Every once in awhile, you want to download your Google Slides presentation as a series of images. Unfortunately, Google doesn’t offer a way to do this. Well, you could download each slide individually, but I thought computers were supposed to make life easier! I know that Microsoft PowerPoint can do the conversion, but I wanted…
All of the major operating systems support multiple users (even the iPad is getting it), which allows each user of a machine to have their own settings, wallpaper, bookmarks, etc. Usually, you have one log in and that is it, but I’ve been experimenting with having two logins, and switching between them depending on the task. I…
Twitter chats can get very confusing, especially the ordering of messages. I always though Twitter chats were tedious to read since the newest chats were always at the top, so to read, you start at the bottom tweet, read left to right and down, and then have to jump up to the next tweet and…
One of the first extension I install in a fresh install of Chrome is Create Link (which was inspired by Make Link that does the same thing with Firefox.) Create Link adds a button to your toolbar which lets you copy the URL, title, and/or selected text of the current page to the clipboard. What makes Create Link shine is the…
UPDATE October 2020 – Google Sheets now has a randomize range option. I’ve also created a video demonstrating the randomize range option. Use the randomize range option With the randomize range option, it’s a piece of cake to randomize a list of students. Let’s say you have a list of students: To randomize the range,…
I’ve been using Spark by Readdle as my default email client on my iPhone for a few weeks now, and it’s currently my favorite (previously it was Outlook :-). Spark has two features that I really like: smart notifications and quick replies. Smart notifications are used by Spark to only notify you of important emails. It does…
One of my complaints with my new and improved Macbook Pro was battery life. As I’ve been investigating what I can do to help improve my time on battery, I’ve come up with two different approaches. One is a no brainer, dim the screen. The other is more painful. Switching to Safari. I’ve notice that Google Chrome…
In the menu bar under OS X you may have a bunch of icons on the right side, each one with a different function or representing a different app. When you click on them, they usually give you quick access to some feature. For example, the sound icon lets you adjust the volume. A neat…
I use conditional formatting for individual cells quite a bit. What’s nice is that conditional formatting can also highlight rows in Google Sheets, which is very possible! Some ways this is useful is when you are analyzing student scores. You can mark rows where the student is proficient in green, where the student is borderline…
Last night, as I was procrastinating working on a lesson for today, I came across Slides.com. As always, I get bored with my current presentation software of choice (currently either Google Slides or Keynote) so it was neat to play around with something new. Slides.com works pretty much as you would expect, and the editor is…