I've saved
across the web and there is that web page that I just saved.
so Pocket is definitely a handy app, it also has a mobile app along with it, so you can
save something from within Chrome and access it on the Pocket app on your Phone later and
read that blog post and look at that video, whatever you've saved.
Google Dictionary is also on my list because I like to find out meanings to long words
that I don't know.
So if you ever find yourself looking up definitions on Google, this extension will help you save
time, so here's how to use it; say if you're on a web page and you find a word that you
want to look up the definition off, so what if I want to look up the definition of 'Antivirus',
so I'll just double click on that and boom it will automatically pop-up a box and give
me the definition right there on the web page, I don't have to search it, I don't have to
right click and look it up in the dictionary, it just gives you that pop-up box right there
on the word, that is a definite time saver.
Definitely get the Google dictionary extension for Chrome.
This next extension is called 'Evernote Web Clipper', and Evernote is a free web app that's
sort of like Pocket but Evernote let's you store your notes on the cloud.
The Evernote Web Clipper let's you save stuff from web pages, so let's say you're on a web
page and you want to save this for some reason in your Evernote, if you use both Evernote
and Pocket like me, you want somethings in Evernote, somethings in pocket.
So I want this in Evernote, I want to save this to Evernote, I'm going to go up here
to the Evernote Web Clipper button and then I'll click 'Clip To Evernote' and it will
give me options for saving this web page to my Evernote account.
So if I want to save the article, I just click on 'Article' and its going to save it like
that, I can do a simplified article, it's going to simplify it down, the full page,
this can actually save an entire web page with text included because that's what I mainly
use it for because that is a useful feature, so let's say I want to save this full page,
I'm going to click 'Full Page', click 'Save', it's going to clip it it and save it automatically
to my Evernote account and when I go to my Evernote account on my computer or on my mobile
device, it's going to be in there.
So let's go over to Evernote and there is that full web page that I just saved right
there and the links and everything still works right from the app, I've got all the text,
I can copy and paste, bam, that is awesome, Evernote Web Clipper is definitely something
you should have.
This next one I use all the time is call 'Feedly', it's not an extension, but it's a Chrome app,
so if you click on the 'Apps' button in Chrome, the Feedly one will show up if you have it
installed.
So if I click on Feedly, Feedly is like an RSS reader, any of your favorite blogs across
any topics, so if you have your favorite music blog, or your favorite tech blog, you can
subscribe to them within Feedly and it will give you this aggregated list of all your
favorite blog posts, the popular blog posts from that day in each category and you can
categorize this, see I got over here on my left, I've got Apple stuff, I've got blogging
stuff, I've got online business blogs that I follow, I've got fitness, I've got funny,
I've got Iphone, music, so if I want to see all the Apple news and blog post that are
popular from today, I just click on 'Apple' and i gives me this magazine type layout for
the blog post and I can just go in here and I can just scroll through and just checkout
the different ones and it's great for if I want to share interesting articles on Twitter.
So if you don't have a Feedly account, definitely sign up for free and install this Chrome app.
This next extension is called 'Honey' and it's for people who want to save money.
So if you're ever shopping online and you're about to check out or you're on a specific
website and you want to see if they have any deals or coupon codes that you want to apply
to your checkout, you can click on the 'Honey' icon up in Chrome and it's going to show you
all the coupon codes and sales and deals for that particular site.
Here we go, we've got this coupon and found a coupon code for J Crew, so if I copy this,
it may give me that discount code, sometimes it doesn't work, sometimes it does, just try
and plus when you're on Amazon, it automatically goes through coupon codes for you and tries
them automatically for you and gets you the best deals, so it's always nice to have anytime
you're shopping online because it doesn't hurt to try, you can always try it, if it
doesn't work, it doesn't work but if it does work, then you just saved a 'buttload' of
money.
The next extension I'm talking about is called Buffer, it's for social media purposes, if
you're active on Twitter or Facebook, or Google Plus and you share a lot of content and links,
then this is going to be great for you, it's going to save you a lot of time.
So how this works is you sign up for a free Buffer account, when you're on a web page
that you want to share across your social media platforms, you click the 'Buffer' icon,
it lets you share across multiple platforms at once, so if I want to share this to Facebook
and Twitter, they're both selected here, I can just type in my post and then I can click
the arrow and I can 'Share Now' or I can schedule for a specific time or I can add it to my
queue and 'Add It To Queue’, is what Buffer really shines at because you can create this
queue,you can say hey I want to share 10 things a day on Twitter and every time you find something
that you want to share, you just hit 'Add to Queue’ and it's going to add it to that
queue and share it out on those specific time frames you set up on Buffer, it's going to
Tweet it for you automatically, you don't have to Tweet it yourself, just add it to
your queue and build it up and you'll be tweeting in the future without even doing anything
yourself because you've got that whole queue build up, Buffer is the one that you want
to do that.
And last but certainly not least if you're a Google account user, if you use all of Google
services on a daily basis, this is going to be for you, so it's called 'Black Menu for
Google' and it just gives you quick access to all the different Google applications right
from the toolbar.
This is the icon right here and if you click on that, it's going to give you a list of
all the services.
So it's got Google Search,so I can quickly just hover over 'Search', go over here to
the Google search bar, do my search and it's going to do a Google search right in this
preview pane right here.
If I want to go to MyTechMethods.com bam I click on that and it's going to open a new
tab.
So let's go back to the Black Menu, let's go to Google Plus, the 'Google Plus' tab,
so you can go in here and browse your Google Plus feed, you can go to 'Translate', it's
got Google Maps so you can search for Google Maps right in this pane, Google Play, it's
got YouTube, you can go in here and search for YouTube videos, say if I want to watch
this video bam, I can click on it and watch this YouTube video from right in that Black
Menu bar, freaking sweet, It's got Google News, Gmail, Drive.
I mean everything Google offers is in that Black Menu bar, it will save you so much time.
So Black Menu for Google wraps up my top nine for best Google Chrome extensions, let me
know what your favorite Chrome extension is, if it wasn't listed in this video.
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My name is Andy with MyTechMethods.com, if you haven't figured that out already, check
out the blog post, the link is in the description below, where you'll find the link to all these
extensions and I'll definitely see you guys in the next video, bye.