Are you curious about Linux but don’t want to mess up your computer to learn more? What about your students? DistroTest.net allows you to test over 200 Linux distributions with only your browser. What is Linux? Linux is an operating system like Microsoft Windows and macOS. It’s the most used operating system in the world,…
Source: Carrd – Simple, free, fully responsive one-page sites for pretty much anything Carrd is a web application that you can use to create one page websites. Scenarios for classroom use include resume pages and getting to know you activities. The free account lets you set up sites at a subdomain of carrd.co, such as…
I don’t really know if hover cards are something I really need. But, since I’m a user that usually has so many tabs open that each tab is reduced to its favicon, I’m willing to give hover cards a shot. Once enabled, mousing over a tab will show the page title and site domain name….
Source: Wolfram|Alpha (Official) – Chrome Web Store Wolfram | Alpha‘s tagline is computational intelligence. When you perform a query or calculation on Wolfram | Alpha, it works a little like Google. Wolfram | Alpha will find the solution to your problem. With the Wolfram|Alpha extension, you can perform these searches by clicking on the extension…
Google Chrome has a hidden feature tucked away inside Developer Tools that lets you take full-sized screenshots of any web page. This feature captures the entirety of a page, similar to a scrolling screenshot, without the use of a third-party extension. Source: How to Take Full Page Screenshots in Google Chrome Without Using an Extension…
Google continuously iterates versions of Google Docs, but as it does, there are sometimes parts of Google Docs that aren’t update. The appearance of adding links in Google Docs hasn’t been updated with the rest of the app, but this is now changed. Although it is strictly a cosmetic change, it does help students use…
Source: uCalc is a universal builder of calculators and forms The free version of uCalc allows you to create up to 3 different forms or calculators. The forms can be used collect information, or, in combination of the calculator, can collect information that is calculated based on what the user entered. The forms part of…
Soundtrap, a music-editing software company owned by Spotify, is launching a new product today that’s specifically designed to make podcast editing easier. The new product, called Soundtrap for Storytellers, is a full, web-based podcast production tool that allows users to record, edit, and master their audio. Its most impressive feature is how simple it’s supposed to…
One of the greatest productivity tools that I use is a clipboard manager. A clipboard manager is a piece of software that allows you to store multiple items in your clipboard at once. Each manager gives you options on how long to keep items and what to do with items such as passwords. With the…