Google Chrome Notification Alerts

You can set up Chrome to get notifications, like meeting reminders, from websites, apps, and extensions on your computer.

The Push Notifications API feature in Google Chrome allows websites that you give permission to the ability to send you notifications and alerts – even when the website isn’t open in a tab.

Web Push works hand-in-hand with other cool features like Service Workers and Web Manifests to help ‘app-ify’ websites on mobile and desktops.

Notify.js is a simple wrapper for the Web Notification API.

You can block the notification feature completely in the Google Chrome browser if you have no use for it.

If you’re browsing in incognito mode, you won’t get notifications.

HOW TO invoke a Chrome App / Extension with a single click

To conserve time while doing repetitive tasks, shortcuts can help. If you often use Chrome Extensions, you can place a specific Extension in the Windows Taskbar for easy access.

Select the desired Chrome App / Extension from the list of installed Apps by clicking on the Apps button which is the first button in the Bookmarks bar of Chrome browser or type chrome://apps in the address bar

In the page that opens up, right click on the Chrome App / Extension in the list and select "" from the context menu.

In the dialog box that opens, choose where you wish to have the application shortcuts.

I like invoking the Postman Chrome Extension (for testing REST calls) from the Taskbar with a single click.

HOW TO remove unwanted sections of a web page while printing

With Chrome & Internet Explorer, it is possible to print only selected text within a web page. Today, I had need to print a web page without some sections like video and unwanted subtitles.

It turns out, with Chrome Developer Tools (keyboard shortcut F12) you can delete the tags representing that section and then print the page.

After the web page loads, hit F12 to open the Developer Tools pane and use the Magnifier icon to select the element in the page to delete

Within the Developer Tools pane, select the tag containing the content that needs to be deleted and hit the Delete key to remove it from the web page before printing it.

Also see: HOW TO extract sets of pages from a PDF document or web page to a new PDF

HOW TO extract sets of pages from a PDF document or web page to a new PDF

There are free tools like PDFRider that let you manipulate PDF files and do things like extracting only some pages from a PDF document & packaging them into a new PDF. But why bother installing tools when Google Chrome browser can do that for you.

Chrome can open not just web pages but also local PDFs. You don't need a PDF reader anymore if all you generally do is scroll through them.

With the Print option of Chrome, you can save any web page as a PDF. What's more, you can extract sets of pages from a PDF document or specific pages of a web page to a new PDF by specifying page ranges separated by a comma.

This is not a common use case but remember when you face such a scenario, you don't need any other utilities.

Also see: HOW TO bulk archive a web page along with linked pages in PDF format - needs IE