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Many studies show that checking emails only a few times a day reduces stress and boosts productivity. Well, easier said than done. Whether you believe or not, email is still the core communication channel for many businesses. So it’s so easy to get sidetracked by the “You’ve got a new […]
There are other ways to block websites on your computer. For example, you can modify the hosts file on Windows to redirect them to nowhere. Or, use a specified DNS server that has the parental control built-in. But if you want to block websites on the browser level, Google Chrome in […]
If you are looking for a way to track the emails you sent from your Gmail account, like getting to know whether your email gets opened by the recipient, here is a pretty simple and free way of doing it. Doubletick is a Chrome extension that provides a simple way to […]
Chrome used to have a feature that can send any app to Windows taskbar as a web app that you can directly launch without opening Chrome browser. I believe it was called “Set as Application” or something like that and I wanted it available in Edge browser for a long […]
Starting Chrome version 59, the material design is enabled by default on Settings page in Chrome. Rather than seeing the classic view of the Settings page, you are seeing this layout by default now once you updated your browser to version 59 or above. It’s actually pretty clean and looks […]
To get a better internet access performance, Google actually built a caching system not in Chrome not only for the site content but for DNS as well. So if flushing out DNS cache on your operating system didn’t work out, clearing up Chrome’s own cache should be your next step […]
When you search on a website for a few times in Chrome, Chrome will add it as a custom search engine, aka OpenSearch, along with special keyboard shortcut for you to use it. For example, after you search a few products on Amazon, a custom Amazon search engine gets installed […]
Chrome version 57 was released about a week ago with a nice feature called Tab Throttling that throttles individual background tabs by limiting the timer fire rate for background tabs using excessive power. The result will make your battery last longer on your laptop. However, even though it’s a nice […]
Chrome version 57 was released yesterday with an important feature that most of you may not even notice. Starting with this version, Chrome will throttle individual background tabs by limiting the timer fire rate for background tabs using excessive power. That’s something that Google’s Chromium team finally did to prevent background […]
Having a bookmark file in HTML format has a few benefits. Not only can you use it as a backup file to import to other browsers but you can also open it up directly in any browser and open the sites listed in your bookmarks right from there. Import/Export bookmarks from/to […]