Sort YouTube Videos By Date In Chrome

When searching on YouTube, one often faces the dilemma of being unable to find recently uploaded videos on top of the search result list. Suppose you are looking for the recent highlight of a football match, YouTube will instead show the results of matches that were held some one or two years ago. And if you are searching for a recent movie trailer, you might end up getting older videos on top of the search result (e.g. trailers of the previous part of the movie). These are just two of the countless examples. If you get frustrated by this, then Double Click YouTube Sorted By Date extension for Chrome will come useful. It sorts videos on YouTube search result page by date. Therefore, you can view the most recent videos on top of the result rather than having to sweep through old videos to find the recent one.

In the below screenshot you can see that some very old YouTube videos are being displayed on top of the YouTube search result. With the help of this extension, by double clicking on the search page, the recent videos are displayed first (as shown in the next image).

As you can see the YouTube page got sorted by the recent videos on top of the search result by double clicking on the same YouTube page.

Double Click YouTube Sorted By Date Extension for Chrome

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Create And Customize Charts In PowerPoint With oomfo Add-In

Creating multiple charts in PowerPoint can become quite a task, as you have to practically create an Excel spreadsheet for each chart to plot data. If you need to quickly create presentations in PowerPoint with multiple charts, oomfo is a viable alternative to PowerPoint native Chart tool. It is an addin for PowerPoint with all the necessary tools that are required in creating, designing and customizing different chart elements. It presents a wizard with 9 simple steps for designing stunning charts. All you need is to go through the wizard to insert the chart in selected PowerPoint slide. Furthermore, you can change every bit of the chart, including, axis, gridlines, divisional lines, axis labels, specify chart legend type and transparency, while many chart layout related customizations are provided to make chart look as per your likings.

Before installing the add-in, make sure that PowerPoint is not running in the background. After the installation, open PowerPoint and head over to Insert tab. You will see an oomfo section on ribbon with three 3 options, Insert Chart, Edit Chart, and Export. To begin, open the slide and click Insert Slide and follow the wizard steps.

The first step is to specify type of chart from a long list of chart types. Once done, move to Chart Data to enter data values which you wish to plot on chart. The Chart Cosmetics comprises of slew of features to change default chart layout, and to create and apply new designs. In Data Properties, you can choose how to display data labels and data values. Title for each axis can be specified under Axis and Titles. The Divisional lines refers to setting up horizontal and vertical gridlines.

Once you’ve done designing chart into required form, click Finish to insert chart into current slide.

You can export the chart to image format to give presentation on any system without requiring oomfo. Click Export Chart As Image from Export menu to convert the chart into image format.

oomfo works with PowerPoint 2003, PowerPoint 2007, and PowerPoint 2010.

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Scribefire Blog Editor for Chrome

As time goes on, the list of extension dealbreakers for users pondering the jump from Firefox to Chrome keeps getting shorter. You may soon be able to cross off one of Firefox's most popular extensions for bloggers: Scribefire is now available as a Google Chrome extension.

It's not as full-featured as its FF cousin by any stretch, but this is an alpha build. By the time it's all said and done, there's no doubt that Scribefire on Chrome will be every bit as good as the original. This isn't a port -- it's very nearly a complete re-write. Developer Chris Finke says, "For comparison's sake, the current version of ScribeFire for Firefox has been under development for four years and contains about 17,000 lines of JavaScript. This first version for Chrome is three weeks old and contains 3,000 lines of JavaScript, only 110 of which were taken from the Firefox version."

Right now the essentials are there, and they work well. Plug in your blog's address to set it up (multiple sites are supported), choose an existing entry from the dropdown to edit, or new to post from scratch. Most major blogging platforms are supported, including WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, Live Spaces, and TypePad. Scribefire will display your existing categories, but not integrate tags -- yet. Hopefully autocomplete/suggestions for tags will be added soon.

As far as writing goes, the extension works beautifully. Where I run into trouble is with the addition of images. You can't drag and drop as you can on FF, nor can you upload inline. That means you've got to deal with the additional step of uploading with another tool, and then adding in the URL to your image. As Scribefire and Chrome's Extension APIs mature, however, that functionality will no doubt be bolted on.

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Twitter Symbols

Here’s another option for putting symbols into your Twitter stream: just drag the bookmarklet atTwitter Symbols into your browser. When you want to use a symbol, you can click on the link and a window will pop up, then double click on the symbol, control-C (or Command-C on a Mac) to copy, and control-V (Command-V on a Mac) to paste into your Twitter stream.

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View and Share Documents Online

Zoho Viewer is an online file viewer that lets you read PDFs, OpenOffice and Microsoft Office documents in the browser without even requiring you to sign-up for an account.

To get started, simply go to viewer.zoho.com, upload your file(s) and publish.  You can upload files as large as 10 MB in a single batch.

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