Cleeki - The World One Click Away

I am pleased to announce that Cleeki now comes to Google Chrome. For those who are not familiar with Cleeki, you can consider Cleeki as an superior alternative to IE8 accelerators, but works for IE (6.0+), Firefox (1.5+), and now Google Chrome (2.0.174.0). Just select some text, and Cleeki can search/share/publish the content and preview the results immediately. Here is an example:

Select, Search/share/publish, and preview immediately.

In this article, I will give a quick overview highlighting Cleeki's unique features. If you haven't install Chrome or Cleeki yet, I have any article going through the steps.

Overview

Cleeki is a perfect pal if you need to launch search/share/publish tasks based on any content in your browser. Currently the following channels are default in Cleeki's Chrome addon:

1. Google: inlcuding web, image, video, blog, books, and spell check.
2. YouTube: an all-time favorite channel
3. Google map: including draging, zooming, direction, and local search.
4. Amazon: including the deal of the day on amazon
5. eBay: never miss a hot item!
6. TheFreeDictionary: an owesome online knowledge website
7. Google translation: including both paragraph and webpage translation, with two highlighted features: it automatically recognizes the source language, and remember your target language. So just select any text/page, and it will do the translation automatically.
8. SearchMe: a very cool visual search channel
9. Hulu: watching ABC's high-quality online TV programs
10. Share It: provide content share/publish via SocialTwist, supporting all mainstream blog/social/IM/email/bookmark services.
11. SlideShare: search slide presentations.
12. Wikipedia: search wikipedia articles
13. Technorati: blog search
14. Yahoo! web search

As a bonus feature, Cleeki can also preview a hyperlink without open a new window/tab.

The following are among the standard features in Cleeki addons. Nevertheless, due to the preliminary status of Chrome, they are either not available or not fully supported by Chrome. I am optimistic that these features will be added to Cleeki's Chrome addon later when Google officially announces the add-on system in Chrome.In the meantime, you are welcome to try out these features in Cleeki's addons for IE and Firefox. Check Cleeki's website for more details.

1. Customize your cleeki: you can virtually customize anything: add/delete/edit channels, skin, size, click behavior, etc.
2. Import IE8 accelerators: you can easily import IE8 accelerators into Cleeki
3. Copy pure text: copy text content without any format, quite useful in pasting web content into your document or email, without any format hassle.

Select-n-Go

In order to use Cleeki, simply select any interested text, and you will see a launching icon near the mouse position. Click the icon will bring a channel menu:

Select any text to trigger the launch icon

Or, you can also directly summon the channel menu: select any text and hold (don't release) the mouse button until you see a channel menu:

Hold your mouse to trigger the channel menu

Click on any channel will launch the search in that channel immediately, without leaving your current page or opening a new browser window/tab:

Preview images

To preview a hyperlink, simply move the cursor over the link, and wait until a preview icon appears:

Move the cursor over a hyperlink to preview it

Click the preview icon will launch a preview window so that you can get some quick impression. This is quite useful especially if you want to preview lots of hyperlinks.

Preview hyperlink w/o openning new window/tab

You can also share/publish any web content simply by choosing the share channel:

Share/publish in virtually all mainstream providers

Others

Cleeki shares the unique experience in IE, Firefox, and now Chrome. Further more, Cleeki also provides stand-alone software if you want to extend Cleeki's features beyond your web browsers to your desktop. Cleeki software can capture any content anywhere on your screen from virtually any programs (Word, Outlook, etc.). Check our website for more details.

Should you have any comments, questions, or suggstions, I'd love to hear from you. Simply drop a comment, or write to me directly (contact AT cleeki.com).

Tags: Accelerators, Google Chrome, Preview

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