If you do a certain kind of internet search over and over again, customizing your search engines in Chrome can make that much easier. For me, obviously, it’s searching The Verge, but I also have custom engines set up for YouTube, Amazon, news from the past week, and a few more things. So, for example, when…
The Google Keep extension for Google Chrome provides one click saving for websites, links, and text. Once installed, the Google Keep Chrome Extension adds a Google Keep icon to your tool bar, . It’s dark when it hasn’t been used, but when you visit a web page that you have already saved, it turns yellow: . To use the extension, visit…
Once installed Peek-a-tab gives you fast and easy access to every open tab in Google Chrome. You can invoke Peek-a-tab from the toolbar icon or from they keyboard. Once it’s activated, it gives you a list of your tabs in all of your open windows. That’s pretty cool, but Peek-a-tab takes it a step farther and let’s you immediately start searching…
The latest update to Google Chrome on iOS has added a QR code reader. Instead of downloading auxiliary apps to read a QR code, Google Chrome can now read it directly. To make it handier for users, the QR code reading function is accessible from a 3D touch, or by using spotlight and search for qr…
Tab-resize quickly splits Google Chrome into the number of windows you specify. Once installed, it adds a button to your toolbar which lets you use the extension. Clicking on it gives you several default layouts that you can use. The extension also supports multiple monitors. You probably already have a way to snap windows through…
There are a couple of reasons why you may want to save tabs in Google Chrome. One would be if you wanted to share a list of websites with students. These two extensions will give you a list of open tabs which includes the page title and web address. Another reason would be to save…
It is becoming more and more common for someone to have multiple Google accounts. You have your personal Gmail account. Then you have your school Google Apps for Education account. Then you also have that Google account for the club/sport/organization you help run. As a Google Education Trainer, I have lost count of how many accounts…