Switch your Google Docs/Sheets/Slides from /edit to /preview with this bookmarklet

Switch your Google Docs/Sheets/Slides from /edit to /preview with this bookmarklet

Last week I talked about switching a Google Drive document from /edit to /preview and back. The process is cumbersome, requiring you to edit the address of the document. To help with switching, I wrote a little Javascript code that will switch between the modes when clicked. Don’t fear the bookmarklet A bookmarklet is a…

Augmented Reality is making industrial work more productive

Augmented Reality is making industrial work more productive

Veolia Water Technologies, a transnational water treatment specialist firm, is partnering with a company called Fieldbit to bring Augmented Reality to the plant floor. Source: Augmented Reality is making industrial work more productive | Ars Technica Augment reality is the act of laying computer graphics onto the viewable world in realtime. If you’ve played Pokemon…

Create your own city online for free with Toy Box Metropolis

Create your own city online for free with Toy Box Metropolis

Source: Toy Box Metropolis by Second Dimension Games Toy Box Metropolis is a simplified version of Simcity that takes place on the floor of a child’s bedroom. At the start, you are given your choice of objectives for the game. You then build roads, buildings, and landmarks in a way that will achieve the goal…

Preview Google Docs/Slides/Sheets documents with this URL trick

Preview Google Docs/Slides/Sheets documents with this URL trick

Google offers all sorts of neat little tricks with the URL of a Google Drive document, and the /preview trick is one of the best. I’m going to demonstrate the /preview trick with Google Slides, since that’s when it’s most noticeable. For my classes, I have prepared lessons in Google Slides. This is a pretty…