The following list of apps gives a clear idea of where the Chrome app store is headed:

1. Codenvy IDE: This gives you the chance to write code right inside Chrome. It is a collaborative app and enables developers to use PHP, Python, JavaScript, Heroku, Google App Engine and lots more. The collaborative feature of this app helps it stand apart from the usual crowd of development apps like CoffeeScript IDE or ShiftEdit.

2. Google App set : You can get everything from Google Drive to Gmail Offline to Google Keep right in the Chrome app store. The most amazing aspect of Google apps is that all of them are active offline. The same goes for Goggle Calendar or the Chrome Remote Desktop. With Google apps that work offline, it is easy to find and use information and the process is similar to online data access. Google apps are one-of-a-kind apps and deserve a special mention in the Chrome app store.

3. Tomatoes: This is an app that keeps you on your feet all day. Based on the Pomodoro technique of work efficiency, the app helps you check your work-score. You can set a time frame of twenty-five minutes and check your progress. You can also compete with others on a leaderboard.

4. WeVideo: Bring out the video editor in you through the nifty video editing app, WeVideo. It enables you to split video clips, trim and add multiple effects. It’s not a replacement for Adobe Premier but a smart app for the video editing hobbyist in you. It covers many basic editing needs and is a neat little app for editing novices.

5. TwistedWave: This is Chrome’s audio editing app that allows you to modify audio files for up to thirty seconds. You can slice them, remove fade outs, add audio effects and save everything in SoundCloud or Google Drive. All you need is a free account sign up.

6. Write Space: This is another Chrome app that also works offline. This app has a built-in data saving feature and presents a no-distraction writing space. It resembles Google Docs in a few important ways. The writing area can be personalized and is contained in the browser completely.

7. Pixlr Editor: It is a photo editing app that allows you to apply basic photo effects and alterations to the image file. You can alter the color and apply popular filters like Vignette or HDR to your images. Not a high ended photo editing app by any means, Pixlr Editor is a handy tool for the on-the-go photo editor in you.

8. Cryptocat: This app is meant to keep all your chats locked up and private, exactly the way you want those to be. It ensures that there is no intrusion of your chat privacy and that you can converse with friends without worrying about conversation spies.

These apps are very popular among Chrome users and free them from filling their devices with numerous useless software and extensions.

The popularity of the push notification among app developers prompted Google to take this giant leap. With this service, mobile app developers can enable remote app activation.

The new Cloud Messaging based Push Notification for Chrome OS and Chrome is all set to help Chrome app developers and Extension designers connect to the app remotely and send periodic alerts to users. This has come loaded with a lot of benefits for users. Earlier users could get news feeds only through Chrome apps playing in the background.

Unless these apps or extensions actively filtered data from the server, users had no way to get tickers and updates. However, all these changed when Google introduced push messaging notification for web developers.

How the Cloud Messaging Push Notification works for users

The science behind this service is simple. When a user has signed into Chrome and is using a device that has the app or extension installed, notifications start appearing automatically. Hence developers can send messages and alerts to users through Cloud Messaging. This is both a fast and effective solution.

Advantage of Cloud Messaging based Push Notification services

1. With a push notification service through Cloud Messaging, a lot of bandwidth was wasted. Besides, the battery of the device was also consumed more. Hence, the efficiency of both the app and the device was reduced to a great extent. Since the various extensions and apps were forced to respond to actions on the web pages, their performance showed a marked decline. However, with cloud messaging, users get auto updates without having to activate the apps and extensions installed in their machine.

2. Cloud Messaging Service from Google manages messaging queuing and delivery. Each user receives the notification for each device and each app. The entire process is automated and helps cloud messengers connect with customers.

3. The push notification cloud messaging service is free and does not levy any charge owing to complex messaging operations. Besides, a no quota system exists within the cloud messaging push notification service for web developers.

4. Google Chrome has released a slew of helpful tutorials and how-to guides to help web developers get a hang of things and proceed with the service. They have also launched a few sample apps that could help them forge ahead with the new technology.

Conclusion

Google Chrome has exploited the cloud messaging service fairly well for mobile apps and is testing the concept for web development. The service uses lesser bandwidth and conserves battery life to a great extent. However, the push notification works only when the user is signed in to Google Chrome. This is because the notification service acts only for signed in users who are connected to it through a push channel. On the brighter side, these cloud notifications are sent to every device the user has signed in and contains the relevant extension or app.

Netflix And Hulu: The Wireless Mavericks

Established in 1997 as an online alternative to brick and mortar video stores, Netflix quickly expanded to include subscription rates in 1999. At first, Netflix users simply received and returned all content via mail, but in 2007, the company began to move away from DVDs towards wireless, streaming content. This service grew in popularity just as wireless television provider Hulu was established in 2008. Unlike Netflix, Hulu was created from the start as a partnership between several media corporations, including NBCUniversal. In the ensuing years, both services have continued to grow in popularity, honing their subscription models to deliver individualized wireless content accessible on a number of devices, including smartphones and game systems.

