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Thoughts on Swift Playgrounds — Fraser Speirs

Byryan June 21, 2016June 19, 2016

The other thing that is not entirely obvious is that Playgrounds has full access to the entire iOS API. This means that there is effectively no limit on the complexity of Playground that you can build. You can use APIs like Core Location, WebKit, MapKit, Core Motion, Networking and Core Bluetooth. One of the demos given in the session on Playgrounds was of Playground Swift code controlling a Sphero robot over Bluetooth. I already did the standard daft Browser-in-five-lines-of-code trick that we used to do on the Mac.

Source: Thoughts on Swift Playgrounds — Fraser Speirs

Although Swift Playgrounds is limited to the iPads, Fraser’s in depth review of Playgrounds shows that Playgrounds is pretty powerful, and is probably a no-brainer to roll out in schools that have iPads.

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Two column layout in Google Docs

Byryan August 31, 2016August 31, 2016

There are always layout issues in Google Docs which Google Docs can’t do… Yet. But there are sometimes ways to hack it to do what you want. One of those is two column layouts. Google Docs doesn’t have it as an option, but you can hack it with a table. To set up two columns,…

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Chrome allows you to link to and highlight text on a web page, no extension required!

Byryan June 23, 2020June 23, 2020

In version 80 of Chrome, Google added an extension to the URL standard that it hopes will be accepted and supported in other browsers. Google calls the standard text fragments. Text fragments are links that contain not only the location of the document, but what text to link to in the document and highlight. Here…

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ⓔ Adding multiple entries returned in a Google Form

Byryan April 7, 2016

I’ve been playing around with gamifying my classroom this semester. After looking at Classcraft I decided I wanted something a little simpler, so I put together a Google Sheet to keep track of XP, AP, and HP. The problem came when I needed to add or subtract a stat from a student. Entering the data…

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It’s not the tool, it’s what you do with the tool

Byryan June 17, 2014January 3, 2015

I like toys. Especially tech toys. I don’t think there is anything wrong with that, as long I keep the toys in check. Not everything needs a technological solution, and even when it does, there are always multiple ways of solving the problem. What is really interesting is seeing what others do with technology. A…

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Two settings I change first when using Google Chrome

Byryan March 18, 2023March 18, 2023

There are two settings I change when I start up Chrome for the first time. Here’s a YouTube Short showing the settings: Turn on sync By signing in to Google Chrome and turning on sync, all of my bookmarks, extensions, passwords, and more sync. This allows me to use my laptop, my desktop, or a…

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