How to: Create Your Own IPL Desktop Application Using Google Chrome

If you remember, long back when Google Chrome was launched there was a very interesting feature in it. It was called “Application shortcuts”. As far as I know, many people don’t use it or even know about it.

Creating an “Application shortcut” for a webpage lets you access that webpage as an application in a separate standalone window right from your desktop with a click. This is one of the unique features in Google Chrome.

Advantages of Creating Application Shortcuts

There are many advantages of creating application shortcuts.

1. You can visit your “most visited” sites easily right from your desktop.
2. There are no address bars in the applications to disturb you.
3. The “Application shortcuts can be placed anywhere you like, on Desktop, in Start Menu or even in Quick Launch bar.

So, knowing the advantages of this feature, let us know how we can create an application for IPL.

Creating an Application for IPL

In creating an application for IPL, we just take advantage of the Youtube. We already know about the live telecast of all the matches on Youtube’s IPL Channel.  So, we can create a application shortcut for that channel.

To create an application,

1. Go to Youtube’s IPL channel.
2. Make sure that you have selected the same tab and click on the “Control the Current Page” button on the top right corner in Google Chrome.
   

   Click on the button highlighted

3. Select the first option in the drop down menu- “create application shortcuts…”
4. A new window will popup with the title “Gears”. In that select the option where you want to place the application shortcut.
   

   Check the options where you want to see the shortcut

5. You are done. You just created an awesome and simple application for the IPL channel. Good job!
6. Now, click on the shortcut and it will open a standalone window in Google Chrome which loads the Youtube’s IPL channel.
   

   This is how your IPL application looks!

Hope, you enjoy watching the IPL matches in your new application. Share it with your friends if you liked this trick. You can even browse some more tricks and tutorials I have written.