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

Byryan July 24, 2018July 19, 2018

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 of websites available today. As a teacher, if you have your students creating websites, it is nice to be able to easily subscribe to follow the website. But, finding the link to the RSS feed can sometimes be burdensome. Enter the blog-feed-finder widget for WordPress.

Once installed on your WordPress site, you or your students can enter a website address into the widget to find the RSS feed.

If you don’t use WordPress or can’t install the widget, you can use the widhet on the website Blog Feed Finder.

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Help your students evaluate internet resources with the Britannica Insights Chrome extension

Byryan June 8, 2018June 8, 2018

Help your students evaluate internet resources with the Britannica Insights Chrome extension. Source: Britannica Insights – Chrome Web Store The Britannica Insights extends the Google search results with an additional panel of information that links to the Encyclopedia Britannica. Google has already been doing this with Wikipedia links. The extension doesn’t show for all search results. For example,…

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Gifntext can easily add text to an animated gif

Byryan August 31, 2018August 31, 2018

Gifntext can easily add text to an animated gif. After you upload an animated gif or load an animated gif by URL, Gifntext gets started with showing you the tools you can use and help on how to do certain tasks. Gifntext doesn’t look like much, but it is a pretty powerful tool for adding to animated gifs. And…

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New options for Microsoft’s online multiemedia tool Sway—recording, autoplay and more

Byryan April 24, 2017April 26, 2017

Over the last few months, we’ve been on the ground asking users what features they would like to see in the Sway app. We heard all the ways you use Sway in your personal, school and work lives, and listened to tons of great recommendations on how we could make these experiences even better. As…

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Ancient Earth globe is a Google Earth but for going back millions of years

Byryan June 30, 2018June 30, 2018

Ancient Earth globe is a Google Earth but for going back millions of years Source: Ancient Earth This is a very cool tool for studying the past geology of the Earth. One of the most interesting features is the ability to enter an address and have Ancient Earth locate where that address would be on…

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Another option to quiet Youtube – DF Tube, Distraction Free for YouTube

Byryan February 21, 2019

Another option to quiet Youtube – DF Tube, Distraction Free for YouTube. Source: DF Tube (Distraction Free for YouTube™) – Chrome Web Store There are several ways to cut out all of the extra cruft that YouTube puts up, and here is another. Once installed, DF Tube is a Chrome extension that gives you the ability to…

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Mash up emojis with Emoji kitchen

Byryan July 6, 2021June 29, 2021

— Read on emoji.kitchen Mash up two emojis to create your own emoji with emoji.kitchen. There is a random button to randomly pick two emojis, or you can click on each emoji to select one. Once your mashup is complete, you can download the graphic or share it directly from the website.

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