Increase readability
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Minimize the annoying advertisements on websites you visit! |
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Select and emphasize text on any website. Reduces distractions as you are reading blocks of text online. |
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Find the definition of any word on a website only takes a double-click when you have this extension installed. |
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Quickly translate selected text or an entire website to any of the dozens of languages supported. |
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Add cool features to your YouTube viewing experience such as ad blocking, cinema mode, volume control with the mouse wheel, and more! Another similar one to consider is ImprovedTube. |
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Increases the readability of websites for those with dyslexia. |
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Removes distractions from articles on websites and improves the reading experience. |
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Nice app to get rid of unwanted page elements by clicking on the eraser and "wiping" it away with a single click. |
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Text to voice tool for the web with many awesome features. |
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Creates a summary of any web article without leaving the original page. |
Tab Management
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For those times when a website just has to be viewed in Internet Explorer for some strange reason, use this extension to run IE within a Chrome tab in the Chrome browser. |
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Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once. |
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Take control of your "New tab" page and customize it with beautiful backgrounds, RSS feeds, your most frequently visited pages, current live weather, and more! Another great one is Incredible Start Page. |
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Automatically suspends tabs to free up system resources. Click anywhere to reload the page. |
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A must have extension if you frequently find yourself online with many tabs open. Allows you to preview all of your tabs simultaneously. |
url Helpers
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Quickly create shortened URLs that can easily be customized and shared. |
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Create shortened URL using Google's shortener. This tool will provide you with a QR code for the link as well. |
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This QR-code tag extension generates a QR-code tag for the URL in the current tab open in Chrome or any link, text selection or image on a web page. Only right click and choose "Generate QR-code for this...". This is extremely useful when you run across a website students need to access on mobile devices. If you are a Google Apps user, you may want to consider ShortenMe which instantly creates a goo.gl link and a QR code simultaneously for any given page. |
Creation & Design Tools
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This design tool will help you find the exact color value of anything on a website. |
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Just click and drag to find the pixel size of any area on a website. |
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Use this extension to quickly copy images and edit them using the PicMonkey app. |
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Create a screencast video inside a tab without depending on Java. Videos can be posted directly to YouTube, saved to Google Drive or downloaded. |
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Capture regions of a website and use the built in tools to mark up the captured image. |
Google Apps Integration
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(description from website): Simply browse to the page you wish to cite and click the button to generate a correctly formatted citation. Then copy-and-paste the citation into your assignment, or add it to your online bibliography for safe keeping until later. |
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Play back a video of the revision history for a Google Docs file. |
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Quickly create Google Docs, Sheets or Slides by clicking this extension. |
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If you frequently create forms, this extension will allow you to quickly fill all form fields for testing purposes. |
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Save web content or browser screenshots directly to Google Drive with the touch of one button. |
Miscellaneous Tools
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(if using Evernote)- the easiest way to save, mark up and share anything you see online. From clipping pages to taking and annotating screenshots, the Evernote Web Clipper lets you capture everything, then access it from anywhere. If you want to learn more about Evernote, see Jim's tackk page: 24/7 Evernote: Remember Everything. |
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A must have for all Chromaholics. This extension allows you to manage your extensions. Easily turn extensions on or off with a single click. |
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Send and receive text messages in your browser (Android only). Be sure to turn off during presentations! |
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Annotate on top of any website or select a background color for a blank slate. |