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  • Steve Dotto. How are you today? I am doing just fine. Thanks for asking. Today, I want

  • to talk about getting more out of our web browser. Now I have to admit that I’ve been

  • a little bit of a philandering web browser user. Back in the day, of course, I used Internet

  • Explorer and then once Firefox came along I was madly in love with Firefox. We had a

  • torrid relationship that lasted for quite some time but Firefox kind of got slow and

  • didn’t seem to quite do it for me anymore and I found a new browser. I found Chrome

  • and Chrome and I formed a bit of a bond. Now I’ve moved over to Chrome and I spend most

  • of my time with Chrome, although I do spend some time in Safari and a little bit of time

  • in Firefox occasionally. I feel a little bit guilty about jumping from browser to browser

  • but that’s the nature of me. I suppose I’m just not cut out to be a one-browser kind

  • of guy. Having said that, I really like what Chrome

  • brings to the table currently and I’m using it an awful lot and I thought I’d share

  • with you like eight awesome features that are within Chrome that will make your web

  • browsing experience that much better because we spend so much of our time now in our browser.

  • So without any further ado, I’m going to lightning-ly quickly go through eight features

  • within Chrome that you might want to incorporate. The first is one that I know youre going

  • to want to use. It’s called pinning tabs and what you do when you pin a tab is you

  • take all of these large tabs that we have across the top of the window here and you

  • make them small. This is for the tabs that you always have open. If there are certain

  • pages that you are always at, regardless of what’s going on in your life—I use email

  • in the browser so I always have my email openwell, instead of taking up all the physical space

  • here that it takes up, right-click your mouse on it, sayPin taband it reduces it

  • down to about a quarter or less of the space. I’ve still got the tab there. It’s still

  • using up resources and all that. It’s not like it’s going to make the computer faster

  • but it’s going to take less real estate here at the top. So by pinning a few tabs,

  • the tabs that you always have open, that is a great way for you to reclaim some real estate

  • at the top of the screen. Now don’t go crazy doing this. Don’t decide

  • that you can have all of your bookmarks open because these tabs can take up a small amount

  • of space because every window you have open takes up some resources on your computer.

  • You lose a little bit of memory and the computer is going to perform a little less faster as

  • a result. But for the ones that you want to always have open, this is a great way to set

  • them up and to always have them open. While were talking about open tabs, a lot

  • of times, depending on what services you sign up for, you can lose your presets. When you

  • first install Chrome, it’s going to open to the YouTube or the Google page but then

  • if you install different services, sometimes youll notice that all of a sudden your

  • Search preferences change or something changes within your settings and when you open a new

  • window it opens to a different page, or when you start a browser sessions it opens to a

  • different set of pages. Well, you can set that up and you can regain

  • control over that by going into your settings under Chrome Preferences, go into your Settings

  • are and then on startup, you can ask it to open a new page, open a specific page, or

  • a set of pages. So if you want to have four or five pages that you always open to when

  • you start a session, you can set this here in Set pages. Now be warned that typically

  • when you install a file downloading service or some other types of apps or some other

  • type of services that you might sign up for, itll sometimes change these preferences.

  • It’s kind of one of the deals that these guys do in order to make money. So they might

  • change your settings so you might have to go in here from time to time and reset it.

  • Along with that reset is sometimes the need to reset where you go automatically for search,

  • when you type in this bar at the top which interestingly is called the Omnibar because

  • it’s not a search bar or a URL bar anymore. No, no, no. This bar along the top does far

  • more than just bringing us to websites, which I’ll talk about in a moment. We call it

  • the Omnibar in Chrome. But when I’m typing in a search here, by choosing which search

  • engine from this pop-up menu here within my Settings, I will determine the search engine

  • I’m going to use as my primary search engine. Sometimes people will change that to Yahoo

  • or to Bing if you install a service. So if they automatically make some changes to your

  • preferences, you go back in here to rechange that.

  • Now while I’m talking about the Omnibar, let’s stay on that and let me show you one

  • of the coolest things. This is an intelligent bar. You notice now that it’s always making

  • suggestions as youre typing and as you start to type in a search, it’s bringing

  • up the most relevant searches that have been asked for by other people in that same area.

