Have you ever needed to quickly arrange windows on your Mac to allow side by side comparisons? Now you can without all that hassle of dragging. Spectacle is an app that allows you to quickly and easily re-organise windows to match your workflow. Two clicks or a keyboard shortcut is all you need if you… Continue reading #176 Spectacle app: Snapping for OS X
When you take a screenshot of a webpage, do you sometimes think that it would be great to be able to annotate it before you email it to a colleague? Well you can with Diigo! You can even add comments and share those comments with colleagues or specific groups. Watch this video to show you how… Featured image: “Highlights”… Continue reading #140 Diigo: Annotating webpages to share
Last month, we introduced you to Padlet. Today, I will show you a very quick and easy way to collect and curate web links into your online pin board. Firstly, you need to download the Padlet Mini Google Chrome extension. Once you’ve logged in to Padlet, you can easily start pinning links to your board… Continue reading #71 Using the Padlet Google Chrome extension to quickly save web links
I recently stumbled across Screencastify when I was considering whether or not to buy a Chromebook. And even though I’m still not sure about my purchase, I couldn’t be happier that I have found this nifty little extension that I can use in my Google Chrome browser to record my screen. I can save directly… Continue reading #62 Screencastify: Easily record your screen using Google Chrome
With a Pocket account…(create one here)…you can quickly save web links for later and tag them. Using the Pocket browser extension. These can then sync across all your devices. Pocket can save you having lots of tabs open and allow you to quickly save and organise links for later use. Putting the browser extension into your… Continue reading #12 Save for later…put it in your Pocket
The Chrome browser has a web-store allowing you to install useful extensions that can help make web tasks easier. In this example we show Pocket which we use in a later tip for quickly saving useful web links in lists to return to later. Useful for research without you losing your train of thought when… Continue reading #11 Adding useful extensions to Chrome
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