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Email me when a webpage changes

June 6, 2022 Sue Frantz

I want to know when content on certain webpages changes. For example, Zoom posts information about their software updates on their release notes page. If this were the 1990s, I wouldn’t mind popping over there every week or so to… Read moreEmail me when a webpage changes

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Change color of Google Drive folders

May 31, 2022 Sue Frantz

For all of you Google Drive fans and everyone else who is forced to use Google Drive against your will, take some time today to color code your folders. Perhaps you want to more easily see which Google Drive account… Read moreChange color of Google Drive folders

Productivity, Web Browser

Canvas: Tampermonkey script for setting default due time

April 14, 2022May 11, 2022 Sue Frantz

I’ve written before about using Tampermonkey scripts for adding functionality to Canvas. If you’re not familiar with Tampermonkey scripts for Canvas, please read that post first. I have another one for my fellow intrepid Canvas users. This one comes from… Read moreCanvas: Tampermonkey script for setting default due time

Canvas, Productivity, Web Browser

Canvas enhancements

October 28, 2021May 11, 2022 Sue Frantz

One of the advantages of using the Canvas learning management system is that it is built on a platform that makes it easy to make it do things that its inherent programming doesn’t allow it to do. By “easy,” I… Read moreCanvas enhancements

Canvas, Education, Web Browser

Read Aloud for Firefox and Chrome

October 22, 2021 Sue Frantz

Some people, for a large number of reasons, have an easier time understanding written content when it is read aloud. The course management systems are getting better at this—such as Canvas’s Immersive Reader—but they still have a ways to go…. Read moreRead Aloud for Firefox and Chrome

Web Browser

Looking for new ways to handle web browser bookmarks?

October 16, 2021 Sue Frantz

Let’s start with the easiest solution. Browser bookmarks bar Your web browser bookmarks bar sits directly under the search/web address bar. If it’s not there, turn it on. In Firefox, click the 3-line icon in the top right corner of… Read moreLooking for new ways to handle web browser bookmarks?

Productivity, Web Browser

Live captioning in Chrome for Windows

March 19, 2021 Sue Frantz

Chrome for Windows now has live captioning. (The same functionality is coming for Chrome for Macs.) For any video you play in Chrome, you can display captions for that video even if the video itself is not captioned. Chrome “listens”… Read moreLive captioning in Chrome for Windows

Web Browser

Firefox: Zoom in on only one tab

December 17, 2020March 5, 2021 Sue Frantz

I have three screens, and one of them is relatively small. Sometimes I’ll have browser tabs open on all three screens. For the tab that’s open on the smaller screen, I want to zoom in to make the text bigger…. Read moreFirefox: Zoom in on only one tab

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Add sticky notes to folders, files, programs, webpages

December 3, 2020March 5, 2021 Sue Frantz

The problem: I have a file folder that contains assignments that I have not yet updated for next term. How do I remember that I have not updated these, besides using a clunky README file? There are a lot of… Read moreAdd sticky notes to folders, files, programs, webpages

MS Office, Productivity, Web Browser

Recovering content from a web form

November 9, 2020March 5, 2021 Sue Frantz

You’ve typed something into a box in your web browser—something very well written, perhaps the first page of what will become the Great American Novel. You close the webpage before clicking the “submit” button. When you go back to the… Read moreRecovering content from a web form

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