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Google has hidden plenty of games in it's search, and they keep increasing. To access a game, you'll need to search a certain keyword to trigger it. For example: To play Atari Breakout- Search for Atari Breakout on Google Images! Just a few hours ago, redditors have discovered that Google has hidden a virtual fidget spinner simulation game in it's search result. Follow the simple steps given below to access it: Open Google Search in your web browser. Search for " Spinner " without quotes. Viola! Considering you search for the right keyword, the game appears in mobile as well as the desktop versions of Search. However, it's not available in the light version of the Search page. The game works similar to the real life version of the fidget spinner. To play: Just mimic a rotational motion using your finger in your touchscreen smartphone. You can use your mouse to mimic the rotational motion in your PC. Alternatively, you can click on the spin...

Spammers can spoof a message to make it look like it's sent by a company you might trust. Recently, hackers tried to access Google Accounts of Gmail users through a fake Google Docs file! The scam was very convincing and it attempted to persuade users to open a document, and the users who tried to open the doc was redirected to a legitimate Google Sign-in page to grant permissions to a fraud app. Managing emails, if you receive a lot of it in a day can be a very difficult task, and there are times when we may unknowingly follow a spoofed email. Today, I will provide a super short tip for Gmail power users among you who tend to receive hundreds of emails in a day. To help you protect from hackers, most email providers tries to verify the real sender using email authentication. As an additional security measure, Gmail allows us to enable " Authentication Icon for Verified Senders " through labs. Follow the following simple steps to enable it now: Open GMail. ...

Salmon Player is a light-weight digital music player for Chrome that plays media files from your PC and Chromebooks. It looks awesome with beautiful material design touch. There are plenty of music players for Chromebook and Chrome browser for PC, but there are rarely any media players which offers material design. Try Salmon Player. It supports MP3, OGG, and WAV file formats. It has few interesting features like drag and drop music files from HDD/SSD, keyboard shortcuts, music search etc. Salmon Player will automatically scan music files once you add a source folder. Please note that it will only add files from the selected folder and you have to manually add each folder one by one! The design is neat and clean, as advertised. It offers three color schemes and there is an option to display album cover as background. Follow the following steps get started. Go to this link (Chrome Web Store) and install the application. Launch the app after Chrome finishes downloading and i...

Google is slowly adding material design to Chrome for desktop. A new material UI Downloads page has been introduced in Chrome Canary and it's default Downloads page in the Canary version from the last week. They are also working on new enhanced UI for Settings page, it's still developing and you won't find it usable for now. Previous simple UI in PDF viewer is also replaced by material design viewer in canary version of Chrome with much better navigation support. It's still developing but you can enable it in the stable version of Chrome too. Here is how. Type " chrome://flags " in the address bar (without quotes) and hit enter. Now scroll down to the flag that says " Enable material UI for PDF " and choose " Enabled " from the drop-down menu. Alternatively, you can open " chrome://flags/#enable-pdf-material-ui " from the address bar. It'll directly take you to the Material UI PDF Viewer section where you can ...

Online music streaming services has taken over the world with storm. Almost all of you will be familiar with Spotify, Soundcloud, Gaana.com etc. But not all people have access to Hi-Speed Internet connection to stream music in good quality. There are many music player apps available to stream your local music files. If you're a Chrome users then you might want to try Enjoy Music Player . It is a music player app which combines local and online music on your Chromebook (and Chrome for Windows or Mac). You can use this app to play your music files stored in your local drive, or explore Trending Songs (needs Internet connection). Interested? Follow the following steps to get started... Go to this link and install this app! Launch the app. "Local" tab will display music stored in your PC locally and "Online" tab will allow you to stream songs available in the directory. To play local music, you'll first need to select where music is stored so that ...

You can run any website as an standalone application with Google Chrome web browser. Chrome is also an app platform and it can run web and offline app in their own window just like any native app available in your Windows computer. Since Chrome can run a website as app than their must be a way to create a shortcut for our favorite blogs. It is very simple to create a application shortcuts. Lets start the tutorial with first explaining the difficult process for achieving this task. Create a new shortcut of Chrome on your desktop. We'll edit this new shortcut to convert it to our app. Tip: You can just copy and paste the Chrome shortcut available on desktop again. Don't worry about the duplicate files. Right click on the new Chrome shortcut and select Properties. Now look for Target field in the shortcut tab. Add --app=http://www.spicytweaks.com at the end of ...chrome.exe" after adding a space. See the image below. See screenshot above while I was...

By default, Google Chrome includes your search engine on new tab page along-with the list of some most visited websites. It looks simple and you can't do much to customize it. If you're bored with the default new tab page than you should try some of the awesome new tab page extensions on your Google Chrome to make the best use of your best browser. Every time you open the browser, you're presented with the new tab page. You can use any the extensions given below and make it much more useful. With these extensions on Chrome, you can create to-dos, customize background images, fresh-up yourself and much more with simple and minimal interface with distracting yourself. Try these... I know you'll like it. Momentum It is one of the most popular extension of Chrome Web Store. It should be with its simple and minimalist look. You'll get a new beautiful image updated everyday on your new tab page. Not only the image but you will become familiar with some inspirational...

