Chrome Extensions
Installing Chrome Extensions |
Managing Chrome Extensions |
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Efficiency Extensions (and Bookmarks)
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goo.gl URL Shortener | Shorten URLs and create QR codes with goo.gl URL shortener |
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Google Mail Checker | Displays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox. You can also click the button to open your inbox. |
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Tab Scissors | This extension splits a window into two at the selected tab. |
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Tab Resize | Split Screen made easy. Resize the CURRENT tab and tabs to the RIGHT into layouts on separate windows. |
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Alice Keeler Gradebook Split | When grading digital work, use this extension to bring up your web-based gradebook side by side with the students work. (You can program any URL page to come up.) |
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Black Menu for Google | The easiest access to the Google universe |
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Save to Drive | Save images of entire webpages to your Google Drive |
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Stay Focusd | StayFocusd increases your productivity by limiting the amount of time that you can spend on time-wasting websites. |
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Google Tone | Broadcast any URL to computers within earshot. |
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Chirp | Send text, pictures or links from Chrome to Chirp app! |
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Simple Extension Manager | A simple menu to enable, disable and access options of extensions. |
Security Extensions
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LastPass | A simple menu to enable, disable and access options of extensions. |
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AdBlock | The #1 ad blocker with over 200 million downloads. Blocks YouTube, Facebook and ALL ads by default (unlike Adblock Plus). |
Writing & Research Extensions
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Grammarly | Spell check and grammar check your writing when communicating online. Boost your productivity and credibility everywhere you write! |
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Clearly | Clearly makes blog posts, articles and webpages clean and easy to read. Save them to Evernote to read anywhere. |
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Read & Write for Google | Boost reading and writing confidence. Offer support for Google Docs/web to students with learning difficulties, dyslexia or ELL/ESL. (Read aloud is free; more features, such as highlighting, for $$) |
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Diigolet | A social bookmarking website which allows signed-up users to bookmark and tag web-pages. Additionally, it allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. (Bookmark) |
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ImagineEasy Scholar Annotation | The companion annotation tool to the Imagine Easy Scholar platform ($4/student). It’s an investment, but I recommend all they have to offer. |
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EasyBib Tools | Cite web sites with one click using the EasyBib Toolbar and receive advice on the credibility of the web site you’re citing. |
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Blendspace | Curate your digital content into one place with a bookmark and drag & drop format (Bookmark) |
Multimedia Extensions
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Awesome Screenshot | Screen capture for all or part of any web page. Add annotations, comments, blur sensitive info, and share with one-click uploads. |
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Screencastify | Screencastify is a simple video screen capture software for Chrome. |
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Turn Off the Lights | The entire page will be fading to dark, so you can watch the videos as if you were in the cinema. |
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Quietube | Video without the distractions. Drag the bookmark to your toolbar. That easy. |
Fun Extensions
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Noisli | Improve your focus and boost your productivity. Block out annoying noises and create the right environment for working or relaxing. |
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Google Art Project | Art Project masterpieces from Google Cultural Institute in your browser tabs |
June 2, 2021 at 3:36 am
Ah Google Chrome, the amazinlg useful (for Google) spy tool that allows browser applications to run in the background when the browser is CLOSED and this is the DEFAULT setting.
Harold Burton
June 17, 2021 at 12:50 pm
I don’t know if you noticed that, but Hover Zoom is not a good friend for youtuber. Why?. Well, if you mouseover the thumbnails that appear as soon as a video ends, Hover Zoom will not open the thumbnail picture, it will open the VIDEO (with sound included)!! so you don’t need to enter each one of the 9 suggested videos, you can watch them right there though. Thanks & greets from Argentina (Hope it is from England someday) Marcelo.
Ashley Jones
July 5, 2021 at 3:55 pm
My favorite Chrome extension is unpinterested! When searching Google for images, I don’t want to see Pinterest images. If I wanted to see Pinterest images, I would search Pinterest. An added bonus is when searching Google for ANYTHING, the results don’t include Pinterest.
Joseph Donahue
August 19, 2021 at 11:43 am
“An impressive share! I have just forwarded this onto a coworker who had been doing a little
homework on this. And he actually ordered me dinner simply because
I found it for him… lol. So allow me to reword this….
Thank YOU for the meal!! But yeah, thanks for spending some time to discuss
this topic here on your blog.”
Regards: Dream market
September 3, 2021 at 6:36 am
Its great to see that you not only recovered your investment but made a decent sum out of it. Also, well said about the Chrome extension for the “Gardening Niche” Its all about creativity. I too hope to plan my projects for long haul just as yours instead of mulling over short term chases. Thanks again.
Kelly Hubbard
November 10, 2021 at 9:49 am
Another great extension is ‘Search Google for Image’. Right clicking the image above gives links that tell us it is some sort of speaker that bombards a microprocessor with sound waves that force it to accept commands. The heading for the article is ‘It’s Possible to Hack a Phone with Sound Waves’. I’d love it to have been a USB microscope though, but I suspect they are out there.
Holly Hooper
June 30, 2022 at 4:39 am
I love chrome extensions. They make life easy. I use Instagram extensions to improve my uploads.
Mira Nair
December 19, 2022 at 7:12 am
As always, a very useful and entertaining video. Nice job! I can’t remember if you’ve ever talked about whether there are any extensions that will darken the text on webpages. A lot of them have text that is a light gray instead of black, and with my poor vision I have trouble reading them.
Paul Brown