Google Shortcuts 2.1.6b3

Download now 0.35MB

View screenshots (3)

Your rating

(0) 0 Votes

Our rating

Date updated

March 13, 2011

Developer

Soeren Rinne | (more products)

All time downloads

521

License

Free

Platform

Windows

Description of Google Shortcuts 2.1.6b3

All Google services right at your fingertips

Google Shortcuts is a Firefox extension designed to offer you access to your favourite Google services fast and easy - with just a few clicks. Besides the support for your very own Google Apps domain the look and feel is fully customizable: sortable, with or without labels, vertical or horizontal, or inside an even more space-saving popup.

Key features

• Over 110 Google services, continuously updated
• Service buttons can be sorted according to your needs (not only alphabetically)
• Support for Google Apps specific URLs for your own domain
• Use Google's URL shortening service goo.gl to easy make short URLs
• GMailThis! button to directly mail a selected text on a webpage. Also available as GBuzz This! and GRead This! for Buzz and Reader
• Direct links for creating a new Document, Presentation, Spreadsheet, Drawing, or Form
• Left click on a button opens the service in the current tab
• Middle click (or Ctrl + left click) opens a new tab
• Hovering over a service displays a short information
• Add your own URL button like Facebook
• Change URLs of services
• Change names of services
• Select your own icon for a custom button (default: the favicon of its URL will be used)
• Choose the size of your icons - 16px, 24px, 32px, 42px, 48px, and 64px icons
• Suuports both the new and the old Google icon set
• Ctrl + Alt + left mouse click to open a service in a sidebar (useful for the Google Tasks canvas)
• Add separators to define groups
• Select multiple services to add, remove, or move in the lists

Requirements for Google Shortcuts 2.1.6b3

Firefox 2.0a1 - 4.0.*

Editor's review for Google Shortcuts

The innovative Google Shortcuts help you to access your much preferred and beloved services from Google in a very well situated and handy manner without using up unnecessary space on your computer. It not only offers support for your own apps from Google but you can customize the feel and look making it sortable without or with labels as well as in a horizontal or vertical position and all these in a popup which saves incredible space.

With Google Shortcuts, you have the entire orchestra of services from Google at your command. You have more than a hundred services which are regularly updated. These service buttons need not be sorted in alphabetic order but can be done so as per your requirements and needs. These Google Shortcuts offer support for apps from Google specific URLs for a domain of your own. You can make use of Google’s shortening service goo.gl for shortening URLs. If you want to send any mail directly to any webpage, you are able to do so with the button for Gmail! This! and you can handle Reader and Buzz with GRead This! and GBuzz This! respectively. The Google Shortcuts also allow for direct linking to create new form, document, drawing, spreadsheet and presentation. By clicking on the left button, it will open the current tab while clicking the middle one opens a new one while if the mouse hovers over a service then the display will be very concise for your usage.

With Google Shortcuts, you can also add a button for your own URL like one for Twitter. Not only can you change the service URLS but also their names. Though by default, the favorite icon of the URL is saved, you have the permission to choose your own icon as well as its size: 64px, 24px, 42px, 16px, 32px and 48px. These Google Shortcuts offers support for the old as well as the new icon set for Google and also enables addition of separators for defining groups. It enables multiple services for adding, moving or removing from the lists.

By using this Google Shortcuts extension to your browser, you are able to save space on your toolbar and make it look deliciously appealing. If you are using Firefox, it allows you to change its main appearance from the toolbar consisting of all buttons to a single menu of the dropdown variety. If you want to make use of a domain of your own with the Google Apps, then all you have to do is to type the address of your website and you will be directed to the login for your apps. It is vital to take cognizance that if you have activated any custom domain, it will override all corresponding services. Even the Google Chrome version exhibits all services as buttons in a popup which saves space and is placed near the address bar. You can access Google Calendar, Google Reader, Gmail and Google maps and various other services with help of just two clicks. You may select the required order or sort them as per alphabets. You just need to hover over the selected icon for display of the service description.

Basically, you don’t need to take our words for it here but see it for yourself by checking out the numerous favorable reviews from reputed websites to cement your trust in Google Shortcuts without doubt.

Simply put, Google Shortcuts – your shortcut to success in navigation with Google!

What is new in version 2.1.6b3

- removed unicode bug in custom button name
- removed unnecessary 18px icons
+ added Reader - Subscribe, Chrome Web Store, Art Project, Shared Spaces, Android Market, Apps Status Dashboard
* some slight adjustments