Chrome extensions for power users

Uninstalling updates is a common troubleshooting step for fixing Android apps that don’t work. It’s equally useful if you want to revert to a prior version you like more, which restores the app’s version pre-installed on the device. But there are other ways of going back to an older version. Learn them from this guide that covers the apps installed from the Play Store or through APK files.

Caveat: if you uninstall the updates, the app may not work correctly or at all.

The Google Play credits you earn from Google Opinion Rewards have always been supposed to expire after one year. But, until late 2019, Google never enforced this policy. To the, um, disappointment of many users when Google did start enforcing the policy and deleting most or all the credits many users had amassed.

This quick tip lets you check when your credits expires, so you can consume it.

The Alpha-geeks and power users over at Android Police published this list of Chrome extensions they use every day. Stop what you’re doing and have a look at the list as there’s something for you.

I found some interesting extensions for capturing screenshots, copying text from pages that don’t allow it, viewing EXIF photo metadata, and more.

Do you get sender remorse? Did you ever realize you shouldn’t have written certain things in a mail you sent? Gmail lets you recall the mail and undo the send, as long as you change your mind soon enough. This tutorial explains how. Bookmark it now as you must act quickly.

Are your videos shaky? There are a couple of things you can do. The first is just to pay attention when shooting videos with your phone. Such a conscious effort can go a long way. The other thing is to use a little-known feature of Google Photos to stabilize a video you already shot. Learn how here.

GNSS Compare is an app for accessing and visualizing data from various satellite positioning systems. The app lets you check the performance of the raw signals of the satellites of the Galileo and GPS systems, as well as displaying and visualizing the data. It also lets you compare on a map the positions calculated from the data of the various systems.

As a non-native English speaker, I’m never quite sure how to capitalize titles or section headings in blog posts or documents. This handy little tool for writers and bloggers allows you to capitalize titles according to various style guides such as the Chicago Manual of Style, the Associated Press Stylebook, and more. It can perform other case conversions like sentence case or all uppercase.