“Notes for Google Drive” is a “must have” Chromium-based (Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, etc…) browser extension that allows you to quickly (and easily) create notes that automatically are saved to your Google Drive account.
Source: Google Chrome Store – Notes for Google Drive
It will provide you with a safe and fast browsing experience blocking malicious websites while filtering out unwanted content potentially giving you webpage load times up to 3x faster. Along with faster load times, it will also attempt to identify and block previously-unidentified those annoying fake tech support scams as well as killing pop-ups, browser hijackers and browser lockers.
UV Weather is a Google Chrome extension that runs on all major desktop platforms…
Source: UV Weather
Feedbro is a Fast & FREE RSS feed reader that works as a browser extension for Chrome, Vivaldi, Edge, Brave and Firefox for reading blogs, news or any RSS, Atom or RDF based feed.
Source: Nodetics – Feedbro
Fireshot is my favorite screenshot utility that I currently use in Google Chrome, Vivaldi and Microsoft Edge. Basically, if the browser you use is “Chromium-based” Fireshot can be installed. There is a FREE version of Fireshot and a commerical version.
Gmail Web Clipper is an excellent Chrome-based browser extension and Gmail add-on that gives you the ability to quickly and seamlessly save web content to your Gmail. I currently use one of my Gmail accounts solely as a notebook (see article here) and Gmail Web Clipper just made my Gmail notebook all that more powerful…
Source: cloudHQ – Gmail Web Clipper
Google introduced Text Fragment, which is supported on Chromium-based browsers starting with version 80. Put simply, the feature makes it possible to link to specific text on a web page rather than the web page itself, bringing users directly to the relevant part of the article.
I use Google Drawings quite a bit for amateur graphic design and have found it quite capable; however, one aspect I find missing in Google Drawings is a color picker eyedropper. As a result, what I did was install a Chromium based browser extension (that will work on Chrome, Edge, Vivaldi, etc..) that gets the job done, called ColorPick Eyedropper.
ColorPick Eyedropper is described as a zoomed eyedropper & color chooser tool that allows you to select color values from web pages and more. If you do any type of graphic design on the computer you already know what this type of tool does. One thing to point out is that the tool is FREE; but, after saving 50 color choices, it may prompt you to contribute. You can get around that by clearing the history. Overall, excellent job by the developer on this tool and has met my needs when working in Google Drawings.
Source: Google Chrome Store – ColorPick Eyedropper
The list of Chrome Extensions you see on the Laptop Mags list will also work with Microsoft Edge, Vivaldi, and other Chromium based web browsers. Several on this list I already have installed and will be looking at some of the others.
There are many options to store your bookmarks; but, Raindrop.io has to be best. Here at “What’s On My PC” I have been focused on finding something to store collections of things I am specifically focused on. For example, I may be looking at a collection of Android apps to post about on the blog. Typically, I could create a folder in my bookmark manager, label it Android apps, and just bookmark it; BUT, I wanted something that had a more modern visual appeal to it that would allow me to customize it to my liking.
I think I found what I have been looking for with Raindrop.io… It allows me to store my regular bookmarks; has the option to create collections; has modern visual features; has mobile platform options; has browser extensions; and, it allows me to customize the appearance. What more could I want?
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I have been in a mode looking at web apps (with mobile sharing support) that will allow me to create collections of things (from the web). For example, I visit Amazon a lot looking for tech products, and often focus on specific items. As a result, I needed a means to collect what I am specifically looking for into specific collections, categories or titles. There are many applications out there to do this, BUT it dawned on me there is one app that can do this easily (with its’ excellent web browser extension and mobile app support) and it is Flipboard.
Flipboard has been around awhile and is probably one of the most attractive, and most popular applications out there. It is typically used by people as a news app where the news topics are created into a magazine like interface. As a matter of fact, each news topic is created in a magazine (or category) of its’ own that you can add to. The one feature that dawned on me is that you can create your own magazines (or topics or categories). For example, I was looking for hiking boots. I created a magazine called hiking boots and when I came across something of interest (using the Flipboard browser extension) I would add that interest to the hiking boots magazine (or category). I can add my own description or note and even share the magazine publicly (or just keep it private). What is really cool about this is that once you do this, the end result of your findings is presented in a really beautiful type of interface, like what you would actually see in a magazine. The biggest problem I ran into, after saving stuff to Flipboard, was finding where Flipboard was saving “my stuff” or my magazines. To get to “your stuff”, look under your profile where “your stuff” or magazines are presented in a very nice interface.
In summary, with Flipboard you can:
Source: Flipboard
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I encourage you to take a look at Wakelet, which is an online FREE service that is an amazing way to bookmark, organize and curate content from across the web and use it to create beautiful, informative and engaging collections. What sold me on Wakelet is that I can create collections that can be easily managed, annotated, shared, etc… I can see this service being very useful for educators. For example, when I am looking for content to post on the blog, I use Wakelet to save my findings in a collection for future reference.
Once you sign up for Wakelet, I suggest installing the available browser extension and mobile app to enhance your use of Wakelet…
Wakelet Browser Extension
Save links, articles, videos, tweets and more with two clicks. Organize content without leaving your browser tab. Available for Chromium based browsers, Microsoft Edge, and Firefox…
Wakelet Mobile App
Use Wakelet whenever you like, wherever you are with our mobile app. Discover personalized content from around the world. Available at the Apple App Store and Google Play Store (for Android).
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If you are like me, I am often looking up the meaning of words or to check a word for the correct spelling. If you are like me, then check out the (recently updated) “Google Dictionary” browser extension for Chromium based browsers (such as Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, etc…).
Once the extension is installed you will be able to double mouse click on a word and the definition of that word will pop up or you can click on the extension’s toolbar icon to look up a word (for the definition and spelling).
This is one of those extensions, if you do a lot of writing, that is a must-have…
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