Google:
Tips Tricks and Hacks
Gmail
Log out of your account EVERYWHERE
- Log into your Gmail account
- Scroll to the bottom of the page
- Click on "Details"
- Click the "Sign out all other web sessions" button
- Close the dialog box
Disguise your email address
Why:
Numerous sites off free downloads of various things like eBooks in order to collect your email address. This is perfectly fine but the emails you receive can get out of control over time.
Solution:
When you submit your email address on the site in question do so with the following protocol:
gmail name + a plus sign (+) + a code word of your choice + @gmail.com
the codeword can be anything you want I usually use something related to the focus of the site.
Example:
If my email address is polsp@gmail.com and I am sumbitting to a site that give me free "classroom"tips I would submit:
Result
Once you do this any email form this source will come to you with this address in the "To" heading. You can then create a filter to treat the email as you like.
Make sure you enable "undo"
Chrome
Chrome can be used as a media player
Simply drag your media to the chrome browser. Works great with the "casting " feature.
Some irresistible yet useless information about Google Chrome
chrome://network-error/-106
Copy and past the link above. this loads a sill game. Hit the spacebar to begin and use your up arrows to jump over the obstacles.
Try Developing Chrome Apps and Extensions
The Chrome Task Manager
More Tools> Task Manager
This can help you to close out cached items that could be slowing down your Chromebook
View youTube "Distraction Free" with the DFYouTube extension.
You can log into multiple accounts in Chrome...and on Chromebooks
Google Drive
Altering urls to control document sharing
Start with a shared document of some kind. The url will have the word "edit" at the end.
Force a copy /copy
Replace the word "edit" with the word "copy"
You can use this extension to do the Same thing: Force Copy
Force save as a PDF - /export?format=pdf
Replace the word "edit" with export?format=pdf
Set an expiration date for a shared file or folder
First share a document or folder
Go back to the share settings and click "advanced"
Hover over the name of the person you have shared with.
Click on the clock
Reuse Google form questions with Form Recycler
Using Google Drive's Search with images
Google drive can search images that contain text and match the test to your search.
Google can recognize an image
OCR recognition - Open a PDF for editing
From google Drive: Right-click select "Open with Google Docs"
This also works with image files that contain text