Chrome Extension

We'll be tweeting, blogging, and live streaming all the royal wedding goodness you can handle here on the Sugar Network, but if you're not interested in getting any royal updates in your Twitter stream, here's a quick solution for you Chrome users.

Called Proxlet, this Chrome extension allows you to filter specific hashtags from your stream in Chrome, your iPhone's Twitter app, and even works on your third-party clients like TweetDeck, Twidroyd, and Seesmic for your Android devices. We'd love for you to join us on Twitter and Facebook during the royal events, but I won't be offended if you download this free extension.

There's already an ex blocker that helps to keep Mr. What's His Name out of your social space, and if you're currently going through a breakup with Facebook (or someone on Facebook perhaps), Facebook Blocker can help keep the social network out of sight and out of mind. An extension that works with Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, this blocker erases all signs of Facebook from the web, including Like Buttons, suggestions, and scripts that may run on a webpage. Good riddance? Perhaps. Just watch those withdrawal symptoms — they can be deadly.

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Google gathered a small number of press today at its San Francisco HQ to introduce a few new mobile products aimed at making your life easier. First up is Voice Actions, which adds voice commands to a number of daily activities with a single tap.

A few of the features that are now Voice Action capable include text messaging, alarms, notes, email, web browsing, calls, translate, directions, and finding music, which uses the power of Google Search, Maps, and the apps and contacts already stored on your phone. More than just voice commands, Voice Search allows you to speak as you normally would into your phone, enabling your Android device to do all the hard work for you — whether you want to navigate to a website, get directions to a nightclub, compose an email or text, or find new music on the web. Voice Actions is available today on Android 2.2 devices (in English only with more languages on the way) and can be searched in the Android Market under Voice Actions.

Check out the second product that was introduced today (along with demo videos for both features) after the jump.

Google's lightning-fast Chrome browser is quickly moving up the food chain after recently being named the third most-used browser. And with so many people to please, developers everywhere have come up with some fantastic extensions to help make your browsing life a bit easier. One I'm already in love with is called View Thru, which lets you see the full URL of a shortened link. Want to discover a few more? Just keep reading!

• Ibrii — Sharing stuff you find on the Internet is easy with this extension that allows you to select specific portions of a website (be it an article, video, audio file, etc.) and share via Facebook, Twitter, and Google Buzz with a link just to the content you want, not to the whole webpage.

See the rest after the break.

Similar to PageAddict for Firefox, Chrome plugin StayFocusd helps you block out all of the time-wasting websites to stay focused on the task at hand. The plugin, installed directly to Chrome's toolbar, restricts the amount of time you can spend on any number of websites you elect to block. You can control the amount of time you allow yourself on certain sites (the default setting is 10 minutes) and also control the days of the week you're able to access the sites — so Facebook and Twitter can be fair game on weekends, for example.

Each site's controls are completely customizable; you can block entire sites, or you can choose to block only certain site pages. For example, you can block google.com/reader or google.com/pacman (note to self: block that page) without blocking other Google sites like the main search page.

You already know the dangers of clicking on links from people you don't know, and have a right to be wary of clicking on shortened links in fear of contracting a nasty computer virus. If you're using Chrome (and a lot of you are), you can download a handy extension that lets you see the entire URL just by hovering over the link.

Called View Thru, install this add-on, hover over any shortened link (from ow.ly, bit.ly, post.ly, and tinyurl.com among others), and you'll instantly see the source link. Handy, fast, and totally helpful for Internet worrywarts.

Gone are those annoying advertisements that show up as you're writing or reading your email in Gmail. With Rapportive, a Firefox and Chrome extension, the ads beside your messages are replaced with contact information, social networking profiles, and even recent tweets from the person you're corresponding with. While this can be especially fun when you're corresponding with friends, it will be particularly helpful for business contacts or anyone else you're not totally familiar with.

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It just became the third most popular Web browser, and now Chrome is even more customizable. A new Chrome extension allows you to view the number of unread messages in your Gmail inbox. Think of Chrome extensions as apps for your browser, or small shortcuts that allow you to access content or receive new information quickly. The Gmail extension adds a small icon to the right of the address bar in Chrome, displaying the number of unread messages. You can also access your inbox by clicking on the icon.

Chrome extensions are currently available for Windows users only; though Google says that extensions are coming to the Mac version of Chrome soon. To download the Gmail extension — and more than 2,000 others — visit the extensions gallery.