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This Thursday, the productivity of tens of millions of golf fans around the world will hit new lows as the U.S. Open, the second of the four major golf championships, kicks off at the Congressional Country Club. For those of you who are determined to keep up with what promises to be an exciting tournament, there are plenty of apps in the Chrome Web Store that can keep you from missing a single shot.

The USGA has just launched the U.S. Open Today app that provides you with the latest news, video highlights and photos from the tournament. For additional coverage, you can try the Eurosport app or catch the latest photos at Sports Illustrated.

If all this tournament coverage gets you excited to play, you can add the WGT Golf Challenge app to Chrome. This is the most realistic golf game on the web, allowing you to play a closest-to-the-hole challenge at Congressional Country Club, or a new championship course every month.

If you get inspired playing the U.S. Open in the virtual world and you want to plan your next golf expedition, the Fairways360 app will come in handy. With Fairways360, you can explore new courses as if you were standing on the tee. You can also use the app to book tee times at over 1,700 golf courses across the United States, as well as get the current weather conditions and directions to the golf course of your choice.

Finally, to take care of scheduling tee times with your friends, you can try ClubDivot. With ClubDivot, you can create leagues with your friends and instantly notify them via email when you book a tee time to let them know to sign up. You can also organize your favorite golf courses and view your monthly calendar of tee times. This way you can get back to the things that matter most, like working on your swing.

There are thousands of more apps in the Chrome Web Store. Discover them atchrome.google.com/webstore.

chrome , google

Play Online Golf at Google Chrome

Unknown 6/16/2011

Splashnology: HTML5 is supposed to have features like video playback which currently depends upon third-party(and proprietary) browser plug-ins like Adobe Flash. Today we have collected 50 awesome HTML5 demos to show its potential.

3D Chess

Anevent Apart HTML5 Experiment 2

Bacterium

Bakemono

Ball Pool

Blob

Bomomo

Canopy

Canvas Animation Demo

Canvas in 3D

Canvas Photo

Chain Reaction

Cloth Simulation

Entanglement

Experiment – HTML5 Canvas Nebula

Flickr Canvas Slideshow

Google Gravity

Google Images Gift Box – CSS 3D example

HTML5 gallery

HTML5 Typography demo

HTML5 Video Destruction

JS + Canvas Visualization

Kaleidoscope

Liquid Chars

Liquid Particles

Magnetic

Many Lines

Mesmerizer

Monster

Particles

Puzzle

Silk — A magical interactive artwork

Sinuous

Sketch

Spread

Stalkbuttons

The Wilderness Down Town

Trail

Tunneler

Video for Everybody

Wave

More about HTML5

In this article you’ll be able to find some great tools, cheat sheets and much more you could need to master these new features. Here we present you, a list HTML5 tutorials and techniques that you can’t miss if you are a web developer.

This article is going to be about HTML5 video players. We’ll focus on ten decisions for cross-platform video displaying on the sites. The video element is a long-expected and certainly one of the most useful feature in HTML5.

chrome , HTML5

HTML5 Demos : ChromeExperiments

Unknown 5/28/2011

Mac OS X: Google's released the "Canary" version of their popular Chrome browser for OS X, giving Mac users earlier access to advanced features.

Chrome Canary has been available for the bravest of Windows users for quite some time now, while only the Stable, Beta, and Dev release channels were available for Mac.

Depending on the release channel chosen, updates to Chrome will either be fewer, but more stable, or more frequent and less stable. Canary is the most "bleeding edge" of all the release channels, so it offers users much earlier access to more advanced features—at the cost of stability. To put it in perspective, Chrome Beta for Mac is version 11, while the Canary release is version 13. That's a big jump for any piece of software.

Getting new features isn't the real purpose of using a Canary build of Chrome, though. Unlike other release channels, Canary isn't tested before release. The idea is that users will allow the app to report back to Google and become testers themselves, just by using it. Progress made in testing Canary features will trickle down through the other channels as they become more stable, and that's how Chrome moves so quickly through versions (and gets new features so fast).

You don't have to sacrifice your favorite browser's stability to test the newest features, though. Chrome Canary can be installed and run right alongside your existing version of Chrome.

Google Chrome Canary is a free web browser for Intel Macs running OS X version 10.5 or newer.

Chrome Canary for Mac | via Chromium Blog

chrome , Mac OS

Download Google Chrome Canary for Mac

Unknown 5/09/2011

Chrome: Timer Tab is a free extension for Google Chrome that combines the functions of a countdown timer, alarm clock, and stopwatch, and has the ability to notify the user when an alarm goes off.

Technically, Timer Tab is a webapp that can be accessed in any browser at timer-tab.com, but it makes use of some of Chrome's more advances features to be more effective. Basically, that means when a countdown ends in either the timer or the alarm clock, it can alert the user with a flashing pop-up notifier while also flashing the tab's title in realtime. The tab's title also displays whatever count is currently running, which makes it useful for multitasking in Chrome.

Timer Tab's biggest appeal has to be the minimalist layout, and the fact that it's so easy to set an alarm or countdown before moving on to more important tasks. The alarm is tough to miss, too; the user can choose any YouTube clip to use as the audio alarm (a big ringing bell is the default), while Chrome itself will also pop up a notifier in the corner of the screen.

So, if you're on the go and have Chrome available on the system you're using, Timer Tab can be a quick and easy way to make sure you don't miss an important deadline, oversleep, or spend too much time on one task when you've got several to finish.

Timer Tab is a free extension for Google Chrome and can be installed at the Chrome Web Store.

Timer Tab | Chrome Web Store

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Timer Tab Combines an Alarm Clock, a Timer, and a Stopwatch into a Free Chrome Extension

Unknown 5/02/2011

As previously promised, Google started to test multiple profiles for Google Chrome. It's a Chrome OS feature that's now available in Chrome's Canary builds and Chromium. Just enter about:flags in the address bar, enable "Multiple profiles" and click "Relaunch browser" at the bottom of the page.

The new feature associates each window with a profile and lets you sync some of the settings with a Google account. Until now, you could create new profiles manually, but you had to use special shortcuts for each profile (Chrome has briefly added support for multiple profiles in the interface back in 2009, but it was quickly dropped). This feature is now available in the interface, even though it's more limited and you can only identify profiles using Google accounts.

"The multiple profiles feature will allow the user to associate a profile with a specific set of browser windows, rather than with an entire running instance of Chrome. Allowing different windows to run as different Chrome identities means that a user can have different open windows associated with different Google accounts, and correspondingly different sets of preferences, apps, bookmarks, and so on -- all those elements which are bound to a specific user's identity. Having multiple profiles in the Chrome browser also makes it easy to browse with separate identities without having to log in as separate users at the operating system level," explains a Google Chrome design document.

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Google Chrome Tests Multiple Profiles

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Google has updated its popular web browser Chrome to version 11. The latest stable release, which sports a new “flattened” version of the program icon, has one major headline feature: support for text-to-speech in supported web pages. This new feature – designed for those who have difficulty using keyboards – is based on HTML5 technology, and works on web pages where a microphone icon has been embedded into a text or form field. It currently only supports English as a language.

The feature works by the user clicking the microphone icon before speaking into their mic. Chrome then converts this into text and pastes it into the field. Supported websites are currently thin on the ground, but it can be tested at HTML Rocks or by selecting English as the “From” language at Google Translate.

Other changes in Google Chrome 11 include hardware acceleration for 3D CSS, bug fixes for the cloud print function and a security update for the integrated Adobe Flash plug-in. There are also 25 new security fixes introduced between the jump from beta to stable.

Google Chrome 11 Stable is a free download for Windows, Mac and Linux.