Building Chrome extensions is fairly simple with a little bit of HTML and Javascript. The Google Code site has some sample "Hello World" code as well as an extension video to get you going.
You can download the extension here.

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Most things including the API will happily take a 15 or 18 char Id, no need to convert yourself.
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