With the WebRTC Desktop Sharing extension installed in Chrome, you can share your desktop with other Chrome browsers with just a link. Once the extension is installed, you can click on the icon it places in your toolbar to start sharing your screen. You will need some way to get the link to your students….
One complaint I hear about Google Docs is the difficulty in adding clipart to a document. Well, Openclipart to the rescue! This add on for Google Docs adds a sidebar to search clipart. To get the add-on, open a Google Doc and click on Add-ons -> Get Add-ons: In the search box, type openclipart: Then click on the…
Google has made it easier to start Chrome applications using the program launcher for the host operating system (Start Menu under Windows or on the OS X dock), but it feels cumbersome. That’s whereAppJump comes in. With AppJump, you can quickly access Chrome applications from the toolbar, without leaving Chrome. It also has the capability to…
There seems to be as many online text editors as there are stars in the sky, which can be helpful or a curse. Each has their strengths and weaknesses. Hemingway Editor strives to help you become a better writer. You can either write into the editor or copy and paste from another document. The Hemingway Editor…
From the “I didn’t know this would be so nice department” comes the humble clipboard manager. Most of the time the clipboard does it’s thing, copy/cut and then paste, and we are happy. But, what if I told you it can do more? Such as remember past items so you can reuse them again? That’s…
Yesterday I posted about using Pushbullet to send links, pictures, text and other data between your devices. It works really well, with only one fault. All your devices need to be logged into the same Google or Facebook account. This means it’s difficult to copy between a personal device and a work device, or a…
I started getting into Internet Relay Chat (IRC) about 2 years ago. IRC is a distributed communication platform that started in the late ’80s, but is beginning to see quite a resurgence. There are elements of IRC in massive usage today, most notably, the use of hashtags in Twitter. Some companies that are offering services…