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Showing posts with label web. Show all posts
Use Multiple Google Accounts in Chrome Web Browser
I have always found it annoying having to use multiple browsers to sign into several Google accounts. I’ve also found it annoying that I had to install add-ons and extensions in browsers like Firefox to get it to work properly.
Personally, I like to use Google Chrome and none of the other browsers. In every other browser, you have to install some kind of add-on or extension to sign into multiple Google accounts in the same browser. Luckily, with recent versions of Google Chrome, this is now a built in feature!
I have no idea when it was released, but I just found it while playing around in the settings for Chrome. In this article, I’ll walk you through the steps to set it up and show you how it works.
Using Chrome with Multiple Users
To get started, click on the Wrench icon and then click on Settings.
Now click on Add new user at the bottom under Users.
It’ll pop up a new instance of Google Chrome and ask you to sign in:
Once you enter your email and password, you’ll see it says you are now signed into Chrome. You’ll also notice another big change: a big icon sitting at the top right of your browser window:
When you click on it, you can see the list of users. Now in Chrome on PC, the icon shows up at the far left instead of the far right. When you click on the icon, you’ll see a list of users. By default, if you haven’t customized anything, it’ll call the original user First user and it’ll just create a random name for the second user, Sneaky or AgentX or some other random name.
If you go back to Settings in Chrome, click on the (Current) user and then click on the Edit button.
Now you can give the user a more practical name and also choose a different icon from their small selection.
In order to edit the other user, you have to switch to that user using the icon at the top of the browser window. Then go to Settings and then click Edit again. Here are my two users setup after the customizations:
It works great and you can sign into multiple Google accounts at the same time. The only downside currently that I see is that it opens the new user in a new Chrome window. It would be nice if they could somehow get it to work so that you could open a different user account in a separate tab in the same window! But other than that, it’s way easier than installing add-ons and logging in multiple times, etc, etc. Enjoy!
Use Copy Paste Hotkeys To Upload Images To The Web With Snaggy
Copying and pasting images works best on your desktop computer between apps and from one folder to another, but you won’t find too many web apps that allow you to paste images directly to their interface. Most, if not all image hosting services will have you manually upload or drag & drop an image from your desktop. Very few of them would allow you to paste images view the Ctrl+V shortcut that you’re used to, and fewer still extend that functionality to images you might have copied online rather than from your computer. Snaggy is like an image clipboard for the internet that also supports your desktop. It lets you copy and paste images from any website or your computer, and paste it in the app via the Ctrl+V shortcut. Snaggy has a built in editor that will let you crop images, annotate them with text, and draw on them. It uploads the images online to its own server, from where you can then share it using a direct link or one of the many social network buttons.
When you visit Snaggy, you will get the feeling that Ctrl+V is all that’s impressive about this web service, but it’s much more than that. You can copy and paste an image from your desktop or from a website and paste it here. When pasting images from your desktop, the service will ask for permission to run a Java plug-in, and to access your clipboard.
The weird thing about the service is that it doesn’t support drag & drop for your desktop images. It is rather odd that a service supporting the Ctrl+V shortcut does not support drag & drop while the majority of image sharing services like Minus and Imgur do. It comes of as a ‘neither may live while the other survives’ thing, where you can only have one image pasting feature and not both.
Once you paste an image to Snaggy, it gives you a link to share and the option to edit the image as well. Snaggy’s image editor is disappointing when it comes to the interface, in contrast to the home page of the service. There are only a few select functions available in the editor, but the page still looks messy for some reason. Perhaps it is the color scheme that is a little off-putting, but the image itself isn’t presented well either and could do with a border at the very least.
The focus of the editor interface is on the share link. Below it are controls for cropping, drawing, adding a rectangle, or annotating the image. The service responds to Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y functions for undoing and redoing an action. To apply and save a change you made to the image, click the action button in the center and then the save button to its right.
Each time you save the image, a new version is created and uploaded. You will notice the link changes after each save. This means that if you edit the image, you will have to share it again since the changes will not be reflected in the first link you shared. If you check the ‘Delete original image after saving’ option, older versions of your image will automatically be removed from the server.
It isn’t clear how long Snaggy keeps an image or if there are any size and format restrictions to this web service. You can manually delete an image by clicking the ‘(delete this image)’ link at the bottom of the page. Clicking the link opens it in a new tab and should you want to paste another image, you will have to return to its home page again.
Snaggy is best used for quickly sharing online images without having to save them to your desktop first.
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[via Lifehacker]
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