Easy-to-use TunnelBear Chrome Extension Brings VPN Services to Everyone

TunnelBear is one of the most loved VPN (Virtual Proxy Network) services because of its simplicity and clean interface. Now, the company has decided to make this service even handier by launching an extension for your Google Chrome browser. So, now you can maintain your privacy more easily.
Keeping aside the advantages of the anonymity, VPN services are of interest to those who are in the countries where some services like Spotify, Netflix aren’t available or some of the services are blocked. After installing the extension, the free users will get 750MB, but TechCrunch writes that TunnelBear will soon offer 1GB.

Currently, this VPN extension is available only for Google Chrome. TunnelBear plans to release the extension for other browsers including Safari, Firefox and more.
In an interview with TechCrunch, TunnelBear co-founder Ryan Dochuk said: “Our goal is to make [using a VPN] as easy and accessible as possible. The extension is so fast and so easy that you should be using it in your everyday internet activity.”



This TunnelBear extension for Chrome isn’t a full-fledged VPN. It doesn’t handle data only from your browser instead of your entire system. So, for browsing purposes and watching Netflix in the unsupported countries, it is a good option.

TunnelBear, based in Toronto, was founded in 2011 and provides its service to 5 million people all over the world.
Here are some of the services provided by the TunnelBear extension for Chrome:

• Stop web sites and advertisers from tracking you.
• While using public WiFi, secure your browser’s identity.
• Free data every month.
• Take the advantage of a fast VPN private network with connections to 14 countries.

I’ve installed and used the TunnelBear extension for Chrome and it does what it needs to do. It should be noted that it uses the AES 128-bit encryption instead of the better AES-256 encryption used by the usual TunnelBear app.

Try it out from the link given below:
TunnelBear for Chrome

Do you use VPN services? Tell us in the comments below!

T-Rex Dinosaur game in Chrome

Enjoy built-in T-Rex Dinosaur game in Chrome browser when offline

Google Chrome web browser includes an Easter egg of sorts. It lets you play a game when you are not connected to the Internet. Today, we will see how we can enjoy the built-in T-Rex Dinosaur game in Chrome browser when offline.



When you are not connected to the Internet and you try to visit a website, you will see the above Network Error page, displaying the message – Unable to connect to the Internet.

If you see a cached page, just refresh the page. Hard Reload, if need be, and you will see this page.
Have you ever wondered what the baby Tyrannosaurus Rex or T-Rex Dinosaur was doing there? Well, he is there waiting for you to play with him!

Chrome’s T-Rex Dinosaur game

To start the game, just press the space-bar. T-Rex will start running. An endless stretch of land will appear in front of him, and you will have to avoid the cactus plants which appear in his path. In real life he would probably trample over them, but here you will have to jump over it.
To jump over the obstacle, press the space bar again. If you fail to jump over, the game stops and you will be offered a restart.



Enjoy playing this endless runner game in Chrome and let us know how much you scored in the first attempt!

Use Google Drive to convert Images to Text (OCR)

We may come across the need to convert images to text which should be editable, or we may need to convert some scanned copy into text, so that it can be edited in our regular editors. Actually, converting the scanned copy to text is done using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Software which may not come free. You need to spend some good amount of money to get them and convert images to text. Spending money to buy those OCR software only for single usage is not a good idea. You can convert images to text for free if you are a Google Drive user. Google Drive provides you the OCR technology and we make use of it to convert images to text.

Convert Image to Text using Google Drive

Before converting images to text, you need to see that there should be at least some text on the image, so that it can be converted to editable text. Images can be of png, jpg or any other format. Not only images, you can even use Google Drive to convert PDF files to text for free. Let us see steps which we need to follow to convert images to text and the same is applicable to convert PDF files to text.
Visit the Google Drive website and log in to it. If you do not have an account, it is advised to create and one and then log in to it.
Click on the New button and select File Upload to upload images file which you want to convert to text. Select the particular image file and it gets uploaded to Google Drive. In this example, I uploaded the screenshot of part of my article.

Once the files gets uploaded, right click on the image file and move towards Open with >> Google Docs.

Now, new tab opens with the image surrounded by the blue border and the corresponding editable text at the bottom. You can resize the blue border, based on the content which you want.
Make sure you got the text as you want. You can use options like In line text, Wrap text and Break text. Follow the process and be confident that you go the right text. You see that the text is editable.

Once you are sure about the conversion, remove the image from the tab, save the remaining text and close the tab. You can see the Google Document with the converted text next to the image file. Now, your image got converted to text and you can remove that image file as it is no more needed.

Once you are done with the conversion, you can edit it in toe Google Drive or you can download to your local PC and edit it in your editor.

Points to be remembered

• If your image file has less text to convert, then there might be little number of mistakes in the converted file. Make sure that you made the changes as your need before saving the converted document.
• If only certain part of the section is to be converted to text, then I suggest you to crop that part of the image and then convert it in to text, to reduce mistakes in the conversion.
• Images that need to be converted to text should be below 2 MB in size.
• For PDF Files only first 10 pages are converted to text. So, if you have bulk of PDF files to be converted to text, then follow the process for every 10 pages, but not all at once.

This is the best and easy way to convert images to text for free. If you have anything to add, please do share with us through comments.