Smiley Caret: Text to Emoji for Chrome

As we're sure most of you social-media aficionados already know, there's a big difference between emoticons and emojis. While emoticons can be described as general displays of emotions with the help of punctuation marks, letters, and numbers, the more recent and more modern emoji are actual pictographs or symbols of faces and even objects.

Having cleared that out, and if, say, you feel the need of greater emoji support while going about your business on the Internet, and Google Chrome is your browser of choice, then you will surely love Smiley Caret: Text to Emoji.

In short, this nifty, little extension helps you output over 2500 emoji as you type literally in every text medium. Not only that, but one of its other highlights is the fact that it can convert basic emoticons into modern emoji, thanks to 30 default shortcodes (visit the Options section for more details)

Just to give you an example, by typing the :D and 8) and considering that this extension is deployed in your browser, they are automatically transformed into the "Grinning Face" and "Smiling Face With Sunglasses" emoji.

The extension also provides you with the possibility of searching for emoji by typing ":" followed by the actual emotion you're trying to convey. Basically, once the search query is entered, you can choose the best suitable result (emoji) from a floating dropdown list.

If you have used similar solutions in the past, you will appreciate the fact that this is a very speedy tool with practically no pauses or hiccups.

Taking everything into account, Smiley Caret: Text to Emoji for Chrome is definitely one of the most useful and most functional tools of this sort out there at the moment. It's easy to install, it smoothly integrates with Chrome's UI and, best of all, it works without ever skipping a beat.