Evernote have updated web clipper for Chrome. With todays update they have added the ability to clip emails which now means you can clip articles, a selected area of a web page, full web pages, articles, PDFs and URLs.
When you have an email open that you want to save you simply click on the web clipper icon in your Chrome apps bar and the email along with any attachments will be saved directly to your Evernote account.
The Chrome extension can be downloaded here.
Some time ago it was possible to use your Google profile picture as your Chrome Avatar. For whatever reason this feature was removed and you were stuck with the, pretty awful, avatars that Google thought were best.
Well now you can use your Google profile picture again by launching Chromium or Canary with the following switch: --gaia-profile-info. (I have also tried with Chrome Beta and it worked fine.)
To launch with these switches on OS X you would open Terminal and enter the following for Chromium:
And the following for Canary:
Once you have done this you should now see your Google picture instead of the avatar you were previously using (as long as you are signed in of course).
I have also quit Chromium and Canary and the profile picture stayed so there was no need to launch through terminal using the switches again.
I have only tried this in Chromium and Canary, no stable or beta builds, sorry!.
Windows users I am not sure how you launch with switches but I think it has something to do with right click, select properties and then….sorry, you will have to find out yourself. A search for ‘launch Chrome with switches’ in Google should be able to help.
Google are rolling out a new notification system. The new design is more inline with their current look. The old notification dropdown box did not quite fit in with this look, but this one definitely does.
Google+ notifications will now have a new bell icon in the Google Bar and the notifications tray has been updated separating unread and previously read items.
Vic Gundotra, Senior Vice President, Engineering for Google today announced that Google+ notifications have been redesigned and now support syncing across devices.
Here’s a peek of what you can expect to see very soon.
**Edit**
I received my update this morning and it looks like this.
Today Google has added a new section to your Google Accounts Dashboard.
Visiting this new section shows you a list of all the countries you have signed in from, the type of device you have used to sign in, when you created a new password, when you added a phone number to your account, when you turned on or off 2 step verification, when and where you enabled an account from, when you added a recovery email or telephone number and much more.
At the top of the page is a message saying “Notice any unfamiliar activity?”, if you do then there is the option to change your password. You can select any of the entries in your list and then you can see the approximate location (based on IP) that the action took place along with details on the device used.
This is very similar to the ‘last account activity’ you see in the Gmail footer. A very handy little option where you can easily see if your account has been accessed by a device or location that you do not recognise.
To view your recent activity visit the ‘Recent Activity‘ section of your Google Accounts Dashboard.
The latest flag to become available in the latest version of Chrome Canary (version 29.0.1536.0) is ‘enable translate settings’. Not the most interesting but some people may find it useful. You can enable the flag at chrome://flags/#enable-translate-settings and then when enabled you can make changes at chrome://settings/languages.
When you add languages you will see a checkbox which you can select if you don’t want these languages translated. If you select a language and then choose not to have it translated then you do not get the dropdown that appears on a foreign language page in Chrome.
So as I said not the most interesting of flags but I am sure somebody will get some use out of it (how I don’t know, but they will).
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