Help students with Dyslexia with the Chrome OpenDyslexic Font extension

Help students with Dyslexia with the Chrome OpenDyslexic Font extension

Help students with Dyslexia with the Chrome OpenDyslexic Font extension. Source: OpenDyslexic Font for Chrome – Chrome Web Store This extension switches the fonts used on websites to the OpenDyslexic Font, a font designed to help people with dyslexia. Once installed, there is a switch to turn it off or on. In my testing it…

Find a website’s RSS feed easily with the blog-feed-finder WordPress widget

Find a website’s RSS feed easily with the blog-feed-finder WordPress widget

Find a website’s RSS feed easily with the blog-feed-finder WordPress widget. Source: GitHub – oeru/blog-feed-finder: A WordPress widget that helps a user enter a valid URL for their personal blog feed. Via: http://cogdogblog.com/2018/06/better-magic-box/ I may have mentioned RSS at one time or another. It’s the glue that is still around, and used by a majority…

How to use the calculator, graphing calculator, and geometry calculator built in to Google

How to use the calculator, graphing calculator, and geometry calculator built in to Google

How to use the calculator built in to Google. This may be an old trick, but it’s still very useful. When performing a Google search, you can instead type a problem to solve, such as 23*21 like in the example pic above. Google will then switch to calculator mode and show you the answer. You…

Add a background to screenshots with Screely

Add a background to screenshots with Screely

Source: Screely – Generate Beautiful Images When using the built in screenshot tool in macOS, a drop shadow is automatically added. This makes the screenshots look really good. But, when you’re on a different operating system, your screenshots don’t look nearly as good. Screely is a free website that allows you to add drop shadow, background, fake…

Why you want to customize your computer

Why you want to customize your computer

Increasingly, though, I am uncomfortable with the distinction we casually make between “pro” users and “regular” users. I don’t think these sorts of utilities are useful just for computer nerds. (There’s another category we should leave behind us.) I think they’re useful for everybody. Put another way: we’re all “pro” users.   I want to…