Now here’s something I just learned. After highlighting words on a web page, you can drag the highlighted words to the tab bar and Chrome will perform a Google search. The same thing happens when you drag the highlighted words to the url bar.
This requires a little more effort than right-clicking on the highlighted words and selecting Search Google for … but options are always good!
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Image Blur is a web tool that allows you to blur sensitive information on pictures. Source: Image Blur – Hide your important data. A lot of the screenshot tools have the ability to blur out information, but it’s always good to have a web app available for those times when you need to redact data…
Source: Ghostery – Privacy Ad Blocker – Chrome Web Store The tracking of you across the web is getting worse, but there are extensions that can help you with that. Ghostery is one such add-on for Google Chrome. Once installed, it goes to work. As I was testing Ghostery, I came across sites that had 20-30…
Source: The Final Earth 2 by Florian van Strien The Final Earth 2 is a futuristic colony management game. The earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Make your city grow from a single exploration ship to a huge…
Brick Block is a design experiment where you are given a city block, and you can build your own building. Left click builds, right click destroys. Clicking and dragging on the base allows you to rotate your creation. It’s fun to play with in a Minecraft sort of way, although it is very limiting compared to…
Conserve the sound« is an online museum for vanishing and endangered sounds. The sound of a dial telephone, a walkman, a analog typewriter, a pay phone, a 56k modem, a nuclear power plant or even a cell phone keypad are partially already gone or are about to disappear from our daily life. Accompanying the archive…