Chrome is really amazing when it comes to speed. Its also second to none when it comes to productivity on the web.
Chrome has a web store that hosts many Apps & extensions that make life a lot easier.
A common question that people ask is How is a chrome app different from a bookmark to a website. Well, there's a subtle difference,
- Some apps are just like 'conveniently located and good-looking' bookmarks
- Some apps point to chrome specific versions of websites (I've heard New York Times chrome page is quite good)
- Other apps make use of chrome specific features such as offline storage, notifications etc in innovative ways
Here's a video that explains what apps are essentially.
Back to the point. Here's a list of my favorite chrome apps:-
- Offline Google Mail
- This app syncs mails from your GMail account and makes them available offline, all this in the background! It also sports a cool 'ios' look and feel
- NYTimes
- Beautiful, All news sites should be like this, makes me feel as if I am reading a magazine. \
- Entanglement
- A cool puzzle game, I can't really explain the concept, just give it a shot
- Flixster
- Nifty looking app to look at the cast/pictures/trailers and more of latest and upcoming movies
- Angry Birds
- These days no compilation of apps is complete without mentioning Angry Birds. This app supports offline game play and uses local storage to store the achievements/scores.
- Sinuous
- A simple yet addictive game
- Quick Note
- A note taking app
Apart from these apps, there is a multitude of apps for Google products like Gmail, docs, calendar, maps, groups, news, reader, etc etc etc phew!
In a later post I'll cover Chrome extensions which offer different capabilities compared to Apps.
