While I’ve been using Chrome for a few months now and blown away by the speed and simplicity the one thing that was holding me back was that I couldn’t install Xmarks to sync my obsessively organized bookmark collection across my other used browsers. I was using Xmarks to sync Firefox and Safari (also sync to my iPhone via MobileMe), but until today couldn’t keep my Chrome up-to-date — and that bothered the hell out of me.

Now that Chrome is extension-ready on the Mac, I’d thought it would be interesting to hear others top 5 Chrome extensions. Feel free to share in the comments below. Anyways, here are my top 5:

1. Xmarks (surprised?) – sync your bookmarks across multiple computers and browsers. And as you read from the above, I couldn’t work/surf without this one.
2. Bit.ly Shorten Url – Shorten any URL also send a Tweet or Facebook status update from it. I like how it adds the icon to the address bar for a quick click to shrink.
3. Add to Amazon wish list – I’m always adding “things I want” to my Amazon wish list, so this makes for easy updating.
4. ChromeMilk – great way to display and update my Remember the Milk tasks. I’m a huge fan of RTM, and if you are unfamiliar read my reasons why I like it.
5. Lorem Ipsum Generator – quick way to access dummy text to use for website filler while designing.

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In other exciting news this morning, visitingphilly.com just received a much needed stylish and striking redesign done by the talented folks of Happy Cog East. The large and beautiful photography really captures the essence and feel of Philadelphia — will definitely help attract new visitors to the site and city.