Google Chrome Extensions to be More Productive on Blogger

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According to Wikipedia productivity can be defined as "the relationship between the results and the time we spend to get it." In this post, we'll dip into those extensions for Google Chrome browser, allowing us to just that, save time in the management and administration of our blog and therefore be more productive.

The first is recommend you use the Google Chrome browser, for several reasons. The first is that with Google Chrome get greater compatibility with Google services and more now with the new changes in services since many of them are based on HTML5 and CSS3. The second and most important, the "Extensions" which are nothing more or less that additional functionality can be built into the browser itself.

The most practical way to approach this article is pintándote few everyday situations to see if you identify with any of them.


"I lose a lot of time looking for a way to access Google services"
Managing a blog is challenging, we have to go into Google Analytics to see statistics, then we will see if we have Gmail for email, respond to blog comments, etc.. We entered Blogger to also see statistics, compose new post ah ... and from time to time we look at our piggy bank called Google Adsense to see if we have some income from advertising, not to forget where we annotations Google Docs, Calendar, etc..

Google Shortcuts is a browser extension that offers access Google services (160) that most interest us with a simple click. Once installed you just have to look for services, click to add them to the list. Remember that you can manage your extensions from menu Tools -> Extensions or put in the browser address bar this chrome :/ / extensions /


"I lose a lot of time on my social networks to share the same information"
Besides that we have linked our blog with Facebook or Twitter you may be interested in publishing a link to specific input in order to re-promote it. So it is very common to have to go on Twiiter, Facebook, Linkld to post the same.

Sharedaholic, lets share links on your social networks. You can configure it to show you only the social networks that interest you. Now just copy the url of your post and click on this button to send it to all the social networks you've previously configured.


"I lose a lot of time writing down links to pages to read later."
It happened to you that you are preparing a new post for your blog and find the documentation phase reference articles and enter to Gmail or Google Docs simply to copy the URL of the article to read later.

Read Later Fast, allowed once on the item you click the right mouse button and press the Read later (see below). When you have time, open the browser and click on a new tab, press the Read application later and get access to items previously marked.


"I lose a lot of time getting to Gmail just to check if I have new messages."
Those expecting an important message and are continually checking your inbox and anything that does not come.

Gmail Checker shows you in the browser bar icon with the number of unread messages. Now you know in advance that you have something pending in your inbox.


"I like to be aware of the particulars of my Twitter"
If anything characterizes Twitter is the immediacy of information. It may interest you at all times monitor this network without having to be changing in the browser tab.


Silver Bird is a lightweight Twitter client for Chrome, so like Gmail Checker alerts you to tweets that mention you, besides letting you tweet directly

"I have to be continually capturing screens, cropping ..."
Indeed, when you write a tutorial on a web service, you lose a lot of time on this task.

Capture and Annotate allows you to capture all or part of the browser window, annotate and store the result in a PNG or even host the file on the web.

Here we mention the most common extensions that usually work with. There are thousands of extensions, both free and paid. Connect with Google Web Store to find more extensions for your browser.

Conclusions, extensions for Google Chrome help us save time and are therefore more productive, allowing us to focus on what really matters, the creation of new content on the blog.


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