Some Great Chrome Web Apps

I'm new to Chromebooks, as are most of us, but I am not new to Chrome and as such I am very familiar with the Chrome Web Store. More and more it is becoming my go to place for extending the functionality of the browser in my personal war on local storage.

Not that the Chromebook doesn't have some local storage, it does. (The fast SSD hard drive is 16Gb and it also supports SD cards and USB drives.) But my aim is to wean myself off it as much as possible. Less local data means more mobility and lower hardware requirements.

So here are a couple of my favourite Web Apps with more to come as I discover them

1. Kindle cloudreader

Read all your Kindle books in the browser thanks to good ole HTML5. Kindle is available on a variety of platforms and devices including IOS. Recently Apple decided in their way (read stupid) that they would demand 30% of all 'In-App' purchases that users make on the platform. This would have had the effect of increasing costs for customers or lowering profits publishers and authors... Sort of like a Troll under a bridge asking for payment...anyhoo...



So Amazon developed the Kindle Cloudreader that is pure browser and avoids the Apple App store completely. Available on Chrome and Chromebooks it is a great way to read books (sure beats reading on a phone screen as I have done many times). It Stil sync with Kindle for Android and PC including all bookmarks, notes and highlighting.

2. Cloud Save

With cloud storage becoming cheaper all the time their are a wealth of options for uploading files to the cloud. Google Docs, Dropbox, Box.net, Picassa etc

The default for PC's of course is to download a file, save it and then upload to your cloud service of choice. The cloud save web app from the Chrome Web Store avoids this in a typically simple way. The plugin allows you to authorise your these we bstorage services to work with your google account. It only takes a couple of clicks per service and then you can simply save with a single click.

There are lots of options and you can add/remove from the list very easily.

Only shortcoming is that you cannot at present select a folder to save the file in on a service, it gets placed in the root or as with images sent to Picassa in a folder called Cloud Save.