Chrome

Metrofy all the web with these browser extensions

How To

By Sam Sabri, Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at 1:27 am

File under fun. Like most of you, we spend a lot of time staring at some screens throughout the day. Typically our Windows Phone device and computer are the ones that get the most action. You love the look and feel of Windows Phone and get that same familiarity in Windows 8. But what about in the wild web? You don’t have much control over how a site looks. Or do you?

If you want to make your web browsing experience on the desktop a little more like Windows Phone check out the following extensions for Chrome. Yes, Chrome, mostly because Internet Explorer doesn’t support add-ons/extensions at the moment like Chrome does. We’ll be making Reddit and the general web a little more “Metro”.

A chromed Nokia Lumia 900: to impress all of your high roller friends

Windows Phone News

By Daniel Rubino, Wednesday, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:33 am

When at Mobile World Congress you can come across some random and odd things. This one gets filed under that category. What you see in the photo above (and video) is a custom chromed Nokia Lumia 900.

Chrync, syncing Chrome bookmarks to your Windows Phone

Apps

By George Ponder, Tuesday, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:38 pm

Chrync is a nifty Windows Phone app that lets you sync your Chrome Browser bookmarks to your Windows Phone. The app doesn't require any special extensions for your PC browser and speaks to Chrome through Google servers over a secure link.

Key features include:

PSA: Chrome Browser scam alert in Windows Phone Marketplace

By Daniel Rubino, Monday, Jan 23, 2012 at 1:45 pm

We saw this before with a fake Spotify app that was being sold on the Windows Phone Marketplace and now we're seeing it again. Scam artist Manikandan S is selling for $1.99 (with no trial) "Chrome" which he flat out claims "is same as a google chrome web browser":

"Keep Chrome Browser handy on your device, especially for those unavoidable times you are on a slow crowded network, away from Wi-Fi. This app is same as a google chrome web browser. It has most stylish search button. Facebook, Google, Yahoo! -with Chrome Browser, all your favorite sites work great on your windows phone."

Clearly, this is not the same and both violates Google's copyright and is false advertising. Rather, it's just IE9 with a not-so-fancy wrapper around it. What's worse is the plethora of negative reviews which we could only take as an indication of numerous purchases.

Hopefully Microsoft will respond by yanking this app ASAP like the fake Spotify, but in the meantime, consider this a warning.

Source: Windows Phone Marketplace; Thanks, q21701, for the tip!

KIN: 'Full Bleed, No Chrome'

Windows Phone News

By Phil Nickinson, Wednesday, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:10 pm

So a lot has come out in the last 72 hours about Microsoft's KIN project. Some of us get it, a lot of us don't, most of us still have many questions.

One interesting article, written by Microsoft itself, addresses the design process behind KIN. Although we can see inspiration coming from the same roots as Windows Phone 7, that is Zune (which in turn was inspired by Windows Media Device Center), a lot of KIN comes from a different source: magazines.