Angry Birds goes up via Chrome

Game developer Rovio sent its wildly popular title, Angry Birds, to the Web via Google’s Chrome browser. The game has two levels with several stages to play through. The first level features the puzzles from the Angry Birds app, while the second level offers some Chrome-specific challenges and is littered with Chrome logos that give you a bonus when you hit them.

The game play is the same as with all iterations of Angry Birds, though touch-screen users might appreciate the bit of extra control a mouse offers. You don’t have to use Chrome to play the game. Although it is available in the browser’s Web store, users can find it through chrome.angrybirds.com. Free for all platforms, though there are paid versions with more levels.

Ÿ SlideRocket, a productivity app on the Chrome Web store, is a free service that lets you create simple presentations in a snap. The app’s templates are simply but elegantly designed and give users a lot of options for customizing. Users can embed photos, Twitter feeds, videos, charts and polls into their slide shows. The app also plays nice with PowerPoint and Google Docs, so you can import and export between those programs. The app stores your presentations online, so you don’t have to worry about losing your thumb drive on the road.

The free version of the slide show can’t replace PowerPoint or Keynote for really sophisticated presentations, but SlideRocket is an alternative that’s cheap, functional and accessible. Free, and $24 a month to upgrade, through the Chrome Web store.