Category: Browser Extension - Page 2
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Bitcoin Tracker Extension
With Bitcoin growing in popularity and hitting an all-time high, I decided to create a simple tool to stay up to date with the latest price of bitcoin. Bitcoin Tracker is a new extension to quickly show you the...
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Link Unshortener
Link Unshortener now lives inside T.LY Link Expander . If you want to see where a short link goes before you click it, paste it in and it will follow the redirects and show the final destination. That is useful when...
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Introducing T.LY
Over the past several months, I have been working on a Link Shortener Extension . It originally launched for Chrome , Firefox , Edge , and Opera . The extension has grown to over 400,000 users, and now also supports...
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Alternatives to Google Url Shortener
About a year ago, Google announced they would be shutting down their URL shortener service March 30, 2019. Goo.gl has been around since 2009. This is unfortunate because so many people rely on goo.gl for creating...
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How to Manually Update Google Chrome Extensions
Chrome is my browser of choice primarily because of the speed and extensions. Extensions allow you to extend the functionality of your browser. One of my favorites is Weather Extension . I often have users asking how...
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Vue Skycons
I’m a big fan of the weather icons from Dark sky called Skycons . They are animated and are easy to customize. I wanted to be able to use them in my Weather and WeatherTab extensions which are written using VueJs. I...
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How to Unshorten Short Urls
Several months ago I created a site called LinkUnshorten with the goal to guard people against short links from sites like goo.gl, bit.ly, tinyurl etc. Url shorteners are great but they do have the risk of...
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Chrome Extension Keyboard Shortcuts
Wanted to share a quick tip on using keyboard shortcuts to activate chrome extensions. Up until now it never occurred to me to use a keyboard shortcut to activate an extension, but thanks to a user of my weather...
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Chrome Extension Inline Installation
You’ve probably come across extensions that allow you to install them from their website without ever going to the Chrome extension store. This is what Chrome calls inline installation and it’s a great way to make it...
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Animated Badge Icon
Weather Extension was recently updated to have a spinning indicator in the badge icon to let the user know the extension is loading when it is clicked. I wanted to give the user immediate feedback. The challenge was...
