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Google Chrome, the web browser, allows you to install Apps and Extensions. Apps are just links to services but show up on your dashboard. Extensions use the chrome API to make the webbrowser act differently, such as modifying requests, showing notifications, altering websites and more.

Below I compiled a list of extensions you need if you browse the internet a lot, or even a little.

Google Mail Checker

The Google Mail Checker extension adds an envelope to your address bar along side other extensions. Clicking the icon will navigate you to GMail. But if you get a message, the icon will show the number of unread new messages. There are no settings for this extension, so you are stuck with having it only working with your Google account you are already logged in as, and as the primary user. That means multi-login won’t work.

Layers and Components are an important part of SketchUp. It allows you to create larger drawings and sketches much faster. Also this is great for small drawings also that use repeated objects, objects that block views, and more.

Layers

In the below tutorials, I explain how to use Layers to hide, show and delete shapes and objects you drew. This helps you to easily manage your drawing viewing area and to work inside of walls and objects.

If you want to add a Twitter Timeline to your site it is really easy if you don’t want to customize it. If you navigate to https://twitter.com/settings/widgets you can create various widgets and add them to your site.

To create a custom Twitter Timeline for your site, you will need knowledge of JavaScript, HTML and CSS, or just how to copy and paste.

Notice:

Twitter now requires all API Calls to use API 1.1, you can do this by viewing the new updated tutorial over here.

In PHP and other programming languages you don’t want all the code to execute unless a specific value has been reached or is set. To get this functionality we use “If” statements. If statements are a way to check and compare variables to see if they are set to values you want to process code. For instance, if a user is logged into a site, that is when you grab their account information. If the user is not logged into the site, there is no need to grab account information. This is applied to all aspects of the code.

In this series of tutorials I am going to teach you not only how to code in PHP, but how to think in PHP. You will learn how to come up with the best methods to solve problems along with the code to go with it. Each tutorial will assume you have read the previous tutorials and fully understand them. Moving along means you have typed sample code out, successfully got it to run and understand why it works.