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Quick and dirty spreadsheets with TinySheet

Byryan November 10, 2021November 10, 2021

There are times you need Excel, and then there are times you just want to do some quick calculations. Tinysheet is a great app for the latter.

With Tinysheet you get 2 columns and 10 rows in the spreadsheet which are not resizable. The site works very much like a spreadsheet, allowing you to do some basic calculations on your data. When you’re done, you can share the sheet with others via a link, embed code, or on Twitter.

Tinysheet is also a nice way to introduce spreadsheets to students without all of the bells and whistles available in Excel or Google Sheets.

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Drag words to the address bar or new tab button to perform a Google search

Byryan June 12, 2018June 12, 2018

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…

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Saving and sharing your bookmarks with Delicious

Byryan January 31, 2016January 31, 2016

I guess I’m pretty old school when it comes to bookmarks. Although I still use browser bookmarks, I also use Delicious to store my bookmarks. Delicious is an online service that allows you to quickly save your bookmarks. But if that’s all it did, it would be pretty lame. It also lets you tag your…

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Instead of wirelessly projecting your mobile device, use Chrome Remote Desktop to control your computer

Byryan September 19, 2019September 18, 2019

Source: Chrome Remote Desktop Hat tip to Lance Yoder over at Edgaged.net for this tip. In his district, instead of trying to wirelessly display a mobile teacher device, he flipped it. Instead, the teacher uses Chrome Remote Desktop to control a PC hooked up to the TV. This set up bypasses most of the issues…

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Google, Microsoft, and Cisco are making their full conferencing tools free because of the coronavirus

Byryan March 4, 2020March 4, 2020

With the rise of quarantines and travel restrictions, several companies are offering their video conferencing tools for free for a few months. This could come in handy for schools looking at alternatives to Blizzard bags, which used in locations with a lot of snow for days schools are closed. I don’t know what you use…

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Beautiful Editor is almost Audacity for Chromebooks

Byryan February 22, 2019February 22, 2019

Beautiful Editor is almost Audacity for Chromebooks. Source: Beautiful Audio Editor I hope you like green gradients, because Beautiful Audio Editor is a full feature audio editor that runs in the browser. Students can record directly in to the editor, copy/paste or duplicate audio. Final projects can be exported as mp3 and wav. There is a browser limitation…

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Send the current page in Chrome with email by using the Send from Gmail Chrome Extension

Byryan October 23, 2017October 25, 2017

Source: Send from Gmail (by Google) – Chrome Web Store Once installed, the Send from Gmail Chrome Extension lets you quickly send a link to the current page with Gmail. Simply click on the button in the toolbar and a new email window will pop up allowing you to customize the email message before sending. There…

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