The Next Step: Allies in Entertainment

During the spring of 2013, DirecTV CEO Mike White made clear that his satellite TV corporation is more interested in collaborating with wireless partners than competing. In his remarks, White acknowledged the growing ubiquity of mobile entertainment, but maintained that home television setups will always be a vital part of Americans’ viewing habits, especially on Sundays when it’s time “to watch the game.” White states that his company is uninterested in creating a separate network to compete directly with Netflix, Hulu, and other wireless television providers; instead, DirecTV and their partners plan to work together to maximize ease of access from a variety of devices. If you’re new to DirecTV check out websites such as SaveonTVDirect.com which offer unique deals for new subscribers.

This move comes on the heels of Verizon’s acquisition of spectrum from Bright House Networks, Comcast, Cox Communications and Time Warner Cable last fall. Verizon Wireless is one of several wireless companies currently partnering with DirecTV, and their acquisition deal has already been approved by the Federal Communications Commission. The plan is not a takeover, quite the contrary. Instead, consumers are starting to see the presence of cable services and products in Verizon’s retail stores, which were formally used to sell mobile devices and phones.

This newfound spirit of working together to deliver content may come as a surprise to some consumers. As reported in the New York Times, “until recently, wireless and cable companies were arch rivals. Major cable providers owned spectrum and hoped to start their own wireless businesses, while wireless companies wanted to compete in cable.”

Instead, it appears that big television and big wireless are reaching towards one another to partner and capture as much of the possible revenue stream coming in from an increasingly entertainment hungry culture grown accustomed to accessing customized, on-demand entertainment. According to White, it’s simply not worth it to compete with successful wireless content providers. Collaboration may be unexpected, but it seems like the next big thing to come from the wireless movement.

Digital TV allows TV companies to broadcast better quality sound, a higher quality of picture and a wider range of channels than ever before. As well as this, digital TV allows users to access further information through a series of menus, allowing a level of interaction with televisions in a way that was never previously possible. As well as this, viewers can also listen to the radio via their television and watch archived programs through digital ‘on demand’ services. Viewers can even access the internet through some digital TVs.

Digital TV is also more efficient than the old analogue service. Digital TV can carry many more TV services in the spectrum previously occupied by one analogue service. Switching off the analogue services also frees up spectrum that can be used for a range of new services, such as extra TV channels, mobile TV and wireless broadband.

All over the country, people are settling down on their sofas and marvelling at the veritable explosion of new television channels at their fingertips. However, you don’t get to choose your channels, as it is based on your location. If you want something a little juicer, like HBO, Sky 1 or Eurosport if you’re a sports fan, then you’re going to need a little extra, like what’s on offer from Virgin Media digital TV packages.

Virgin Media remains the most popular provider of digital cable TV due to their brilliant TiVo box, allowing people far greater freedom to choose how they watch TV than ever before. TiVo allows users to pause and rewind live TV, as well as giving them access to ‘on demand’ content and the ability create their own channels by demonstrating to TiVo the kinds of programmes they are interested in.

However, Virgin Media’s new deals make their digital channels even more accessible to a wider variety of customers. The company is now offering its M+, L and XL services as standalone deals which do not require a Virgin phone line. Each of the deals includes access to ‘on-demand’ and ‘catch-up’ services from a range of top channels.

Virgin Media’s M+ package specifically offers 65 channels. In contrast, the L package and XL package include a wider range of content, ensuring that the number of TV channels the average household has access to is only going to get bigger and better considering the range of HD options now available to fill your sitting room with warmth and colour. Whatever you want from your digital TV, you can be assured that the options will soon become endless.

This app allows you to add Snoop Dogg stickers on your own photographs and build your very own collection. The app is currently very popular among a generation of mobile phone users who practically grew up on Snoop Lion music. It is rumored to be one of the biggest photobombing apps to ever appear on the Apple app store.

How the Snoopify app works

It is a simple app that uses photographs. All you have to do is pick a photograph and paste Snoop Stickers on it. You can use both new and old photographs and paste as many Snoop stickers as you want on each one of them. The first sticker page is free but every successive page comes at a price. What the app does is allow users to connect to Brand Snoop.

In this cleverly designed app, Brand Snoop is able to appear on a wide platform and carry a unique Snoop filter. The photos thus overlaid with stickers can be shared on social media platforms. The app is rapidly becoming more and more popular in the virtual world and selling out fast.

In app purchases

The app offers paid stickers to users. When you are done with page one, you can use your credit card to buy pages two, three and four. In app purchases have gone up since the launch of the app since everyone wants to bask in the Brand Snoop glory.

There have been similar apps like Path and Line which also offers both paid and free sticker overlays to customers. The app opens up a new world of photo-manipulation through photobombing apps on the mobile phone.

Money spinner

The app works on multiple business levels. First, it leverages one of the most popular mobile communication tools – photographs. Second, it enjoys an ever multiplying visibility as users exchange photos and share them on the social media. Third, the app revenue model is automatic and natural. In app purchases is a very popular consumer behavior and Snoop Lion is maximizing it.

Overall, the business strategy to break into the mobile app revolution is paying off nicely for the singer and the TV show producer. Plus the facelift a celebrity gives to any brand and product is not something that can be stressed enough.

The daftness of the app is not just the connection between the star and his fans. The app is a carefully maneuvered product that launches a new career of the legendary singer. It has been featured in the Top 25 trending apps of all times on App Annie and bagged the 36th position on App Data. Even if it slips and falls a few places over the days, it remains a happy foray for Snoop Lion into the world of mobile apps.