You might have heard of Chrome OS. It is an operating system based on Linux and designed by Google to run web applications and installed applications, more details here . Does your friend uses a Chromebook? If yes, take a look at the wallpapers on his Chromebook. You'll want them all (at any cost). Chrome OS contains number of wallpapers which is simply amazing. It is difficult to find a wallpapers collection like that on the web. If you're looking for those walls than I have all of them. It is not possible to share all of them, but take a look at some of the best wallpapers available on Chrome OS. Have you taken a look at High Definition Wallpapers I shared earlier. If not, go to the link, you'll love it. How to Download? You can download any Chrome OS wallpaper given below by clicking the download button given below the image preview. Vasco Da Gama Bridge It is an iconic wallpaper by Paulo FLOP. Take a look at his photo, you'll be amazed. You can download t...

Have you ever lost your Internet connection? My Internet connection goes down several times a day and it feels too boring without any Internet for several minutes. But thanks to Chrome for making users enjoy even after the Inter is gone. In one of my previous post we seen tweak to work offline in Chrome , that trick allows to browse previously loaded pages after losing the Internet connection. But, you don't want to get bored by reading old posts and webpages. If so, you should try new endless running T-Rex game on Chrome. After losing my Internet Connection, this game really helps me to pass the time and I don't close the Chrome now. You'll not have access to it without losing your Internet. If your Internet never goes down than turn off the router or Network. Playing T-Rex Runner Game in Chrome Turn off your Wi-Fi or disable any Network you're using. Then open a new tab page and load any website. You'll see a customized error page like the one shown belo...

Google Chrome is the most widely used web browser in the world. Its wide popularity is because of its features and simple look. And to serve users further, it send some personal information to Google and it's not a good idea to have your personal data recorded without users permission. In my previous post we learned searching Google and Internet without Losing Privacy  and in this post I'll show you how to optimize Google Chrome for Privacy. Also, to achieve maximum Privacy settings we might disable some interesting features of Google Chrome. Read this post carefully and apply settings according to your needs. Sync If you'll connect your Google account with chrome than your data will be automatically synchronize your data and save it to Google Servers. If you don't want this feature than follow the following steps to disable this option. Go to Settings. In the "sign in" section, click on Disconnect your Google Account. From the dialog box that app...

Everyone is feared about losing Privacy and no one would like to share the private and personal with someone else who they don't know in real life. You should have private things which you only want to share with the one you care. But, many companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook etc. track users activity and stores on their servers. None of you would like your private details to be stored on other companies database. In this post, I will provide you various ways to keep yourself and your private information secure. Google is very criticized for keeping users private information that can violate people's privacy. Not only Google, but all the major search engines like Bing, Yahoo collects information to provide you better query results. many people don't want their personal details to be used and exploited by other companies. You might be interested in reading tweaks to keep your Facebook account secure . After the PRISM news spread out, many people are feared a...

Few months earlier, Google was testing a a new Bookmark feature that is known as Stars. But it was removed from the store and can't be downloaded more. Now Google offers similar features with the new Bookmark Manager for Chrome which makes Bookmarks more powerful with many new features. Previously, I have shared you an Extension which can create Chrome theme easily. In this post, *I will share you a new Bookmark Manager which is available in Store from few days. Try installing it on your Chrome and I am sure you'll like it. It has many features and some of the interesting features listed below. Bookmarks will be saved with one click just like the native Bookmark Manager. You can choose image thumbnail for the Link (if the post have images). Automatically categories the Bookmark, and you can categories it manually. Search function is improved in the new Bookmark Manager. Also, description and thumbnails will be automatically added to almost all of your previous B...

In the previous of Google Chrome (i.e., 37), the fonts and text looks blurry and blurred and they come up with the solution and now the fonts looks sharp again. In the 37 and latest version the font rendering have been changed from GDI to DirectWrite. Most of the users who faced the issue was found to have DPI scaling to 125% instead of default value (i.e., 100%). It can be solved by changing the scaling back to 100%. If you're still facing problem in text rendering than update your Browser to version 38. On the previous version of Google Chrome, the issue can be solved by following the instructions given below. Solution: Update to Chrome Version 38. If you didn't like the font on this version of Chrome and if you would like to switch to older font rendering system than follow the following steps. Note: If you're looking for a way to solve zooming and blurred font issue than it can be solved by upgrading your browser to the most recent one and if you have alread...

Easter Eggs are hidden and secret stuffs which are created by developers, programmers, developers which are added and inserted in their website or any software to provide some fun and pranks with their users. If you're a regular visitor of SpicyTweaks than you should be familiar with the previous post in which I shared Some Hidden Google Easter Eggs . With the numbers of visitors visiting that post it was very popular. Today, In this post I will share you some Hidden and Secret Easter Eggs created by YouTube developers. These Easter Eggs Tricks are present on Search Pages and Video Page. For today, I will show you some secret Easters present on YouTube Search page. Lets check out these interesting stuffs now. Beam Me up Scotty Open the YouTube homepage and search for Beam me up Scotty and see the result. You'll see a Star Trek Affect on search result, which will be shown until it reaches pagination. See the image given below to know more. You'll see blue col...