This current era of frequent Zoom meetings and screen sharing means I get to see how lots of peoples’ browsers are set up, whether they intend me to or not. I often notice that people have personal information visible in their browser window that gives us an unintentional glimpse into their personal...
This week I discovered Black Menu for Chrome, an extension that lets you access any of your Google tools from a dropdown in the browser. You can invoke it with a keystroke and quickly navigate to the tool you need. I’m finding thi...
In many ways, it’s crazy that we have multiple competing app stores to deliver content that works perfectly well on the web.
HTML5 has emerged as a great platform for rich applications on desktop and mobile devices, handling several features...
In recent years, a few tools have emerged to save websites for later reading in a more readable format. These sites, like Instapaper, Pocket, Evernote Clearly, and Readability strip away all the ads and idiosyncratic blog styling from online articles, leaving only a visua...
If you do a lot of presentations or tutorials about technology, you probably have to take screenshots of websites to illustrate your ideas. I really like to add a “wow” factor to my presentations whenever I can do it gracefully, and I’ve been using Firefox’s 3D Developer Preview to add visual in...
The recent explosion of great tools that simply run in a web browser has been amazing. From tools like Google Docs, Evernote, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, Prezi, and Rememberthemilk and the venerable Gmail– you can access powerful tools for free where...