  • But it does more than that. It also does math for you. So instead of having to open your

  • calculator if you have to do some simple calculations and if you just want to figure out 48 times

  • 6, watch what happens. When I put in 48 times 6, it gives me the answer here and this works

  • for lots of different types of equations. So you don’t have to go to the calculator

  • app when you have simple calculations to do. You can do it right in the Omnibar. Isn’t

  • that cool? I knew you’d like that one. Let’s talk about something called incognito

  • mode next. Now incognito mode, when weve signed in we know that using cookies and different

  • things like that in the Preferences when we return to websites, quite often they recognize

  • that weve been there before and a history of our visit to those websites is built up

  • within our web browser. That is something that we don’t necessarily always want to

  • have happening, some people because theyre going to websites that they don’t want other

  • people to know about, don’t necessarily want to have a history recorded of them visiting

  • a website. But a little more legitimately, we want to

  • be able to sign in to say a different Google account without having to quit and sign out

  • of our existing account. I’ve got multiple Google accounts for different purposes I have

  • so rather than start a new browser session in a different session, what I can do is I

  • go and I right-click on the Chrome icon here on my taskbar, in my Menu bar in the bottom,

  • and I create a new incognito window. It’s got this little spy here happening here.

  • So what happens here is it’s not going to be recording any of the history and it doesn’t

  • have any cookies or it doesn’t create any internet trail of my journey here online.

  • I’m in incognito mode. I’m in stealth mode so if I want to sign in to a different

  • Gmail account, I can do so in incognito mode. That way, I can have multiple instances of

  • my different Google accounts running at the same time. That’s a pretty cool service

  • as well. Next up, I want to show you how to detach

  • a tab. Sometimes as were working, we might want to have multiple windows open and we

  • might not want to have to go jump back and forth within the tabs here. What we can is

  • we can actually, by grabbing a tab, we can either rearrange where it is in the list in

  • a sequence of tabs along the tap. You can just drag it or if you drag it out into the

  • window, you could turn it into an entirely separate window just by dragging.

  • That works really well and youre cutting and pasting in documents or if you have one

  • document you want to have open the whole time while youre researching other documents

  • or while youre doing some other sorts of writing. So I quite lack that ability to occasionally

  • grab a tab, drag it out and hey, guess what? You can also drag right back in. if you grab

  • on the tab there, you can drag it back in and you can reincorporate it into your main

  • window. Pretty click, eh? The next feature is one of my absolute favorite

  • features that’s built into Chrome and that’s the ability for me to use my Google account

  • to sync my instances of Chrome across multiple devices. In other words, all of my bookmarks,

  • all of my passwords, all of my different settings and preferences that I set up here on my main

  • desktop computer, I can mirror those settings on my notebook or on my tablet, any other

  • place that I use Chrome. I do that once again by going into the preferences.

  • By the way, I’m going into the Preferences here from the Chrome Menu. You see these little

  • bars over here at the side of the browser? I can also go to my preferences and my settings

  • here by clicking here in that menu. When I do, either one of those two menu settings,

  • I’m brought into this sign area that allows me to connect it to my Google account. So

  • I’m connecting this instance of Chrome to my Google account, my Gmail account basically.

  • If I do that, then I can set it up so that the preferences sync across.

  • If I click here on the Google dashboard, it will tell me all of the different types of

  • settings and all of the different data that’s being synced into the different platforms,

  • into my notebook and in this case into my tablet because I’ve got it set up for all.

  • So I’ve got 9 apps, 22 extensions, 69 settings, history, autofill so that it automatically

  • fills in things like addresses, passwords are saved there, all of that and all of my

  • bookmarks are all saved in multiple instances using the Chrome sync feature, which is just

  • awesome. Now the last thing that I want to show you

  • is something that a lot of people don’t use. A lot of people will search, theyll

  • do a Google search for something, theyll open a page once theyve searched for it

  • and found it and then they scroll through, looking for why that page was recommended

  • to them, especially if theyre searching for a term. A lot of times we forget that

  • you can just hit the command key F or Apple key F to find within a document. You type

  • in a word and it will highlight that word. It will find that word within a document.

  • So just like in a word processor, you can do a search within any web page or any website

  • that youre on or the page that you landed on right within Chrome.

  • So those are eight, I think, awesome, simple tools, once that I use almost every day and

  • have become second nature for me to make your web browsing experience that much more efficient.

  • Now I shouldn’t disparage any of the other browsers. Most of them will do a lot of this.

  • Things like the Chrome sync is kind of unique and there are workarounds that you can do

  • in other areas with that. Other browsers have some other features that are cool and maybe

  • even cooler than some of the ones we looked at but for me right now, Chrome is the leader

  • of the pack and in a large part due to a lot of these different interface things that theyve

  • added. I hope you found our video today to be useful.

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  • next time right here on DottoTech. [END OF VIDEO]

Steve Dotto. How are you today? I am doing just fine. Thanks for asking. Today, I want

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