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"My series on Chrome Extensions for Teachers. The Chrome web store has  apps and it has extensions. Extensions are add on's that that increase your functionality in the Google Chrome browser." This is the search of Alice's blog on Chrome Extensions which contains links to all of her posts on extensions.

"This app uses the new built in speech feature in chrome 11+ to create a useful powerful tool to use voice to do the normal typing jobs . The app is essentially an in the browser speech recognizer using which you can dictate sentences , edit the output and add them together to form paragraphs. This app is best used along with Voice In chrome extension [ also developed by me ]. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gjkogfbjkfchelfjonefnnenhfgglpnn Please Note : Speech Recognition is a statistical model . You cant expect a 100% accuracy rate . But not to worry recognition is rate is good enough to use :) I'd appreciate if you'd rate it with ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ and tell your friends! :-) "

Google Chrome is such a great resource for students. First things first, the browser allows users to sign in to Chrome anywhere and bring up bookmarks, history, and settings, an incredible feature for students on-the-go who are using multiple computers. In addition to this useful feature are a wealth of awesome extensions that students can use to save time and concentrate their efforts. We've found 21 time-saving Chrome extensions that students can put to use, from note-taking apps to books, citations, and reminders.

"Anyone who says you can't get real work done on a Web browser-or in a browser-based operating system, for that matter-hasn't seen some of the latest Chrome apps. Rising above glorified bookmarks, the cream of Google's Chrome Web Store can stand toe-to-toe with desktop software. More are offering offline functionality, too. Coming soon: 'packaged apps' that look and act more like traditional software."

"September 27, 2014 Projecting your iPad on a large screen is great for demonstrations, simulations, explanations, and showing examples. There are several ways this can be done in the classroom.  VGA or HDMI Adapter Connect directly from your device to a projector's video cable. Click to find out which of the four possible adapters is the one you need. Document Camera Put your device under a camera connected to a projector. Glare may be a problem. Your audience can see your fingers.. Search Amazon for document cameras. Apple TV Connect an Apple TV to your projector and use your device's AirPlay feature to mirror the screen. Apple TV is available from Amazon.com. AirServer Install software on your projector-connected computer and use device's AirPlay feature to mirror the screen. Get AirServer at airserver.com. Annotate.net Install software on your projector-connected computer and use device's AirPlay feature to mirror the screen. Download the Annotate Mirror Client.  Mirroring360 Install software on your projector-connected computer and use device's AirPlay feature to mirror the screen. Download Mirroring360. Reflector Install software on your projector-connected computer and use device's AirPlay feature to mirror the screen. Get Reflector at reflectorapp.com. X-Mirage Install software on your projector-connected computer and use device's AirPlay feature to mirror the screen. Get X-Mirage. iTools Install software on your projector-connected computer and attach device using its USB cable and choose Live Desktop. Macs can wirelessly mirror to iTools. It's beta software with no documentation and can be buggy. English version currently not available. OS X 10.10 Yosemite Update to OS X Yosemite on your projector-connected Mac and attach device using its Lightning cable. Open QuckTime & choose iPad as the camera source.  If you don't mind keeping your iPad in one spot, then a VGA adapter (for 30-pin Dock connector or for the new Lightning

"Line up your phones and tablets to create a race track across up to five screens. No apps. No downloads. Just start a race, sync up and tap your screens to rev your engines. Multiplayer games for the mobile browser are here. RACER IS A MOBILE CHROME EXPERIMENT. TEST DRIVE IT IN A CHROME MOBILE BROWSER AT G.CO/RACER"

"Later this week I am going to be a virtual guest in a class at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. The topic I've been invited to speak about is using Google Chrome extensions and apps in education. In preparation for my virtual visit I've created this list of some of my favorite apps and extensions."

"Lately we've been hearing from more and more folks about how they're using Chromebooks, especially from classroom teachers, where there has been a rapidly growing movement towards using Google Apps for Education. It's no big surprise then that we've received quite a few requests to bring TechSmith's products to the Chrome platform, and it's our pleasure to announce that this is exactly what we're doing, with TechSmith Snagit for Chrome!"

"Gliffy Diagrams is a Google Chrome app that makes the process of creating all such diagrams a lot easier. You can not only create a vast range of diagram types, but also modify them in plenty of ways, save the output as image files, and even export it to Google Docs, presentations, or web pages."

I wonder what the potential is for Google Apps to take Google Apps For Education to the next level? Looks interesting.

A great chrome web app. Easy mind mapping tool that allows you to save to the cloud using google account. Available on Android too. Worth a look if your school has Chrome installed.

"Making a Chrome App and an Extension is actually a fairly simple task. All you have to know is a few required fields and the JSON syntax."

"I'm willing to bet almost everyone using a Google Apps for Business (e.g user@company.com) or Google Apps for Education account (e.g user@school.edu), also has a personal Google account (e.g @gmail.com or @googlemail.com). These tips are beneficial for anyone in businesses or schools running Google Apps, they will help you manage your different accounts by keeping them separated using the Google Chrome browser."

AngularJS is made to rearrange the complex process of building and overseeing JavaScript applications. In view of the Model-View-Controller, or MVC, programming structure, AngularJS is particularly valuable for making single page web apps. Today, online businesses are enormously affected by the performance of web technologies that they use for their respective tasks. Henceforth, it winds up the importance to dive into the majority of the elements that are harming their business growth. AngularJS can rapidly be added to any HTML page with a straightforward tag. In case you're asking why you have a couple of slow pages, here are a few hints to accelerate your code. AngularJS Optimization Tips Batarang Tool to Benchmark Watchers Batarang is an awesome dev tool from the AngularJS developer that brings down your debugging efforts. In spite of the fact that it has numerous new features, some of them enable you to profile and track the execution of your AngularJS performance. In addition, the watch tree figures out which extensions are not destroyed as it is by all accounts if there is an increase in the memory. Chrome Dev Tool Profiler to Identify Performance Bottlenecks This one is a helpful device that gives you the alternative to choose which profile type you need to make. Take Heap Snapshot, Record Allocation Timeline, and Record Allocation Profile are utilized for memory profiling. After this performance improvement, your app will complete in under two seconds and clients can freely connect with it then. Limit your watchers Talking about which, whenever you introduce data-bindings, you make more $scopes and $$watchers, which drags out the digest cycle. Excessively numerous $$watchers can cause lag, so restrain their utilization as much as possible. Utilize scope.$evalAsync On the off chance that you endeavor to manually initiate the digest cycle while it's now running, you could get an error. To keep this from happening, utilize scope.$evalAsync rather than $appl

While using Bump to share photos between iOS devices has always been nice, a new update of the app today adds a very handy feature - the ability to bump with a computer. In version 3.3 of the app, transferring photos between your iOS device and computer is extremely simple. First, open the app and choose the photos you'd like to transfer over. Then, using a modern Web browser like Chrome, Safari, or Firefox, you log on to a Bump website - http://bu.mp.

The title says it all: The Docs/PDF/ powerpoint view look interesting so does Tabcloud (often chrome doesn't save my tabs) 

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Google is a vast machine with all types of apps, programs, and tools. A lot of these-like Gmail and Google Docs-are clearly useful and beloved by many. But hidden inside Google's network are some awesome, lesser-known gems that can make your life easier. Over the last couple of years Google has experimented with a lot of products. Hidden beneath popular apps like Gmail, Google Search, and Chrome are a lot of cool features that most people don't mess around with. Here are some of our favorite unsung Google features, from Google Drive apps to Google+ to everything in between.