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…
Source: Extensity – Chrome Web Store There are times when you want to quickly disable or enable an extension, without going through the process of opening the extensions tab. Extensity adds an icon to your toolbar to quickly enable or disable an extension. After clicking on the icon, all of your extensions are shown. Disabled…
Source: TooManyTabs for Chrome – Chrome Web Store Another day, and another way to manage Tabs in the Chrome browser. I’ve mentioned several tab managers in the past, and here’s another one. I currently don’t use a tab manager, except for relying on the built in capabilities of the browser. Vivaldi is nice in that…
Google announced at ISTE 2019 the release of the Chromebook App Hub, a collection of web apps and ideas for teachers and students to use. Although it is called the CHROMEBOOK App Hub, most of the ideas and web apps work on any browser, so feel free to browse even if you are not a…
I don’t really know if hover cards are something I really need. But, since I’m a user that usually has so many tabs open that each tab is reduced to its favicon, I’m willing to give hover cards a shot. Once enabled, mousing over a tab will show the page title and site domain name….
Google Chrome has a hidden feature tucked away inside Developer Tools that lets you take full-sized screenshots of any web page. This feature captures the entirety of a page, similar to a scrolling screenshot, without the use of a third-party extension. Source: How to Take Full Page Screenshots in Google Chrome Without Using an Extension…
One of the greatest productivity tools that I use is a clipboard manager. A clipboard manager is a piece of software that allows you to store multiple items in your clipboard at once. Each manager gives you options on how long to keep items and what to do with items such as passwords. With the…
This add-on lets you instantly convert every math equation in your document into beautiful latex images! This add-on lets you automatically convert every LaTeX equation in your document into beautiful images! Simply enclose your math equations within $$ … $$ and click the button in the sidebar, and all of your equations will be rendered…
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…
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…