Category Archives: Linked8 Apps

Google Chrome Extensions, Release Notes

Chrome Add-on: Amazon™ Extension Version 1.2012.1.16 Released

January 13, 2012 Brady Leave a comment

This is a new version release note of Amazon™ Extension. (This version is available to download now)

For a complete user manual of this add-on, please visit here.

New features:

More Amazon country sites are supported, as of now, supported country sites are (China, Spain and Italy are newly added in this version):
- United States (amazon.com)
- United Kingdom (amazon.co.uk)
- Germany (amazon.de)
- France (amazon.fr)
- Canada (amazon.ca)
- China (amazon.cn)

Spain (amazon.es)
Italy (amazon.it)

If you are first time user, your country setting is automatically detected and set for you.

For updates and new versions, please follow us on Twitter @linked8.

AmaBay, Firefox Add-ons, Release Notes

Firefox Addon: AmabayFox New Version 1.3.20110630 Released

June 30, 2011 Brady Leave a comment

This is a new version release note of AmabayFox. (this version is available to download soon)

View a complete user manual of this addon.

In this new version of AmabayFox, Firefox Browser Addon, here are the new features:

You may now place the AmabayFox button wherever you like, the locations you can choose from include menu bar, navigation bar or add-on bar. By default, after install, AmabayFox button will be placed on navigation bar, after that, you may change its location by doing the following:
- Right click on any Firefox browser bar area, click “Customize”
- After Customize Toolbar window popup, use your mouse drag and drop the button to the bar you want
- Close Customize Toolbar window, all set!
You may now configure the default locale of Amabay homepage by one of the following ways:
- Right click on AmabayFox button, choose from “Switch location” menu
- Right click on AmabayFox button, click “Options”

If you are using this tool and have feature request, please fill out form here.

AmaBay

AmaBay new features: region support, new look and more…

June 5, 2011 Brady Leave a comment

We felt that AmaBay need some major face lift, so we renovated the site and added a couple of new features:

First of all, we combined ebay and amazon regions into one, user will be able to choose once instead of twice. Here is some background of this issue: even though eBay and Amazon are both global eCommerce companies, they support different countries, with eBay supports more while Amazon supports less, the countries where Amazon has presence all have eBay presence except Japan, while a couple of eBay present countries do not have Amazon presence, for example, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Ireland, etc… For this reason, we initially kept country selector for eBay and Amazon separate. Now we are merging them together because it’s what user needed, we should do what’s easier for user, not what’s easier for us.

Secondly, we made the search result page cleaner. We removed a couple of notes for each product, Product Group, Manufacturer under Amazon, Time Left under eBay. Now these notes can be seen in tooltip window when you move mouse over images. After this change, the result page only displays product images, title and prices, because these are what visitors really care about.

Lastly, we are making the mouse over tooltip image larger and clickable. Right now, only the Amazon side of results have large images added to tooltip window, we are still working on eBay side, but the pictures on both sides are already clickable, clicking on it will lead to product detail page on eBay or Amazon. On Amazon side, try moving your mouse over any product images, you will see large image of this product with great details. I don’t know what you think, but I am very visually driven when I do shopping, so with large pictures viewable, it’s more likely that I will buy the product.

Please feel free to leave your feedback or request for features to info@linked8.com

June 18, 2011 Update: after AmaBay region feature change, Firefox Addon AmabayFox 1.2.20110115 users will experience a bug when they compare price from Amazon or eBay non-US site, the result page will always use US as region. Now this bug has been fixed. Sorry about the inconvenience.

Google Chrome Extensions, Release Notes

Chrome Extension: AmabayChrome version 1.2011.5.29 released

May 29, 2011 Brady Leave a comment

This is a new version release note of AmabayChrome which enables one click compare Amazon and eBay prices from Google Chrome browser.

About 4 months after the release of 1st version, this 2nd version release is packed with exciting new features which will bring more convenience to your online shopping experience. The new features added to this version are:

“Compare Price” button location now configurable. Responding to needs from one of our users, now users can configure whether “Compare Price” buttons are displayed on Amazon / eBay search result pages. By default, “Compare Price” buttons are shown on Amazon / eBay search result pages, but users can now turn that off in options page. Please note, “Compare Price” button will always show up in Amazon / eBay product detail pages, this setting could not be changed.
Address bar button provides yet another way to click once to compare price. The button will selectively show up on right side of your address bar based on your current page and setting:
- When you are viewing a product’s page on eBay or Amazon, the product information will be automatically detected, and a bell shaped button will show up, clicking on it will show you AmaBay price comparison result for this product in a new tab.
- When you are viewing other eBay or Amazon pages, the button’s shape will change to , clicking on it will lead you to the AmaBay homepage of your selected country. You may change the country setting in Options page. If you like this button so much that you want it to show up more often, you have the choice of make it appear when you view any pages on Internet, that setting can be changed in Options page.

For complete user manual of this extension, please visit here.

Firefox Add-ons, Release Notes

Firefox Add-on: Amazon Deal Button version 1.3.20110420 Released

April 16, 2011 Brady Leave a comment

This is a new version release note of Amazon Deal Button. (this version will be available to download soon)

View a complete user manual of this add-on.

Important: This version is compatible up to Firefox 9.* ONLY, if you use Firefox 10.* or higher, please download Amazon Deal Button version 1.4.20120210, which can be found here.

The change made to the latest version of Amazon Deal Button are:

myGoldBox (US only), where your can check out personalized Amazon Gold Box deals based on your preference of category, discount range, expire date and keywords.