Chrome 6 has been released with some great new features like form autofill, Extension Sync, support for WebM videos and (bet you didn’t know this) a built-in PDF viewer! Yes, it does mean a lot to serious professionals. But it’s not enabled by default. So here’s how you get it working:

In the address-bar, type ‘chrome://plugins/‘ and press ‘Enter’.

Here, simply click ‘Enable’ link in the Chrome PDF Viewer entry.

With the new default PDF viewer, it’s now irrelevant to have an Adobe Reader installed on your computer for viewing PDF files online.

This probably shouldn’t need an intro paragraph. What else can be more straightforward than 3 beautifully minimalistic, web-based notepad applications that lets you write (and sync and save) random pieces of text on the go? Today we feature 3 web-based notepad applications that’ll prove to be very useful.

SimpleText.ws

I just fell in love with SimpleText at first sight. Clean, distraction-free UI. You can log in using your Google account, write as many text documents and save them. You can access your text files from anywhere.

Gist.Github

Next up, Gist.Github. If you are a developer, you might want to go for this one. It can detect the programming language based on the filename you provide. Store and share snippets of code easily.

Notepad.cc

Notepad.cc – the most minimalist of ‘em all. All you see is big white block and tiny links at the bottom to change sharing URL of the text file and to add password security. If you want to share some paragraphs or a poetry on Twitter or Facebook, I’d day use this one and share the URL.

So you are a high profile secret agent and need to send a really secure email to your party ;), you might want to try OneTimeMessage – a web-service that lets you send self-destructing emails to your friends.

There is no sign-up required. Just put in your and the recipient’s name and email address, write your secret message and send it. You might want to set additional options to send you a message when your email is read and when to destroy the message in case it remains unread.

The system then gives you a ‘key’ which you need to send to the recipient by any means of communication. Once the recipient reads the message, it destroys itself automatically within 5 minutes. I have used it and it’s really great.

Go to OneTimeMessage

Few hours ago Google launched a tool to convert the script of any webpage into your desired language script. Google learnt that many people know a language but cannot read the script in which it is written. For example you might be knowing Hindi but does not know how to comprehend the ‘Devnagri’ script. In such a case, you can use Google’s ‘Script Converter’ to transliterate (convert to a phonetic equivalent) the text on any webpage into your preferred language script.

Script Converter currently supports inter-transliteration between 17 languages: Bengali, English, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

The tool is good for casual transliteration purposes but must not be used solely if you wish to learn a certain language script. It still needs to be tweaked on a large scale; especially for Indic scripts.

Google Script Converter

Sometime ago we showed you how you can get real-time notifications on your desktop when your website is viewed by someone. Today we feature another such analytics tool that gives you an idea about how visitors actually surf your website by recording their every gesture.

GhostRec is an online web analytics service that essentially records mouse movements and clicks done by your visitors and stores it as a video which you can playback later. Hence you can precisely observe how a visitor deals with your site, what interests her, how much time she takes reading your content, how she browses your web-pages, etc.

Upon registering a free account, you’ll have to copy-paste their code into your site’s HTML which will record the mouse gestures of your visitors. You get 30 free recordings. If you need more, you’ll have to buy them. So it’s not a free product. But the pricing is very decent. Plans start from $1.95 for 100 recordings to $32.95 for 2300.

I say even 100 recordings are more than enough unless you have an online empire. You need just samples here, right? You need know the pattern of how a visitor perceives your site. And for that, 100 samples are enough to give you the idea.

All in all, a very nice service. You must try it out yourself.

Go to GhostRec

Spelling check is one of the most boring yet important task in publishing. Online publishers and blog writers will agree that no matter how much care you take while writing a post, you are not 100% sure that your content is error free. And what’s worse is that you are simply unaware of your silly mistakes. Here’s something that can help online publishers to spot spelling errors on their websites and blogs.

Spellr.us is a web-based app that detects site-wide spelling errors within a minute. You just need to feed in your website’s / blog’s URL and it takes care of the rest.

The app lists out errors in three categories: likely, unlikely and possible. And the best part is, as I mentioned above, Spellr.us checks the entire website / blog for errors.

Enough said, I know you are looking for the link

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As far as I remember, Opera was among the pioneers in web browser portability. They’ve been releasing a portable version of their browser for over a half decade. So it shouldn’t come as a surprise when it releases a portable version of its latest – The 10.5. Opera claims version 10.5 to be the fastest browser till date and increasing number of users are affirming it.

The portable version will let you carry the fastest browser in your flash drive wherever you go. Needless to say, you needn’t install anything. Just plug-in your USB pen drive equipped with Opera 10.5 Portable and start browsing. The portable version of Opera 10.5 is also much secured considering the fact that it won’t leave traces and/or make any changes to the registry on the host computer. So just don’t wait. Click the link below to download the portable version of Opera 10.5

Download Opera 10.5 Portable version

Have you ever ran into an irritating situation where you have about 10+ windows and 7-8 programs running in full throttle? And all you want is to get rid of all of them!? Well, there is a small utility that might come your rescue in times like these – CloseAll.

CloseAll closes all. I mean everything. One click and poof! Every window, every program just closes. Well, that is all it does. Quite awesome eh!

Once you download CloseAll (download link at the end of the post), just right-click on ‘CloseAll.exe’ and select ‘Pin to Taskbar’ to create its shortcut in the taskbar.

If you don’t find the ‘Pin to Taskbar’ option or using Windows XP, then simply right-click on ‘CloseAll.exe’ and click ‘Send to > Desktop (create shortcut)’ to create a shortcut on your desktop.

Download CloseAll / 30KB

How about a printer that uses graphite as ink to print on paper which you can easily erase later? Sounds nice eh? That means, less wastage of paper and no more cartridge and ink problems. Currently just a concept, designed by Hoyoung Lee, the Pencil Printer does what may bring a smile on environmentalists. The pictures below, courtesy Yanko Design, depict the working of the Pencil Printer.

If this one ever becomes a reality, I’m going for it! What do you say?

I wish to keep this short and sweet. So, without an intro paragraph (which you don’t read anyway ), here goes.

Desktop Currency Converter is well, a currency converter (duh!) with some decent features. It is a small widget-like app that stays on your desktop and converts the amount inputted in one currency to the other. It fetches Forexview’s currency conversion data.

Features of Desktop Currency Converter:

» Fresh currency conversion data is fetched from the Internet.

» Works in offline mode too.

» It is a calculator too. (See screenshot)

» Converts among 55 different currencies.

» Decimal precision values can be pre-set (0 digits, 2 digits, no-limit)

» Supports cut, copy and paste.

» Works on Windows 2000, XP, Vista and 7.

Download Desktop Currency Converter / 752 KB